Any% Tutorial (Updated)
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Any% Tutorial (Updated)
Updated 2 years ago by EchoOnward
  1. A Basic Explanation

This guide assumes little to no knowledge with the mechanics of Civ 6. Bear with it if you've been speedrunning for years.

The optimal strategy as currently discovered is to set the number of AI civilizations to 1, set the number of turns until the game finishes to 1, and then upon the game starting, hit Shift+Enter to manually end your turn as quickly as possible. After that, if the one AI civ hasn't built a city on their first turn, your score ties with theirs at 0-0, which results in a Score Victory for the player. If the AI civ HAS built a city on their first turn, you lose and have to try again. Unfortunately, this is purely RNG, with no way to affect your chances of winning beyond trying a larger number of times.

Since the top 10 times as of this writing are all under 0.3 seconds, saving time anywhere you can is essential. As such, most of the following setup is designed to decrease load times as much as possible within the game. Outside the game, it can be beneficial to close all non-essential programs to free up processing power.

  1. Game Settings

Select 'Game Options' from the main menu, and move to the Graphics tab. Pull the Performance Impact and Memory Impact sliders all the way to the left, to 'Minimum.' Save those settings.

Next, select 'Single Player' from the main menu, click 'Create Game,' then click 'Advanced Setup.' On the right side of the screen, there are four subsections: Options, Game Modes, Victory Conditions, and Advanced Options.

Under Options;

Set Game Difficulty to Settler,
Start Era to Ancient Era,
Game Speed to Quick,
City-States to 0,
Map Size to Duel,
Temperature to Hot,
Rainfall to Arid,
and Sea Level to Low.

Under Game Modes;

Deselect both Barbarian Clans Mode and Tech and Civic Shuffle Mode.

Under Victory Conditions;

Select all Victory Conditions.

Under Advanced Options;

Set Limit Turns to Custom, and then set Max Turns to 1,
select No Duplicate Civilizations,
select No Duplicate Leaders,
and select No Barbarians.

Save this configuration so you can load it later.

  1. Running the Game

Click 'Start Game.'

Hold the Shift key, and with the Shift key depressed, click Begin Game and then hit Enter as fast as you can. That's the entirety of the speedrun.

If your PC is mid- to low-grade and you're very fast at the inputs, you might hit Enter before the game loads in. If that happens, you have to hit Enter again to finish your turn and the game.

After your first run, select 'Just One More Turn...,' then open the Game Menu with the three line icon in the upper right corner of the screen.

From there, select Restart to start a new run with the same game settings, and run the game as many times as you can.

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