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What are your expectations for the EU5 release?

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Blackstar said:
Modders should be able to fix this before an official update does, the uploader mentioned in the comments that the AI wasn't being aggressive enough.
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I watched the Muscovy/Russia video Paradox released and that was the the issue. The player was always the one acting. I recently played an Eu4 Russia game and when I went after the Tatars the Polish Commonwealth also came for me resulting in an epic war that pushed the state to its limits.
 
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Youtuber The Red Hawk got caught using cheats in his videos and started sweeping up anyone mentioning it in the comments lmao.
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Probably late but he remade the video because of it:
Never seen him before since I'm not too interested in EU4 but I hear he has the habit of using console commands so take it with a grain of salt.
Speaking of YouTubers, one of my "favorite" (aka the only one I watch) CK3 YouTubers Soul Tomato is shilling Bloodlines 2. It's going as well as you'd expect. According to a comment, he shilled the Coronations DLC for CK3 when it was completely broken and even admitted to barely touching the DLC before reviewing it. Some suspect this is a similar situation in that he has barely played the first game. I mean, fuck me there was even someone who says he likes the game and he's calling him a paid shill, that's how obvious he is.
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>Ignored the whole comment and focused on the shill part
I've only ever seen shills, paid or unpaid, get defensive about being a shill. I still enjoy his gameplay content but these reviews seem to reveal that he's either retarded or a shill when it comes to reviewing anything official from PDX. Someone mentioned One Proud Bavarian as an alternative.
 
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Jayquan Ledarius IV Jr said:
Did they allow content creators to post videos of eu5 today?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hqJiGYdOhtISomeone released footage of eu5 (Timelapse).

Surprisingly no blobbing by 1800s and underwhelming ottomans and russia. Revolutionary PLC with big Hungary and France, everywhere else looks the same as 1337.
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Map looks really boring and AI seems as dogwater as before. Not even one region consolidated. No GB, no Russia, no united Scandinavia, no Commonwealth and Ottomans not going ham/getting killed is super disappointing. At least HRE remains... HRE.
 
hawkisnight said:
Map looks really boring and AI seems as dogwater as before. Not even one region consolidated. No GB, no Russia, no united Scandinavia, no Commonwealth and Ottomans not going ham/getting killed is super disappointing. At least HRE remains... HRE.
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yea...that does not look good. The AI really needs a way to set some long-term goals.
 
Slur Generator said:
yea...that does not look good. The AI really needs a way to set some long-term goals.
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Trust the plQn, the Paradox executives whispered to Johann "You cannot withstand the storm", and Johann whispered back "I am the stQrm."
 
Jayquan Ledarius IV Jr said:
Did they allow content creators to post videos of eu5 today?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hqJiGYdOhtISomeone released footage of eu5 (Timelapse).

Surprisingly no blobbing by 1800s and underwhelming ottomans and russia. Revolutionary PLC with big Hungary and France, everywhere else looks the same as 1337.
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Polish Finland...

Imagine how much alcohol people drink there...
They still need to tune the AI, but I'd rather have this by the 1800s than a few big blobs taking up 70% of the world, as in EU4.
 
The Wise Shaman said:
Polish Finland...

Imagine how much alcohol people drink there...
They still need to tune the AI, but I'd rather have this by the 1800s than a few big blobs taking up 70% of the world, as in EU4.
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I think i know what we need.

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Some AI Rulers should just be super Aggressive and expansionist, others should be focused inwards, this should depend on things like religion, culture and just things like luck. When a new ruler gets in power the AI behaviour should be recalculated.
 
Another thing in the time lapse civil wars are disappointing. Revolts are huge but neighbors don't take advantage and country doesn't really collapse. Reminds me of V3 revolts.
 
hawkisnight said:
Another thing in the time lapse civil wars are disappointing. Revolts are huge but neighbors don't take advantage and country doesn't really collapse. Reminds me of V3 revolts.
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In CK2 at least neither does the foreign ruler AI, I could be exhausting my gold reserves to hire mercs against my rebelling vassals who (were) 80% of my realm and have x2 my levy size and an independent king over the border wouldn't do anything, although I assume that's more to do with the CB's they have. The independent ruler AI in CK2 is really passive now that I think about it, I can count the amount of times I've had a (non-Jihad/Crusade) war declared on me on two hands.
 
The Wise Shaman said:
They still need to tune the AI, but I'd rather have this by the 1800s than a few big blobs taking up 70% of the world, as in EU4.
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Blobs are more challenging to fight, and as I draw the most pleasure from optimising and microing, it is concerning that AI does jack shit into the later game. It'll be the same "first 50 years and fun and then you steamroll AI".

If blobs were caused by AI being competent, and just making better decisions within game mechanics, unlike real life where people often chose suboptimally, then AI blobs would actually be a good thing.

Balancing AI to be stupid when a RL human would be stupid, and to be smart and efficient when RL human would is a herculian undertaking, and obviously AI would be unable to come close to the balance of power and borders humans IRL did.

If AI blobbing and doing nothing is binary options, I choose the blobs
 
Sooty Soot said:
In CK2 at least neither does the foreign ruler AI, I could be exhausting my gold reserves to hire mercs against my rebelling vassals who (were) 80% of my realm and have x2 my levy size and an independent king over the border wouldn't do anything, although I assume that's more to do with the CB's they have. The independent ruler AI in CK2 is really passive now that I think about it, I can count the amount of times I've had a (non-Jihad/Crusade) war declared on me on two hands.
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Yeah the AI for most paradox games tend to be very defensive more than offensive. When I played EU4 more regularly the AI almost never declared war on me unless I was stupid weak. Even during civil wars or other rebellions. This was a few years ago though, so it may have changed but I don't think so.
 
Sooty Soot said:
In CK2 at least neither does the foreign ruler AI, I could be exhausting my gold reserves to hire mercs against my rebelling vassals who (were) 80% of my realm and have x2 my levy size and an independent king over the border wouldn't do anything, although I assume that's more to do with the CB's they have. The independent ruler AI in CK2 is really passive now that I think about it, I can count the amount of times I've had a (non-Jihad/Crusade) war declared on me on two hands.
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At least in in eu4 AI jumps on the weak. That's actually a strat you can take advantage of. You full siege down your opponent and wait for other AI to declare on it, vassalize your opponent and enjoy defensive war against your next target. Extra bonus is that you can core everything near your vassal.
Say what you will about eu4 blobs at least ai can surprise you from time to time. In my last chill game I arrived in India a little late and was welcomed by giga Delhi. I had to bring half of my army to deal with it.

EDIT: I recommend setting difficulty on hard in eu4. AI is more aggressive.
 
Sooty Soot said:
In CK2 at least neither does the foreign ruler AI, I could be exhausting my gold reserves to hire mercs against my rebelling vassals who (were) 80% of my realm and have x2 my levy size and an independent king over the border wouldn't do anything, although I assume that's more to do with the CB's they have. The independent ruler AI in CK2 is really passive now that I think about it, I can count the amount of times I've had a (non-Jihad/Crusade) war declared on me on two hands.
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You're right, but at least part of the problem is that the foreign AI takes opinion into consideration when declaring war, and most humans tend to stack opinion modifiers and choose traits that typically increase opinion, and might do eugenics for diplomacy. I've noticed that the AI is somewhat more willing to declare war if it has a negative opinion of you, but that tends to be rare in my playthroughs.
 
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