Air unit effects... well, they suck.

[Dearmad]

So built my first plane and all excited to see it fly.

No.

They just "hover" almost invisible crowded out by my skyscraper buildings at enar ground level.

Ok, I think, I'll put them on patrol and they will fly in the glorious skies...


NO!

They disappear entirely! On patrol?? I get not even an icon to indicate where they are patrolling!

WOW! This game is looking more and more unpolished all the time:

I use my paratroopers and drop them all excited to see a parachute...

N O ! ! !

The magically appear after an invisible airplane drops them off.

OMFG.

 

[hardcore_gamer]

So built my first plane and all excited to see it fly.

No.

They just "hover" almost invisible crowded out by my skyscraper buildings at enar ground level.

Ok, I think, I'll put them on patrol and they will fly in the glorious skies...


NO!

They disappear entirely! On patrol?? I get not even an icon to indicate where they are patrolling!

WOW! This game is looking more and more unpolished all the time:

I use my paratroopers and drop them all excited to see a parachute...

N O ! ! !

The magically appear after an invisible airplane drops them off.

OMFG.

Are you sure this isn't a bug? I refuse to believe Firaxis is lazy enough to literally skip the process of making basic animations for the units in the game.

 

[S.ilver]

What graphics settings are you running on? I just tried air dropping a paratrooper (that a city state gifted me no doubt O.o) and a big plane flew overhead and all the little guys jumped out deploying their parachutes. Much better than the Civ4 animation for sure.

 

[Dearmad]

Maximum settings.

And yes it looks like it was partly a bug. I reloaded:

the paratroopers do drop out of a plane with chutes... then magically appear larger on the ground after the tiny guys drop from the plane. It's ok... not great, ok.

But the air units do NOT fly over the cities- you simply get a number above the city indicating how many air units you have patrolling it. :/

checked dx9 and 11.

 

[duxup]

Paratroopers do animate. I've done it, a plane flies over the target and out jumps some dudes and they parachute to the ground. Looks better than Civ IV's paratroopers even.

As for other air units I didn't put them on patrol yet but they fly around bombing stuff nicely.

 

[Dearmad]

I don't see the paratroopers plane in dx11 only in dx9. It's some sort of bug. Latest drivers loaded. Only works in dx9 for me. ATI HD5750.

They fly around and bomb stuff but on patrol you get no indicator who's flying around your cities except the number above the city defense number. disappointing.

 

[duxup]

I haven't tried it in dx9, but I can see the paratroopers in dx10/11 on my system.

I see the same things with air patrols as you describe Dearmad.

 

[Dearmad]

damnit it so there's some bug with the game on my system- windows 7. the paratrooper planes and drops are only visible in dx9 for me. which of course has no AA- so ick. I can't seem to force AA either with my ATI card.

 

[shinkicker]

damnit it so there's some bug with the game on my system- windows 7. the paratrooper planes and drops are only visible in dx9 for me. which of course has no AA- so ick. I can't seem to force AA either with my ATI card.

I could well be wrong, but I thought I read somewhere that you'll only get the full impact of DX11 if you're on a Quad Core machine. Are you?

 

[Carver]

You should be able to see the planes circling over your cities. Another Civ4 detail gone missing.

 

[RX2000]

I'm on quad core & I dont see the paratrooper animation either on dx 11. I havent tried it on dx 9..... but on 11 all that happens is I can see the SHADOW of a giant plane coming across the ground (but not the plane itself) then the unit just appears on the ground. They dont jump out or anything. I'll try it on dx 9 tomorrow & see what happens.

 

[Dearmad]

That's exactly what I see RX2000

 

[RX2000]

That's exactly what I see RX2000

And yea as for the planes stationed in your cities, I see exactly what you described, & I was a little disappointed too. I remember in Civ 4 when they would circle around your city when they were on CAP. Like you said tho, in Civ V you cant even tell just by looking if you have them set to intercept or not... No animation

 

[Shillen]

I just tried it out with dx11 and it animated fine for me. Pretty cool looking actually.

 

[RX2000]

I just tried it out with dx11 and it animated fine for me. Pretty cool looking actually.

Weird... Maybe it has to do with video card or something.... who knows.

 

[Dearmad]

Shillen: more details- what card, etc.

 

[James009]

I'm missing the air units flying in patrol over my cities. Hopefully, if enough of us complain about it, they'll release a patch to fix this.

 

[kaltorak]

On gamespots live stream video he attacked with plains and you saw them fly to the place, attack and fly back.

 

[X_MasterDave_X]

I was playing the demo and also had invisible units. I played as Greece, and everytime when i ordered a unit to move into my city, they got invisble the moment they started to move...until it arrived in the city at the same game turn. The unit was then even invisible at the city field. That was a greek Phalanx btw. If i wanted to make the unit visible again, i had to click on the unit symbol at the city and moved it out...then it was immideatly visible again from the first step it made.

Seems the effect starts when you order to move a unit into a city.

I have a Ati 5770 Graphic Card with 1 GB Ram.
Oh...i have not the latest driver....maybe thats the problem. Will try to update it. Steam even told me, its not the latest.

 

[h@@kon]

You should update the driver, yes. I had problems with my Radeon 5800 but latest driver took care of everyting. CiV demo works now like a charm, and after playing i have bought full-version today.