Graphics improvements

[Brother Nature]

Hi all,

Long-time EU4 fan here. Played a few other Paradox instalments like CK3 and Imperator Rome, however EU4 has remained my favourite.

The biggest issue that I have with the game is that it just looks REALLY bad in it's vanilla form. I'm talking about the map specifically. Units don't look great, but since the map is what you are looking at 99% of the time, it's the most important feature.

Now there are a few mods that make the map look a bit nicer, especially in "political" map mode, however seeing all the new DLCs that Paradox is pumping out always left me wondering on why would they not spend a bit of effort and uplift the game's visuals. I wouldn't take much time effort and might just be the uplift the game needs to get new players into the game.

TL;DR: CK3 and IR look gorgeous and I guess I just really with EU4 could look a bit more like it. As it is, the terrain view looks highly unattractive. Why wouldn't Paradox improve on this?

Thoughts?

P.S. I am using the "Graphical Map Improvements" mod at the moment, which does improve the non-terrain, map modes.

[Narrowmind]

Have you played until 1821 in the last calendar year?

[SkeL]

CK3 and IR runs on a newer Engine, EU4 is around 8~9 years old. Probably you will get what you looking for in EU5 when they announce it, which i doubt its happening in the upcoming years since they will focus on Victoria3 now.

[bri]

Eye candy (aka pretty maps/units) are about the last thing to put time or effort into for a strategy game in my opinion. Honestly I'd rather go back to the 2d maps, all the 3d has done is make parts of the map hard to see due to being mountainous. Clean, clear maps are really all I care about in terms of graphics, it's far better that they put the resources into gameplay and ai than sprucing up the appearance in my opinion.