The realm rejoices as Paradox Interactive announces the launch of Crusader Kings III, the latest entry in the publisher’s grand strategy role-playing game franchise. Advisors may now jockey for positions of influence and adversaries should save their schemes for another day, because on this day Crusader Kings III can be purchased on Steam, the Paradox Store, and other major online retailers.
No, Imperator feels like it belongs to another era. The lack of attention to QoL in Imperator is one of the main reason behind its catastrophic launch (you didn't even have the basic troop commands like "embark all"...). Obsolete game mechanics (that became famous as "mana" but really encompass the whole ressource management of the game at launch) and general shallowness (a big map filled with 4-5 different playstyles, what did they expect really? Imagine launching Civ6 or TW with 5 playable civs/factions) are other reasons that make it seems like a game from when EU4 was released. You could compare Imperator with any modern strategy game and find it extremely outdated when it comes to UI and UE, except for very niche independant games... that's Imperator's vision problem (basically it was designed as a niche map painting game), and of course CK3 had to be better, because while Imperator could just be a niche game for so-called "hardcore GS fans", CK3 is going to be compared with other modern strategy games.
CK3 QoL look alot better than all other paradox games which is why I said that CK3 look like it is from Another era since it is simply such big improvement over anything paradox have done here. It is basically have the potential of being the dreadnought and make all other paradox games look obsolete.
Because binding a thumb button on my mouse (or caps lock) to middle click and moving the mouse is easier.
I don't want to move the mouse to move the screen, I want to pan the map and move my cursor at the same time, since the UI is locked in place...
Imperator was a one year project of porting EU: Rome to CK3's engine with some tweaks and tests. CK3 is a massive multi year project to be one of the next main games. If you listen to Johan's talks of the game at PDX con its pretty clear they thought they were making something smaller and it's only after player feedback that they went "oh, I guess we'll have to make it live up to standing toe to toe with EU and CK somehow".
I rarely ever use the keyboard beyond the space bar for pause.
The tiers are still hardcoded, making them dynamic would be quite the pain with how we need to reference them in code so often for things
It doesn't require any online connection or download, it just runs as part of the game
Any trait or game concept or anything that would go into any of the other pages shown in the images will automatically have its own entry made in the encyclopedia with the relevant information.
That is a bit out of the scope of the encyclopedia, a cool idea, but the encyclopedia is static text to explain parts of the game as opposed to some dynamic thing for noting down anything
STOP! COOKIE TIME
