Seems like you took a page out of my book today with the restarts and rage when trying to play an early war Civ XD the RNG can just be so frustrating sometimes.

Aztec vampires? Sounds really bizarre!

I feel for you man. 💞 Thanks for at least trying as long as you did.

Was that a freaking JOJO’S REFERENCE

Well this was a cursed livestream, couldn't catch a break there... My heart's with you Potato, early wars on diety are so frustrating when you make a single mistake, since it basically snowballs and the rest of the game is gone...

Shoulda called them chupacabras

Potato: Restarts game because he does not want to fight against crossbowman. Also Potato: Attacks the guys with archers as strong as crossbowman.

Honestly, secret societies should just unlock the first time you meet the requirement. There's nothing fun about it being random. If there's not a mod that already does this, there ought to be one.

St. Petersburg my Russian capital got hit by meteor, one tile, on *huge* map totally destroyed all infrastructure, took the wind out of my sails... gonna take a break and reevaluate whether it's worth still playing that playthrough.

That is what Civ 6 is like for me. 2 hours of restarting then giving up. I would rather watch potato do it. Saves money too.

Instead of the Aztecs why not pick the Scythians? Scythia's heal on kills = vampire "lifesteal" Bonus combat strength against wounded units = vampire's "bloodthirst" Also, horse units are very strong, which makes vampires stronger. Edit: Persia and Chad India are nice picks too. Speedy vampires.

This was legit really humorous to watch. Poor Potato got rick-rolled by RNG for two hours straight.

Man, my schadenfreude level was of the charts during the stream. Better luck next time.

There were kind of random events in “civ beyond earth “ with the colonizing other planets and events with aliens and lost researchers etc.

Rough Rider Teddy w/ Sanguine Pact or Pericles w/ Owls of Minerva or Lady Six Sky with Hermetic Order

What a splendid start of the stream. As annoyed as you sounded, as delighted was I. ;)

You deserve credit for trying for as long as you did. I'd have given up way before then!

If 2020 would be a CIV game

On days like these I just play immortal, with bad RNG it’s like normal diety regardless

Glad to see that I'm not the only one being frustrated about early wars on deity. Lately I feel like it is nearly impossible to have consistently successful wars in first 50-60 turns.

Honestly watching this makes me feel so much better about my own civ game play. Even a God can bleed.

I’d did learn a thing or two about early era domination strategies this video. Shame about the vampires but it was still great to watch.

Sadly, the JoJo Reference Stream has failed

Honestly that's why I use a banlist for some Civ games. Sometimes I have a very specific gameplan and don't want to have to deal with the AI's BS

There needs to be a feature in the game that lets you remove certain civs from the random pool chosen before a game. On diety I never wanna play against Korea, Teddy, Cyrus, John Curtain or Lautaro

When you opened up the trade screen with Greece I couldnt see the screen where you were negotiating money right before you bought the battering ram.

Potato: „I‘m gonna build this Petra, we‘re playing this no matter what!“ John Curtin and Teddy: „Oh, we don‘t think so!“

Had the same issue today. Tried a run as Japan with Hermetic Order for massive district adjacency, found the other 3 societies within around 20 turns and had to wait another 70 or 80 for Hermetic, didn't wanna give up on a good start though so I just powered through like you did

I’ve been trying to play with the Cree.. so unsuccessfully it’s sad...

Jesus that was brutal.

Sometimes I spend more than an hour before I can even plant my 1st city. Some of the more specialized civs just never seem to get the land that suits them, like Canada getting desert start after endless desert start and Ethiopia on the flattest lands ever. Some days I get that golden start, most days the crappiest start imaginable. And we won't talk about the days when I get planted next to a civ that will spend the whole game at war with me, unless I take them out of the game.

just subbed to you potato! getting better at civ on the daily

As a Californian, I'm definitely not offended that you hear California in Arnie's voice. Did you know that while he was Governor of California we mostly referred to him as the Governator and he almost had a comic book series of that name published? Also, love your content! Keep it up! My game is definitely improving! Thanks!

Potato i know this is a bitt to much to ask but can you do a unique tile improvment/unique district tier list?

PotatoMcBitey would've been a good name for your first vampire ngl.

PSA: I just went and tested it in game, and the Vampire kill bonus for units dying near the Vampire does happen if the Vampire makes the kill. Still not worth letting the Vampire do the kill because they get no experience, but worth knowing that it isn't necessary to have another unit do the kill if the kill counter is all you care about. Do note that they can only get up to +10 kill counts off of Barbarian units, though.

*Pillar Men Theme Intensifies*

Was fun while it lasted Potato

I'm not gonna lie, when you trapped that barbarian Scout, taunted it, and then flipped when it decided to go out with a bang by destroying the Jade mine, I spat out my tea.

I watch this channel for the deep potato lore.

Sorry Potato, I can't watch this b/c the KZfaq app on my phone is messing up your video big time. I'll try to watch it tonight when I get to my laptop. Right now it's mega lag. The UI is not responding, and the picture is about 30 seconds being the audio - when it plays at all. :-(

I love how Potato actually started roleplaying :D

This was the most relatable video I've ever seen. Still wondering how the +12 total adjacency bonus from the campuses in the first video could be something that would carry his science though, since Greece already had 24 more

I tend to restart by the third barbarian camp if I don't get vampires, especially if I'm looking at an early war. So much missed potential growth for the unit and your capital via the vampire castle starts to feel bad.

also that was extremely painful to watch :(

*Insert thanks for trying Simpson gif *

Please dont give up on the aztec vampire I really wanna watch this clusterfuck be successful

Ironically the Maya actually did worship a Turtle God. The Maya head deity was the Maize God, and after this god died they were reborn out of a turtle shell. So their main god took the form of maize growing off the back of a turtle's shell.

Step away to make lunch and of course it's over :D Better luck next time, Sir Spud.

Vampires get buff when they do the kill also. I've played a game with RR Teddy it was awesome. Over 100dmg when I hit gunpowder.

This stream was awesome. There are tons of streams of people winning games of civ. Watching a pro struggle in real scenarios is way more engaging.

When Australia appeared I LOL'd so hard. Omg.

No idea if you know this but it came up0 while I was messing around with vampires...they get the +1 combat strength when *anything* dies adjacent to them. Including religious units and support units and including your own units. Doesn't matter who does the killing either. Germany picking on a city state? send your vamp on over to have a close look at something dying. It can pile up real fast... Edit: also, the base strength is equal to the strongest land or naval unit you've made, and the +10 or +17 for corps/ armies *does* get transferred. Has to be a corps you make yourself though, the auto corps/fleet/whatever admirals and generals create doesnt work for it for some reason

Thank you for your service

They REALLY need to make seeing your Vamps Strength easier.

That RNG was painful to watch. Hope you have better luck the next time you try it and stop getting turned into a baked (or steamed) potato. :p

Poor Potato got boiled, mashed and stuck in a stew. :(

If it makes you feel better Potato, I decided to do an Aztec vamp run for fun after having a shite game with Rome as my first try when Sanguine Pact. Rolled Gran Colombia as my neighbor, gave up as war ran on and on and rerolled. Nearest neighbor? Australia. Almost rerolled then beyond all hope he declared war on me. 🤣🤣🤣 Also, if it makes you feel better for real, it was really good content. 🤣🤣🤣

I've had similar experience with trying to go for the vampire society as well. Have yet to have a good game, but will keep trying. Void Singers on the other hand... the world will worship the old ones, oh yes they will!

This is some sad stuff

Hah! Now you know how I feel when trying deity. I had a Mayan game I gave up on because Egypt decided to attack me four times. Scotland was about to launch a moon landing while I was still 10 turns or so from researching spaceports.

Fun stream! Not sure I'm commenting early enough for you to see this feedback, but I have some observations from watching many of your streams: 1) Every time I scrub to the end of a 5-8 hour stream, I start worrying about your mental & physical self-care. Maybe have a cut-off rule like other Civ streamers and compensate with other content / slightly more frequent streams? 2) I know you have been reluctant to get moderators in your streams, but I think chat could use some management. Is there a way to flair or badge certain channel members so that they're more noticeable by people in chat / are semi-deputized to do stuff, but don't get full moderation privileges? Totally up to you whether you feel you want things to go a certain way in chat [if so, it might be good to have rules written down -- that's pretty common practice on Twitch]

I wonder if some of the bad RNG was related to lower sea levels, so more spread out spawns on average making early war hard? But still horrendous luck especially with vampire spawn.

I saw Marbozir play a game where he used a mod to exclude specific civs from an otherwise random start.

I also tried this and was frustrated by the rng. I found that by the time I had vampires and had located a nearby civ, they had teched past me. Maybe a later unique unit like Nubia's would be better for this strat.

Deity AI be like "Today, I will rush crossbows because we have little to no deviation on our research path unless we have a unique tech we rush as well" 𝙍𝙪𝙞𝙣𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙮 𝙖𝙜𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣

"Psychos? Is that what they looked like? Psychos? Let me tell you something. Psychos don't explode when sunlight hits them. I don't give a fuck HOW crazy they are!" Sorry. I see "Aztec vampires" and I can't resist.

Hermetic Order Peter is pretty insane. You can get upto 20+ culture ley lines.

😂😂😂😂😂 Sometimes the AI just AI-s.

I don't know if this didn't work on stream either but the civ trade stuff didn't show at 1:00:24 EDIT: oh its diplo screen bug with OBS

My favorite Civ. Player, Playing my fav Civ with my favorite Secret Society!

I know its way late now haha but you can just set yourself to busy status on steam if you want notifications on at other times

on a relevant note, I seem to be addicted to restarting to get the "good start." I don't think any RNG is intrinsically bad, but map generation seems overly mercurial. I like a fun challenge, but too often it seems like I am confronted with an *unfun* challenge. And it has made starting new games feel like a chore.

If you want to show off an easy "challenge," play as Eleanor and pick up the Voidsingers. Then, don't take any cities with military units and win a domination victory. It ended up being one of the easiest games I've ever played, but it was pretty entertaining

hey potato, we've all had some like these. i freely admit to doing a fair bit of restarts to get something i'm comfortable with at times. i do have one small comment. i think you are just in too big of a rush to get to an early war. clear barb camps. explore a little. then when you've scouted and assessed your surroundings, fully consolidate ALL of your forces and hit someone. with a concentrated army and fresh forces. one definite example was the one time you came up to korea and you freaked about her science. well, you didn't need the war with her and all those horseman barbarians. you only had like 4 eagle warriors...i mean yeah her science is good. but you need quite a bit of gold and production to get a crossbowman. even if she does...i mean the AI is dumb and will walk it out of a garrison usually eventually. i've done similar things as this, and I think it comes from the desperate need to get value from the eagle warrior from turn 1. you know you need to rush out and snowball to do well these guys. so, there is that. just now watching from the outside i am seeing some things. after playing through quite a through of secret socieity games i can say this. the few games with vampires i've really struggled to get value. with the hermetics i find the alchemical society to be just dandy, but the ley lines can be a major annoyance acting as a strategic resource. how about a ley line on your one desert tile that pops up in front of your nubian capital that you now can't build on? also the spawn of the ley lines are so chaotic you may or may not get that many. they definitely seem to like to spawn in tundra and desert (Peter the great). the ley lines tiles eventually become absolutely ridiculous in yields (like 12 science 10 product 10 culture etc), but if you only have a few then it's more marginal. i continually get STRONG value on the voidsingers with nearly ANY civ i've tried them. they just seem all around strong. build a monument. be awesome. simple. i've done limited games with the owls who just seem good, but the effect of extra cards is difficult to quantify other than when you play greece you full well know the advantage of an extra card early quite clearly. so, this is also a strong one. i think what i like about this latest release though, is Religion. The devs have made your first belief a legitimately difficult decision now. i just think the vampire needs to be a little stronger from what i've seen. i think one more movement or a radius for it to be empowered like a great general or something....or even a passive "dread effect"...idk..just to see the vampire hobble around like a crummy melee unit when it's suppose to be like a military centerpiece seems lame. i've also struggled (this is super annoying) like you with the 70% invitation rate. It is very high and fair. but is it fair? you either get 4 governor promotions really early and start snowballing or you have horrendously bad luck and get behind everyone. the hermetics can be ESPECIALLY annoying. the chance of natural wonders is much less. there are 4 in a 6 player game. you probably have the opportunity to find maybe 2 close. So, then what if you get bad luck?

Does anyone else want to see PotatoMcWhiskey do a game where he only has chiefdom throughout the entirety of his civilisation?

hey potatoe, i played ethiopia the other day and entered a dark age in medievil era. the +75% science from the dark age card ruined the game. i had 350 science per turn at turn 120. 5xmore than any other civ. how game breaking lol.

Hey Potato your videos helped me a lot to play vs deity I'm currently 60% done in game you trying to play. My advise add more AI. I'm playing standart map size with 11 AIs and my vampire has +15 from luxury resourses and maybe +53 from kills 6 AIs remaining. p.s. if vampire kills unit that counts p.s.s. I permanently adjecent great scientist that heals 20hp.

From what I understand, the more civs that have discovered a secret society the lower your chances for discovering that same society. In that case you have to raise your diplomat visibility with other civs to discover those ones.

Was watching Marbozir then I was suddenly brought here automatically lol... Im not complaining its a nice treat... xDD

It looks like it wasn't a good day to be a potato...

what a trainwreck

So much struggle to get a good game going, hope it's going to be better next time!

Ugh, this sucks. I was playing as Gilgamesh with a few modes on, namely secret societies and zombie defense. I played tall, only one city, hoping to get vamps. This time around, there was just one Barb camp close by, and it didn't pop vamps. So I scout around, and find one way south. I end up leveraging 3 archers from some city state to go clean up the camp. Stupidly, I left the city undefended, so a zombie spawned within the city state, and ravaged it. (I expected the city state to build a unit before it fell, but that didn't happen.) Anyway, I clear the camp, and still don't get vampires... To add insult to injury, my 3 levied archers straight up despawned when the city state fell. Fml, and F this game. Will load a previous save, tho.

For what it's worth, it was an enjoyable stream. Enjoyable to watch, at least, if not to play.

3:04 looks exactly like the dude from "road to el dorado"

Hey Potato i was wondering how rare is Paititi in Civ 6?

BTW Potato the vampire will still receive the bonus to his combat strength if he kills the unit.

Not sure if Potato or Saxy. Enjoyed the first war though

This is the longest JoJo Reference video on youtube

You can abuse the healing ability of the religious governour

I mean multi-tile cities were already stolen by the civ devs from the developers of humankind. They were in endless legend, and then boom civ had it.

I think they need to look into the societies a bit in terms of spawns. I had a game where I never got one. I did everything needed for any of them to spawn and it never happened .

When you press restart you actually wouldn't roll another civs in a game, they'll remain the same, the map will change though

I liked this Streaming Session very much - because you played very good but the game trolled you anyway. It‘s how I experience the game sometimes, too. Thanx for your good work, very entertaining for me, quite annoying for you this time, though.

Jojo part 9: The Art of War.

If only you kept that seed for the petra location

The AI city placement is making me cry

vampire spawn rate needs a buff or mechanic to spawn after x number of camps cleared. I am trying this style of game and just can not get a vampire proc.

Honestly, If you try this again another time. Pick all of the civs manually to guarantee no turtle civs or just ridiculously horrible match ups. It would be nice to see this combo for fun.