Massive Civ V Patch Bombards PCs Today

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Bought Civ V two weeks ago. Very much a boring, unfun and 1 trick pony game - found it to be no where near as fun as the Total War games. But if this is what it says it'll be, then maybe I'll give Civ another try!

(Which I'd bought Starcraft 2 instead though!)

Have you played Civ 4? I played it for the first time just a few months ago and it was great. I used to be a huge fan of Civ 1, but I decided to ignore Civ 2 and 3 because of the huuuuuge time-sink it is. Civ 4 was just as much as a time sink, so I only played two rounds, but I've heard that Civ 5 is even worse of a sink.

I guess what I'm getting at is trying to find out if Civ5 is your introduction to the series, because I had a lot of fun with the older incarnations of it. I'm not sure that Civ 5 is as good or better than Civ 4, so don't hate all of them?

If you are into multi player, as I am, stick with Civ 4. Civ 5 is massively broken in multi-player, to the point that games keep disconnecting the players. Even the auto-save reload fix that's doing the rounds doesn't seem to work. There's other serious problems, like the once you've ended your turn you can't react to anything, even if someone attacks you. Today?s patch has even broken at least a couple of things.

I love Civ IV, and hexes and the stacking limitation should make Civ V bloody brilliant, once it's working.

CJ

 

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Call me when they add hotseat.

 

[Unrulyhandbag]

No hotseat? no manual saving of multiplayer? well, at least it's a start; now fix the important stuff.

But do you still have to sit through that fucking inexcusably long intro sequence EVERY. GODDAMN. TIME. you start the game up?

Also, will your friends still suddenly decide to genocide the ever-loving shit out of you for no apparent reason COMPLETELY. AT. RANDOM?

If so then I'm not going to even bother.

Go to "my documents\my games\sid meier's civ V\usersettings.ini"

edit it in notepad and change "SkipIntroVideo = 0" to "SkipIntroVideo = 1"

no more annoying intro just 10 seconds of black screen.

edit: as for the going to war thing, it's a lot less annoying when you factor in that real players do it too. At some point your allies are going to pursue victory at your expense its the nature of playing games.

 

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This patch is one of the latest attempts to "fix" the game (not that it was utterly broken or unplayable on release, just horribly unbalanced). Hopefully the new items in diplomacy means the AI won't attack you, unprovoked, after being buddy-buds for 1000 years and liberated civs won't threaten you and call you a warmonger.

As for the gameplay fixes...

Libraries having no specialist slots means you won't be blitzing the tech tree as easily as you did on release.

Cities healing more quickly and defensive buildings having less maintenance will help stave off the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse strategy.

Watermills giving one hammer means that it *might* be worth building now.

Maritimes giving less food means you'll be actually building farms now (less trading post spam). That, or you'll just be playing Siam more often than you'd want.

Taking promotions/policies/tech the moment they become available will give more of an emphasis on timing, making the Rifleman rush (2 Great Scientists then blitzing Rationalism upon entering the Renaissance for two more free techs) highly unlikely.

And probably the biggest:
"Buildings can now no longer provide more Happiness than there is population in a city (wonders are excluded from this)."
Means early expansion and infinite city sprawl (many small cities instead of a few huge ones) is *hopefully* lessened. Basically, more cities = more gold, beakers and hammers. More gold (mostly coming from Trade Routes) means stronger economy to rush buy/influence city-states. More hammers = more units. More units = your games tend to go for Domination.

 

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Bought Civ V two weeks ago. Very much a boring, unfun and 1 trick pony game - found it to be no where near as fun as the Total War games. But if this is what it says it'll be, then maybe I'll give Civ another try!

(Which I'd bought Starcraft 2 instead though!)

Have you played Civ 4? I played it for the first time just a few months ago and it was great. I used to be a huge fan of Civ 1, but I decided to ignore Civ 2 and 3 because of the huuuuuge time-sink it is. Civ 4 was just as much as a time sink, so I only played two rounds, but I've heard that Civ 5 is even worse of a sink.

I guess what I'm getting at is trying to find out if Civ5 is your introduction to the series, because I had a lot of fun with the older incarnations of it. I'm not sure that Civ 5 is as good or better than Civ 4, so don't hate all of them?

I'm afraid Civ V is my introduction into the series. It all seems a bit too up itself in my opinion, I personally don't find it a fun game.

Well, keep an eye out for a Steam sale like I did. I think I got the whole Civ4 pack for $10. Maybe it isn't your cup of tea, but I think it's the only turn based series I give a pass to. It's worth looking into if you at least had your interest piqued by Civ5. Besides, Civ4 has Leonard Nimoy narrating. It makes playing the game feel so epic.

 

[SextusMaximus]

Bought Civ V two weeks ago. Very much a boring, unfun and 1 trick pony game - found it to be no where near as fun as the Total War games. But if this is what it says it'll be, then maybe I'll give Civ another try!

(Which I'd bought Starcraft 2 instead though!)

Have you played Civ 4? I played it for the first time just a few months ago and it was great. I used to be a huge fan of Civ 1, but I decided to ignore Civ 2 and 3 because of the huuuuuge time-sink it is. Civ 4 was just as much as a time sink, so I only played two rounds, but I've heard that Civ 5 is even worse of a sink.

I guess what I'm getting at is trying to find out if Civ5 is your introduction to the series, because I had a lot of fun with the older incarnations of it. I'm not sure that Civ 5 is as good or better than Civ 4, so don't hate all of them?

I'm afraid Civ V is my introduction into the series. It all seems a bit too up itself in my opinion, I personally don't find it a fun game.

Well, keep an eye out for a Steam sale like I did. I think I got the whole Civ4 pack for $10. Maybe it isn't your cup of tea, but I think it's the only turn based series I give a pass to. It's worth looking into if you at least had your interest piqued by Civ5. Besides, Civ4 has Leonard Nimoy narrating. It makes playing the game feel so epic.

I've had much fun seeing walkthrough videos of Civ IV actually! Really enjoyed watching them. To be honest, I guess I just don't like the whole polished and clean feel of Civ V - I want gritty!