Beta version for the Old patch after AoW release ?

[Nuka75]

Hello everyone,

Maybe I have missed the news about it, so sorry if I bring forth something old. I wanted to know if Paradox was planning to allow a beta Patch on steam to stay on the old version. I ask that because of the huge map overhaul (who, in CK2 with the adding of Inda made that beta patch mandatory because of incompatibility). So, to summarize:

1) Will the saves in the old version be compatible with the new one?
2) If it is the case, will the game REALLY be compatible (I ask that because I remember after CoP that a lot of provinces where changed in American continent, but they were tagged with catholic and 0 manpower/good because the game started in the previous version and the game put the default values for it didn't know the new provinces values).

Anyway, to give a choice to players the choice would be nice. I ask that because of a nice MP game we started before, and I am not sure I can block the upcoming patch via steam (the only option is to ask steam to ask before updating), which, I remind, is needed for a multiplayer game.

 

[Wizzington]

Yes, we'll be leaving an 'old' branch for 1.7.

In regards to compatibility, we've done quite a bit of work to make old saves compatible and added a bunch of logic to handle new provinces in old saves and give them correct base tax, appropriate culture and owner, etc, but we're not guaranteeing that old saves will work, so you use an old save in a new game at your own risk.

 

[Nuka75]

Yes, we'll be leaving an 'old' branch for 1.7.

In regards to compatibility, we've done quite a bit of work to make old saves compatible and added a bunch of logic to handle new provinces in old saves and give them correct base tax, appropriate culture and owner, etc, but we're not guaranteeing that old saves will work, so you use an old save in a new game at your own risk.

Wow, thanks Wiz, for the quick answer and also the effort put in compatibility, you made my day and the day of my enem... friends in the MP game.

 

[spyroware1]

19 days till release, working on Saturdays ey? Though I've heard that in Sweden after September it's just a long dark weekday so maybe it's that XD

 

[Kipperian]

Will ironman saves also work Wiz?

 

[Comes Imperii]

Yes, we'll be leaving an 'old' branch for 1.7.

In regards to compatibility, we've done quite a bit of work to make old saves compatible and added a bunch of logic to handle new provinces in old saves and give them correct base tax, appropriate culture and owner, etc, but we're not guaranteeing that old saves will work, so you use an old save in a new game at your own risk.

Will this old branch you are going to upload contain the new provinces or is it just like the game as it is now?

 

[Wizzington]

Will this old branch you are going to upload contain the new provinces or is it just like the game as it is now?

The latter.

 

[Comes Imperii]

The latter.

Ok, thanks for answering