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I recently re-installed Civ 5 to play with my friends. We use to play over local network across both Mac and PC.

However this time when we tried I got a version mismatch. In the menu we all have the same version 1.0.3.279. I have a build number in between parentheses, but they don't (one other Mac user has one, he is able to connect to the PC players, I cannot).

None of us have any updates available. We have verified game files using steam but it hasn't helped. We all have all mods enabled.

How can I fix this?

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  • Have you checked to make sure you all have the same mods enabled with the most updated versions? It may not be a mac vs windows thing, it may be that mods have outdated or no longer viable versions if you have older mods since you last played.
    – n_plum
    Dec 30, 2019 at 18:24
  • I've got the same problem with a friend (on Mac) trying to join my room a few months ago, and even with no mods / dlc (so with a fresh installed game), he wasn't able to join our room
    – damadam
    Dec 31, 2019 at 10:00

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There is an unfortunate reason for this, which can be found if you dig deeply enough, and it is that the Mac side of Civilization 5 recently had to undergo a substantial update (giving it a different version), and the corresponding update for the Windows side simply has not come out yet. This means cross-platform play is out of the question.

Sources for this are here and here.

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  • from your source, there's actually a temp fix of joining a legacy beta if you are still on mojave
    – Kasumi
    May 23, 2020 at 8:27

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