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Alright, I got Grand Duchy and Relentless Push East! Next roll gave me Core-Fu, so that's gonna be fun. I'm now at 90 achievements out of 318.
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Core-Fu down, that was fairly easy. Next is Six Nations. Huh, I thought I already had that one.
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did they patch the game yet or are we still waiting for the post levi unfucking to occur
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MonsieurChoc posted:Core-Fu down, that was fairly easy. Next is Six Nations. Huh, I thought I already had that one. Are you really going to keep updating us for every single achievement you get? Can’t wait to read another 200 of these posts
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Mr. Grinch posted:did they patch the game yet or are we still waiting for the post levi unfucking to occur It's been patched like 5 times, it's just that most of the mechanics of Leviathan are loving awful.
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my watch continues I guess Thanks
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Mr. Grinch posted:my watch continues I guess You are gonna be waiting a long time, everything is working as PDX intends. They fixed all the lovely bugs and such but the brokenness or concentrating dev and free favors are "features".
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Wafflecopper posted:Are you really going to keep updating us for every single achievement you get? Can’t wait to read another 200 of these posts I hope they do, legitimately 
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Firebatgyro posted:You are gonna be waiting a long time, everything is working as PDX intends. They fixed all the lovely bugs and such but the brokenness or concentrating dev and free favors are "features". You're not wrong, but I'm surprised at how shaky the active user count looks post-expansion. Hopefully it'll motivate them to start looking at EU5 in the near future.
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It's pretty discouraging to see EU4 end up this way. Leviathan wasn't the first botched expansion, though it was certainly the worst of them.
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lol between WoW, EVE, and EU4, the last year or so has been a giant shitshow
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Wafflecopper posted:Are you really going to keep updating us for every single achievement you get? Can’t wait to read another 200 of these posts I just wanna talk EU4 without having to deal with the Deus Vult freaks in other places. I like the game, as weirdly broken as the current state is.
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EU4 is definitely shambling along like a corpse, and I hope 5 is on the cards soon after V3. But I still do love it and the current patch is perfectly fun now. Also between the insane bugs and the online nerd rage I wouldn't trade the leviathan release for the world. We almost got back to the heights of "Sunset Invasion removed my ability to feel human"
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:"Sunset Invasion removed my ability to feel human" what is this
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Also I'll probably need help from this thread when I roll some very hard achievements. The ones I got so far were pretty easy.
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Mr. Grinch posted:what is this https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/casualisation-and-streamlining.647344/ quote:October 31st, 2012 is a day I will always remember. It was the day I became cynical, bitter, and distraught. You may call it an overreaction for me to feel this way simply because of the business practices of a single video game company, but let me explain what all of this means to me.
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i can only hope to one day shock the world with my lunacy
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MonsieurChoc posted:Also I'll probably need help from this thread when I roll some very hard achievements. The ones I got so far were pretty easy.
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:How hard was Core-Fu? Its one of the ones I didnt think I'd ever bother to try because I imagine with the Ottomans right there it would be next to impossible. Extremely easy: make sure Venice loses 5 provinces (but does no cede or revoke core) during your war for independence, and then as soon as the truce is over go to war with Venice again and revoke those 5 cores. I had Ottoman as my ally so it was a piece of cake. Speaking of harder achievements, I did Six Nations in literal seconds (play as Onondaga, invite two people in your Federation, boom there you go) and now I rolled Home and Away. So I need to make Super Wales. Edit: Hmm, there's two ways to do Super Wales. I can just create a big England/UK and then abuse mechanics to give cores to Wales, or I can play as Wales from the start and conquer my way out. Second option sounds more fun but harder. I think they changed how playing as a vassal works. I bankrupted England and then when I switched to Wales I also had -3 stab. MonsieurChoc fucked around with this message at 06:19 on Jul 18, 2021 |
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MonsieurChoc posted:Edit: Hmm, there's two ways to do Super Wales. I can just create a big England/UK and then abuse mechanics to give cores to Wales, or I can play as Wales from the start and conquer my way out. Second option sounds more fun but harder. This is one I don't have either so I decided to try it out. Gave away 2 wars worth of provinces to Wales and then conquered them and released and yeah you get the same stability as the overlord apparently. Not really a huge issue I guess since the independence war kills your stab anyway.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:EU4 is definitely shambling along like a corpse, and I hope 5 is on the cards soon after V3. But I still do love it and the current patch is perfectly fun now. You'll always have Imperator Rome, it won't get any worse!
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ilitarist posted:You'll always have Imperator Rome, it won't get any worse! I've genuinely switched over to Imperator for my mapgaming fix, since it's significantly better than EU4 is now, and arguably better than EU4 ever was.
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PittTheElder posted:You're not wrong, but I'm surprised at how shaky the active user count looks post-expansion. Hopefully it'll motivate them to start looking at EU5 in the near future. I don't have a lot of faith in the ongoing development of the game tbh. Leviathan has some interesting elements but the state of it on release was awful and even with most of them fixed, it's still got balance issues, and this is the team that's going to be making the new expansions going forward. I understand it's a new team, but from a consumer perspective there were so many issues with Leviathan I don't think it's likely that by the time the next expansion is released, the same team will have gotten a handle on how to do an expansion without any huge game-breaking bugs or balance issues. It's funny, I remember in one of the dev diaries on adding new provinces to Australia, the person doing the map rework said they weren't allowed to add any further provinces for balance reasons. So having some more 1/1/1 desert provinces to make it easier to walk around the south coast or the centre of Australia is bad balance, but allowing Majahapit to vassalise the entirety of Ming China in one war, or half of the bonuses the monuments get, is totally fine lol.
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Leviathan was pretty much a bloated whale carcass washing up on a beach.
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Poil posted:Leviathan was pretty much a bloated whale carcass washing up on a beach. Also it popped. MonsieurChoc posted:Extremely easy: make sure Venice loses 5 provinces (but does no cede or revoke core) during your war for independence, and then as soon as the truce is over go to war with Venice again and revoke those 5 cores. I had Ottoman as my ally so it was a piece of cake. Yeah starting as a vassal actually makes it significantly easier since you can get big buff tags to support independence that would never ally you, including sometimes the Ottomans themselves. Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 12:26 on Jul 18, 2021 |
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I got a good Wales start: conquered Pale in my independance war, which I then set up as my Irish vassal, and also got an alliance and royal marriage with Burgundy. An event even made the heir of my Dynasty! If I can get the Burgundian inheritance, this will help a lot. I'm also thinking about trying for the 8 Wonders cheevo this run too, since I'm gonna have a whole bunch jsut by taking the provinces I need for the achievement. I probably would need to stay Catholic though, and Anglican is just too good.
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Got owned by France and rage-quit that game. If I'd gotten the Burgundian inheritance or less lovely events I might have pulled it off. As is gotta restart. Edit: this next attempt I'm gonna go for the cheap feed Wales, then absorb it, then re-release it trick. MonsieurChoc fucked around with this message at 04:04 on Jul 20, 2021 |
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Jul 20, 2021 01:11
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I finally learned how to make a small mod and it actually works!  Now I only need to figure out how to get it on to the workshop in an acceptable manner.
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This England game is pretty blessed, I got both Castile and France in PUs. Maybe I'll try to split this save file in two somehow, so I could keep playing as England after getting the Wales cheevo.
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Well I finally did the On the Rhodes > King of Jerusalem run, and after two hundred years the Ottomans are officially off the map. Still playing on 1.30.6 since I'm wary about the new features. Following the missions made it fairly straightforward. I didn't realize until this game that buying an indulgence gives you +75 relations with the Pope, but because of this I could get relations to +150 fairly quickly which gives claims on Byzantine Greece, then annex all of Byzantium in a single war with Venetian help. By occupying all of the Greek provinces first, Venice will not complain about not getting land in the peace deal and they even transferred ownership of Constantinople when they sieged it down, which was a good thing since I didn't have enough transports for a naval landing. While there's no initial claim on Constantinople you do get it via mission right after the peace, so just click the mission to save costs before coring. After that I annexed Epirus and allied Albania, and when the Ottomans attacked Albania in the 1460s the joint defense with some added mercs was just enough to throw them back across the Bosporus. After that it was about 60 years of consolidation and preparing to take on the Mamluks, who at their peak had absorbed half of Anatolia. Castile fully conquered Aragon in Iberia and I was able to snap up Sicily in the meantime, then they lost a series of wars to France and Morocco leaving them in the sad state they are in now. Naples was briefly a PU under France then broke free, which let the Knights walk right in to southern Italy. Austria fell under a PU with Bregenz and lost the HRE to Bohemia, leading to a super Bohemia with PUs over Poland and Burgundy as well as direct control over most of former Lithuania. The Mamluks declared a coalition war against me in the 1530s, the Bohemia/Tuscany/Papal alliances pulled through, and I was able to get all of the Antioch and Jerusalem lands in the peace deal. The Dutch independence war happened in the middle of fighting the Mamluks and led to Bohemia having to face Russia and France while most of their army was in the Levant, but they somehow managed to retain most of their territory during this and only had to give up Netherlands and a few French provinces. I waited another 20 years before forming Jerusalem since you lose a chunk of naval capacity when doing it and I still wanted the ships against the remaining Mamluk fleet for subsequent wars. Ideas taken were Diplomacy > Humanist > Offensive, since the extra alliances and religious unity were very helpful in the early game.
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I’ve been playing EU4 again for the first time since 1.31 launched cause the new Anbennar is out and man performance for this game is terrible now. I used to have a fairly smooth experience for at least the first 200 years and now the slowdown is noticeable by 1500. It plays like 1945 Hoi4 already
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Davincie posted:I’ve been playing EU4 again for the first time since 1.31 launched cause the new Anbennar is out and man performance for this game is terrible now. I used to have a fairly smooth experience for at least the first 200 years and now the slowdown is noticeable by 1500. It plays like 1945 Hoi4 already That's not my experience at all so I might blame Anbennar. It didn't slow the game for me in the last patch at all though. So who knows really.
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Only times I've noticed real performance issues is when everyone in the world jumps on Vijaynagar because of that AE bug. And that's only happened in two or three games for me.
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Wow playing as a smaller nation is really tough. Milan is the first nation I’ve played outside the major ones and you have to pay so much more attention to alliances, coring times and aggressive expansion.
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Goddamit, all I need to do is win an independance war against GB and get Roma in the peace deal, why is this so hard!?!?
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Sri.Theo posted:Wow playing as a smaller nation is really tough. Milan is the first nation I’ve played outside the major ones and you have to pay so much more attention to alliances, coring times and aggressive expansion. This is where you realize that coalitions aren't there to prevent someone from hegemony, but to stop your Milan from vassalizing Genoa or something.
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ilitarist posted:This is where you realize that coalitions aren't there to prevent someone from hegemony, but to stop your Milan from vassalizing Genoa or something. ottomans eat ten provinces at a time: this is fine milan takes pisa: everyone in europe from the tip of naples to the northernmost reaches of sweden declares war
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Jazerus posted:ottomans eat ten provinces at a time: this is fine At least it's logically consistent. Ottos eating 10 in Italy gets the same result, eating 10 lovely Serbian provinces gets a "well orthodox aren't really proper Christians so don't really care"
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