Crusader Kings III News

Crusader Kings III is an excellent grand strategy game, for the sole reason of the stories and characters it generates through purely organic means. It's unique amongst Paradox's strategy stable in that it focuses on people, not polities, and due to the built-in RNG you can come away from a session with some very quirky tales to tell.

Today's edition of 'stuff what happened in CK3' involves a Reddit user who shared the fact that their game now has a giant, bad-ass looking Norwegian Pope who's apparently sadistic, cynical, and possesses a prowess stat that's higher than their learning stat - the latter being very important for a Pope, you would think.

I imagine a real Scandinavian Pope, even in the medieval period, probably wouldn't look like they'd just stepped off a longship, but then we can't know that because there has never been a Pope from Scandinavia. As far as I can tell, the region only got its first ever cardinal (the rank before Pope) in 2017 when Pope Francis appointed Lars Anders Arborelius, who is also the Bishop of Stockholm.

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A new hotfix for Crusader Kings III has just dropped, fixing some of the medieval grand strategy game's most glaring fashion disaster (and dead children). Patch 1.4.2 addresses a number of known issues that arose from the recent release of the 1.4 'Azure' patch a few weeks ago.

You can read the full patch notes for more information, but the important thing is this line entry; "Jester hat will be less fashionable after 1300 and thus, won't be used by the majority of characters anymore." Finally, medieval fashion will make sense again. Custom characters will also now get starting men-at-arms in line with existing characters, and a fix for garrisons has been introduced as well.

Another game-changing fix involves dead children turning up during the newly introduced 'Meet Peers' event. This new interaction is a way in which you could facilitate your children forming early friendships with other important children, simulating the life-long bonds that could be forged between people who grew up together. These events always got a bit awkward though when that Duke's kid who died of the plague a while back kept turning up. It's hard to form a lasting friendship with a corpse.

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• Ambitious characters will not be stressed if they are defending in a war and they sign a white peace.
  
• Opinions from gift is now caped to 100 (200 with the perk Thorough) and decays 2.5x faster
  

• The AI will now be able to properly offer vassalization to Clan and Tribal rulers.
  
• Fixed a rare case when AI units don't join a fight if player units have been attacked while moving
  

• Fixed HUD date occasionally jumping in multiplayer
  
• Mass Ransom is now instant (except if the recipient is a player). This makes it significantly more responsive, and also avoids an issue where it could only send one ransom request to each recipient. Also fixed Mass Ransom in some cases giving 0 gold. Note that if the recipient runs out of money or otherwise no longer wants to accept the ransom, not all characters might get ransomed off
  
• Fixed the game rules window's "reset to defaults" button being visible when the rules are not possible to change
  

• Renamed the portrait_modifier files. Scripted_character are assigned to index 50 and events to index 90. Keep in mind that the content contained in the one with the highest index will have the priority over the other.
  
• Fixed a rare crash when using the every/any_faith_character script list
  

• Fixed initialisation garrisons for saves from versions before 1.4.0
  
• Fixed domain limit grace period not getting applied for newly gained titles
  
• Characters with an opinion above 80 will properly leave factions
  
• Counties will now leave factions if they don't meet the criteria to join
  
• Fixed the issue with custom characters not starting the game with Men at Arms
  
• Alliance with relatives will stop breaking immediately after being enacted
  
• Allow rulers to fire their chaplain / priest once when they have the doctrine Temporal, for life
  
• Properly check that there is "no Special Building instead" of "no Special Building slot" for the Defender of Rod decision
  
• Jester hat will be less fashionable after 1300 and thus, won’t used by the majority of the characters anymore
  
• Fixed the faith character list potentially overflowing and crashing the game due to dead people pretending to be alive
  
• "Use Hook" is accessible in the Declare War window when you want to push a claim while your liege has a high crown authority
  
• Allow modifiers from events to change haircuts and beards once again
  
• Fixed misleading conditions in tooltip of Fabricate Hook interaction
  
• Sparta will be a valid holy site in existings saves, new games will still use Olympus instead of Sparta
  
• The "End of Fun" event will not stack up several times in multiplayer even if the player does not choose an option immediately
  
• The Decision Develop Capital cannot be done by a child anymore
  
• Added an information on why Fabricate Hook can be unavailable when a you are targeting characters without location
  
• Dead children should not show up anymore during Meet Peers events
  
• Restored a missing localisation key when hovering Declare War without selecting any Casus Belli in English
  
• Fixed a bug when two and more armies involved in a siege and their casualties get applied multiple times
  
• Fixed a rare crash occurrence at game start
  

• Ambitious characters will not be stressed if they are defending in a war and they sign a white peace.
  
• Opinions from gift is now caped to 100 (200 with the perk Thorough) and decays 2.5x faster
  

• The AI will now be able to properly offer vassalization to Clan and Tribal rulers.
  
• Fixed a rare case when AI units don't join a fight if player units have been attacked while moving
  

• Fixed HUD date occasionally jumping in multiplayer
  
• Mass Ransom is now instant (except if the recipient is a player). This makes it significantly more responsive, and also avoids an issue where it could only send one ransom request to each recipient. Also fixed Mass Ransom in some cases giving 0 gold. Note that if the recipient runs out of money or otherwise no longer wants to accept the ransom, not all characters might get ransomed off
  
• Fixed the game rules window's "reset to defaults" button being visible when the rules are not possible to change
  

• Renamed the portrait_modifier files. Scripted_character are assigned to index 50 and events to index 90. Keep in mind that the content contained in the one with the highest index will have the priority over the other.
  
• Fixed a rare crash when using the every/any_faith_character script list
  

• Fixed initialisation garrisons for saves from versions before 1.4.0
  
• Fixed domain limit grace period not getting applied for newly gained titles
  
• Characters with an opinion above 80 will properly leave factions
  
• Counties will now leave factions if they don't meet the criteria to join
  
• Fixed the issue with custom characters not starting the game with Men at Arms
  
• Alliance with relatives will stop breaking immediately after being enacted
  
• Allow rulers to fire their chaplain / priest once when they have the doctrine Temporal, for life
  
• Properly check that there is "no Special Building instead" of "no Special Building slot" for the Defender of Rod decision
  
• Jester hat will be less fashionable after 1300 and thus, won’t used by the majority of the characters anymore
  
• Fixed the faith character list potentially overflowing and crashing the game due to dead people pretending to be alive
  
• "Use Hook" is accessible in the Declare War window when you want to push a claim while your liege has a high crown authority
  
• Allow modifiers from events to change haircuts and beards once again
  
• Fixed misleading conditions in tooltip of Fabricate Hook interaction
  
• Sparta will be a valid holy site in existings saves, new games will still use Olympus instead of Sparta
  
• The "End of Fun" event will not stack up several times in multiplayer even if the player does not choose an option immediately
  
• The Decision Develop Capital cannot be done by a child anymore
  
• Added an information on why Fabricate Hook can be unavailable when a you are targeting characters without location
  
• Dead children should not show up anymore during Meet Peers events
  
• Restored a missing localisation key when hovering Declare War without selecting any Casus Belli in English
  
• Fixed a bug when two and more armies involved in a siege and their casualties get applied multiple times
  
• Fixed a rare crash occurrence at game start