Why is this game so shit and so addicting at the same time?
Is it cause there is no other strategy RPG like it (King of Dragon Pass doesn't count) and we're just with it?
When will someone make a game with enhanced dynamic RPG elements and a battle system that isn't complete shit?
it's not shit.
Ck2 with the Rebels and Warmongers mod. Turns the game into an rpg with excellent combat mechanics.
You're welcome
It could be much much more if it dropped the Paradox games formula
Arigato
How do I play multiplayer with a pirated version
Simply host a game and give your IP too the guy who wants too join you. There is a "Direct IP" button or smth like that
You need the same patch/checksum btw
Thanks bros
Cant wait to piss off my Christian roleplaying friends
What are some good documentaries, movies, and/or podcasts to have in the background while I play?
I just listen too Blind Guaridan and other power metal shit.
youtube.com
Watch the History Channel Crusades doc on You Tube.
bump
Got shitton of good podcast, but its not available in english
Playing CKII
Not Playing EUIV....
#gamershit
One word that makes me apprehensive about EU4
Institutions
EU3 Mods still amazing
EU4 is fucking shit man, it's a boring ass board game that takes no skill.
At least CK2 is a fun RPG and immersive
Damn it, I need more history in my life
I love having this stuff in the background as I /gsg/
Its pretty good tho. You should try eu4 meow and taxes
Well I can recommend Horrible Histories.
dailymotion.com
Target audience of these shits were kids of course, but its pretty fucking good to learn genuinely interesting and sick things about history
revolutionspodcast.com
bbc.co.uk
your mileage may vary but it works for me
Prove it
EU3 was better
Press F to pay respects to the grand strategy genre
>eu3
>better than 2018's EU4 with meow
Nope and nope.
>shitty ui
>no forts
>crap sliders
>custom and random nations/new world
>significantly better naval focus
>elements from other paradox titles like Great Powers, Traits, Regents
+all the sweet things from meiou
Think eu4 is the only sequel thats actually better than the predecessor
Someone that played EU3 religiously here
How I learn EU4? Is meow necessary? Cause I know niggermod is pretty mandatory for Vicky 2
Meiou is pretty necessary, however if you havent played eu4 before I recommend pirating the latest version with all dlcs and a fresh youtube playthrough
Brainlet.
i bought this game and i want to enjoy it but im just so lost and confused on what to do
Why do Paradoxfags think they're intellectuals for playing single player board games with shit UIs?
I don’t, but to claim ck2 is harder than eu is laughable.
Oh Jesus no, it's not harder. CK2 is an extremely easy game, especially late game. I just don't like EU4's difficulty, feels even more artifical than CK's
howdumb.ru
CK2 is hard only when your ruler dies and now your vassals hate your guts and your brothers want to fuck you up and steal the throne
well yeah because its a boardgame
Not since they changed the technology mechanic. It actually makes sense now. Of course a European country will fuckup some African shithole if they have guns and the Africans have spears. Although that doesn’t mean you can’t still win it’s just harder.
Either start in Ireland, and have a slow but stress free way to learn how to play, or start under a strong lord as a duke, and have a faster but with someone to protect you from getting smeared off the map. Also youtube videos.
What's a fun and relatively easy start to get into with CK2? Been bored lately. I have pretty much all of the DLC except the newest shit that came out.
New player here. I can help explain some concepts to ya in basic terms. Dont ask me about advanced concepts tho, I got the basics down.
Also:
Diplomacy > Intrigue > Stewardship > Militancy > Learning
In that order, make sure to nurture loyalty in your children. You can do that by assigned them a guardian that is loyal to you and never give land to people in your court that have claims on clay you own as that will hurt relations. Fuck the pope
1066 England. Well the norman England
What's the name of the ruler? I'll look into it.
Literally mimic a youtuber
William
Stewardship and Martial are way more important than Intrigue or Diplo until late game.
how do you have fun with this genre? There's no goddamn gameplay of the direct interaction variety. Please, I want to enjoy it, I really do but I'm with OP... I want some real characters or something to do besides arrange marriages and watch years fly by on a timer
Stewardship and Martial can be pumped by advisors
Hell, It's really not difficult to find Jews for the council seat. Letting any bitch ass vassal on the council is verboten
Roleplay. Make a custom character at game start and then see how his children fuck up his legacy
Huh. Stop forcing it.
Also if you shit in history or just dont like it seriously avoid this genre. Maybe HoI4 since ww2 is not as niche as medieval europe/middle east
Diplomacy=Militancy>Stewardship>>Intrigue>>>>>>>>>Shit>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Learning
Diplo makes it so your vassals and other lords don't hate you. Also the more your vassals like you, the more men the raise
Milit allows you to raise more men in lands you control
Steward raise income from all sources
Intrigue is really only good for killing people, and even then it's worse than having a higher diplo since invite to plot works based off of how much someone likes you
Learning affects tech growth? I honestly forgot what it does.
>find wife
>open the console
>type add_trait immortal
>type charinfo 1 and marry_anyone
>pollinate *wife's id* *your id*
>wait for kid while fucking other people's wives
>if girl type age *her id* 16
>if boy try again
>get rid of wife or keep, do as you please
>pollinate *daughter's id* *your id*
>do the same shit until you die but while playing normally
Don't forget to fuck other people's wives and daughters, if you can raid, do it and abuse the women you get.
Oh and get some indispensable sex mods.
Where my option to connect directly
Well Martial is actually not important. It affects the size and reinforcement of YOUR demesne levies only.
Learn the real life history of a dynasty and try and beat what they did. Or try and rebuild an empire with a direct descendant of it. Or set up cooky ahistorical shit and have fun with that too!
I mean that's all I ever do and it's kept me interested on and off for 3 years
>Where my option to connect directly
Which can be really important when you set up a fat little 12 slot demesne and keep your vassals fractured. Of course diplo plays into this as always but Mil can still be really good
Imagine my shock when I realised that my Irish empire had more powerful army than
>Holy
>Roman
>Empire
It's always fun to have built a powerful empire only to see it crumble because the son of your character is a retarded pussy who wants to pray instead of conquer
when you reach a level where you can maintain 12 demesnes your army is prolly 50-70k big already. Keeping nobles happy or killing them in your dungeons is just easier and comfier than micro fracturing. Even with ck2+ or hip
One of the best things I ever got from a book fair was the Rotten Romans book they made.
Buddies said they tried everything to connect but I don't think they did and they don't wanna try again
They are demanding I buy it on steam instead But Im broke and without a job
I wanna try with a Sup Forumsirgin but I don't think anyone has my pirated version
It's funny to see Sup Forums talk about grand strategy, it's like watching 8 year olds talk about their big brothers games
Back to /vg/ my elitist friend
Imagine the shock when your people realized that your annual potato harvest is infected by a strange fungus
no forts
>forts
>good
crap sliders
>not the best mechanic
custom and random nations/new world
>playing EU with custom nations
Yes, and that raised amount can help swing a war in your favor. Vassals never give you all of their men, no matter how much they like you, so being able to raise more of your own, with a high demesnes size, which is also increased by stewardship I forgot to mention earlier, you can single handedly win wars without your vassals.
Irish didnt have potatoes yet
>he doesnt know the meme
Forts are actually 10 times better than sieging every single provinces for 2 years
When will eu3 fags buy proper CPUs that can handle Meiou?
Monarch Points > Sliders
If your friend has steam then he's up too date, no way too play with him
As for the direct connect thingy I think there was an option to go too the meta server too direct connect, dunno if they changed the UI, it's been a while.
The Rick And Morty fans of vidya
Grand strategy doesn't require a high IQ and no one at /gsg/ implies so, sorry you're retarded
People that play these know they're autistic map painting sims
>Mana
>Good
Thank god you can pirate every DLC this game has otherwise i would been pissed desu.
Have you ever been at the Paradox forums? kys
No, I don't browse reddit and reddit colonies
Certainly better than slider gymnastics. If this is your only argument, your taste is shite
You'll never get it. Making that type of game is risky unless you are paradox.
So far your only argument is "sliders bad" so you aren't on any higher ground m8
check shit posted earlier by other user
>crap sliders
you sure showed me
enlighten us why domestic policy shit is better please
No video games require high IQ
>inb4 Rule the Waves
More depth than just "oooh, numbers grow"
>More depth
You sure showed me. Just confess. Your shitty eastern euro pc cant handle superior Ayylmao and Taxes 2.2
Mana points have more depth than sliders though.
>want to play ck2
>usually wind up getting to the point I can go with imperial shit, viceroys whatnot
>can't actually have an entirely viceroyal realm in the current patch because the computer forgot how to hand out viceroyalties
>byzantium is all kinds of fuck and almost if not entirely populated by hereditary titles within a century
>devs have been relatively silent for weeks now outside some intern saying he wants to do thing with titles
>duchies of kermanshah, tigris, hamadan, and esfahan are currently titular and the computer loves to destroy titular titles below their top tier title so can't have say a feudal duchy setup in persia and grant a titular guy a viceroyal king title or he'll destroy the duchy of x and transfer any land/vassals he previously had to jibal or khozistan
EVERY FUCKING DLC RELEASE/SUBSEQUENT PATCH IT'S SOMETHING WITH THESE SWEDISH FUCKERS HOLY SHIT
Also make more sense in a kind of twisted way. State finance was almost entirely decoupled from a lot of things that it was used for in EU3.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>more depth
Its literally the same system. Only difference was you had to wait 10 to 50 years between these deep slider changes instead of gradual mana. Eu4 is a much more polished and complex version of eu3, especially with overhaul mods
why not just play as emperor then change
>Eu4
>complex
Why are the muslims so powerful?
Seems like everytime I play, they take over the spanish peninsula and eventually steam over France and take chuncks out of the HRE. Even the Byzantines get torn up to a significant degree. Unless I take part in Crusades or personally fight them back the Muslims seem to be superpowers
My bad I missed the quantifier "more". Stupid animeposter is stupid
but it's not, eu3 wasn't complex either but eu4 is the simplest game paradox has shit out to date
Nobody said it's a complex game you stupid third wordler. As you can see I corrected it to "more complex" At least interpret before shitpost
Historically, they were doing better than the Euros for quite some time and only were beaten back by movie levels of heroic deeds
See: en.wikipedia.org
He's the reason the Spanish aren't Muslim, seriously tho, read his article, nigga was an action movie protag before it was even a thing
and read what i wrote, eu4 is the most simple gs game of all
pump mil tech
pump mil ideas
win game
That's wrong and inefficient. WCs you stack core creation cost reduction.
Alright so you admit that the last time you touched the game it was years ago. And it was strictly vanilla
Oh it's the "Game is 2ez4me as a lucky nation" episode again.
played it today actually, destroyed france as brittney easy
you're just trash
Why would you anonymously lie on the internet? And to brag. What are you trying to accomplish?
>eu4 is hard
lol
it's not bragging if it's fucking easy
just stop being bad