Victoria 3 News

Welcome Victorians, to the next update to the Open Beta! Featuring changes, improvements and new features highlighted in Dev Diary 97!

Alongside this, we have also updated the known issues post - please make sure to read it before reporting bugs or submitting feedback. Finally, remember to join our Discord server to submit feedback!

Key Features include from Dev Diary 97:

• Multiple Battles!
  
• Naval Battles are re-enabled!
  
• Conscription is re-enabled!
  
• Unit Experience and upgrading of units.
  
• Retreat and Pursuit during battles!
  
• Re-home formations!
  
• Food, Pollution and Population Growth changes!
  
• UI/UX updates.
  
• Narrative content additions and changes, including to colonial administrations, dynamic countries, more formables/unifications (including the winners of the community poll).
  
• Interest Group tweaks!
  
• Military Graphics!
  
• Finally some Performance improvements through Job Satisfaction for example.
  

You can take part in the Open Beta by:

1. Right clicking Victoria 3 in Steam and selecting Properties.
   
2. Then Selecting Betas from the left side tabs
   
3. Finally clicking the right side drop down box and clicking

   1.5-beta - 1.5 Open Beta

Hello Victorians!

Victoria 3 is now on sale from today until the 13th of October! So, grab your conductors hat and whistle your way along the Victorian era!

(The expansion pass will also be affected due to it dynamically changing with price/items owned)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/529340/Victoria_3/

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/32180/Victoria_3_Expansion_Pass/

Good Day Victorians!

The Remastered Victoria 2 soundtrack, previously a pre-order bonus for Victoria 3 at release, has now been given away to all owners of the game for free!

You can access the soundtrack both in-game via the music player or through the files:

\Steam\steamapps\common\Victoria 3\game\dlc\dlc001_preorder\Victoria 2 Remastered Soundtrack

Today's Dev Diary will be looking at the changes and improvements coming in the second update to the 1.5 Open Beta!

Due to the sheer size of this Dev Diary we couldn't post it here natively! Please visit our forums to read and see all the improvements coming to Open Beta 1.5 here: https://pdxint.at/3F7EqUl

Happy Thursday! It's time for an update on how things are moving along with the 1.5 Open Beta. Today we will take a look at a few major improvements we've made since last time, both to the new military-related mechanics but also a number of other aspects of the game.

As a reminder, adapted from dev diary #93:
Update 1 will tentatively launch early next week. By this time the new features should feel a lot more mature, with bugs and missing information / graphics filled in, additional mechanical details closing exploits and providing new optimization challenges, and in general more bells and whistles available to you. While beta testing this update, in addition to feedbacking on what tweaks would make for more fun gameplay, focus especially on balance and UX improvements.

We don't expect 1.5 to go live until sometime in November, so keep that in mind when assessing and feedbacking. We have planned two more 3-week sprints after this update for making additional improvements, fixing bugs and balance issues, and hooking up all the additional graphics our Artisans team is hard at work at.

With that out of the way, let's get into the changes!

Due to just how large this Dev Dairy is we are unable to share it on steam, please follow the link to our forums to read it in it's entirety!

>Dev Dairy #96 - Open Beta 1.5 Update 1<