"Extremely unbalanced, lots of detrimental civs and useless units" Yeah especially in multiplayer the lack of balance really shows. i.e. Catapults completely useless, Rationalism tree mandatory
I really like a lot of the changes in the community patch/Vox Populi. The AI is way way more competent here which makes me wonder if Firaxis makes the AI stupid on purpose because they found that more fun in playtesting. I am in the late game on Warlord (usually play on Emperor without mods) and I am in endless war and the AI never runs out of units. Feels like it needs some mechanic to prevent endless stalemates. There's war weariness which is ruining my happiness but the AI does not seem to care.
Game would be better if AI was actually smart. You don't have to have more than like 4-5 troops to defend your city from a full scale invasion because that's how bad the AI is.
Yeah especially in multiplayer the lack of balance really shows. i.e. Catapults completely useless, Rationalism tree mandatory