CK2 - Dev Diary #123 - Iron Century

[Serenity84]

What have we done to deserve all this generosity?

Will you also include the dates between that and 1066 (by advancing the time manually)? Cnut the Great for example

 

[IFWanderer]

Based on the current history file, the former.

Damn. Hope they change it.

 

[NaiveCarto]

Congratulations!
I would be able to play the golden era of both the truth Rome and the fake Rome together!
I cant wait for its publish!

 

[Gruffa]

Do the suits in marketing know you're giving away so much free content? Did you just lie to them and tell them that CK2 has been discontinued?

@Tuscany we need to talk.

 

[Andrzej I]

In Europe Otto marches on the path to an Empire, Rival Caliphs battle for control of the Muslim world and the last remnants of the vikings stir to the north. Hundreds of other characters have their own stories to tell. A thousand possibilities await in the Iron Century.

So hyped for this. This is pre-Lechfeld, too, so the threat of the Magyars looms large over Western Europe. Meanwhile, we also have the Pornocracy in the Papal States, with the Counts of Tusculum having significant sway. I'm intrigued if either of these will be reflected!

Damn. Hope they change it.

Eh, I think it's kind of nice to have Romanos I Lekapenos as emperor for the bookmark, given the power he held at this point and the difficulty of representing it otherwise. I can't imagine that they won't at least give Constantine VII a claim, which can be used to reflect restoring him to full authority.

 

[Tuscany]

@Tuscany we need to talk.

Oh no, pack it up team we've been made!

 

[StJimmyRocks92]

Damn. Hope they change it.

They may do some Charlemagne-sequel story events for it

 

[Alfray Stryke]

The bookmark will start on the 7th of August 936

Given the teasers shown thus far, I think someone pointed out that the featured rulers that have been shown off might include the Jannabids, so might we getting a new government and/or religion for them?

a new dev diary about the 936 bookmark every day from Monday to Friday

What have we done to deserve this?!! Is this the end of CKII?

 

[henzington]

Will achievements been added to the new start date along with some for great works?

 

[Vityviktor]

Finally!! I can't wait to see the Caliphate of Córdoba, under Abderramán III, in the Iberian Peninsula!!! (Also, please, if you could put the Basques back in occitangfx, or even southerngfx would be nice too).

Would you change the dates of the three different graphical "eras" (early, middle and late)?? Currently early era ends in 950 (mid graphics). With this new date, maybe early graphics (from 769 to 950, only 181 years; compared to mid era, 960 - 1200, 250 years; and late era, 1453 - 1200, 253 years) should be extended to year 999, 1050, 1066...

 

[IFWanderer]

Eh, I think it's kind of nice to have Romanos I Lekapenos as emperor for the bookmark, given the power he held at this point and the difficulty of representing it otherwise. I can't imagine that they won't at least give Constantine VII a claim, which can be used to reflect restoring him to full authority.

Fair enough.

They may do some Charlemagne-sequel story events for it

I hope.

 

[wazp]

Do the suits in marketing know you're giving away so much free content? Did you just lie to them and tell them that CK2 has been discontinued?

WAT. More free stuff? TUSCANY!

 

[Woifee]

Rival Caliphs struggle for Control? Anti-Caliph mechanic incoming?

 

[Tuscany]

WAT. More free stuff? TUSCANY!

Oh no, this is bad, oh dear.

 

[Elden]

New start date sounds awesome. Will this fill the gaps between it and 1066 or be stand alone like past expansions?

 

[SHACA]

936，so how to select Chinese emperor for the period of “five dynasty and ten kingdoms”？

 

[Tuscany]

New start date sounds awesome. Will this fill the gaps between it and 1066 or be stand alone like past expansions?

This will be standalone.

 

[Ixal]

Cool What's with all the free stuff? Not that I'm complaining, but it is a bit odd.

I guess it was decided not to update CK2 to 64 bit and instead to let it run out. So the remaining budget is used for bugfixes and stuff too small to sell as DLC.

On one hand its sad it is ending, on the other better end it this way than to get feature bloat and 3 button DLCs like in EU4.

 

[SanguiniusStyle]

I really love this game

 

[King Ferdinand]

i just had a dream last night of something like this , but it was in the 400s with the hunnic invasion of europe and tbh it was what the game missed , first steps of the medieval europe but this is great 2 , thx for the freaking work mates