[FIXED] Can see where units are placed in FOW

[Bad Brett]

Select any unit, right-click and drag the cursor to any tile that isn't withing the line of sight. If there is a unit or a camp on that tile, the cursor turns red. By doing this, you can always check if there are any barbarians nearby.

 

[Zelig]

Confirmed.

edit: See below.

edit2: Wasn't able to confirm this when I went back for some screenshots, got discouraged of trying when strategic view kept crashing the game... I'll give it another shot tomorrow if nobody else updates.

 

[The_J]

Screenshot please.


It has been said that a bug will be seen as confirmed when a mod has checked it.
We'll see if a confirmation from a senior user is enough (should be, but has first to be discussed or brought up in the staff).

 

[Abyss08]

I can confirm this bug.

At least I can confirm that some hexes in the FOW are red for no good reason.

 

[AustinYQM]

I cant take screenshots, just end up with a blackscreen otherwise I would provide one to confirm.

 

[The_J]

Don't just copy the screen to paint or so.
After you hit the print key, go to My Documents\My Games\Civ5, and somewhere there should be a subfolder for screenshots.

 

[Biz_]

yeah

kind of useful to know not to send my settler out when it turns red where i wanted to make the city

 

[Rulah]

Hello,

I've been lurking around for many years but not much of a poster but I want to take my part in CiV bug reporting because I am a bit disappointed in the current condition of the game.

I tried to search this one out but can't really find anything relating to this but please tell me if a similar bug report exists.

And now to the bug report:

Patch version 1.0.0.20.

I can see "blocked" hexes in fog of war when trying to move non-combat units there. This way I can see where is the nearby barbarian camps and scout for combat units without really scouting. Not game breaking I know but still a bug.

Maybe the pictures explain it better.









Don't know why my screenshots gets those black thingies but I hope they're clear enough. Save is attached.

 

[Moss]

Moderator Action: Merged threads

 

[The_J]

Moderator Action: And moved.
Screenshot is obvious.

 

[r_rolo1]

Same old, same old ... we had the exact same bug in civ IV ( never solved oficially IIRC )

 

[nascarfan999]

I am pretty sure I've experienced a different, but possibly related bug. Unfortunately, I wasn't paying too close of attention and didn't think to screenshot what I could at the time. I was trying to move my scout two hexes away onto a previously undiscovered square. I did not get a red icon even though there was a unit there. Instead, my scout only moved one square (next to the now viewable unit) but the game took away both movement points. I jut chalked it up to one of the now numerous bugs until I realized nobody else has reported something like this (that I can find) so thought I would throw it out there to see if anyone can recreate it. If what I thought I saw was correct, it would directly conflict with what others in this thread are reporting (which I've also had happen to me in other cases).

 

[Zelig]

If anyone wants to bother worldbuildering it (yeah, I'm lazy), there's a semi-related bug that let's you stack units.

U|F|M

U - your unit, with at least 3 movement
F - friendly unit on a hill
M - mountain, still covered in fog because of the hill under F

Right click on M (covered by fog) and your unit will try to move over F to land on M, but will be unable, and will stack with F.