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Midweek Madness - Save 50% on Sid Meier's Civilization® IV: The Complete Edition

October 13, 2009, 10:28 am - Valve - General Announcement

Get the entire award-winning Civilization IV series for half-off the complete edition. Deal ends Friday.

Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword Update Released

June 11, 2009, 8:42 am - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

V3.19

• Info screen always shows demographics when espionage is disabled
  
• Players can no longer receive obsolete resources through trade
  
• Fixed bug where culture obtained through espionage was 100 times lower than intended
  
• AI player better evaluates his situation before voting for a ban on nuclear weapons
  
• Fixed a few AI civic evaluation bugs
  
• AI changes civics during Golden Ages
  
• Fixed bug with AI not knowing how close its cities are to other players
  
• Re-enabled Foreign Advisor "Glance" screen
  
• Fixed Team Battleground map script to distribute hills better and work around team-counting problem
  
• Civilopedia lists buildings that replace a given building
  
• Barrage promotions no longer available to units without the ability to already cause collateral damage
  
• Conquistador ignores walls, to be consistent with Cuirassier
  
• Fixed AI defender bug for newly captured cities
  
• Build-specific production modifiers are no longer counted for overflow gold calculations
  
• Building or destroying a fort now properly refreshes resource connections
  
• Collateral damage modifiers, collateral damage immunity, and air defense modifiers, multiply instead of add
  
• Fixed event triggering on a dead unit
  
• AI uses Warlords to make super-medic units
  
• Better AI decision-making related to damaged air units
  
• Better AI use of missiles to disconnect enemy resources
  
• AI evacuates ships and planes from cities in danger
  
• AI no longer joins Great People to cities in danger
  
• Fixed bug where AI Great Engineers would hurry Wonders in other players' cities
  
• Spies no longer interrupt their mission when moving next to an enemy unit
  
• Fixed map generator bug for water starts
  
• Situations which invalidated Secretary General/AP Resident now force the next vote to be an election
  
• Fixed team-counting bug that would cause some mapscripts to fail
  
• Moved some gamecore-specific code into the DLL
  
• Fixed cheat where you could apply a free tech from one game to another
  
• Diplomacy summary no longer claims that a civ is the worst enemy of a human team
  
• Groups on sentry awake based on best unit's vision rather than head unit's vision
  
• Hidden Nationality units can enter friendly rival territory when starting in a city
  
• Fixed bug where captured cities could give double bonus for the Apostolic Palace
  
• Fixed a bug in AI war declaration in exchange for technologies
  
• Sea patrolling ships no longer attack if they have less than 50% chance of winning the battle
  
• Terrain height no longer affects aerial recon missions
  
• No Espionage option: no Free Great Spy from Communism, no espionage-related events
  
• Blockading AI Privateers can no longer sense invisible units
  
• Colonies no longer assume the name of an eliminated player
  

Sid Meier's Civilization® IV: The Complete Edition Now Available

May 14, 2009, 1:43 pm - Valve - Product Release

Save big and get all four Civilization IV games with the Sid Meier's Civilization® IV: The Complete Edition, now available via Steam. Plus, save an additional 10% when you buy the Complete Edition before May 21st.

2K Games' Anniversary Sale - Favorite Games Now Up to 1/3 Off

October 19, 2007, 2:28 pm - Valve - General Announcement

Celebrating one year on Steam, select titles from 2K Games are now on sale. Save up to 33% off fan favorites, including Prey, the Civilization IV Complete Pack, the Railroad Tycoon Collection, and many more.

Civilization IV Update Released

July 20, 2007, 11:34 am - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Civilization IV have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Civilization IV

• Changed Cossack to get only 25% bonus versus mounted
  
• Can no longer upgrade Marines and SAM Infantry to Mech Infantry
  
• Fixed MP Retire crash
  
• Can no longer bypass the delay timer in multiplayer
  
• Pitboss fix for the bug where you would not get the free tech from the Oracle if you were not online

Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword Pre-order Starts Today

July 17, 2007, 4:03 pm - Valve - General Announcement

Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword, the second expansion pack for Civilization IV, is now available for pre-order on Steam. Save 10% off the regular price when you pre-purchase before the July 24th release.

The expansion focuses on the time periods after the invention of gunpowder and delivers 11 unique and challenging scenarios created by the development team at Firaxis as well as some esteemed members of the Civ Community, ten new civilizations, sixteen new leaders, five new wonders, and a variety of new units. Click here to take advantage of the discounted pre-order price.