EU4 - Development Diary - 2nd of October 2018

[Siggerad]

Spain OMG, hmm maybe is time to comeback to EU IV

 

[Van Kasten]

I hope there will be some flavour for the Italian peninsula as well

Spain/Portugal are cool I guess. Italy or the HRE would have been better though.

They could potentially tie in some improvements to Italy/North Africa as well, like what they did with the low countries in RB. It would make sense as these regions typically see constant Iberian meddling.

Maybe Naples and Sicily may be touched, but if they touch anything else I’ll be very sad and disappointed. Because in a Spain ImPak there will be no room for even a proper Italian mechanic. And Italy and the HRE need some real love. It’s not possibile that there areas so dense with diversity feels like the same every time, with no real difference between one nation and another. In the Spain ImPak we want a well fleshed-out Iberian Peninsula and a global rework like colonization or Catholicism (I hope the former).

 

[RaccoonCity]

Does Iberia really need an overhaul? Seems one of the more fleshed out regions in the game imo

 

[Brucaliffo]

Italy deserves a DLC more than anything else.

 

[fr-rein]

Seriously, there is currently no region in Eurasia that is as flat-out wrong as is Indonesia, followed (with some distance) by SEA (you know your province setup is bad when it was inspired by the current political boundaries in the region).

Ruthenia (including Cossacks) and the Steppes are far worse and, unlike Indonesia, there were touches to Russia, Lithuania and Poland which mostly bypassed it. Indonesia is likely to be a part of the SEA pack, which may happen lately.

Paradox teases/anounces the region of focus for next DLC/Patch.

Roughly half the forum - "Yay, X is finally getting love."

Roughly the other half - "BOO, region Y should be the one getting love."

And thus the cycle continues.......


For the record I'm fine with Iberia getting some attention. I'd suspect that, outside the peninsula itself, Morocco, France, Sardinia, Naples, Sicily, and maybe the Lowlands are likely areas to get some attention.

The major countries pretending for the update are often like that, I suppose.
Personally, I hope that Catholicism gets a good touch and flavour, with Teutons and company also getting some love.

 

[RaccoonCity]

I just hope they remove the border gore with Labourd.

 

[Wixelt]

What about Indonesia?

 

[Fishman786]

Paradox teases/anounces the region of focus for next DLC/Patch.

Roughly half the forum - "Yay, X is finally getting love."

Roughly the other half - "BOO, region Y should be the one getting love."

And thus the cycle continues.......


For the record I'm fine with Iberia getting some attention. I'd suspect that, outside the peninsula itself, Morocco, France, Sardinia, Naples, Sicily, and maybe the Lowlands are likely areas to get some attention.

The best answer to this is to just make the entire game as terrible as possible. That way every region deserves improvement just as much as the rest.

 

[Caspian Mortis]

Hopefully we get a DLC/content pack for Southeast Asia this year.

Poor region is a featureless wasteland currently. It desperately needs some love.

 

[klingonadmiral]

Ruthenia (including Cossacks) and the Steppes are far worse and, unlike Indonesia, there were touches to Russia, Lithuania and Poland which mostly bypassed it. Indonesia is likely to be a part of the SEA pack, which may happen lately.

The Eurasian Steppe doesn't have its second oldest city be an uncolonized province.

 

[kgmi]

This might be pretty low chance and I am probably in the minority for this, but I really hope we could get a cute little decision to form Carthago as Morocco and Tunis if Iberia is getting some new flavour. We can restore Rome and Zoroastrian Persia, so Carthago with nice trading ideas would be neat. Also REALLY hoping for a nice colonisation rework.

But after that there better be a larger HRE DLC, I can't stand the vanillaness of Austria and the HRE reforms anymore, as well as the huge block provinces of Brunswick and Thueringen

 

[Ulfreig]

Great, Iberian reworking and immersion! Does that mean new colonization mechanics, or maybe new Iberian cultures (like Brazilian)? Asking for a friend.

 

[ttg_96]

Will Portugal get new provinces, like splitting Lisbon into Lisbon and Setubal?

 

[petertju]

They could potentially tie in some improvements to Italy/North Africa as well, like what they did with the low countries in RB. It would make sense as these regions typically see constant Iberian meddling.

The hope is that they use this Immersion pack to give a little update to a few of Mare Nostrum features, like the raiding mechanism.

 

[frolix42]

I was expecting @DDRJake to be more coy about what the next DLC would actually focus on.

 

[Kukumarro]

Aleluyah! I hope it will be more than fixing the provinces and that you are gonna make the Castillian Civil War historical, and finally link it with Isabel I and the union with Aragon (or with Portugal if their candidate wins)

 

[Ismael R Murias]

Well, the Pet Shop Boys would be pleased, because we're going to Go West!

Guess the Doors will be too:

 

[Cyberman01]

I just hope they remove the border gore with Labourd.

that map is wrong btw, Calais and Rethel are in France since the english channel update

 

[Cyberman01]

Iberia at last, please focus on Germany or Balkans next. Both of these regions need some revamping and flavour but I'd guess Germany would be more work so a Balkans+Hungary patch first would be so great. Germany and HRE would probably get its own dlc and be a major update and not just more provinces and events.

 

[Manwa]

I'm really overjoyed with expectation on the many possibilities an iberian patch can offer. I love many of the previous suggestions such as having different game routes such as the Portugal+Castile Union Vs Iberian Wedding or the Mediterranean/European focus Vs Colonial destiny, the universal monarchy with its "virreyes" and regional parlaments, a colonization systems (maybe needed) uptate, changes in the african/italian/burgundian/dutch influenced by the iberian nations, and/or other ideas that Paradox can come up. A Cartago formable nation that will most certainly have to wait to a northern african patch and see elephants other than hindu crossing iberia to invade Europe. So many possiibilities...

But adding flavour to andalusian iberian muslisms and vasque cultures in Navarra and Granada nations is a feat I've been dreaming since I got the game.

Needless to say, I'm completely hyped. \(^_^)/