Crusader Kings II: Way of Life announced - Patch 2.3 BETA will be open to anyone!

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DesNibelungen

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You realize Charlie had the streams and DDs, yes?

They had a handful of short dev diaries toward the end that came across as afterthoughts. The video dev diaries came earlier and were clearly the preferred form.

It's likely a matter of it simply being faster to sit down and fool around on video for an hour than it is to write a quality DD. But I miss the old DDs.
 

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It's good that paradox is improving roleplay options, but the example you give us is seduction... seriously? Mods have been giving us plots to seduce and more meaningful relationships for YEARS now and that should be a component of a vanilla patch. It's kind of like how they repackaged CK2+'s Jews into Sons of Abraham (Yes I know Paradox owns all the rights to modded content, but it sucks that mods that have had those features before force users to buy the DLC in order to use those features again...)
 

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Good stuff.... can we please have some sort of appreciation for if a character is chivalrous or dreadful, ala the chivalry meter of medieval 2 total war. In a game about characters, every other character around should be able to percieve those who are good and those who are bad.
 

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This sounds amazing. Just today I wondered what it would be like if our characters could correspond with others. For example, if I (King of Scotland) marry off my daughter to the Grand Prince of Kiev, it would be nice to receive a letter from her saying that she arrived safely, that she was well-received by the Grand Prince, that she is getting to know her new homeland, or something to that effect. A few years later, you could receive a somber letter from your son-in-law informing you that she died in childbirth. That sort of inter-familial correspondence would really help immersion/roleplay and it's really better than just receiving that little message in upper right corner saying your child is dead.
 

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Awesome. Finally the role playing DLC we've been asking for for ages!

Also very curious about this beta thing as well...
 

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Looking forward to what's coming out of this announcement and a promising sounding DLC.
Hopefully there will be some patches fixing some annoying bugs first.
 

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After CM, I'm a bit skeptical about this. Don't get me wrong, I really like the idea of "depth > breadth". I just hope that this doesn't turn out to be some 10$ event pack or something. On the other hand, it has the POTENTIAL to be really awesome.
However, I'm also happy to hear that you guys open up the beta patch to the public. Great move!
 

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