Breaking Civilization 5 With Culture - Civ 5 is a perfectly balanced game with no EXPLOITS
Civilization 5 is the fantastic Turn Based Grand Strategy video game where you are tasked with leading your nation to a certain victory be it science victory, conquest victory or even an easy diplomatic victory. It can be tricky to pull off a victory especially in multiplayer however if you manage to exploit and glitch civilization V you can give yourself an unfair advantage against AI and rival Players. So naturally today The Spiffing Brit is going to be demonstrating an efficient way of destroying friendships by asking if CIV 5 is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits or if the Unlimited culture glitch could perhaps put you at an unfair advantage... I mean surely spiff owning all the social policy improvements and dominating all the science in the world is a rough demonstration of just how overpowered this glitch can be. You will be able to have nukes in civs before any other player!
So sit back and watch as the spiffing brit tests to see if Civilization 5 is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits or if the Infinite gold glitch is broken and overpowered!!!
What you have seen here today is part of a fantastic perfectly balanced series on youtube where I go from game to game and break them with wacky exploits to gain things like unlimited gold. If you enjoyed this then be sure to check out more. The style is similar to RT game and callmekevin in parts. A large influence on this series has come from Valefisk and The Killian Experience.
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Title: Breaking Civilization 5 With Culture - Civ 5 is a perfectly balanced game with no EXPLOITS
#Civ5 #Civilization #Exploit
Spiff doesn't really _play_ games so much as he ambushes them in a dark alley, strips them of their balance, pummels them to within an inch of their design principles, then rifles through their pockets for exploits.
@They Live! Again. how, exactly?
In true English fashion.
@@thegreatestdane8978 the reputation of a large KZheadr isn’t going to be effected in the slightest by a single comment on one of their videos with one like. Chill out man
@@thegreatestdane8978 seems like one of your favourite creator got taken out because of it
@@thegreatestdane8978 huh, isn't this what the news industry does all the time nowadays? That and twitter mobs?
12 turns between discovering the rest of the world and becoming culturally influencial over all of them lmfao
@@thespiffingbrit I made online speed as a fun little project to see what I can mod or not, I may have forgotten its exsistence sometimes :-)
@@thespiffingbrit I love your channel, just one thing though. Did you use a mod to get that Civ? I can't find it anywhere on my game, and the leader image at 1:15 is of the Moroccan leader with the Assyrian map. I looked online too and couldn't find Madagascar on Civ 5 anywhere.
@@toddconn915 at the time stamp you posted, there is a title at the top that says lekmod V26.1 which is considered a very balanced mod of civ 5. spiff also mentions it is the lekmod at 1:08 Spiff broke the balance of this mod. EDIT: for all new commenter, the maintainer of the mod is EnormousApplePie who commented above us.
@chesney1995 influential...
Hmm could I use this in my deity game?
Always knew you were a man of culture.
*Man of Harlech
I didn't know Lathland watched Spif!?
Greetings Lathrix!
truly, it was only a matter of time
Lathrix!
NOTE: You have to have Lekmod to use this. This is not a standard civ in Civ V.
he should pin this comment we all got scammed
@@joshuafhiggins When he "changed a bit" his religion I knew I was getting duped..
Where do I get this mod
Thank you so much my guy
Thanks for pointing this out. I was about to try it out like the gold scam fort trade and couldnt find madacascar and saw lekmod. Still could use it if I play multiplayer with the NQCiv group
"Chicken pizza". Right, I'll never be able to say the proper name for that ancient wonder ever again.
You actually tried to pronounce it properly?, me and my buddies have always called it chicken pizza.
I'm happy i'm not the only one who calls them chicken pizza
We call it Lentil
His intentional mispronunciation of literally every non-english name was really f*ck*ng me up. Especially the part where we called Korea Japan. XD That was just.... lol
It's truly a wonder
25:30 Spiffing Brit: "Oh look that means I can finally meet Japan" Korea: ' 실례합니다?'
Let me guess, these strange symbols mean "Am I a joke to you?"
@@OperationDarkside "Excuse me? " so you don't have to waste your time on Google translate :) should of put that though lol
I hate to be that guy, but "실례합니다" is a statement, not a question, and it can't be used in the same way as "Excuse me?" in English. It's more for when you have done or are doing something that may inconvenience someone else. In this context you might say something like "뭐라고 하셨습니까?" (polite/formal, meaning "What did you say?")
@@Suho1004 Yeah you ruined the joke good job.
@@kyleja2001 Thank you. I do try my best. :)
"We have to stop Spiff!" "Yes, before his culture destroys us." *Sip* "What...what are you drinking, Caesar?" "Oh, this. Just some tea, old chap." "No! IT'S ALREADY HAPPENING!" "Well, if you hate tea so much, let's hop down to the pub for a pint instead, eh? Oliver Julius, bring the lorry up!" "NOOOOO!"
Y’know what they say, “all roundabouts lead to Rome”
Luv Rome, simple az
Oh my that one was amazing
Well, ya can't just have a cuppa coffee, can ya? It just ain't natural, innit?
I'm slowly getting the feeling that the games Spiff covers aren't perfectly balanced as he always claims in the beginning
Whaaaaa? Are you insinuating he may not be British at all? He may be a Sicilian named Vizzini?
They are ALWAYS PERFECTLY BALANCED. How dare you question our Lord and saviour Spiff. Lol
Yeah, just one thing with this particular video though, Madagascar is not in the game... I have been playing for years and have all the DLC's, I even looked it up, but no Madagascar anywhere. The leader in the image is the Moroccan one with the Assyrian map at 1:15
You're starting to sound like a separatist.
@@toddconn915 Yes. Madagascar is a mod for Civ 5. It's actually surprising how many vids he has where you need mods for the exploit.
Oh good I was just losing my Civ game a second ago, perfect timing!
Yeah just install a mod and then the game starts to be unbalanced XD who would of known!
Spiff in every Civ video: 1. Start the game 2. Found a religion 3. ???? 4. Prophet!
Underrated civ joke, you have my like
This is more funny that it should have been.
"Wait, they're all British?" *always have been*
Underrated comment
Hey in case anyone went looking for Madagascar in their games (like me), note that Spiff is playing with a popular mod called Lekmod and Madagascar is in that mod
How do I get this mod? I'm a noob, just installed on steam
I didn‘t pay attention at the start of the video but as soon as he said: „people choose honor“, I knew this was a mod and not vanilla :)
Yeah, in vanilla, everyone take Tradition.
@@Alphenis Or Liberty. But only for rushing people with chariot archers.
My first pick was always to unlock honor when I played. Seeing the barbs when they spawn and the culture from wrecking them helps tons early. I never went further than unlocking it though.
@@BraghDaMan maxing it out is actually rather devastating :D I had a game where I was in a global war by accident ( i started going for culture victory but got forced into war) either way, by getting all honor policy i manged to "EARN" gold even doh i was -60 gold per turn :D I was profiting. I constantly bought new units / buildings. And still ended up in 1000 gold. Yes its not a flawless thing, but my point is. it does help in warfare and if you are going for domination victory i highly recommend using it. Also tradition for culture is better than honor vs barberians. 3 instantly + per turn is better than a small burst when ever you kill a barb. other players can snipe the barb, it cost gold to maintain the unit. but on the bright side you can "grind" barbarian camps along as you use archers to kill and let them keep spawning. but that's about it. Honor is mutch better for culture. Libirty is better for faster expanding empries as described. and honor is mainly good for war.
Although I strongly go for Tradition, whenever I would play with Raging Barbarians I would then always go with Honor, especially on harder difficulties, because the extra damage against barbarians is the only thing keeping you alive when the barbarians all suddenly upgrade their weapons from warriors to spearmen... or 3 nukes on a carrier...
Rome: *Invades Spiff: Spiff: Oh No! Anyways...
I see something Top Gear relevant. I like.
I would like to see an online game between Spiff and friends where they are all competing, using different exploits, to see if the exploits balance out.
Who can exploit the most? That would be fun.
This needs more upvotes. That would be brilliant.
Your comment needs to be higher up, this is an excellent idea
They did this with transport tycoon.
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I was excited seeing a Civ V video by The Spiffing Brit. Excitement died quickly seeing it was a mod being exploited. I still play Civ V regularly, with plenty of mods. Never heard of this one.
It works on prince! (like everything else works on prince, dont do this on deity) But just pick a culture nation like brazil and you can do the same thing
This just in if you mod the game you make it unbalanced.
Yeah he actually doesn’t exploit the game, he only exploits some kinda strange mod...
Lekmod is a modpack made for online games and isn't on steam workshop due to the workaround required to play online with mods
It's a balance mod that makes the game a lot better to play online
Next video, Civ 6 is perfectly balanced - How a stone wall can protect you from a Thermonuclear Warhead.
Hadrian's Fallout Bunker!
It's not even bug this time: it's stacking. Ah, the games as they intended to be.
that's my favorite part about this video, no actual exploits just game mechanics working as intended, even though he is using a Modded Civ. They don't generally break the game.
"intentional game design"
@@sk8paradoxity yes they do. 90% of all modded civs had balancing issues. The ones that change yealds are the most broken.
It's not the game 'as intended', he uses a 3rd party mod that allows to play as Madagascar. No wonder that it's not perfectly balanced.
The proper term for this, is Playing Tall. India might be an even better civ for this strat.
as a fan of civ5 without dlc or mods this very much seems like civ 5.9 to me
How can you play CIV V without DLC?
@@teun911 you dont buy the dlc and press "play" in steam
@@Feldflasche you're perfect the way you are
@@CryoDesCoberic nah. i suffer from scoliosis and my right eye is significantly worse than my left one.
@@Feldflasche My boy got 20/6 vision.
12:38 when you paint a guy who caused a Christian schism before Christ has even been born
I mean, the civ he's playing is modded.
Lekmod does the amazing job of balancing the base game whilst adding civs and other customizables that break the game. That whole spiel on how bad piety was only applies to the base game
@@henrymccoy2306 sorta, most of those tile beliefs don’t exist in the base game whatsoever.
"what is a Madagascar?" -Spiff 2020
So you've broken the unofficial mod. It's like drinking a cold cup of tea.
Yep. First time the spiffing Brit disappointed
@@thespiffingbrit I can't even find lekmod v26.1 oO
@@thespiffingbrit yep, this mod makes the game perfectly balanced, as we can all see in this video
@@ZichaelMakieta I don't think that's the mod spiff just made a special pact that let's him exploit everything
What’s wrong with drinking cold tea? Never heard of iced tea before? It’s quite sweet and a good drink.
Great strategy and it’s currently going well. Too bad I didn’t randomize personalities and I spawned next to genghis khan
Did you survive?
@@Chadniger ayo what is your name
@@pijsn9502 a country
heh, i was exited about a CIv5 video.. only to see it was running on a mod :/ still awesome to see Spiff play Civ5 :D
20:25 That was a very UN-BRITISH thing of you to say! Spiff you should know better Big Ben is the name of the Bell, not the clock nor the building. No thanks needed for the correction, just send me a box of teabags, running kinda low on a student budget. Ty. Edit: the name of the tower is actually Elizabeth tower
Yeah, Big Ben is all about the Ding Dong, we know.
Big ben is a cracked bell in Boston, America as far as I know
@@PeterTeal77 What bell are you talking about. As a pensilvanian I immediately thought the liberty Bell, but that's in Phillie. I'm flustered and embarrassed that I don't know what your talking about.
@@TaikaJamppa no, the Big Ben really is the bell.
And _you_ should know that no British person would call it anything _other_ than "Big Ben".
This is the Christmas gift I never knew I needed. Civ 5 is my favorite civ game by far. Thanks Spif and Happy New Year to you!
You did not break the game, you just found a good strategy!
"Ah yes we get to meet Japan." *Sejong appears* Me: 🤨 One of these things is not like the other...
I was hyped until I realized that nearly everything is boosted, so much extra culture boni where there isn't without mod. Still entertaining, although it is no exploit of the real game
I love that you went back to bring us Civ V content. Still my favorite Civ. Love your work!
I'd like to imagine that the holy sites are just a bunch of really fancy tea rooms
Nah, it would be full of tea houses.
Oh my god what a great episode. Every decision you made was hilariously unstoppable
4:20 yes that is exactly what we dutchies are doing, also the most appropriate dutch timing to say it in your video. This video is certified dutchy approved.
I will never forget the 3 science fishing boats and the 12 production mountains from the Jingle Jam. I'm so glad you're covering Civ V here!
culture, I know all about culture. I have a cacao tea next to me with a stroopwafel elegantly mounted on top
it really helps playing a custom civ on the easiest difficulty picking a rigged map and cheating between cuts for a worker and settler.
Yeah was thinking the same thing lol, any civ player with more than 100 hours will notice that lol
Looks like he discovered el dorado, so probably not cheating. That said "Here's a strategy that can win on prince if you discover el dorado" isn't a high bar.
@@donanderson3653 *and using multiplayer mods against the AI
24:50 That moment when you invert cause and effect, when you have your border growth in -3 turns. lol
Spiff when I see a video posted by you it always makes me excited and I know the day is going to be a good day. Keep doing you it’s amazing and I learn so much!
Am I the only one that knows that there is no Madagaskar civilization in civ5?
@@thespiffingbrit So true. That and Enhanced User Interface.
@@RedSaint83 Wait... how do I find Lekmod?
@@thespiffingbrit wait is it fair to show of an exploit if mods are involved? or is this simply becuase it makes an exploit possible with other civs even more jazzy and the mod is so common?
@@thespiffingbrit well there is also a mod that balance the game perfectly or just makes all traits, bonuses x10...
@@thespiffingbrit There are plenty of other mods that makes the game enjoyable without changing the game this drastically. With over 6k hours into the game I've never heard of this mod and I don't like what I see of it here.
Prince start, can’t have the AI getting any boosts. Still a joy to watch!
"Denounce the banning of Tea!!" and then "Oops I won."
Spiff: I've never covered it. Civ 5 infinite gold: am I a joke to you?
SO GLAD TO SEE more Civ 5 videos !
Lekmod: "We have made Civ 5 more balanced!" Spiff: "Well yes but actually no"
If he was playing vs players hed be dead
@@uolboi5028 yep - playing against the AI with a mod specifically designed for multiplayer is what's broken here.
Well, that made me play the unmodded game for testing. Still I say that Brazil on a jungle map is a lot more OP.
Belated Merry Christmas all and all the best for New Year's, keep up the good work Spiff ole chap
I remember seeing Spiff play this strategy on the Jingle Jam. I was hoping we'd see a video of it!
Litterally everyone else: lives in grass hut The Spiffing Brit: I'm gonna build a hotel!
Coming up on spiffing Brit channel: Living is a perfectly balanced thing with NO EXPLOITE
This is one of my favourite strategies to play, great to see it covered here :)
That's best present for New Year! One of my favourite games
This would be an insane gamebreak if like half of these things didnt come from mods you installed (like the madagascar civ is a mod civ). Maybe try and break the game next time without unbalanced mods?
Kind of speaks volumes for the game, doesn't it? I was also wondering... like hmm, some policies have changed.
it's actually a single mod called lekmod which is used for competitive multiplayer in civ 5.
Glad to see this, I love Civ 5 way more than 6, nice to see you touching on it!
The happiness I get when you make a video on a game I have is nearly greater than when I drink tea
Finally a Civ V video. I have been waiting so long for this
Spiff has drunken so much tea that he seems to have caused brain damage and forgotten the other civ 5 video he did
Like they said in the Rutles movie The Rutles who inspired the copycat Beatles were into heavy drugs. Make Tea not love. Acid is for lightweight pussies! Me I'm a Twinning Earl Grey junkie and I'm NOT joking! 5-6 cups a day of the hardcore real leaf tea. Bags are for beginners. Its like injecting heroine but more civilized. Ask Spiff! He knows!
"We are choosing Piety" Me, despite listening to the entire explanation that there's an end game to this: "Fucking why?"
Also, does everyone call it the chicken pizza? I thought that was just a me thing.
A happy new year to Spiff and all the magnificent Spiffinators, may 2021 be full of good things for you all!
This was honestly one of the most entertaining Civ V videos I've ever watched
I just bought this game and started playing it, literally have no idea wtf I'm doing so I'm here to learn from the master
he is using a modpack. you can try culture victory but it is outrageously hard in multiplayer
Normie Culture: "Its a forest tile". Spiff: "Its free real estate!"
You are the most perfectly balanced 👌KZhead channel, thank you very much for giving me a chuckle every few days!
@@thespiffingbrit omg the lord of exploits, perfectly balanced 👌 gaming, and Yorkshire sponsored, has graced me with his words! I bow to your perfectly balanced-ness!
just got this game the other day ur channel is hilarious
Oh man, this just went and made me want to fire up civ v again
Spiff I'm gonna need to see you British card, cause unless you exploited the game to let you make a bell out of bricks somehow, you just called Elizabeth Tower Big Ben.
That voice in intro is perfectly balanced
Cool that you switch up from Civ 6. Looking forward to watch this video. :)
When he fully broke the game, I honestly choked on my tea from laughing.
Because Reanu Keeves was so good to me for Christmas, this is the first video I'm watching, where I have Yorkshire Gold in front of me. Any serving suggestions Spiff?
Always wanted to do this strat but never figured out how to pull it off. But now I do so thank you Spiff.
Best video so far, keep the civ 5 coming.
Hi spiff. Big fan. Of the game and the channel. Any chance you can do a perfectly balanced video on vanilla civ v? Modded seems like a bit of a stretch from your normal content is all
23:02 The nipslip... KZhead be like- "I heard you are demonetized now, bruh"
Know that you made my day better. Thank you.
I'm loving all the new content bro
I couldn't find Madagascar in the list of official Civ 5 civilizations, then I noticed you're using a mod called Lekmod....
And no Geneva Conventions were broken in the making of this video.
I loved this video,great fun to watch
Another great one mate!
Imagine Civilization 5 Breaking Vox Populi (Mods) - Civ 5 Vox Populi (Mods) is a perfectly balanced game with no Exploit by @TheSpiffingBrit
"We're going to choose the cog religion" Um. Umm. Oof
Thanks for showing us how to win yogscast civ 5 games spiff! (I know it isn’t that hard but definitely appreciated!)
I've been waiting for this
Where would I get this mod, anyway? I cant find it and madagascar is not part of the basegame or dlc from what I can see. The only "lekmod" I can find doesnt have madagascar in it.
The image of the leader for "Madagascar" is definitely the Moroccan leader. Something's fishy... Spiff's brain is a perfectly balanced organ with absolutely no exploits?!
It does seem to be lekmod. If you search for the ability he's abusing (Sacred Hills of Imerina), you can find it listed in a few places. I suspect he forgot he had a bunch of mods enabled.
If you Google the nqmod on reddit you should be able to find the files for it.
yeah i was disappointed when i saw it was actually a mod. i generally don't mod games for that reason.
_"Chicken Pizza"_ lmao *"Oh that means we also now get to meet Japan"* Oh no, now Kim Jong Un will nuke us
Glad you finally covered my fav game in the series. I was always good at it but now I can be cheesy
Man, bruh, I got like 2k+ hours in Civ V and am so happy you made a vid on it. I learned many years ago the key to that game was culture. idgaf what civ you are, you start with the tradition opener, then the honour opener, because culture is absolute fucking key early in the game
Me: "The Spiffing Brit would never disparage an ancient people's cultural heritage site by making low brow jokes about it." Spiff: "Hold my pizza."
Last time I was this early Spiff was only drinking one cup of tea a day
amazing vid as always spiff
I waited for Civ V forever, thank you spiff
Does joining Teaism require being incapable of pronouncing "th"?
And I thought the Shoshone was a broken start...
Thank you, Sir Spiff.😎 I've loved this version of Civ for years. And everyone generally ignores it. 😔
Laughed so hard on the intro that I almost spilled my tea. 😆
Are there any unmoded exploits?
using a mod to break a game isnt really breaking a game tbh...
In fairness this isn’t a silly mod it’s more of a competitive mod plus a total conversion, it’s a completely different meta yes but it’s not a mod to install a super OP civ for fun mod
Yes I agree the mod is what's broken, some things in the policies are weird too both in piety and aesthetics
What mod did he use?
@@TEE_TIME_GOLF - 1:07
You can do the same thing with Byzantium, or another faith-oriented civ. The mod made it faster, but the strategy is OP regardless. If you have a desert start and get desert faith and Petra you can do it even quicker than he did with whatever civ you want.
Nice, Civ 5 is a gift that keeps on giving. But hope you get to do more Humanity exploits as well when it drops, that game seems pretty fun from what you showed off!
Ah yeeees, just what I needed after my tea break