So whom else uses the strategic view exclusively?

[THE_COW_IS_OK]

After a miserable failure to run CIV 5 normally on my old vista laptop.
I bought a new i5 Win7 laptop just see what the Directx 11 fuss is all about.
Well, the screens looks great only 2FPS is not playable.
Now that I gotten used to the strategic view, I can hardly go back to the normal one.

The map is much clearer. Albeit on the expense of eye candies. but who cares? this is strategy)
Its easier to conduct battles and plan unit movemement.
Its much smoother and you can assess distances more easily.

Whom else leaves the strategic layer on and finds clarity trumps graphics overall?

 

[jprc]

Actually, as I played numerous games since the 70's (includes of course board games, edited by Avalon and some others...), it recalls me of all the nights I spent with friends around a table, and a few hex cartons representing units...
It also recall me the Panzer General series I loved so much...

As i play games like Heart of Iron III (paradox interactive), playing on an hex map is very fine !

And, last but not least, Civ 1 !!!
Don't you feel like playing again civ 1 when in strategic views ?!

Unfortunately for me, I hate Civ 5 the way it has been scaled down, but I am ready to give it another try because of this simplified vision: it seems to go well with the simplified Civ 5 I have now ... So then I can have a new mind set when playing civ 5 , and , perhaps, appreciate it more with the time.

Forgot:
At the opposite of "the Cow is OK", I have a powerful compter. Alienware M17x-r2, i7-920XM Extreme Edition 2.00GHz, 8Gb DDR3 1333 RAM, W7 64b, CrossfireX dual 1GB ATI Radeon Mobility HD 5870 ...
It is a shame to be in hex view with such a beast, but I do not feel the need to have pretty landscape (except ugly rivers...) in Dx11, if the gameplay is just as good as an hex wargame...

 

[vlkm]

I have to stay away from it as it is the one thing that guarantees to crash Civ5 for me.

 

[mihaifx]

I plan to do so in my next game. My only complaint is that you can't distinguish roads from railroads. Other than that, it's pretty neat.

 

[lissenber]

All i can say is STRATEGIC VIEW ROCKS

 

[sovarn]

I have to stay away from it as it is the one thing that guarantees to crash Civ5 for me.

I can play for hours (albeit slowly) on the normal view but once I use the strategic view I can expect a crash within 1-10 turns.

 

[Alphard]

Strategic view is nice but I have 2 problems with it:

1. when a unit is garrisoned in a city, i have not found a way to move it out of the city in the strategic view

2. strategic view is slower for me than the full map

otherwise i like the clear visuals and ability to filter how things look.

 

[Becephalus]

Strategic view is nice but I have 2 problems with it:

1. when a unit is garrisoned in a city, i have not found a way to move it out of the city in the strategic view

2. strategic view is slower for me than the full map

otherwise i like the clear visuals and ability to filter how things look.

You can move it you just need to be zoomed in enough so you get the city detail screen. Its a pretty close zoom level.

I have played 160 hours+ all in strategic mode and I love it.

 

[wapamingo]

You can move it you just need to be zoomed in enough so you get the city detail screen. Its a pretty close zoom level.

I have played 160 hours+ all in strategic mode and I love it.

I was wondering how to do this.

For me, once the game gets more developed (rather, more settled and with more units) I find I have to switch to Strategic View as its significantly faster. But I do get an occasional crash.

 

[Wuzetian]

It is a shame to be in hex view with such a beast, but I do not feel the need to have pretty landscape (except ugly rivers...) in Dx11, if the gameplay is just as good as an hex wargame...

Seriously, I am always wondering if someone can just rip the SV from civ5 and make it a standalone game for phones or something like that. It'd be totally awesome. Because really,as jprc said,a good strategy game doesn't depend on beautiful landscapes.

 

[Wuzetian]

I plan to do so in my next game. My only complaint is that you can't distinguish roads from railroads. Other than that, it's pretty neat.

Actually roads and railroads are represented by different color if you look more closely. But it's true the difference is very hard to tell.

 

[eviltypeguy]

I have to stay away from it as it is the one thing that guarantees to crash Civ5 for me.

Same here; I really like the strategic view, especially since it performs so much better, but the crashing makes it unuseable.

 

[Drawmeus]

Seriously, I am always wondering if someone can just rip the SV from civ5 and make it a standalone game for phones or something like that. It'd be totally awesome. Because really,as jprc said,a good strategy game doesn't depend on beautiful landscapes.

I wish, but the AI alone would guarantee this couldn't happen. There's a lot of heavyweight processing going on besides graphical rendering.

I like strategic view, though I don't play in it that much. I tend to switch to it because it's so clear during a very intense war, or when resource hunting, and play in normal view the rest of the time.

 

[AbbieRevo]

Yeah, I only play in Strat view, same situation, Laptop doesn't like the normal view

 

[Lanstro]

Once the patch comes out to fix the strategic view crashes, I'll be more or less exclusively on strategic.

Though, on the downside, it accentuates all the flaws of the game, since all you have left is gameplay and AI. If they'd spent all their budget from graphics, music, etc etc on gameplay and AI, then we'd have a much better game.

 

[EmpireOfCats]

I love strategic view. It is one of the things that they really, really got right (once the bugs are ironed out and stuff is polished a bit). This is how I play it on my MacBook Pro, because otherwise the fan starts up, and I don't like that noise.

 

[DaveGold]

I don't really like the strategic view but my PC is under spec and I need to switch to it after turn 150 or so for performance. I can't switch back afterwards as that crashes the game.

 

[kuukkeli]

Strategic view is one of few good new features in Civ5. My main problem with it is the fact that you need to zoom too close for lots of information to show (like city builds, etc.) and it kind of beats the purpose. If that's fixed and the info pop-ups are improved generally it'll be a great feature.

 

[Interslice]

I have to stay away from it as it is the one thing that guarantees to crash Civ5 for me.

Same here. I would love to play in this mode for the faster performance but sadly it's not possible for me.

 

[Elliot]

I would if it wouldn't make the game crash. I sure hope the next patch fixes it. I have no desire to play the game past turn 150 on my old computer without strategic view.