I’m very sorry to say that this update has completely ruined my game. My saves crash automatically, looks to be when two armies clash or when a murder is executed. I even bought the event pack hoping that this will fix things but to no avail. Ow and the creepy eye thing is also a thing for me. Please paradox, this is my only way to play CK3 and I love it, please make my game work!
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I don't remember the 1.7 patch being unpopular on PC? In fact, 1.7 was quite popular because this is the patch that significantly improves the economic AI, so you can see large kingdoms and empires in the late game. The DLC on the other hand was more mixed. Some neat events, some ehh events, and house feuds are kinda buggy (and still are on PC).
Of course your experience will depend on what issues are important to you. Best way would be to scan the bugfix patch notes on the wiki to see what's coming next. I don't know if they'll do 1.8 standalone (which had no DLC) or roll it together with 1.9 for Tours and Tournaments.
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I don't think anyone is talking about the 1.7 base game being unpopular, although there was talk that the DLC at 1.7 was buggy and unpopular...
Hello! Is this happening on a new save or an old one?
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tldr: Update and pay $5 for the new event content, it’s totally worth it. Start a new game!
Played four or five hours last night on PS5 and I’m really impressed.
I first put in around 100 hours in early 2024 with the Chapter 1 content and while I never had a lot of the save issues and crashes experienced by a lot of folks, it was still rough around the edges graphically (portrait and map detail glitches), a lot of event repetition would emerge, AI decision logic didn’t always make sense, and tooltips were not great. But I was able to play the Iberian content to completion without too many problems and generally had good history-nerd fun with the game.
As for the current state of game, I was at first underwhelmed that the new content was just event expansion, but I’m happy to say that clearly a lot more has been improved than just that. Even as a long-time veteran of CK2 I still find some game mechanics inscrutable on occasion, but I’m happy to say the tooltips seem to have been extensively overhauled to add clarity. Not just in terms of content, but clarity of language. They just read better, and make more sense. There’s a balance somewhere between “this specific choice will result in this specific thing” and “if you do this, something might happen” and the text is definitely a lot closer. Events feel more organic and less repetitive, although that might feel different in another 100 hours. Game speed feels way better, and the new top speed is extremely welcome. Portraits are way less janky (I haven’t seen the no-eyes thing, sounds creepy though). The map details seem fixed.
I played tons of CK2 on PC, and some of the console-specific UI challenges are still present and annoying (I’m thinking of event windows popping under info panels that can’t be closed or moved, specifically). There is one class of pop-up window that appears with a blurry, too-small font. There were some inconsistencies with tooltips depending on window contents. I was not able to use military AI when being raided, the AI just immediately disbanded my armies. This was annoying when I was intending to clean up some raiders after a war concluded but found my armies had all been sent home. No crashes though, and saves were fine.
I really hope that these improvements are indicative of the new partner. If so, things potentially look really good for the future of the game. I’ve never regretted all the money I’ve shoveled at Paradox over the years, but I’ve been a little sad about how slow CK3 has been expanded on console. If we start seeing regular content addition and refinement at a similar level as this most recent patch and content, I think a lot of people, even the crabby ones, will feel good about it.
Hope the dozen or so folks that read this find it helpful. I generally don’t write massive reviews of anything, but I love grand strategy, and I’ve adored the CK franchise since the first time I played. Cheers!
Played four or five hours last night on PS5 and I’m really impressed.
I first put in around 100 hours in early 2024 with the Chapter 1 content and while I never had a lot of the save issues and crashes experienced by a lot of folks, it was still rough around the edges graphically (portrait and map detail glitches), a lot of event repetition would emerge, AI decision logic didn’t always make sense, and tooltips were not great. But I was able to play the Iberian content to completion without too many problems and generally had good history-nerd fun with the game.
As for the current state of game, I was at first underwhelmed that the new content was just event expansion, but I’m happy to say that clearly a lot more has been improved than just that. Even as a long-time veteran of CK2 I still find some game mechanics inscrutable on occasion, but I’m happy to say the tooltips seem to have been extensively overhauled to add clarity. Not just in terms of content, but clarity of language. They just read better, and make more sense. There’s a balance somewhere between “this specific choice will result in this specific thing” and “if you do this, something might happen” and the text is definitely a lot closer. Events feel more organic and less repetitive, although that might feel different in another 100 hours. Game speed feels way better, and the new top speed is extremely welcome. Portraits are way less janky (I haven’t seen the no-eyes thing, sounds creepy though). The map details seem fixed.
I played tons of CK2 on PC, and some of the console-specific UI challenges are still present and annoying (I’m thinking of event windows popping under info panels that can’t be closed or moved, specifically). There is one class of pop-up window that appears with a blurry, too-small font. There were some inconsistencies with tooltips depending on window contents. I was not able to use military AI when being raided, the AI just immediately disbanded my armies. This was annoying when I was intending to clean up some raiders after a war concluded but found my armies had all been sent home. No crashes though, and saves were fine.
I really hope that these improvements are indicative of the new partner. If so, things potentially look really good for the future of the game. I’ve never regretted all the money I’ve shoveled at Paradox over the years, but I’ve been a little sad about how slow CK3 has been expanded on console. If we start seeing regular content addition and refinement at a similar level as this most recent patch and content, I think a lot of people, even the crabby ones, will feel good about it.
Hope the dozen or so folks that read this find it helpful. I generally don’t write massive reviews of anything, but I love grand strategy, and I’ve adored the CK franchise since the first time I played. Cheers!
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Well depends what you mean with old and new? It was my current game while the update was released and after the update it started to happen.
Start a new save file. If you are using a pre-update save file, it is bound to be bugged out.
Any major updates for paradox games require you to wipe save files
Delete the game & the save data. You’ll basically be starting the game like your first boot up but it fixes the bug
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There is a glitch where I got a pop up with no writing except for to the charming character name then nothing and I got all the DLCs
On PS5 if the character look playdoughy or have no eyes you’ll need to delete the game aswell as the saved data it fixed the issue for pretty much everybody I’ve told on reddit. My game looks normal & better optimized tho I’ll ask you to refer to the developers to one bug I’ve encountered which is the moment you ascend to king or emperor you’ll not get the prompt anymore saying enter your royal court nor your houses banners on a custom character tho this may not be a issue on non custom character haven’t tested that. To sum it up the new devs have hit the ball park with the update im quite impressed with the bug fixes they’ve done.
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Delete the game & the saved data it’ll fix it my game looks good graphical except for some low res outfits
Wow! You are absolutely right my friend! I did what you said and it looks like a totally different game. Graphically improved and everyone has eyes!
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Can you please explain to me what you mean? Like, how do I not lose all the progress in my game?
You must lose all the progress. Anytime there is a major update, you will have to delete your current save files. This is very common for paradox games’ major updates.
In games like stellaris, you have to delete all civilizations you have created, not just your current save file.
The files from previous builds will never be compatible with the major jumps.
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Ok thanks. Pretty shitty though, I was in such exciting times with my game..
There is also a bug with the speed of the game being capped at 4 in multiplayer (the speed goes to 5 then comes back to 4 alone)
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Yes. Like stellaris the console edition will always be behind, probably by quite a long time but you console players will get the content eventually. It's the trade off of having a console edition.
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