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New Expansion Brings More Role-playing Options to Rulers Everywhere

STOCKHOLM – December 9, 2014 – Paradox Interactive and Paradox Development Studio today announced that Crusader Kings II: Way of Life, the next expansion for the award winning strategy franchise, will be released on December 16th via digital storefronts worldwide. Way of Life will be available on PC, Mac, and Linux for $7.99.

Way of Life delves into the role-playing aspects of Crusader Kings II, giving players the ability to fine-tune their methods of seduction and break ups, and also the ability to set a focus for your character that will influence the types of events that befall your character during their lifetime. Featuring hundreds of new events as well as over 20 new event pictures, Way of Life will give players control over their characters in ways never before available—for better, for worse, or for entertainment.




Way of Life features:

New diplomatic interactions – Dispatch foes by challenging them to duels, choose who to seduce, break up with lovers, spy on people, free prisonors from captivity, and more are now available to players.

Set a Focus - Give your rulers a “way of life” by assigning them a Focus that will give an immediate boost to their skills and help shape the course of their development through events and decisions – new and old. There are ten different Focuses available to your characters:

• Rulership – Be a better king!
• Business – Gold is good
• Hunting – Kill the beast!
• War – What’s yours is mine
• Family – the most important thing, right?
• Carousing - ahem
• Seduction – double ahem
• Intrigue – sneaky, sneak
• Scholarship – We love to learn
• Theology – Do it for the big guy upstairs

New events – Hundreds of new events have been added into Way of Life, alongside 20 new event images, which tie in directly to a character’s Focus. Specific events can be triggered only if a character is assigned a corresponding Focus.

To learn more about Crusader Kings II, visit http://www.crusaderkings.com/
 
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Will there actually be 100+ separate events?
"Hundreds" means "at least 200", so yeah, it's interesting whether they really are going to add that much. On the other hand, it's just 20 events per "way of life".
 

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I wish they'd fix some of the events in the current game before creating a bunch of new ones. Some of the current events either do nothing or are so inconsequential there's no point in their existence.
 

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"Hundreds" means "at least 200", so yeah, it's interesting whether they really are going to add that much. On the other hand, it's just 20 events per "way of life".
We were promised dosens of cultures for CM tho, which would mean at least 24, yet received less than even that number.
 

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Will this expansion improve the plot system?
 

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Very nice! The Theology focus though, is kind of useless because Learning is useless for the player.
 

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On the same day than Frontiers? http://store.steampowered.com/app/293480/

Jesus, some people will find their wallets quite empty by the end of the day.

You getting paid for that kind of advertising? That videogame is terrible, even for an indie title.

Way of Life on the other hand looks interesting. More flavor to character customization through events are always welcome.
 

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I am looking forward to this.
My only question is if Foci are Player only, or an AI feature as well.

It could be interesting to pass on and find your heir has a Focal personality preset, from a role playing perspective. But, at the same time, wonder how limiting that will be.
 

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My only question is if Foci are Player only, or an AI feature as well.

On the stream, they showed an AI Muslim with "War" focus on him and "wants to be marshall" ambition (by looks of things).

Tomorrow we get dev diary.

Two interesting things were mentioned:

- Dev team is now bigger

- WoL patch will include stuff from Modders (I assume Dev-diary & Patch Notes will reveal more about this).
 

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This looks great, finally a serious roleplay dlc,

Now I can build my kingdom as some warrior king, be a serious ruler as his son and then destroy my kingdom as his partying grandson only to rebuild it as his murderous great grandson
 

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A bunch of new events sounds good, as usual. The focus system seems interesting, it's something more permanent than the ambition system I take it?

New diplomatic interactions – Dispatch foes by challenging them to duels, choose who to seduce, break up with lovers, spy on people, free prisonors from captivity, and more are now available to players.

Now THAT is interesting. Spying on people? Count me in. The whole diplomatic game has a ton of potential for improvement. I'm looking forward to this stuff.

Also, what kinds of changes will be available in the free patch (if there is one)?