Season's Greetings from the Victoria Team

It's almost the end of the year, and the Victoria dev team are here to spread some holiday cheer. Pull up a stool to the fire and let's listen in on what they are looking forward to in 2023!
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[@woomy8971]

I am seasoned and greeted

[@nathinoon]

Of the new things, I'm most hyped about the music 😄 The soundtrack is great but you can only listen to "Glooooory to the queen" so often...

[@BarbarosTheBarbarian]

Hi and thanks for the game and your efforts to improve it. As for me, the most important problem right now is the fact that 9 out of 10 times army generals return home after a battle-front is closed instead of moving to the adjacent province to continue fighting. And it takes almost 2 months for the general to return again, by which time the enemy re-conquers the entire area. If you can solve this and perhaps give players more control over warfare in general, the game would be so much more enjoyable.

[@maniaxman13]

Happy holidays guys! take care! :)

[@SupremeNoob3231]

Merry Christmas guys

[@DattoSaid]

Merry Christmas!

[@dimitricanonne1278]

Happy DLC to you !

[@amshermansen]

Hello Debbie, Martin and Mikael. And a merry christmas :D

[@canceledlogic7656]

Victoria 4 when?

[@Holland1994D]

Nah, I've no faith in Paradox to deliver a good game anymore.

[@betelgezaa]

Nice boys -)

[@arkad6329]

IDK if any PDX guys will read this, but Vic 3 is a defiantly a PDX staple for me. It needs some work, and TLC. But I defiantly see myself playing this game for years.

[@johnkyle8754]

You guys are the best well the game is the best but you all are great

[@NNDragon70]

I love the game. I understand people are upset that it is not the most polished game out there, but what game is nowadays? I'm not saying it's excusable but every game that releases nowadays is a beta. The new Call of Duty still has more bugs than a cheap motel. I believe they are playing the long game. This game will be amazing after many patches and updates, heck I've already put 300+ hours in and that feels light. This has turned into a rant, so might as well put it all out there, my wife left me 7 years ago and I'm still not comfortable when I sleep alone. At first a body pillow was enough but then I needed something holding my hand. I started with an oven mitt and held that for 2 years and 3 months but eventually bought a mannequin hand. It was weird just having a hand in my bed so after another 2 years I got a full mannequin. You can imagine how scary it was to wake up to this thing sometimes, but also sometimes comforting. Eventually the mannequin hand started to wear away because I sweat a lot in my sleep so I guess the salt tore away at it? So I bought a life sized like robot lady or whatever just to hold her hand. Eventually I met this nice woman at work and we started seeing each other. I thought that she could maybe get me out of my funk and eventually became convinced she could be "the one". I stopped sleeping with the robot thing in the bed and would just think about the conversations I would have with "work woman" and that was enough to let me fall asleep. I proposed to her 7 months to the day after her aunt had died and she said yes! She moved in and things were better than they had ever been. The time we spent together was unmatched, like nothing I had with my previous wife. Waking up holding her hand every day was the best part of my life. One night when we were getting ready for bed I got the old bot out to show my wife and laugh about what I used to do. I was in bed under the covers with the bot waiting when my wife walked in the bedroom. "Oh, where is my cuddle bear? Who's gonna get your belly?" Then she lifted the sheet and saw the bot. She fell backwards and hit her head on our dresser, screaming as she fell. "Are you ok?!" I exclaimed. She jumped up and yelled "what the..." well she said a lot of bad stuff during this time... I explained that it was a coping tool that I used years ago before her and she didn't believe me. She was convinced that I "wanted them both" and that she wanted no part of it. I begged and pleaded, even tried to show her the receipt but she wouldn't have it. She blocked me on everything and called into my work to tell them what happened. I wasn't fired but I couldn't work there anymore, they all looked at me like I was a weirdo. My grandpa left me an old ford mustang when he died, so I sold it for 25k and have been living off of that ever since. I love the game but just want them to clean up some of the small stuff you know?

[@ilyaskeskin3478]

that's hilarious!!

[@TamanskayaDivision]

the copium 💀

[@Holland1994D]

Players are dropping really fast, no shit. The game is just not done yet, not at all.

[@TheFadZero]

Are yall going to fix performance any time soon?

[@bigsarge2085]

✌

[@DjImpossibility]

I absolutely love the game! Are you still going to finish the Mexico playthrough on Twitch? Also, wish Paul a merry christmas for me and tell him that I wish for a market rework for my christmas present!

[@MASTERMIND-mr6er]

PONY TALE......

[@TheCetarius]

They need a teleprompter

[@Taskicore]

for Christmas can you all add war to the game please

[@linmanfu913]

If you combined Martin and Mikael's hair, then you have would complete coverage of your head 😝

[@therealoldnosey8689]

This game has an abundance of potential and it's pretty much all being squandered

[@johnbono2384]

pretty cute! please fix the game!

[@anton_melnikov]

The game shouldn’t have been released in the current state of development. I’ve played 50 hours and I don’t want to return to this game. Game lacks depth and flavor, has a lot of bugs. War is random. Naval system is just a joke. Enactment of a reform is based on random. Economy is just maxing out your construction. Pops migrating in millions to some place in Africa. Not to mention game performance past 1900.

[@thedave8097]

Guys what is going on with the game? The war, combat system, and pop systems are completely ruined even when compared to Vic2. Not to mention the state and unplayability of multiplayer.

[@achgelisfocke-wulf6851]

Will 1.2 completely remove war, because it seems that this is the direction of content adding, coming from vic 2?

[@Hacker_Kamyko]

Shush troll

[@japanisch508]

I already do that on my own. Whenever i have a war, i console commanding myself out of it, because its that disinteresting.

[@1HUSEINKAPETAN1]

Music pack? Are. You. Kidding. Me? The game is literaly a fraud! Never buying a Paradox game on release ever again. Your loyal fans deserve an apology!

[@adampope5107]

Lol a fraud? I hope you landed on your fainting couch.

[@Laaxus]

Yeah, why are musicians not fixing the ui... They truly lacks motivation

[@dr.glitchgo8181]

1337x and Koalageddon are your friends

[@peter_de_Jong817]

Maybe just fix the game?

[@futhington]

It's Christmas dude.

[@achgelisfocke-wulf6851]

whhhhaaaaattt? no we need more music and touching the map, fuck the players

[@anton_melnikov]

This game sucks Vicky 2 forever thanks to modders

[@japanisch508]

But it dont have to stay like that.

[@user-rg4cq4yb1f]

Merry Christmas!