Game Eradication ????

[dlk]

I had always just played Vanilla and yesterday decided to go the full route on Steam and get G&K and BNW and all the add-ons. Now all I have is BNW. Where did Vanilla and G&K go ???? I can find no reference to them other than a G&K DLC add on. Does BNW eradicate the other games?
With Civ 4 when you added another level you could still play the previous ones as well?
What options do I have to go back and play the previous levels in Civ5 ???
Steam mystifies me in the myriad ways they can make the simplistic into unknown complexity ???
Hopefully I am just overlooking a simple answer. Can anyone explain what is going on????
It would certainly be appreciated !!!!!

 

[chazzycat]

you just have to disable the "DLC" for the expansion packs (by clicking on the green check marks to remove them) and you'll go back to Vanilla.

 

[Heerlo]

What chazzycat said. You can't start them individually like you could with Civ4;they all start from the same thing. You just have to disable them in the DLC menu to go back to an another version.

 

[joncnunn]

G&K and BNW are both DLC themselves.
So with BNW, its the same exe as it was in Vanilla; first thing it does is run these checks:

1. Do you have BNW? Yes : Show BNW menu screens / etc. No: Proceed to step #2

2. Do you have G&K? Yes : Show G&K Menu screens / etc. No: Show Vanilla Menu screens / etc.

All versions of menus have options to pull up the DLC to disable some. (Note that the Mongol civ is DLC [albeit free], so firaxis didn't even have to worry about disabling the DLC button for those without DLC.)

 

[dlk]

Thank you Gentleman....the ignorant now sees some light !!!! Thanks again !!!

 

[FuRRie]

The good thing is, you never want to play Vanilla after you've played BNW.