Crusader Kings 3 Dev Tracker

Traxium318 said: So It's like a highly curated walkthrough? Like new events and options for them? A more railroaded experiencia?

Curated? Yes. There will be new events and the like specifically for these characters. Railroaded? Not at all. The strength of Crusader Kings has always been the ability to define your own course through history, and that's something we'll continue to encourage new players to do.  

AlfredRWallace said: Oy! What's this now then?

Advance notice of an initiative that'll be playing out over the following months to make the game more accessible to new players. We're sprucing up the Rags to Riches bookmark characters and making them more distinct gameplay-wise from each other, in order to better highlight the different ways you can approach CK3.  

Are you stepping into the vast and intricate world of Crusader Kings III for the first time? We understand that beginning your journey into the Middle Ages can be daunting; That's why we're excited to introduce Legends of Crusader Kings III, a specially crafted initiative to ease new players into the game's rich historical tapestry and complex gameplay mechanics.

We've selected five legendary characters from the game's extensive roster, each offering a unique perspective on the medieval world and showcasing different aspects of gameplay. Whether it's military conquest, deft diplomacy, or intricate plotting, these legends serve as both a tutorial and a teaser of the possibilities that lie ahead.

There's news for existing players as well: these characters are set to receive comprehensive overhauls as part of a free update in May, enhancing their stories and gameplay even further.

The journey doesn't end with thes... Read more

Hello, everyone!

We have an important update to share today for people looking to get into Crusader Kings III for the first time: we're retiring the old Royal Edition and replacing it with a new Starter Edition for our game. This new edition is designed to offer a comprehensive and value-packed entry point for new players, ensuring access to the best of what Crusader Kings III has to offer from the get-go.

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Included with Crusader Kings III: Starter Edition

• Crusader Kings III Base Game: Whether you start as a lowly count or a mighty emperor, no throne is safe as you compete for power against thousands of other nobles for prestige and dominance. Write your own histories, with a wide range of personality types, ambitions, and cultural preferences. Play as a haughty duke, a pious prince, or a cunning queen, and then play as their heir as the wheel of time grinds o...

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Hello everyone! Today we're releasing Update 1.12.4 to address some outstanding issues, as well as implement several changes to Legends and the Legends UI. Most of these changes are the direct result of community feedback we've received here on the forums and elsewhere over the past weeks; your feedback remains an invaluable tool for helping us improve Crusader Kings III, so thank you to everyone who shared their thoughts and suggestions with us since the release of Legends of the Dead!

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Update 1.12.4 Changelog​

Game Content​

• Legend chapters will now change in response to the player's actions: winning a battle, a siege, being released from prison, taking the vows, a deceased spouse, a newborn child, etc.
• Added more variations to legend titles.
• You are now alerted when a new legend enters your realm.
• Winning a Great Holy War now off...

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Hello everyone! Today we're releasing Update 1.12.3 to address some issues reported to us by the community as well as deploy a couple of balance tweaks. Notably for our MacOS and Linux users, this update merges in the previously experimental fix for crashes related to tooltips and mousing over portraits. A huge thank you goes out to the community for providing their crash reports and insights on this issue!

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PC Update 1.12.3 Changelog

Balance​

• Rebalanced the AI logic for asking characters to promote their legend.
• If you have taken gold in exchange to promote someone's legend and stop, then you're asked to give the gold back.

User Modding​

• User Modding: Added on_legend_start_promote to legend types.
• User Modding: Added on_legend_stop_promote to legend types.

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PDXOxycoon said: I want to continue on the Minorities project. Make sure to let Trinexx know how much you all want it, so @Wokeg and I can get the resources to see it realised!

Also do this for Menagerie but accompany it with pictures of your pets so they're more attention-grabbing and thus will be seen more often by everyone, thus naturally b... Read more

riadach said: Don't forget the horsies. I always get annoyed when I'm told I have a warhorse yet cannot see him/her. Especially now that we use horses to travel on tours etc.

That was actually one of our stated goals, to make any system we have at least somewhat expandable. For all those non-modders out there, the current process of adding new pets - insofar as the idea of a new pet really exists in CK3 as it stands, given they're essentially just story cycles with unique modifiers - is finicky and pretty high-effort, and contained entirely within s... Read more

Flockingbird said: P.S. Regarding Medieval Menagerie: back around December or so, we had a new poster who asked for exactly what you’ve described (and got laughed at)—did y’all see that post? It wasn’t one of you devs trolling the forum, was it? (I’ll try to find that post when I have time to search.)

Haha, not quite. I think I briefly mentioned in the video that whilst the Menagerie in this format was put forward by me, the idea behind expandi... Read more

Hello everyone!
Back in December of 2023, halls of Studio Black buzzed with an exciting flurry of activity for the team’s inaugural Black Forge Jam: a three-day extravaganza of creativity and innovation, with just a dash of chaos. This wasn't your average development sprint. We threw the rulebook out the window (figuratively speaking, of course) to dive into the realms of "What if?" and "Why not?" for Crusader Kings III.

A Dive into Uncharted Waters
Imagine a space where time, budget, and the usual game plan constraints are sidelined, allowing for pure, unadulterated creativity. That's what the Black Forge Jam was all about. With 11 different projects on the table, different groups from the CK3 Dev team embarked on a journey to explore the unexplored and build the unbuilt, all fueled by a passion for innovation and perhaps a copious amount of caffeine.

Take a look behind the scenes of the ... Read more

Hello everyone! Today we’re releasing Update 1.12.2.1 to address some issues reported by the community after Monday’s release of Legends of the Dead and the 1.12.1 “Scythe” Update.

Most notably, this update resolves an issue that resulted in Legends disappearing too quickly after being completed.

Please check the changelog below for more information!

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Update 1.12.2.1 Changelog​

Balance​

• Raising a Runestone now increases your Legitimacy.
• Hooked in Legitimacy loss to some plague flavor events.

Game Content​

• Added easter egg disease names.
• Added Hildegard von Blingin’ song to the game.

Bug Fixes​

• Fixed a bug that made Legends disappear too quickly upon completion.
• Roaming, Raving event - Zealous option now uses the correct form of Faith name.
• Yearly Cultural Acceptance increase now ...

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Silens said: Indirect question: LoD releases on 4th of March, you say 16:00 to 17:00 CET is pre-release. Does that mean that it releases at roughly 18:00 CET?

Very roughly.

We don't guarantee release times; there's a lot of stuff that has to happen in quick succession for launch, which means lots of opportunities for things to get held up.

EDIT: Ah damn I should have left that for the Q&A  

Hello everyone! As explained by the title, we're planning to host a pre-release stream for Legends of the Dead on March 4 from 16:00 to 17:00 CET.

As part of this stream, we're looking to answer some questions from the community! In the interest of those who can't attend live, we're taking questions from various platforms online to answer during the stream. So, uh... drop a question below! No guarantees we'll get to a specific question or not; we're working under time constraints so we likely won't be able to get to everything.

Watch the stream at 16:00 CET via the links below!
https://twitch.tv/paradoxinteractive
https://youtube.com/@CrusaderKings  

TheMind said: Great update! Any news on macOS crashes?

We'll include this in a known issues post on Monday to cast a wide net, but since you're already asking: There's a quirk where Steam isn't properly changing the capitalization of certain files, and that's causing issues since MacOS and Linux both use case-sensitive filesystems out of the box.

Do a full uninstall, verify that nothing is left in the game folder, and reinstall.  

Hello everyone! We're sharing the changelog for our upcoming Core Expansion Legends of the Dead and the accompanying free 1.12.1 "Scythe" Update ahead of the release of both on Monday, March 4.

This is a preview, the update itself is not available yet.

We hope you're looking forward to Monday as much as we are!

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Expansion Features​

• Added Legends: a new system that allows you to create stories based on Legend Seeds (with events, decisions, court position tasks, and other ways to obtain them), a Legend Chronicler to visualize them, and special rewards.
  • 3 Legend Types: Heroic, Legitimizing, and Holy, with bespoke flavor, effects, and rewards, including special Legendary Buildings and decisions.
  • 3 Legend Quality Types: increasing the rewards upon completion and during its spread.
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sandwich8 said: GNU TERRY PRATCHETT

Also, is that -2 to -4 development per month??

GNU Pterry

It's not a flat rate like that! It _can_ be in certain cases, but don't expect every epidemic to chunk off 3 development per month. We have a new effect in Development Decline, so it'll be something you won't have experienced before as a player.  

Hello everybody! With Chapter III now available, we're releasing the instant unlock for the expansion pass, Couture of the Capets. We're also adding some models from our Content Creator Pack, North African Attire, as personal and court artifacts for Berber Cultures.

Existing save games should be fully compatible with this update, but any mods that add or alter clothing may need compatibility patches to function properly on this version of the game.

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PC Update 1.11.5 Changelog

• Couture of the Capets - Added several new clothing items based on the fashions of High Medieval France.
• North African Attire - Made some props available as personal/court artifacts for Berber cultures.

 

This post is reserved by the Community Team for collecting developer responses.

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Empocariam said: Noticed on Steam that a new *Lifestyle* was being added with the Travel Event pack, that's awesome! Hope this space opens up more, (Raider and Adventuerer lifestyle?) and also maybe comes with an companying update to how XP is earned. A little boring now that you really only have 1 main lifestyle +% bonus. I really like +% bonus based on actual skills mod (so you get +12% Bonus to stewardship lifestyle if you have 12 stewardship, not just the stewardship education trait), that I think sadly has been abandoned.

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sreckom92 said: I mean, I don't know why would they otherwise tease in this manner.

Mostly because I couldn't get approval to show off 7 pieces of unreleased artwork, but also because I think it's neat to go through the history of our previous chapters in the lead-up to Chapter III's reveal.

EDIT: Also, pretty much any of the artwork options would have given the game away immediately, and where's the fun in that?

We can hint more at what's coming via the text accompanying the images without outright spoiling the reveal than we ... Read more

Can we have this in the Issues Widget please?