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What are your expectations for the EU5 release?

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Sooty Soot said:
It would be the best start date if it wasn't for the fact that Otto never forms the HRE even with player intervention (HIP luck trait for example.)
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Why would you want the bad ending? Thankmar did nothing wrong (and gives more aesthetic borders).
 
Mound Dweller said:
Why would you want the bad ending? Thankmar did nothing wrong (and gives more aesthetic borders).
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Because I want Voltairecucks to know that the rightful holy emperor of Rome has a more legitimate claim than their Augustus-LARPing Greek paupers, even in my alt history fantasies.
 
Sooty Soot said:
Because I want Voltairecucks to know that the rightful holy emperor of Rome has a more legitimate claim than their Augustus-LARPing Greek paupers, even in my alt history fantasies.
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nah, bro
if they stopped killing each other for five seconds, they could've definitely retaken egypt, northern africa, armenia, and anatolia
byzantine history isn't just the "romans" who no longer even speak latin losing everything they were given by the original western empire
they had the bulgar slayer who finally got rid of a bunch of retarded steppe nigger slavs at the beginning of the new millenia, and it was their golden age
those damn crusaders and venetians attacking constantinople because they were too poor to pay their debts but not too poor to make promises are the real reason why byzantium fell
 
ThePlaymaker is currently doing a stream talking about how the EU5 devs are listening and implementing feedback, he hasn't played the latest build from today yet (Oct 16th was supposed to be the final pre-release build but I guess they wanted to patch it even more). One thing he's mentioned is that because of his feedback expanding into the HRE as a non-member went from having no extra antagonism to getting +100%. Additionally in relation to the timelapse that was released, he mentioned that on hard/very hard the AI is more aggressive.

He also showed off this screenshot of Johan trolling.
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Blackstar said:
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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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Shitty. I liked his country guides for a "here's a general idea" sort of way to play a country I hadn't played before. But I didn't like his "restart if Rivals/event/etc. Doesn't happen" schtick.

EU5 still looking great but I'm waiting at least a year. I got burned buying CK3 6 months after release.
 
Slur Generator said:
I didn't like the launcher but i hope the mods are easy to handle
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I'd probably still use Irony to manage my mods but otherwise, thank fucking God. Probably makes it easier to pirate the DLC too but generally the PDX launcher is fucking awful.
Chickenpolar said:
EU5 still looking great but I'm waiting at least a year. I got burned buying CK3 6 months after release.
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Damn even after 6 months it wasn't worth it? I almost always ever bought PDX products near their end of life so even I am not fully aware of how a game is in its midlife. CK3 being the only exception since I got it incredibly cheap, and even then it was like...2-3 years later.
 
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Yap said:
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
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Paradox games have difficulty settings, but they are not front and center so the settings aren't factored into people's perception of the game. Paradox basically puts themselves in a position where their normal setting has to appease both casuals and hardcore sweats.

Right when you start a country it should ask you to choose a difficulty in large text. From there Paradox should make a casual AI and an AI that will make the entire campaign a struggle.
 
Slap47 said:
Paradox games have difficulty settings, but they are not front and center so the settings aren't factored into people's perception of the game. Paradox basically puts themselves in a position where their normal setting has to appease both casuals and hardcore sweats.

Right when you start a country it should ask you to choose a difficulty in large text. From there Paradox should make a casual AI and an AI that will make the entire campaign a struggle.
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Getting the AI to cheat is not proper difficulty. In paradox games its not so bad like in total war games though. There the AI is playing a completely diferent game and lots of features like raiding and food management makes no impact on then. They can just spawn multiple armies from a single town like its nothing.
 
Slur Generator said:
OH, MY SOYENCE!

Stellaris is a giant pile of bloated shit.
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i remember having fun with the original tile systems
getting so powerful and destroying my neighboring fallen empire in my little corner of the galaxy
i then massacred their people and colonized their systems to wage a mighty war of genetic superiority on the rest of the xenos-infested galaxy
good times
 
New EU5 timelapse just dropped:
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  • France expands into Aragon, but doesn't expand eastward
  • Bigger Hungary
  • No Byzantium, but weak Ottomans
  • Almost nothing happened anywhere else in Europe

Someone's game in 1634:
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  • Better Ottoman performance, but still weak compared to OTL
  • No Byzantium
  • France expands into Aragon, and into the HRE
  • Rumania formed
  • Bigger Kyiv
  • Bigger Eretnids
  • Naples balkanized
  • A few things happened, but not a lot.

Another's in 1444:
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  • Bigger Eretnids
  • France expands into Aragon
  • No Byzantium
  • Bigger Kyiv
  • Bigger Eretnids
  • Golden Horde collapsed
  • Okay by 1444, I guess

The only countries I noticed to do well in EU5's Europe without player intervention are France, Hungary, Kyiv, and the Eretnids.

Also, Hungary's status as a tutorial nation was explained a few days ago:
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Tri-Tachyon'sClown said:
Damn even after 6 months it wasn't worth it?
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It was fine for a half a dozen playthroughs but shallow and without the depth I expect from a Paradox game. Had good word of mouth from people I follow and it was well reviewed but it just wasn't for me.

They designed it for the Reddit incest-roleplaying audience and I play Paradox games for the history and historical flavor.

I'm glad I found out about Vic3's Marxism boner before spending my cash on that.
 
An explanation for the passiveness of the AI might've been found. Apparently the diplomatic capacity in the pre-release builds is way too high so in a given example from Lord Lambert, the Ottomans wouldn't invade Bulgaria because it had 8 allies.
 
WarrenZHarding said:
Iron Century bookmark remains undefeated.
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meh
i choose the earliest possible so i can persist through the ages
Going from the duchy of Mallorca to the Carolingian Empire to Jerusalem and Outremer was one of the most rewarding experiences I've had in CK2.

the other being a line of immortal sorcerer warlords descended from an ambitious warrior king chosen by destiny but forsaken by his own mortality, dying after losing every single one of his children save an immortal wizard

Elder Kings is fucking awesome.
 
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