TEXAS is the HARDEST NATION in VICTORIA 3

[@Kasaaz]

It's almost like Paradox should just admit that the first 6 months to a year is Early Access and actually have people involved. Would be better for the games and better for the community, imo.

[@Gustav_Kuriga]

Agreed.

[@kevinwesterlund732]

I am going to file a case with the consumer ombudsman in Stockholm. The devs said during the Egypt stream the game wouldn't be broken on release.

[@Gustav_Kuriga]

@@kevinwesterlund732 You would lose that. The game is not broken in a manner that would warrant their involvement. It is playable to a large extent, it is just that some of the mechanics are not well thought out and needed player testing beyond what their QA department could provide.

[@juliusbeutler7090]

Still, I'm glad that it's out. Got it at a keyshop for a fair price and even if it has a lot of issues, it's fun to play

[@brunoqueiroz2759]

Honestly the game is super fun even tho its a bit broken right now. That just makes me excited for whats to come

[@lapisdragon1237]

As an American, this is my 5th day of asking Laith to continue his Victoria 3 Tunisia campaign. Edit: Thank you for your likes. It's rare for a comment I make gets more than 3.

[@skyleranderson4613]

pls laith

[@ErtugrulK]

PLEASE LAITH OMG IMGONNASTABYOU

[@makiskanyt9269]

I agree

[@thewalkingtree7077]

@@ErtugrulK KZbin wanted to translate that into English btw

[@alex_ho]

Can Tunis into Carthage?

[@quinnhutson5566]

20:28 As a Canadian, hearing Laith try to say "Saskatchewan" was the highlight of my day

[@grampaseri]

Texan rural folk demanding closed borders while starving is peak Texas.

[@Darth_Conans]

Well, if you're having trouble finding food maybe bringing more people in isn't a great idea.

[@grampaseri]

@@Darth_Conans Except they needed people to work the land to feed them. The problem was under population.

[@ItzSpinningArrow]

I'm starting to think Laith likes being choked from the amount of times he's talked about it in this video

[@kaw57_]

oh he wouldn't be the only one

[@dudelove8662]

You learn to enjoy it

[@Femciolente]

As a Mexican, i feel as i have to remember something...

[@Femciolente]

@Matheus Alves THE A L A M O

[@foleymcfoley9720]

we turned that mofo into a taco bell

[@makiskanyt9269]

They musta forgot 😓

[@sk00k]

As a Texan, not sure what...

[@GigaGorilla348]

As a Texan, I remember

[@spiderclone101]

A minor thing that I wish Paradox would do, is allow the flag to change when you do The Lone Star State Event. While the blue flag with the white star was the official flag of Texas for a few years, the classic one that the Republic and then state lasted for 6, and honestly just looks better

[@Gustav_Kuriga]

Something I find absolutely infuriating about this game is how trade ships are handled as a collective group, so if the leader of the market is in a war and has ships sunk during raids, even if you're not involved in the war your trade will tank. Combine this with wars sometime going on for ages, and you can have your economy collapse even though your ships shouldn't be affected by the war.

[@brutusthebear9050]

Damn, really makes you want to end that war, right? Why should your economy crash and citizens die because, I dunno, the Archduke of Austia was assassinated. (In case it wasn't clear, your complaint is exactly why the US joined World War 1. It's good that this is in Vicky 3)

[@Gustav_Kuriga]

@@brutusthebear9050 That would make sense... if I was actually trading with the nations in question. But A) in your example you could say the US was the "leader" of the market in Victoria 3, and B) in my example, I am a smaller country with literally no connection to the warring countries (not trading with any of them besides Qing, and that war is with Prussia who has no territories close to Qing and a far smaller fleet). Prussia shouldn't even be able to project its fleet as far as it does in game to the point where it is sinking the entirety of the Qing merchant marine (not even mine). Furthermore, as the game works currently, I can't intervene in the middle of a war as it is, I have to enter in the diplomatic play stage if I'm even eligible, which is a very opaque process. So even if what you were saying were true, I would not be able to act in a way that represents the situation in reality that you described. By the way, that is only the stated reason for joining the war. In actuality it was an excuse when for much of the war we were trading with both sides. A combination of propaganda, the Zimmerman telegram, and Woodrow Wilson's political maneuvering lead to the US joining on the British side.

[@aidenaune7008]

because they are using their ships to buy and sell goods too. if they lose ships, you lose trade, even with other nations in the market who will more than happily buy all your exports, most of it still goes through the main nation's ports before going to the secondary nations, and is still carried by the main nation's boats.

[@simonmay1671]

That feeling when you earn more than 1936 Vic3 Texas 😎

[@karstenkunneman5219]

3:00 The parties didn't switch, they just shifted their target demographics in the late 60's.

[@MyFunnyVids888]

29:29 laith I've also seen a lot of complaining about that where they just assume if they throw enough bodies at them eventually they'll win which in victoria you're in the time where the largest advances in medicine and warfare in a short span of time are taking place. So when you're using muzzleloaders and the enemy is using rifles of course you're gonna lose cuz you fire infinitely slower and they have range on you as well

[@nolemon_]

You should try Bahrain, they start with the lowest gdp

[@zjreviews4288]

I see your Texas and raise you Krakow

[@Tonythetrucker1979]

Love the series you're putting out. Its good to hear your pets aren't throwing paws! Keep your hands up!

[@ericmackey9528]

Just watched your Texas play-through. I agree, it is hard. In my play-through, I was able to stay independent through the full century. I did this by playing France against the USA to get the later to back down from their Diplo Play against me. I also Found a custom union with France to be much more stable than yours with USA was. At least until I became more of a threat to them as another Great Power, but by then I was strong enough(and properly prepared) to run my own Market. I was able to beat Mexico time and again by amphibious assault into Veracruz and capturing Mex. Capital as well as most of its Southern States. Ended up at 3rd highest Great power in 1936 after capping most of Central and South America.

[@Thecultofwrestling]

How do you get France against usa

[@dustindavis3537]

As a Texan, I approve of the 10%. No matter the race, creed or religion, a Texan is a Texan.

[@ambeatch]

Unless they live in Austin. Then they are Californian?

[@dustindavis3537]

@@ambeatch People from Austin are... Strange folk. Though, even if misguided, they're still Texans. We just need to pull up our bootstraps and come to an understanding with them.

[@TheMonkeystick]

I just did a good Indian Territories run, all I did is to go for professional army, become a US state, boom your eco, get shrapnel arty and 40 divisions, and go to war with the Americans while getting a protective EU power (usually the UK or France) to defend you. I actually 1v1'd the US for independence, but I got lucky with an incredible general. I took Texas and a treaty port in Louisiana, and actually got them to agree to a customs union with me while I conquered all of Mexico later The other way is to refuse statehood, go for professional army, get good relations with EU powers to defend yourself, and conquer mexico (about 20 divisions will do it) and basically become them later.

[@oppionatedindividual8256]

You can’t say ‘EU power’ in place of European power, it’s illogical and not standard practice, I was utterly confuddled.

[@burtreynolds8030]

@@oppionatedindividual8256 that’s all it takes to confuse you?

[@TheMonkeystick]

@@oppionatedindividual8256 give yourself some more credit, you figured it out in the end 🙂

[@racecloud7568]

You: TEXAS IS THE HARDEST NATION Me playing single-province Deseret: Mormin' Time

[@Ahria256]

Me playing Hawaii......

[@CharlieEarthRoast]

First time I played Texas was super easy for some reason. The next time was hard. lol. I didn't get the Santa Ana was captured event before they took over. Also, as a Texan, I HATE that you can't keep the Lone Star Flag.

[@Pandemiclui]

why does it feel like paradox specifically wanted to start in 1836 to have texas in the game.

[@akunokami1290]

Would love to see you try a German minor in a campaign

[@misterperson3469]

To clarify: you can dogpile people already involved in a diplo play, you just have to declare neutrality if it hasnt fired yet

[@IronpenWorldbuilding]

Bro should’ve made Anti-Texas. Tons of universities and sky high literacy and a anarchist council republic. Also no police and graduated taxes. Along with wage subsidies and a command economy. Full women’s rights too.

[@TungstenArm]

As someone actually from Texas I want to try something similar to this when I eventually get Vic3. Abolish slavery as fast as possible, become multicultural, well-educated, etc. Plus, in accordance with first Texas President Houston’s ties with the Cherokee, ally the Cherokee and support them.

[@SpiritofTexas1590]

In my Ironman Texas game I was a split country with the US controlling half of my lands. The US got stuck in a literal 60 year war with Mexico, who was backed by austria and Spain. I was stuck in devastation the entire time...

[@dunkelheit5055]

He said he is playing the hardest Nation with the actual hardest Nation literally at his northern border...

[@oppionatedindividual8256]

Really? Indian Territory?

[@2009worstyearever]

@@oppionatedindividual8256 yea because there is no expansion path and if you dont get someone to help liberate you the US will try to force annex you pretty quickly

[@dunkelheit5055]

@@oppionatedindividual8256 belive me, it's very hard. Like Texas, you haveno population and no GDP. You migth have better numbers then quite a few countries, but your situation makes any expansion almost impossible. Getting Colonial Laws early on (You don't have them at the start) migth mean you get 1 more state at maximum, you will still not be able to advance anywhere else, since you are a puppet of the USA. You usually also cannot rebel against the USA since you don't have the population to figth them, even if a major power backs you, they will still just take your territory and slowly win. The most reliable way to actually do this is by getting Mexico into your independence War, pray that you somehow get your independence, then take Texas (if they were eaten along the way, you just have to restart) and lastly expand into Mexico. The Nation is not the worst start, but it is quite a lot worse than almost all starts. It beats the 3 Nations in the Yemen Region since if you build a single Battalion you can take over the other 2 and then figth other easy Neighbors. It beats African Nations for the smae reason. Even the smallest German minor can if they manouver properly get support of one great Power that helps them Win, so it is very much among the hardest starts. Edit: You cannot get a Colonial Law in the beginning since you don't have Colonization invented, so it's even harder.

[@oppionatedindividual8256]

@@dunkelheit5055 okay, thx for the article :-)

[@thoralexander9387]

Today, Laith discovered the essence of being an American, we make guns and Ammo first, and everything else second. He's taking Larping to a whole new level.

[@anamateursoundeditor4579]

Sweet video dude! Keep it up.

[@heathclark318]

Well Democrats and slavery kind of go hand and hand

[@Cohor101]

There is a small country called Croatia in Austria, I challenge you to play as Croatia, become independet, destroy Austria, drive ottomans back, have full control over old yugoslavia territories, try to also be in top 10 powers at the end of the challenge. Thanks for everything you do :D Have a good day. And if you by any chance find this easy I can give a few extra rules I guess something like "You must stay monarchy always, cannot trade with the austrians and ottomans (embargo em pretty much), cannot ally the austrians, ottomans, serbs, montenegro and russians. I think thats it. It could be too much even for such a CHAD like you". I do apologise for not saying it right away this is for Victoria 3. Day 11 of asking. Come on Laith I know youre seeing this I have no plan on stopping :D.

[@reanukeeves9852]

I’m pretty sure you want to export as much as possible and inflate the amount of the product so you can even put the buy and sell orders to the same amount that way your buildings make more money off of it therefore have more money to pay their workers and make more money

[@jamiejames416]

When do we get to see Laith do some irl martial arts content? I'd especially like to see him try out HEMA or maybe HAMA to get in touch with his Tunisian side.

[@realAndysan]

mans the happiest person ever to play vicky 3, god bless his soul.

[@Kasaaz]

To this day Texas has its own power grid. It's not a very good one, but it's all their own.

[@demokeyan9601]

I mean it not California's that need to roll blackout every heatwave

[@MYPSYAI]

Texas is literally the most advanced power grid in the world.

[@Kasaaz]

@@MYPSYAI As long as it stays nice and warm.

[@demokeyan9601]

@@Kasaaz We literally had the coldest recorded temp in the area at the time and we have records dating back to before the republic so you can't really blame us for bring blindsighted that *ONE* time

[@Kasaaz]

@@demokeyan9601 I'm mostly just giving you a hard time. I just wanted to point it out because I think it's interesting. It sacrifices redundancy and outside help with generation for complete control. From the outside, it seems very Texas.

[@jpanda79]

There was no party switch. It's not like Lincoln would be a Democrat or FDR a republican. Party platforms change over time but there was no "switch"

[@Thulzor]

I would like to be able to right click on a front and chose a general and order instead of picking the general, then the order and then the front.

[@mbanana23456]

I'm waiting for you to play Baharain. (Quick tip: Major powers' opinion of you is randomized, if you want to be their protectorate you can restart the game over and over until they accept.)

[@TThompson2000]

Ah yes just the most satisfying nation to play as in Victoria 3

[@Gingerclause]

I’ve noticed sometimes the American ai dies I was playing a Mexico campaign and they declared on me and I had maybe 4 troops defending the front and they had like 100 and they would not push it drained their economy and they eventually took a white peace but they just didn’t push which was weird

[@FrederikJolle]

Nothing like baking and waking to a laith video

[@Ari-ez1vj]

I had an incredible game as texas where i conquered the entirety of mexico and the west coast of the USA; becoming a protectorate of france as soon as you deny USA's scripted request for dominion makes the campaign 50 million times easier. Ended as the #1 world power and a 1.5 billion dollar GDP. definitely took a few tries though!

[@j1r2000]

hearing leith pronounce saskatchewan delt me 2d6 mental damage

[@wkent02]

Laith begins the video explaining the marks on his face from sparring. At least we know he does read the comment section, because there will always be that one guy trying to clown.

[@Ryoxany]

love the Vikky 3 man, it's been great

[@EsperothX]

Vicky 3 is a super fun game, but a buggy mess still. I have a game where Texas is still independent and revolted against itself. That war has been going on for 40 years.

[@dr.nepper2936]

I hope they fix the AI in wars soon. Many of the countries in my games have been split by civil wars yet both sides just sit there and do nothing.

[@KikomochiMendoza]

7:35 tbf importing all the goods, manufacturing it, and selling it is the ultimate ecomomic plan during the Victorian era.

[@SwagMessiahOfficial]

What I did playing Texas is I peaced out after successfully defending and instantly became an American protectorate. I built my economy up without construction centers (because there’s nothing being produced in Texas and construction sector government wages can tank your economy). I would wait for Mexico to colonize the rest of Texas and through about three diplomatic plays I eventually got myself New Mexico and the rest of Texas. My endgame score was 2.8 M GDP, 897k population, 43.17% Literacy and 13.4 standard of living. I also ended up the first hyperprogressive nation with banning child labor, no slavery, private health insurance and many more by only 1950. All thanks to suppressing, bolstering and research.

[@loopyguy7611]

i had bigger army better army and won, i had bigger army lesser army and won, i had smaller army better army and lost, i had smaller army lesser army and lost. idk how the combat picks what to use when and how number that seem better dont win. If you have any insight, i would apperciate it. i think its combat width but nothing on the UI suggests that except for battlions at start of battle

[@derekskelton4187]

There's not really any need to stay so loyal to the American market. You'd lose money temporarily, but you'd make it back rather quickly. And failing that England and France are also great options

[@cheeki3998]

Can someone/Laith explain how morale works in vicky3? It's eluding me

[@mr.paperbag771]

@@virileagitur7403 If you have not noticed, Victoria 3 has been really vague with tooltips and explaining stuff

[@cheeki3998]

@@virileagitur7403 the only thing that I know effects morale for sure is supply and that's only because I was reading the tool tip for supply lines when you naval invade. It mentions something about supply there. Other than that, idk what increases or decreases it or how to keep it high 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@cheeki3998]

@@virileagitur7403 I have lots of problems with it and idfk why. Fighting a land battle adjacent to my capital state with superior numbers versus an enemy with the same tech as me and I still lose because all the battles are fought when my armies have like 10% morale. Idk man. Sometimes it's like this and then sometimes not.

[@cheeki3998]

@@virileagitur7403 they were irregular troops XD what supplies do they need?

[@curom6593]

Really feel like diplomatic interests need a rework as well. As a minir power not being able to interract with your neighbours because they are in another region and you don't have the ability to set interests is stupid and severely limits you when playing as minors.

[@Lem0nsquid]

Texan Cuba is the move

[@ardeeseus]

Still waiting for you to play the Philippines to its independence and global domination.

[@patsfreak]

I feel like heavily investing in arms manufacturing is role playing Texas correctly

[@TexGaming]

Laith..... the parties never switched... that's an annoyingly common misconception

[@Ahria256]

How is it a misconception when it's been extensively documented? The D party held conserv values, the R the opposite. Party is just a name, not the inherent belief system of a group. So tell me if they never switched, why today, or 50 years ago don't Ds hold conserv values yet Rs do? I have yet to see anyone to explain that to me. They even show this in the game, even pdx did their research.

[@AM-cm2kj]

​@@Ahria256 Economically, the Democrat party was most of its history supportive of economic intervention. Republicans mostly supported a freer market. There was no switch for these policies. Socially, the Democrats did a complete 180 on their white supremacist and conservative platform. The Republicans stopped progressing and stayed more meritocratic with some conservative elements.

[@juicebox6581]

So idk if this is because of 1.5 but after 1 battle i lost all of texas. This happens every playthru now. Literally unplayable.

[@jackboehm8408]

Love he says 'they switch later on.' There's no point ever that the parties switched; One just realized that they were losing 13% of the vote and needed to ramp up their propaganda.

[@dbix11]

Im obsessed with trying to get Texas to work, i cant seem to get the conomy going.. construction centers are so stupidly expensive even when i flood the market with wood and fabric beforehand. Oh well

[@ruben.b6215]

what happend to the other social streamers

[@Ampasss]

They passed, rip.

[@darkily9509]

Laith absorbed them to be better at Paradox games

[@burtreynolds8030]

Will(?) is still around and the other guy wanted to pursue other things

[@snomcultist189]

What happened to Tom?

[@Kraken9911]

I'm just finishing my Texas run but I did take statehood at the beginning. Not sure if it counts really. I've almost maxed out the population employment can't expand much anymore in the 1920s. 106m GDP, 7+m pop #2 literacy #1 SOL #9 GDP The entire United States is 160M GDP so I'm basically their entire economy.

[@farmcatjenkins9629]

Spoken like a true Texan

[@tiffanywyatt5137]

Quick question could I play as any state? And gain independence? I understand it will be hard but I find that interesting if you could

[@Indignation211]

Sadly no, though there are a few states that can be released as independent countries, namely California, Utah, Michigan and Louisiana

[@wennick4859]

@@Indignation211 Michigan can be released as an independent country?

[@tiffanywyatt5137]

@@Indignation211 man that's a bummer. It would of been cool to a be a state and ally with other states to leave and make a new nation.

[@deathgnomes]

In Civ V I use a map editor to space out civs because the game's placement blows.

[@NON155]

AM JUST GOING TO WAIT FOR LIBERIA

[@Trever101]

Laith could beat up those people who say he uses debug menu

[@jpanda79]

It's "ka-why-nine" It's the stuff in tonic water in America.

[@drcoonass]

I may have to buy Victoria 3 now that I see it drew Bayou Terrebonne

[@unionnet27]

Jiujitsu!!! Awesome! I need to get back!

[@yvak1232]

I managed to raise the population by imigration and the GDP got real high very fast too. My hard struggle was raising money though. After the second bankruptcy I need to get this fixed. As a member of the american market I recognized that the AI steering the US market is kind of dumb. They keep exporting tons of stuff already on shortage

[@forresterscalan3921]

As a Texan I demand for Texan culture to return

[@lionofpersis]

As a Texan, I demand he conquer California and settle their lands.

[@TheWolfboy180]

@@lionofpersis man, texas and cali are like romeo and juliet fr

[@kangaroocaliphate1577]

Dear Texan can you please annihilate California? Thank you on behalf of the rest of the world.

[@haritos90]

Build some naval bases to declare interests! Would be also useful for naval invasion on Cuba 😅

[@katmannsson]

I just joined the British market in my texas run

[@calebsutton6798]

I want to see state flags like a flag for each state

[@wildman0607]

I played Texas once and I messed up and took a peace deal with Mexico and I was winning the war and I just wanted to get out of the war cause economy wasn't working with me at the time and thought it was the best thing to do to try and fix it before I went back to war with Mexico but by the time I was thinking I was good Mexico was ready for me and I lost :(

[@sahilhossain8204]

Hmm yes lore momentum of Vic 3 the lone star states

[@hugonilsson6067]

You dont need the US market tbh I completely surpassed the american market as an independant texas, its a bit rough and slow in the beginning but the key is just a constant greener grass campain, then i also managed to stay in a war with the US for an eternity which allowed me to grow strong while they forgot they were at war for years, (which was good because if i wouldnt have been at war with them they would have declared several times as they did after the war, but since i was constantly in the war and they were also in a similarly eternal bugged war with mexico i was fine)

[@TheRusty]

"After years of cultural and political turmoil between us and Mexico, with the rights of our citizens being increasingly curtailed..." Hmmm wonder what "rights" that was...

[@juanpablosotorojas7319]

Try the indian territory. I've found it really difficult

[@Ahria256]

Hawaii is even harder lol

[@jackayoub7250]

try to form the german empire as independent luxembourg, even try to just form north germany as luxembourg

[@zachmoore6084]

Happy Texan sounds

[@CobraForce007]

Play mosquito kingdom next

[@asus380]

Continue?

[@frosty848]

Oh the party's switched? when

[@TungstenArm]

HELL YEAH MY HOME STATE LETS GO TEXAS!!! INSHALLAH WE WILL DEFEAT SANTA ANNA! Also to your point abt that graph, modern Texas is actually quite diverse, at least in the big cities like Houston and Dallas. Austin’s very white, but San Antonio and El Paso are majority Hispanic. It’s not exactly the all-white backwater you often see it depicted as.

[@krasnallom]

When Kraków in Vic3?

[@Albukhshi]

@ 4:10 Well, I suppose they followed my and Sheridan's view of Texas: They'd rather rent it out and live in Hell...

[@king_of_sin]

full texas playthrough anyone?

[@Not_Octopus]

Back in the day Laith, democrats were a bit more like republicans today. They did this really interesting (kinda) swap, so the democratic party winning in Texas in 1836 isn't that rare. Lincoln was part of the republican party.

[@motto1834]

The party switch is mostly a fake story. It was a few select people here and there and wasn't a widespread phenomenon.

[@fareflight2029]

The party swap isn't that black and white. Democrats and Republicans have definetly changed but you have to ask when? Did the party swap happen before FDR? FDR kept the military seperated and was most certainly not someone who fought for civil rights while also turning the US into a large welfare state. It's easy for democrats to say "the parties swapped" to seperate themselves from the party's history of extreme racism and try to deflect that to the Republicans. In the end it's not so much historical fact but more so political manuvering.

[@caesar-dynastysports]

@@motto1834 It's not a fake story at all. It was literally Richard Nixon's strategy to get elected. Many states, ruby red states, in the South still have more registered Democrats than they do Republicans but voting trends would you lead you to believe the opposite. You can see the change in the GOP's platform beginning in 1948. The Republican Party began to espouse support for states' rights, for example. That's a sharp departure from the Party of Lincoln. In many Southern states, ruby red Southern states, there are still more registered Democrats than registered Republicans. Cast your eyes back to last week and tell me if that makes sense to you as all of these states elect Republican supermajorities. Texas has had complete Republican leadership for 27 years and majority leadership for 40. What do you think happened? All those Democrats decided to stop voting for their party of choice because they didn't want to be liberal anymore? Or the more likely explanation of the Democrats who had been in power changed their political affiliation to Republican and conservative Southern Democrats aren't Democrats anymore? Alabama Governor Kay Ivey was a Democrat until 2002. Ivey has never been a liberal. In 1957 and 1965, it was Southern Democrats blocking Civil Rights legislation. In 2022, the Texas Republican Party included repealing Civil Rights legislation as part of their platform. Southern Democrats were against Brown. Who is the party of school choice (code for segregation) in 2022? Hmmmm.... Parties change platforms all the time anyway. Republican messiah Ronald Reagan is the reason that California has the gun laws it does (the 1967 Mulford Act if you want sources). Unless your stance is the parties didn't switch, just all the people in them. Basically, Democrats up until FDR were conservatives and Republicans were liberals. Now, Democrats are "liberals" and Republicans are conservatives. Claiming anything else is just false. But, sure. It's a fake story. As people always say, go to a Klan rally and tell them that they're Democrats in 2022 and see how accepting of that they are.

[@burtreynolds8030]

@@motto1834 I don’t think there was a switch between parties either, but the Democratic Party absolutely did a 180 on the policies they promote, it took a while but they used to be the baddies, and still are according to who you’re talking to

[@Copperhell144]

@@motto1834 You can look at an image of the 1860 Presidential Election and see the North voting overwhelmingly Republican and the South voting Democrat. Seems like there absolutely was a switch over time to me.

[@kylemcknight1775]

The democrats and republican switch never happened

[@hansmercier2809]

Scottish Texan, Y'all laddie. Can you imagine the accent lol

[@combrade-t]

About the whole reloading for debug mode - I think it's stupid and I don't like how it's a thing in the new PDX titles, I don't get why it's not an easily accessible just hotkey like it is in, for example, eu4 and then the other stuff that is beyond just console is not toggleable with having console. Personally I originally learnt EU4 and Enjoyed the game when I was crap at it by using console. so, yk. It's a tool that normal players will use and I can't see why they've changed it to make it more annoying to get to. Plus if you don't care about playing ironman you can use it to make more interesting scenarios with changing alliances etc. etc.

[@burtreynolds8030]

Because I don’t think it’s a feature meant for the player, it’s meant for bug testers and developers to change things in-game, it’s like the old dev rooms in fallout with all the op gear

[@jirikurto3859]

@@burtreynolds8030 I think it is because it's a feature many players use and many websites are created to explain functioning within the console for players themselves. They just decided to take away that feature based on what exactly?

[@combrade-t]

@@burtreynolds8030 Okay and? just because that's the intended audience doesn't mean that's going to be all who use it. And they actively put in more code such that you will have this stuff on only if you launch the game with the debug code, rather than just e.g. EU4 where it just won't work if you have ironman mode on. There was no reason to change it as such, because people can enjoy playing with a feature even if it's something not necessarily intended to be played with normally - and it doesn't make sense to put needless roadblocks in the way of that. besides, if it is for bug testers - finding the bugs is going to be due to playing the game and interacting with all its systems for a lot of time, in which there's no reason to subject to the ugly debug info at all times instead making it easy to toggle on/off to check if something odd is going on.

[@jaysefgames1155]

Maybe you'd be able to react to prices better if you didn't live eternally on speed 5.

[@kooldudematt1]

As a Texan it pains me to say this but the developers put _virtually no thought_ into _Texas_ in this game. They couldn't even be assed to do the borders properly nor did they research how to Texan war for independence happened in real life. They also were too stupid, ignorant, or uncaring to understand how Texas became a state (in real life history, Texas was not simply permitted to join the US because of its slaves and the balance of slave and free states that the US had during the actual historical period of time was strived to be kept even). I'm glad you had fun doing this Laith because in my own playthroughs I became so disgusted with the absolutely anti-historical and frankly malicious treatment of my birthplace that I stopped playing it and moved on to other countries.

[@SangoProductions213]

Paradox knew the sentiments about the war... months before release. Sort of like how those behind the Sonic movie knew the sentiments about *that thing* months before release. The difference? The Sonic movie was fixed.

[@Prodigi50]

You can’t just reverse course on the entire war system without delaying the game by almost a year. People would’ve complained about that too.

[@burtreynolds8030]

Did you miss the recent dev diaries talking about all the changes coming to war, big patch 1.1 is like 50% just war, it’s a little harder to fix an entire game mechanic than to shrink the eyes of a cgi character

[@IDKismyname]

as a Texan, I approve, and yes you are right we are very smart.

[@YungMoomin]

obligatory "thanks for playing my country, Laith" comment

[@michaeltully3268]

there was no switch

[@gzlanferdini]

try playing the Piratini in southern Brazil

[@EETDUK]

Am I the only one who likes the repeating flag occupation?

[@Elkulan]

I think Laith is trying to cover that he is getting abused to play map games