I'm at that phase where I want to start a game but then don't because I want the next game to be with the DLC.
Wish there was any way to get it earlier. Ugh.
I've held off on playing for a while in order to wait for the release. I'm really excited to play as the last Karling in 1066 and retaking Aachen. From there I'll reestablish independent Lotharingia and play tall. What are your plans for your first playthrough with the DLC?
For me I think William of Normandy. I havenβt played as him since CK3 came out and I think the new culture and court language systems will make for an interesting campaign. Iβm curious what ideas other people have.
Personally I'm really looking forward to creating custom cultures and maybe replicating a few historic figures from further past or future of the games set time period - but curious to know what people are hyped about most?
So, i will be combining french and dutch cultures to make a Culture that would represent Flanders from today. What campaign will you do?
Personally I'm kinda hoping for a societies/religion dlc, having a religion focused dlc would make sense after all the focus on culture in royal court and having societies would be nice to have again and could play a part with religions.
Honestly, that as your realm grows your own territorial growth will slow. It's always been a trend with historical empires that after reaching a critical mass they become sluggish when it comes to further expansion. Namely due to the fact that it's already extremely expensive and time consuming just keeping the damn empire together in the first place. Especially the culturally diverse empires, who face ethnic and religious tensions much more than empires who're relatively unified in language, culture and religion.
So, paired with my immense hope that the RP aspect will be greatly expanded, with relics and the royal court system and the fact that they're now differentiating languages. I hope that late game empires(or early game, depends on how quickly you can do it) will be much more interesting to simply spend your time administrating than just the usual steamroll through all nations in the world. I know world conquests are fun sometimes, but CK3 has really failed to scratch my itch for a very deep political side to the gameplay. Currently, the Military side of gameplay is great, but I've yet to really feel any deep or major political crises or struggles, and in turn cannot really appreciate or realize when a golden age has come.
No really, I have 0 context on public opinion on it, I've been saving my excitement for the new year at least. Maybe it's a dud, maybe it's amazing? I was certainly blown away, I'm excited!
Has anyone else just stopped playing the game until Royal Court DLC comes out? No interesting new mods and the DLC doesnβt come out for another 3 weeks, so Iβm not sure what the point of the game is until then
