Upcoming Civilization 5 update to add 'Hot Seat' multiplayer

@Special Agent Steve

Yo dawg I heard you like taking turns.

@etlgfx
Your ass was described by the Romans as a 'Gluteus maximus'. I already drafted out some your mom jokes as a reBUTTal though.

@Mr McChew

I'm waiting for carrier pigeon mode.

@eyeball2452 Did you miss the 500 previous Civ games that did... THE EXACT SAME THING?

@eyeball2452

That's cool.

Civ 5 is my favorite Civ thus far.

@eyeball2452

I'm totally with you on this.

Several months after release and Firaxis/2K are only now implementing the features they originally intended to be part of the core game. Then they said it wouldn't make release but would be available "shortly after release" and then, when that was called out on the forums they edited their forum posts and said they never made any such claim. Such a shame they forgot to update their website and were found out.

Multiplayer is still unplayable. Games with more than 2 or 3 players either crash or won't start. Theirs no save feature and no way for someone to step into their own Civilization if they drop out for a turn. No animations in multiplayer and the game continues to have a gamebreaking bug which means the game slows down to a crawl in the later stages resulting in 5 to 10 minute delays between every turn.

But as long as you've got hot-seat right?

Utter fail and proof that metacritic reviews aren't always right.

@Rylan
I think games journalists tend to dip in and out of hundreds of games, rather than learning and getting engrossed in what they enjoy. It's a difficult balance and some do well, but it means that generally a game can be a bad entry into a franchise on a deeper level, but be flashy enough to win someone's 9/10 based on a few days with it. I also call as evidence that whenever you see gameplay footage on most sites of shooter games, the journalist's play style is to run directly forward, avoid all cover and not start shooting, or even seem to notice enemies for about four seconds.

@Haggard

I understand what you're saying but 10 minutes on multiplayer would be enough to realise something is wrong. The fact that at release the time to end a turn was about one minute ( that's time spent waiting on an eggtimer ) and the total lack of animation would merit further investigation.

@AsherR

No. You can't save multiplayer yet. You gave to tab out and rename the autosave file and then copy it into acdifferent folder.