EUIV has one glaring issue, that is only rarely mentioned: the developers focus on adding new features while completely ignoring the ones made in the past. What we have because of that, despite a new expansion coming out this month:
One big update focused exclusively on fixing bugs and improving balance and the game becomes infinitely better. I am really trying not to be grumpy and pessimistic because I really love this game, but unless the developers realize their mistakes, it will only get worse. I can bet 20$ the 'over 500 bugs fixed' in the upcoming expansion will not matter much in the grand scale of things.
- The entire world fully colonized in 1700.
- African tribes equally technologically advanced as the most innovative Western powers, thanks to a completely broken and unbalanced Institutions system.
- A whole lot of possibilities and options that exist only technically. Providing a loan to another country is broken? Better make the whole feature practically unusable instead of fixing it. Apply this mentality to many more of those features.
- Events that could be much better balanced (balanced not in a 'for multiplayer' way, but balanced for authenticity). Some events, like Iberian Wedding, almost always result in unified Spain; others, like "We need a Jagiellon!", have 25% (one in fourth) chances to implode the entire Central Europe. Throw in some snacks like Succession in the Crimean Khanate to realize many major events need better AI factors. I could compare this issue to Hearts of Iron IV's National Focuses, some of which are still never picked in ahistorical mode many years after release.
- Not only minor features are broken. The government reform system, which replaced the simple but working government type system, allows rulers to utter 'I am the state' in the year 1600. This doesn't mean the system is fundamentally broken, even if flawed; this simply means that the developer team is spewing out features just for the sake of their existence, completely ignoring how they work ingame - possibly revealing how deeply the famous Paradox DLC policy has rot in. Many more features are similarly broken, like China's Mandate or the Council of Trent, which either lie to the player, work badly, or don't work at all.
- The AI, artificial "intelligence". I don't expect it to be ever fixed, or even made slightly more competent. Probably will have to rely on mods.
One big update focused exclusively on fixing bugs and improving balance and the game becomes infinitely better. I am really trying not to be grumpy and pessimistic because I really love this game, but unless the developers realize their mistakes, it will only get worse. I can bet 20$ the 'over 500 bugs fixed' in the upcoming expansion will not matter much in the grand scale of things.
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