Paradox Games

My preferred modding launcher is Mod Organizer 2. I love how I can easily see what files are overridden by each mod and better set the mod order.

To make life easier I've made:

GitHub - CramMods/modorganizer-game_crusaderkings3
Plugins for Mod Organizer 2 to support Crusader Kings III and Paradox mod archive installation.

Screenshot from my recent couch co-op multiplayer campaign with a friend of mine. Anbennar is super fun!

In this video the youtuber Biffa does a deep dive inte the new Dev Diary.

Currently one of the most popular mods on the Steam workshop, it introduces the West coast of North America to HOI4, including such canon factions as the NCR and Caesar's Legion, while also seamlessly integrating in its own lore about Mexico, Canada, Colorado, Oregon and other regions.

It has custom music, 3D models, an entirely different technology tree to the base game, a hand built map, an economy system and around 92 unique focus trees (not including all of the amazing submods that have been created). Currently the mod is in version 4.2 and will add in new content in the Northern areas of the mod in 5.0, slowly adding in the whole North American continent from West to East.

The only main downside would be the learning curve of HOI4 in general, however Old World Blues is fairly forgiving to new players if they do not play one of the major nations (such as Caesar or the NCR).

I personally recommend new players to play such nations as: the Texas Brotherhood (you have a technological advantage); New Vegas (you are not the target of many wars); Lanius's Cohort (you are much stronger than your surrounding neighbours, who you will try to conquer).

Though it may be recommended to watch a few tutorials of HOI4 before starting (Bitt3rsteel has an amazing beginner's tutorial on his YouTube channel).

Link to the mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2265420196

It's interesting to see more of this game, and I'm happy that soon^tm^ there'll be more competition in the life sim genre, but to me, the game just seems too sterile. I hope they'll continue working on it and maybe add more uniqueness to it down the road. But we'll see once it comes out.

What mods are highly recommended for Crusader Kings II? I haven't gotten the new one yet -- had to get a computer that can run it first -- so I'm still interested in mods for the old one.

In this video the youtuber city planner plays does a deep dive into the new dev diary "Zones & Signature Building".

Hey everyone I just noticed that CS II will be part of the MS Gamepass so I thought this would be interesting for some of you.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/224890

Hello EU4 Lemmy people!

I was waiting for the summer sale to pick up LoTN. In the past, I thought that Paradox marked all except the most recent DLC 50% off - this is how I bought everything before. It looks like that has changed and LoTN is just 20% off even though it released like 10 months ago. Is this something new for immersion packs?

Just realized that I totally forgot to do this last time, and no one posted it yet.

I know that at this point this is pretty basic, but for me, Cities Skylines 2 is the big one. It's actually funny that at the start of the year, I wasn't really looking forward to anything new. I was like "Yep this will be another shitty year for me" Then bamm the game gets announced. Can't wait to build a city with all the new tools. Hopefully it won't need 128 gigs of RAM to have some nice mods.

Another one is Life By You. This is more for the fact that EA has been shitting on The Sims for years now, so it's nice to actually see that the competition is there, no matter how small it actually is.

So now I wanna know the opinion of the community. Which game are you all most exited by and why?

In this video the Youtuber Biffa does a deep dive into the newly puplished Dev Diary with the topic "Public & Cargo Transportation"

Just thought I'd share this creator who has really helped me learn the mechanics of Vicky 3. Since this was my first game in the series, I had a hard time initially translating my deep EU4 knowledge to the game. This series reminds me in some ways of the old Reman's Paradox videos that taught me the economics of EU4.

I haven't watched any of their Let's Play content but the tutorial-style vids are easy to understand and a breath of fresh air from some of the more clickbaity channels out there.

In this video the Youtuber City Planner Plays does a deep dive into the recently released second Cities Skylines 2 dev diary and discusses the new traffic ai and general traffic changes that have been announced.