Crusader Kings III: Roads to Power along with the free 1.13.0 "Basileus" update have launched, and it seems like it's actually really good news for Paradox.
Lately, Paradox have had quite a lot of issues with their releases. From cancelling games completely, to DLC for various games that have reviewed pretty poorly overall. So it's nice to see that Crusader Kings III: Roads to Power, at least from Steam user reviews, is showing up really well with a Very Positive rating.
What's new in the DLC the main points:
- Administrative Government: Experience medieval rule outside of the feudal system with a new style of empire management. A web of Governors jockeys for position in the empire with intrigue and power, sometimes rewarding merit and sometimes rewarding perfidy. Only a truly skilled Emperor can keep these squabbling forces in line.
- The Family Estate: Run and manage a powerful Family Estate, the seat of your House’s power, even when you hold no other land. Construct new buildings and improvements to further your power and influence within an administrative empire.
- Influence System: Build up a character’s influence within an administrative empire to climb the rungs of bureaucracy. Raise your status in the realm and gather more power for yourself. Start as a landless noble on an estate, and compete for valuable provinces to govern before making your bid for the Purple.
- A Life of Adventure: Freely roam the map, untied to any realm or holding, going wherever the winds of fortune blow you. Fulfill contracts as a landless adventurer, even through the generations, building up a reputation of your own. Earn gold, prestige and fame traveling the globe until you decide to settle down and claim land you have earned through merit.
- Choose Successor or Caesar: Spend the influence you have gathered to determine the course of the Empire and get the successor you want, whether a royal family member, a powerful noble, a martial hero, or any other candidate you can rally the people behind. The Emperor can even opt to co-rule if the burden of the throne is too much for one person.
- New Byzantine Flavor Content: New events, monuments and activities built around the Byzantine theme, including chariot racing.
- Cosmetic Additions: A Byzantine-themed UI skin and new court fashions for your characters, new 2D event art, new on-map monuments of the Byzantine world, new on-map holding designs, and a Byzantine throne room for Royal Court sessions, among other aesthetic improvements. New music inspired by Orthodox holy chants is also included.
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Full details on all the changes available on the Paradox forum. As usual for Paradox strategy games, it's lengthy and wordy and full of adjustments everywhere. The free patch that was released with it is also, surprisingly, pretty darn feature-filled as well containing a bunch of new game rules you can use, they added Court View and Court Artifacts to base game, historical characters can now appear across the map, a new starting year option, new events and so on.
One of the more interesting new free features for all players though is the "Choose a New Destiny" feature, so that you get to pick what happens to your game after you die - as long as you have a valid heir that is. The new options sound quite fun:
- When you die, you now get the opportunity to switch to another character of your Dynasty that is not necessarily your direct Heir. Our game is a dynastic simulator, and we want to unlock playing through more branches of your Dynasty!
- Players will be offered up to three categories of Destiny characters: An Interesting Destiny, a Challenging Destiny, and an Adventurous Destiny. Each category aims to offer a different flavor. The last category specifically will allow you to go Adventuring, if you own Roads to Power!
- You can also select a Favorite Child (direct child or grand-child), who will then always appear as a New Destiny character. They will not get any extra titles or gold - in fact their siblings might get a bit jealous of their ‘favorite’ status.
- For those who like to roll the Die of Fate - we have a special “Random Destiny” option with several random variants, to continue as any Dynasty character. It might still be your Heir, if that is what Fate determines.
- You only get to Choose a New Destiny if you have a valid heir when you die. Securing your succession is an important part of CK3, and we want everyone to keep respecting that goal.
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Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: GamingTFMAny word on performance fixes? I'm hopeful reducing the amount of landed AI becoming adventurers will have some impact.
The amount of adventurers is a drop in the bucket compared to the full character count.
The main thing impacting performance in 1.13x is Administrative realms; they have a lot more going on internally than other government types, so more/bigger admin realms have a bigger impact than equivalent feudal/clan/tribal realms do.
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