EU4: Remastered or EU5

[Jebe]

What would you rather like to happen?

[Kapika96]

EU5.

I couldn't care less about "remastered" graphics. I do want gameplay mechanic overhauls though, specifically a population system and a trade overhaul so that the flow is dynamic. Those things would only be possible with an EU5.

[Azunai]

I kinda like the aesthetics of the game. A remaster coukd easily make it worse.

For example if they change the map to look like the crusader kings 3 map instead of the current look (which is quite similar to crusader kings 2), i wouldn't even consider it an improvement. More like a sidegrade.

[Medicles]

EU5, but with considerable changes, like world conquest should not be a possibility anymore.

[bri]

Originally posted by Medicles:

EU5, but with considerable changes, like world conquest should not be a possibility anymore.

Eh, I was ok with the level of difficulty to do so in EU 2, ever since its gotten progressively easier to the detriment of the game.

[Medicles]

Originally posted by bri:

Eh, I was ok with the level of difficulty to do so in EU 2, ever since its gotten progressively easier to the detriment of the game.

The possibility of world conquest will always influence further development of the game though, just to make sure world conquest is still possible. Getting too large too fast should have extreme negative repercussions, from the outside and from the inside. Right now its far too easy to deal with this.

I imagine coalitions of great powers when someone gets a little too big for thei liking, problems with non-accepted cultures somewhat akin to the Dutch Revolution, peace treaties where your allies tell you what they want and if they dont get it there will be considerable opinion damages, more focus on economy and diplomacy, maybe states have their own governors with a new approval system... just something to go away from constant expansion.

[Sviothiod]

I guess it depends on what is meant by "remastered". Pure optics I don't care about. The age of the core game is showing more and more. I don't need higher resolutions or fancier animations of the soldiers that I never care about anyway.

I'd love to see EU5 with a new engine, adapted to modern multi-core computing.

[Art]

Neither, a new EU game that isn't EU5 or anything but more of a spin off like EU Rome. The next EU game will follow CK3 and Vic3's path of a mobile game UI, overdone 3D models everywhere and a gutted combat system, along with 0 content and 1 small DLC a year (Ck3...) .

I hope they prove me wrong and make EU5 a proper successor to EU4, so EU4, with ALL it's content, keeping the same aesthetics and design and revamping it all to 11. I suppose that's a remaster though...

[Kimlin]

Originally posted by Medicles:

EU5, but with considerable changes, like world conquest should not be a possibility anymore.

Is it easy to do world conquests on the hardest difficulty level? I haven’t gotten to that point even on normal difficulty but I can already see how it could become easy.

[Medicles]

Originally posted by Kimlin:

Originally posted by Medicles:

EU5, but with considerable changes, like world conquest should not be a possibility anymore.

Is it easy to do world conquests on the hardest difficulty level? I haven’t gotten to that point even on normal difficulty but I can already see how it could become easy.

The hardest difficulty doesnt really change much except for fair fights and since you dont want to fight fair anyway it doesnt really matter. Especially for WC it doesnt matter because the usual strategy is to go into india, asia and africa early on and annex europe in the lategame.

[RCMidas]

Since most WCs are built upon not fighting as much as possible, the issue of the AI getting bonuses like +50% to army size and recovery, -33% to regiment and ship costs, and other things that the AI really tends not to benefit from in the same way as the player (AE; and coring, construction, idea and missionary cost among them)...

Well, let's say if you can manage to do a WC from an OPM start, going up onto harder difficulties just becomes an exercise in how much you are trying to help the AI slow down your inevitable triumph, and most of the help the difficulty offers them is not all that great.

[El Fabuloso]

EU 5

[Ashling]

Something that's most definitely not going to happen is what I'd want: an EU game that re-embraces its board-game past in a sorta offshoot series.

Paradox lately has trended more towards making their games simulator rather than traditional strategy games, which is nice, but I'd also like to see more of their roots in some of their games. Plus, I think with the number of resources they have now could make for something really interesting. But I don't think board games, especially online board games, are where the money's at atm.

[Marquoz]

Originally posted by Kapika96:

EU5.

I couldn't care less about "remastered" graphics. I do want gameplay mechanic overhauls though, specifically a population system and a trade overhaul so that the flow is dynamic. Those things would only be possible with an EU5.

These two things plus good multicore support are my biggest EU5 desires.

[Kimlin]

I would take an EU5. I hope they would keep the game complex with a focus on grand strategy. The simplified direction they are taking ck3 vs what ck2 was would not be favorable for EU4

[El Fabuloso]

Originally posted by Marquoz:

Originally posted by Kapika96:

EU5.

I couldn't care less about "remastered" graphics. I do want gameplay mechanic overhauls though, specifically a population system and a trade overhaul so that the flow is dynamic. Those things would only be possible with an EU5.

These two things plus good multicore support are my biggest EU5 desires.

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