Hello everyone, and welcome to this weeks development diary for EU4.

This week I want to talk about the loadingscreens of EU4. Our goal is to add to the pool of loadingscreens every time we do a major update, so that you have a large variety of cool pictures to view while the harddrive is booting up the game.

Each picture represents one country in the game, and we do not plan to have more than 1 loading screen for each nation. There is also one of the most iconic leaders of that nation on the picture, as well as a location which represents that nation.

And when making expansions, it is very much important that the country picked fits the theme for it.

Original Game
We shipped with 5 different loading screens, representing about half of the major powers of the era.
Sweden - Gustavus II Adolphus & Stockholm Archipelago
Spain - Isabella & Carribean Islands
England - Elizabeth I & Cliffs of Dover
France - Louis XIV France & French Farmlands
Ottomans - Suleiman the Magnificent & Haga Sophia

Conquest of Paradise
Iroqouis - Hiawatha & Niagara Falls

Wealth of Nations
Venice - Andrea Gritti & City of Venice

Res Publica
Netherlands - Maurice of Nassau & Windmills at Canals

Art of War
Russia - Catherine the Great & Siberia

El Dorado
Aztecs - Montezuma & Tenochtitlan

Common Sense
Austrai - Charles V & The Alps

And for our new 1.13 patch, we are adding a loading screen for Poland, with Jan Sobieski and the Jasna Gora Monastery!

We still aim to have pictures for Portugal, Denmark & Prussia of the europeans majors, but it needs to fit thematically for the expansions. Not that I can think of any important Danish ruler through history.. pokes @Groogy

 

[tului]

Counter-proposal: Give out free hyper SSDs to everyone and we don't need loading screens no more.

But seriously, fabulous guy looks fabulous

Samsung XP941that can hit 900+MB/s sequential and isn't shabby at random(it's an M.2 drive) and I still get loading screens. I wish they'd make a 64 bit client and use more RAM and just load ALL of the data in RAM at once.

 

[guitar19]

How about Peter Tordenskjold? Sure not King of Denmark but accomplished leaders of the Kingdoms Armed Forces could work right?

Technically Wessel / Tordenskjold was Norwegian but hey whatever lights your fire .
http://satwcomic.com/burning-hot

 

[loveactually]

I wait so long for new patch to fix 1.12 and 1.13 beta's bug and new loading screen is all we will get?

.....i'll play dota for the time being
no, but seriously 80% of people in my friend list whom i know from MP forum are playing dota2 now..

 

[Chief Iacid]

How big is the difference between Danish and Swedish? Can you guys understand each other?

Most of the time, but you have to concentrate when listening. Some Danish dialects and some Swedish dialects are not understandable by the other side. Comparing all three Scandinavian languages, Danish/Norwegian are more similar in writing vs. Swedish, while Norwegian/Swedish are more similar vs. Danish when talking.

 

[Loke]

Load "" Screen$

 

[Demetrios]

I wait so long for new patch to fix 1.12 and 1.13 beta's bug and new loading screen is all we will get?

.....i'll play dota for the time being
no, but seriously 80% of people in my friend list whom i know from MP forum are playing dota2 now..

I'm a bit curious where you picked up that loading screens is "all we will get". Might I suggest you take a visit to the 1.13 beta patch thread to see the many, many changes?

 

[loveactually]

I'm a bit curious where you picked up that loading screens is "all we will get". Might I suggest you take a visit to the 1.13 beta patch thread to see the many, many changes?

well indeed 1.12 and 1.13 beta brought so many changes but also so many bugs (oh hello BROKEN MULTIPLAYER, OUT OF SYNC SIMULATOR and LOBBY UNIVERSALIS IV). i was merely wondering when will paradox fix those bugs (at that time they were on holiday).
so, after they returned from their holiday earlier this month, i expected a fix for 1.13 beta or even a new 1.14.. but then, all i see in the forum was the dev diary about new loading screen? well well..

i might judge too fast and used "all we will get", because you know, having high hopes and stuffs for PDX? and then what happened was... unexpected?

 

[generalolaf]

well indeed 1.12 and 1.13 beta brought so many changes but also so many bugs (oh hello BROKEN MULTIPLAYER, OUT OF SYNC SIMULATOR and LOBBY UNIVERSALIS IV). i was merely wondering when will paradox fix those bugs (at that time they were on holiday).
so, after they returned from their holiday earlier this month, i expected a fix for 1.13 beta or even a new 1.14.. but then, all i see in the forum was the dev diary about new loading screen? well well..

i might judge too fast and used "all we will get", because you know, having high hopes and stuffs for PDX? and then what happened was... unexpected?

There was a dev diary last week too, you know, and it was stated in the beta patch thread that 1.13 would be released when the OOS issues were fixed.

 

[CNY10000]

Any fix to development?

I'm a bit curious where you picked up that loading screens is "all we will get". Might I suggest you take a visit to the 1.13 beta patch thread to see the many, many changes?

He is comparing the difference bewtween 1.13 beta and 1.13.

Since the release of Common Sense, there are some critical issues and the devs are not even saying that they are aware of them. Expectation is now high. It is hoestly annoying to see a loading screen dev diary for the week.

Hopefully development is an issue to be finalized.

 

[loveactually]

There was a dev diary last week too, you know, and it was stated in the beta patch thread that 1.13 would be released when the OOS issues were fixed.

yes i read both thread too. thanks for reminding me
but why they didn't mention the fix in dev diary? i mean, i almost missed that if i didn't open the 1.13 thread. not everyone play 1.13 beta, right?

i mean, they always give too much focus on the new stuffs and kind of forgetful to old bugs (especially OOS problem in multiplayer which plagued mp game until now)
edit: well it seems they already noticed this problem. good thing. but OOS thing is always return to mp game every time a change happened (like new patch or the new windows 10)

 

[DanubianCossak]

Danish Loadingscreen or riot!
I'll talk Danish for a whole month at the office when I get back from vacation.

I just want to be the one to tell you that we love despite the Danish issue.

 

[Destinyfaker]

Hello everyone, and welcome to this weeks development diary for EU4.

This week I want to talk about the loadingscreens of EU4. Our goal is to add to the pool of loadingscreens every time we do a major update, so that you have a large variety of cool pictures to view while the harddrive is booting up the game.

Each picture represents one country in the game, and we do not plan to have more than 1 loading screen for each nation. There is also one of the most iconic leaders of that nation on the picture, as well as a location which represents that nation.

And when making expansions, it is very much important that the country picked fits the theme for it.

Original Game
We shipped with 5 different loading screens, representing about half of the major powers of the era.
Sweden - Gustavus II Adolphus & Stockholm Archipelago
Spain - Isabella & Carribean Islands
England - Elizabeth I & Cliffs of Dover
France - Louis XIV France & French Farmlands
Ottomans - Suleiman the Magnificent & Haga Sophia

Conquest of Paradise
Iroqouis - Hiawatha & Niagara Falls

Wealth of Nations
Venice - Andrea Gritti & City of Venice

Res Publica
Netherlands - Maurice of Nassau & Windmills at Canals

Art of War
Russia - Catherine the Great & Siberia

El Dorado
Aztecs - Montezuma & Tenochtitlan

Common Sense
Austrai - Charles V & The Alps

And for our new 1.13 patch, we are adding a loading screen for Poland, with Jan Sobieski and the Jasna Gora Monastery!

We still aim to have pictures for Portugal, Denmark & Prussia of the europeans majors, but it needs to fit thematically for the expansions. Not that I can think of any important Danish ruler through history.. pokes @Groogy

just take a random swede and put them them on something danish :-*

 

[Zwirbaum]

For Japan I would recommend Takeda Shingen.

 

[generalolaf]

yes i read both thread too. thanks for reminding me
but why they didn't mention the fix in dev diary? i mean, i almost missed that if i didn't open the 1.13 thread. not everyone play 1.13 beta, right?

i mean, they always give too much focus on the new stuffs and kind of forgetful to old bugs (especially OOS problem in multiplayer which plagued mp game until now)
edit: well it seems they already noticed this problem. good thing. but OOS thing is always return to mp game every time a change happened (like new patch or the new windows 10)

If you were looking for it in the patch notes you'd know. Dev diaries OTOH are kind of for showcasing the new ideas they have and the new stuff they're thinking up for the game. I kind of agree that it wouldn't go amiss to have a 'here are the bugs we're squashing' dev diary but at the same time you don't want to focus on it too much and it has the potential to become a can of worms if they accidentally break it again (I'm no expert but I'm told this happens a lot).

 

[Makavcio]

It's nice, though I already have like 80 or 90 loading screens from various mods, and in the era of SSD drives, there's not much time to appreciate them anyway.

I came here to check when the patch is coming out because it's been quite a while for so tiny changes. And as usual, it won't be playable without a hotfix that eliminates blatant bugs and broken elements of old mechanics, so we'll have to add at least a week to release date of the original 1.13.

Since I'm already here...
Have you Paradox guys seen Rising Tide, the new expansion for SM's Civilization: Beyond Earth? Compare its pricing and scope of changes with what you offer us with every "expansion". If Firaxis used your pricing policy, Rising Tide would cost ca 599,99€

 

[generalolaf]

It's nice, though I already have like 80 or 90 loading screens from various mods, and in the era of SSD drives, there's not much time to appreciate them anyway.

I came here to check when the patch is coming out because it's been quite a while for so tiny changes. And as usual, it won't be playable without a hotfix that eliminates blatant bugs and broken elements of old mechanics, so we'll have to add at least a week to release date of the original 1.13.

Since I'm already here...
Have you Paradox guys seen Rising Tide, the new expansion for SM's Civilization: Beyond Earth? Compare its pricing and scope of changes with what you offer us with every "expansion". If Firaxis used your pricing policy, Rising Tide would cost ca 599,99€

They were on holiday for a month.

 

[negativekarz]

Mansa Musa died more than a hundred years before the game starts.

damn

 

[Augustus93]

Add Hungary as well.

 

[wingzero890]

Askia is the poster child for African leaders in the early period of this game. Maybe when subsaharan africa gets some content they'll add a screen with him.

I did try to find someone for the Mamluks, but no-one really stood out for me. And yes, I did take inspiration from Civ for some of these!

There's already a Mameluke leader on the loading screen, its Suleiman .

 

[Mister X]

For bosnia you could do Stjepan Tomaš

Or Stefan Tomasevic which was Despot of Serbia for 2 months but afterwards had to surrender Serbia to the ottomans and in 1461 became king of bosnia.