WOOT!!! IT's HERE!
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With the most recent patch, you could switch on and off each DLC; I wonder if this is the same. Perhaps someone could enlighten us
?emblemfire
Chieftain
30%!!!! So psyched! May the civilization fans rejoice!!!
Sleepless CiVr
Chieftain
I must say so far I'm pretty impressed. Turn times aren't that bad at all so far as I begin to head towards the Ren. era. I'm having a little difficulty with the Ottomans right now and Atilla just DoWd on Caesar.
Playing on a Small Shuffle Map as Germany with 8 Civs and 10 CS. Good AI combat so far with the ranged units attacking first from the rear and the melee up front. Flanking, good attacks on my cities, retreating when odds are overwhelming. I'm very happy so far. Behind on score which I figured would happen with the new mechanics. Got a bunch of units from cleaning out barb camps. So I'm decently content. Techs are rearranged and I had to get used to that. Like the embassy idea. Founded my pantheon which was a tad tougher than I expected. It really does feel like Civ to me now. Thanks 2k! And I really like the new intro movie but I will honestly miss the old one. I rarely ever skipped it and I know I won't skip this one.
Playing on a Small Shuffle Map as Germany with 8 Civs and 10 CS. Good AI combat so far with the ranged units attacking first from the rear and the melee up front. Flanking, good attacks on my cities, retreating when odds are overwhelming. I'm very happy so far. Behind on score which I figured would happen with the new mechanics. Got a bunch of units from cleaning out barb camps. So I'm decently content. Techs are rearranged and I had to get used to that. Like the embassy idea. Founded my pantheon which was a tad tougher than I expected. It really does feel like Civ to me now. Thanks 2k! And I really like the new intro movie but I will honestly miss the old one. I rarely ever skipped it and I know I won't skip this one.
FridoDiamond
Chieftain
Question: is the download automatic?
Sleepless CiVr
Chieftain
at midnight I had to restart Steam and then it began downloading. Just under a Gig and on my connection it took around 10 or so minutes. Nice new opening movie 
45 turns into it and no one has declared war on me, no one is even mad at me, friendly and neutral! Happy about this as I am more a builder and culture/religious kind of of guy Enjoying the new additions. About 8 seconds between turns same as post patch. Playing on a large continent maps, standard pace, Prince difficulty, 14 civs, 28 city-states. I'm Byzantium added all the news civs as well as Askia and England. The rest are random, I'm about to found my pantheon now, not as easy as I thought to get one.
But you can accept an embassy...
Txurce
Deity
Can't start a game - the music cuts out and it just hangs when I press the "Start Game" button.
Could it have anything to do with you using Boot Camp (or are you on a PC)?
My turn lag - a major slowdown as each command is executed - is due to the graphics. I've had to lower all my settings on DX11 to low. This is a fairly major drop in quality. Obviously not everyone is having this issue. I have a Dell XPS7100 with an AMD Athlon II processor (2.8 GHz), 4GB RAM and ATI Radeon HD4200. Is there any reason that this should no longer be adequate?
I'm running it on Boot Camp and it runs fine. Turns times in between are around 8 seconds since the post patch. Hopefully their is a hotfix soon. Everything else seem good though!
at midnight I had to restart Steam and then it began downloading. Just under a Gig and on my connection it took around 10 or so minutes. Nice new opening movie
Very good news, I'm happy that download is not long.
Morningcalm
Keeper of Records
The game is fun, but the loading screen takes a while, and goes completely black after the opening cinematic (which is better than the vanilla opening cinematic, btw). For a moment I thought the program wasn't responding, and it said as much in my taskbar. Any idea how to fix this?
First impressions:
Religion takes work. I didn't prioritize Stonehenge and looks like that's going to keep me from getting a pantheon of my own since it's a moving target.
Combat is painfully protracted. It took me four turns to wipe out a barbarian with a Hoplite. Need I say more? (On the upside, my in-the-red Hoplite survived a counter attack from another barb after I took out the camp.)
Starts feel very, very different. I rolled the dice several times and never saw the kind of stone and marble starts I was routinely playing before G&K (and using for rampant wonder whoring).
Ok, time for bed...once I listen to Djinn's break down of the social policies.
Religion takes work. I didn't prioritize Stonehenge and looks like that's going to keep me from getting a pantheon of my own since it's a moving target.
Combat is painfully protracted. It took me four turns to wipe out a barbarian with a Hoplite. Need I say more? (On the upside, my in-the-red Hoplite survived a counter attack from another barb after I took out the camp.)
Starts feel very, very different. I rolled the dice several times and never saw the kind of stone and marble starts I was routinely playing before G&K (and using for rampant wonder whoring).
Ok, time for bed...once I listen to Djinn's break down of the social policies.
What I think:
This is a helluva lot of fun. I decided on the Dutch and founded a religion on turn 107. Boudicca founded Christianity on turn 95. I chose Tengrism.
Turn times have been decent.
I got lots of stone and iron later in decent quantities. I saw some citrus.
The AI is not quite as bad as I thought. It maneuvers quite nicely and tries to outflank you, and it knows when to retreat. We all know it is not going to be perfect, but it was better. Combat is fast paced enough. The 100 HP system is far better IMO.
Barbs are quite a nuisance. One time I had a swordsman one turn away from being produced. An archer barb happened to retreat and pillaged my iron tile. I was not able to complete the unit.
Austria expanded really fast. I had to put her in her place and DoWed after she refused to stop encroaching me. I'm playing on King and have the complete upper hand. The AI seems to know where to settle a city near where you were, just to be a pain. Once I take that city she placed, and settle one tile up the coast, I'll try to make peace. This way I can see what kind of grudge the AI holds when a war ends.
Everyone is in the Medieval era.
All in all this is really good.
This is a helluva lot of fun. I decided on the Dutch and founded a religion on turn 107. Boudicca founded Christianity on turn 95. I chose Tengrism.
Turn times have been decent.
I got lots of stone and iron later in decent quantities. I saw some citrus.
The AI is not quite as bad as I thought. It maneuvers quite nicely and tries to outflank you, and it knows when to retreat. We all know it is not going to be perfect, but it was better. Combat is fast paced enough. The 100 HP system is far better IMO.
Barbs are quite a nuisance. One time I had a swordsman one turn away from being produced. An archer barb happened to retreat and pillaged my iron tile. I was not able to complete the unit.
Austria expanded really fast. I had to put her in her place and DoWed after she refused to stop encroaching me. I'm playing on King and have the complete upper hand. The AI seems to know where to settle a city near where you were, just to be a pain. Once I take that city she placed, and settle one tile up the coast, I'll try to make peace. This way I can see what kind of grudge the AI holds when a war ends.
Everyone is in the Medieval era.
All in all this is really good.
What I think:
This is a helluva lot of fun. I decided on the Dutch and founded a religion on turn 107. Boudicca founded Christianity on turn 95. I chose Tengrism.
Turn times have been decent.
I got lots of stone and iron later in decent quantities. I saw some citrus.
The AI is not quite as bad as I thought. It maneuvers quite nicely and tries to outflank you, and it knows when to retreat. We all know it is not going to be perfect, but it was better. Combat is fast paced enough. The 100 HP system is far better IMO.
Barbs are quite a nuisance. One time I had a swordsman one turn away from being produced. An archer barb happened to retreat and pillaged my iron tile. I was not able to complete the unit.
Austria expanded really fast. I had to put her in her place and DoWed after she refused to stop encroaching me. I'm playing on King and have the complete upper hand. The AI seems to know where to settle a city near where you were, just to be a pain. Once I take that city she placed, and settle one tile up the coast, I'll try to make peace. This way I can see what kind of grudge the AI holds when a war ends.
Everyone is in the Medieval era.
All in all this is really good.
Yeah, after playing a few games I think the system is better than vanilla overall. The AI stays pretty competative, even in lower difficulty levels. No runaway civs anymore, nice!
Meet Alexander... Next turn? Denounced. Oh good, this is back...
Edit: Next turn? He tells me my economy sucks. Wahoo. I already suspect there are going to be some diplomatic tweaks in the first patch.
And the problem is? That's how Alexander rolls - this opponent is trying to beat you and probably more than others, he could succeed at doing so. Therefore, work on not letting him beat you - that's the point of the game.
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