2K Greg, 2K’s Civilization V Community Manager, had something really sweet to reveal today, the Civilization V Strategy View!
I am very excited to reveal some screenshots of a really cool feature in Civilization V that has not been shown anywhere else. I present to you “Strategic View.”
What is it, you say? Strategic View allows you to view your empire in a very clean, easy-to-read fashion. By default, each hex has icons for special resources, improvements, and any units in the tile. You can also customize the view by selecting only a single icon to be shown. So, if you want to get an overall view of how your military units are deployed, you can turn on the option to only show units and see the information you need without any extra noise.
In addition, you can enable different “overlays” in Strategic View to make it even easier to find what you need. For example, turning on the “unit type” overlay to have each hex colored based on if the unit in its square is melee, ranged, artillery, and so on.
Check out the screenshots below for examples of how this awesome feature looks in the early, middle, and late game and post your questions and comments about Strategic View in the Civilization V 2K Forums
paradigmx had this question to ask: “Is there any chance of having a “political map” overlay on this?”
And 2K Greg answers:
There is a chance, and it’s very high. I’d say it’s somewhere between 94.6% and 100%, considering it’s in the build I’m playing right now
The rest of the overlays are very cool as well; it makes it very convenient to get an overview of your empire, or a battlefield. I especially like the “Resources” overlay, which colors the tiles based on the type of resource that’s in it. Trying to find a spot with a higher-than-average number of food-boosting resources? Just turn on the “Resources” overlay and look for the green spots!
To the question wether you can play in this mode he had this to say:
…the game is completely playable in this view (I personally spend most of my time in this view) and one of the coolest parts about it is that yes, the video card does a lot less work while in this view.
Sources:
- http://www.civilization5.com/#/community/feature_strategic_view
- http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=371765
Fredrik 'Grey Fox' Henriksson is an avid Civilization and StarCraft 2 player as well as a wannabe game designer. When he isn't playing games or working on mods he likes to paint digital art, watch tv-series, a movie or just hang with good company.
Love Strategy view! Just discovered it by accident. What happened to the manual for Civ 5? Saw something on Scribd website that looked like they actually made one, but my copy didn’t come with it, so maybe that was a strategy or tips guide. The dinky little booklet mentions Strategy View in one single sentence, but there’s no way you’d know what they’re talking about. And if you try to google it all you get is a lot of whining about the view crashing. Well, it doesn’t crash for me and I have every graphic setting on High. Sorry to post on such an old blog entry, but just had to. Thanks for mentioning how great this is. I’ll be playing this game for a while. Just like its predecessors.