CK3 Dev Diary #93 - Turmoil in the Peninsula

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Pdx_Meedoc

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Greetings!

Winter is slowly fading behind us (at least in the northern hemisphere), and spring is starting to take over. A new season calls for an announcement. I’m happy to present you with our next Flavor Pack: Fate of Iberia, due to be released on the 31st of May! We are obviously talking about Mediterranean Iberia, not the former Kingdom in Georgia.

In addition to being one of the most played regions, the Iberian peninsula is interesting because of the complexity of the geopolitical situation, and the richness of the events occurring during the time period of Crusader Kings 3. It gives us a good opportunity to bring more flavor for both the Christians and Muslims living there.

With this new flavor pack, we want to offer you the opportunity to truly decide the fate of the whole peninsula, either by reenacting history or creating an alternative that pleases you more. In order to model the complexity of the situation, we are introducing a new system, the Struggle. It will be changing the rules and increasing the challenge for the rulers within the Iberian peninsula. You can have an idea of how the game will be affected in the screenshot below. The effects will vary a lot depending on the stage of the struggle, but we will go into details in the next dev diary :)

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The Struggle will both create new opportunities and add constraints for the rulers within Iberia.

A new 867 bookmark features a revamped Iberian cast of characters, giving players the perfect place to jump in and deflect history as they see fit. The Struggle will persist into the 1066 start date as well. The bookmark lets you choose between different vassals, either from the Christian Kingdoms, or Al-Andalus. Each of them offers different starting challenges and choices.. For instance, in the south, Emir Adanis and Ibn Marwan are both Dukes under the Sultanate of Al-Andalus. But they also are neighbors and rivals. Starting with one of them will certainly imply crossing swords and scheming against the other.

Screenshot of the new Iberian bookmark
The new 867 bookmark will be available for everyone, while being more interesting to experience if you own Fate of Iberia


We also seized the opportunity to update the map, refining the county and duchy divisions, as well as the cultures and faiths. This means the stage is more accurately set for the start of our game.

Screenshot of the new county division in Iberia

We mostly focused on the Northern part of the region.

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The new culture set up for the year 867


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The new faith set up for the year 867


You might have noticed the addition of the Mozarabic faith, but again, we will detail that in a future dev diary, along with the rest of the content you can expect from a Flavor Pack!

We are excited to go into the details and share all of this with you in the coming weeks! Until then, I wish you a lovely day and enjoy the trailer!


Cheers,

P.S.: While we do not expect the save versions to be incompatible, please make sure you wrap up your previous playthrough to ensure a seamless transition. If you encounter issues, you can of course roll these saves back to a previous version UNLESS you are playing in Ironman.
 
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Hey there! Thanks for all your comments!

As you can expect, I won't give any answer around the Struggle as it will be our next focus. I'll beg you to be patient and wait until the next DD. We will then happily discuss our plan with you, once you have all the details!

Nobody expects the Spanish flavor pack!
Who would have?

This looks nice!

I must ask, though, what is the reasoning behind announcing new DLCs only a few weeks away from when they'll be released? Six weeks seems very short compared to all of the DDs you could release about Fate of Iberia.
We prefer to have a shorter and focused communication period for the Flavor Pack. Hopefully, each of them should bring you exciting details about what's to come!

Looks great! Question, does the new culture set up for 867 means visigothic as a culture will be gone?
The Visigothic culture still exists but is not assigned to counties, hence it disappeared from the map

Looking good!

I still want tributaries, though. :(
We can only focus on certain elements for a given flavor pack :)

So, can I join the struggles as an outsider invader? Let's say I start as my boy hasteinn. If conquer de balleares do I join up in the struggle?

Do I have to be christian or muslim to participate?
Ok, I said I would not give any answer regarding the Struggle, but I'll do an exception. There is a way of becoming involved, even if you are not part of the Struggle from the start.

While I'm excited about the new flavor pack, I'm disappointed that we didn't get a new patch, there's a lot of bugs still that need fixing. Is it safe to assume there won't be another patch until the release of the flavor pack?
We do not plan a patch before the release of the flavor pack. However, you can expect a free update being released along the Flavor Pack as usual

Will the AI understand the significance of taking actions like "reveal a secret" to advance the struggle meter, or is that just for players to do?
Yes, the AI is aware of actions affecting the progress of the Struggle. (It's an AI question, not a Struggle question, right?)

I wonder how this will affect overall game balance? I know that when Northern Lords first came out a lot of people complained that it inadvertently made vikings OP and caused balance problems in earlier start dates.
This Flavor Pack is more contained within the Iberian peninsula. The Flavor Pack will change the balance and the dynamic within the region and for their neighbours but it should not change the overall balance of power. As usual, we will count on your feedback though to help us improve the experience!

What are the features of the Mozarabic faith?
We will cover it in a future DD!

Could you please also add a toggle that makes it so you can choose to use your dynasty name or title name as realm name as a muslim clan leader? would help with roleplay.
I'll add this suggestion to our backlog!

I always liked to play with al-Andalus, so I'm really excited about the new Flavour Pack. One question though. If my eyes don't deceive me, I recognize new 3D modells on the Steam pictures. All iberian cultures'll share the same, new holding graphics, or the andalusians'll get their own graphics too?
For the holding specifically, we did a common set for the peninsula, with a variant for the Temple (1 Christian and 1 Muslim).

is there new content for Morocco?who invaded whole south Iberia in history.
We did not focus on Morocco with this Flavor Pack.

Will it be possible for the Ummayads to collapse and Muslim Spain to enter the Taifa period? That possibility is always kinda missing whenever one is playing the 867 start.
Who knows?.... I might have something for you... soon...

any chance that we get more than one religion in a county? Like a percentage, 80% muslim with 15% christian, 5% jew or something (add some modifiers) i think that would be good for the whole map and espacially in this scenario!
It's not in our plan for now.

Hope that jewish will also get some love in this flavor pack. Jewish Culture was a big part of iberian culture at that times and it would be a shame if it wouldn't get any love.
We might have something for you in a future DD!

Any chance we can tweak the Portugal formation decision?
We adjusted the existing Decision a bit :)

Cheers,
 
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I never play in Iberia, but i guess since i already have this DLC because of Royal edition i guess i will now.
Massively disappointed about struggle being only scripted and not dynamic. Then again, for that price...
Disclaimer first: I didn't work on Fate of Iberia's features, so take everything I say on the topic with a grain of salt :D

I personally think that Struggles being scripted is a good thing, as it allows us to give more content specifically for a Struggle. I don't really know how to write a compelling set for a large, dynamic Struggle without it being very generic. Having Struggles pre-scripted with unique triggering circumstances with lots of content seems like a better way to do it than a one-size fits all. It's more costly on production, but it lets us do narrow content of higher quality.
 
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