Crusader Kings III Console/PC
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Babble here:
Currently playing on X/S, sim games rare my shit.What’s the good bad and ugly? I’m trying not to switch over to steam just for the mods. I want to see if it’s possible to have my starting player father a whole dynasty.
Anyone else play? Talk to us.
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@doozer I've consider buying CK3. How hard is it to start? Does it entail arcane screens full of stats or is it intuitive enough to get started then harder to master later?
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@arkandel I picked it up on Gamepass/Ultimate. I am considering buying it however I did read on the forums some game crashing issues on consoles after reaching a certain point in time, a long way away if you start from the 800’s. Haven’t experienced any yet but I’m sure to at some point.
I restarted a few times, went through the tutorial and probably now on my 10th or so restart after never playing any of the previous versions. It took some trial and error and if you’re cool with that, go for it. You have the option of configuring some of the rules of your game: https://ck3.paradoxwikis.com/Game_rule . I highly recommend this.
But yeah. Information overload , the UI tool tips are great.
I’m going slow, not winning wars or trying to declare war on a territory. That’s probably a later ambition. My vassals take territories for me. I role play their the traits on the characters, like the Sims. Currently Im trying to create my own religion and win the holy war against the Pope as my character controls all the Holy Sites from that era.
I’m a bit obsessed.
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@arkandel It's pretty intuitive. You don't need to go down every rabbit hole of information. There's layers of complexity you don't need to understand immediately. That said, a lot of people who pick it up think of it as a map-painting game. Which it can be, sure, but as a newbie trying to paint the world a single color you're probably going to run into a whole host of troubles. It's a much more rewarding game if you just go with the flow. Do the best you can with one character after another, and accept that shit's gonna happen. You'll have good rulers, bad rulers, utterly incomptent rulers. Your grand plans are gonna fall apart. More powerful Kingdoms/Empires are gonna declare war on you, or on your liege, and you'll lose territory, but as long as you have an heir and at least one title, you'll be fine in the long run.
I really love it, I've got a campaign I play a few hours here and there. Leave it, come back to it, enjoy it again.
I play it on Steam, rather'n console, tho.
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I have 1.6K hours in CK2 and around 500 hours in CK3.
In truth: I liked CK2 a lot more. The graphics were a lot worse, but ... it wasn't as cartoony.
CK3 isn't a bad game, but it seems like it's the same thing happening over and over again. Just like CK2, the strongest tree is knowledge bar none (I can go into detail if prodded, if not, trust me, it's Knowledge).
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@tooters said in Crusader Kings III Console/PC:
CK3 isn't a bad game, but it seems like it's the same thing happening over and over again. Just like CK2, the strongest tree is knowledge bar none (I can go into detail if prodded, if not, trust me, it's Knowledge).
Never played Crusader Kings, but sounds like most Civilization games and needing writing/literacy to get advanced things like governments and such to springboard technology in other areas to get advantage over other civilizations in that game?
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So the short of it is that with knowledge, you get better everything else. You get better traits, which makes vassals like you more and disencourages murder / rebellions. The more you're liked, the more troops you get. In addition, the quicker you can upgrade your military units and get more men at arms. It improves development quickly, and development is where your taxation is based, so you get more money. It makes the church like you, and makes converting counties to your religion / getting a claim much faster; this also helps getting money from the Pope if you're Catholic/Insular.
I guess the only thing it doesn't really improve is intrigue, but the truth of the matter is you don't need high intrigue to be successful.
It also makes your ruler live longer, which is /huge/, and you know 1 year before he dies. There's no surprises (because everyone loves you, you're not likely to get murdered -- and you have money to improve their opinion). Your ruler can live, in medieval terms, to 70-80 yrs old, whereas if you focused on anything else, he could drop dead at 40.
