EU4 - Development Diary - 28th January 2016

[Johan]

Hello everyone, today we’ll start talking about 1.16 and what it will contain. The development team is busy working on 1.15.1 at the same time, which we hope is out ASAP.

One of the fun part of working on the Europa Universalis series over the last decade has been the constant evolvement of the map. Today we’re proud to announce some of the map changes for 1.16, with a quick look of Europe.

Ireland in Crusader Kings II is known as tutorial island, as an entire game in itself. In EU so far, ireland have not been properly represented, and more been shown as poor as it became after a long time of english rule. Now Ireland is richer in 1444, and not just a quick conquest for England within 5 years. Ireland also have 9 provinces, where it had five before, and several new interesting nations to play.

We’ve also tweaked the map to better borders and provinces in Hungary, and I hope you’ll enjoy this setup.

We also made a complete overhaul of how cultures work to remove the ties to language, and tie them more together to similar cultures, to create more historically plausible countries and relations.

Now, for some community fun, try to find as many changes on the map compared to 1.15 in this screenshot and list below!

Next week I’m back talking about a new concept that is getting in the game for 1.15, which can be seen in the topbar on these screenshoys.

 

[Johan]

1.15 is barely out, we haven't even gotten 1.15.1. It's safe to say that 1.16 is at least 1 month away. So you can probably start playing, if you don't mind reading new dev diaries with cool, new features.

at least 2 months.

 

[Trin Tragula]

Re: Ryazanian. This basically a culture that more or less coincides with people that speak southern Russian dialects.
Just as in other parts of the world the biggest (according to geography) dialect has given name to the entire culture. It's also the dialect that most ended up with in the conquered lands to the south and east which makes it more relevant than Smolenskian dialect in this era.

 

[Trin Tragula]

A separated Syrmia province would simply be too small. Thats why its not in.
Fun fact: with the exception of when the Swahili states were added the Balkans/south East europe is actually the only region that has gotten new provinces every time the map has been updated.

 

[Trin Tragula]

So according to Paradox, now:

• Turkish = Arabic
• Lithuanian = Estonian
• Hungarian = Romanian
• Finnish = Swedish
• Welsh = English
• Lower Scottish = English
• Slovak = Hungarian

Thanks a lot, Paradox.

Actually none of that is true in the game. They're all separate cultures within a common culture group (none of the culture groups use the names you listed though). If you think everything inside a culture group is the same thing then you might as well say that the game consider Swedish = Danish or Castilian = Portuguese in 1.15.