Conclave Dev Diary #5 Post Launch

[Birken]

Greetings!

It’s been a week since release and a lot of people have been playing Conclave. As usual, we have carefully listened to feedback from our players, and as @Doomdark explained last week, we’ve been looking into ways of improving the design and implementation of certain features. The two main areas of concern are Coalitions and Shattered Retreats, and we are currently testing the revised solutions. Read more about these changes in Conclave: The Near Future.

On top of this, we’ve been looking to improve the experience in Conclave further. Here’s a selection of new features:

• A new favor use where a vassal can get pardoned by the liege.
• A new faction that can unite vassals against tyrannical rulers, change succession law and put the most liked (or the least disliked) vassal on the throne.
• Clarity, balancing and some new non-congenital traits in the Education system.
• More events related to favors.

The patch also feature some quality of life improvements such as:

• A next song button.
• An option to ignore the music scripts and play all songs randomly (Christmas carols all year long!)

Plus about a hundred more fixes.

As soon as the changes are fully implemented and approved by our internal QA department, we will release it as a public beta to get the opportunity to gather your feedback before finalizing the patch.

 

[Birken]

Best change yet!

Also, can coalitions get changes to something like "defensive pact"? The current name invokes thoughts from EU4's timeline despite not being the same.

We're actually trying out changing the name to Defensive Pact and infamy becoming threat.

 

[Birken]

Referring the Education system, I do not seem to get any more reminders to have any children getting an education. I do get an alert concerning the children's focus from 0-12 and the one starting at 12 years old. But I lack the reminder that one is not receiving an education like it used to be alerted before the Conclave DLC.
Could this function be returned?



Does the ignoring of music scripts also mean we now are able to play music from other cultures then the one that we are playing at that moment? Cause I would love to hear more varying music during a play through

Not sure what you mean by not getting an education? That should be the one you get at age 12, or are you referring to not having a specific guardian set?

On the music: that's exactly what it means and the main reason for adding the option (why have all the music dlc if you cannot hear it unless you play a specific culture?)