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EU4 - Development Diary 24th of August 2021

Hello and welcome to another Europa Universalis IV development diary. Weve not had one since the start of the summer. Mostly because the team has been on holidays, and there is only so many times you can write we are busy fixing bugs. From September though, well be able to start with development diaries for new missions and other content that the content designers are working on. Two weeks ago we celebrated 8 years since the release of EU4, and it is about 11 years since we started working on the design. It has been a long journey, since me, [USER=1559]@Besuchov[/USER] and [USER=6723]@King[/USER] had our first brainstorming discussions, on how we could build upon EU3. Our goal was to take all that was in EU3 with all expansions, remove the bad features & make a polished game. It is kind of interesting to see how it turned out, and also fun for me personally to see how many people have been working on the game during the last decade.

Metrics

As we tend to do for our games at times, when we do not have much new content to talk about, we like to delve into metrics of the game, on what is most popular and how you guys are playing the game. First of all, what type of games do you people play every day? By the amount of games played in a single day, 51% are regular single player games, 44% are ironman games, and 5% are multiplayer games. However, this does not tell the entire story, as one of the game-types include a fair bit more players. On any given day, about 13.7% of all players play multiplayer games, about 39,7% play an ironman game, and 62.3% play a normal single player game. This of course adds up to far more than 100%, but many people play more than 1 game mode in a single day. Secondly, what nations do people play? Here are the top 20 most played nations, by the fraction of users who play them in a given day. As you can see, some formable nations like Russia, Prussia, Spain and Great Britain are rather popular to continue playing as..

England 11.17%

Ottomans 9.65%

France 9.58%

Castille 7.91%

Byzantium 6.60%

Austria 6.43%

Custom Nation 6.41%

Brandenburg 5.81%

Ming 4.93%

Muscowy 4.78%

Portugal 4.62%

Poland 3.83%

Spain 3.71%

Prussia 3.44%

Great Britain 3.29%

Russia 3.24%

Sweden 3.24%

Venice 2.38%

Holland 2.10%

Timurids 2.06% Thirdly, what are the most popular modifications for the game? While, here are the top 10 most popular modifications, how many of the total users that use these mods in any given day. About 52% of all players use a mod at any point during a week.

Graphical Map Improvements 11.8%

Chinese Language Mod for 1.31 11.3%

Extended Timeline 6.4%

Missions Expanded 4.3%

The Great Exhibition 3.5%

Governments Expanded 1.31 3.4%

EU4 Russian localisation LITE by GEKS 3.3%

Anbennar: A Fantasy Total Conversion Mod 2.8%

Flavour and Events Expanded 2.7%

Ages and Splendor Expanded 2.4% As we can see, chinese and russian localisations are popular, and if we had known, we probably should hadlocalised the game from the start, as we did with later games. It is also great to see an overhaul mod like Anbennar get into the top 10.

State of the game

When we left in June with 1.31.5, we felt that we were in a pretty decent situation when coming to functionality and had taken Leviathan to a decent enough state (except for concentrate development). As we mentioned earlier, back in April, one of the goals with this new studio was to change how we handle bugs longterm for our projects and focus on addressing older issues, and fixing problems that had been hanging around for years. Back then as a team had reduced the open bug count by over 600 bugs. Now I can proudly say that those numbers have further improved, even after fixing all new Leviathan bugs we had introduced, and now the total amount of open bugs has been reduced by a total of 1083 since September 1st, and we have fixed a total of 2117 bugs in that time period.

We still have over 500 open bugs to work with for EU4, but that is by far the best shape the project has ever been. With this progress we hope to be even lower when we release 1.32

The team at Tinto has also grown, with lots of people hired straight from the community to work as programmers, artists, qa, content designers and in other roles. We still need some more people https://career.paradoxplaza.com/jobs/1289640-2d-artist https://career.paradoxplaza.com/jobs/1289608-ui-developer https://career.paradoxplaza.com/jobs/1049816-engine-programmer

Roadmap

To repeat what I said in April on how Tinto will handle further development of EU4.

Paid Features should be standalone, and easy to maintain.

No major feature reworks while we still have lots of bugs

Reducing the bug-count as much as possible.

Add more content, like missions, graphics and music

Flesh out the parts of the map that have not gotten attention the last few years. What does that mean for us right now? Well, well soon be talking about the missions that will come in the next paid update. Speaking of that, the next paid update will be missions, graphics and music, while the coders will be spending their time fixing bugs, doing quality of life improvements, balancing and improving the AI. Speaking of balance, we will rework Concentrate Development for 1.32, and we will have more information on how later this autumn. The next patch that comes, 1.31.6, will only be a compatibility patch that we need to release, and 1.32 with all further bug fixes, balance changes is planned to be released in the last quarter of this year.

[ 2021-08-25 13:25:02 CET ] [ Original post ]

Europa Universalis IV

Paradox Development Studio Developer

Paradox Interactive Publisher

2013-08-13 Release

Strategy Simulation Singleplayer Multiplayer Tags

GameBillet: 33.97 €

Game News Posts: 500

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse

Very Positive (88744 reviews)

http://www.europauniversalis4.com

Steam Store

The Game includes VR Support

Public Linux Depots:

EU4 LINUX [50.69 M]

Available DLCs:

Europa Universalis IV: American Dream DLC
Europa Universalis IV: National Monuments II
Europa Universalis IV: Conquest of Paradise
Europa Universalis IV: Conquistadors Unit pack
Europa Universalis IV: Native Americans Unit Pack
Europa Universalis IV: Songs of the New World
Europa Universalis IV: Songs of Yuletide
Europa Universalis IV: Native Americans II Unit Pack
Europa Universalis IV: Colonial British and French Unit Pack
Europa Universalis IV: Muslim Advisor Portraits
Europa Universalis IV: Wealth of Nations
Europa Universalis IV: Muslim Ships Unit Pack
Europa Universalis IV: Trade Nations Unit Pack
Europa Universalis IV: Res Publica
Europa Universalis IV: Anthology of Alternate History
Europa Universalis IV: Indian Subcontinent Unit Pack
Europa Universalis IV: Indian Ships Unit Pack
Europa Universalis IV: Wealth of Nations E-book
Europa Universalis IV: Republican Music Pack (Skopje Sessions)
Europa Universalis IV: Art of War
Europa Universalis IV: Evangelical Union Unit Pack
Europa Universalis IV: Catholic League Unit Pack
Europa Universalis IV: Songs of War Music Pack
Europa Universalis IV: Guns, Drums and Steel Music Pack
Europa Universalis IV: Art of War Ebook
Europa Universalis IV: El Dorado
Europa Universalis IV: El Dorado Content Pack
Europa Universalis IV: Guns, Drums and Steel Volume 2
Europa Universalis IV: Common Sense
Europa Universalis IV: Common Sense Content Pack
Europa Universalis IV: Common Sense E-Book
Europa Universalis IV: The Cossacks
Europa Universalis IV: The Cossacks Content Pack
Europa Universalis IV: Sounds from the community - Kairi Soundtrack
Europa Universalis IV: Catholic Majors Unit Pack
Europa Universalis IV: Sabaton Soundtrack
Europa Universalis IV: Mare Nostrum
Europa Universalis IV: Mare Nostrum Content Pack
Europa Universalis IV: Kairi Soundtrack Part II
Europa Universalis IV: Rights of Man
Europa Universalis IV: Rights of Man Content Pack
Europa Universalis IV: Fredman's Midsummer Epistles
Europa Universalis IV: Songs of Regency
Europa Universalis IV: Mandate of Heaven
Europa Universalis IV: Mandate of Heaven Content Pack
Europa Universalis IV: Evangelical Majors Unit Pack
Europa Universalis IV: Ultimate Music Pack
Europa Universalis IV: Ultimate E-book Pack
Europa Universalis IV: Early Upgrade Pack
Europa Universalis IV: Third Rome
Europa Universalis IV: The Rus Awakening

Fulfill Your Quest For Global Domination

Paradox Development Studio is back with the fourth installment of the award-winning Europa Universalis series. The empire building game Europa Universalis IV gives you control of a nation to guide through the years in order to create a dominant global empire. Rule your nation through the centuries, with unparalleled freedom, depth and historical accuracy. True exploration, trade, warfare and diplomacy will be brought to life in this epic title rife with rich strategic and tactical depth.

Main Features

Make your own decisions: Nation building is completely flexible and the possibilities are endless.
Use your Monarch Power: Experience the new system of monarch power where your choices are influenced by the caliber of the man or woman you have at the top and will direct the ebb and flow of gameplay.
Experience history coming to life: The great personalities of the past are on hand to support you as you make your mark on thousands of historical events.
Turn the world into your playground: Enjoy hundreds of years of gameplay in a lush topographical map complete with dynamic seasonal effects.
Experience the all new trade system: The trade system adds a new dimension to the great trade empires of the period. Gain control of vital trade routes and make the wealth of the world flow to your coffers.
Bring out your negotiating skills in a deeper diplomatic system: Use coalitions, royal marriages and support for rebels and explore the possibilities of the new unilateral opinion system.
Engage in Cross-platform Multiplayer: Battle against your friends or try the co-operative multiplayer mode that allows several players to work together to control a single nation with up to 32 players. Featuring improved chat and new matchmaking servers.
Create your own history & customize your game: Europa Universalis IV gives you the chance to customize and mod practically anything your heart may desire and uses Steam Workshop.

MINIMAL SETUPProcessor: Intel Core i3-2105 / AMD FX 4300Memory: 4 GB RAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 / AMD Radeon HD 5850Video Memory: 1 GB RAMIDIA GeForce 9600 or higher. 1024MB graphics memory requiredHard Drive:6 GB HD spaceOther Requirements:Broadband Internet connectionAdditional:GLSL 1.3. OpenGL 2.1. Controller support: 3-button mouse. keyboard and speakers. Internet Connection or LAN for multiplayer
RECOMMENDED SETUPProcessor: Intel Core i3 3240 / AMD FX 8120Memory: 8 GB RAM
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 TiVideo Memory: 1 GB RAMHard Drive:6 GB HD spaceOther Requirements:Broadband Internet connectionAdditional:GLSL 1.3. OpenGL 2.1. Controller support: 3-button mouse. keyboard and speakers. Internet Connection or LAN for multiplayer

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