EU V Release Tuesday

Sometimes the early versions of these games have some imbalanced stuff that makes them playable for me

For example with crusader kings 3, I could move armies instantly across continents. Like from Egypt to Sicily with no downtime. Was extremely broken and I managed to disband the Holy Roman Empire as a Muslim caliphate. Also took me 10 or so playthroughs to win, still.

They eventually patched that and I lost interest


Anyways, thanks for the heads up OP. I’ll keep an eye on this one

CK3 also just got the Chinese expansion.

Map goes all the way to Japan now and added in a shite ton of new govts and other shite.

Essentially an entire new game now

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so I feel like I’m only a year or two away from picking it up

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Nah that point is now. Go ahead and jump in. Won’t be any more DLC for the level of this one.

That’s true and not to mention the dlc sometimes dramatically changes the game.

From what I read at the Paradox forum it does seem to be fairly feature rich, I’m sure there will be bugs and patches so not sure if I’m a day one or closer to Christmas.

Will be playing as soon as I get home from work tomorrow, I've been looking forward to release since they began showing the development process almost two years ago

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I’m always excited about paradox releases; I them wait half a decade for a reasonable amount of the dlc to release before I’m willing to buy it

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thought it was just me.

Decided to buy the game this evening, figured I’d do it eventually so why wait.

Slowly working my way through the Naples tutorial, lot of information and tooltips, I know I’ll need to play, fail, and play again to get a handle on it but I’m enjoying it so far.

Has a Victoria 3 feeling with resources, inputs, pops and their wanted goods. Estates are still there as are Government Reforms, both of which feel familiar and yet deeper, like the consequences of your choices can lead to catastrophe if not handled well. Though that will probably change when more familiar with the systems.

Map to me looks good. Victoria 3/Imperator with the towns growing as you develop, I like those details. Uses characters like CK and Victoria 3 but definitely leans more Vicky 3 than a RP like CK3.

I have an army…I don’t understand recruiting yet. Appointed a general and admiral, 2 cabinet members, and set some road building. Started some resource buildings too. Set my research which so far seems like an active choice akin to Civ or Victoria rather than EU4s system of mana, development, hit milestones.

Also sliders have returned. I never played EU1 but did play FtG and EU 3 and I do like the slider system. Automation for taxes (and other tasks it seems) exists if you want to set it and forget it.

Performance for me is good so far. Can run speed 5 with few hiccups. I will probably upgrade to 32gb of RAM but was planning that anyway. No CtD, no freezes or stutters yet.

Having fun so far. Will try to answer any questions and look forward to others experiences and tips.