October 10

Patch 1.18 - The Prussia Patch - Changelog

Patch 1.18 "Prussia Patch" is gearing up to be released alongside Rights of Man Tomorrow on the 11th October.

While saves from 1.17.1 will likely function, due to massive changes to the game there will undeniably be funky things going on with them if played in 1.18. We recommend that if you wish to complete your 1.17.1 games, roll back to version 1.17.1

These patchnotes are so long you could print them out into a book and "disinherit" your heir with it.

>> Read full patch notes on our official forum <<

We strongly recommend staying on version 1.17.1 if you have any old ironman games you wish to finish! Updating to 1.18 will cause really strange behavior in games started with a previous patch level. You have been warned!

Here is an extremely limited selection from the patch notes:

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- Created a new technology system using Institutions, with no more westernisation or directly differing technology groups.
- New Culture Acceptance mechanics, where you can decide which cultures you want accepted in your nation, and which should be the primary culture.
- Added the Braindead Player AI setting to completely disable AI takeover if a player disconnects.
- Minimap displays player, friendly and enemy units.
- Added the "embrace" cheat to embrace all institutions in a province (1st argument), or for a specific institution (2nd argument).
- Added "exhaust" console command to alter war exhaustion.
- The Government View now shows more detailed information about the different Cultures and the acceptance of them in your state cores.
- When in a Succession War, the attacker can now demand Cancel Subject on the Country in question as part of the war goal.
- Added "powerspend" console command that prints global powerspend statistics to game.log, and that can optionally take a country tag as argument.
- Added "reset_powerspend" console command to reset all powerspend stats to zero (since it tracks spending so far).
- Added build datetime to version console command.
- As the leader of a Trade League, you can now create a Trading City from one of your provinces (requires Mare Nostrum DLC). This new nation will have the Trading City republic government and will automatically join your Trade League.
- Added dialog for sending crash reports.
- Host now sees a checkbox on player disconnect notification that lets him specify whether AI will be active or not for the disconnected country.
- "economy" console command now displays the sum of all expenses in each category since the beginning of time, or until "reset_economy" is executed.
- Embrace console-command now lists the optional argument in help.

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October 7

Europa Universalis IV - Video Dev Diary

Great Powers, Monarchs and More in New Europa Universalis IV Video Dev Diary

In one of the most expansive updates ever, Rights of Man introduces Great Power politics, more personality for your monarchs and a ton of other changes to religion, governments and economy. In this new video developer diary, Johan Andersson, the Creative Director of the Europa Universalis series, goes through the major changes you will see.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ6KTI9Hhno

Like Paradox Development Studios other expansions, Rights of Man will be accompanied by a major free update for everyone who owns Europa Universalis IV.

Europa Universalis IV: Rights of Man will be available on 11 October 2016 for $20

http://store.steampowered.com/app/486570/

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“A hallmark of excellence.”
9,5/10 – Destructoid

“Europa Universalis IV is a masterwork of a strategy game.”
91/100 & Editors Choice – PC Gamer

“Complex and rewarding strategizing makes the fourth game in the Europa Universalis dynasty shine.”
9/10 & Editors Choice – Gamespot

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aLi

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1 review

Posted: September 20

My parents attitude towards Me: Hostile

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Eastern Crow

91 products in account

28 reviews

Posted: September 29

>start as Muscovites
>chill round, roflstomp everyone
>decent generals rolling in
>form Russia
>Poland-Lithuania rather calm that round, wonder why
>look over to Europe
>Austria didn't conquer anything?
>click on Austria
>"Under personal union"
>France
>JesusChrist.jpg
>50 years later, Half of Europe is blue
>rushing to expand to Alaska
>100 years later, only thing standing between me and France is the Commonwealth
>watch a wicked war between the two
>decide to go to sleep
>wake up
>start game up
>new DLC
>Savefile corrupted

I recommend.

[LVG] Louis Nicolas Davout

27 products in account

2 reviews

Posted: October 3

- Start as Byzantium
- Have a heart attack when Ottomans declare war the 2nd day
- Fail
- Restart as Byzantium
- Secure alliance with Poland
- Poland is not so friendly
- Have another heart attack when Ottomans declare war
- Fail
- Restart as Byzantium
- Secure alliance with Poland
- Poland busy with Teutonic Order
- Have a massive heart attack when Ottomans declare war
- Fail
- Restart for the 100th time as Byzantium
- Secure alliance with Poland
- SECURE ALLIANCE WITH HUNGARY OMG
- THEY ARE BOTH FRIENDLY AND NOT INVOLVED IN WARS HOLY ♥♥♥♥
- Ottomans don't declare war
- Declare war on Ottomans
- PRAY EVERY SAINT YOU KNOW
- HAVE MULTIPLE HEART ATTACKS
- DEFEAT THE OTTOMANS
- Congratulations, you won the game
- Quit to desktop
- Go to the hospital for your heart attacks.

0/10 would play Byzantium again

FatToni665

143 products in account

11 reviews

Posted: September 25

I love the Europa Universalis games, i have played since Eu1 and it's been a blast. EUIV is better than the previous games in the series but it have been broken by greed. Eu3 had 4 pretty good expansions if i remember correctly and they gave you a good amount of game for the money you invested. In IV Paradox said ♥♥♥♥ it and started to milk us with dlc's that is not only way to expensive but also very weak in terms of content.

Not only that, but your game is de facto broken if you do not pay their ransom(for dlc's) and that is a almost criminal, do you not have any shame in you? Why is it that when i have bought a game i'm punished until i buy a handful of sort of crappy mini additions? It used to be that an expansion was a expansion, something one could buy and get so much more as an upgrade to the original game! An expansion did not break the original game and force you to spend money to fix it.

I used to love you guys. You were reasonable and had a focus on getting as much quality into your products as you could with the small resources/manpower you had at hand. But somewhere on the way you became corrupted by the idea of milking your consumers wallets
dry. Because of this i cannot leave a good review on this game nor can i recommend anyone to buy it in its current state. I will not buy any more of your games until you stop doing this to your fans and to yourself. The whole situation makes me sad actually, you used to be the best.

Eu IV is a awesome game (if you buy a ♥♥♥♥tondidedelie worth of dlc's, to get it playable) and it brings endless fun. A solid 10/10 (provided you own all addons).

(this is my second ever review, am i doing it right?)

Everything Else

29 products in account

Posted: September 12

If you give a crack addict crack, he will not know when to stop.
If you give a history/strategy game nerd EU4, you can bet they won't stop.

Ralph Gucci

8 products in account

This game is like drugs once you try it you're addicted!

Miley

136 products in account

3 reviews

Posted: September 19

Wish Byzantium would stop trying to get me to invade Vietnam in the year 2300.

10/10 would completely ♥♥♥♥ up history all over again.

PS: Paradox, fix your multiplayer sync issues and stop being jews with the DLC

Sir Lapsalot

33 products in account

Europa Universalis IV is a grand strategy game that provides unparralled levels of control over a nation. In most strategy games of this scope, say the Civilization or Empire series, you have control an economy dictated by resourses collection and expenditure and diplomacy that involves little more than trade deals and defensive pacts. What makes EU4 the grandest of all the strategy games is the depth of control you are given in virtually every aspect of gameplay.

If you like trading, you can get to the nitty gritty of trade steering, production management, and manipulating node control to yield far more money than otherwise possible. Perhaps you just like to smash stuff with a massive army; you can even tactically manage your fighting armies through precisely timed reinforcements or through careful manipulation of combat width. The level of diplomacy available is exemplar as well, allowing for everything from royal marriages, to trade embargoes, to papal excommunication, to building spy networks and destroying an enemy's reputation.

The bottom line of EU4 is that it is what you make it. Everything is there - everything. So this can be a game of world conquest or it can be a game of financial domination or it can be a game of influence and family. There are so many possible play styles and nations to mix and match that the 500+ hours I have logged have only scratched the surface of what is possible in this game.

Not only is EU4 my favorite of grand strategy games, it is one that has brought many bonds into my life. As with most games like this, EU4 comes with a community.

gar_teg

58 products in account

4 reviews

Posted: September 23

Only buy this game if you plan on purchasing all of the DLC, because the base game is awful. The DLC makes it much better, but it's a tricky and slimey way to do business (Paradox's way to do business, in other words)

isaacgh

5 products in account

Posted: September 27

I have had many hours of fun playing this somewhat complicated, yet addicting game for the past few years. I'm sad to see, however, that I have finally reached the end of the game: 1821. It was a good run while it lasted.

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Posted: October 10

Ok this game use to be one of the most intresting and fun strategy games on steam. It was good it was simple enough to be picked up within 10 hours but complex enough to spark thousands of hours of fun.
Now theres never enough time to get your goals accomplished and the hardcore players have ruined the game for the casual gamers. Let me explain, the only people who engage on the forums are hardcore fulltime players and they are the ones who are primarily heard by paradox. So paradox jacks up the difficulty and makes just boring. The game has changed from a game of war and diplomacy to Sit there with your thumb up your ♥♥♥ until some idiot loses there alliances. Its plain boring now. The only thing that is fun is destroying the OPM's which is now almost impossible in Europe. Trade leauges are just a hassle and I hate using them they take to much effort and time to maintain and its impossible to conquer them early game.

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Pretty cool.

P.S. ♥♥♥♥ you, Austria.

Great strategy game. Quite deep and can be hard to get into, but it's absolutly worth it.

Poland and Hungary alliance - Removes kebab before it was cool

Turns out Sweden is indeed OP.On the other hand a 5 province Denmark allied with Muscovy can still beat you even if you crush Muscovy.♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ danish ppl

The best world conquest sim I have found to date. The depth, scope, and value of this game is untold. There is a very very very steep learning curve in this game; but I assure you it is well worth the time it takes to learn this game. I have maybe 400+ hrs into this game and still learn new thing each time I play. I have only ever completed 2 games till the end and none in Ironman mode (the only mode that counts). I used to be a big civ player till I discovered EU and paradox as a whole. EU4 is the best grand stadgey game out there.

It's a very good game of its kind,if not the best,and offers a really good perspective of the ages in wich the game is set in.

9 muskets / 10

One of the best global strategy games ever existed

Start as little Pomerania in 1444,
Couple wars against TO with Poland
Conquer Danzig and Konigsberg,
Poland hates you,
Help Sweden to become free,
Conquer some Danish cores,
Sweden hates you,
War in Empire, conquer Lubeck and north of Westphalia and Netherlands,
Austria hates you,
Hmm, let's make an alliance with France,
France calling you in a war,
You lose all your army,
Sweden, Austria and Poland declare war to you,
France break the alliance,
You lose everything,
♥♥♥♥ you, France.

Recomended for everyone, who want to know, how people left you in ♥♥♥♥.

Posted: October 9

I'm addicted to grand strategy wargames. EU4 is all about it. Yet, the only problem is DLC's are too expensive.

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