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Badger of Basra posted:My personal EU5 wish is fewer provinces. There are way too many, especially ones that are IRL so not-notable they don’t even have Wikipedia pages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5dmxBUbzBU Rynoto posted:Speed 5 with regular pauses is the true path to warring. This is the way
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Speed 5 and pause to give any/all inputs. EU4 is a turn based strategy game.
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Mar 21, 2023 19:19
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Speed one and pause often. I don't wanna miss a thing
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Mar 21, 2023 19:43
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Speed 3/4 normally, speed 2 during wars, speed 5 when there's nothing to do, pausing is for chumps.
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Mar 21, 2023 19:48
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Speed is also hardware-and-mod dependent. For example, when playing Anbennar I experience a noticeable difference in speed depending on whether I disable some of the regions or not. Likewise, while I find Voltaire's Nightmare (the even-HRE-Imperial-Abbeys-are-playable mod) a fascinating idea, it runs like molasses compared to vanilla or Anbennar. I generally play on speed 5, turning it down to 4 for wars. But with fewer-regions Anbennar I sometimes play on 4 and 3 instead, since at that point an in-game month can pass in 1-2 seconds on speed 5.
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Mar 21, 2023 19:49
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Badger of Basra posted:My personal EU5 wish is fewer provinces. There are way too many, especially ones that are IRL so not-notable they don’t even have Wikipedia pages counter point: why have fewer when you could have more? 
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Mar 21, 2023 20:12
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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I play speed 5 with pausing, with speed 4 for wars. I think people who regularly play on speed 3 probably have spent a lot more time in multiplayer and aren't used to the luxury of frequent pausing
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Mar 21, 2023 20:31
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i find i enjoy the game more if time advances slower cause i can actually consider whats going on in the map instead of just fast forwarding a truce timer or w/e. it gives you more to do during a campaign
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Mar 21, 2023 20:54
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I like playing nice and careful but it also means I will never see past the second Age thing
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Mar 21, 2023 20:58
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Speed 3 only, I'm way too busy to have it run faster.
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Mar 21, 2023 23:49
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PittTheElder posted:counter point: why have fewer when you could have more? Voltaire's Nightmare was such a fun mod but it ran so bad.
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aardvaard posted:I play speed 5 with pausing, with speed 4 for wars. This is me, very occasionally dropping to speed 3 for tricky wars. I think whoever posted about hardware having a lot to do with it is probably right though, my PC is a little old and even speed 5 is only like 3-4 days a second once the game's out of the very early stages
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Mar 22, 2023 01:01
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Hardware doesn't even help much in a big league war or a late coalition. Game engine seems to be maxed out. At least they did improve performance a couple of patches ago.
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Wafflecopper posted:This is me, very occasionally dropping to speed 3 for tricky wars. I think whoever posted about hardware having a lot to do with it is probably right though, my PC is a little old and even speed 5 is only like 3-4 days a second once the game's out of the very early stages Definitely hardware, speed 5 for me is like 1 month every 4-6 seconds.
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mfcrocker posted:On a similar note (they cast eu4 together), I like TheRedHawk I watched some of his videos, and I wish he'd skip over warfare less. Like the Krakow video, he starts talking about how tricky the independence war with poland will be, mentions how he might have to try to maneuver around the polish armies, and then he abruptly jump cuts to him and hungary occupying all of poland. He didn't even bother saying how he did it. C'mon, man. edit: Later in that same video, "Wow guys, Danzig popped out, but the Teutons beat them! I've never seen that before." Then why didn't you show it?! I get that he wants to keep the videos moving at a brisk pace, but he's really overzealous with the editing. Dr. Video Games 0031 fucked around with this message at 13:57 on Mar 22, 2023 |
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It's always hard to find youtube EU4 videos on a sensible point on the spectrum between "50 hours of archived twitch stream, edits are for cowards" and "cut down to 20 minutes covered in memetic imagery". On the less-edited side of that spectrum, I like Poiuymew's Anbennar stuff well enough, it was helpful when I was trying to learn the mod last year. They're still quite long, he basically just edits out some pauses from a regular playthrough. No webcam or twitch chat, he plays at what I think is a good level of fast-and-loose for video content and he's pretty good at the talking over gameplay part. It's possible my habit of watching youtube videos at 2x speed impacts my opinion somewhat.
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:I watched some of his videos, and I wish he'd skip over warfare less. Like the Krakow video, he starts talking about how tricky the independence war with poland will be, mentions how he might have to try to maneuver around the polish armies, and then he abruptly jump cuts to him and hungary occupying all of poland. He didn't even bother saying how he did it. C'mon, man. 
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Mar 22, 2023 14:44
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Lol ok, ethics in eu4 youtube
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Mar 22, 2023 15:16
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i doubt he's cheating. i just wish he'd show his work more. he doesn't have to meticulously show every army movement, but a supercut of pivotal moments during big wars would be nice.
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Mar 22, 2023 15:18
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Poil posted:Um, I would classify those things as... suspicious. Not saying he definitely is "cheating" and honestly I don't care if he is or not (the videos are for entertainment), but if he is and pretends not to that is kinda lovely. Even showing important wars very sped up would still give a gist of them and not take long at all. Nudging things behind the scenes to make the videos more interesting and dramatic is perfectly fine, just be honest about it. [ ]Execute the Streamer! [ ]Ignore Complaints
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Mar 22, 2023 15:19
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Red Hawk's videos are like 80% comedy challenges.
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Mar 22, 2023 15:26
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I watched a couple of his vids and my criticism would be, he says "Boom" and "Just like that" a loooot
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skasion posted:[ ]Execute the Streamer! Fire the streamer, execute [NO STREAMER], rehire the streamer.
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Mar 22, 2023 16:14
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Thinking about all of history's monarchs who immediately disinherited their newborn child because they knew right away that the baby will grow up to be a lousy leader
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Mar 22, 2023 17:32
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The Ancient Greeks would leave their newborns in the woods if they had like a lazy eye or something so it’s not that far from the truth
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Jay Rust posted:Thinking about all of history's monarchs who immediately disinherited their newborn child because they knew right away that the baby will grow up to be a lousy leader A system like CK where heirs gain stat points until the age of majority might be helpful here. No more tossing out 1/2/2 infants, make it a gamble to toss a 3/2/3 15 y/old.
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Mar 22, 2023 20:21
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I did it, I've formed Verkal Dromak.
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DJ_Mindboggler posted:A system like CK where heirs gain stat points until the age of majority might be helpful here. No more tossing out 1/2/2 infants, make it a gamble to toss a 3/2/3 15 y/old. Yeah, I understand why it is the way it is, but I would prefer a system where you'd only know how good your heir is when they are of age, or at least close to it.
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Mar 23, 2023 05:57
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 Just dumb cheevo things.
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Poil posted:Um, I would classify those things as... suspicious. Not saying he definitely is "cheating" and honestly I don't care if he is or not (the videos are for entertainment), but if he is and pretends not to that is kinda lovely. Even showing important wars very sped up would still give a gist of them and not take long at all. Nudging things behind the scenes to make the videos more interesting and dramatic is perfectly fine, just be honest about it. I'm pretty sure red hawk made a video about other youtubers cheating in achievement runs. Not that it makes him free of suspicion.
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MonsieurChoc posted:I did it, I've formed Verkal Dromak. is that the beer dwarves? they're a wild ride
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I haven't played this game since I got a 4K monitor last year. Man, the UI scaling is garbage, huh? Really makes you appreciate how much better it is in CK3 and Vicky 3. Are there any mods that improve this?
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Wafflecopper posted:is that the beer dwarves? they're a wild ride No, Verkal Dromak is the dream dwarves.
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:I haven't played this game since I got a 4K monitor last year. Man, the UI scaling is garbage, huh? Really makes you appreciate how much better it is in CK3 and Vicky 3. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1095412287 The problem with UI mods is they will probably break when using other mods like Anbennar. PDX games before Imperator have primitive UI scaling that is also sometimes buggy. It's more or less like since Imperator scaling works as if you're zooming in or out of web page, and before that it was like zooming into a static image. I was still using it when I played on 4k screen, it looks much better when you use font mods with simpler fonts like Century Gothic/Stellaris.
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Now I want to know who the beer dwarves are!
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ilitarist posted:https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1095412287 Yeah, modern PDX games start with high-resolution UI assets and cleanly scales them down for people on lower scale values. Having a higher UI scale actually brings you closer to the source resolution of those assets and shows them in more detail. EU4 works backward by starting from a low-resolution source and blowing it up using what seems to be ugly bilinear filtering. What surprises me is that even the text is effected. I'd accept blurrier icons, but I would've thought that text could somehow be rendered natively at your chosen scale. Guess not. I just tried that mod and it's a little better, maybe. I'm not sure. Text is still kinda blurry and pixelated. I almost feel like it would be better to run this game at 1080p and use Lossless Scaling or something.
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:EU4 works backward by starting from a low-resolution source and blowing it up using what seems to be ugly bilinear filtering. What surprises me is that even the text is effected. I'd accept blurrier icons, but I would've thought that text could somehow be rendered natively at your chosen scale. Guess not. I can tell you that's what they're doing. If you ask for 2x scale on your 4k screen the UI is rendered in 1080p and then it's quadrupled in size with a bilinear filter. Then all your mouse actions and dynamic UI elements like tooltips have their ordinates multiplied by 2 so that they correspond to the new UI position. I can tell you this is what happens because there were (and probably still are) numerous bugs in CK2, EU4, Stellaris and HoI4 when some elements of UI reacted as if your mouse is somewhere else, some tooltips were rendered in a place where they should be with no rendering etc. And fonts in those games are bitmap, basically an image, not True Type vector fonts you can resize. In Imperator, they clearly worked on UI rendering tech, which was probably one of the reasons they were able to completely replace UI. You can also look at Imperator resources and see it uses regular font files, you can replace them with whatever and thit will work just fine. In EU4 and other games of this era you have to go through the loops and the resulting font will often look wrong and misaligned, because UI is stitched together using this specific font. EU4 is a great game and can probably be updated forever, but things like this UI rendering are probably there to stay, and it's only the most visible sign of old age.
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TorakFade posted:Now I want to know who the beer dwarves are! Hul-az-krakazol, to the north of Rahen. You need to start as a specific human nation and not get smoked by the Command for like 50 years, and if you manage that you get the event to switch. Weird government form where you get rewarded with various local brews for getting specific provinces and your ruler is expected to chug them every few years until he maxes out their buffs or drinks himself to death
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ilitarist posted:EU4 is a great game and can probably be updated forever, but things like this UI rendering are probably there to stay, and it's only the most visible sign of old age. see, this is radicalizing me to "abandon EU4 and start on EU5" position if there's really nothing they can do to prevent it from looking like rear end on any modern display.
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You should do what I do, get a Steam Deck and play EU4 there.
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