Civilization V pdf Manual Available

[ipaine]

The manual is now available for all. Now I can read through it before I get the game.

CIVILIZATION V

[TimTheEnchanter]

Sweet sutff, thanks.

[SKYMTL]

Honestly, the manual makes it look more complicated than it really is. I am about 8 hours into a small game (turn 313) and I am enjoying it. There are however some things that I can't believe the reviewers haven't picked up yet:

- The inability to stack units. If you have a worker beavering away on a project on a tile, and a military unit passes over it, the worker will stop what he is doing and move. VERY annoying

- At least on the press eval copy, the tutorials don't work

- VERY dumbed down diplomatic interface. It isn't any better than the Total War games.

- Tech tree. You can literally research everything within reach at even medium difficulty without any issue.


Anyways, I am enjoying it so far but I was hoping for an upwards evolution in the Civ franchise. Not something that has been dumbed down to make it more accessible.

[belgolas]

Thats not good news. Hopefully in the final game or shortly after there will be some patches. I personally like the idea of not stacking units but a worker should still be able to work when a military unit passes. It makes the battle system A LOT better to not have the one undefeatable stack of terror. You will now have battle lines and wars should now be more realistic.

[NorthernLights]

Thanks for sharing that!! I can't wait for Civ to come out! With all the new changes it looks like it will be awesome and i'm going crazy not being able to play it!!.. i have an itch.. thanks again.

[SKYMTL]

Let me know what else you want to know. ;)

[TimTheEnchanter]

Those are minor problems IMO Sky (maybe except the diplomatics). If they don't fix it, a modder will for sure.

[SKYMTL]

Originally Posted by TimTheEnchanter

Those are minor problems IMO Sky (maybe except the diplomatics). If they don't fix it, a modder will for sure.

Minor problems that detract from the overall experience IMO. But in all reality, I love the game. Plays well on everything from a GTS 450 / HD 5750 all the way up....at 2560 x1600.

[belgolas]

Well Civilization never had that good of diplomacy to begin with. Still going backwards but not a huge issue.

[SKYMTL]

I was actually going to post a GPU performance article but that's pointless considering the game plays well on EVERYTHING.

HD 5670 @ 2560 x 1600 + DX11 + no AA= NO PROBLEMO!!