I'm very frustrated with Victoria 2 A Heart of Darkness.
I feel like the game I've come to love is no longer there. It seems like Heart of Darkness has only ruined the game. I don't feel like I'm playing Victoria 2 anymore.
I run my first game as the United States. The first thing I noticed was England released all of its colonies. It released Australia, New Zealand, Columbia, and Canada without even fully colonizing all of its land. Now one of the things I didn't like Victoria 2 was countries like England and the United central countries of Central America never released any of its colonies/countries that had cores. But now they release them within months of the game start. Now that's not my biggest complaint. That's not why I feel that has ruined the game for me.
So one problem I had was the crisis system. Me as the United States was colonizing Oklahoma Idaho and trying to go for Seattle. The UK decides to colonize what can in Canada. Within months it had colonized states in the Canada region. So for some unknown reason of how they colonized that fast they decide to start colonizing my God damn Washington. I couldn't believe it. So me and the UK are in a fight for my God damn Washington. Next thing you know there's a God damn crisis for Washington within what a couple months of the game start? Are you flipping kidding me? This is was 100% bull shit! Every single power decided to side with the UK. I restarted the game from the beginning and made damn sure that I had at least about two countries that would side with me I got France to about 190 relationship. I can't remember the other. Both France and the other nation still sided with the UK. I couldn't believe it I was outraged.
There was one game where I was too busy trying to colonize Oklahoma and Colorado that the UK took both Washington and Oregon within a month or two. So I don't understand how the UK colonizes so fast. I ended up quitting the game in a rage.
So this is what really got me mad I decided to place the United States again. This was sometime after the first two games I play that got me mad. Within I think a couple of months or so the UK colonized what they could in Canada plus my Washington and Oregon. At this point, I'm kind of mad to the fact that I couldn't do anything without it going into a crisis.
It seems like the crisis system, put their just to annoy the hell out of you. I can understand all the other reasons for crisis system like smaller countries try to get back their land where they have cores, but the whole colonizing system with the crisis system is just a pain in the ass.
So I decided to say screw it I'll let them have it. At this point for some reason Texas did apply for statehood even though I help them out. Also Texas decided to go to war with Mexico to humiliate them like really? At the time I could help them because for some reason the UK out of nowhere within a year decided to declare war on me. Not for the new England cores but to annex my puppet Liberia and to acquire Minnesota. So this is where during the war I start to flip out. Shown in the picture I will provide. I was losing the war within negative score of I think -500. I don't have a picture of that but I didn't even think you could go that negative in a war. So they have Greece and Belgium underside I eventually got Greece and Belgium to go with white piece but the UK even though I have occupied almost all of Canada and destroy pretty much all of their divisions in Canada to a point where there wasn't a single British troop in North America. Even after all this I was never winning the war. Even though I had all of British Washington and Oregon occupied and most of Canada occupied I was still losing the war. I've never ever had this problem before A Heart of Darkness. I don't understand. I was still losing with a score of -27. From one to understand because they have occupied 2 provinces in Liberia be automatically get the unbelievable amount of plus war score. Making it impossible for me to ever win. Not only that but every time they offered me a deal for peace I would get negative war exhaustion. It got to the point where they kept shipping over more troops to Canada where they cornered one of my divisions that had about 20,000 men and they had a death stack of about 50 and they destroyed and killed my divisions. That pretty much lost in the war. But lets say that didn't happen. The war would of went on for almost for ever until they slowly but surely destroyed every single one of my divisions. At this point I almost flipped over my computer desk and punch my screen. There's just no way I could win. I've never had this problem with Victoria 2. I have Victoria 2 down and had a blast. Now I'm just frustrated. Even after I won most of the battles against Great Britain and I may have lost most of my Navy which wasn't much and had most of the territory that I could possibly get I still lost. I now really don't understand. I really don't. I play I feel like I'm not playing Victoria 2.
I gave the game one last chance and played my first game as the UK. I didn't want to be a warmonger like the UK AI is. I gave that piece of Maine to the United States to increase relationships and I decided to only colonize my parts of Canada and not to colonize any part of the US. I thought okay the tables were turned I'll be able to colonize my parts of Canada with no problem. But instead the United States decides not to colonize Oklahoma or even Idaho or Washington or Oregon nope. They decide to colonize my area of Canada. It's lime the AI is meant to start a crisis at all cost. So i just let it be a test game. I decided to let it go into a crisis. I thought well everyone will join my side. Nope. Over three of the countries join the United States side.
At that point that's where I decided I don't want to play this game any more. I'm sick of this game and all I want back is my old Victoria 2. I don't understand how this expansion pack made the game worse not better. I don't know what to do.
Am I missing something? Am I the only one who's had this problem? Where do I go from here? My favorite Paradox interactive game has been ruined. Am I doing something wrong? Should I just wait for a patch?
I feel like the game I've come to love is no longer there. It seems like Heart of Darkness has only ruined the game. I don't feel like I'm playing Victoria 2 anymore.
I run my first game as the United States. The first thing I noticed was England released all of its colonies. It released Australia, New Zealand, Columbia, and Canada without even fully colonizing all of its land. Now one of the things I didn't like Victoria 2 was countries like England and the United central countries of Central America never released any of its colonies/countries that had cores. But now they release them within months of the game start. Now that's not my biggest complaint. That's not why I feel that has ruined the game for me.
So one problem I had was the crisis system. Me as the United States was colonizing Oklahoma Idaho and trying to go for Seattle. The UK decides to colonize what can in Canada. Within months it had colonized states in the Canada region. So for some unknown reason of how they colonized that fast they decide to start colonizing my God damn Washington. I couldn't believe it. So me and the UK are in a fight for my God damn Washington. Next thing you know there's a God damn crisis for Washington within what a couple months of the game start? Are you flipping kidding me? This is was 100% bull shit! Every single power decided to side with the UK. I restarted the game from the beginning and made damn sure that I had at least about two countries that would side with me I got France to about 190 relationship. I can't remember the other. Both France and the other nation still sided with the UK. I couldn't believe it I was outraged.
There was one game where I was too busy trying to colonize Oklahoma and Colorado that the UK took both Washington and Oregon within a month or two. So I don't understand how the UK colonizes so fast. I ended up quitting the game in a rage.
So this is what really got me mad I decided to place the United States again. This was sometime after the first two games I play that got me mad. Within I think a couple of months or so the UK colonized what they could in Canada plus my Washington and Oregon. At this point, I'm kind of mad to the fact that I couldn't do anything without it going into a crisis.
It seems like the crisis system, put their just to annoy the hell out of you. I can understand all the other reasons for crisis system like smaller countries try to get back their land where they have cores, but the whole colonizing system with the crisis system is just a pain in the ass.
So I decided to say screw it I'll let them have it. At this point for some reason Texas did apply for statehood even though I help them out. Also Texas decided to go to war with Mexico to humiliate them like really? At the time I could help them because for some reason the UK out of nowhere within a year decided to declare war on me. Not for the new England cores but to annex my puppet Liberia and to acquire Minnesota. So this is where during the war I start to flip out. Shown in the picture I will provide. I was losing the war within negative score of I think -500. I don't have a picture of that but I didn't even think you could go that negative in a war. So they have Greece and Belgium underside I eventually got Greece and Belgium to go with white piece but the UK even though I have occupied almost all of Canada and destroy pretty much all of their divisions in Canada to a point where there wasn't a single British troop in North America. Even after all this I was never winning the war. Even though I had all of British Washington and Oregon occupied and most of Canada occupied I was still losing the war. I've never ever had this problem before A Heart of Darkness. I don't understand. I was still losing with a score of -27. From one to understand because they have occupied 2 provinces in Liberia be automatically get the unbelievable amount of plus war score. Making it impossible for me to ever win. Not only that but every time they offered me a deal for peace I would get negative war exhaustion. It got to the point where they kept shipping over more troops to Canada where they cornered one of my divisions that had about 20,000 men and they had a death stack of about 50 and they destroyed and killed my divisions. That pretty much lost in the war. But lets say that didn't happen. The war would of went on for almost for ever until they slowly but surely destroyed every single one of my divisions. At this point I almost flipped over my computer desk and punch my screen. There's just no way I could win. I've never had this problem with Victoria 2. I have Victoria 2 down and had a blast. Now I'm just frustrated. Even after I won most of the battles against Great Britain and I may have lost most of my Navy which wasn't much and had most of the territory that I could possibly get I still lost. I now really don't understand. I really don't. I play I feel like I'm not playing Victoria 2.
I gave the game one last chance and played my first game as the UK. I didn't want to be a warmonger like the UK AI is. I gave that piece of Maine to the United States to increase relationships and I decided to only colonize my parts of Canada and not to colonize any part of the US. I thought okay the tables were turned I'll be able to colonize my parts of Canada with no problem. But instead the United States decides not to colonize Oklahoma or even Idaho or Washington or Oregon nope. They decide to colonize my area of Canada. It's lime the AI is meant to start a crisis at all cost. So i just let it be a test game. I decided to let it go into a crisis. I thought well everyone will join my side. Nope. Over three of the countries join the United States side.
At that point that's where I decided I don't want to play this game any more. I'm sick of this game and all I want back is my old Victoria 2. I don't understand how this expansion pack made the game worse not better. I don't know what to do.
Am I missing something? Am I the only one who's had this problem? Where do I go from here? My favorite Paradox interactive game has been ruined. Am I doing something wrong? Should I just wait for a patch?
