Recent reviews by N0_Balls

This game has provided thousands of hours of entertainment for me; that being said, I'll be waiting to do a serious dive into this patch, something I haven't done for six years. Why add new features if they aren't fully fleshed-out, missing art, crash the game, or come across as game-breaking to anyone who's played? It'll be fun seeing the mega cities on Reddit over the next few weeks, but the balance issue of new features has been super concerning. I hope Pdx can get it right with the hotfixes, but until then I'm actually going to play Imperator.

I've changed my mind. Are there still things that could be improved? Do I wish the esc key actually closed peace deal screens? Or that there were a quicker way to see the culture and religion of pops in specific cities? Or that the ledger was more complete? Or more events? Of course, but the game is now playable and entertaining. Good fix Pdx

I've bought every DLC upon release since Cossacks, and this is bar far the one with the least innovation and worst QOL changes. I don't know what has been going on with the devs since Third Rome, but it seems that the game is now laser focused on adding changes that are viewed positively by the few people who expand six provinces in 400 years and despised by everyone else. The list goes on and on, from end game tags to conversions to now moving your capital to another continent only if you have as much development in that continent (Nice job sneaking that little change in there without telling the community). Now I get to pay $10 to listen to naval battle sounds that are never ending, can't even earn your incredible new pirate achievement because you re-broke earning achievements as a released tag, and the only real "flavor" that was added for Iberia was Holy Orders, which I can almost guarantee are only going to be used by the 10 people who want to ban the Andalusians to Guantanomo. This is not the quality that I have come to expect from Paradox over the past five years, but sadly it has become the new standard for profit-designed development progression. If things don't change fast, I may find myself reverting back to 1.25 and turning off updates. Please do better