Europa Universalis V

Guess it's time for me to finally write something as I keep seeing a lot of people complaining about things this game is not. Yes indeed, it's not the same as EU4. Yes, they took a direction that linked it closer to Victoria's way of doing economy, to Crusader King's way of waging war. No it doesn't need mission trees because this would break the sandbox, this is what the game is trying to balance around. (they announced ambitions that would supposedly soothe mission trees tantrum makers) No, I don't think this is an issue because what a game license is supposed to do is evolve and not rinse and repeat the same thing over and over across new iterations. If you want that, go back and play EU4 or I dunno, football/shooter games that, on their side, will satisfy your stagnation needs. Now I do agree when it comes to the state of the game. It's playable, do not listen to people trying to run it using a potato and hopes. Does it run well? No. But by the time you reach a point where it starts to slow down you likely would have already made your money's worth of fun. Because it's what matters in the end, having fun, and this game does this well. What I want for the future is more about Paradox defining a clear content line while not constantly changing how the base game systems behave. Because this should have already been built from the very beginning. It feels more like playing an early access game than a full release sadly. If it does bother you then wait it out a few years. Because a game like this with the length it has shouldn't be resetting every casual player's save ever new major update, as it breaks everything. tldr ; the game is fun and playable, don't listen to the people complaining about unnecessary things while expecting the game to be EU4-2

Somehow the game gets less fun with every patch

I have played a lot of this game now, and I have enjoyed a lot of it. But it should be sold as an early access game. So many of the systems in place feel like placeholders. They technically function (lower priority ones may not actually function) but they feel like they are just doing the job while a better solution is worked on. The biggest one is the economy. You can interact with the economy. It can be engaging. But this game's aim seems to be making a simulation of the world that you can play in. As a simulation, the economy makes little sense. Worse, I almost never feel like I'm making interesting strategic decisions. Finally, while they are supporting this game a decent amount, I do not have confidence that this game will become something that feels like a finished product for several years. This isn't one where they needed a few more months to put finishing touches on. They are still working out basic systems and they likely do not have a full development team to do so.

Sadly, no. There are TOO many things in this game, they added further automation. I have gone from a stable eco to turning on automation late game JUST for them to mess everything up in the span of a years time. I am not quite sure but even if you automate everything, there is no way it can play. It will just dig you into a hole, raise inflation to the max, take out loans. It purposely messes you up due to their own order coding, must be. Okay, lets take it slower and just wait, and wait, and wait, and watch a movie, war time an hour in because you want to expand. The neighboring NPCs will target you aggresivlely and make non historical plays for the sake of messing things up. When you have invested say 30-40 hours, why is COLONIAL MING coming for me? That makes NO SENSE! This game is literally some people playing 4 and saying "Yeah, yeah, yeah, lets add that too!" It is simply too bloated and for the sake of playing the game and enjoying it while also making the most of my time, I don't think I will be playing this one again. The only good news about playing 231.5 hours of this P.O.S. is that is made me realize how GOD LIKE of a game EU4 was UNTIL they put in mission trees. Feel that was a slight downward slope but at least they ended support after they saw people did not like it, rather than back peddle they made this bloated, slow, boring game instead. Shame though. It is a downside of being the only people who made these types of games, from EU3-Mid HOI4 I would say was their golden era. I loved every game with hundreds of hours invested into any sub grand strategy they released with Imperator being the reveal that everything they were pumping out was just gold painted ♥♥♥♥. Off the top, I think that is the same time the introduced missions in EU4.

Das Spiel ist auch nach zahlreichen Patches in einem jämmerlichen Zustand. Sei es Inhalt , Performance oder Support des Entwicklers. Stellenweise ist es eigentlich unspielbar. Verbesserungen seitens des Entwicklers sind kaum zu spüren. Jegliche anfrage bezüglich Hilfe oder einer Rückerstattung seitens Valve wird mit Standard Emails abgewiegelt. Man fühlt sich als Kunde wirklich betrogen.

Gsme is not finished! Do not but buy this overpriced crap!!!

I love this game, is it a work in progress? yes. is it unfinished? no. The base game is complete. You start in 1337, weather the black plague, then set out to conquer the known world and to discover and conquer the new world. The economy mechanics are deep, people complain a lot about this but there are much easier less complicated games out there, you did sign up for EU5, not EU4 or anything else that came before. The wars are engaging, not as deep as HOI4 but much better than VIC3. They are constantly making it better using our feedback and being very open about the development and whats in store. The campaigns are long, There can be 20 year lulls where your just waiting for your economy, population, or research to hit a certain point, then something can pop off and its chaos again. If this is your niche and you like to hyper focus like i do this might be your thing, if your not a hardcore strategy gamer that likes deep and engaging systems, maybe skip this one so you don't have to come back and leave a bad review.

no one was playing EU4 for the macro economics. what is this micro manager man? i know you can leave it to the ai but then youre growing at like 0.023% of the rate you would if you micro managed your economy. this game feels like filing taxes or doing homework.