The new international market and Military Industrial Organisations massively shake up the game play and add a lot of new options, especially when playing as minor nations.
The new focus trees are fun, in depth, and expansive.
And one of the new infantry models has a pet deer.
- The first truly global DLC in years. - Missions for very important nations whose older trees felt very dated compared to a lot of newer stuff, such as LotN trees. - Huge amount of high quality content such as estates, disasters, reforms and more for some of the most important nations in the game, making playing as great powers both fun and challenging.
Victoria 3 is what could be a very positive experience with some major downsides, some of which are intrinsic to Paradox's model of game release. It does succeed very well at it's main purpose of being a simulation of economics and politics in the Victorian era and those are by far its' best parts, but is dragged down by two problems. One of which is simply, lack of content, the truth is the game has barely any change between the various nations both in gameplay and in flavor. A representative democracy like the USA will play exactly the same as and have exactly the same events and objectives as a expansionist monarchy like Imperial Russia.
If you are playing in the Scandinivan, Baltic or even Polish regions, it is 100% worth it. The flavour it adds gives me extra hours to waste my soul on, the unique goverment is very fun and the mission trees are really interesting. Especially the Teutons. Playing the Teutons makes me feel like i have my own decisions on what i want to do which is awesome. If you dont play in these areas or dont think you will, consider buying it on sale because its that flavourful and good
The Swiss focus tree is weirdly complicated and confusing. There is a lot of ideology and internal government balancing that you need to do to make little Switzerland do something interesting. For example: to form the Alpine confederation you need to go to the council side and increase your fascism and non-aligned support, but not too much, so that you can annex Austria and then demand land from France and Italy. You go through this huge balancing act just to end up as non-aligned or democratic again, and continue doing the same thing as Switzerland as before: balance out the surrounding great power's opinion of you and be defensive. There is also this very confusing militia system that you often run out of time to do or mess up in some weird way due to the canton-council control and you have to keep flipping back and forth to maintain or abandon the militia system which can lock you out of a bunch of focuses.
Cheap DLC with fun events alongside a major free update. This adds more content. They delivered what we asked just added a price tag which isn't too unreasonable.
Truly a disappointment, so far the flavor packs have been far more welcome additions. This DLC sounded like it would be really fun but in practice it is pretty limited and frankly a lackluster addition. I would far have preferred to get my beloved Merchant Republics back or anything of real substance that adds depth or variety to game play. If you can get it 75% off then it is probably worth it.
This is a good DLC model, provide the (substantial, in 1.4's case) core mechanical changes in a free patch, and provide extra content and flavour via a content pack. The missions are fun and the unit models are well detailed (the cretan one is gorgeous). just as a message to anyone else here, when reviewing this, make sure it's on the merits of the content on offer here, and not some bug that annoyed you from the base game.
Very Innovative to add superevents to regions, opens massive amounts of potential DLC and Modding content. This was a big and risky step to make for Paradox, but the system implemented is very smooth and is very fun in the context of a game end goal. The next struggle added should be a Byzantine Content patch with a Turkic/Islamic Invasion Struggle, but that is just me. Potential for CK3 is crazy with this, hope Paradox realizes how many doors have opened with this new mechanic. I certainly love it, I hope everyone else does too.
Paradox just do not test their games. Paradox mentioned they fixed 350+ bugs, but so what? They destroyed the game once again! After 100 years or so, the game crashes. Do they seriously never test the game before releasing any of their DLCs?
Like many other music-packs from Paradox, I really love it. The inclusion of die Wacht am Rhein and White Army, Black Baron alone made this a must buy for me.
Nice mix of features for an affordable price. It also supports the continued development and gives us big free updates like 2.0 which came out alongside this expansion. So it's definitely worth it in my opinion.
They added many major and minor things since then, and only now, with that Barbarossa patch/No Step Back DLC, we're finally getting to the 'bit-more-detailed' Focus Tree for the USSR.
The DLC is excellent. At 35 songs, it's by far the largest amount of music ever added to a Paradox DLC among all franchises. The quality is excellent as well. I really love it!
New update broke this dlc. it literally does nothing now. I loved this pack when i first got it, but now after the New update/DLC, it doesn't work with the Tank designer.
I don't fully like it, the designs look sick but its still very expensive, should've added this for free instead, no sane game company sells textures or designs of a 3D model ffs.
This DLC is not only very good if you like vikings, it is also a very important and positive change from Paradox's DLC policy of old. Let me explain. This is a Viking DLC, there are new mechanics and events for people of Norse religion and/or culture, and there are also a lot of cosmetic features like the new Norse UI, music(absolute bangers by the way, but don't expect viking metal, it's much more folk and atmospheric), clothing, 3D models, essentially anything a Viking lover would wish for. Now, this seems very standard for a DLC, but not for a Paradox DLC, since if this were an old Paradox DLC this would also have some features available not only to the Vikings, but to everyone, forcing people into buying the DLC even if they didn't care about Vikings.
One example would be Jade Dragon. That is a DLC for CK2 that adds off-map China mechanics into the game. What, don't care about China? Too bad, the DLC also has rally points and new Casus Bellis available to everyone, so if you want them you must buy it. This sort of shady business practice was commonplace in the old DLC policy of Paradox and it's even present in Imperator: Rome, the most recent Paradox game after CK3, so I was positively surprised to see that this Flavour Pack doesn't have anything like that at all. I'd go as far as to say this is a prime example of how a DLC(flavour packs like this at least) should be made. Of course, we'll just have to see if they keep this up.
Oh, and most of the negative reviews are from people salty about DLC for no particular reason. This did come out with a very good free patch which brought new absolutely free features like winter, poetry and dueling. Even some things that Paradox could've rightfully made part of the Northern Lords (like new religious icons and Viking Coats of Arms and mottos) were also released for free, and since I already explained how this Flavour Pack is much more customer-friendly than what Paradox used to make I'm not sure what the haters are even mad about. Perhaps they'll explain their problem in the comment section, but most likely I'm just going to get called a shill ¯_(ツ)_/¯. One criticism people expressed is that all people became bald in save games from before the current patch, but that's a problem with the free update, not the DLC and the problem goes away after a few generations or if you start a new game anyway. The real sad thing is that old DNA strings also feature bald characters, so now I have a txt file with lots of bald characters' DNA, which is a bit annoying but again: this has nothing to do with the DLC, if this mild annoyance somehow completely ruined your game then your review belongs under the main game, not here. Other than that I'm not sure why anyone wouldn't recommend this(haven't even encountered any bugs), since even the price is very reasonable.
TL;DR in 3 points 1. Get this if you like Vikings, you'll love it. 2. Unlike old Paradox DLC there are no shady tactics used in order to sell this to as much people as possible. 3. Negative reviews are mostly people being salty about this DLC for no reason other than that it's a DLC. Don't worry about bald people.
From what I know so far the speeches activate this way: Peace in our Time- gets event Munich conference War with Germany- UK is at war with Germany Guns are Silent- Japan Capitulates Day in Infamy- Japan declares war with America Arsenal of Democracy- America finishes focus Arsenal of Democracy Order of the Day- Normandy is liberated (I think) Victory Parade- Germany capitulates and berlin is captured by soviets ([W-G] A Gamer) Fight on the Beaches- Germany takes Dunkerque Blood Toil Tears Sweat- Belgium capitulates Their Finest Hour- France capitulates I have Returned- Manila is liberated (I think) Warning to Japan- America researched nukes No Invincible Armies- Germany declares war on USSR (for me it happened like I think 1-2 months after) feel free to comment so that i can update this
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