I will list the main troubling bugs and steps to reproduce in order of troublesomeness:

1) FPS bug

- the game fps starts dropping by every animation in game, especially combat animations. so if there are many battles, the fps drops very quickly, even in 1-3 turns from 100 fps to close to 0 fps (like 5-10fps)

- steps to reproduce bug: play multiplayer and fight battles consecutively for several turns, or one big battle. USE TURN TIMER on game. without timer apparently bug doesn't happen. (but multiplayer games do need a turn timer to be playable)

- how to fix currently: restart the game and reload a save (problem is reloading is buggy and crashes the game again and again often)

2) relobby bug 1

- relobby the game and continue to play. at the turn roll over host will disconnect from the game. 

- sometimes happens on the following turn, not on the same turn (sometimes even in 2 turns)

- problem, game will not autosave always and have to replay the whole turn. 

- fix host manually saves at the last seconds of the turn and new reload is from this save (this new reload can have the same problem again)

- steps to reproduce bug: play multiplayer and relobby a game. bug happens about 50% of the time on a relobby

- curiously enough this bug happens even if you host the lobby with only ai and no other players :) 

3) relobby bug 2 

- same as above but one of the players disconnect on load in.

4) problem / maybe a bug partially. Lack of quick combat. Manual battles in a multiplayer can take forever when:

 - unit think timer rolls over the unit a while before the unit even moves, when it moves the combat animation takes forever. 

- fix increase unit movement speed instead of 3, to 100. 

- bug part may be the excessive loading on units before movement. (to work around this in multiplayer players often que up movements and move multiple units same time - but doesn't always work and can cause problems.

5) No civics for one or more players

- when you play a multiplayer game civics do not trigger for everyone, so some players get no civics despite having all the requirements. Sometimes people get only the 2 starting civics.

- step to reproduce, play muiltiplayer with many other players (5+) happens basically everytime, slight help sometimes is increasing map size, but someone still doesn't get civics.

rest of the problems in game are more about balancing I think, but these bugs are very gamebreaking and make it at times super tedious to play. You can watch my stream to see these in action, since I love the game and fight windmills despite the problems. https://www.twitch.tv/redphoenix596

I'd be happy to help the developers to fix these, so please contact me if you'd like to have my assitance. Also can offer help on competitive multiplayer balancing.

RedPhoenix596 https://www.twitch.tv/redphoenix596

Completely agree with RedPhoenix. They can be observed on his stream during over 100 of hours of recorded footage:) And those are essential fixes, the balancing is not even a question at the moment due to the fact that you cannot test the cultures with civics in the multiplayer.

swissyciv wrote:

The real problem with multiplayer is the game isn't designed to be played multiplayer. Fix all those coding bugs and you'll still have the problem of the game has no inherent fairness in multiplayer. Vast inequalities in start areas, curiosity and animal distribution and availability of claimable land makes the game to RNG dependent. Even with good play you're going to fall behind with lesser land and low early influence generation.

another crying about not having skill to adapt xD i bet that he leave game alt+f4 if somone declare war on him haha

and i agree with RedPhoenix