I've played several demo games of Civ 5 (on Steam), mainly because I don't want to pay for it until Nov. 1 for budgetary reasons. However, playing these demo games has revealed a couple of bugs I'd like to discuss. I'm a Civ veteran, having played a lot of Civ 1 and some Civ 2 and 3, and a lot of Civ 4.
The first bug is rather minor but annoying: Civ is supposed to let you know if a unit does not have orders by activating it. However, I find the game frequently does not do this. The work around is to go into the units list, scroll through the list and click on the ones with a green light (and a blank status). It reduces the playability of the game.
The second bug was encountered in one of the games, where the AI seemed to go into an infinite loop. I had to stop the program from the task manager. Fortunately I had recently done a save. I restarted from my save, played pretty much the same moves, and the same problem happened! This bug is very serious, and made it so I could not continue the game.
I was wondering if anyone has noticed these bugs, and if there are patches for them. At this point I'm not too impressed with this version of the game.
The first bug is rather minor but annoying: Civ is supposed to let you know if a unit does not have orders by activating it. However, I find the game frequently does not do this. The work around is to go into the units list, scroll through the list and click on the ones with a green light (and a blank status). It reduces the playability of the game.
The second bug was encountered in one of the games, where the AI seemed to go into an infinite loop. I had to stop the program from the task manager. Fortunately I had recently done a save. I restarted from my save, played pretty much the same moves, and the same problem happened! This bug is very serious, and made it so I could not continue the game.
I was wondering if anyone has noticed these bugs, and if there are patches for them. At this point I'm not too impressed with this version of the game.
