![]() ![]() IR 2.0 with Invictus mod is in a playable state, The mod adds a bunch of events and mission trees which mitigates the lack of flavour complaint that many players have with IR. Two issues that I have are that the playstyle is blobbing which is repetitive and late game gets boring, and the lack of events that affects large number of nations in IR there is only the Diadochi war while in EU4 you have the Iberian Wedding, Burgundian Inheritance, Wars of Religion, etc I have not played EU4 since Mare Nostrum and with M&T mod but play IR once every few months. RP'ers went back to CK, map painters to EU and heartless capitalists back to Vic and I:R gave them absolutely 0 reason to come back. Short of a complete redesign or massive feature expansion it wasn't ever going to recover because it had nothing to pull people back. You can't RP as well as you can in CK, options for expansion and state building are more limited than Stellaris and EU4, the economy lives in the shadow of Vic, etc.Īdd to that it's terrible release and it was doomed. If you play for any of those reasons then it's just a poorer version of whatever game you came from. The character system is shallow, the state building aspects are thin and the economics are equally uninspired. There's a bit of each of those in there, and while that might sound good at face value in terms of selling a product it has no real hook. EU4 is about state and expansion, CK is about characters and RP, Stellaris is about expansion and exploration, Vic is about population and economics, Imperator is. Like EU4 it suffers from mechanical isolation, but unlike EU there's no coherency to it.Įvery PDX game has a core focus. In isolation a lot of them are fantastic, or conceptually brilliant. I'd rephrase this as Imperator has some of the best mechanics, but it isn't anywhere near the best game mechanically. I love the brightness of the game, I love the amount of provinces, I love the feel of the game - I think that's all better than CK3, while CK3 feels more polished as a game (especially when compared on release), but somehow I just find it annoying to play, mechanically speaking.Įdit: I think Imperator is a more beautiful game than CK3, I haven't bought Victoria 3 yet despite it being the game series I've loved the most for the last 20 years (yes, since 2003), because I just don't trust Paradox with releases anymore - I'll wait to see what the first major patches and DLCs add. just don't fucking start the game off with that pathetic shit) and add in more flavour per region and government type (this is what made the game boring after 2-3 playthroughs) I hope in a few years we see Imperator II - keep the premise and the mechanics, remove manpower (couldn't be done in an update, it's hardcoded) so the provinces have more of a realistic impact, remove the vestigages of the mana system (ie.
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