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Demo Crusader Kings II Demo Action

Discussion in 'TCancer News & Content Comments' started by Jason, Feb 7, 2012.

  1. Jason chasing a bee

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    Click here and disable ads!
    Pre-orders are open for Crusader Kings II but more importantly, there's a demo to be had. Get to it.

  2. curry Arbiter

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    The demo is buggy as hell, it has game-breaking bugs and lots of minor bugs, glitches and inaccuracies that the developers claim "are fixed in the final game" that is supposed to be released in February 14th. :smug:

    The game itself is otherwise decent but the AI and relationship system suck hard. :roll:

  3. Fens Arbiter Patron

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    #3
    care to elaborate ? i've played games with all the available factions and didn't run into anything game breaking. got a paradox forum link ?

    the worst thing i saw was the malus for "vassal levies raised for too long" after just a month... might be a feature, though... oh and a sudden doomstack out of nowhere when i attacked a two county muslim nation

    i see a lot of room for optimization when it comes to independence wars... other than that... most wars seemed 'reasonable', if a lot too common

    the relationship system seems alright to me... with the more detailed family trees and the pretender view it's a lot more transparent than in CK1

  4. XenomorphII Learned

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    There is an issue with some of the mercenaries having insane monthly costs, but that is really the only bug that I have found. Everything else seems to work pretty smoothly.

    I really like the relationship system. It is easy to see exactly why someone likes/dislikes you and generally they only enter open rebellion if your character is grossly incompetent and they hate him (at least that is my experience so far). Otherwise they tend to rely on plotting against you.
    You also don't have situations were super loyal vassals who apparently love you are suddenly gaining the rebellious trait and rebelling while still having 100 loyalty.

  5. Trash Undisputed Queen of Faggotry Simply fabulous Patron

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    The smug emote is usually a good sign of a troll or a moron. Pick one.

  6. Flying Spaghetti Monster Arbiter

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    Fixed

  7. Trash Undisputed Queen of Faggotry Simply fabulous Patron

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    :lol: I was actually serious. The demo seems to work perfectly fine for a vast mayority of players. No sign of 'game-breaking bugs and lots of minor bugs, glitches and inaccuracies' and nothing on the official twitter, facebook or forum about developers claiming these to be fixed in the final game. Curry is just being an ass.

    About mercenaries being very expensive, well, that's not an issue. Mercs can easily sway the balance of a war so the biggest companies should be expensive and thus limited for use by the extremely rich (papacy, kings, emperors). For poorer dukes and counts there are also smaller and thus cheaper companies that can nicely bolster your efforts without costing you a fortune. Huge doomstacks appearing usually has to do with your enemy being huge or rich enough to buy a big-ass merc company and small enough to feel really threatened or when you're a religious enemy so they can employ a holy order against you. Also allies. I still fondly remember a small war in Italy in which my enemy called in the help of his father in law. That being the German Kaiser it ended rather badly for me.

  8. Flying Spaghetti Monster Arbiter

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    I really can't wait for this damn game.

  9. curry Arbiter

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    I usually just ignore whiners such as yourself but here you go.


    edit: modding is also broken. I edited "create and usurp" triggers for titles but it seems the same trigger affects who is eligible in Elective Succession and who you can give titles to. It turned out that when I made only Independent rulers and Kings able to create Duchies, I can no longer give Duchies to my vassals and Counts can't be elected Duke. Yeah, I guess that's WAD.

  10. Trash Undisputed Queen of Faggotry Simply fabulous Patron

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    Ah, so a single thread with the description 'found the first mayor bug' in a forum otherwise filled with praise and gameplay discussions means the game is 'as buggy as hell?' Not a single thread about demo bugs to be found on the entire first page of the CKII forum. Again, you're being an ass.

  11. curry Arbiter

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    Here's the main bug thread, full of bug reports

    http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?582868-Demo-Bug-Reports

    Here's a few others in addition to the huge bug thread and the one I posted first

    http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?583874-I%B4ve-married-the-Pope!
    http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?583686-Demo-crashed...
    http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?583752-So-I-got-screwed-out-of-my-Flanders...-WAD
    http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?583549-Becoming-the-Pope...
    http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?583705-Lord-Spiritual-Sabotages-His-Own-Relations
    http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?583454-Demo-crashes
    http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...-bug-in-demo-cheating-on-my-wife-with-my-wife

    And I didn't even bother to post links to the older threads or the ones that are about map inaccuracies. Still whining?

  12. XenomorphII Learned

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    The normal mercenary payments are fine, but as the Duke of Bohemia, I had hired one of the merc groups at around 130 gold, and when the monthly payment hit I went from ~400 gold to -2000. That has only happened to me a couple of times while fooling around with the demo, but still is the only real problem I have encountered.

  13. Trash Undisputed Queen of Faggotry Simply fabulous Patron

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    You are and you're making quite an effort at it. Good for you. For everyone else this is the most stable and polished Paradox game near release in, well, pretty much ever.

    That's a bad one though. Never seen it before. What company was it?

  14. XenomorphII Learned

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    I don't remember. Saw on the Pdox forums someone had a similar problem with some of them to and that it was apparently because of a missed decimal point and an improper display and that it is supposedly fixed. Guess we will see.

  15. curry Arbiter

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    Trash you're just butthurt that someone insulted your masters

  16. Trash Undisputed Queen of Faggotry Simply fabulous Patron

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    What? Did anyone mention the reptilians?

  17. Cassidy Arcane

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    CK II demo with all its bugs is better and more fun than the full MAJESTIC 60+ hours shit you gloated about with the rest of the "hardcore PC gamer" posers.

  18. Serious_Business Liturgist

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    Skyturd (yeah baby) was fun for 15 hours max, but this will be fun forever

    I AM THE DUKE OF AQUITAINE AND I WILL NOT TOLERATE THIS ENGLISH SCUM ON MY SHORES
    Flying Spaghetti Monster Brofists this.

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