CK2: The Old Gods Interview

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RooksBailey

March 25, 2013, 09:20:25 PM
Good article on the Old Gods expansion over at Strategy Informer:

http://www.strategyinformer.com/pc/crusaderkingsiitheoldgods/453/interview.html

This continues to sound like a great mechanic:

QuoteStrategy Informer: What's happening with the landless adventurers, and how will they factor into the overall gameplay?

Henrik Fåhraeus: It's kind of a two-part thing. We were never happy with the rebel system as it was in Crusader Kings II - it was reminiscent of the old Europa Universalis I and II rebels - so we've replaced them with more advanced rebels with a cause system. So you can have peasant revolters but they're led by a peasant leader, a specific character who gets a temporary title. If they succeed, that province will secede. And you have other kinds of rebels, such as heretics or claimants.

Adventurers are a version of this, where an existing claimant in the game can go off on an adventure and seize territory wherever he feels it is possible, or even seize his claim. Even a younger son without a claim can go off and seize any kind of province, such as the Normans going to Naples and Southern Italy and taking that area.

It's a more dynamic system where characters can have a temporary title, an A.I. and do stuff on their own, even without having land.


And even better news:

QuoteStrategy Informer: What lies beyond The Old Gods? Is this still a continuing process, is there still a lot you want to do with Crusader Kings II?

Henrik Fåhraeus: Yes. The Old Gods is the last major DLC that we planned and had ideas for early on. We still have a lot of loose ideas kicking around, and there is a new plan that we are working on, but I can't really say much about it! There will definitely be more major DLC for Crusader Kings II.

8)

This article also mentions that The Old Gods is feature complete and down to balancing, so...an April release maybe?  :-\
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TheCommandTent

#1
March 25, 2013, 10:57:02 PM
Thanks for the link.  This DLC looks like it will add so much and be alot of fun.
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Martok

#2
March 26, 2013, 03:14:32 AM
Can't wait to get my hands on this. 

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Nefaro

#3
March 26, 2013, 03:45:49 PM
Quote from: Martok on March 26, 2013, 03:14:32 AM
Can't wait to get my hands on this.

Just like bewbs!

:P

Martok

#4
March 27, 2013, 01:04:08 PM
It's remarkable just how many threads in this place come back to that.  ;) 

"Like we need an excuse to drink to anything..." - Banzai_Cat
"I like to think of it not as an excuse but more like Pavlovian Response." - Sir Slash

"At our ages, they all look like jailbait." - mirth

"If we had lines here that would have crossed all of them. For the 1,077,986th time." - Gusington

"Government is so expensive that it should at least be entertaining." - airboy

"As long as there's bacon, everything will be all right." - Toonces

PanzersEast

#5
March 27, 2013, 01:09:07 PM
That's what she said........  ;)


But yea, day one buy.


PE

Nefaro

#6
March 27, 2013, 08:54:56 PM
Quote from: Martok on March 27, 2013, 01:04:08 PM
It's remarkable just how many threads in this place come back to that.  ;)

Hey!  You're the "official bewbxpert" hereabouts.   It probably pops out all the time when you're around!

Martok

#7
March 28, 2013, 12:53:46 PM
Quote from: Nefaro on March 27, 2013, 08:54:56 PM
It probably pops out all the time when you're around!
...

Nah.  Too easy.  :P 

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"I like to think of it not as an excuse but more like Pavlovian Response." - Sir Slash

"At our ages, they all look like jailbait." - mirth

"If we had lines here that would have crossed all of them. For the 1,077,986th time." - Gusington

"Government is so expensive that it should at least be entertaining." - airboy

"As long as there's bacon, everything will be all right." - Toonces

Kushan

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April 25, 2013, 08:39:39 AM
PanzersEast: Have to think to myself.... will I play the first one by the Winter Sale?  Probably not, then I should remove Dragonfall
PanzersEast: but that is thinking too logically.... and Steam Sales are about ignoring Logic

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Martok

#9
April 25, 2013, 09:15:31 AM
New gameplay trailer is out as well. 



"Like we need an excuse to drink to anything..." - Banzai_Cat
"I like to think of it not as an excuse but more like Pavlovian Response." - Sir Slash

"At our ages, they all look like jailbait." - mirth

"If we had lines here that would have crossed all of them. For the 1,077,986th time." - Gusington

"Government is so expensive that it should at least be entertaining." - airboy

"As long as there's bacon, everything will be all right." - Toonces

MengJiao

#10
April 25, 2013, 02:39:07 PM
Quote from: Martok on March 26, 2013, 03:14:32 AM
Can't wait to get my hands on this.

  Looks great!  Look at all that Loot!  And 867 AD!

  Vikings!  Zoroastrians!!!! 

  Yep.  I'm going to get this one, I think.

TheCommandTent

#11
April 25, 2013, 06:38:01 PM
Looking forward to the Vikings.
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Gusington

#12
April 25, 2013, 07:09:17 PM
Are there actual Zoroastrians in this? And can I conceivably recreate the wars between Byzantium and Islam here?
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son_of_montfort

#13
April 26, 2013, 01:15:02 AM
Quote from: Gusington on April 25, 2013, 07:09:17 PM
Are there actual Zoroastrians in this? And can I conceivably recreate the wars between Byzantium and Islam here?

I thought they said they were in. But then again, there was some strange discussion about this. Also, having the "Dark Ages" (we don't call them that anymore, professionally) in the game will be loads of fun! I look forward to recreating the creation of Normandy!
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Barthheart

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April 26, 2013, 05:16:12 AM
Quote from: son_of_montfort on April 26, 2013, 01:15:02 AM
Quote from: Gusington on April 25, 2013, 07:09:17 PM
Are there actual Zoroastrians in this? And can I conceivably recreate the wars between Byzantium and Islam here?

I thought they said they were in. But then again, there was some strange discussion about this. Also, having the "Dark Ages" (we don't call them that anymore, professionally) in the game will be loads of fun! I look forward to recreating the creation of Normandy!

SoM, what is the professional term for this period of "turning away from science" now?
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