Stylized drawings that made them immediately recognizable and depended on region was cool. The game having same looking portraits for all people of all social classes that have no distinguishing quality and do the same lame poses is not cool. Hope this helps!
The overhauls make this game worth playing. Have you heard of Anbennar or Tamriel Universalis or Westeros Universalis? Plus, there is NO WAY the main game will have enough models in the next eight years. We already saw a medieval king with an early modern background. This game covers the entire world through five centuries, it will always look off, always look anachronistic and will never be enough. Whenever I boot up Anbennar I will see Cannorians just recycling European clothing because it is easier for the mod to recycle stuff and they will never have enough 3D artists. Whereas they had enough 2D artists and had as many paintings as the vanilla game. But in this game they will never reach the visual richness of the vanilla, which won't be good itself. These "super modular" models look the same and require far too much work. And because the devs work on them, they want us to see them and make them cover half the screen. This was never a good idea, but I hope they make a metric ton of assets, otherwise it will stop being neutral and start to actively make the game worse.
Multiple CK3 mods were either slowed down by the 3D models or just use the normal assets. It is extremely hard to find 3D artists. And unlike HOI4, an aggressively barren and limited game, EU5 will be modded to every era of human history and any speculative fiction universe. Just imagine having to make a modern day mod for this game. Or a bronze age mod. Or a Middle Earth/Wheel of Time/Star Wars mod. It would be far easier with 2D models.
That could actually be a very good compromise! I hope the developers try this or some similar approach.
An advisor potrait is meant to quickly convey what type of advisor you have available. Stunning handsome man? Force limit. Admiral with bicorn even if 3 centuries early? Naval bonus. Nerdy guy? Treasurer. @EarlKonrad 's avatar? Merchant.
Vic3 letting you become a socialist multicultural republic in 1850 where "goods substitution" is a regular occurence in peace time, and ck3 having 101 adultery events, are examples of aiming at casuals
Um, I've only heard of one of those and haven't even played it. In fact, I intentionally avoid total overhauls and most other super impactful mods (if it changes the map I probably won't use it). And I'm positive I'm not the only one. So the idea that total overhauls "make the game worth playing" is false from first principles.
The hit to modders is really strange in an era when Paradox otherwise openly pushes for ease of modding. It's such a nightmarishly difficult skill to find resources for that it outright muddles their messaging on that topic. Yes, our game is a platform on which you can make anything you dream of - just so long as it looks exactly like what we gave you in the first place.
I absolutely agree with this. I'm not sure I can point to a single specific choice or action that makes it clear to me but something about the way they've gone about rolling it out over the last ten years makes it feel like it wasn't a project-by-project dev decision, but a choice made by someone above them (if I had to guess, I'd say it's the extremely sudden onset of them in every game after HoI4 combined with the relative radio silence where complaints are lobbed at them; you'd think if it was an actual choice at least one game would have still opted for 2D, or else the devs would feel more able to defend their decision). Honestly, if that was true, I'd respect Paradox a lot more if they just said that. If the reason is very bluntly that they were told they had to use it and they wanted 2D as well, I'd be more likely to just shut up and deal. Certainly it would mean the devs got harassed less and all of our complaints could be a little more targeted towards the actual obstacle.
On this forum and among mod users perhaps I'm a bit of an outlier. But if playing Bethesda games has taught me anything, it's that the vast majority of players don't use any mods at all. A position that the folks in the modding/enthusiast community find utterly baffling.
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How is that a surprizing thing at all given that it is the default?
seeing text descriptions of advisor icons is one of the biggest personal shocks I've had in a while
Ngl i always hover my mouse over the portrait to see their actual occupation(though it doesn't really matter since the buffs are immediately obvious) so at least for me who's been playing EU4 for a long time they're not really that recognizable.
