2024 Has Been CRAZY for Crusader Kings 3

[@Memanruler]

I think ck3 is suffering too much from focusing on success as the only form of meaningful gameplay. So many mechanics being introduced are either fail, succeed, or succeed more. Failure is basically avoided as a gameplay loop, you can't negotiate to make a success out of failure, you basically *need* to succeed to avoid gameplay being taken away from you.

[@realdaggerman105]

To be fair, adventurers are a mechanic which definitely allow players to accept defeat. If you lose your land (which doesn’t really happen, but still) you can make a comeback. That’s failure as a mechanic for storytelling.

[@kernelscout3077]

well they added plagues and danger events and the community shat on both so clearly the players dont know wtf they want.

[@Scullex]

@@kernelscout3077 seems more like uhhhhhh different parts of a community

[@MeesyIce]

@@kernelscout3077I agree on plagues and was surprised to see the negative reaction as I don’t remember people feeling the same about it in ck2 but danger events are bad, adding an rng based chance to die is is a lazy solution to difficultly

[@Memanruler]

​@@realdaggerman105 I think that ability to be flexible and allow characters to do more is part of why RtP hit so well. It's probably why adventuring mechanics are talked about more often then the namesake mechanics for Byzantium (in my opinion)

[@aspacelex]

I'm considering disabling plagues, you can safely start ignoring normal plagues a few rulers into any playthrough, and bubonic plague outbreaks just pause your game for a few years, leaving no meaningful consequences behind, all they amount to is more pointless button clicking.

[@thenigbwah]

real, plagues are the bane of my existence they ruined playing tall. the 2 main things about plagues i hate is, consumption pops up as a plague at least every hour and not only that it absolutely destroys development.

[@justynajoniak6737]

When I play a Celtic character I have to name all the cities to Celtic, When I am doing a Greek Empire of India, Persia and Africa I make all the titles Greek, when I play as the Sorbs I customise German titles to be Slavic, I love me some flavor

[@PerfectAlibi1]

I'm kinda like a role playing power gamer, who wants to make decisions that would kinda make sense from a real life historical point of view. As most if not all rulers if given the opportunity would've probably gone for large ambitious campaigns of conquest or reformation. Something to make their mark in history. I also love to hybridise with strong cultures, something I justify as my very learned character has learned about this culture and feels it could be very strong to hybridise with it.

[@granite_4576]

For me Landless really needs some flavour and nerfing. As a languages guy surely you must also find it quite strange that your Irish adventurer who's found himself in Tibet and speaks not a lick of anything beyond his native Gaelic is somehow being entrusted by a King to transport his ward across the realm... I just wish language and culture had more impact on interactions between characters. Me not speaking Arabic doesn't make dislike people from Oman -5pts, it means I literally could not understand someone if I encountered them.

[@levithompson478]

I just wanted to say that I loved your CK3 story playthroughs this year, especially after Roads to Power came out. I can’t wait to see what you do next. Also, a minor suggestion. Maybe it could be interesting to do more “sequels” to these videos, especially if you make use of the Choose A New Destiny feature. Like after the Bactrian game if you started out as an Adventurer in the same save and made your way to a different realm to create a new kingdom and culture/religion.

[@Memanruler]

34:35 it would also give more use to de jure changing mechanics with legends if the title being shifted gave changes to vassal management rather then just making succession more simple.

[@rafaelbastos8713]

@34:18 That's modular governments. They seem to be going the opposite way in CK3 I don't have a formed opinion, as I like both cases.

[@ComeInToMadness]

its funny you mention achievement hunters because after they changed how they work and how you no longer needed ironman, They felt completely pointless to me now. You could always cheat achevements but now you can download mods to make yourself op and it just deminishes the value i had for them

[@thefbi3350]

Wait so is it like vicky 3 where you can use whatever mods you want and still get achievements?

[@qhu3878]

​@@thefbi3350 yep

[@thefbi3350]

@@qhu3878 idk why bro's complaining that's a good thing

[@Zenkrypt]

​@@thefbi3350 it makes getting the achievement feel pointless, as anyone can just cheat to get it.

[@thefbi3350]

@@Zenkrypt you've always been able to cheat it with the steam achievement tracker. Ck3 allowing you to have fun or play however you want never made getting achievements less pointless.

[@CassieRahilly-zm8yr]

All I want is preformance my game should not crash this much on a decent system at low settings with updated drivers and verified game files

[@WiseG33k]

Please consider making a review of your experience with Manor Lords. We need dissenting (but still constructive) voices about that game.

[@PerfectAlibi1]

I don't want to use a lot of mods as I want to be able get achievements.

[@one-Real-tom]

They should add more mechanics and flavour

[@RobertLee-n3b]

This is nit picky but i would like to see fiefs utilized for fuedal rulers. Like a stationary manor/estate historical its how knights managed to afford their armaments

[@pjoterem141]

25:11 big fella

[@monkeymoment6478]

I have close to 2000 hrs in CK3, honestly it’s doodoo. They have focused so much energy into straight up novel mechanics that get stale after a while and have absolutely no flavor. They need to focus on the whole point of the game, crusades. Revamp the Catholics, add the college of cardinals, and revamp the Islamic side as well.

[@MeesyIce]

The crusades aren’t the point of the game, I agree the mechanic is broken atm but crusader kings as a franchise hasn’t been about the crusades for a long time.

[@Corvin.z]

tbh if paradox ever releases a dlc with just the top ck2 content like societies, bloodlines and glitterhoof it would sell like water.

[@zenmastakilla]

Societies were so damn OP that I'm not even sure I want them back

[@MeesyIce]

Bloodlines basically exist now there are 4 or five bloodline traits in the game, they really should just give them their own menu in the UI and add more ways to dynamically earn them.

[@jean-charleschabrol390]

5:40 that's me lol. I love roleplaying and spending a long time writing cultures/religions/lore etc. But I think the best thing with roleplaying is increasing the difficulty when so many things are easy to exploit in this game. For exemple, the whole eugenics things is funny but makes 0 sense roleplay wise and makes the game too easy. Same for dynastic/religion/culture traits and even personallity traits, if you minmaxx it the IA has ZERO chance to beat you. I think there should be more penalties for not playing RP : if you're an emperor and marry a peasant everybody should hate you for it. There should be more events relating to your character that cause stress if you refuse to do it, like lustful characters should automatically seduce courters and you should have to deal with the aftereffects.

[@SDM-Zone]

Unfortunately I liked an aspect that they are doing a lot less. I liked the asynchronous gameplay mechanics. I liked playing as a tribe and then building up to be a merchant republic empire. I liked despoiling entire civilizations as horse lords. Feudalism was about stability and building up over time. Paradox are generally moving away from specific mechanics for specific countries although I bounced off CK3 before they added a lot of extra flavour and mechanics. Maybe it would be good enough now but Im waiting for a good Khan, Merchant or Theocracy gameplay to exist.

[@CassieRahilly-zm8yr]

I think you forgot about one catagory of player the silly in which they just want to have stupid things happen like it could fall more minmaxxy but it could be like I wanna try and make the most inbred world possible by trying to get your dynasty on random titles and marry them cause it’s funny

[@vladm2364]

We call them youtubers.

[@CassieRahilly-zm8yr]

@@vladm2364 nah i just like to be silly

[@guahlg2834]

Cool stream algorithm BOOST

[@FrankJ222]

Tip for history gamer, life is life. ANYTHING COULD HAVE HAPPENED.

[@Battle_Brother-e3v]

Im the Balance Gamer

[@OliverTwistyy]

Homer simpson

[@americansyndicalist7602]

For me, I really never cared about the addition of China\Siberia to the map. In fact I believe it would be a huge waste of time for the devs. I really really liked the off map empire system they added in Jade Dragon. Redo that, but maybe with some different stuff so it doesn’t feel like a carbon copy of a CK2 dlc, and leave china as an off map maga power.

[@zenmastakilla]

Trade is not "bloat", wtf is wrong with you?

[@guahlg2834]

Woho

[@zeloraz8101]

Hence why CK2 will always be better then CK3

[@guahlg2834]

First comment yay

[@sarsante]

imho RtP it's 0.5/10, only good thing it added is conqueror/scourge of gods. Everything else made an already easy game be extremely easy. Probably only paradox game that requires a ton of effort to get a game over so it's clearly no longer a grand strategy or even a simple strategy game anymore which it's really sad. 2024 was the year they turn ck3 into a the sims wannabe game.

[@Aq_3]

You abuse so much it's making me laughing XD like yeah it is easy but goddam you really are an abuser right now

[@realdaggerman105]

Roads to Power was like 2 or 3 DLC’s in one, though. The sheer Byzantine flavour and content made it basically a flavour pack, the new government type and adventurers are good, even if it’s easy to snowball out of control. But CK3 has always been very role-play focused.

[@Aq_3]

@@realdaggerman105 yeah i entirely agree with you even if it would be nice if they could make everybody happy because you know i am not the part of player base concerned, but everyone deserve to have fun their way, but this one is abusing like it also give you interesting challenges like losing as the king in 10066 of England and coming back and other things like that

[@sarsante]

Well I've no interest in landless forced myself to get the achievements and the start it's boring then you become extremely overpowered very soon. Admin it's made for new players, it's impossible not become emperor because AI can't generate influence. After you become emperor the game it's over, you'll never lose the throne and vassals can't form independence or dissolution factions so it's easy mode. Even if you're bad and lose the throne you'll be back very fast. The new schemes are placebo, they barely do anything and there's no reason to run them. Everything it's easy and overpowered so it's a terrible grand strategy dlc because requires no strategy. They even went and basically removed the game over, you need to be really bad or terribly unluck to get a game over now.

[@Aq_3]

@@sarsante for your first point, It's like complaining about how your shovel dig the same way all the time the importance isn't the shovel but what is after the digging and what is after the "digging" is the possibility to : reclaim a lost kingdom, become a mercenary and keep the region your in inside a perpetual state of chaos, become a missionary and try to expand your faith and be remembered by all as a great missionary, who expanded the faith far and wide, revive a dead faith, save you people from a foreign rule and became landed to lead your nation to glory (or not XD), became a great conqueror and create an empire with a lastign legacy on the regional landscape, became an explorer compiling book about many monuments far and wide, became a destroyer of empire, became a kingmaker, became a king of banditry, became a city builder, became the founder of an influencial dynasty botyh culturaly and geopoliticaly by changing the world landscape forever and establish an unexpected contender as the new top dog, levy the outcast and establish a bandit era in an area, ending an era in an area you created to make place for new oportunties and see your impact on the region, play as the founder of the assasins and destroy entire region and make your religion a new great competitor, create a caliphate spanign entire region, create a enourously important dynasty from the vey base of existance and also create yoru own saga. And anyway to tell you i wasn't playing suboptimaly but i still managed to get a game over multiple time so either your too much of a tryharder or your overestimating the easy part of it because yes it is easy but game ovver you can still have. and for your admin critic I wanna tell you one thing. do you reallize they weren't eigth ton of dynasty in the empire ? well that because they wwere stable and the scheme i see them mostly ofr the vassals as for the emperor he can seriously been depose if either he bget a catastrophic defeat historically like manzikert and alos the empire i see it always in civil war so have we really the same game ?!