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#21

Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by mongers - December 09, 2025, 05:18:39 PM

Lol I had no idea the progressives' latest saviiur, Polanski, was advocating for breast expansion by hypnosis.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/09/zack-polanski-politics-green-party-leader

Not unhinged at all.

Shelf will be gutted that he made a major misstep last week, by changing his mind about appearing on 'Have I Got News For You' the show that gave Boris his first national exposure and from subsequent appearances on it, endeared himself with large sections of the voting public.

[Why are you so shit at writing patch notes?]

#22

Gaming HQ / Re: Europa Universalis V confi...

Last post by Syt - December 09, 2025, 04:47:16 PM

The deleted thread returned.

The previously posted patch notes have been since been reverted from beta 1.0.10 due to a critical error. In an effort to avoid misinformation, we have since deleted the notes themselves from this post, but you can find the otherwise unedited rest of the post below.

We apologize for the chaos this has may have caused.
- PDX Ryagi

Also liked this line from Johan:

Why are you so shit at writing patch notes?
Well, its not something most of the team have done before. Me personally, its a long time since I last did it, and I'm an old guy who sometimes thinks have not changed since I was patchin eu2 with posting a zip file of changed file on the forum. We'll try to be better, and not just write "nerfed sweden, kkthxbye".

The whole post reads like a direct response to OPB's video, and while I guess the effort is nice it's a far cry from how the V3 team communicates.

And yes, maybe it's time for Johan to pass the torch for good and enjoy his Elder Statesman status.

#23

Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Tamas - December 09, 2025, 04:42:44 PM

Lol I had no idea the progressives' latest saviiur, Polanski, was advocating for breast expansion by hypnosis.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/09/zack-polanski-politics-green-party-leader

Not unhinged at all.

#24

Gaming HQ / Re: Europa Universalis V confi...

Last post by crazy canuck - December 09, 2025, 04:37:28 PM

Oh my, more example of Johan being too jittery to handle the pressures of a major franchise:

https://www.reddit.com/r/EU5/s/TmcNUezrTX

Community relations have never been one of his strengths.

Yeah man. So many times back in the EU2 days I would find myself thinking "Damn Johan, what the hell is your problem?" dude should probably not be customer facing.

Yeah sometimes just let the design guys design.

Yeah, there was some good news in that - at the end.  But so much passive aggressive messaging at the beginning that I doubt many read that far. Johan, play to your strengths, you are a brilliant game developer.  Let others with different skill sets do the PR.

#25

Gaming HQ / Re: Europa Universalis V confi...

Last post by Norgy - December 09, 2025, 03:53:59 PM

I am on the 1.09 patch (Lepanto), and there is much weirdness going on. Like how all my military buildings were gone after loading an ironman save.

It does seem like proximity and control are not working. Only a few people understand how trade works, I certainly do not.

The premise is so good. Pity about the execution lately. I don't really want 10 patches per month, that all change some basic mechanic that I finally understood.

#26

Gaming HQ / Re: Europa Universalis V confi...

Last post by garbon - December 09, 2025, 03:37:51 PM

Oh my, more example of Johan being too jittery to handle the pressures of a major franchise:

https://www.reddit.com/r/EU5/s/TmcNUezrTX

Community relations have never been one of his strengths.

Yeah man. So many times back in the EU2 days I would find myself thinking "Damn Johan, what the hell is your problem?" dude should probably not be customer facing.

Yeah sometimes just let the design guys design.

#27

Gaming HQ / Re: Europa Universalis V confi...

Last post by Valmy - December 09, 2025, 03:28:28 PM

Oh my, more example of Johan being too jittery to handle the pressures of a major franchise:

https://www.reddit.com/r/EU5/s/TmcNUezrTX

Community relations have never been one of his strengths.

Yeah man. So many times back in the EU2 days I would find myself thinking "Damn Johan, what the hell is your problem?" dude should probably not be customer facing.

#28

Gaming HQ / Re: Europa Universalis V confi...

Last post by Valmy - December 09, 2025, 03:27:38 PM

There is one issue now that is ruining the fun. The constant "so and so is 16 years old now" spam. I am getting one of those every two days. In addition to the So and So can be educated alerts. It's gotten annoying. I am ignoring them, which I know is probably not wise.

The character system just doesn't work.

You need to get a large court but the large court really sucks and is boring to manage AND it is really important you manage it. Because you need those 90+ skilled generals and cabinet members. Also 99% of your court does not have any role to play at all. So you spend a ton of time managing something that you only get an in game impact for 1% of it.

And it is constant. Every single month. It is a constant distraction from the more interesting things you need to do. This should be automated or changed in some way. And it is way to easy to successfully manage. In CK I constantly had to worry about betrayals and mass death of my courtiers. I was usually scrambling to find enough nobles to to rule counties and duchies and fill important posts and marry. And key deaths could be devastating to your game. Now...you have hundreds and hundreds of people and only a couple matter or do anything.

#29

Gaming HQ / Re: Europa Universalis V confi...

Last post by garbon - December 09, 2025, 03:27:18 PM

Oh my, more example of Johan being too jittery to handle the pressures of a major franchise:

https://www.reddit.com/r/EU5/s/TmcNUezrTX

Community relations have never been one of his strengths.

#30

Off the Record / Re: Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-2...

Last post by Tamas - December 09, 2025, 02:55:32 PM

I literally had a dream last night that Hungary withdrew from the EU and everyone was wondering how long before Russia rolled in.

Wouldn't Russian want them to stay in the EU...in order to keep it paralyzed?

Indeed, Orbán has gotten to the point in his rethoric and actions that the main reason even serious analysts can come up for him staying in the EU and NATO is that leaving them, the EU especially, would render him worthless for Russia and China, the main sponsors of his regime since the EU finally closed the massive money fountain a couple of years ago.