[GS] Dreaming of one more...patch

[Leucarum]

Same. But they may have at least taken notice of some of the criticism of VI, and hopefully that is an incentive to fix some of the more egregious issues. At least for me, if there is a VII, this will be the first time ever that I will be waiting to buy the latest Civ until after I have read a lot of feedback. No way I want a rehash of VI, and not sure I even want to buy another Civ game after the state VI is in after this many years.

And I didn't buy or play Humankind so this has nothing to do with that. HK seems "not ready for prime time" from what I've read, but that's only been released a short time by comparison.

I don't know if I'd go so far. I got over a thousand hours of entertainment from Civ6, so at this point I might as well just hand firaxis my wallet for anything they make...

But it does leave a slightly bitter taste in my mouth when Civ6 crashes and splutters, thinking about how much better it could be...

 

[Victoria]

Went DX12 and my crashes on the pc stopped. I had the first the other day for a long time and think that was just my graphics card getting too hot.I really need to Hoover it sometime.

 

[Stilgar08]

Colour me naive, but I do believe we will see a final patch at some point. If the game just had minor issues I wouldn't, but there were some BIG bugs introduced during NFP, and I find it hard to believe they'll just leave them. The economy bug obviously is one of them, the graphics bug that makes all natural disaster graphics go away when loading a saved game after first load is another. The trade AI also has some serious bugs, I'm not just talking the war deals, but the fact that AI will buy your luxes at 10+ GPT and sell you theirs at 1-2 GPT, which was also a bug introduced during one of the last NFP updates if I'm not mistaken.

The trading habits of the AI are especially annoying and almost feel like cheating, even if you make yourself deny the most unbalanced trade options...

I dont think there will be anything Civ6 releated anymore .... next Civ releated thing we are going to hear is "join us on (date-time here) for civ announcement)" and it will be Ci7 teaser. But that will not happen until at least mid 2022.

Absolutely possible. I doubt that they will announce a final patch with big news anyways. Firaxis main PR will run for Midnight Suns until its out I'd say. But still I'm hoping.

Sorry, can't do that, I'm confident there will be a last major patch, soon™ (between tomorrow and civ7 release date)

"Feed me Seymour, feed me!"

 

[Zegangani]

Can they just fix the crashes that weren't present prior to the April patch? That is all I expect.

This alone would make me Happy with the Game again. (I'm mainly talking about the Asset Limit Bug, but also about other crashes like when loading a Save Inside an ongoing Game)

Yeah. I doubt we'll have a balance patch at this point but I'd really hope for a stability patch. Were that to be fixed it would definitely increase my play time... Though you could argue Firaxis have already pocketed our money so... We'd have to hope that consumer goodwill is enough to justify it?

a BugFix Patch is very likely, not just because it feels like there is going to be one, but also since Carl Harrison made a Post here after the April Update Patch that we should keep reporting things for Civ VI. But some small Balance changes are still Possible, but not something as big as in the April Patch.

 

[Xur]

I cannot recall a patch from Firaxis, that did not introduce new bugs and exploits. Be careful what you wish for. They should have fired all their QA team and do experimental patches that people can opt into. But that would require talking to the player base - ew huh? Much better to let marketing speak and deliver a mediocre patch.

 

[Kupe Navigator]

I cannot recall a patch from Firaxis, that did not introduce new bugs and exploits. Be careful what you wish for. They should have fired all their QA team and do experimental patches that people can opt into. But that would require talking to the player base - ew huh? Much better to let marketing speak and deliver a mediocre patch.

Name a game that didn't introduce any bugs in their patch.

 

[Aristos]

I cannot recall a patch from Firaxis, that did not introduce new bugs and exploits. Be careful what you wish for. They should have fired all their QA team and do experimental patches that people can opt into. But that would require talking to the player base - ew huh? Much better to let marketing speak and deliver a mediocre patch.

Not only introduce, but also RE-introduce older bugs like the infamous Alert Button bug. Granted, all games have their issues with every patch because such is the nature of software development, but Firaxis took it to another level. I agree with you, the QA team, if it exists, deserves some questioning (or the street), but more importantly, open betas is clearly the way to go as more serious and successful franchises are showing for years now. It's not that anything would change in terms of us customers being the QA team anyways, but at least that way fixes should be more frequent.

 

[AntSou]

I'm still waiting on them to make the Persona Pack purchasable. It's a bit odd not to be able to just pay for it (and therefore unable to complete the collection).

 

[aieeegrunt]

Name a game that didn't introduce any bugs in their patch.

Look at the stat Civ Rev2 was left in

The last patch for that game included a bug that made it so AI will never enter a goody hut nor clear a barb camp.

Game is still like that

Hopefully Civ6 will not

 

[TheMarshmallowBear]

The game wasn't this buggy until they did 1 update per month, which is simply not enough time to make sure everything is 100%, Sims 4 has done it and it's a nightmare because it introduces more bugs.

Honestly before New Frontier, everything was fine.

 

[LMT]

I tried to play a few separate games with Eleanor over the past week. Multiple crashes. I hadn't played in several months--in part, due to this issue--and was hoping the crash issue had been fixed.

The crashing problem seems to have occurred about the time the of last NFP release. I have a hard time believing Firaxis is unaware of this issue, yet nothing. I've never complained about the game until now. It's essentially unplayable for me.

 

[TheMarshmallowBear]

I tried to play a few separate games with Eleanor over the past week. Multiple crashes. I hadn't played in several months--in part, due to this issue--and was hoping the crash issue had been fixed.

The crashing problem seems to have occurred about the time the of last NFP release. I have a hard time believing Firaxis is unaware of this issue, yet nothing. I've never complained about the game until now. It's essentially unplayable for me.

Have you reported it? I've never had a single crash, I never in fact had any crash that wasn't due to my own fault when modding.

 

[aieeegrunt]

Have you reported it? I've never had a single crash, I never in fact had any crash that wasn't due to my own fault when modding.

Holy crap like what is your setup and hardware?

 

[SammyKhalifa]

Holy crap like what is your setup and hardware?

I haven't had a crash since right after a patch/dlc several patches ago. My compy is decent but old, a z97 motherboard with a 4790 k

 

[TheMarshmallowBear]

Holy crap like what is your setup and hardware?

I don't have a beast, I have 16 GB of ram, 8-core processor, decent graphics card (infact, can't play on DX12 because of the weird visual hair glitch)

But even before my old computer kapoot I never had any issues on Win 7 (now I' mon Win 10)

 

[Stilgar08]

On PS you have Crashs occasionally. But that's not the issue, why I'm hoping for another patch, nor is it balance issues.
To even out rough edges and make trade AI better would be a huge step already...
Personally I wouldn't mind a higher production rate for units for AI as well. But I know, not gonna happen.

 

[sonicmyst]

For me I just want to know what the Civ6 team are doing. Just one tiny little clue will do. That's all I hope for.

 

[Haig]

For me I just want to know what the Civ6 team are doing. Just one tiny little clue will do. That's all I hope for.

Yeah I need a teaser of their new project.

 

[aieeegrunt]

It might be too early

What was the cycle time between 4 and 5, and then 5 and 6? That may give you a rough indication

 

[Linklite]

It might be too early

What was the cycle time between 4 and 5, and then 5 and 6? That may give you a rough indication

5 and 6 years respectively. II came 5 years after I and III came fives years after that. IV came four years after IIII.

Going from the previous iterations, we should have had a game this year, 2022 at the latest, since Civ VI came in 2016. Of course, Coronavirus throws a spanner in the works and there's no law that past behaviour must dictate what's happening now. Usually, the next iteration comes two years after the last game released "attached" to the previous one, which would suggest 2023. Still, in theory at least, we're due for one going by the gaps between main instalments.