Civilization 7 Patch 1.0.1 Addresses Some of the Negative Feedback From Advanced Access

Civilization 7 developer Firaxis has launched patch 1.0.1 simply in time for the technique sport’s full launch following a complicated entry interval that was met with a ‘combined’ consumer overview score on Steam.

Firaxis is engaged on addressing varied neighborhood complaints, most of which revolve round the consumer interface, an absence of map selection, and a sense that the sport has launched with no quantity of key options followers have come to count on.

In an interview with IGN forward of the launch of its third quarter monetary outcomes, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick acknowledged that Civilization 7 had acquired some detrimental opinions from press and gamers, however insisted that the “legacy Civ viewers” will come round the extra they play, and known as Civilization 7’s early efficiency “very encouraging.”

Now Civilization 7 is obtainable to all and never simply these prepared to pay extra for superior entry, Firaxis has launched Patch 2, which is just for PC/Mac/Linux/Steam Deck. In a publish on Steam, Firaxis mentioned it’s “the first in a collection of upcoming patches” supposed to handle suggestions from superior entry. The patch notes in full are under.

It is value noting that Firaxis has quickly disabled crossplay multiplayer “to expedite” updates to the PC model. This implies the developer will generally deploy patches to PC at a special “cadence” than on consoles, and certainly that features patch 1.0.1. It will haven’t any influence on console gamers making an attempt cross-platform play with different console gamers, nor on PC-to-PC multiplayer, Firaxis clarified.

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Civilization 7 1.0.1 Patch 2 – February 10, 2025
Gameplay
Home windows PC/Mac/Linux/Steam Deck

• Mounted a difficulty inflicting Ages in Epic and Marathon pace video games to be shorter than supposed.
• Metropolis States will now flip into Pleasant Impartial Powers on Age Transition as a substitute of disappearing fully. They can even now begin with extra items in Exploration and Fashionable Ages.
• Mounted inconsistencies with Naval Fight.
• Naval Items will use the right Fight Energy values when attacking one other Naval Unit in all situations.
• Naval Items will correctly take reciprocal harm after attacking one other Naval Unit.
• Naval Items will extra constantly transfer into the attacked tile after defeating one other Naval Unit.
• Finishing the ultimate milestone of a Legacy Path now not provides Age Progress in the Fashionable Age to make sure you have extra time to finish a Victory.
• Cities will now change their focus again to Rising city mechanically if they’re now not eligible for his or her chosen Focus (for instance, if their inhabitants decreases) till they’re eligible once more.
• Future Civic is now repeatable in all Ages. The associated fee of Future Tech and Future Civic will now improve extra when repeated.
• Mounted a difficulty after too many bonuses to Progress the place Meals wanted for the subsequent progress occasion turned detrimental.
• Enhancements to Rail Networks geared toward rising the reliability of Settlements connecting to the Rail Community over water by constructing Ports. This could apply so long as the Capital both has a Port or is linked by rail to a settlement with a Port.
• Made enhancements to the Loyalty Disaster in the Antiquity Age, together with giving the capacity to buy Villas in cities throughout this disaster, giving one other solution to handle the happiness of your settlements.
• A observe about cross-play multiplayer: To expedite updates to the PC expertise, we are going to generally deploy patches to PC at a special cadence than we do on consoles – together with as we speak’s Patch 1.0.1. Because of this, cross-play between PC gamers and console gamers is quickly disabled. It will haven’t any influence on console gamers making an attempt cross-platform play with different console gamers, nor on PC-to-PC multiplayer.

AI
Home windows PC/Mac/Linux/Steam Deck

• AI will now provide high-value Cities much less usually throughout Peace Offers.
• In Fashionable, AI will now declare battle much less usually at the begin of the age.
• In Fashionable, AI will now think about Ideology extra earlier than Declaring Warfare or providing Peace.
• Different Leaders now have a decreased need for battle if neither social gathering has an Ideology.
• Different Leaders now have an elevated need for battle with gamers of Opposing ideologies.
• Different Leaders now have a decreased need for Peace with gamers of opposing Ideologies.

Digicam
Home windows PC/Mac/Linux/Steam Deck

• Mounted a difficulty on native-resolutions the place the digital camera would deal with the decrease finish of the map when clicking on the minimap.

UI
Home windows PC/Mac/Linux/Steam Deck

• Changed the Simplified Chinese language font with the font utilized in Civilization VI whereas we work on extra enhancements for future patches.
• Mounted a difficulty the place the Settlement menu fails to open when clicking on a non-player’s Settlement Banner in gameplay.
• Mounted a difficulty the place yield icons fail to populate on the now out there buildings when changing a city to metropolis.
• Mounted a difficulty the place some textual content was lower off on the World Yields Breakdown display screen.
• Added a notification for accomplished Espionage actions, to be able to extra simply verify the outcomes of their Espionage actions.
• Metropolis tasks now not seem like purchasable.
• Your present faith is now displayed first in the perception picker tabs.
• Mounted a difficulty the place a District’s well being bar would stay on-screen after being totally healed.
• Mounted a difficulty the place Leaders fail to have a portrait when the relationship has modified throughout gameplay.
• Improved the alignment of chief names and portraits on the Age Abstract, when viewing the Overview display screen of the Victories Rankings.
• Mounted a difficulty the place the background coloration stays the default coloration when the consumer modifications it in the Participant Customise tab.
• Improved the spacing between Civ descriptions, distinctive items and constructing icons on loading display screen.

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