I’m surprised by how good the game is and

[I'm gaming]

how unfinished the game is. I played my first game as Epirus for 60 years. I enjoyed both learning and playing. Systems are experimental but work fine overall. Though there are plenty of inconveniences and not-yet-added-systems but I’m satisfied with the game.

I can’t imagine how bad the game was before 2.0 but 2.0 is a good game. It just needs to be developed some more time. Maybe three years?

 

[AggaWackTan]

They were on the right track with 2.0 and made it a very good game, but trade and diplomacy updates with some regional flavour and adjustments to legion mechanics (generals/ regional names) are really needed.

Mods like Invictus tackle the regional flavour really well but without official updates from Paradox, I don't know if the game will ever get those trade and diplomacy mechanics it needs to be the experience I would like it to be. A Trade update that introduces a peacetime function for ships with more permanent region-region trade routes and a diplomacy update to introduce new peacedeals/ vassal management/ some new character traits and QoL features.

But I am enjoying it a lot now. Invictus also fixed a LOT of bugs so I would recommend it as the best way to play the game currently.

 

[DukeLeto42]

I can’t imagine how bad the game was before 2.0 but 2.0 is a good game.

It was a lot less bad than many envision. The 1.2 patch got them on the right path for the pop and territory dynamics, and the 2.0 patch was mostly pinning down a pop and culture design they had been in the midst of.

As noted above, the trade system was pretty clearly the next weakness for the game. Abandoning the EUIV node system was not a bad idea, but the lack of any sort of trade flow caused problems and made for micromanaging hell they only partly fixed. Past that, a good tribal and colonization along with some nice culture packs for flavor would have done wonders to flesh out the game.

 

[I'm gaming]

trade and diplomacy updates with some regional flavour and adjustments to legion mechanics (generals/ regional names) are really needed.

I hope that there will be some center of trades at each region and owner of centers get some portion of trade income of the region. For diplomacy, I want to see rival system like EU4 be added to make big countries fight each other.

I don’t have much to say for regional flavor and legion as I haven’t played much but tribes seem to be empty.

It was a lot less bad than many envision.

UI was too shocking at that time.

 

[Arkerian]

Yeah it's a great game imho, if heavily in need of some less repetitive mission trees.

...then you run into a gamebreaking bug/feature...