Game News The Old Gods has an EXTREME release trailer

[Trash]

Tags: Crusader Kings II; Paradox Interactive; The Old Gods



Aaaand it's out. On steam that is. Together with The Old Gods you can also spend additional money on more artsy filler with a portrait, unit and music pack.

 

[Konjad]

At least paradox doesn't take itself too seriously like most of the tards, ie. bohemia interactive, which tries to be like LOOK AT OUR REALISTIC SOLDIER SIMULATOR and then puts magic bandages, same dude being able to pilot helicopters, planes and tractors and so on.

 

[Irenaeus]

 

[Ulminati]

CK2 is becoming more and more like Train Simulator 2012 every day.

 

[MicoSelva]

Good thing it is so expensive or it would be D1P for me.

 

[Smashing Axe]

Trailer feels almost like it's ripped off felipepepepepepepe's AoD incline trailer

Spoiler

 

[Whisky]

Fuck yeah, time to marry my sister.

Or conquer Europe for the track suit gods.

Choices...choices...

 

[Cosmic Misogynerd]

Zoroastrian empire, here we come!

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Beard?

Day 1 purchase.

 

[Trash]

Honestly? Tried it for a bit and once again remembered why I don't want to play without mods. CKII is fun but feels so barebones without mods like TPATT or CKIIplus.

Plus sad to report that the portrait pack still looks rubbish compared to vanilla.

 

[Whisky]

Zoroastrians are in a bad spot, so to speak.

They do start with a bonus army with which you can Holy Way a nearby Shiite duchy with little consequences(Everyone else around you is either Sunni or Tengri.).

But then you realize you're basically Georgia, stuck between two infidel religions. Gonna keep trying to revive Glorious Zoroastrianism.

I also played as the Norse and the Slavics. Slavics are fairly straightforward, but are vulnerable to Christian Kingdoms who are much, much more powerful. Norse on the other hand, can easily stomp through Britain. I managed to grab Northumberland and was very close to grabbing Mercia when I had to split my forces to protect against Scotland.

Oh, and you'll really want to fight for religion reformation, because otherwise Pagans only have Gavelkind.

EDIT: Yeah, it is really jarring switching from mods to no mods. Got a feeling it'll take a bit for the mods to be re-released, due to the changes for this one.

 

[Trash]

Yeah, the big mods are going to take awhile. They really overhauled a lot of the core mechanics. I really cannot understand why Pdox at least do not copy/implement some of the widely used features of these mods like more ambitions, decisions and plots. These things alone make the game so much more alive and it's basically a copy paste job for them to add them to a patch.

 

[MetalCraze]

CKII is fun but feels so barebones

25 DLCs not enough? Gotta tell Paradox

 

[evdk]

Most of those DLCs are portraits and music.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Most of those DLCs are portraits and music.

Which are worth... 2 euros a piece. And which are completely optional. And do nothing but add more music or portraits or sprites.

 

[Trash]

He's being a twat. In the other thread I commented on the ridiculous whining about those portrait packs he constantly does. CKII had two excellent dlc that really improved the core gameplay. It's a bit early to tell but this one seems the third.

Had a shitload of fun raiding along the Scottish and Irish coast so far. Now, for someone to toss in some extra events and diplomatic actions like ransoms and the like and this will rock. Also, yay for Pdox finally introducing destructable holdings and buildings. No more constant incline to max settlements with max buildings all over. Now for someone to mod these into regular sieges as well...

 

[Mortmal]

Fuck yeah, time to marry my sister.

Or conquer Europe for the track suit gods.

Choices...choices...

yes marry the sisters but also loot and take war prisoners as concubines . I think those paradox devs are reading the forums here and taking notes, its a very codexian dlc.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Will wait a couple more months till the mods iron out all the Paradox out of this.

 

[TheEntitledOne]

I'm mildly intrigued by the pillaging part. How difficult are the CK games for n00bs? My attempts at grand strategy games always end up with me cheating the most pathetic factions into total world conquest.

 

[Sranchammer]

It's the easiest of all Paradox Games, by far.

 

[Brayko]

All Paradox games are easy once you learn the mechanics.

 

[DakaSha]

It's the easiest of all Paradox Games, by far.

While at the same time being cheap as fuck. You can lose by pure randomness (at least early game).

In fact, this is no joke and it's pretty hilarious: My very very very first time firing this up I chose some count in southwest England and literally died the moment i unpaused. I guess because of the war there, and my count being part of that, he was taking part in a battle and the RNG decided to have him killed immediately. I was confused as shit.

Having said that, this is probably the paradox title that pisses me off the least, which isn't saying much.

 

[Spectacle]

CK2 is easy when you know the rules, but as a noob it's easy to fuck up if you're not paying attention to the succession or vassal relations. Even if you're a big blob things can go to hell very fast.

 

[Whisky]

Fuck yeah, time to marry my sister.

Or conquer Europe for the track suit gods.

Choices...choices...

yes marry the sisters but also loot and take war prisoners as concubines . I think those paradox devs are reading the forums here and taking notes, its a very codexian dlc.

Holy shit, I just did that. I can't believe it, Paradox actually added a rape button.

Dark Age Rance?

 

[IDtenT]

Have you guys seen the Leviathan Warships trailers? Not to mention all the Magicka ones?

 

[Space Satan]

Rape? Every concubine so far have no negative opinion modifiers. Which mean they totally asked for it and liked it.
Anyway, if you play slavic pagan, you can do almost anything - scourge and purge, and with ridiculously mbalanced Subjugation of [Kingdom] you can amass huge army within several years as Russian kingdoms means you can take half the map just by subjugation.
Plus, it's quite easy to reform - you have to grab Kiev, Plock and Novgorod to start reform.