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Endicott May 10, 2021 @ 6:51am
The Nuclear Bomb Animation Glitch
Its 2021, and this bug was reported almost 10 years ago with multiple reports since then and apparently nothing on how to fix it. THE PROBLEM: launch a nuclear weapon and it will explode with graphics and animation. Launch a second one, and no graphics or animation at all. This includes counter-strikes where the player launches a nuke and then in the next turn the AI retaliates. The second response from the AI will have no graphics.

Its been years and no answer on how to fix this. As of today I have a high end computer with graphics card so it is definitely not the card. Will this ever be fixed?
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Originally posted by Intellection:
Originally posted by Endicott:
THE PROBLEM: launch a nuclear weapon and it will explode with graphics and animation. Launch a second one, and no graphics or animation at all.

It appears that this was designed that way.

Look in the steam game files folder "Assets\Sounds\XML\" for the files "AtomicBomb3DScripts.xml" and "NuclearMissile3DScripts.xml", edit those files to remove the lines that say "<iDontPlayMoreThan>1</iDontPlayMoreThan>", and save the files. You should then get the animation and sound every time. Make sure quick combat is turned off to get animations.

You might want to make a backup copy of the files before editing, although if you do mess something up you can usually just verify files to get the original ones restored from steam.
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cuavas May 10, 2021 @ 7:05am 
No it won’t. The game hasn’t been updated in years. They want you to buy Civ VI and spend money on OP DLC.
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Endicott May 10, 2021 @ 11:40am 
Originally posted by cuavas:
No it won’t. The game hasn’t been updated in years. They want you to buy Civ VI and spend money on OP DLC.
As unbelievable as this is, there have actually been reports of the same bug happening in Civ VI as well.
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stvlepore May 10, 2021 @ 1:43pm 
My guess, if it was a quick fix modders would have done so by now. Issue must be more than skin deep.
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CMDR Emotions May 12, 2021 @ 8:26pm 
It may actually be patched in the unoficial patch that's included with Vox Populi.
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Sergeant Poultry May 15, 2021 @ 9:00pm 
Civ 5 is filled with lazy ♥♥♥♥ like this, the developers seemingly didn't know what they were doing when they made this game
E.g 10 second bomber animations
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Intellection May 16, 2021 @ 1:34pm 
Originally posted by Endicott:
THE PROBLEM: launch a nuclear weapon and it will explode with graphics and animation. Launch a second one, and no graphics or animation at all.

It appears that this was designed that way.

Look in the steam game files folder "Assets\Sounds\XML\" for the files "AtomicBomb3DScripts.xml" and "NuclearMissile3DScripts.xml", edit those files to remove the lines that say "<iDontPlayMoreThan>1</iDontPlayMoreThan>", and save the files. You should then get the animation and sound every time. Make sure quick combat is turned off to get animations.

You might want to make a backup copy of the files before editing, although if you do mess something up you can usually just verify files to get the original ones restored from steam.
Last edited by Intellection; May 18, 2021 @ 11:18am
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