CK2 - Dev Diary #123 - Iron Century

[Snow Crystal]

Dunno if somebody asked already, but are we going to see any new bloodlines associated with this start date? Otto I is a good candidate for one, but having the blood of Eric Bloodaxe sounds poetic almost, even if he's just been deposed in Norway, and not Northumbrian material yet.

A couple, yes. It will be talked about in one of the DDs next week.

 

[Snow Crystal]

Will there be different requirements to forming the HRE?

If you start in 936, you need to hold the Kingdoms of Germany and Italy to form it.

 

[Snow Crystal]

That’s true, but I’m not against new start dates, since X century was very interesting. Although it’s said that there will be no possibility to choose a date between 936 and 1066 - Vladimir I Rurikovich is still unplayable

Making just 936 playable took many hundreds of hours of implementation and testing.

 

[Snow Crystal]

Some before/after screenshots might be useful in the dev diaries, if there are visible changes between what you get if you load 936.8.7 using 3.1.1 (with a small mod letting you select the date) and what's in IC.

Not the best picture, but here you can sort of see what it'd look like if you just opened 936 in 3.1.1 vs 3.2. If I recall correctly, there was around 2000 errors on launch (see missing rulers, etc) when I first started working on it.

 

[Alfray Stryke]

Not the best picture, but here you can sort of see what it'd look like if you just opened 936 in 3.1.1 vs 3.2. If I recall correctly, there was around 2000 errors on launch (see missing rulers, etc) when I first started working on it.

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Religious and culture maps, if you'd be so kind? Thanks!

 

[Deleted member 471407]

I’m 110% excited about a new date, but...


...were you deliberately trying to make weapons in the picture that anachronistic?
Sword in the hand of the bearded guy in the center (Otto der Große, I suppose?) has a typical hilt of a longsword - weapon, that wasn't invented until 1100-1200, and didn't came into prominence until 1300.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longsword)

And the pole-arm in the hands of man right in front of him is undeniably the halberd right from 1400s
(This picture shows his especially nice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_weapon#/media/File:Polearms.jpg )
It literally wouldn’t be more anachronistic if he had a firearm instead

I fixed it!

Spoiler

 

[Alfray Stryke]

When is the release date?

Tomorrow.