For the last 3 years.Those hopes has been consistently dashed from pdx all year long
I've been curious about this. Does it feel like Rimworld or w/e, or closer to a traditional city-builder? What I'm getting at is, do individual survivors matter; are they characters, or just a cog powering your settlement?No OT for Surviving The Aftermath but I've been playing the Xbox version this weekend and it seems absolutely great. The whole tone and setup is more appealing to Mars than me, but the scale of the game is much smaller. More about managing workers and coping with limited resources.
Seems potentially a little lacking in long term depth right now but I'm hyped to see this built upon. Didn't expect to be playing it.
It is probably like Surviving Mars where each individual character matters (they have moods, traits, etc) but you can just mostly treat them as cogs unless optimizing.I've been curious about this. Does it feel like Rimworld or w/e, or closer to a traditional city-builder? What I'm getting at is, do individual survivors matter; are they characters, or just a cog powering your settlement?
The character-driven aspect of survival-builders is something that really appeals to me.
Exactly this I'd say! You do get specialist characters which can help explore and bring back resources too.It is probably like Surviving Mars where each individual character matters (they have moods, traits, etc) but you can just mostly treat them as cogs unless optimizing.
No OT for Surviving The Aftermath but I've been playing the Xbox version this weekend and it seems absolutely great. The whole tone and setup is more appealing to Mars than me, but the scale of the game is much smaller. More about managing workers and coping with limited resources.
Seems potentially a little lacking in long term depth right now but I'm hyped to see this built upon. Didn't expect to be playing it.
Hard to tell right now, I've only sunk a few hours. When you first start the game it asks a bunch of different questions about difficulty in various areas of the game, so you could certainly try for some tougher runs with barren landscapes, higher rate of natural disasters, more aggressive AI etc.
I played the free hour, too. And I'm very tempted to buy it. It's only 20,- and it plays great on console. I love the world map and the different take on strategy, very nice.No OT for Surviving The Aftermath but I've been playing the Xbox version this weekend and it seems absolutely great. The whole tone and setup is more appealing to Mars than me, but the scale of the game is much smaller. More about managing workers and coping with limited resources.
Seems potentially a little lacking in long term depth right now but I'm hyped to see this built upon. Didn't expect to be playing it.
So I've started playing CK2 after watching a couple of YouTube videos. This game is CRAZY!
I started in Ireland as the video recommended, fight a war for the Desmond County, won, but then my son's wife assassinated me.
I took over as the son, executed my former wife, then married my step mom who was still pregnant with my half brother. Like... WTF that's insane
welcome to CK2, i'm glad you are enjoying it.So I've started playing CK2 after watching a couple of YouTube videos. This game is CRAZY!
I started in Ireland as the video recommended, fight a war for the Desmond County, won, but then my son's wife assassinated me.
I took over as the son, executed my former wife, then married my step mom who was still pregnant with my half brother. Like... WTF that's insane
I hope so. I'd really enjoy having plants that produce energy/ special resources depending on the star of the star systemI do wonder if they'll 'remaster' previous Species packs in the future. Seems like a good opportunity to make them appealing to anyone that skipped 'em, while also giving a good opportunity to flesh out the game.
Now, you might say: "Cool, but I took the time to master CK2, bought all the expansions, and now it provides me an enormous breadth of options. Why should I buy CK3?"
That's a fair question! As I mentioned earlier, we decided not to carry over all features from CK2, so if you play CK2 primarily for, say, the nomads or the merchant republics (the only faction types that were playable in CK2 but not in CK3), you might be disappointed. There are likely other features and content that will be missed by some players, but, in return, we believe that everyone will find the core gameplay far more fun and rewarding! To be clear, CK3 is a vastly bigger game than CK2 was on release.
I read it more like "the CK2=>3 transition will be closer to Civ5=>6 than Civ3=>4=>5". It will not be a return to the vanilla version, a lot of DLC features will be in the game at launch, though probably not as deep or developed, and they will need some patches/expansions to be made interesting.So the first CK3 dev diary has me a bit concerned.
Sounds like CK3 will miss quite a bit of stuff from CK2 DLC.
I think it is the other way around, not all the content from CK2 expansions will be included in CK3, but those included are more developed and expanded (for instance the Way of Life, Council, or Religion modifications).I read it more like "the CK2=>3 transition will be closer to Civ5=>6 than Civ3=>4=>5". It will not be a return to the vanilla version, a lot of DLC features will be in the game at launch, though probably not as deep or developed, and they will need some patches/expansions to be made interesting.
Maybe I'm too optimistic.
So I've started playing CK2 after watching a couple of YouTube videos. This game is CRAZY!
I started in Ireland as the video recommended, fight a war for the Desmond County, won, but then my son's wife assassinated me.
I took over as the son, executed my former wife, then married my step mom who was still pregnant with my half brother. Like... WTF that's insane
With religion, I think maybe Norse, Muslims and Jews will be playable. If they are, that's already 3 big expansions included. If they aren't... then that's a really big map for just the Christians. Since they single out nomads and merchant republics as not part of the game, I'd expect the others will be?I think it is the other way around, not all the content from CK2 expansions will be included in CK3, but those included are more developed and expanded (for instance the Way of Life, Council, or Religion modifications).
They confirmed norse, muslim and jews, even then, you can play nomads, just they dont have specific mechanics. Starting date is Old Gods (800s), with no Charlomagne.With religion, I think maybe Norse, Muslims and Jews will be playable. If they are, that's already 3 big expansions included. If they aren't... then that's a really big map for just the Christians. Since they single out nomads and merchant republics as not part of the game, I'd expect the others will be?
Some pieces of Reaper and Charlemagne could also be included, as part of the role-playing elements? Do we know the earliest starting date?
I just wrapped up my run and had the same deal (not quite as quick, though - nice work!). Conquering Ming is super easy, even before Nomadic Frontier hits (and afterwards, you wish that Ming wouldn't break down so much... the revolting tags are tougher! Don't forget to try and fish for the mission that gets you cores; the hard part is getting the prerequisite devastation mission).Am doing a Jianzhou>Qing run. I am now Qing and am pre-eminent. Ming has exploded. It's not even 1500. Booyah.
You should probably go down the spice island for all that cash.I'm doing a Korea run and it's been pretty smooth sailing since Ming collapsed in the late 1400s. Its the 1600s and I own all of Manchuria, Japan and some of China around Beijing and have two colonial nations in western North America. Although I just got into a war with Russia in Siberia to defend my ally Denmark.. I'm a few techs behind so gunna be a bit sketchy.
You should probably go down the spice island for all that cash.
Spice island money is all production if you arent downstream.I was thinking that but the trade nodes to Nippon/Girin come from Mexico/California so I made that my priority. I guess I could have committed to conquering more of China earlier and shifting my main trade node to one of those.
I just wrapped up my run and had the same deal (not quite as quick, though - nice work!). Conquering Ming is super easy, even before Nomadic Frontier hits (and afterwards, you wish that Ming wouldn't break down so much... the revolting tags are tougher! Don't forget to try and fish for the mission that gets you cores; the hard part is getting the prerequisite devastation mission).
I had an attempted Mongolia run fail at the last second, when rebels popped up at my capital just as my last stack of intact troops arrived... after I was at the point I could stackwipe Ming, but with too few provinces unoccupied for me to recover. Might try that one again.