CK II - 1.05 Development Diary - 3 of 3 - April 13th 2012

[asix79]

will the new patch be savegame compatible, as was the case with previous patches? im still about to finish my first full grand campaign and giving it up is not really an option for me

Then simply create a copy of the game directory somewhere else on your hard drive, and then run the game from that. Given the amount of changes coming, it'd be safe to assume that save files won't be compatible.

 

[Octavio]

guess ill have to wait until i finish that game then. thx for response!

 

[Sam L]

"Plot to revoke titles from vassals" - YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[James009]

Awesome. I've always felt (much like Todd Howard) that the best way to decide what to patch was to watch what the modders address, seems like Paradox is watching and being very intelligent regarding this.

So, we've got:
- Improved Crusades and military actions (grouping)
- More events
- More interesting traits
- Plotting improvements
- Cause of deaths!

 

[Zarco]

Friends and rivals! Thats something i missed from CKI!

 

[Vessol]

Flipping awesome Paradox. My only complaint is that I want to play CK2 so bad right now but I don't want to start a new game until the patch comes out D:!

 

[asix79]

Awesome. I've always felt (much like Todd Howard) that the best way to decide what to patch was to watch what the modders address, seems like Paradox is watching and being very intelligent regarding this.

So, we've got:
- Improved Crusades and military actions (grouping)
- More events
- More interesting traits
- Plotting improvements
- Cause of deaths!

And dynamic kingdoms.

 

[jonlucero]

cant wait!

 

[Basium]

Hey Johan/Paradox! I was always a fan simply because of the awesome games, but never realized you were such an awesome company. Thanks for being great developers in so many ways (as this extensive Dev Diary... for a bunch of new stuff... for free... demonstrates).

 

[unmerged(462833)]

I am still affraid of those new crusades and dynamic kingdoms - this time I can only say that I couldn't imagine better improvements than those which are written as 1.05 Development diary 3/3...

I also hope that my saved games would still work after new patch...

 

[VI Imre]

I love this game! Thank you PI!

 

[SolSara]

Wait a minute.

Cause of death "DUEL"... event chains regarding friends and ENEMIES... did you add duels? :wub:

As someone already wrote in this thread, there are already duels in the game. Two, at least. With Friends & Rivals we added one more, where you can duel your rival...

 

[MasterofMagic]

"Plot to revoke titles from vassals" - YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Damn you beat me too it. Now, I can finally go independent knowing I can finally revoke titles witout no king or queen tellin me what to do and how I can do it and when I can do it.

 

[unmerged(162475)]

I came here from Reddit because it promised kittens. Left disappointed.

I love the patch contents though.

 

[AKDrum]

Hello !

Thank you very much for these development diaries.

I'm moderator on a french historical strategy games fansite(it includes several grand strategy games as EU3, HOI3, CK2, Vic2, many french players love Paradox games ), and i report and translate all news about these games for our community.

When will be possible to know the complete changelog of the 1.05 patch ?

Thank you again and sorry for my bad english...

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[NEKIT7]

The patch seems to be awesome.
Thanks to dev team.

 

[barny]

Reading the Saltborn-AAR reminds me, that they really have to change the way, levies work and "regenerate".

It is just laughable, that you destroy an enemy army just to make him stronger.

Levies should only start to regenerate after the contingent of the holding is dissolved (either being send home or destroyed) and if a contingent gets destroyed, there should be a penalty (like -50% on regeneration for a time). An additional opinion penalty for the Vassal, that owns the holding would also be a good idea, I think.

 

[Galaahd]

Actually, there ARE duels in game. During the feast there is a probability of duel between two guests... but it happens rarely.

Oh yeah, I totally forgot about that. I hope that duels will be included in the enemies events chain, though.

 

[Jia Xu]

Reading the Saltborn-AAR reminds me, that they really have to change the way, levies work and "regenerate". It is just laughable, that you destroy an enemy army just to make him stronger. Levies should only start to regenerate after the contingent of the holding is dissolved (either being send home or destroyed) and if a contingent gets destroyed, there should be a penalty (like -50% on regeneration for a time). An additional opinion penalty for the Vassal, that owns the holding would also be a good idea, I think.

I think a nice simple 85% regeneration penalty while you're at war would probably fix this problem. It's not like you need to rely on levies anyway. I mean, as long as you have the cash, you can build an entire doomstack instantaneously out of just mercenaries.

 

[farinal]

This patch will be so AWESOME!