Hotseat is coming soon

TheMeInTeam · May 6, 2011

Horizons said:
Hotseat is something I'll never use but I guess it will make all the guys happy who want to play Civ5 with their girlfriend. I can think of things I'd rather do with my girlfriend than take turns at Civ.

Do they have diminishing marginal utility? One does need change-ups now and then based on that principle. Sometimes, it's fun to masterfully bait the AI into doing stupid things.

snoochems · May 6, 2011

While is is welcome news that we will be getting Hotseat, celebrating it and pumping up 2K's tire's is a little strange. This feature, which has been included in Civ games since Civ 2 PTW, really should've been in the game from day 1.

Lose · May 7, 2011

any info on MP patch fix?

anandus · May 7, 2011

Ghostz said:
any info on MP patch fix?

No.
The only info is there'll be hotseat soon and pitboss later.

Revoran · May 7, 2011

snoochems said:
While is is welcome news that we will be getting Hotseat, celebrating it and pumping up 2K's tire's is a little strange. This feature, which has been included in Civ games since Civ 2 PTW, really should've been in the game from day 1.

PTW was civ 3, but yeah.

awetzel · May 15, 2011

Is it going to be like a single player game or multiplayer? I mean will the AI actually contact you and make deals. If not, than i cant understand why anyone would be rejoicing. I play mulptiplayer almost every night with a few friends, and i can say with all certainty that its not as much fun as single play. Even on immortal the AI seems incompotent and the game itself feels bland at best. Dont get me wrong playing with a few friends can be nice.
Just saying, if you have been playing single player this whole time and just now decided to play hotseat with a friend you might be very disappointed as there is a big difference between the two. Better to actually fix multiplayer before you give out more ways to play it.

Thormodr · May 15, 2011

snoochems said:
While is is welcome news that we will be getting Hotseat, celebrating it and pumping up 2K's tire's is a little strange. This feature, which has been included in Civ games since Civ 2 PTW, really should've been in the game from day 1.

Of course. The problem was that Civilization 5 was released far, far, far too early. At least a year if not two years too early.

So, although hotseat is cool and I liked the feature in previous Civs, this is not anything to jump up and down about. It should have been in the original game but 2K Games' shareholders needed to be placated and those year end reports had to look good.

Carl5872 · May 25, 2011

Beef Hammer said:
this is lost on me, as I don't see how playing a TBS with other people, on the SAME pc is any fun. I mean you see what they're doing, what they're planning, unless your playing a team game. Still, this just isn't the kind of game I play multiplayer on, but to each his own.

I love Hotseat because you play in the same room as your friends. We always play on the same team, against the AI, you can watch movies while you play and it adds a social aspect to the game instead of just playing online.

apocalypse105 · May 25, 2011

I hope there will be battle animations at the hotseat mode i heared that there werent battle animations in multiplayer I kinde like those animations and you know at least what happens

Do anybody know if there are battle animations for hot seat yet? I guess sow because it is just a single player setup but with humans

Save_Ferris · May 25, 2011

Sorry, but what's Pitboss?

VGT · May 26, 2011

It's separate small program. When You run it, it's like a dedicated game server. If You have PC, that it's available online 24h/day, You can run a game this way. It's a bit like PBEM, but people don't have to send saves. They just login to server, and do their turns.

I just hope, when pitboss comes, it will be available for linux, because that's the only way i could host game server.

anandus · May 26, 2011

VGT said:
I just hope, when pitboss comes, it will be available for linux, because that's the only way i could host game server.

Maybe it will run under Wine?

Seek · May 27, 2011

So am I right to assume Pitboss would be mod compatible?

Valkrionn · May 27, 2011

Since no MP is currently mod compatible, no, you would not be right to blindly assume that.

aatami · Jun 2, 2011

So, any news on when hotseat is coming?

anandus · Jun 2, 2011

aatami said:
So, any news on when hotseat is coming?

I think it is end of june/beginning of july.

sukritact · Jun 2, 2011

I just hope we'll be able to play with mods.

Save_Ferris · Jun 2, 2011

VGT said:
It's separate small program. When You run it, it's like a dedicated game server. If You have PC, that it's available online 24h/day, You can run a game this way. It's a bit like PBEM, but people don't have to send saves. They just login to server, and do their turns.

I just hope, when pitboss comes, it will be available for linux, because that's the only way i could host game server.

Does anyone know if it works for mac?

bryanw1995 · Jun 2, 2011

Everything with mac has to be ported over by aspyr. From what I've seen with civ5, they are typically a month or 2 behind vs the windows releases.

anandus · Jun 2, 2011

sukritact said:
I just hope we'll be able to play with mods.

I doubt it, mods in multiplayer aren't implemented (yet?)

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