*Update* Download the Civilization IV: Warlords v2.08 patch

Civilization IV: WarlordsWarlords is the latest expansion pack for the best-selling Civilization franchise. Paying homage to some of the world’s greatest military leaders, the expansion includes six new scenarios. It also introduces the powerful new “warlord” unit, giving players the power to change the course of history.

New civilizations, new leaders, more units, and new resources and wonders come with Warlords, and since these new features can all be used in both single and multiplayer games, it definitely promises a depth of enjoyment and exhilarating gameplay that will keep players coming back for more.

In order to further enhance the enjoyment of players all over the world, 2K Games has just released the first patch for Civilization IV: Warlords. The patch includes general tweaks and balance adjustments, as well as fixes that address various AI, graphics, UI, multiplayer, and sound issues.


Update: We have the patch for download (it’s 60+MB).

Click on the “Full Article” link below to see the complete patch log.

Download: [Civ4Warlords Patch v2.08]

Civilization IV: WarlordsWarlords is the latest expansion pack for the best-selling Civilization franchise. Paying homage to some of the world’s greatest military leaders, the expansion includes six new scenarios. It also introduces the powerful new “warlord” unit, giving players the power to change the course of history.

New civilizations, new leaders, more units, and new resources and wonders come with Warlords, and since these new features can all be used in both single and multiplayer games, it definitely promises a depth of enjoyment and exhilarating gameplay that will keep players coming back for more.

In order to further enhance the enjoyment of players all over the world, 2K Games has just released the first patch for Civilization IV: Warlords. The patch includes general tweaks and balance adjustments, as well as fixes that address various AI, graphics, UI, multiplayer, and sound issues.


Update: We have the patch for download (it’s 60+MB). And here’s the patch log:

Vassal States

  • No longer possible to receive a request from an AI to declare war on one of his vassals (!)
  • Vassals can no longer accept one-sided defensive pacts (!)
  • Fixed happiness from vassal issue
  • You can now airlift into cities of your vassal
  • You don’t pay supply costs for units inside your vassal’s borders
  • Can no longer ask someone to make peace with a vassal. Talk to the master directly.

Vassal AI improvement

  • When you declare war on a vassal, you also declare war on the master (instead of the master declaring war on you)
  • Vassal AI no longer makes *all* their gold available for trade.
  • Vassal AI never refuse to talk to their master
  • AI better considers war consequences of accepting a vassal
  • Vassals no longer freed when master forms a permanent alliance
  • – Fixes the vassal/defensive pact exploit
  • Master/Vassal AI attitude reflects the implicit defensive pact of a vassal agreement.
  • Master/Vassal AI no longer give each other negative attitude modifiers for close borders.
  • Vassal AI does not get upset because of Master’s defensive pacts with third parties.
  • Vassal cannot own plots within the city radius of his master’s cities unless those plots are closer to his own cities.
  • If you have a peace treaty in effect with someone, you can no longer declare war on their vassals either.
  • Adjusted negative AI attitude for having vassals
  • AI no longer refuses to become a vassal because of “your lands too far” when you are actually neighbors

Great Generals

  • When a generic Great General is attached to a unit, the unit is no longer given a TXT_KEY name
  • Great Generals experience threshold scales with the ratio of Great People threshold to unit production rate
  • (so the threshold is the same at all speeds except Marathon where they require 1.5 time more experience)

Multiplayer

  • Anonymous play: real player names revealed on game end
  • Fix for anonymous mode not being always anonymous
  • Fixed some more anonymous play issues
  • – You can no longer see other player’s names in the staging screen for loading a save
  • – You no longer see the player ID for “waiting to hear from…”
  • Fixed selection issue in simultaneous MP for recently-moved units
  • Now possible to join a Pitboss game where only AI are left
  • Fixed Pitboss not-ready-to-launch bug
  • Pitboss no longer crashes when launching as players are joining
  • Pitboss no longer crashes when large amounts of text are spammed into the chat box
  • Don’t allow launching the game with players still in the civ selection screen
  • Fixed MP crash when player is eliminated with the trade screen up and performs a trade
  • Switched to new GameSpy SDK
  • No autosaves generated for PBEM
  • Innocent units are no longer penalized when another unit moves near the end of the turn timer and stays selected
  • Added “logging enabled” warning for MP
  • LAN: No longer possible to spam the network with game refresh requests

Graphics

  • Fixed non-shader version of Mehmed
  • if too many individual plots need globe rendering, redraw entire globe texture for performance
  • Hooked up modern harbor graphic
  • Fixed issue where combat zoom did not happen after you just clicked “yes” on the popup to declare war.
  • Possible fix for grid crash. Test by playing at medium or low graphics level.
  • Kublai / Qin swap
  • High resolution terrain option has no effect when graphics settings are not at the highest level

Interface

  • Combat odds greater than 99.9% are displayed as such (not rounded to 100%)
  • Combat odds less than 0.1% are displayed as such (not rounded to 0%)
  • Active resource deals (1 of X) display the correct number for X
  • Diplomacy screen: leader attitude once again shown at the top
  • Regenerating the map resets the statistics in the Info screen
  • Plot indicator rotation no longer gives away your location on the map (north-south hemisphere)
  • Fixed Python exception in plotlist mouseover help
  • Fixed watermill and workshop tooltip
  • Mission queue is no longer cleared after the selection group has used up all its movement from a previous mission
  • Fixed cursor location for windowed maximized mode.
  • Rally points now work with autopromote
  • Canceling a deal in the diplomacy advisor no longer affects the state of any existing diplomacy screen
  • Fixed erroneous score display in city screen for games with over 20 number of players
  • Foreign advisor: leaderheads no longer cut off when tech or resource trading not possible
  • Great Person city bar mouseover shows turns left
  • Your cities can now have the same name as an existing city of another civ (to prevent renaming to expose your AI opponents)
  • Civ name appears after city names when captured and when Great People are born
  • (to avoid confusion now that duplicate names are allowed)
  • City selection: Shift-clicking on a selected city de-selects it, just as it works for unit selection
  • Fixed sorting bug in Domestic advisor
  • Improved performance for large selection groups
  • Fixed F6 screen update issue for PBEM
  • Fixed civilopedia display for buidings that give raw food/production/commerce/gold/science
  • No more warnings for animals at your borders
  • No more ‘&’ allowed in player and city names (special character)
  • Globeview unit indicator and help text show up correctly for plots with more than one unit
  • Correct unit mouseover for collateral damage protection
  • Correctly updating yield symbols after plot ownership change
  • Workers given orders after they have moved wake up when in danger

Sound

  • Fixed SAM noise issue
  • Fixed a sound bug
  • Added audio to enemy unit warnings
  • Stalin gets Peter’s diplo music, not Catherine’s
  • Fixed audio crash on reload
  • Diplomacy music was slightly too loud for new leaders

AI

  • AI no longer chooses state religion civics if it has no religion
  • City governor no longer overly starves a city when there is not enough food
  • Fixed a couple more issues with the city governor
  • AI no longer dumps their entire nuclear arsenal on the barbarians
  • Fixed bug where AI would sometimes accept trades for your worthless maps
  • AI builds bunkers more urgently
  • AI city placement improvement as per Blake
  • Improved AI use of ’emphasize’ buttons as per Blake
  • Pop-rush and draft AI improvement as per Blake
  • Worker AI improvement as per Blake
  • Improved civics AI as per Blake
  • Tweaked AI building priorities as per Blake
  • Fixed AI accidental war declaration (crash into submarine)
  • AI no longer offers non-peace deals when at war

Balance

  • Increased trebuchet cost to 80
  • Quarries give +1 shield with railroads
  • Expansive gets +50% production for workers, and just +2 health
  • Navigation II requires Flanking
  • Leadership gives double experience points
  • Stables obsolete with Rocketry (when mounted units upgrade to Gunships)
  • Siege units no longer defend after other less powerful units in a stack
  • When gifting a unit to a charismatic leader, an experience adjustment occurs.
  • (Prevents exploits of gifting units to a charismatic teammate just for them to promote and return them)
  • Removed balanced resource option from Mirror mapscript
  • Creative gets cheap Libraries
  • Organized gets cheap Factories
  • Jaguar gets Woodsman promotion instead of 25% jungle defense
  • Bureaucracy: High upkeep
  • Representation: +3 Happy in largest cities
  • Civil Service requires Mathematics
  • Pyramids cost 500
  • Colosseum and Odeon cost 80
  • Masonry has higher religious weight
  • Mall: +20% gold
  • Guerilla3 gives +30% withdrawal in addition to hills attack bonus
  • Walls give 25% protection to bombardment (so they are relevant even in high-culture cities)
  • Castle gives 25% protection to bombardment
  • Spanish Citadel gives +5XP to siege
  • Heroic Epic available with a level 4 unit
  • Shrines immune to nukes
  • Gallic Warrior can also be built with Copper
  • Military Academy: +50% production for military units
  • Military Academy requires Education
  • Military Academy gives 3 culture
  • Oracle, Stonehenge, Great Wall no longer available in Classical starts
  • Great Wall gives just 1 Great Person point per turn
  • Temple of Artemis: reduced cost to 350
  • Barbarians can have Spearmen

Misc bug fixes

  • Fixed first strike chance bug
  • Enemy spies no longer visible from GlobeView!
  • Barbarians can no longer build any of the Wonders
  • Fixed potential crash
  • Old .Civ4WorldBuilderSave files are recognized and loaded
  • Can’t gift a unit if the recipient is over the limit (missionaries, spies)
  • Units cannot jump into enemy territory when expelled
  • When you lose a Wonder race and you have a Settler/Worker queued up next in that city, you no longer get food counted both in the food and production boxes.
  • Fixed crash with flip of city that contained troops loaded into a transport.
  • Fixed several other potential crashed of the same type.
  • Fixed crash bug
  • Fixed bug with research overflow
  • Fixed load unit into transport crash
  • Fixed selection group cycling crash
  • Can’t capture Greek Odeon (gives culture)
  • Raised Worldbuilder culture limit from 1000 to 100000000
  • No longer possible to bombard a city with zero defensive modifier
  • Fixed back to main menu crash
  • Great People type no longer changes during anarchy
  • Game no longer freezes when you try to retire after ending your turn in PBEM/Hotseat

Text

  • Fixed Stonehenge strategy text
  • Updated credits
  • Fixed typo in Hannibal civilopedia entry
  • Fixed inaccuracy in Great General civilopedia entry
  • Fixed Pavilion spelling
  • Updated Celtic city list
  • Fixed Louis diplomacy text bug
  • Egypt civilopedia text fix
  • French Tank: Char -> Char d’assaut

Modding

  • Updated PythonHelp feature
  • exposed getCurrentEra to Python
  • Added some missing python auto-doc information
  • Added Python override to prevent razing of a city
  • Leaders with no favorite civic appear in civilopedia
  • Projects defined in WorldBuilder saves now work properly

Genghis Khan Scenario

  • Removed Pinch promotion

Chinese Unification Scenario

  • Can now build Galleys in all ‘river’ coastal cities
  • Imperialist Trait now grants 50% Settler production bonus as expected

Alexander the Great Scenario

  • Reset Variables at the beginning of the game; fixes the 2 Alexander if the scenerio is restarted.
  • Scenerio->Scenario
  • Only available for single-player games

Peloponnesian War Scenario

  • Non-english text fix for Peloponnesian War

Vikings Scenario

  • fixed bug where Red marking circles did not show up after loading a save

Omens Scenario

  • Player can no longer gift Missionaries to the AI to convert them to their religion and win easily

Download: [Civ4Warlords Patch v2.08]

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