Civilization 7 update brings pirates and "powerful" Ocean Tiles, but developer Firaxis won't say much more: "You'll notice smaller, less frequent updates while the team shifts into testing"

Screenshots of Civilization 7 for review.

While we head deeper into autumn, Civilization 7 is wading into the open sea with its particularly nautical upcoming update 1.3.0.

Developer Firaxis explains in a slightly vague update check-in post – it knows fans have been hoping for more frequent updates, or possibly even a content roadmap, but creative director Ed Beach writes in the post that, "We've held off on providing too much detail until we knew that the significant updates we wanted to make had a clear path forward and were sufficiently fleshed out." In any case, think boats.