Looks to be over £15 in the UK.
Honestly, I know they're introducing a fair few features but I'm not at all convinced this is worth it (and I've been following the Development Diary's for this for months).
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Paradox Grand Strategy |OT| Conquering the World one DLC at a time
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Looks to be over £15 in the UK.
Honestly, I know they're introducing a fair few features but I'm not at all convinced this is worth it (and I've been following the Development Diary's for this for months).
I was purposely avoiding the name :p
Paradox PR sure has some interesting naming
That all looks super good. New first contact decisions are great, and I'm happy to see they're taking another pass at planetary development and sector automation - gets very fiddly late-game.
New HoI supply system 👀
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HOI4 Dev Diary - Early look at at supply and the coming year
Hi everyone and welcome back to regular weekly dev diaries (if you don't count the april fools one last week). I know you are all super excited to hear what we have been up to since Battle for the Bosporus. The answers to that are going to take a...
Having HoI3 micro PTSD just with those pics.New HoI supply system 👀
HOI4 Dev Diary - Early look at at supply and the coming year
Hi everyone and welcome back to regular weekly dev diaries (if you don't count the april fools one last week). I know you are all super excited to hear what we have been up to since Battle for the Bosporus. The answers to that are going to take a...
I like the sound of it. Capturing railways and supply hubs seems better than the bland breakthrough-> encircle strategy
I feel the fear of supply line micromanagement but honestly I think all PDX games need something like this. Adding supply lines would solve the death blob issues in Stellaris and CK3 too - suddenly, maintaining an army of 40000 people in the 1200s gets a lot less viable when you have to figure out how to feed all those fuckers, and if you were worried about your singular fleet of megadreadnaughts getting cut off from ammo and rations, you'd probably be a lot less eager to put all your eggs in one basket.
Eh idk that I want the supply management in CK3 to be that much more mechanically complex than it is. It probably needs plenty of further changes and refining though, number changes. Just the MAA time change from 1.3 did a pretty good job of changing warfare at certain points though.
The right answer is whatever is fun to you.
The game is essentially a sandbox.
My answer is to usually roleplay my char while trying to expand the influence of my dynasty.
Character/dynasty/eugenic stuff is way more interesting than map painting to me. Start small, build relationships, roleplay your characters traits. Building a kingdom only to have it fracture when you die and take over as one of too many sons is the most fun part of game imo. If you get too big/get bored just go to the options menu and character switch to someone else.
It doesn't have to be hugely more complex. Just 2, 3 things: armies have a supply total and a supplies/soldier bandwidth; territories also have a supply total. If you have more soldiers than you have bandwidth, you suffer attrition until you don't. If your army depletes both their carried and local supplies, they suffer attrition until they're gone or you move them to somewhere that lets them restock. Depleting local supplies pisses off anybody who hasn't given your people permission to travel through their lands. Easy enough.
CK3 doesn't need involved mechanics for managing supply, it just needs harsh penalties to discourage huge stacks that could never live off the land and that no feudal entity of the time would even have together like that.
Though you'd run into the problem that sets back the game all over the place, the AI likely couldn't manage it.
Though you'd run into the problem that sets back the game all over the place, the AI likely couldn't manage it.
This is the problem pretty much every paradox strategy game runs into at some point. Because the AI doesn't continue to evolve with the features implemented most of the time there comes a point where the player just abuses the AIs faulty logic.
I thought any sort of supply system was just too expensive in processing terms; PDX games already suffer terrible performance in late-game.
It was never about Performance, it was about design problems.
The people behind Vic2 and HoI3's economics and logistics systems turned-over at some point, and their existing system design wasn't easily adaptable onto the more streamlined approach of the PDX titles that followed in the run-up to and aftermath of their IPO.
Things changed after Imperator's less than stellar launch as a result of EU4's Original Sin finally reaching Critical Mass.
I don't play EU4 but I've been surprised to see how overwhelmingly negative the response to the newest DLC is. That's Leviathan.
In the user reviews, there's talk about how it has blatantly unfinished/placeholder icons and stuff which sounds wild.
Is it as bad as it sounds?
Edit: Forgot that this ties into a broader trend with Paradox releases. Stellaris: Nemesis released earlier this month and its companion patch had a broken mechanic at the forefront, with its population changes (levelling pop growth between small and large empires). The DLC itself was good, but the response to that change was so relentlessly negative that Paradox released a post-DLC address about it:
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The upcoming changes all sound great to me, but I don't understand how they thought the pop changes would fly to begin with. You would get glacial pop growth if you expanded beyond a couple planets and no one empire could ever hope to fill more than three or four planets over the entire game. Any empire that expanded beyond that would devastate their growth across the board.
In the user reviews, there's talk about how it has blatantly unfinished/placeholder icons and stuff which sounds wild.
Is it as bad as it sounds?
Edit: Forgot that this ties into a broader trend with Paradox releases. Stellaris: Nemesis released earlier this month and its companion patch had a broken mechanic at the forefront, with its population changes (levelling pop growth between small and large empires). The DLC itself was good, but the response to that change was so relentlessly negative that Paradox released a post-DLC address about it:
Stellaris - Stellaris Dev Diary #210: A post-Nemesis Address - Steam News
Hello everyone! We hope that you’ve all had a chance to enjoy the 3.0 ‘Dick’ Update and Nemesis. We’ve had a lot fun making it, and it's been really fun to see your reactions to all the new stuff! We appreciate all the feedback and bug reports you have submitted, as it really helps us improve...
The upcoming changes all sound great to me, but I don't understand how they thought the pop changes would fly to begin with. You would get glacial pop growth if you expanded beyond a couple planets and no one empire could ever hope to fill more than three or four planets over the entire game. Any empire that expanded beyond that would devastate their growth across the board.
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Yeah they could wind up with back-to-back Mostly Negative reviewed DLCs, which seems...bad. Especially kinda sucks for Stellaris because I actually really like the game as a whole right now and think it's a lot better, but the pop changes weren't the best.
At least Northern Lords is good/reviewed well.
At least Northern Lords is good/reviewed well.
Tbh the pop changes aren't as bad as all that, really. The limit is high enough that it only really becomes an issue in the late game.
I'd be happy to see it gone, but on the whole, the dlc is extremely slick. Love the new first contact rules.
Steam reviews kinda just suck.
I'd be happy to see it gone, but on the whole, the dlc is extremely slick. Love the new first contact rules.
Steam reviews kinda just suck.
They botch the Emperor DLC, take a year off, and then botch Leviathan even worse.
EU4 is in a bad state. It's honestly just time for a sequel.
EU4 is in a bad state. It's honestly just time for a sequel.
Yeah the pop changes are overblown in importance to a normal game. They do kind of suck systematically though, and incentivize some dumb/illogical behavior. I get why people would want them changed but I'd never leave a negative review over it.
Paradox botched a lot of things in recent history. Must be a systemic issue.
One thing I do like is the per-planet pop limits. That's good and fluffy. Limit goes up as you build housing and add jobs, encourages people to move to freshly-settled planets... all godd stuff. It's the empire-wide one that's a bit of a headscratcher. If it scaled with admin capacity or something then that'd be fine, but a hard limit? Weird.
New Expansion Is Steam's Worst-Rated Launch Ever
Leviathan, the latest expansion for classic strategy game Europa Universalis IV, has had a rocky launch. So rocky that, uh, it has become the worst-rated product available on Steam.
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I expected nothing less from Johan. This guy had the balls to mock Imperator Rome a few months ago in a dev diary. The same game he botched and another director (who actually gives a shit about the era) actually fixed into decent shape.
I really hope Wiz's new game turns out good because right now it feels like PDS is whatever Johan & Henrik run plus skeletal crews for the games they abandoned. I appreciate their past works but I want to see what fresh minds can produce.
Wiz put a lot of time into revamping Stellaris. I know they weren't all universally popular decisions but I can respect the ambition.
Imperator: Rome - Status Update (Apr 2021)
Hey, We would like to give you an update on where we are at with Imperator: Rome, since the 2.0 Update and Heirs of Alexander. Earlier this year we did some reorganization work within PDS, you can read the full details in this thread - link. I...
Imperator Rome is not currently being worked on.
I should revisit Imperator at some point, when I've got my strategy mojo back. I played it a bit at launch and never touched it again.
Rome's player base is still really small, they probably don't see it as worth the investment without DLCs to sell.
Imperator: Rome’s 2.0 update is the closest we’ve come to Victoria 3
Imperator has firmly found its footing with the arrival of the 2.0 'Marius' patch, although there's still plenty left to be fixed
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It's much better and I think it is worth a revisit if you haven't played since launch.
Personally, I'm mostly excited for the Barbarossa DLC for HoI IV.
Like father, like son.Imperator: Rome - Status Update (Apr 2021)
Hey, We would like to give you an update on where we are at with Imperator: Rome, since the 2.0 Update and Heirs of Alexander. Earlier this year we did some reorganization work within PDS, you can read the full details in this thread - link. I...
Imperator Rome is not currently being worked on.
Yeah, Johan needs to be moved away from game director and just be put in general management. It seems there is a clear difference between his understanding of Grand Strategy and how the genre has moved ahead in the last decade.
In general, it is quite sad that most of the "new" game directors of the past gen of games (CK2 -> HoI4/Stellaris) including internal changes on teams seems to have left Paradox due to a glass ceiling (with the company mostly still being managed and directed by Swedes).
Update of the organization at PDS
Hey everyone, As we’re gearing for PDXCON, I wanted to share with the community some (cool) changes that have been happening at PDS in the past year. As the studio is now 150+ developers strong, and each game team has its own challenges and...
Internall reorganization in Paradox Studios (Sweden) too:
EU4 is at hands (lol) of Johan and Paradox Tinto.
Surprised they didnt say there was another internal studio, as they did say they was gonna be a new PDS game announcement in PDXCon. I guess they didnt want to say who was the game director.
I think there's just three studios and one of them will have two games under it. Probably all three eventually.
It seems like a reasonable move if it cuts back in people being moved around all the time. It was always kinda weird seeing people moved from Stellaris to HOI then back to Stellaris a year later or whatever.
It seems like a reasonable move if it cuts back in people being moved around all the time. It was always kinda weird seeing people moved from Stellaris to HOI then back to Stellaris a year later or whatever.
New CK3 DLC announced, Royal Court.
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CK3: The Royal Court - The Vision
Greetings! What’s the most symbolic image of a medieval ruler you can think of? Maybe they’re riding a horse through a village, maybe they’re perched at the top of a tower overlooking their realm, or maybe they’re leading troops in battle… those...