My first impressions are :):) very good. I’m going to have a hard time working since I got back from lunch. Working close to home is nice at times like this.
I guess I’m very lucky knocks on wood. I went home for lunch, clicked on play now, and the Direct X 9 option cause my graphics card doesn’t handle 11, and about 5 min later, after installing x9 on my vista machine, I was in the game, watching the intro. I had already pre-ordered through steam and preloaded the data previously.
I got a chance to play about 10 turns as India. Even that was enough to get me addicted. I probably will be up late tonight playing :D.
I had my first warrior explore while I was building a scout, and he found the city state just to the southwest. Next, I ran into some barbarians, and the first fight just whittled them and me down. The second battle against them took them out.
Everything is very slick and polished. The tech tree is nice looking, I really like the notifications for production and research too. So much better than the old popups.
Once I built a scout, I ran into another group of barbs, but the scout wasn’t powerful enough to take them on.
I finished researching Animal Husbandry and started Trapping (which is for the gold improvement and something else.)
I think the City State was Prague, or some Eastern Europe city like that. I got a gold bonus for being first to meet them.
I’ve played a couple of hours, and so far, so good. I’m Rome, on a smallish continent with Siam. I’m close to founding my fourth and fifth cities, and I’m still getting used to the new radii. I hope I can gain control of resources over three tiles from my cities, because if I can’t, I just missed a tile with 6 units of horses on it (it’s in a narrow corridor between three city radii). Like Athena said, it has a good mix of the familiar and the new.
My computer is fairly powerful, and the game looks very pretty on it.
Now I’m off to research Optics (it’s fairly early) so that I can get off this rock and explore the rest of the world.
Demo won’t run for me either. Strike two. Already lost one hour trying to fix. This does not bode well, I’m having flashbacks to the Civ4 release when I swore off the game in frustration.
Windows 7 (in particular) has some default protections that prevents certain things from executing on your PC. This is true even if you are logged in with administrator privileges.
If you right-click on the .EXE and do a “Run As Administrator” the game should get more rights to monkey around on your system.
Oh, and presume nothing from the Launcher. Your only options are DX9 or DX11.
I think I’m well over the minimums for this
i7@2.66
GeForce 9600 GS
4 GB RAM
Windows 7
Well I’ll quit griping about this here and see if anything comes up on 2k’s site. Thanks for the offers though.
To the peeps having issues, have you tried the obvious first: updated video drivers, sound card drivers (if you have one)? Try running the game as an admin as well, might help.
I also received the immediate defeat on my first attempt, but the second try seems to be working just fine. Guess tomorrow is going to be a pretty hard day for me, as I can almost guarantee little sleep tonight.
I pre-ordered it from Steam and should be ready to go when I get home this evening. I tried running on one of my laptops at work that I also had the game pre-loaded on and it crashes to desktop. Hoping it works better at home tonight.
(really just wanted to join the thread to get first impressions)
Thanks for the heads up. I’m downloading the Demo now and I’m going to run the thing and see how my machine holds up before I crack open the package when it arrives.
I’m enjoying the game so far. I got up to the industrial era in my first game before I quit (I had it way too easy). I had it on standard time, which is way too fast for me. I like to play on marathon.
City-states I don’t care too much for. Luckily you can ignore them if you like. One unit per hex, I like, but what I don’t like about them is it makes my map look cluttered. In all prior Civs I just put all my tanks in one stack, infantry in another, etc, just to keep my map looking clean.
very good. I’m going to have a hard time working since I got back from lunch. Working close to home is nice at times like this.