this gets mad annoying if you (say) know exactly where you want a unit to be, but an automated scout or something is in the way. the lack of stacking means that youВ can't ever order a unit to move to a tile that has a unit on it right now, even if it would get there 10 turns later. unitsВ will routinely go the wrong way around the world because they're convinced that a big section of the 'right' pathВ can only be moved through at oneВ tile a turn. pathing seems to break hardcore if a path would involve embarking. it seems that, if a tile is not visible or otherwise somehow remote, the game will sometimes assume that a unit can only move one tile per turn. Oda Nobunaga refuses to allow me to give him horses. the instant I liberated Russia, Catherine resumedВ calling me 'O bloodthirsty one' and saying my cities were 'a plague on the earth.' -В I'm not sure whether this is intended, but it's possible to be on such a bad footing with someone that they won't accept gifts from you. it appears thatВ unlike city-states, if you liberate a civilization, their leader's diplomatic stance toward youВ doesn't change at all. and they've added theВ new inexplicable feature of having to embark and drop 1/3 of their movementВ speedВ to cross straits/fjords/other narrow bodies of water that they can cross in a turn. they also still have the inexplicable Civ 4 features of having unlimited range and being unique among air units in that they're able to conquer cities by their lonesome. butВ longswordsmen can still damage helicopters, and I can't imagine spearman/tank encounters will go any differently. in the run-up to the game's release (and, in fact, stated explicitly in response to a question at the PAX demo I went to) it was said that spearmen can't destroy tanks any more. this makes it really difficult to tell how good a '+1 Production for every Sea Resource being worked' or a '+1 Food for Sea tiles' building will be for you. janky shit: - from the 'Change Production' pop-up, you can't see yield icons (unless you turn them on across the map), you can't see which tiles are being worked, and you can't see a list of other buildings in the city.

however, there areВ a LOT ofВ things that are janky and/or outright buggy about it, in grand Firaxis tradition.

Civ 5 is the best goddamned Civ game ever I've already spent 12 hours playing it, and I can see myself spending hundreds more.

Great general civ 5