PDX-Trinexx

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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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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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

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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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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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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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.

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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We sat down with Professor Anthony Kaldellis from the University of Chicago to talk about the Byzantine Empire, the medieval incarnation of the Roman Empire and the inspiration behind our upcoming expansion for Crusader Kings III: Roads to Power.

Learn more about the history, system of government, and religions of one of history's greatest empires!

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Good day, everyone!

I'm Cordelion: we’ve not had the pleasure of meeting before, and that’s because since I joined Paradox last year I’ve been working almost exclusively on the new start date and its two bookmarks that will be releasing as part of the free update alongside Roads to Power. I’ve been closely following what you have to say about it and I cannot overstate just how happy I am to see people excited by it, and so today it will be my pleasure and honor to give you a closer look at all it has to offer.

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Salutations! Welcome back as we take another look at all things Byzantium and how our new government, Administrative, works. If you haven’t already, I highly recommend that you first go and read up on our previous Dev Diary and Part 1, posted last week.

As with last week, please keep in mind the following:

• All of the included screenshots show a work in progress and do not necessarily represent the final product, as we are still heavily at work on the expansion itself.
  
• This is especially true when it comes to several aspects of the UI, such as layouts and visuals. We believe that showing what we have right now, even if not final, gives you a much better idea of what you can expect.
  
• All values and numbers in these screenshots are subject to balancing and will likely change before release.

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Greetings Crusaders!

My name is Emil, resident game designer here on Crusader Kings III. Today I’m joined by Chad, my fellow game designer and comrade in arms when it concerns all things Byzantium, to invite all of you, from the most distant governors of our great empire to the esteemed nobles residing here in the capital, to our first in-depth dev diary for our upcoming Major Expansion Roads to Power.

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See the World, Seize the Purple! The glory and might of the Byzantine Empire take center stage in the latest Major Expansion for Crusader Kings III.

Rule from Constantinople through the new Administrative Government type and experience a variety of new Byzantine-themed events and flavor, or be truly daring and live a life where your noble reputation is not tied to the land, roaming the map as an Adventurer for hire.

Roads to Power releases on September 24th, but you can purchase Chapter III right now to get the free Instant Unlock Couture of the Capets and receive all of the Chapter content within it as it releases throughout the year.

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Experience the medieval era in Crusader Kings III for FREE this weekend on Steam!
If you’ve been thinking about trying Crusader Kings III (or trying to talk your friends into it), now’s the perfect time with our 1.12.5 Update. Take command of your house and grow your dynasty across nearly 600 years of history at no cost until Monday, May 13.

Additionally, select Crusader Kings III content is on sale this weekend, so you can continue your journey with 60% off of the base game, or expand your collection further with discounts on additional content for the game.



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Hello everybody! Today we're releasing Update 1.12.5 for PC. This update brings adjustments to plagues, event frequency (are there no sick houses?), and various balance changes. This update also includes new historic event chains for our Legends of Crusader Kings III characters, as well as an additional "express" version of the tutorial. Check the changelog below for precise update information!

We hope this helps alleviate some of the pain points you've reported to us since the release of Legends of the Dead. As always, if you encounter any issues after today's update then please ensure you're running a fresh save with no mods enabled, and then report the problem to us if it persists!



1.12.5 Update Changelog​
Game Content​

• Added a few historically-inspired events for Matilda di Canossa, Robert the Fox, Yahya Dhunnunid, a...

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