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[bapenguin]

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[TenFresh]

Have they improved the online co-op game setup experience? I tried to play Civ V with a group of friend and we found it to be just *horrible*. Even when there weren't game breaking bugs, just setting up and getting into the game was a chore that took many resets. At one point one of our friends couldn't join for an evening so we wanted to have the AI take over his empire, while having another new player take over a civ that had be AI before. But you can't assign civilizations to specific players after the game has started, so we had to go though this ridiculous dance of letting random people from the internet join to fill the roster, snagging the civ we wanted when it was the next one up, then booting the poor hapless stranger. A convoluted situation I know, but the point is, muliplayer setup and options seemed to be very poorly implemented. Oh, and there were no battle animation while playing with friends. Ugh.

Anyway, would be curious to know if any of these issues got fixed, because as much as I sound like hater, I'd really love to be able to enjoy playing Civ with friends!

[bapenguin]

I didn't get to play much online and I didn't get test the resume functionality of it. I mostly played the local hotseat to check out the the goods.

I'll probably get a few games in this week and update if there's anything major.

[kersplat12785]

I only play Civ co-op. I just don't get the fun out of it solo, and it's one of the few games my wife adores, it's great co-op couple time.

[Andytizer]

If people are having technical issues with Civ V still, check out this page of fixes and workarounds: http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Civilization_V

[TenFresh]

Thanks Nick, definitely interested to hear if you have a better experience. In the windows when the game was working right we definitely had a good time!

[Natedawg282]

There's been a problem since the recent steam update. I haven't been able to play a co op game with my friend and multiple AI's past turn 90-100. Steam forums have posts saying the expansion has not fixed this. I would avoid until this is fixed. Unless you don't care about multiplyer/co op, then why are you on the site? If anyone has played a game past turn 100, i'd love to know.