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Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword Update Released

Product Update - Valve

Jun 11, 2009

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

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