Hooded Horse is a 'new' publisher, but they've been very good. Manor Lords, Terra Invicta and Old World have all been published by them and I've heard a lot of people say they're good at working with the studios and not interfering. Honestly gives me older Paradox vibes - them picking up Gilded Destiny if anything makes me more optimistic for it.
You have to go back.
Yeah, I got Nebulous and TI as a twofer deal on Steam some ways back and I don't regret that purchase in the slightest. I've organized my library by 'style of game" as in RPG, RTS, Bethesda, etc., and TI wound up in the "Paradox" section right under Stellaris for obvious reasons.
Keep us posted. I really want this game not to suck.They are also releasing an alpha version to their backers this summer. (I wasenough to give them money despite how I pirated every Paradox game I "own".)
So far we have been given a non-disclosure agreement to sign and access to a few alpha tester channels on discord. Those channels were only accessible to a few pre-alpha testers and I haven't found a lot of noteworthy things so far from them. A lot of stuff has been covered in the dev diaries and the devs also make roadmaps on the progress they made every month. They are also reworking a lot of old mechanics, so the few screenshots posted on those channels are most likely obsolete.
I'm skeptical about that. I wouldn't be surprised if it meant a very restricted peace treaty system.
Having handicapped people would be good. Some industries and war result in a large ammount of people maimed.
Damn looking good. Dependables are a really cool concept. Crushing a rival country so hard you kill or maim most of their work population for the next 20 years will be very fun. I am afraid the game is going to be overshadowed by Johan's magnum opus. They will need to strategize the release date.
Artists have to justify the amount of resources allotted to them okay buddy?
Terra Invicta is bloated beyond all belief to the point that most players, despite admiring the idea of it, can't really play it. It's like the Dwarf Fortress of (Total War-like instead of Paradox-like) grand strategy.
Agree about Terra Invicta, i think most of us wanted just a xcom game with an interesting campaign overmap. Instead we got different systems that don't work together.
Just gave this mod a shot. Actually really like it. Its a lot easier to see settlements on the map, and everything pops a lot better with the new perspective. Reminds me of Knights of Honor, and makes everything feel a bit more colorful. Dont know if I'll feel that way after 50 hours, but very good early impressions. Again, the only downside is playing CK3, so you have to add about 90 mods on top of this to make it playable.
I never trust this kinda stuff until it actually releases but I wish them luck, Victoria 3 (like all other PDX games) are objectively terrible in terms of how they do DLC