Civ V on its way this year

[Timman_24]

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6251457...dlines;title;1

Coming this fall. I know a lot of you guys are civ 4 fans so I'm sure this is great news.

[taggart6]

Civ games are scary. You sit down to start playing at noon on a Satuday and when you stop you realize its 8pm on a Sunday.

[Kamakazie]

Oh man I saw this on Kotaku earlier. I think it looks freaking awesome!

[senorgotti]

I completely overlooked the article on Kotaku. Love me some Civ

[md1198p]

Civ games are scary. You sit down to start playing at noon on a Satuday and when you stop you realize its 8pm on a Sunday.

Yeah. And I don't know about you, but to me playing any of the shorter modes is just not as enjoyable as playing marathon.

[wh666-666]

Civ games are scary. You sit down to start playing at noon on a Satuday and when you stop you realize its 8pm on a Sunday.

Lol, done that so many times ....

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6251457...dlines;title;1

Coming this fall. I know a lot of you guys are civ 4 fans so I'm sure this is great news.

I wasnt a fan of civ4 at all. Loved civ 2 and 3 but civ 4 tried to do that whole 3d aspect camera view, the same as in empire earth, which made it unplayable for me.

[innocentbastard]

I am interested. My only issue which has been with all of the Civ series is how warfare is handled. I hate the fact I can have modern tech weapons be defeated by older technologies. Now if they are going along the lines where say the archers have found new ways to make arrows as powerful as other ballistics then they need to incorporate it better where you can also study weapons and tech found on other tribes.

I always love when I lose a tank or a helicopter to an archer or something similar.

[Spaceman Spiff]

I am interested. My only issue which has been with all of the Civ series is how warfare is handled. I hate the fact I can have modern tech weapons be defeated by older technologies. Now if they are going along the lines where say the archers have found new ways to make arrows as powerful as other ballistics then they need to incorporate it better where you can also study weapons and tech found on other tribes.

I always love when I lose a tank or a helicopter to an archer or something similar.

Civ actually handles combat quite efficiently and realistically. There are literally dozens of different factors and equations the CPU takes into account when calculating combat, it's just usually behind the scenes.

Generally, when a much more advanced unit falls to a weaker one, there are usually a number of factors behind that you might not even realize. I don't know about a tank falling to an archer, but if your unit is at like 1/16th of its strength, against a rested, full strength, fortified unit on, say, a hill, even though your unit is much more advanced, it will likely fall.

There were some pretty wacky ones in Civ 2 where units that shouldn't have won by any stretch won handily, but Civ 3 and 4 are much better about that.

[ImaNihilist]

I always stayed away from Civ because I knew it was a time suck. RTS games suck my time, and I was always afraid that Civ would take it too far.

[innocentbastard]

Civ actually handles combat quite efficiently and realistically. There are literally dozens of different factors and equations the CPU takes into account when calculating combat, it's just usually behind the scenes.

Generally, when a much more advanced unit falls to a weaker one, there are usually a number of factors behind that you might not even realize. I don't know about a tank falling to an archer, but if your unit is at like 1/16th of its strength, against a rested, full strength, fortified unit on, say, a hill, even though your unit is much more advanced, it will likely fall.

There were some pretty wacky ones in Civ 2 where units that shouldn't have won by any stretch won handily, but Civ 3 and 4 are much better about that.

Maybe I need to play 3 and 4 again. I just got to the point I only played to win by culture since as soon as combat started I quit since I could be on future tech and I am losing to people who are begging me to give them basic tech. I would lose Apaches to just about everything so I just gave up on combat entirely.

[Spank_Me_Hard]

Civ games are scary. You sit down to start playing at noon on a Satuday and when you stop you realize its 8pm on a Sunday.

So true!

After having got sucked into the first Civilization in the 90's, I have recently started playing Civ3. I didn't know that the past two days have flown by!

[Spank_Me_Hard]

I am interested. My only issue which has been with all of the Civ series is how warfare is handled. I hate the fact I can have modern tech weapons be defeated by older technologies. Now if they are going along the lines where say the archers have found new ways to make arrows as powerful as other ballistics then they need to incorporate it better where you can also study weapons and tech found on other tribes.

I always love when I lose a tank or a helicopter to an archer or something similar.

Spaceman is right... combat is much better now. And I also think that there are other factors, maybe some not even "advertised", that play into it (as the Greeks, Roman cities were falling to me... but taking Rome cost me some pretty elite units).

But compared to the original in the 90's... it's magnitudes better.

You could, and did lose bomber and battleship units to the settlers circling the wagons!

[Boneycat]

I'm always up for a time suck on a rainy day. I wonder what took them so long to come out with a new civ.

[Kamakazie]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/si...tion-v-preview

Looks like lots of changes are in the works. I'm pretty excited, I think this is what the series needed to move forward.

[taggart6]

Wow, the new changes sounds awesome. No more stock piling one super army and pushing forward.