Game News New Europa Universalis IV Dev Diaries

[Whisky]

Tags: Developer Diary; Europa Universalis IV; Paradox Interactive

Paradox has released a new Dev Diary for EUIV this week. This time the subject is Divine Tactics.

In case you missed it, last week's Dev Diary was on Ayutthaya, Viyanagar & Muslim Sultanates and the week before that was on Aragon, Naples and Korea

EDIT: Thanks to The Brazilian Slaughter for pointing it out.

 

[Spectacle]

What I'm wondering is; as it seems like we're getting a CK2 save converter, how will EU4 deal with pagan religions in Europe if they're present and strong in 1448? Will it all get lumped into "shamanism", or will we be able to continue playing our Norse, Zoroastrian or even Aztec empires?
What the fuck will America look like in CK2 if the Aztecs are already in Europe?

 

[Whisky]

Sorry about that, Slaughter. Cited you as a source.

 

[Spectacle]

Also that America question is indeed valid, because one wonders how did Aztecs came to Europe if their ancestors back home are still stuck in tech level 1 until Colombus. Aztecs are a post-apoc civilization? DUMDEDUM

There's a flavor event in Sunset Invasion that tells that the Aztecs back in Mexico are using horses brought from Europe to even the odds in their war against the gun using Incas. :D

 

[Luzur]

my guess is they wont give a damn about it and just do their game their way.

 

[Spectacle]

I can easily see them ignoring the Sunset Invasion bullshit, but there will be tons of fanrage if they make a save converter that lumps all the religions from the Old Gods into "pagan" and gives them harsh penalties.

 

[Grinolf]

Enforce Peace seems like a nice option: A good way for the player or AI to stop a player from gobbling a important but unnalied country, say, stopping a Great Power from eating one of your buffer countries. I'm just afraid of how the AI is going to use it; it might doom a lot of minors if, in their attempts to gobble other minors, a big power enforces peace all the time, stopping them from getting big. Say, trying to play as Serbia and getting Enforced all the time, and then the Ottomans eat you. In fact, I can see humans playing majors using this all the time, I hope they think up a countermeasure of somesort.

I can become second cascading alliances, but Paradox have experience with similiar system in Vic2. And it work fine there. Also it makes perfect sence for Great Powers try to block rise of other states. So if player are playing as minor country, it would be good, that he will need be very careful with diplomacy aant timing.

 

[tuluse]

Fuck, unless I'm not seeing properly, looking at that map displayed, once again Paradox ignores history. Europe is okay, but Africa, America and Southeast Asia are still pure unadulterated bullshit.

Given how much time EU spans, I think they need a mechanic where provinces can split into multiple ones. Like the British colonies in America were pretty much created out of thin air, they had little relation to how the tribes divided up the land.

Southeast Asia needs to properly represent all these little states and Majapaharit ruling over them. Someone made a "Malasya mod" for EUIII showing the proper historical situation, pretty much all mods have it by defaut nowdays. Also, playing with the small Srivinjaya remant that existed at the time would be awesome, like a Eastern version of ERE.

Siam/Burma/Cambodia/Thailand/Laos is awful in EU. If it was done right, it wouldn't be any fun to play though. The feudal was extremely decentralized people were only loyal to the man directly above them in the Feudal structure. This means if any one switched sides, everyone under him would switch sides and not even blink an eye. There was no nationalism and barely any sense of state. Siam got fucked a number of times because of this. Burma would attack, the Siamese king would think he had X number of supporters and then when he went to them to gather the army, would find they had joined Burma.