Features of Europa Universalis IV: Golden Century include:
Minority Expulsion: Settle your distant colonies with homeland minorities, promoting greater cohesion at home, while adding more diversity to your subject nations.
Not clear what is the historical event this is trying to replicate, is there the impression that bigoted European monarchs voluntarily gave the hated minorities free land in their colonial dominions and paid for the trip? Anyway, culture conversion is not worth the diplo points, doubt this will change it, going Humanist still seems like the only competitive strategy. And why on earth would you want to make your Colonial Nations more unstable? They already struggle to survive against the natives, has that been fixed?
Establish Orders: Iberian nations can appoint Jesuit, Franciscan or Dominican clerics to govern their states to reduce unrest or ease conversion.
This mechanic is
just plain bad, it involves zero strategy, it makes no sense to restrict it to just Iberians, and makes a mockery of the
actual complex and far reaching history of these Catholic Orders. Has Catholicism been fixed yet by the way?
New Mission Trees: New missions and objectives for the nations of Iberia and Northwest Africa, including Spain and Andalusia.
The lowest effort content, most moders could knock these out in a day. If you want to sell this, at least give us quantity, where are the missions for New World natives, for the Colonial Nations, etc.?
Pirate Republics: Play as or combat against pirate nations in dangerous sea zones, with their own flavor and game style.
Disney Universalis 4? I'm sure there will plenty of witty puns and 4th wall breaking references. But it seems that the main gameplay aspects of playing as Pirates will be Naval Combat and Coastal Raiding, i.e. two of the most awful mechanics in the game. Have those been fixed?
Flagships: Appoint a Flagship to lead your navy, adding combat and trade power to your fleets.
Hero units in a grand strategy game? Is this really what we need?
Naval Barrage: Use your ships to help besiege coastal forts by bombarding the walls.
And finally a mechanic which was designed in such a way as to become utterly pointless as soon as you have a single cannon in your army.
Golden Century will ship with a major free update that includes an extensive reworking of the game maps of Iberia, Northwest Africa
A more accurate description would be "an incorrect and underwhelming reworking of the game maps", as can be seen
here,
here and
here, for example.
Such a wasted opportunity. More bloat while the many problems in the game keep accumulating. And it is clear that this update will close the door on future actual improvements to Iberia. Despite its importance in the EU4 period, it has almost never been touched and will remain a terribly historically inaccurate area of the game with bland gameplay.
I will not be buying this DLC of course, and encourage other players to also vote with their wallets and demand better value for your hard earned cash.
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