CK3 Dev Diary #16 - Tutorials and Tooltips and Encyclopedias, Oh My!

[Vivs]

That confirms there is no marquis nor grand duke rank, shame! I mean, CK2 added emperor-tier, so you'd think a next installment would add another, but I guess not...

Well, I suppose you'll still be able to be a "grand duke" by holding more than one duchy title, as in CK2. As for the Marquis title... maybe if you're a count and your capital is at the realm's border, your liege can designate your land as a March? And then that changes your title name (though not your tier)? Pretty please, Paradox?

 

[IndigoRage]

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Whoever decided this was a good idea needs a right good slap. W is the political mapmode.... not moving around the damn map. This ain't a first person shooter >.<

It is also a feature I rationally hate in Imperator.

I, for one appreciate not having to have my arm sprawled across my keyboard to the arrow keys when I want to move the map while clicking on something.

 

[aantia]

Wow, very nice. This is what professional game design should look like in 2020

 

[dever4o]

Can't wait

 

[ius]

The first thing I see is the screenshot with WASD -- without any indication these can be altered. To my delight the first comment is about rebinding, but then I notice it has been 6x disagreed. Please explain, what the hell is wrong with you people?

It is about time the devs add a keyboard configuration tab to the settings. If "better interaction with hotkeys" means it will be integrated, than I am glad.

On the same note, WASD is the most stupid standard ever, only intended for small handed people who can't reach the modifier keys from the home row.

But will there be re-bindable keyboard shortcuts?

WASD to move around the map. A dream come true!

 

[Lord Lambert]

I, for one appreciate not having to have my arm sprawled across my keyboard to the arrow keys when I want to move the map while clicking on something.

I don't use the arrow keys, I use the only quantifiably objectively superior method: Middle Mouse Click and Drag.

 

[Xain]

Looking at Ireland on the screenshot I count 12 counties with perhaps 1 or 2 obscured by the tutorial window. Is province count also still under development. I'd be a bit disappointed if CK3 starts with the province density CK2 had at launch. I've gotten used to 19-county Ireland, I don't wanna go back to 13.

Unfortunately, that seems to confirm what was already noted about Southern Italy.
I find this one of the most disappointing issues with the new game (together with fixed baronies), and I sincerely hope this is just WIP map.

On the tool tips, I like them in principle, but how easy will it be to click a second or third tier link without unadvertingly putting the mouse out of the tool tip frame, thus closing it? And when it is tied to time, I am also concerned that the showtime will be too short - thus forcing players to activate the tool tip more than once (pretty annoying for se on-tier tool tips) - or too long - thus interrupting the game...

 

[Xain]

On the WASD issue, I personally am not a big user of hot keys and I just learnt you could control the map types even though I've had my hours of play with PDX games and CK.

But I welcome the addition because it may help those using a nonstandard keyboard (e.g. When playing Shadow on an Android) that does not ha e arrow.

That said, I agree that the best way (and a good rule of thumb when you deal with easily customisable things) would be to allow custom keyboard mapping so that anybody can arrange it as it best suits their needs

 

[Secuter]

Great, this is good.. Though, I'd rather hear about something more, well, interesting. The skill-trees almost killed my little hype I had going and this doesn't add to it.

 

[Cymsdale]

I like WASD, but please tell me I can still middle-pan.

(And thank you for allowing us to disable edge scrolling, now go apply that to your other games.)

 

[Denkt]

This should be the new "minimum" QoL all paradox releases in the future have to follow, it is such big improvement that the question is why we have not had this sooner?

Rather delay the games and make them good instead of releasing stuff like Imperator: Rome, it did not pay of from what I can tell with a player Count similar to Victoria 2 after several patches.

 

[Ixalmaris]

The big problems PDX tutorials always have is that they are never updated for future patches/DLC.
Will you try to do that better this time?

 

[TheMind]

Visible Baronys dont compensate it if they can not be seperated from countys and conquered seperatly.

De Jure Claim for counties! Awful, lol.

 

[Axis89]

The first thing I see is the screenshot with WASD -- without any indication these can be altered. To my delight the first comment is about rebinding, but then I notice it has been 6x disagreed. Please explain, what the hell is wrong with you people?

It is about time the devs add a keyboard configuration tab to the settings. If "better interaction with hotkeys" means it will be integrated, than I am glad.

On the same note, WASD is the most stupid standard ever, only intended for small handed people who can't reach the modifier keys from the home row.

I really dont understand a lot of people here on the Paradox forums either, sometimes they dont want people to have even the option of doing stuff a different way.. I cant really wrap my head around it other that that there are a lot of very conservative people here, who fights change like the Inquisition. Even when that change is just an alternative to what is already there.

Let people bind their keys however they want, it wont bother anyone.

 

[Agamidae]

Let people bind their keys however they want

Axis, this is exactly what everybody wants. And no Paradox game to date has hotkey settings.
We don't have an alternative, when it comes to the keyboard (unless we use Autohotkey)

 

[Denkt]

And no Paradox game to date has it.

It is quite ridiculous since much older games made by much less prosperous developers could do it.

 

[Bearnest]

The first thing I see is the screenshot with WASD -- without any indication these can be altered. To my delight the first comment is about rebinding, but then I notice it has been 6x disagreed. Please explain, what the hell is wrong with you people?

IMO, the disagrees have to do more with the "first" thing than with the bindable keys

But will there be re-bindable keyboard shortcuts?

Also first.

 

[Pointyearedgit]

This looks gorgeous, and I can't tell you how important that is for CK games as a player. This is all the foundation you guys are going to build (hopefully) years of great CK3 content on, I'm glad the aim is to do it right and make it easy to understand. Maybe I'll even be able to get some more friends to try it out!

 

[Axis89]

Axis, this is exactly what everybody wants. And no Paradox game to date has hotkey settings.
We don't have an alternative, when it comes to the keyboard (unless we use Autohotkey)

Yeah it is quite ridiculous. They have been making games for a looooong time now, and their games could have enjoyed key binding customization since forever.
Which makes me think about animations and specs. I have a powerful gaming computer and welcome better graphics and animations etc, but in options it wouldnt hurt to be able to turn off animations, and downscale graphics if your computer is a bit dated or not a powehouse computer.

 

[Krajzen]

Thank God.

UI in ck2 was terrible for me, especially as I had to enter the game at very late level, with a ton of features.