Crusader Kings 3 Dev Tracker

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Hello everybody! Today we're releasing our Major Expansion for the year and the centerpiece of Chapter 3: Roads to Power. We're also releasing Update 1.13.0 "Basileus" alongside this expansion.

Check out the release trailer below, and then a partial changelog under that. The full changelog is well beyond the limits of what we can fit into a Steam announcement, so check out our forums for a more comprehensive list of changes coming in today's update!



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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Welcome comrades! I’m Wokeg, and today we’ll be going over some of the upcoming changes to the scheme system, as well as some of the story content we’re adding for a few lucky landless adventurers this DLC.

My word count is going to be restricted in this Dev Diary because Community says that if I can’t edit myself down, they’ll edit it for me. Please send help.

[CM’s note: Woe, word-count limit be upon ye.]

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Schemes Alright, those of you who are paying attention will have likely seen the re... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Hello there! We’ve got some new stuff available for you to tinker with and I’m happy to have the honor of presenting it for you! I’m Jens, the programmer behind the Barbershop upgrade and Message Settings. But first I want to talk about Domiciles, the system behind Estates & Camps.

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Domiciles When building the feature, I made it in close collaboration with artists, designers and UX. Nobody wanted to work with another activity locale window again. So gathering the learnings and feedback, I wanted to make it as easy as possible for anyone to set the amount of building slots, their positioning or size and appearance based on triggers, all ... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Hello everybody! I’m PDX-Trinexx, the Community Manager for Crusader Kings. This week’s dev diary will be slightly different, as we’re going to cover several topics from several different authors. Key subjects are Roman Restoration, the 4th Crusade, and the addition of dynamically spawned Historical Characters once the game has actually started.

We’ll start off with the new Roman Restoration content coming with Roads to Power, so I’ll hand it over to our resident Byzantine scholar now.

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Restoring Rome
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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Hello!

Lucas Ribeiro here, 2D Art Lead at CKIII. I’m here to share with you the results of our art struggles to represent both the awesome splendor of the Byzantine Empire and the mud-splattered travels of medieval adventurers.

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Loading Screen
Let’s start off with the first thing that will greet the player in Roads to Power, the Loading Screen. Before picking a definitive subject matter for our loading screen, we created many composition studies. We went for themes such as nautical, imperial, religious an... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Our free tie-in comic made in collaboration with Dead Good Comics, Many Roads to Power, is now available! Read about the rise of Basil I “the Macedonian" to the throne of Byzantium, and then write your own conclusion to the story when our next Major Expansion, Roads to Power, releases on September 24.

This comic is available for free to all owners of Crusader Kings III via Steam, and available to anyone whether they own the game or not via our website[pdxint.at].

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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Χαῖρε! I’m Chad, a game designer here on the CK3 team. Today, I’ll be walking you through some highlights of what we’ve added in terms of Byzantine flavor in Roads to Power.

Some cursory but important notes to begin our discussion:

• These images may be works in progress. We are still working away at polishing Roads to Power to provide the best experience possible.
  
• Yes, I will refer to Byzantium as Byzantium in this dev diary. I know that the endonym is more properly the Roman Empire, but it’s our policy to not use endonyms in the game. Those of you who have strong opinions about this get a special game rule to rename Byzantium with several options.

Without further ado, let’s get into it!

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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Welcomes back, comrades, to Landless Adventurers Part 2! I’m Wokeg, and last week, we went over the general core gameplay (what we expect you to be doing, where your resources come from, and what you spend them on). This week, we’re gonna be doing uhhh… literally everything else.

Just like last time, everything shown here is a work in progress. Features won’t shift massively but values (and occasionally modifiers or parameters) potentially will. Costs, gains, and some requirements in particular are all undergoing active adjustment at present.

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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Grab a seat by the campfire as medieval historian Eleanor Janega tells tales of some of the great adventurers of the Middle Ages, some of whom you can encounter in Crusader Kings III: Roads to Power.

Learn about the motivations and meanings of their travels, and what these journeys tell us about ourselves.

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Welcome comrades! Wokeg here: I hope everyone enjoyed their window into how the other half lives with the Administrative Government Dev Diaries, because today we’re gonna be going back down into the mud with our favourite homeless wanderers — Landless Adventurers.

As usual, everything shown here today is a work in progress. Values are likely to be changed, features are final but details are not, all that good stuff. In particular, some of the adventurer contract rewards are currently a smidge high right now, so we’ll be taking those down a bit (specifically gold and prestige) pending further playtesting before release.

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