Excited for another 3000 hours of map staring
this post was submitted on 08 May 2025
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hey if it wasn't for map games i wouldn't know why galatia is in turkey
Watched Lemon Cake's preview of it. All the gamplay is supposedly very good, sieges and warfare is meh due to a couple reasons including a meh AI.
The performance is sadly garbo. His computer took 7 minutes to load it, and it had noticable early game chug with an Intel 10850k and 64GB of DDR RAM.
that's fucking wild. it's literally just a stylized map
i guess it's all the backend tracking of nation stats and pops, not the map graphics, but still
Paradox games are all single-core cause the devs (read: execs) keep reusing engines from the stone age, so it doesn't matter how beefy the computer is. It's all being run one instruction at a time, every tick for each nation. Performance just keeps dipping each game as complexity grows.
sounds like rimworld
Pretty much, but it's even worse. Pdx games have a modal speed system, with the first 4 speeds being set instructions limits, but the 5th max speed is literally just the hardware limit, and even then it leads to issues in multiplayer where 5 speed causes desyncs since players with faster / slower computers are out of line with the host. It's just a poor system.
i saw someone say it's a new engine but idk if it's actually true
It's a newish engine, I think it's the Vicky 3 one, but it still has core limits, I think it just now supports multi threading. So instead of 1 instruction at a time you get 2!!!! Wow!!!!!! Great improvement guys!!
should I finally play EU4?
No, wait for EU5. Or play IR to see if you are going to like EU5
Gotta start with EU3 to catch you up on the storyline. EU1 and 2 were retconned in 3.
Hexbear mappies when?
Oh boy! I can't wait to have the game be more barebones than EU1 at launch, but with big expensive DLC every 3-4 months that adds new content, and as a bonus, comes with a free patch that disables my game unless I have the DLC!