Victoria 3 News

Victoria 3 update will make the Civil War harder to avoid

Paradox's latest grand strategy game, Victoria 3, is out in the wild now, and while it's ambitious, detailed, and beautiful to look at, it does have some problems. One of those is that the American Civil War, in which the southern slave states seceded in order to preserve their rights to own slaves, is fairly easy to avoid - you don't really have to fight it at all. Paradox says this issue is one of several that it's working on for its upcoming Victoria 3 patch.

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Victoria 3 cheats and console commands

The Victoria 3 cheats and console commands will allow you to get to the good stuff in a hurry, if you don't want to build up your Victorian nation brick by painstaking brick. Like all of Paradox's grand strategy games, Victoria 3 has a built-in set of commands you can use to quickly get the map set up the way you want, without any messing around with the trade system or diplomatic plays.

To access Victoria 3 cheats and console commands, you'll need to enable debug mode. This is done through Steam prior to launching the game. All you need to do is right-click on Victoria 3 in your Steam library, and click on Properties. In the first panel that pops up, the General tab, find the box labelled Launch Options. Add this command to that box:

-debug_mode

Launch Victoria 3, and you'll find that the developer debug mode has been enabled. You can pull up a console menu at any time by pressing the ~ (tilde) key.

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Player Resources

Greetings Victorians!

This post has been created to gather useful information for players. Tutorials, Links, and various other resources that both new and old players can use to make their experience easier and more enjoyable.

Read it here!
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/player-resources.1549501/

How to use the Victoria 3 construction system

The Victoria 3 construction and building system is at the core of Paradox's latest grand strategy game. With its heavy focus on industrialisation and expansion, any Victoria 3 campaign is going to involve a lot of building. First though, you need to know the basics on how to use that system to get your soon-to-be thriving economy off on the right foot. Understanding how the Victoria 3 trade mechanics work is also imperative.

Unlike many other strategy games, in Victoria 3, it's best to think of things in terms of throughput rather than paying X amount for Y structure. The most important budget figure is your weekly surplus or deficit, and any building you queue up will have a cost over time that impacts that number. Throughput determines how your production buildings run, and it's also the way your construction capacity is worked out.

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Victoria 3 review - a golden tomorrow

When the 'Game Over' screen arrived after my century in charge of the United States for our Victoria 3 review, I looked back over a very different hundred years from those familiar to me from history books. There had never been a Civil War - in the version of the story that unfolded in Paradox's latest grand strategy game, slavery was abolished more or less without incident in the1840s, but we'd come close to a revolution over the abolition of child labour thirty years later. By 1936, we were no longer the 'United States' at all - the nation was a wildly successful anarchist commune known as the United Syndicates of America.

Victoria 3 faces the challenge of living up to a decade of anticipation, and it's made some bold changes to address the shortcomings of its predecessor. It's without a doubt the most beautiful game Paradox has ever made, and arguably the most welcoming for newcomers. It makes fundamental changes to the way the series considers the ethics of slavery, labour, colonisation, and the agency of indigenous people. However, at launch, Victoria 3 is a wobbly prospect: bugs, crashes, and a few frustrating design idiosyncrasies leave the whole thing feeling somewhat underdone.

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