Can you dodge the "version mismatch" bug in Civilization V?

Recently, an upgrade has been made for Civilization 5, that makes it impossible for Macs and PCs to play together, due to "version mismatch" (the update was for Windows only)

This have happened before, and there have been weeks before a proper fix arrived. As far as I can tell, its simply a string comparison between the version numbers of the clients that resolve this.

Is it possible to work around this in any way? Some mean hack or opening file X with a text editor and do some magic?

We have a meeting this weekend to play the new expansion, and we are five macs and three PCs... It would be sad if we were unable to play together all of us.

Solution 1:

The issue got resolved earlier today with a Mac patch available on Steam.

This was a long dry streak, and hopefully it will not reoccur (alas, it has occured three times now, with weeks between playability, so I don't believe it will never reoccur.)

Solution 2:

I haven't tried it, but I'm pretty sure the answer to your question is "no". Even if you managed to fake out the version check code you'd be running different versions of the game code, with different rules for units, etc. The game would quickly get out of sync.