i didn't see anywhere you get the call to arms dlc with the preorder

So do the call to arms thing, it takes 5 mins.

I put in for a 2 day vacation the 13th/14th next week

Yeah im getting hyped

Yeah even though I've played like 150 hours of Eu3 in the last couple weeks I'm getting more and more excited for Eu4.

Day 1 Ottoman Ironman AAR incoming. Rather then just try to get as big as possible I'm going to try following the missions and see what happens.

Pretty sure my schedule next Tuesday will be to go to work for 12 hours, get home, play for maybe 1-2 hours before having to go to bed simultaneously excited at awesomeness and angry that I can't play more

fml

wrt DLC, don't think it's that big of a deal, this is like TF2 microtransaction level stuff.

DLC	Stuff that actually might be worthwhile	TF2 I-want-a-cool-hat-for-my-medic level stuff
Star and Crescent Pack	Events for Muslim nations	Muslim-themed event pictures
Horsemen of the Crescent Pack		Cavalry models for Ottomans, Mamluks, Persia
Conquest of Constantinople Pack		10 minutes of new music
100 Years War Unit Pack		Infantry models for England, France, Scotland, Burgundy
Purple Phoenix expansion	Events for Byzantium	Event pictures and unit models for Byzantium
Winged Hussars Pack		Cavalry models for Russia, Poland, Lithuania
National Monuments Pack		Some pretty models around the map
CK2 save converter	Convert CK2 saves

Like, the game is still there, it's not like they're raping you for $30 for all this CAN'T-MISS CONTENT the day the game comes out.

From DLC thread, courtesy of weevil

Article about pdox and their company history in Polygon

Cool article, I had no idea about the GamersGate affiliation.

Demo up on steam - 525 mb

I don't plan on actually playing it but I will use it to get familiar with the UI this weekend.

Get hype

1520 confirmed saddest year ever

Dat 1492 Aq Qoyunlu? lol Timurids/Persia

Play as any nation in the demo:

1. Go to ...\Steam\steamapps\common\Europa Universalis IV Demo\common\countries

2. Find whichever country to want to play as and swap its name with one of the playable countries (ex. if you want to play as France, rename France.txt to Venice.txt and the original Venice.txt to France.txt)

3. Go to ...Steam\steamapps\common\Europa Universalis IV Demo\common\country_tags and open 00_countries.txt

4. Using the example from #2, find the VEN entry and change it from VEN = "countries/Venice.txt" to FRA = "countries/Venice.txt" and then find the FRA entry and change it from FRA = "countries/France.txt" to VEN = "countries/France.txt"

5. Select the country by clicking on it on the map, don't use the shields.

Dat

Common

Wealth

lol been waiting for this, i love all the paradox nerds, didnt even take a day

now just need someone to figure out how to do no time limit and we basically have the full game today

so im playing the beta, but save game is greyed out.

Pls tell me that means its been autosaving and not that I cant actually save ever? -.-

ps: fu venice, I thought we were friends.

You mean demo, right? Saving is disabled in demo I think. Full game will have it (unless you play IRONMAN MODE which will autosave consistently but won't allow manual saves, to keep you from going back if something bad happens).

No saving in the demo, demo only goes to 1520 anyway.

well fu

ive been having a blast and actually doing amazing so far, in the release game does every province start with a market and fort and everything?

Anyways, flanders got roflstomped, now venice is gonna eat it. Think you can go around and talk **** about Gorz ?!

My heavy ships gettin' made in front of your face. I know what youre up to. Pre-emptive strikes ftw.

We got one!

iirc, in EU3, your capital province would start with most/all buildings but most other provinces wouldn't have them (aside from forts, which everyone in Europe has, but get less and less common the farther outside Europe you get). The demo does start in 1492 (full game starts 1444), so the later start date prob implies buildings going up in that timespan that you wouldn't start with.

Probably depends on the country. In EU3 Ottomans start with every lvl 1 building in all of their provinces.

Might have found a way to disable stopping at 1520, just testing now.

welp, right after beating venice's ass and asking them to give me 50% profits of their shared nodes, I crash.

Oh wells... had a dozen allies and a lot of profit and powers rolling in .

http://www.mediafire.com/download/w7...b8bgb0/eu4.exe

Overwrite the original .exe with the above one. It is safe, I made it myself.

You can select any nation to play and play it for as long as you want. Game still starts in 1492 and there is no saving.



Also apparently Ming can't last 28+ years on speed 5 with me doing nothing.