Crusader Kings III announced!

See it has already attracted controversy!!!


deus vult is out because of some nonsense. But allahu akbar/ takbir remains in.

First good length of gameplay just dropped for this getting me very excited





They kinda focused on the Intrigue systems which are looking really fun with the secrets and hooks mechanics but also hilariously accidentally ended up impregnating their sister..... ahh crusader kings never change.


theres also a good new series displaying some of the key aspects of the new mechanics, episode 1 is here





Gonna be on PC gamepass as well which is nice

This is on gamepass on pc right? Only dabbled with 2 and enjoyed it but there was a lot to take in as a new player

EDIT: I see gamepass mentioned above

Had a blast in my first 3 hours this evening , started with an easy go as the King of Leon and went for the obvious double fratrecide to inherit Castille and Galicia, except one of my borthers had a kid 1 month prior to his death so had to go down the traditional route of just marching in and taking what was mine.

Next a bunch of my vassals in Galicia converted to heretics, as a good catholic I did my best to try convince them to re convert but they weren't having it so I triggered a faction war. They outnumbered me so i called in my dynasties and managed to keep their armies seperated enough that I could whittle them down while i worked on hooks to help abducte some of the instigators to take them out of the war. This took more time than id like but i learned a good way of taking down factions.

This then gave me an idea of how to pick up all of Navarra whose King had got an alliance with France through marriage so I couldn't fight them as i was massively outnumbered again. I fabricated several hooks in his court and also found out he was having an affair so i managed to create a 95% succes rate abduction. Then 1 month before the abduction event triggered I started the war, the abduction was successful and i immediately got 100% war score and nabbed Navara without spilling a drop of blood.

Cannot wait to play more tomorrow!!!!

I keep going to click the icons on the top right of the screen but end up scrolling across the map.

Realm, Court, Intrigue buttons etc.

Anyone else?

Other than that I love the new UI.

I've played lots of ck2, eu3/4, Hoi etc and not enjoying this at all.

Had to stop playing. I'm finding the UI an absolute pain. Everything is too big and taking up too much space, too much pop ups that you can't seem to turn off and tooltips. Scrolling across the maps gets annoying with all the pop ups.

Finding it very badly designed so just going to wait until either paradox fix it, or some modders sort it.

Gonzovision wrote: »

Have to say I'm having the complete opposite experience, having a blast.

You can reduce the size of the UI in the options menu, UI scaling option.
For the pop ups change the pop up type from timed to action, or change the timer to stop them popping up when you are scrolling.

Tried all those. The UI doesn't scale properly imo. For example if you change it to down, the icons and text get a lot smaller and whilst readable, the council page in particular gets tough to use with the icons there for council members.

I've no idea what the tooltip setting does myself as I changed the delay to 5 seconds hoping it's get rid of them but couldn't find that it affects.