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Today marks the release of Wards & Wardens, and we hope you'll have plenty of fun wrangling unruly young rulers-to-be, managing your royal hostages, and visiting scholarly universities in the pursuit of knowledge!

As always, we want to keep updating and improving the game alongside each release - this time we've especially honed in on multiplayer stability, something that was unfortunately lacking after the last update. We've spent a lot of time hunting down annoying out-of-syncs, and we've managed to squash all of them that we could find - bar one that'll be fixed in an upcoming update (but it's fortunately avoidable; don't select Pay Homage/Petition Liege and cancel it before setting out on travel!)

Another change of note is that the AI will now purchase and manage Men-at-Arms more dynamically, especially later in the game - instead of all AIs wanting the exact same ratio of income-to-MaA. Warmonger Archetypes, powerful rulers, and strong mid-to-late-game economies ... Read more

As the release date of Wards & Wardens draws near, we're taking a moment to reflect on the artistic endeavors that have brought it to life. This time our focus is on animations and some of the 2D icons and illustrations.

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Icons​ Hey there! I'm Nicolas, 2D artist working on this royal game CK3.

I'm pretty sure many of you checking out this dev diary must get pretty stoked about game designers writing about numbers going up and down, but as cool as it is to dive into the game's new meta, my piece of this dev diary is all about the art! Let me tell you a bit about creating game icons - in particular, how I went about creati... Read more

Hello everyone! This is my first time writing a dev diary and I want to share with you almost everything I worked on for Wards and Wardens. Let’s set the stage first: you are a ruler and your seed is stronger than ever, flourishing with your many offspring. Children play and run around all over your court, but you have more pressing matters to attend to! Perhaps the mother of your children has become incapable, unable to provide milk for your infants. Who are you gonna call? Wet nurses, of course!

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Wet Nurse​ Historically, a Wet Nurse was a woman of the court charged with the care of infants in need of breastfeeding, for whatever reason there... Read more

Hello everyone! Summer break is now wrapping up in Sweden and everyone's coming back into the office, so now's the time to start diving into our dev diaries for our upcoming event pack, Wards & Wardens! Today's DD comes from one of our Game Designers working on Crusader Kings III, and covers what you can expect to see with the new Eccentric trait and Adoption systems coming to the game with W&W later this August.

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Eccentric Hello hello hello, welcome to another Wards and Wardens dev diary! Today I'm going to be talking you through two new features: adoption and the Eccentric trait! We'll start off with the simpler of the two features: ... Read more

Hello everyone! We hope you're all enjoying Tours & Tournaments and the accompanying 1.9 feature update.

Today we're releasing a small hotfix to address an issue that could prevent characters from hosting more than one Grand Wedding. Thank you to everyone for submitting your feedback, suggestions, and bug reports!

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1.9.2.1 Changelog

• Fixed an issue that prevented characters from hosting more than one Grand Wedding.

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Good afternoon, and welcome to your first class of the semester! My name is Dr. Areysak, and I’ll be your “CKIII University 101” lecturer.

I already see some raised hands. You, in the first row, ask away.

“Why a University Activity? What does it have to do with Wards and Wardens?”

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This is a very interesting question. During the early development of Wards and Wardens, talks of hostages’ education led us to a realization: everything that could influence a character’s education trait happens during childhood. Once a character reaches 16 years of age, they are locked out of any further improvement! And if the player character isn’t d... Read more

Hello all!

It's been a few weeks since we spoke but it feels like longer, what with all of you having been busy traveling, touring, tournamenting and the rest! It is time for us, nonetheless, to leave behind that world for now and take a look ahead at what we have coming up next.


Vision
Our first Event Pack, Friends & Foes, gave us something of a chance to experiment. Since then, we’ve had the chance to take a look at exactly what direction we want to start moving in with these packs, and build on what worked.

One area that we hit upon was diversity of content and how the player experienced the game. Events are the ink that we daub on to the fabric of the narrative, but it’s how, what and why these events happen that govern their efficacy. Introducing new avenues for that content to reach the player is a great thing, provided it’s done in an unobtrusive way.

With that in mind, we’re going to outline a few of the new features that you’ll fi... Read more

Hello everyone! Today we're releasing Update 1.9.2 for Crusader Kings III. This update primarily resolves a number of issues reported by the community, as well as adjusting the Accolades interface based on player feedback. A full list of changes in this update can be found below.

We hope you're all enjoying Tours & Tournaments and the 1.9 'Lance' Update!

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Balance

• Reduced aggressiveness of House Feud AI family members starting schemes against rival house

Interface

• Accolade Attribute tooltip now shows first & last rank for better insight
  
• Accolade Rank progress bar now splits out modifiers by attribute name
  
• Accolade attributes now shows which Men-at-Arms type it will (eventually) unlock
  
• Accolade creation now shows which un-knighted court members, or visiting guests are available, and allows you to hire them on the spot
  
• Added Ac...

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Hello everyone! Today we're releasing Update 1.9.1 for Crusader Kings III. A non-exhaustive list of changes introduced in this Update are listed below; please visit our forum for a complete list of changes, as the full changelog is too large to share via Steam.

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Update 1.9.1 Changelog
Expansion Features

• Tours and Tournaments: Added a new set of clothing for Western High Nobility (male & female)

Free Features

• Added "Points of Interest" to the travel system, which rewards you for going out of your way to visit interesting places around the world. Examples include Special Buildings, K...

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This Dev Diary will talk about some of the extra content coming with our next post-release update, 1.9.1! The update will of course also include a ton of fixes and tweaks, as we’ve been monitoring all the ways you’ve been playing with the big 1.9.0 update and the Tours and Tournaments DLC.

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Points of Interest​ Hi everyone! I am Daan, also known as Joror, and I am a programmer on the CK3 team.

It is I, le Joror​ First off a little background info about me so we’re no longer strangers: I have worked at Paradox for over five years, and in a couple of different roles. First in our online department (DevOps) as a software engineer and De... Read more

Hello everyone!

In lieu of a dev diary today, we're releasing Update 1.9.0.4 to resolve some issues reported to us by the community.

1.9.0.4 Changelog

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• Fixed some crashing issues
  
• Fixed an issue that allowed a regent to accompany a ruler on their travels
  
• Fixed an issue that prevented players from planning activities after they canceled travel plans for "Petition Liege" and "Pay Homage" decisions
  
• Fixed an issue that got tournaments stuck in the "Waiting for Tournament to start" phase
  
• Fixed alliances gained through the Diplomacy Intent in Grand Weddings invalidating on the next day
  
• Fixed the AI inviting players to Playdates, Witch Rituals, and Blots, no matter where in the world they are
  
• Grand Wedding promises are now inherited by the player heir
  
• Fixed an issue that caused players to be blocked permanently from planning act...

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Attention Rulers,

To celebrate the release of our latest expansion, Tours & Tournaments, Crusader Kings III will be free to play until Monday, May 15th at 10:00 PST!

We're also discounting the base game and previous DLCs until Thursday, May 18th at 10:00 PST, so if you've been waiting to pick up some of our older content, now's the time!

Current Discounts

• Crusader Kings III -50%
  
• Fate of Iberia -20%
  
• Royal Court -20%
  
• Northern Lords -20%

Additionally, we're happy to announce that you can now adorn your Steam profile with some regal flair through our new points shop. Animated avatars, profile backgrounds, and a full CK3 themed profile bundle can be yours right now; ... Read more

We're releasing hotfix 1.9.0.3 today to address an issue that could be caused by failing a hunt.

Thank you to all of you for sharing your feedback and reports—our team is working to address all reported issues. For updates, please check our Known Issues post[forum.paradoxplaza.com].

1.9.0.3 Changelog

• Players will no longer get soft-locked from progressing further into the game after failing to hunt the animal in the "Hunt: Softly, softly" event

We hope you've been enjoying Tours & Tournaments and the 1.9 'Lance' Update!

Tours & Tournaments is now available! Check out the full list of changes introduced with our latest expansion and the accompanying free 1.9 'Lance' Update here[pdxint.at].




Let wanderlust overtake your ruler’s desires during a monumental Tour, and seek out your subjects in a realm that can be both dangerous and richly entertaining. Prove yourself in one of the many forms of gallant Tournaments, either abroad or at home, or use the festivities to murder a quarrelsome rival. Be the host of new Grand Activities, be it grand weddings or sti... Read more

Greetings!

Today is the day when Tours and Tournaments and the accompanying 1.9.0 Lance Update will be released! To tide you over until then we’d like to share the full update log.

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1.9.0 Lance Update

• Added regencies, so that characters unable to rule for a short time (e.g., because they're traveling) have someone to watch their realm whilst they're gone
  
• Added entrenched regencies, so that characters unable to rule for a long time (e.g., children) can be bullied by regents gone mad with power or sedately supported by regents who just want to do right by them
  
• Added a baker's dozen new m...

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Greetings!

Today is the day when Tours and Tournaments and the accompanying 1.9.0 Lance Update will be released! To tide you over until then we’d like to share the full update log.

► Read Dev Diary #128 on our forums![pdxint.at]



1.9.0 Lance Update

• Added regencies, so that characters unable to rule for a short time (e.g., because they're traveling) have someone to watch their realm whilst they're gone
  
• Added entrenched regencies, so that characters unable to rule for a long time (e.g., children) can be bullied by regents gone mad with power or sedately supported by regents who just want to do right by them
  
• ...

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