Next patch anticipation thread

[DWilson]

Dear me, many of you seem awfully frustrated. Why do you expect more than is promised? Why do you think they wouldn't spend an extensive amount of time on the profitable aspect of their work? Why do you jump to conclusions so quickly?

Clearly they've done a lot of QA testing over the timeline of this patch, which implies quite a bit of effort went into it.

 

[Wingednosering]

Anybody want to share what the scenario was all about for those of us that couldn't join the stream?

 

[Katakanja]

Its still happening actually. Its a no-combat economic race type thing where you try to make more gold than the other players. There are random events that affect some of your units (their settler got sent back to their city by aboriginals, their explorer keeps getting bitten by snakes and taking damage that kind of thing) It seems pretty fun IMO, though obviously your mileage may vary.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Its still happening actually. Its a no-combat economic race type thing where you try to make more gold than the other players. There are random events that affect some of your units (their settler got sent back to their city by aboriginals, their explorer keeps getting bitten by snakes and taking damage that kind of thing) It seems pretty fun IMO, though obviously your mileage may vary.

Kinda sounds like the Australian version of Oregon Trail.

 

[AmtrakQuebec]

I was watching the Live Stream just now on Twitch and I'm already sick of Waltzing Mathilda...

 

[Katakanja]

I was just thinking how catchy it was

 

[Haggbart]

Dear me, many of you seem awfully frustrated. Why do you expect more than is promised? Why do you think they wouldn't spend an extensive amount of time on the profitable aspect of their work? Why do you jump to conclusions so quickly?

Clearly they've done a lot of QA testing over the timeline of this patch, which implies quite a bit of effort went into it.

Sure, but they could easily have anticipated questions about what the patch would fix and prepared a generic statement about it. They wouldn't have had to spend "extensive amount of time" on it. Although multiplayer teams and mod tool announcement is a big plus.

 

[Katakanja]

To be fair, they chose to outline the new features and show us a bit of it. Them sitting reading out the patch notes kind of defeats the purpose of a livestream.

 

[Browd]

My thoughts are the same but I'm also a purist. Now I do have UI mods on my paradox games and some graphical mods on EU4. I dont accept the fact that modders have to improve something like the AI or balance issues to an extent.

You must not be playing HOI4, where the Expert AI mod is pretty vital to get a competitive game from the AI.

 

[God of Kings]

Once the livestream is over, it would be great to post a YouTube version, especially for those who missed the livestream due to sleep/school/work/commute.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Once the livestream is over, it would be great to post a YouTube version, especially for those who missed the livestream due to sleep/school/work/commute.

You can find old livestreams on Twitch, except the infamous one where Ed revealed all the leaders.

 

[bbbt]

Yea way too much time on this. The game is what people play. A scenario is fun. THE FIRST TIME after thats is pretty lame

For the multiplayer scenarios I think they are pushing them hard to attempt to get more of a multiplayer community around the game, by giving options that don't take half a day to finish. Granted, waiting 6 months for the team multiplayer patch might not have been the best approach though.

 

[tekjunkie28]

You must not be playing HOI4, where the Expert AI mod is pretty vital to get a competitive game from the AI.

Amazingly I suck at that gamehahaha. No I have not played it yet with that mod. I played a few mo this ago after the xpac but not any further.

 

[Evs]

after seeing all this work they put into this im not having much anticipation for the patch now

I'd say at this point the patch is gonna be lackluster at best with team multiplayer being the best part BY FAR.

They don't have any information to give regarding the patch notes in this livestream. Those are coming soon.

At this moment they only have information and and a 150 minute long livestream regarding the paid DLC.

The patch must be so overwhelmingly good that they can't even begin to give any details on it in such a short livestream.

When they announced the livestream would have details regarding multiplayer teams / workshop and more ! You should not have expected any details.

 

[PYITE]

Next DLC is a double civ release

 

[Wizard of OU]

Beat me to it, next DLC is double civ, updates coming "soon"

 

[Gyrofalcon]

At the end of the game (victory screen) the Steam achievements was bugged... And he did say Australia Summer 2017??

 

[Siptah]

At the end of the game (victory screen) the Steam achievements was bugged... And he did say Australia Summer 2017??

it was not bugged. they are hidden achievements with strange names and no icons. interesting that they unlocked two of them.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

it was not bugged. they are hidden achievements with strange names and no icons. interesting that they unlocked two of them.

They have strange names because they still aren't listed with real names on Steam.

 

[Timothy001]

Eagle, what are your odds now?