Poor Move

[evanduser]

Its too bad that the Company that acquired Fireaxes ran into financial difficultly and rushed Civ IV into production about 3 months early. With all the game play problems and glitches it hardly compares to Civ III and is a poor quality release. Sid Mier should be ashamed.

[Finsch]

When i walked into the store i expected to buy a game full of bugs - i knew the game was rushed and planned to be out a two or three month from this point.
But now i am surprised how stable it runs and how few glitches there are. I miss some UI features though, like selecting a city from the F1-city information screen.

But i bought a lot of games that hit the store with A LOT LOT more problems.

[xxFlukexx]

Errr, are you kidding me? CivIII? CIV3? You can't be serious, that game had massive gameplay problems at launch.

Aside from the rendering error/ATI thing and other crash bugs, this game is lightyears ahead of CivIII.

"Fireaxes", "Sid Mier"? Lol, since when have retards been able to operate computers?

All computer games are rushed these days, saying a video game was rushed is like saying "omg, that car has 4 wheels"

[Adagio]

Re: Poor Move

Originally posted by evanduser
Its too bad that the Company that acquired Fireaxes ran into financial difficultly and rushed Civ IV into production about 3 months early. With all the game play problems and glitches it hardly compares to Civ III and is a poor quality release. Sid Mier should be ashamed.

You have to be kidding! Except for the Ati problem this is one of the most stable games I've played in many years

[Saurus]

I have not found any serious bugs while playing.
(not bothered reading what others have had though)

The only problem I am having is some kind of an extreme slowdown during mid and late game.
(memory leak??)

[Stone-D]

From what I can see, almost all of the bugs have been related to the packed art files. By unpacking them, all of *my* problems have gone away, except for some minor texture corruption when zoomed out, which goes away after alt-tabbing.

[Dolph]

Originally posted by xxFlukexx
...Aside from the rendering error/ATI thing...

Please tell me about this problem!
An offliner friend of mine has it and I don't know how to help him.
Is there some solution?

[Proteus_MST]

Aside from occasional CTDs due to the wonder movies (which could be solved by turning ingame movies off) and the game getting slower after hours of play (which can be solved by a simple reboot) I didn´t run into any problems.
And my system doesn´t even meet the minimum system requirements

Therefore I can second what others said:
There´s no reason that Sid Meyer should be ashamed, as the game is more stable than other products which nowadays hit the shelves

[LzPrst]

stable yes. but incomplete. the fact that the expansion pack was already in the making before the game was released disgusts me. may all corporations get what they deserve.

[Stuie]

Originally posted by xxFlukexx
Errr, are you kidding me? CivIII? CIV3? You can't be serious, that game had massive gameplay problems at launch.

QFT.

It amazes me how selective memory kicks in when recalling game releases.

@LzPrst - where's your evidence that the expansion is already in the works? And why shouldn't they move forward? The last month prior to release was probably taken up mostly by QA stuff... so should the developers just sit on their hands doing nothing?

[LzPrst]

they should have included the expansion in the original release. not just wait 3 months in order to make more money. and the game is not finished. it lacks polish.
someone made a thread about it, they found things in the original game package that pointed towards expansion package being either in the works, or even nearly finished...

[LzPrst]

the fact that the game was rushed only makes me suspect that they would have had what will now be the expansion pack included to begin with, but due to greedy corporate lack of ethics they rushed it and decided to milk us for more.

[Solver]

Gee.

Civ4 is hardly a bug disaster. It has some pretty bad ATI issues, although the renderer error has a fix. There are also some other graphics related issues, yes. However, as far as the actual gameplay goes, Civ4 has very few gameplay bugs.

Comparing Civ4 to Civ3 is a joke. Some people seem to no longer remember the Civ3 release. Civ3 had such ridicilous gameplay issues that it wasn't even funny. The corruption was so huge that any distant city would forever be stuck at 1 or 2 shields, you could get INFINITE production by chopping and replanting forests and finally, air units did not work at all. Now that's a botched state on release.

[baboon]

I haven't found a single bug so far.

[LzPrst]

yes. civ3 was a disaster. so you would think they would do everything in their power to make sure that something like this didnt happen again. well, it didnt. but civ4 is incomplete. and thats not good enough either.