• @[email protected]M
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    1 year ago

    I’m about to disappear from this Earth on launch in about 10 minutes (nvm, apparently pushed back an hour?). Vicky 2 was always the paradox game for me, and if this is to believed, most of my issues with what was already the best of the bunch have been addressed.

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      21 year ago

      Not sure if you have come back to Earth yet, but how is it so far? I have never played Vic2 but seeing the blog post describe it as CK2 + Factorio has me intrigued. That said, I was traveling on release day and for a few days after, and seeing the mixed and dropping reviews on Steam has me worried.

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        31 year ago

        I’m loving it! I definitely understand now where they’re coming from with the Factorio comparison. The appeal is pretty different from what typically is involved in grand strategy. This isn’t a game of conquest or necessarily even of alt history (the national flavor here is lacking on launch, though I suspect this will be addressed over time), it’s very squarely a game about keeping a well-oiled economic machine running as efficiently as you can manage, with world events being interesting wrenches thrown in that plan you have to work around via managing different interest groups and the political coalitions they form. Like Vicky 2, the game is very concerned about pops and keeping them well cared for and happy. This is a game that wants you to do the best you can for many different people with many different interests, and I love it for that.

        I’d like to play harder difficulties, though, because my main complaint so far is that it hasn’t really forced me to engage with the more involved systems as much as I’d like. A lot of the negative reaction aside from the typical concerns about Paradox’s business model and “grr sjws grr no war micro” comes down to the fact that in many nations you can bypass a lot of the more complex stuff and just build things the game says will be profitable. With more aggressive AI settings and playing more difficult nations, I think I’ll get into that more.