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CK3 Dev Diary #100: A Royal Journey

Greetings!

Fate of Iberia was released just last week, and we hope you’re all enjoying shaping the peninsula according to your own ideas and ideals! Are you dominating it by force, or trying to reconcile the inhabitants’ differences? Have any of you encountered the elusive wandering monk...

Surviving the Aftermath - Dev Diary Teaser - New Alliances


Greetings survivors old and new!

We’re very excited to reveal what we’ve been doing amidst all the updates up to this point. It’s the first part of our Season Pass and will be released very soon. Here are some of its key features which gives the game’s...

Stellaris Dev Diary #256 - Making a Station

written by Tim Wiberg & Lloyd

Hi There,
My Name is Lloyd and I'll be your host for tonight. I am a concept artist working on Stellaris and for this dev diary I'm going to give you a look at how the art team brings an asset to life. Specifically I want to focus on the Salvagers...

Naval Rebalance | Designer Corner

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Hello there, C0RAX here. Welcome aboard to my dev corner, in this thread I'll be going over the core introduction of the planned changes to naval gameplay.


Why? The Live System:
  • Good ship design is unintuitive.
  • Combat revolves around exploiting...

Europa Universalis IV - Development Diary 31st of May 2022

Hej allesamen! Welcome to our next Development Diary for Europa Universalis IV! After covering the Baltics it is finally time to switch our focus to Scandinavia, so let’s get started!

As the 13th century drew to a close, powerful social mechanisms such as feudalism and manorialism had formed...

CK3 Dev Diary #99: It is time to decide the Fate of Iberia

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Buenos días Crusaders!

The time has finally come to decide the Fate of Iberia.

Everything went according to plan since the last diary (phew!), so today we are really excited to release our new Flavor Pack.


In today’s Dev Diary, I’ll be sharing with...

Stellaris Dev Diary #255 - Overlord Q&A

Hi!

This week is a short one in Sweden due to holidays, so instead of a normal dev diary we've got a transcript of the Stellaris Q&A session we held on the Official Stellaris Discord Server on May 5th.

We answered the following 108 questions:

Question by Belauem
...

Victoria 3 - Dev Diary #48 - Unification

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Hello and welcome to yet another Dev Diary for Victoria 3! Today’s topic will be Unification, aka the process of turning one nation into another, ‘greater’ nation, such as the historical example of the Kingdom of Prussia turning into the German Empire in 1871.

When talking...

Europa Universalis IV - Development Diary 24th of May 2022

Hello everyone, Gnivom here today.

I may return for a future dev diary on the many AI improvements we’re making for 1.34, but today’s topic is Land Combat.

First a recap:

For 1.33, we decided to change some things with combat; first mentioned in this January DD and soon amended by...

CK3 Dev Diary #98: the Castle's foundation

Hello there,

The release is approaching and before sharing the release notes with you next week we have a few topics to cover! Today we will be focusing on what is going to be added in the free update "Castle" released along Fate of Iberia. For the modders, you will also find the updated...

Stellaris Dev Diary #254 - 3.4.3 'Cepheus' Patch Released (Checksum 9d15)... What's Next?

Hi all!

I'm happy to announce that the 3.4.3 hotfix should now be live and available on all platforms!

On Monday I said that we were planning to address primary issues as quickly as we could and have a larger patch in a few weeks, but the team was absolutely on fire and was...

Dev Diary #47 - Conversion and Assimilation

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Happy Thursday! Today our topic returns to Pop mechanics, with a discussion around some of the finer details on how Pops may change their religion and culture over time depending on your nation’s legal system. The mechanics themselves are quite straightforward, but as always...

Air Changes | Developer Corner

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Hey Everyone! I am back this week to talk to you a bit about some changes we are making to air management and combat. The first thing I want to get out of the way is that this is not a “Man the Guns” style rework of combat and management systems. Our focus on air changes have...

Europa Universalis IV - Development Diary 17th of May 2022

Hello there and welcome to our next Development Diary for Europa Universalis IV! For this week we will take a dive into the mission tree for Riga and into the additions to the game from the free update. So let’s get started!

Located at a commercially advantageous position, Riga enjoyed great...

CK3 Dev Diary #97: Event Illustration Showcase and Workflow

Hello! This Dev Diary is collectively written by members of the Art Team who work on these illustrations. We would like to share our process and some of the artistic choices that go into making these images.

If you would like to see more of our excellent 2D Artists' work, we are launching a...

Mass Pricing Tools

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Mass Pricing

(French version below)


Mass Pricing is a tool that allows you to configure all your routes. With it, you can compare your prices (via audit, simulation, and super-simulation) and modify them with a single click, allowing you to...

Dev Diary #46 - Political Parties

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Good evening! Today we are finally ready to talk in detail about Political Parties. This has been a much-requested feature for Victoria 3, and indeed the political world would feel a little empty without the Whigs and Tories going at each other’s throats. We’ve listened, and...

Europa Universalis IV - Development Diary 10th of May 2022

Greetings everyone! And welcome back to another Development Diary for the upcoming DLC. Last week we took a look at the Teutonic Order, and for today we shall visit the monastic neighbor to its north: the Livonian Order.

The Livonian Brotherhood of the Sword was founded in Riga in 1202 for the...

Crusader Kings 3 Dev Diary #96 - Fate of Iberia 3D Art Showcase

Hey folks! I’m Lucia, one of the artists on CK3, and I will be your host for today. Together with Nils (@NilsW, 3D Character Art Lead) and Joacim (@Carlberg, 3D Environment Art Lead), we are very excited to walk you through some of the new 3D art that you will soon be seeing all over...

Stellaris: Console Edition Development Diary #41 - Expansion Pass Five Roadmap

Hello Console Edition Community!

Expansion Pass Five and Nemesis are available now for Xbox and Playstation!


After the last major update, we discovered that some of you were having issues with pop growth on your secondary species. Early next week we expect to be...

Stellaris Dev Diary #253 - Three in One 3.4 'Cepheus' Patch Notes and more!

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Hello everyone!

I hope you are all excited to get your hands on our next expansion ‘Overlord’ next week! Expanding on the Subject/Ruler dynamic has been something that we know a lot of you (and us, internally) have been wanting for a very long time, so it’s really amazing to...

Designer Corner: Peace Conference

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And we shall have peace.

Hi folks,

It’s been a while since our last update on future plans for HoI, but we’re about ready to show you some of the work we’ve been doing. Before we begin, I’d like to indicate that there’ll be some differences in how we do this. As I’ve...

Dev Diary #45 - Elections

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Good evening and welcome once again to a Victoria 3 Development Diary! Today’s topic is elections. We’ll be covering the various laws that enable and affect voting, as well as the progression of Election Campaigns and how they affect political power in your country. We'll...

New Mass Tool

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New Mass Tools

(French version below)

Hello dear CEOs,

Let's talk about mass tools.
You may have already felt the need for a method to make changes on all your routes at once, especially when you have several hubs and dozens of routes...

Europa Universalis IV - Development Diary 3rd of May 2022

Greetings everyone!

Today I want to present to you the upcoming content for our Northern Europe Focused DLC. Yes, you heard it right, the next Immersion Pack is about the Baltic and Scandinavian countries!
Sorry to everyone who was wishing for an Atlantis DLC :p

But before I get started with...