Even though Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth is up and running, the player base of its predecessor, Civilization V, is still strong. Developer Firaxis is making sure that it's keeping up support for this audience, and they've announced an upcoming patch to help with multiplayer match stability.
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Not long after Beyond Earth's release, an update released for Civ V that added two new resources, fixed a handful of exploits and provided several updates for the game's multiplayer. After the patch rolled out, however, players started reporting that multiplayer matches had become much less stable. This upcoming patch, then, sets out to add stability back into the game's multiplayer.
This update isn't set to alter anything other than stability in multiplayer, so in-game values or game mechanics shouldn't be affected.
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The previous patch to Civ V added in bison and cocoa as two new resources for the player to stumble upon. Bison are neither a luxury nor strategic resource and only serve to add a little more food and production to a tile's yield. Cocoa, however, is a luxury resource, and will bolster a civ's happiness as well as providing a little more gold when improved with a plantation. The patch also threw in a much-requested change to the game's warmongering calculations to make early warmongering have less of an effect on leaders in the late-game. The powerful Tradition social policy tree was also taken down a few notches while the oft-ignored Piety tree was given a small boost.
Civilization V is now available for Mac, PC and Linux.
