N'Al on 9/4/2011 at 18:34
Got hold of the Civ 4 pack on Steam recently, which includes the Civ 4 base game, Warlords, and Beyond the Sword (and Colonization).
I'm now wondering, should I play through these consecutively or just skip forward to Beyond the Sword? Also, do I need to have the three of them installed to get the benefits of the added features in the expansions, or will installing BtS be enough?
Muchas gracias.
doctorfrog on 9/4/2011 at 18:50
BTS is the way to go, though you may want to play the tutorial in the vanilla version first.
Not sure about what you must install, since I have a DVD copy of Civ 4 Complete, and I have to install everything (except Colo), but you could just install and run BTS, and if it runs, you're golden.
e: The only things you'll be missing if you just play BTS are the tutorial in vanilla, and a handful of historical scenarios in Warlords.
N'Al on 9/4/2011 at 19:44
Ok, cool, I'll stick with BtS, then. Cheers.
Yakoob on 9/4/2011 at 19:57
Just install BTS, if it requires any other games, Steam will download them automatically.
Matthew on 9/4/2011 at 23:48
Colonization is standalone mind you. It's also pretty good!
N'Al on 10/4/2011 at 09:53
Yeah, I had a copy of Colonization before getting this pack already, so I have played it before. Very good indeed.
As for BtS, installing that on its own seems to have gone fine; no Civ 4 vanilla required.
Nameless Voice on 11/4/2011 at 00:38
And once you start wondering why you have each of the games twice, one is the Mac version. It's a stupid hack, considering that other games have both PC and Mac versions yet only appear once. No, you can't get rid of the Mac versions, either. The best you can do is make a new folder and hide them away in there.
Shadowcat on 11/4/2011 at 09:18
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
The best you can do is make a new folder and hide them away in there.
Oo, how do you do that? I have Steam games available to me that I simply don't want (e.g. Counter Strike), and I would gladly hide them away in a sub-folder if I could see a way of doing that in the Steam interface.
edit: Aha. It's the "Set Category" link. Excellent. Thanks for mentioning that :)
N'Al on 11/4/2011 at 09:39
I did notice the two versions of the games (funily enough Colonization only has one), which - appropriately - confused me for a while. Gathered they were the Mac versions after a while, though.
At any rate, I did briefly install Civ 4 vanilla to play the tutorial, but that didn't really teach me anything new about Civ (I have played most of the previous incarnations, incl. Alpha Centauri, Colonization and Call to Power), apart from maybe the new special resources system.
Are there any tutorials on the new systems they introduced in the expansions (espionage, corporations, whatever Warlords added, etc.) anywhere?
Nameless Voice on 11/4/2011 at 13:28
I just learned it all from reading the Civilopaedia.
Though I should point out that I clearly didn't learn it that well, as I'm useless at Civ 4 and have never been able to win a game at anything over Pathetic Loser difficulty.
