Crusader Kings III News

Anatomy of a Game: Startup and Loading 💡

What happens when you launch up the game?
What actually goes on in a single day of gameplay?
Our dev team details the Anatomy of Crusader Kings 3! 💡
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Summer Teaser #2 🌞

Hello everyone,

Have a look at the following traditions coming with Royal Court: Communal, Courtly, Egalitarian, and Stoic! These add up to the past three we have shared last week: Bellicose, Inventive, and Spiritual.
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Summer Teaser #1 🌞

Hello everyone,

As promised, here is the first of what we like to call “summer teasers” for our upcoming expansion Royal Court.
Today, a few traditions that you’ll be able to pick up with the upcoming overhaul for cultures!
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Crusader Kings 3's upcoming patch lets you paint the town red

Crusader Kings III is a grand strategy game about politics, religion, and sex. But it's also about putting colours on a map... mainly using those three aforementioned techniques. With the upcoming patch releasing alongside the Royal Court expansion, you can now choose which colours you're painting the medieval world with thanks to a handy colour customisation tool.

The new tool allows you to pick which colours represent your culture, faith, and any titles you control, including those held by vassals. When creating a hybrid or divergent culture, Paradox explains, you'll now be able to choose a colour - as well as a specific shade - to represent it on the map. The tool is also available when you're establishing a new faith - you can pick a whole new colour, or just give it a slightly different hue, depending on your preference.

The colour tool also works when you're customising a title. In the latest dev diary, Paradox says this works not only for titles you hold personally, but also for any held by your vassals as well. Along with names and adjectives, you'll be able to pick a colour and shade for each title in your realm - so you'll be able to make your lands look as harmonious or as loud as you'd like.

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Dev Diary #66 - A Fresh Coat of Paint 📚

Hello everyone!

1.4.4 was released this morning which deployed several fixes, of which you can read below.

Today's Development Diary looks at customizing your Cultures!

► Read our Dev Diary #66 - A Fresh Coat Of Paint

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💡 Enjoy the FAQ Royal Court and read all there is to learn about our upcoming Expansion

Greetings!

The sun is out, and we’ve all been enjoying pristine Azure skies during the Swedish midsummer celebrations. Or, well, a few of us have! Some members of the team got to enjoy a massive downpour of rain (which is customary, to be fair), and others even got to experience a refreshing storm of hail. Speaking of Azure, we’re releasing another small patch today which addresses a handful of issues (most notably some stability concerns):

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► Fixed unpause issues in multiplayer if choosing to continue in single player after network out of sync on 1.4.2
► Fixed crash on save and progressive dynasty and title coat of arms disappearing
► Fixed UI lists refresh, allowing to access characters for some interactions when they should not be available (i.e.: you could grant vassal to your liege characters from other realms)
► Fixed crash happening after starting a fort assault during a crusade on a long playthrough save on 1.4.2
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Beginning next week a majority of the team will be going on summer vacation, which means that it’ll be mostly deserted for the next five weeks. In practice this means that the next few Dev Diaries won’t be as meaty as the ones that came before. You can think of them more as teasers than proper Dev Diaries. When we’re back we’ll of course resume having more substantial ones!

With that being said, we don’t want to leave you empty handed. Summer vacation doesn’t start until next week after all. Some of you might have noticed in the previous Dev Diary that we had a small square at the top of the window when creating a hybrid or a divergent culture, showing a colour. This is of course a preview of the colour your new culture will have when it’s created. Clicking it allows you to change and set the colour of your culture exactly as you want it!

[Image of selecting a colour during culture creation]

But we didn’t stop there! We added this new and wonderful tool in a couple of other places as well. As when creating a culture, we've added it for creating a new faith too.

[Image of selecting a colour when creating a faith]

You'll also be able to change the colour when customizing a title. No longer will you have to settle on the colour the game picks for you when creating a custom kingdom or empire! Especially when that colour turns out to be neon pink... You can edit the colour for any title you hold or is held by your vassals, similar to how you are allowed to edit the name & adjective for titles in your realm. Yes, this means that you can make your vassal lands sport a cavalcade of colour if you so desire!

[Image of selecting a colour when customizing a title]

That's it for today, I'm afraid. While this might be a fairly small addition in the grand scheme of things, we do think it’s a nice and flavourful tool that lets you customize your experience more than before!