My "meta" is this: olmecs first for food and influence (the ability is insane); second age: science to get a tech lead; third age: production to expand your empire and consolidate your lands; forth age: flex (depends on how you wanna end the game, military for conquest, science for more tech, influence/culture to dominate peacefully, etc.) With this start I can get a good population base before expanding, also allowing me to produce units much quicker. As mil units consume population not only production is important to sustain yourself but also population growth and sustainability. Following JumboPixel getting the science star in the first age (and subsequently getting the +1 on science per pop) also helps with getting that tech earlier than later. Second age I would choose the Babylonians for the tech lead. Good tech allows you to get the stability buildings in turn allowing you to expand faster (wide play style) or build more districts (tall play style). As for the third age getting a production civ maintains your ability to build all the infrastructure buildings in your city/cities. This way you dont fall behind empires that went for production earlier. Since they profit of the bonusses much earlier, with this play style, you have to build these buildings much faster. So getting bonusses for your population (like the science bonus form the first age) helps a lot. In the forth age you can start to diversify or stay on course with your current civ. My play time is low, so this just counts as a "first impression"-guide. But I'm off to play some more, so maybe this will change.
Any chance you might do a '1 year in review', now that we've passed the games 1-year anniversary? I'm getting back into the game after more than 6 months away, and it's hard to find a definitive then-vs-now cheat sheet to help me understand everything that's different. As usual though, your vids are super helpful, thanks for the upload!
I was playing a run this weekend while the game was free to play on steam (Def trying to get it on sale, I was hype since the announce trailer and just never got the chance to get or play it before now) and In the Industrial I went Austro-Hungary to shore up my Influence as it was my major bottle neck, I was regularly Netting 120k Influence from the Affinity Action. For 150 gold. An Eight-Hundred Percent conversion. Absolutely Bonkers.
Just rewatched as I’m trying to pick the game back up. Good stuff, but I really need an “over-explained” play through from the go-to Humankind guy. You know, in your spare time 😉.
Yeah OK, so I tried the Indians for the first time yesterday, 207000+influence for 700 gold... its insane, not to mention the GPT getting to 160k.. finished with like 2m in the bank, blew my mind
I who has been around since the beginning can't even play HK any more so thanks for updating some tips that might help us vets who can't seem to keep up with all the changes :). I may give it another try after next update. I tend to dominate until about the medieval era and than QUICKLY fall behind for some reason. No matter how I play, aggressively or defensively and diplomatic, I end up pissing every other leader off and they all end up ganging up on me. In my last game 1.5 months ago I was getting bombarded by cultural influence along with my religion which disappeared almost immediately. LOVE the game (and the community!) but I'm just not sure the aggravation is worth it, if you NEED to study study study tips over and over it just ceases to be a game IMO and I feel Humankind may have gone into this area.
I think the Olmec tip may be just what I need lol focusing on religion and culture early, I really don't have a preferred culture at that stage- I just wish their unit (due to direct fire) didn't absolutely suck though. Zhou instead?
My struggle with this game is I play right above hamlet. Not even normal I forget. And still somehow end up on the bottom. I’m trying to upgrade everything. Keep my troops high. But somehow. Something always happens. Normally I can’t upkeep with my gold. Struggling to make a lot of gold even though I drop all markets
I need help! It seems like I'm always falling behind in science! I don't want to be a scientific culture every era but it seems that it works! I don't know what I'm doing wrong! Science is just a struggle for me!
something that helps a lot is getting all the knowledge stars in the neolithic era. that triggers an event where you can choose +1 science per population. it’s super helpful for the ancient and classic eras and even good into the late game. I typically never enter the ancient era until I’ve gotten this bonus. another way to get science is to focus on growing your religion with agricultural cultures and cultures with religious districts (like the celts, for example) and taking the scientific religious beliefs. now that a lot of districts count as religious districts and get buffs from religion, this can be super strong. also, high population and working researcher jobs can give you a good science boost early on too!
also if you don't manually set your citizens to work you might want to do that. When on default it will wait a very long time to assign scientists and doing so REALLY helps especially early game. Remember you can assign them to scientists for x amount of turns than emediately move them to say farmers or builders when you need them. Manually assigning civilians is probably the most underrated mechanic in the game.
Thanks for the insight HK community! Really appreciate the feedback! I would love to play with you guys sometime! Playing with the AI can get dry real quick!
Do you think Humankind is a good upgrade from Civ 5? I think I'm ready to mix it up but with Civ 7 around the corner, I'm thinking I'll skip 6 entirely. HK is included with my GamePass subscription though, so it's really tempting in the meantime
Great tips! Thank you, JumboP! The cultural & religious dominance always confused me. Is it purely whoever generates more of the resource (faith/influence) just pushes out the other? How do the civics like religious tolerance and multi-culturalism work?
Couldn’t say what the developers were basing any specifics from Civ or their previous strategy games. But both are 4X Historical Strategy games with a familiar yet distinct feel.
Man, I tend to forget about the cultural abilities! They seem to play a bigger part than I thought!
My "meta" is this: olmecs first for food and influence (the ability is insane); second age: science to get a tech lead; third age: production to expand your empire and consolidate your lands; forth age: flex (depends on how you wanna end the game, military for conquest, science for more tech, influence/culture to dominate peacefully, etc.)
With this start I can get a good population base before expanding, also allowing me to produce units much quicker. As mil units consume population not only production is important to sustain yourself but also population growth and sustainability. Following JumboPixel getting the science star in the first age (and subsequently getting the +1 on science per pop) also helps with getting that tech earlier than later.
Second age I would choose the Babylonians for the tech lead. Good tech allows you to get the stability buildings in turn allowing you to expand faster (wide play style) or build more districts (tall play style).
As for the third age getting a production civ maintains your ability to build all the infrastructure buildings in your city/cities. This way you dont fall behind empires that went for production earlier. Since they profit of the bonusses much earlier, with this play style, you have to build these buildings much faster. So getting bonusses for your population (like the science bonus form the first age) helps a lot.
In the forth age you can start to diversify or stay on course with your current civ.
My play time is low, so this just counts as a "first impression"-guide. But I'm off to play some more, so maybe this will change.
I was playing civ 6 with my cousin and saying what could improve it then he told me about this game and it’s every improvement I said
Any chance you might do a '1 year in review', now that we've passed the games 1-year anniversary? I'm getting back into the game after more than 6 months away, and it's hard to find a definitive then-vs-now cheat sheet to help me understand everything that's different. As usual though, your vids are super helpful, thanks for the upload!
Absolutely :)
@@JumboPixel i would watch this.
@@jaythaneslegion5009 same, just got into the game thru gamepass on xbox. wish I would of found this game earlier.
As a humankind gamer who only plays singleplayer, i chose wonders, empires, ect based off looks. Cuz i cant be bothered to check the stats
Lazy lol
Well, if you're having fun, nothing wrong with that.
I was playing a run this weekend while the game was free to play on steam (Def trying to get it on sale, I was hype since the announce trailer and just never got the chance to get or play it before now) and In the Industrial I went Austro-Hungary to shore up my Influence as it was my major bottle neck, I was regularly Netting 120k Influence from the Affinity Action. For 150 gold. An Eight-Hundred Percent conversion. Absolutely Bonkers.
Appreciate your channel, Jumbo. Thanks for all of your guides.
Just rewatched as I’m trying to pick the game back up. Good stuff, but I really need an “over-explained” play through from the go-to Humankind guy. You know, in your spare time 😉.
anyone playing this for the first time in 2024. I am, Just started to play this on xbox. wish that they could have mouse and keyboard support.
They have😂 i play with mouse and keybord for xbox x series
I really appreciated the mammoth voice over.
Same 😂
Yeah OK, so I tried the Indians for the first time yesterday, 207000+influence for 700 gold... its insane, not to mention the GPT getting to 160k.. finished with like 2m in the bank, blew my mind
I havevbeen a subscriber for a while but i just picked up the game on sale thanks for the great tips!
Good guide, had to subscribe :)
I who has been around since the beginning can't even play HK any more so thanks for updating some tips that might help us vets who can't seem to keep up with all the changes :). I may give it another try after next update. I tend to dominate until about the medieval era and than QUICKLY fall behind for some reason. No matter how I play, aggressively or defensively and diplomatic, I end up pissing every other leader off and they all end up ganging up on me. In my last game 1.5 months ago I was getting bombarded by cultural influence along with my religion which disappeared almost immediately. LOVE the game (and the community!) but I'm just not sure the aggravation is worth it, if you NEED to study study study tips over and over it just ceases to be a game IMO and I feel Humankind may have gone into this area.
I think the Olmec tip may be just what I need lol focusing on religion and culture early, I really don't have a preferred culture at that stage- I just wish their unit (due to direct fire) didn't absolutely suck though. Zhou instead?
You can lower the difficulty I think
My struggle with this game is I play right above hamlet. Not even normal I forget. And still somehow end up on the bottom. I’m trying to upgrade everything. Keep my troops high. But somehow. Something always happens. Normally I can’t upkeep with my gold. Struggling to make a lot of gold even though I drop all markets
Wonderful video!
Title: 3 tips for humankind
Video: 20 tips for humankind lol
Jolly good. Morel like this please.
I need help! It seems like I'm always falling behind in science! I don't want to be a scientific culture every era but it seems that it works! I don't know what I'm doing wrong! Science is just a struggle for me!
something that helps a lot is getting all the knowledge stars in the neolithic era. that triggers an event where you can choose +1 science per population. it’s super helpful for the ancient and classic eras and even good into the late game. I typically never enter the ancient era until I’ve gotten this bonus.
another way to get science is to focus on growing your religion with agricultural cultures and cultures with religious districts (like the celts, for example) and taking the scientific religious beliefs. now that a lot of districts count as religious districts and get buffs from religion, this can be super strong.
also, high population and working researcher jobs can give you a good science boost early on too!
also if you don't manually set your citizens to work you might want to do that. When on default it will wait a very long time to assign scientists and doing so REALLY helps especially early game. Remember you can assign them to scientists for x amount of turns than emediately move them to say farmers or builders when you need them. Manually assigning civilians is probably the most underrated mechanic in the game.
dude I sometimes still do the same but research quarters need to be clustered and a bunch of them
Thanks for the insight HK community! Really appreciate the feedback! I would love to play with you guys sometime! Playing with the AI can get dry real quick!
12:31 plus chop forests for hammer.
Good point, you dirty old Civ player😜 Hammers, takes me back to the good old days of Civ ‘1’ 👍
Are you planning a channel Q and A at any point in the future?
We neeed some moar humankind gameplay
Do you think Humankind is a good upgrade from Civ 5? I think I'm ready to mix it up but with Civ 7 around the corner, I'm thinking I'll skip 6 entirely. HK is included with my GamePass subscription though, so it's really tempting in the meantime
Personally, yes! Especially if you’ve got Game Pass. Civ 5 is my preferred Civ game, and Humankind is a nice modern alternative to it.
Play Vox Populi
Great tips! Thank you, JumboP!
The cultural & religious dominance always confused me. Is it purely whoever generates more of the resource (faith/influence) just pushes out the other?
How do the civics like religious tolerance and multi-culturalism work?
Olmecs religiously undermining me bad rn my roman expansion is struggling with their influential overtake
I wonder were your accent is from, I love it.
In the 100 year scenario the cultural ability yielded me 25000 influence used on Paris, likely a bug?
with the Austro-Hungarian you get 120000 with 150 gold. stat.
How to se demographics in civ 5 pla help
Is this a game based off of Civ?
Couldn’t say what the developers were basing any specifics from Civ or their previous strategy games. But both are 4X Historical Strategy games with a familiar yet distinct feel.
You weren't born a boat lool
Thanks!
this game is so beauty my god
Did I hear OLMEC GAAAAAAANG! 🗿
Am I missing an inside joke from this video or something? Thanks for sharing though.
You’re eye playing with the American accent a lot on this video 😂
I payed . I played the game . It sks . I quit after 100 turn maybe more . And im staying on civ v and vi
Try the mod Vox populii for civ 5. It changes civ 5 so much and makes AI a real competitor
Xbox now has the game
Humank-🧠
Become a pro, just not on PS5 😢
Is this clickbait, or can I really get paid playing Humankind? (Joking)
This video was very unorganized and difficult to follow
HUMANKIND ?? game of black africans 😂😂