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What are your expectations for the EU5 release?

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Completed a full game for the first time in Victoria 2. I think I did alright.
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Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
I guess that's a very stable world you have that it looks like every Great Power's legitimate government survived intact.
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In my current GFM run, France stayed Bonapartist because I formed Germany in 1854, I got Alsace because they pushed the Rhine crisis to war. Eventually I had a great war in 1901 and me the Shogun, the Qing, and Austria Hungary were wrecking the Russians and I was suprised they actually have a custom decision for the Feb. revolution, so now Russia is a republic after getting dismantled but no Soviets so far. I wish Great War capitulations actually radicalized pops more towards extremist ideologies and raised your militancy, but right now they're basically toothless unless you add dismantlement ontop of it.
 
Sooty Soot said:
In my current GFM run, France stayed Bonapartist because I formed Germany in 1854, I got Alsace because they pushed the Rhine crisis to war. Eventually I had a great war in 1901 and me the Shogun, the Qing, and Austria Hungary were wrecking the Russians and I was suprised they actually have a custom decision for the Feb. revolution, so now Russia is a republic after getting dismantled but no Soviets so far. I wish Great War capitulations actually radicalized pops more towards extremist ideologies and raised your militancy, but right now they're basically toothless unless you add dismantlement ontop of it.
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In PDM the Great War system does.
 
foreman 89 said:
EU5 is buggy and it isn't getting better


Honestly disappointed with this, I am hoping to buy the game when it is more refined but as of now it still doesn't look like it.
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I'm shocked that the retard who shilled release version of Vic 3 went so hard on EU5. I mean, he's not wrong about erraticity of the patches so far, but I would still place current state of the game above Vic 3 and CK 3.
 
Blackstar said:
EU5 for all of its fault is Paradoxes best launch so far
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I would agree, but

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Tinto had to roll back a hotfix patch for the beta today because it completely broke calling parliament. Seriously, whoever who does their basic QA over their needed to be sacked yesterday.
 
>IMPLYING said:
I played it so much that I got my fill for a good while by the time 1.0.8 came out of the beta. I probably won't touch it now until the Byzantine DLC or some exceptionally good mods come out (there's a Timurid one that's gotten some buzz) but it's a shame those still playing are encountering some major bug that inhibits play. Only up-side is that they're still releasing patches and haven't just disappeared for 2 months because of "winter break" or something.
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I feel the same way. The game is just stable enough to enjoy for a while but each run will inevitably become too frustrating to continue. Assuming you make it through the bug minefield (RIP Muscovy game).

The Byzantine Empire, at a glance, is pretty generic currently. Basically, estates start with all the privileges and the state starts with 0 mana in all categories. Probably worth waiting for a full run but I'm a bit curious.

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Winter break next week. I'm guessing no more patches this year (after Friday's).

Kane Lives said:
Seriously, whoever who does their basic QA over their needed to be sacked yesterday.
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You're fired!
 
Ayynon69 said:
The Byzantine Empire, at a glance, is pretty generic currently. Basically, estates start with all the privileges and the state starts with 0 mana in all categories. Probably worth waiting for a full run but I'm a bit curious.
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Having done a few ERE run, they got most of their old EU4 events in. (So taking Nicomedia, Antioch, Smyrna prompts the usual event.) In addition, they also start with a unique Byzantine succession crisis the moment the current basileus dies (always hardcoded to do so after a few years). It's not hard to navigate, but it will slow you down for a few decades, in addition to all the bad estate privileges you start with.
 
Blackstar said:
EU5 for all of its fault is Paradoxes best launch so far
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EU5 is certainly their best game they released in nearly a decade, however I say this not as a compliment, but a commentary on the absolute state of the Scandinavian Jew Company.

For my own personal nitpick, despite all the supposed cultural research supposedly done for it, it is riddled with typos , errors and mispelled names, makes me suspect they used some lame translator tool, jeets or AI. Just for ERE which is one of the most popular countries, they have Aléxis rather than Aléxios and Emmanouḗl instead of Manouḗl, the latter is especially comical since there is no way anyone who knew anything about Byzantine history would write down the name like this. The list could go on, but for the sake of brevity I'll stop; you get the idea anyway.
 
Tried quite a few runs of historical China in Hoi4. Genuinely unplayable and unenjoyable disaster. The AI can't pull it off either. I haven't seen any game where Japan doesn't just steamroll China. It really doesn't matter how many defensive buffs you stack, defense is pretty much impossible until they run out of guns and overextend after taking half or more of your country. Back before this DLC, you could defend as China and be strategic. You have nothing; no industry, no resources (????), no navy, no airforce, no guns, and insane amount of debuffs. Many focuses try to trick you into lowering your consumer goods (which due to the treaty of nine powers are at some insane amount), but that is a red herring. You don't really have any factories, and so that doesn't really do anything. At best you'll get 2 extra factories if you do all consumer goods focuses (and if you don't fix your corruption, fixing which will increase your consumer goods).

I have a few ideas before I look for a guide, but this genuinely was not fun to play
 
Sooty Soot said:
In my current GFM run, France stayed Bonapartist because I formed Germany in 1854, I got Alsace because they pushed the Rhine crisis to war. Eventually I had a great war in 1901 and me the Shogun, the Qing, and Austria Hungary were wrecking the Russians and I was suprised they actually have a custom decision for the Feb. revolution, so now Russia is a republic after getting dismantled but no Soviets so far. I wish Great War capitulations actually radicalized pops more towards extremist ideologies and raised your militancy, but right now they're basically toothless unless you add dismantlement ontop of it.
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Update: The save has become unplayable by now, I can barely go a year or 2 now without having to restart Vic2 since it shits itself (Presumably due to lack of RAM, since it's only 4GB aware). At least I made it to 1917, I buckbroke Russia as I had a decision to send Lenin and that immediately started the Russian Civil War, and I used the dismantle CB I previously had on Russia against France. tl;dr I took a bunch of colonies, dismantled France (Didn't release that many states, I wanted them to go commie but they didnt), humilitiated and cut down to size them, the UK, and Italy.

Despite me manually raising militancy for all pops in France AND the UK for my Kaiserreich LARP they remained monarchies, the only one who actually got rebels was Italy who went communist -> fascist -> communist -> republic, but they did have rebels while I occupied them. Mind you, I had fullsieged the UK and France (Not after a not-so-insignificant battle in Canterbury where 700k Anglos and 200k Germs died and netted me 120 warscore despite the max battle warscore being capped at 35, I should add that was like their entire army in the Isles).
 
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