While the mod itself is run by a relatively small team (of no more than five people at any given moment), it includes a vast assembly of things created by Civ4 great modding community, from individual art pieces to mod components. We feel that over years it has resulted in our mod becoming one of the best looking ones out there.

One of our main priorities when adding new content is ensuring its proper quality. We tried to accommodate for many different possible gameplay strategies and provide an enjoyable experience for each of them.Ī better-looking game is a better game. We have been balancing the added features for literally years to ensure that tons of our added content function smoothly and give a balanced and rewarding gameplay experience both for beginner players (at lower difficulty levels) and for veterans wanting more challenge (at higher difficulty levels). We aim to make player's experience more unique each time, and all civilizations now have a unique terrain improvement, a sizeable set of buildings and units unique to them (actually, most units for every particular civilization will have some differences from their default counterparts) – and several leaders for each, in many cases with starkly differing personalities.Ĭareful testing for better balance. Moreover, many civilizations were limited to only one leader. A civilization in Civ 4 was characterized by one unique unit and one unique building basically, that was it – Aztecs were otherwise almost completely identical to, say, French. You will notice that many things, up to uniform details, are historically correct (or at least more correct, anyway). Our goal was to enhance the historical feel by correcting those oversights. A couple of classical examples are Persian 'Immortals' (who historically had very little to do with how they are depicted in Civ4) and Roman 'Praetorians' (unlike other legionaries, praetorians were never intended for taking part in military campaigns). Original game is in many cases either oversimplifying things, or even plain wrong. It is an open-source community project that is free to download and play, but it requires a legal copy of Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword to be installed. Realism: Invictus is a mod for Sid Meier's Civilization IV that brings a different feel to the game through its realistic visual appearance, deepened game mechanics, refined play balance, and diversity of civilization-specific content.

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