HUMANKIND | 8 Essential Tips Before you Start - Beginner's Guide

Of course I was working on one of these for HUMANKIND! I wish I'd got it out a little earlier in the week, but I hope the concepts and nuggets of knowledge in here give you much success in your time with the game. Let me know down below if you'd like a series, and any topics you'd like to see focused on! While most of these tips apply across the board, I excluded late-game centric elements since they change quite a few factors, and I didn't want the video to get any more bloated - I'll be saving those, as well as other topics, for a later video.

Awesome guide. My gf and I started playing after it came to gamepass. I used to play civ and eatch guides for that, and none were as easy to understand as yours. Thank you sir

I bumped it up to the second level of difficulty and holy crap I can't get going now

I would like to know how to make time fly slower in game. Like 1 turn is 1 year starting from very early ancient times.

Your video is really well done. Easy to listen to and follow along with. Major props 👏 thank you for taking the time, it helped me a LOT! Thank you!!! I'm definitely subscribing.

What about research??

My only issue wich this game literally my only one is the controls on console ain't the best but that's a known limiting factor with these types of games they really really rely heavily on having a cursor and they didn't give you one on console, and navigation of the menus when everything's linked to a few button combos it's tedious, mmos have the same issue with hotkeys and what not, it's definitely a keyboard and mouse game but personally I'm able to overlook the controller as thats my gaming medium and I know the downsides, tried to play cities skylines and OH MY GOD the promps and button combos is a nightmare and a half, surviving Mars is fun but still a lot and the tutorial for consoles ain't the best so definitely a genre compatibility issue and shouldn't be heald against any of those games as they are all fantastic, humankind is definitely the most friendly I gotta say and if you're interested in the genre of simulator go for humankind is far above the most friendly and frankly really really fun like the custom games you can make is just immaculate I personally see the controls issue as more of a learning curve than anything as they do all function well. My only issue is the camera likes to shoot you around from one side of the map to the other and it would be nice if I could pan the camera up and down left and right. Can I get a good 360 view of everything. The frostpunk is a really good microcosm of humankind so if you're looking for a great game and one that can act as a primer for humankind go get frostpunk it's usually on sale

Thanks

Love your stuff as always pe. You make clarity out of obscurity

Great Video. Many thanks!

It looked fun until I realized it's simultaneous turns, the biggest cancer in strategy games, and no option to have a normal turn based game. At least the super annoying popups and narration can be turned off in the options.

This is a great intro to the mechanics of Humankind. Very clear and concise. I'm just started playing very recently and this answers all the questions I had about the mechanics. Nice one.

It's a fantastic game. I picked it up around release, having awaited it for a long time, but didn't really have the time to get in to the new game mechanics as compared to the civ-games I'm used to. It's really only now that I've started playing it. I'm not even halfway through my first game yet, but this game is very interesting and ticks a lot of the boxes that I've always felt was missing from the Civ series, which I've played since the Civ I on the Atari ST as a kid.

Nothing is explained for Influence. In the mid of my first game i ran into a big issue... going -1400 influence per turn...need to rectify this but have no clue how

Hey great vid! But i have a question how do you remove an existing quarter/distric?

"et cetera, et cetera"

Like for mount Roraima

Big help thanks

Great video, thank you.

Also, Ear-rah. not Erra.

very helpgul and inforamtive

This game is so bad!!

This is literally the best Humankind how to video that there is, especially for newer players. Nice job man!

The best story ever in gaming history after Metro exodus 2033.

great video! so so helpful - definitely understand the whole war support/i- war battles/peace negotiations better now - probably the major difference from something like Civ

About to start my second game after watching your video and I love it but…I do think pacing is an issue. I know more of the mechanics now but I was kinda disappointed that I was in the industrial era still researching medieval technology. That was probably my fault for not slowing down so I’ll definitely be more methodical on my second game.

WOW.. excellent help in this video.. thanks ever so much.

To be fair this is the best civ game so far. The combat system is bullshit though you need massive lands to create decent and improved units

I love this game and still learning it. And I'm on era 3 and I'm finding myself losing more food. Gotta figure a good food source synergy

What a treat! YT actually recommended something useful!
Going to restart my latest game. My settings resulted in no rivers on my continent,or the next one over. I picked Pyramids before I knew that. 200 turns of watching everyone else build wonders.

Will there ever be mods? The time limit kinda puts me off.

Any tips for someone having trouble getting into the game? Honestly it feels like a hollow game with little depth. You have to admit it looks, feels, and plays like a reskin of Endless Legend, which, let's face it, was just an uninspired copy of Civ 6, but with a fantasy scifi veneer.

Thank so much

Notice this game misses the oldest human kind on earth.
RATHER FUCKING RACIST AND STALINIST TOWARDS AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINALS, The oldest living civilisation and culture on earth at over 65,000 years old GETS NOT ONE FUCKING MENTION.
This game is racist and worst than religion.

Is there a way to completely wipe a player/civilization off the game?

Humankind VS Civ Will Be Like COD VS BF

I want to know the proper tiles to build a science quarter on

Thanks for sharing these tips! Very helpful! ^^

this is well done. 1 subs to you sir.

I have a question…I keep beating this AI’s ass in combat but it keeps forcing me to force surrender them and I just want to kill their existence.

I bought this game cause I thought the commercial was cool, boy I had no damn idea wtf I was getting myself intom

i wish you could choose and lock an era say only medieval etc or start neolithic and end at bronze age but with the same number of turns. heck unlimited turns too why not. i just think the game is a bit limiting but it is good

Not sure if anyone else has thrown this idea out yet, but what would happen in a luddite "reject society, return to monke" challenge run, where you just stubbornly stayed in the Neolithic hunter/gatherer era throughout the entire game? Naturally I'm sure you wouldn't win, but it might be interesting to see if you can build a strategy around just keeping a Neolithic civilization alive all the way to the end of a game.

etc etc etc etc etc

If you're worried about losing your options on the next era's cultures, keep on hovering other the Fame icon to see everyone else's progress. I usually rush when another civ is already 6 or 7 stars.

Q : What is the eye on the resource (saw it in the vid). like it says the bot is interested in my resource

Extremely helpful, thanks for the video!

Thanks for the tips! While I already get the mechanics of food +population, I still end up struggling with it near the end game. I might need to practiced more for this~

Very informative and getting to the points quickly. Love it! Well, a few times you talk really fast, especially at the beginning, and it became quite challenging to follow you as a non-native speaker that I am. I first thought I had playback speed at 1.5x, but no. 😄 Awesome video!

Hey could you make a guide about building your city's. I don't know what I'm doing wrong but I always feel clogged down by the many buildings we can build. I would also appreciate it if you could make a guide on how to expand at the beginning.

I've been having an issue saving my character. After completing my character I save and then play, but when if I save a game then quit and play latter, my character is gone. Anyone have any ideas?