New portraits coming with Holy Fury

[El-Daddy]

this is nuts. So many portraits! I need to know what they are!

 

[uyg333]

To make it a bit clearer

French + Occitan

Italian + Basque + Roman?

Croatian

Serbian + Bulgarian? + Romanian?

Polish + Bohemian? + Pomeranian

 

[Leo the Isaurian]

Will I be able to purchase these portrait DLCs separate from Holy Fury when the time comes? Or do they come bundled in with the expansion? They look stunning.

 

[J.B.]

Very good finds, uyg333! It will be fun to generate new characters from these cultures in the Ruler Designer, soon.

 

[Zsrai]

Will I be able to purchase these portrait DLCs separate from Holy Fury when the time comes? Or do they come bundled in with the expansion? They look stunning.

Likely combined, that's been PDS' MO for the last few years.

 

[Llyw olaf]

Any new unit sprites? It would be nice if they upgraded the vanilla European units, maybe even a western and eastern split.

 

[JohnnyMacintosh]

Everyone's getting all excited over bloodlines, super cool crusades and all this jazz, and here I am, more excited for the portrait re-work than anything else.

 

[Torngasuk]

Everyone's getting all excited over bloodlines, super cool crusades and all this jazz, and here I am, more excited for the portrait re-work than anything else.

Indeed. What's the point of claiming a noble and distinguished ancestry if your hat isn't cooler than everyone else's hat? Fortunately, we are being gifted with both.

 

[Vityviktor]

Indeed. What's the point of claiming a noble and distinguished ancestry if your hat isn't cooler than everyone else's hat? Fortunately, we are being gifted with both.

And now we'll even have dynamic hat mechanics (coronations).

 

[ScienceNerd]

the Arabic portraits seem a little too dark to represent the skin tones of most Middle Easterners, and North African Berbers should probably have their own set of portraits.

Arabs and whatnot still don't have special faces.

 

[Vityviktor]

Arabs and whatnot still don't have special faces.

Before CK2's developement ends, I would like to see a new portrait pack for Arabs (maybe with differences between Bedouins, Levantines and Egyptians) and Berbers.

 

[ScienceNerd]

Before CK2's developement ends, I would like to see a new portrait pack for Arabs (maybe with differences between Bedouins, Levantines and Egyptians) and Berbers.

That will probably happen in some form

 

[Es57]

We're getting an abnormal amount of new portraits with Holy Fury, what more can we ask of them?

Even though this orgy of new portraits makes me very happy, it makes me sad at the same time.

The fact that almost the whole world will have its own set of portraits make it seem like Paradox wants to wrap up CK2 to leave it in its definitive state.
Which would imply that HF is the last DLC...

 

[Voy]

Even though this orgy of new portraits makes me very happy, it makes me sad at the same time.

The fact that almost the whole world will have its own set of portraits make it seem like Paradox wants to wrap up CK2 to leave it in its definitive state.
Which would imply that HF is the last DLC...

No reason to fear the worst. Let's wait and see.
If anything all these new portraits make an excellent base to build new ones for the ones that lack in Europe.

 

[Orphalesion]

There's a number of reasons why we're getting so many new portraits in HF.

Maybe the artist had enough time in his schedule to work on the number, maybe there was some leftover from Jade Dragon that couldn't be finished on time. Maybe the developers got just as sick of looking at those awful Basegame portraits as we did. Maybe it's to make sure HF is full of content for as many potential consumers as possible etc etc etc.

There's still a lot of groups that could use new or reworked protraits to bring them up to the standard of the current ones; Arabs (with the proposed split others have mentioned) are the most obvious one, the Hungarians don't have their own portraits yet, unless I've missed something neither the Anglo-Saxons nor the Saxons get their own ones and, imho, the Celts and the Norse aren't quite on the same level as the more recent portraits.

 

[forcefieldkid]

There's a number of reasons why we're getting so many new portraits in HF.

Maybe the artist had enough time in his schedule to work on the number, maybe there was some leftover from Jade Dragon that couldn't be finished on time. Maybe the developers got just as sick of looking at those awful Basegame portraits as we did. Maybe it's to make sure HF is full of content for as many potential consumers as possible etc etc etc.

There's still a lot of groups that could use new or reworked protraits to bring them up to the standard of the current ones; Arabs (with the proposed split others have mentioned) are the most obvious one, the Hungarians don't have their own portraits yet, unless I've missed something neither the Anglo-Saxons nor the Saxons get their own ones and, imho, the Celts and the Norse aren't quite on the same level as the more recent portraits.

I actually love the Norse portraits, it's just a shame they look half dead when they pass 30.

 

[Karlingid]

To make it a bit clearer

French + Occitan

Italian + Basque + Roman?

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Croatian

Serbian + Bulgarian? + Romanian?

Polish + Bohemian? + Pomeranian

If that is right, and there's a distinction between Croatian and other South Slav (and Romanian) cultures, that gets my hopes up for a Dalmatian culture. There was discussion of it a while back and, while no definitive confirmation has come forth about it, that sort of distinction seems like it could be an early indicator.

 

[Karlingid]

There's a number of reasons why we're getting so many new portraits in HF.

Maybe the artist had enough time in his schedule to work on the number, maybe there was some leftover from Jade Dragon that couldn't be finished on time. Maybe the developers got just as sick of looking at those awful Basegame portraits as we did. Maybe it's to make sure HF is full of content for as many potential consumers as possible etc etc etc.

There's still a lot of groups that could use new or reworked protraits to bring them up to the standard of the current ones; Arabs (with the proposed split others have mentioned) are the most obvious one, the Hungarians don't have their own portraits yet, unless I've missed something neither the Anglo-Saxons nor the Saxons get their own ones and, imho, the Celts and the Norse aren't quite on the same level as the more recent portraits.

Theoretically the Anglo-Saxons should be using Celtic portraits, since the main population of the "English" were assimilated Britons. Even the nobles were interbred, as can be found in genetic analysis of Anglic burials and dynastic names like "Cerdicing". They'd still use Saxon/Frisian clothing though, theoretically, and I wouldn't necessarily blame the devs if they kept them entirely consistent with the Frisians and Saxons for cultural, programming, or just general distinction purposes.

 

[Federalist girl]

There is already early Saxon clothing for the Anglo-Saxons — but they use Western portraits for their actual faces and hair. And then they’re just regular western after 950.

 

[Berengar]

Any new unit sprites? It would be nice if they upgraded the vanilla European units, maybe even a western and eastern split.

Nothing yet! Maybe the unit packs are still in the making and not ready. With the release months away who knows what lies in their laboratories!