Crusader Kings III News

CK3 Dev Diary #50 - Poetry to my Ears 🎶

Welcome everyone!

Let’s all give an especially warm welcome to the Poet Trait!
This venerable little piece of content is making a triumphant return with reworked stats, a character interaction, and randomised poetry generation for our upcoming 1.3 free Update.

If you're curious enough, have a teaser sneak peek at the 1.3 Patch Notes!
► Read our Dev Diary #50 - Poetry to my Ears

A Crusader Kings 3 speedrunner converts the world to one culture in just 44 years

How long do you think it would take to convert the entire world map of Crusader Kings III to a single culture? Not as long as you'd expect, it turns out, as a known CK3 speedrunner has managed the so-called 'one culture' feat in a fraction of the strategy game's game time.

Most large-scale projects in grand strategy games are meant to take up most of the timespan available to achieve. In Crusader Kings III's case, assuming you start in the 867 start date, that could mean you've got a cool 586 years to play around with. Reddit user Doctorsandwich8 felt they didn't need that long, and managed to convert every province that exists in the game to the 'Outremer' culture in just 44 in-game years. 44.

This is a feat that took over 100 hours of planning, and you can read a full write-up of their methodology over on the r/crusaderkings subreddit. This is the fourth such speedrun they've done, following on from their 'one ruler world conquest' (which took 23 years), 'one religion' (which took 29 years), and finally a game where they managed to get the Mongol Empire to use Primogeniture succession rules, which quite frankly is just nonsense. Wonderful nonsense.

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Paradox Interactive признала провал Empire of Sin - гангстерской стратегии от Джона Ромеро

Прошедший год стал для Paradox Interactive лучшим в истории компании с точки зрения роста. Об этом сообщает GamesIndustry.biz со ссылкой на финансовый отчет издательства за 2020 год.

Winter is coming to Crusader Kings 3 as first details on the 1.3 patch drop

Crusader Kings 3 was undoubtedly the best launch for a Paradox grand strategy game in history. We loved it (read our review), and it seems plenty of others did, too - it sold over a million copies in just over a month following its launch, which is pretty great.

But things have also been a bit quiet. We've had a couple of patches, but no further news on what the first expansion could be, though the game's initial expansion pass gives a rough indication as to what to expect. We're due to get more concrete news on Crusader Kings 3's 2021 plans at the Paradox Insider event next month, but the team released a new dev diary today revealing the first details on the next major update - patch 1.3.

This new revision will drop alongside the game's first premium DLC, which we'll also learn about next month. The highlights from today's dev diary include some map updates, as well as the inclusion of winter as a proper, game-changing season. I'll be honest, I thought winter was already in the game, but maybe I'm confusing it with one of the other historical strategy games.