Are characters still dying during childbirth?

[Immortal88]

I've played like 100+ hours just in the last two weeks and I can't recall that it ever happened to my wife or my concubines. I remember this happened quite frequently to me when I was playing regularly like 1 year ago. Are the pregnancy event buffs perhaps a bit too generous with health etc.?

What are your experiences?

 

[Cardolam]

I've played like 100+ hours just in the last two weeks and I can't recall that it ever happened to my wife or my concubines. I remember this happened quite frequently to me when I was playing regularly like 1 year ago. Are the pregnancy event buffs perhaps a bit too generous with health etc.?

What are your experiences?

No, in vanilla death on childbirth is set to 0 in the defines (was 0.15 or 15% before). I don't know how it is now, but on previous version (recent ones) there was a bug while setting this define to > 0.

 

[Lycrist Katkiller]

Never seen it happen actually. On very rare occasions women die shortly after giving birth, but hardly ever during their pregancy and never the moment when they gave birth.

 

[Immortal88]

No, in vanilla death on childbirth is set to 0 in the defines (was 0.15 or 15% before). I don't know how it is now, but on previous version (recent ones) there was a bug while setting this define to > 0.

So you are saying it used to be around 15% probability but it was disabled because it caused a bug instead of actually fixing the bug? That's horrible, I hope the bug gets fixed eventually.

 

[Zoomun]

Now that you mention it I haven't seen it in a while.

 

[Karlington]

It has been changed so that instead of being a random number controlled by defines it is now an possible outcome from the birth event chains.

I myself have cheerfully bred multiple women to death with excessive use of the Seduction focus.

(They were bearers of rare and powerful bloodlines, so it was totally reasonable and justified.)

 

[Cardolam]

So you are saying it used to be around 15% probability but it was disabled because it caused a bug instead of actually fixing the bug? That's horrible, I hope the bug gets fixed eventually.

No, I am not implying the define was disabled because it caused the bug. I could not say that. But yes, you are right on the 15% probability before HF, as far as I know.
I think Paradox coded some more flavour pregnancy events and judged this define to be unnecessary any more.

 

[DPS]

I don't recall seeing it recently, but AFAIK it still happens. In my experience it was always fairly rare in CKII, whereas it happened a lot in CKI.

Also, I've noticed in CKII that at least sometimes you'll get a popup saying that a female character died in childbirth, but if you clicked on her portrait, it will say that she died of pneumonia. I believe these characters actually did die in childbirth, not of pneumonia.