If I’m not mistaken CK3 was cracked on the first day, that gives me quite some hope.
I’m already loving this game - have a look at all the youtubers out there playing it. Their politics shows in the way they talk about certain factions and events. One of the game’s designers, Paul Depre, was looking really uncomfortable on the official game stream when playing as Mexico the game director told him to subjugate Hawaii just because they can.
Some folk playing as the US talking about the decentralized Native American nations as a ‘space to expand into’ and Native Americans as a problem to deal with later, while others go out of their way to remove discrimination laws against them.
It’s literally an economy sandbox of the time in world history that Marx and Engels wrote their works in. It’s got amazing potential.
Paraphrasing a quote from the official livestream just now (playing as Mexico): “If we [grant property rights to women], the Catholic church will disapprove, and they might radicalize. And if they start a civil war, the United States will almost certainly get involved”
I swear this game is going to create so many teaching opportunities for Marxists and socialists
Honestly it’s already that close to being communist propaganda, it does lack dialectics ingrained in the mechanics to really make it one.
Just granting bonuses and maluses to lobbies so that you can keep them strong or weak as needed, and reacting as needed to events depending on how your country is faring at the moment or what you are trying to achieve gets it super close.
Edit: but dialectics is researchable.
Somebody please make a red terror and landlord trick mods.
None of paradox’s games have any form of anti-piracy protection. I remember you could pretty much copy paste the game files of any of their games to another PC and play online multiplayer.
Victoria 3 could be a first but I somehow doubt it.
I only play this game to completely annihilate the traditional Imperial core
Basically only Denuvo is hard and this one afaik does not have it.
EDIT: Yup, it was pirated not even hour after release
I found a MEGA URL with a Vic3 crack here: https://nitter.it/javieluyu/status/1584997672200855552
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Yep that makes sense, but the only mod seems to have been inactive since 2019 😔
you can ask one of the admins to make you a mod in that case, they’ve done it before
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Technically it’s covered under the ‘ETC’
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How is it? I played vic2. I like the game, especially the economic parts and the politics but damn if I’m not uncomfortable with some of it. Stellaris is a bit cartoonish but Victoria is actually pretty historical so it can feel weird to play a game that basically encourages or at least makes it fun to commit genocide.
I know paradox games can be played in many ways and same for Victoria, but does the third game try to be a little less erurocentric?
How do yall play the game?
I’ve played a lot since yesterday and so far I like it quite a lot! I was very surprised with its takes, I expected it to be very liberal biased but actually it’s not bad at all. I might make a post talking about my first impressions.
Not sure if you’re asking this or if I misunderstood, but I pirated the game hehe
Thanks id love to hear your first impressions so I’ll be on the lookout.
I refuse to be impressed until I know for a fact that it realistically simulates imperialism. If I don’t have to fight other great powers over diminishing returns from a declining rate of profit then its not right. Likewise, if I can’t dominate entire country’s politics by exporting capital there then its not fit for purpose until someone mods it in.
