Here is some necessary information for folk who’ve been ready for Civilization 7 to get some key modifications because it launched to combined evaluations. Developer Firaxis has introduced that it is introduced one of the high-profile Civ modders (not less than when it comes to the final couple of entries) on board in an official dev capability.
Why’s {that a} massive deal, other than clearly being cool for the oldsters concerned? Properly, one of many issues this explicit modder’s identified for is UI tweaks, which has been considered one of Civ 7’s greatest factors of competition, and one thing Firaxis has been clear it needs to enhance.
Whatever the motivation, each the developer and modder Sukrit ‘Act’ Tan – aka Sukritact – have revealed that the previous’s now joined the studio. “We’re glad to announce that Sukritact has formally joined Firaxis as our newest Tech Artist,” Firaxis neighborhood supervisor Sarah Engel introduced in a put up on Civ 7’s official Discord server fittingly entitled “Getting into our Sukritact Age…”
In the meantime, over on Bluesky, Tan offered their very own affirmation, writing “Lastly, MY flip to do a kind of fancy profile replace movies! Waaaaay again in highschool, I began modding Civ 5, and truthfully, that is what began me down this path of working in recreation dev.”
Lastly, MY flip to do a kind of fancy profile replace movies!
Waaaaay again in highschool, I began modding #Civ5, and truthfully, that is what began me down this path of working in recreation dev. So as we speak, I’m past thrilled to have the ability to say that I’ve simply joined Firaxis as a Technical Artist!
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— Sukrit “Act” Tan (@actsukrit.bsky.social) 4 March 2025 at 21:58
Total, as you’d hope, the Civ neighborhood on Reddit and Discord appears to be overwhelmingly glad for Tan, with a quantity viewing the transfer as a possible reply to their prayers when it comes to tweaks they’d wish to see made to the sport, particularly UI-wise. Whereas it is probably not that straightforward, you’ll be able to perceive the hype, on condition that loads of Sukritact’s works for Civ 6 have been modifications to facets of that recreation’s UI, reminiscent of their ‘Easy UI Changes’ and ‘World Relations Panel’ mods, which have each been subscribed to over 650k occasions on Steam Workshop as of writing.
As somebody who’s dipped their toe in Civ 6 modding, these and a bunch of Tan’s different works that do stuff like including new world wonders and revamping varied facets of the sport’s visuals and textual content to be additional traditionally correct have been among the many first I grabbed, and have become load order staples. The modder seemingly hasn’t commented on whether or not their new gig will have an effect on them persevering with to make unofficial mods, so a couple of of the gamers reacting to the information have expressed a little bit of concern about the potential of Civ 7’s modding scene probably struggling because of this.
We’ll simply should see, however on the finish of the day, none of us are entitled to getting recreation tweaks people make on a volunteer foundation.
