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FWIW, from what I've seen, blobbing is only a problem for certain countries, namely the Ottomans (due to their buffs) and HRE principalities (declaring wars when they shouldn't be able to). Multiple streamers have said blobbing is hard, and WCs will be much more difficult.

What?

People have WC'd EU4 by 1470.

None of the streamers even came close to that in the 100ish years they were allowed to show.

Annexing co-beligirents has no consequences, non Casus Belli wars have no real minuses. Just look how Ludi annexed the Ottomans and their allies in a single war with Byzantium or Florence taking out fellow HRE neighbours left and right. Even the AI quickly consolidates in the HRE, something you don't see in EUIV. It needs to be fixed.

WC should be completely impossible.
 
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Annexing co-beligirents has no consequences, non Casus Belli wars have no real minuses. Just look how Ludi annexed the Ottomans and their allies in a single war with Byzantium or Florence taking out fellow HRE neighbours left and right. Even the AI quickly consolidates in the HRE, something you don't see in EUIV. It needs to be fixed.

WC should be completely impossible.
yeah but remember that the map is so much larger than conquests that seem big are on a small scale. ludi took a long time to consolidate just Anatolia and the Balkans
 
A streamer mentioned today that the devs were faced with a choice: either remove the divisive 3D portrait next to the flag or add more flavor to the game—apparently due to time constraints, they couldn’t do both. Honestly, that feels like a false dilemma. Both of these aspects are important to many players, and it's disappointing to hear that one may be sacrificed for the other.

Complete bullshit lies.
 
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Definitely unsurprising that someone who would watch one of these videos, and make an angry and confused post about one of these videos, would also “reword using AI” the very same post, goodness gracious
 
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I have to admit I'm rather curious why the devs seem to have decided on Ludi of all people as their main community megaphone. No disrespect to the guy, but he has a bit of a... history... of shall we say "embellishing the truth". His video titles are peak clickbait most of the time, and his overuse of words like "OVERPOWERED" in-video is just as cringeworthy.
He just got main character syndrome. The dev team gave him nothing more, but instead of admitting he doesn't know much, he pushes dozens of hours of content saying things he has no idea about. I stopped watching his content years ago when he switched from funny tutorials to click bait and clout chase.
 
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He just got main character syndrome. The dev team gave him nothing more, but instead of admitting he doesn't know much, he pushes dozens of hours of content saying things he has no idea about. I stopped watching his content years ago when he switched from funny tutorials for click bait and clout chase.
No hate toward Ludi, i often enjoyed some of his content.

But everytime i watch a video about something i actually had knowledge on, he was doing a very poor job (if not just absolutely oblivious about what he was talking about).
Since then, I've always felt that Ludi's content rarely teaches me anything that I wouldn't find in a better quality - and with more confidence - from another youtuber... When it's not something invented for clicks.
 
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Here is the link to the video at the time of the comment Ludi @ 1:45:39

I do hope Paradox or Ludi lets us know if it was a misunderstanding.

I fear for the code and design if it would delay the game a month to remove the portrait from the HUD.
He cited "flag and portrait" as am example of some UI-thing he does not care about. (Clear from other context around that timestamp).
But most importantly he throws the rethoric / hyperbolic / exaggerated question: "would you accept a 1 month delay for minor grphic updated, e.g. potrait position, fower decor of menues?"

--> In tone and context, he did not claim 1 month. He simply said would you be ok with 1 month for minor gui fluff.
(not bug, not core gui optimization not ai, just fluff)

So this whole debate is somewhat between cultural missunderstanding, fear of rushing the final steps of devellopment and simply a hot weekend with nothing else to do.
 
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why on earth would you want the game delayed for either reason. The portraits are of no consequence and more flavour can just be added in the first DLC. Neither thing is worth delaying the game for.
 
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It was Ludi and he said the devs claimed removing the obnoxious face next the flag would take a MONTH? And they said they would rather not delay the game for that and focus on other things, I'm like, those 2 things aren't in the same department of game development .
i have a high sense of deja vue for the 3rd time with this (panic accompagned by a rumor made by a youtuber that end up being false)
dont care about what he say . in either case removing the face isnt big of a deal and peoples who want it removed better focus on real issues rather than luxury demands that can be adressed anytime post release
 
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One streamer (I forget who) said he believes WC is impossible for anyone other than the Ottomans. In that case, the Ottomans need to be debuffed.
that was ludi again , honestly he talk a lot off his mind instead of sticking to facts he have on table , lot of assumptions coming from him he might end up getting black listed by the devs like Arumba if he keep up like this.
the ammount of words he say per minute is double that of other youtubers
 
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Yeah blobbing is a problem, they need to implement some sort of overextension mechanic and increase the antagonism effect. The other problem is that blobbing is meaningless because you cannot convert culture, increase control and core those provinces fast enough.
Blobing only happened with peoples who played as serbia , byzantium and ottomans . the others who did blob did it trough unions who should be tweaked because you can easily integrate them.
in general the devs are aware of that and likely did fix the blobbing issue already.
 
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Blobing only happened with peoples who played as serbia , byzantium and ottomans . the others who did blob did it trough unions who should be tweaked because you can easily integrate them.
in general the devs are aware of that and likely did fix the blobbing issue already.
People playing in the HRE definitely blobbed too, as did HRE AI. Most of that is the HRE is being held to a higher standard on what constitutes blobbing though, since I and many others are of the view that military expansion within the HRE should be exceptionally difficult and harshly punished.
 
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Mark my words the game will be out before xmas and wont look much different than what we saw, just like V3.
mark my word you dont know what you are talking about
when those games you state were announced they were pre alpha , this mean in the 10 months they had before release they needed to continue development to a Beta , stream it , then announce release date and polishing phase in last 2 to 3 months then release.
this game here was announced already on a beta and its on a polishing phase ALREADY and still have 8 to 10 months in front of it to try and test a LOT . this mean when Dev stream will happen followed by release date , the devs will have those last 3 months for only performance tweaking and balancing .

also idk what you are talking about because ck3 was pretty good at release and vic3 too . idk if you forgot but the outrage around vic was FUN RELATED . peoples didnt like the warfare in it . UI and performance wise it was pretty well done and smooth.
 
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