Any first impressions?

[Automorphisme]

Historical wars in the 876 bookmark no longer work well :
- The Magyars are not at war against Bulgaria
- The wars of the sons of Ragnar Lothbrock targets Mercia and not Northumbria as it should. Moreover the A.I. is inactive as far as I saw.

 

[PaulMClem]

Often times dynasties in east lack female members if such are not well known. However, with patch many Eastern religions can intermarry without issues so it should not take long until you can start with marriage game properly.

So would it not be a big deal for a Bon to marry a Sunni or a Buddhist?

 

[DàbiànLājīdàrén]

I'm at school for another hour or so.

 

[Lord_P]

I played a few hours as the ruler of Ü-Tsang in 1066 (she's a Buddhist Bodpa woman, better add her to the interesting female characters list). State of the game is looking quite good at this point. I control the eastern part of the Tibetan Plateau while my husband, the King of Guge, controls the western part. Nepal and Assam are my tributaries, I use them as my wall against the south. Xia is my threatening neighbour, and a tributary of the Western Protectorate, which is bad. After the next generation inherits I should really move to unite the kingdoms of Ü-Tsang and Guge. I really need to deal with Xia as well. The Tibetan Empire shall rise again!

Some observations:

• Tibet is a nice region to play in, although in this game the Xia and me really rushed to take as much of it as possible very quickly.
• I haven't done much with China yet, but I'm looking forward to some kowtowing.
• The new casus bellis are excellent and allow for some much better expansion (force vassalisation especially).
• All Tibetan cultures except Bodpa allow for Absolute Cognatic. This makes me sad.
• There's a new event for creating the Sultanate of Rum! I don't know how it happened, suddenly I just saw Rum in Anatolia.

 

[tywinzo]

Some random observations:

- AI co-ops better in wars. Crusades actually work since armies are not walking back and forth.
- Double click portrait really nice
- Game feels faster
- AIs offer alliances
- Prestige/piety numbers nicely rounded in character view
- Crusades still end with invalidation upon new liege :-(

Only running patch, not with JD. Do not having India/Tibet/etc part of my map.

 

[DàbiànLājīdàrén]

What does double click mean?

 

[DC123456789]

I"m happy they made it where Han characters have their family name before their birth name, but I'm somewhat disappointed that they decided to just go with "Duke/Count/King" as your titles. Especially when you're surrounded by Satraps, Khans, and Rajas.

That is how Chinese noble titles are typically referred to though.

 

[DàbiànLājīdàrén]

Coloquially speaking Chinese titles are given English equivalents. This is used academically as well.

 

[Serenity84]

What does double click mean?

Takes you to where they are located I think

 

[tywinzo]

Takes you to where they are located I think

Yeah. You click the portrait once more and that zooms in on the location of the character. Quite nifty.

 

[Rascar Capac]

Historical wars in the 876 bookmark no longer work well :
- The Magyars are not at war against Bulgaria
- The wars of the sons of Ragnar Lothbrock targets Mercia and not Northumbria as it should. Moreover the A.I. is inactive as far as I saw.

Similar problems in Persian area. It seems that reloading save might have just fixed something...

 

[FPChris]

Anyone know what it means when a character is dark under the eyes and wearing a blue hood?

Possible bug:
Also, hovering over someones name no longer shows their full name? I'm just King Björn of Sweden now, instead of Björn Eriksson af Munsö

 

[in heaven]

Well I tried playing near Tibet before this patch, and I can say that it's definitely more fun to play in that region now. So far, my complaints are: China does not have a court, so you can't invite their people (though you can request people from them with grace), China user interface is somewhat hard to get used to and protector of China does not marry or have reasonable court too.

And there are some titular titles that are really hard to find, like "Outlaws of the Marsh", I still don't know how to access them, I somehow found them and now the only way I can find them again is by concubine I took from them. They don't hold any county or barony. I also don't even know what do they do.. Like they are there doing absolutely nothing.

I really love new CB's!

This is how much I can say from 3 hours of play.

 

[Larva]

Tried High Chieftess Tong of Nagchu (tribal Bon vassal of Tibet) in 769 - hard af. Emperor is Zealous, revokes the crap out of all Bon vassals. Starts wars all over the places. Far East Byzantium reported.
Notable observations:
- Bon is not cool, like - at ALL - the only interesting thing - ability to go Abs-Cog from start, but that does not work with gavelkind well, you know;
- Tibet op

 

[DàbiànLājīdàrén]

Turkic invaders actually work now.

 

[Rascar Capac]

And there are some titular titles that are really hard to find, like "Outlaws of the Marsh", I still don't know how to access them, I somehow found them and now the only way I can find them again is by concubine I took from them. They don't hold any county or barony. I also don't even know what do they do.. Like they are there doing absolutely nothing.

Mercs.

 

[Kumicho]

In my new Zune playthrough, I'm loving the fact that Indians don't start with holy orders at the start. On the flip side, all of the Sunni rulers around you are permanent tributaries of the Caliph... Tibet has mostly stayed to itself, and China has primarily occupied itself with India and Tibet. Did get a nifty Zhuge Crossbow that I bought off of some girl on my pilgrimage to China, but otherwise haven't explored much of the new mechanics yet.

 

[PaulMClem]

Why can't I build a Trade Post here?

Spoiler: Trade Post Query

Silk Road goes through Nyingchi which is in my realm. It's not De Jure, but is De Facto and holds my current capital. Reading the tooltip I can't see why I'm not allowed to build a Trade Post.

Any ideas?

 

[riadach]

Things seem much more dynamic. Ran an observer. Saw Ireland get swallowed by England but vassalisation means it re-emerged. Byzantium lost anatolia, first to Seljuks then to Fatimids, but held the line at the Bosporus. Saw Christian East Africa reduced to two provinces by Islamic invasions yet still re-emerge under the united crowns of Nubia and Abyssinia. Tis glorious madness.

 

[riadach]

Why can't I build a Trade Post here?

Spoiler: Trade Post Query

Silk Road goes through Nyingchi which is in my realm. It's not De Jure, but is De Facto and holds my current capital. Reading the tooltip I can't see why I'm not allowed to build a Trade Post.

Any ideas?

It's doesn't have the bag of gold symbol on it.