Slight Correction: The Elegance DLC pack is TECHNICALLY free but you actually have to pay for the bundle to get it. So, not really free which only further frustrates me haha.

The issue with struggles for me is that it kinda “game-ifies” an area and makes it more predictable. I think it would be better if a struggle was something that could also arise and occur organically throughout the game in any area and between any rulers involved

3 years and I still want a monks and mystics/ reapers due equivalent in ck3, they provided such depth and opportunities for mods and mechanics

Tours and Tournaments is the best DLC they have added by far. Adds so much flavor and RP possibilities. And traveling around the map and going sightseeing is super fun.

A struggle in england after the norse have established Danelaw is super needed imo i love struggles I think if they're made more dynamic it can only be a good thing

The problem I have with ck3 is that it simultaneously has too little and too much content if that makes sense. In my ~200 hours I have held court like 10 times and that's only to get rid of the pop-up. I feel like holding court rarely if ever has positive outcomes, they are mostly neutral or negative. So from a risk/reward perspective it's just not worth it and I'm now actively avoiding game mechanics. Why would I hold court if I have a 1% chance to get a vassal when I have 10% to get a stinky court which requires 10 years of income to solve?

Chapter III should be about bringing back the vanilla flavour. 1. Legacy of Rome redone = Expansion 2. Monks and mystics redone = flavour pack 3. The reapers due redone = flavour pack 4. More courtrooms

For chapter III, I think they should add a government reform system, kind of like what’s in EU4, where you can decide what the relationship between a liege and their vassals looks like. I feel like the Tax Jurisdiction system kind of touched on that. Also, an improved version of CK2’s laws system would be insane. All this would make playing as a king and especially an emperor far more deep and interesting.

My problem with Crusader kings 3 is that the crusades do not get a prominent enough place and even if they are started do not work properly. In my opinion they should make the next dlc about the Christian church, the crusades and maybe the game as a whole more challenging

Definitely feel like ck3 missing a trade agreement option between factions would be a great way of making money. Adding resources that are around different continents that you can use to trade with other factions for other resources. Like India trading Elephants to Roman Empire or something for Marble or something would be cool!

What I miss, is the possibility for me to became a mercenary. Struggle for Iberia kinda had it in one of the phases, that you could join a war for coin. But I want that on a global stage. Like my Viking Lord fighting for gold in france, england, iberia maybe even byzantium. Could also be a new Bloodline tree, or easy tweaked inside the Raider or Warrior tree.

I haven't played much since close to launch, the lack of the strategy side of things is a big part of it to me. The DLC from CKII made playing in different parts of the world feel completely unique, but everywhere kind of felt the same. I do love the systems that were new for CKIII but I just didn't have the drive for the game that I was expecting myself to have after being a CKII fan for years. I did come to CKII quite a long way into it's life, so maybe that's part of it. But maybe it just hit different

One thing that I think to really expand the strategy element could be to let governments develop more organically. Something not too dissimilar to the EU4 gov't reform mechanic they added a while back. Maybe even give it RPG elements by tieing reforms to councillor offices and allow the liege to take interests during their reign (Want to have a professional standing army start working with your marshall, or maybe work with your steward to create a exam based bureaucracy, etc.), with that you could create content that keeps being a vassal interesting while expanding empire management!

I love legacy of persia. Great DLC. I want late game mechanics for empires to differentiate them from kingdoms in chapter 3.

Great review. I agree with Fate of Iberia, a struggle mechanic fits there. Sadly, I didn't like the Persia DLC at all, I don't think we need a struggle mechanic in every region and I'm afraid they're gonna add more instead of focusing on war/crusade rework, or a new system of the HRE and Byzantine empire. I think the art was good in the new DLC, but it feels lackluster compared to what we actually need in this game.

- Add the commanding system like ck2, put your generals in flanks and stuff, and maybe add bonuses to MAA whether they are in the center, right or left flank. - Add the apostolic college so you can put popes of your convinience more easily. - More activities like societies and create bloodlines.

I think this chapter, for me at least, was far better than the first. I adore the tours and tournaments DLC as well as wards and wardens. I don't quite get the struggle mechanics if I'm honest, I just haven't dove into them enough, but for the most part this chapter brought me back into CK3 and kept me there far more than the last. For the future stuff I'd love a bit more... crazy. Glitterhoof or satan or something. Even if it's an option in the menus, just something to make things a bit crazy and radically different.

You mention the clothing packs being free, but they aren't free, you cannot get them unless you buy the chapter EDIT: Also in terms of features, I would love for proper diseases and epidemics, that's one of the things that really upped the challenge in CK2 and would help massively for Ck3

Wards and Wardens was considerably better than Friends and Foes. I have had a few event chains that were rather good from Wards and Wardens, it definitely adds some good flavour. Legacy of Persia and Tours and Tournaments are both bangers. I'm one of those rare people that really liked Royal Court so all this on top is chef's kiss.

I hope they make a castle management rework, for example you being able to assign someone to build things automatically for you but it would depend on their stewardship skill, and if they ruled it for too long they would begin to damand that land to be theirs

Mongols expansion with a start date, flavour for steppe cultures and some kind of invasion system with options for appeasement, collaboration, uniting a coalition, etc, etc. There is tonnes of cool stuff you could add with a DLC like this and I can see it drawing in a lot of players and selling a shit load cuz everyone loves mongols and having an almost unstoppable ever encroaching boss type enemy is super compelling.

Good video, thanks. Like what you did with the embedded trailers

Like you I also want the Republics back as a playable nation. You could in CK II but if Paradox is smart I would combine it with the Plague System. Sadly but true it were the traders which spread out the Black Plague for example. So in this case the trade routes bring both wealth and diseases. What also the trade mechanics could do is spread Innovation.

Nice helpful take! I do think I'll pick up this chapter next time I have some spending money, and this review helped me decide, so thanks!

The war system is simplistic, but I most desire trade, epidemics, and more unique flavor for all cultures/religions. One of the unfortunate consequences of the 'modular' approach that paradox took with making the cultures/religions in the game is that they eventually felt like the exact same events but swapping some cultural/religious name around. CK2 had plenty of very interesting cultural and religious events that were very unique, as well as traits (for indian castes, for example, or buddhist 'cults', or muslim schools, etc. etc. etc.) and rarely unique mechanics (byzantines can blind/castrate people, some cultures can raid even when feudal...). Secondarily, for catholics in particular, the pope feels particularly toothless in ck3. In ck2 you constantly need his approval for many things (divorce, requesting claims, being crowned) and if you don't you're at severe risk of being fucked over (all your bishops stop paying taxes to you, you get excomunicated making all vassals hate you, a foreign ruler is granted a claim on your throne...), not to mention the investiture and antipopes, which were a *huge* thing in the time period.

Glad to see the love for Legacy of Persia. I hope they make republics playable and give trade in general some love. I miss epidemics from CK2. The plague was so horrible lol it really could wipe out half your dynasty within a year. I also hope they bring back societies but less goofy than in CK2. Kind of a niche thing, but the crusades themselves are in need of a rework as well

I honestly believe that the struggles mechanic should b link to titles like king & emperors and should have been part of the royal court

I would love a Flavor pack in east or Western Africa also a feature of making or becoming a puppet emperor/ King to add something to the regent system instead of just doing a coup. And Playing unlanded should be a thing and you use the tours and tourney system to get hired and gain land/power

I'd like a far better system for provisioning your army. The way it is done now with all armies starting with '100' and being able to go for a couple of months and then you choose to disband, reform, or the tedious fracturing of your army to parts that can forage in the lands you place them is really insufficient. I want a system with automatic supply trains that can be interrupted and/or halted where supply can be a 3rd levy type of good (next to gold and levy soldiers)

I personally like the struggle mechanic. It gives you more purpose to conquer and makes each region feel different. I personally wanna see the addition of playable republics/theocracies something to challenge feudal rule. Another thing I wanna see is an upgrade to religion and the establishment of secret cults. You are right to say that CK3 is becoming mostly about RP which is fine but we NEED mechanics.

Hi; great video, thanks. I perfectly agree about potential areas of improvements for chapter 3: war and battle mechanics, trade. Though the last may be difficult to balance in its effect on kingdoms' economies, well... couldn't it be positive, to strengthen the ability to fight wars for and with money?

I stopped playing after Vicky 3 is out. I will revisit the game once we have anything Byzantine / Crusader added into it.

personally I am very very reluctant to part with money with the state of gaming these days, but I really really enjoyed this content pack and I'm glad they keep expanding on certain under-appreciated cultures and regions, I think this format works fairly well and it was pretty affordable even to me. I hope that they expand upon areas like the Steppe + Western China/Turkestan, The Horn Of Africa and maaaaaybe expand upon Christian European kingdoms a bit to make them a bit more varied? I feel like a lot of the western Kingdoms feel a bit same-y. There's still plenty they can do with this game and I hope they keep it going and don't get greedy with pricing, they got a good thing going. I would still like the occasional free cosmetic pack for everyone though.

The struggle mechanic should be between the royal faction and I supporting the seating monarch, and heirs another mechanic should bew a particular heir to succeed the the current liege of Cours, rebels, nobles in the factions, supported them self as monarchs

You're right ck3 is very watered down compared to ck2 and I miss that depth and complexity. I just hope they expand the mechanics

I see a lot of people who view the "flaws" of CK3 as compared to CK2, instead of as they are. We tend to have nostalgia lenses when comparing with something we are familiar with. CK2 at the end of its life is a much more fleshed out, complex, deep game than CK3, but it had a lot of flaws too. And at launch? Wow was CK2 the very definition of barebones, especially compared to CK3 at launch. I'd say the foundation is much much stronger with CK3, that's the only reason they've been able to add some insane features in the big expansions. In regards to the DLC scheme they're doing with CK3 compared to CK2, I like it much better. I'd say the scope and depth of Royal Court and Tours and Tournaments far exceeds any single CK2 main expansion. We should all be able to agree that the scope of tours and tournaments especially went beyond any of our expectations. I'd say it's fantastic that they've added stuff in the main expansions that couldn't be easily done by modders, and I'd say that it's also stuff that sets a new foundation for modding. The smaller region specific packs aren't really that small either. I'd say the scope is only slightly below CK2 main expansions. If what we've seen from Chapter I and Chapter II is any indication, I'd say we have a bright future ahead of us. I'm confident chapter three and four will bring many of the DLCs people have been waiting for.

I think royal court and tournaments have provided more than enough for personal character dynamics. The game desperately needs more country-running related stuff imo. Also, royal court would be 100x better if holding court was worth it. 90% of them seem to have negative effects or cost you like 500 gold, which is like... You just spent 150 prestige and this is what you get?

Well, the Struggle mechanic in Legacy of Persia is supposed to resolve in a period of 80 years, so within two generations or one lifetime, if you don't actively try to resolve it, it will resolve itself if you do nothing. While the struggle in Iberia is designed to last to the end of the game, so for over 600 years; It takes significant effort to end it early and won't end if you do nothing.

They need the evil midfet from byzantium dlc back. He was legendary

Despite all the flaws in CK3, and there are many, I still mostly find it a very fun game to play. Sadly I don't think they're going to "fix" a lot of the things that annoy me because most of them have been part of the game since its initial release. Though they have successfully addressed some things, like fixing the factions issue. For like the first year after the release, it seemed like all the game amounted to was fighting a series of civil wars once you got more than, say, ten vassals. It still annoys me that the factions fire off right at the start of your character's rule though, but at least you don't have to keep fighting civil wars over and over, and you have a pretty good chance of keeping them from rising up into revolt in the first place. (In reality vassal revolts almost never broke out at the beginning of a ruler's reign. Even in the 9th century vassals usually saw revolt as a very last step to use after suffering through a horribly oppressive reign. Revolts early in a reign were usually done when the ruler was seen as illegitimate, and even in those cases, the vassals usually waited to see how things would turn out before rising up.)

Great idea, glad someone is holding them to the quality and value for money of there products

Besides I think that struggles are welcomed additions. On the one hand, they provide new mechanics that can be leveraged by the players, forcing you to pay attention to more details than "money/levies/titles". On the other hand, because they require more analysis and understanding, they force the players to reduce the scope of their actions. Instead of having a "chad tier semi-supreme ruler" who could vassalize Iberia in one lifetime, they feature external constraints that change your course of action. Besides, when mastered, these struggles can be quite easily resolved and let you play in a "non-struggling area" for the rest of your run.

I'm brand new to the game, but I feel like they should probably do India, China/SEA, or the Steppes just to even the map out and spread the love around. Plenty of interesting history all over the place and it'd be a shame to focus so hard on Europe with such a big map.

I have to say it's definitely worth it the only one that's a little lacking in terms of content and flavor was wards and wardens I think struggles will be better received when they can be more dynamic

Personally liked tournaments tbh, it felt pretty cool to go to tournaments. I agree with @Klawzilla that i feel the struggles are too forced & restricting so i personally do not like those. if it was possible to turn them off in a game-rule i would. i do want more mechanics & i especially want a harder game. its just too easy to conquer & keep it together. i want to actually feel powerful & accomplished when i go from a count to empire, and id like it to not be a guarantee in one lifetime. But, it seems you might not be on the forums? devs have already confirmed that the next big dlc will focus less on rp & more on mechanics. I want them to get 2 Flavour packs a chapter, its a bit too slow tbh. (i think their original idea was to do 2 FP's and 1 DLC)

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Thanks for thr review

I feel like a lot of the updates marketed as part of the flavor pack (clan system update, taxation, house unity) were all added in the free update (peacock) vs the paid update which lays a bit of interface or story on it. TBH I don't think that the paid updates are worth it.

I want Byzantine Flavour pack!

I think we need a development system which is more effected by peace and law enforcement or war and injustic on the other side, because development didn't just go up all the time. The Mongols for sure had the biggest impact in destroying the civilization but missmanagement and infighting had an huge impact, as well. I am thinking here of the English anarchy. Also I would to have an organization system, where I can decide how my country is organized internally since this had such a huge impact on how powerful different states were. It should be difficult to reorganize, but not to an extant how it is right now, where tyranny has to be managed for 100+ years plus until you made some progress. This is fine, but there should be another feature parallel to this which deals with competances, army structure, and judges.

Now suddenly chapter 2 is gone from Steam and all other platforms. Only the Royal court edition is remaining but is considered a “limited time deal” ending Nov 28th on Steam. Was thinking about getting chapter 2 when Tours and maybe 1 other dlc was on sale as well so it’d be less than $30, but now that’s impossible Wonder if they’ve now abandoned doing chapters in favor of something else

The worst part of LOP for me is that it’s confined to such a short period of time. Looking optimistically to new, later bookmarks (Century of Iron, Alexiad, 4th Crusade, mongols and late medieval if you wanted to keep things consistent with CK2 bookmarks) would all be excellent periods to spice up gameplay, but Persia struggle is not really there. Iberia works, as it is a conflict going over the entire covered timespan, but the meat of LOP is just in the earliest bookmark. I just finished playing an Umayyad restoration run usurping the Abbasids and reinstating the Umayyad’s as caliphs for the achievement, and the free stuff was exceptionally good. Getting much more into the weeds with taxation, working out which vassals i could extort for more versus which I would not wanna piss off and such was incredibly engaging for me. The house stability mechanic as is seems busted. Get to the lowest house relation, you get to spam kingdom invasions. But managing it and shifting it from ‘conquer time’ to ‘stability time’ was a fun extra element. I’m enjoying LOP so far, and looking forward to the next batch Paradox has in store!

India is really vanilla at the moment. It could be good to have a struggle mechanic down there. Also, I want migrating hordes back! Hungary has it but I want that for every tribe east of Russia.

I think you (and many other players) should consider which features were part of free updates and which are added by the specific dlcs. For example, the hostage system is part of the base game now, but the bulk of events are not and so that's what you paid for. Also, the Abbasids cosmetic dlc is part of the chapter 1 bundle. It's just an incentive to buy the bundle instead of buying the dlc individually.

The real problem I have is that once you're familiar with all the systems you find there is a DISTINCT shallowness to all of them. There is no depth.

Do we know when Chapter 2 is being released for PlayStation?🤔

how about flavor pack about crusades? Crusader kings cmon lol. I also would like to see an enhance with the Republic system

I play 2 games in life at a time. FF14, and CK3 are my current ones. Both for at least a couple years now. In all my years, I thought there was no fandom whinier than MMO players, then I saw the 4X communities "hold my beer" moment, right here in this comment section. Glorious.

We need Hordes and Merchant Republics. They are the only 2 DLC that truly bring new actual gameplay mechanics.

I think we need more DLC like Northern Lords but for other regions. I often play as nomads and have to jump by invading provinces, then giving them away to randomers manually to emulate migration - it would be great if a hypothetical Lords of the Steppe dlc added a Migration CB that worked like the varangian one, but didn't change you to feudal and changed the culture of where you left and where you are to represent migration. I kinda find it ridiculous that you can see on the 867 and 1066 starts that the Nomads had moved around, but in game you don't see any of that, nor can you actually do any of that unless you go through so much effort it's not even worth it. Also, more stuff in Africa. Ffs. My funnest playthrough (outside of playing the Cumbrians or Picts) is playing as the Duchy of Benin due to their special building, which led me to learn more about Benins epic history. Africa has less special buildings (ignoring potential temples) than JUST Northern Europe. The recent Persian DLC has only exemplified this problem with tons of exclusive stuff for that region. There is only 3 unique special buildings in ALL of africa, those being the Pyramids, the University of Sangkore, and the Walls of Benin. We need more than that if Africa is gonna compete with other regions as places people wanna play

How they STILL haven't fixed the tournament audio bug (where the background audio gets stuck after the tournament is done) is beyond me

The whole hostages thing is fine, I get that that was a thing that actually happened back then and can be useful in pacifying a large neighbor, but please let me turn off the notifications for "this and that ruler wants to give you a hostage"

definitely agree that they need to make how you govern your land more nuanced by adding more mechanics, as this wood allow for more roll play, as it does not make sense that completely different people in completely different cultures run there kingdom the same way. however, I do think it is crucial that any kingdom, anywhere can eventually, given enough time, function like any other kingdom. so for example if you slow passed reforms in like France to make it more tribal for some reason then you start to see the clan system to come into play.

And if they have no plans to bring back the merchant republics, they should at least add a mechanic for slavery & trades since the nobles have to make the money from something what’s the porn have been hard territory if you cannot specialize it in the income is supposed to make

thanks for the review, +/- i agree with everything. just add my 5 cents here. Lets be honest, it's a game about medieval feudal europe, other regions are mainly "emulated" by this european system. But the main pillar of feudal system was feudal army - I give you land, you give me your spear. What we had in CK2. In CK3 it's completely broken! From vassals you have only useless levy, but it's not WW2 mobilisation!! The idea was to get professional knights from your vassals. And it was rathe difficult to get heavy infantry for nomads or cavalary archers for Eastern Europe.. In CK3 anyway you need to fight with you private prof army. Additionally, why levy have the same stat always? So, Milano XIV century and peasants from egypt IX century are the same?

Do you know if they plan on making game features judt plainly better? For me for example I hate the lack of combat mechanics and warfare in the game. I hate the fact that all you do is literally drafting all your men into a stack, defeating the enemy, seizing their territory and repeat. I feel like with being able to influence the outcome of your battles this game would be so much more entertaining. There is so much more to say too. However overall Im decently happy with all the DLCs, I understand that most people play the game for roleplaying and these DLCs add mostly immersion to the game. I'd eish for something more that changes up how the game worked, like HOI4 No step back.

Coming from Stellaris to CK3, this game is way more in depth and hard to pick up than Stellaris was, even with Stellaris being my first 4x experience. Stellaris you can focus on learning planet management and be totally fine even with a poor grasp of everything else and there's fewer systems and options within them to learn about. Everything constantly shifting about as your PC or NPCs die makes it tough to get in a learning groove too

I wish that the DLCs weren't so ridiculously expensive.. my games break every couple of updates and make me have to reinstall the entire game. And the DLCs are mostly just content that should just be in the game to begin with.

A better system for HRE, a new government type for the Byzantines, Sickness overhaul, I want it all

its still all half baked tournament are fun first 2 times , persia have few new ideas, its just always to little ... man i still cant get to temple for service, most of exotic activities are just litle text.

“Northern lords the best DLC at the time it was released” Wasn’t it the first DLC?

They are adding content that has replayability issues. - You get quickly bored of holding random courts - you test the tournament stuff one time and it gets repetitive - you test the struggle of siberia one time and you get bored... They should instead focus on adding core mechanics to the strategy part, those are the stuff that take the game to the next level and open more replaybility and layers complexity to the game

I think great britain, north africa, india and eastern europe (the baltics and russia, carpathia and the balkans) would be great to have the strugle mechanic. I'm a roleplayer and those places are the place where everyone wanted to get a piece of, cultures and religions all trying to put their feets on them

Tbh I uninstalled after having it since basically launch. Can't put my finger on it but the game feels tedious beyond fun rn.

Isn’t it like why are you praising about chapter 1 is what you are disliking about chapter 2?

I know this video is specifically aboit the DLC for the year but I think analysing the DLC without highlighting the general state of the game is missing part of the picture. Took them 3 years post release to slightly tweak a government type - how many years before they add another one or make a major DLC thats not a 3D gimmick like Royal Court or revamp for events like T&T? Speaking of T&T somehow they did the major DLC for events but didn’t include coronations, funerals, baptisms or add interesting mechanics to weddings, no dowries, no negotiating formal bethrothals, no events to meet eligible debutantes / nobles or family focused events that every single character would benefit from No updates to the busted barely functional economic system they carried over from CK2 (which was further destabilized with all the additional costs of a Royal Court and now traveling) where getting a sword made can cost a fraction of what it takes to build a castle, need a physician? That’ll be months of income because somehow that makes sense, what an entire army needs in upkeep for a year a physician takes lump sum on top of their actual salary No new start dates, Councils are bland and only need to be looked at if a councilor dies or quits, theres essentially no real system of laws that can be influenced to shape the realm, vassals who have positive relations still plot, scheme and cause trouble just because, any action even slightly questionable gives tyranny and pisses off the whole world I could go on and on If CK3 had 3 times the length of CK2s post launch support PDX might be able to actually whip it into a decent game but thats not likely CK3 has just been meh, I was optimistic when it first came out but its been 3 years and there is so much they haven’t done and the single “substantive DLC” a year model has all but killed any hope of major changes being made anytime soon even if they started working on all the issues today - it would be YEARS before they slow rolled out the changes

While I do want new systems like War and Trade mechanics added to the game, I think we should be careful about not asking for too many other systems getting added, that could potentially end up rich in number, but shallow in execution. I would rather see Paradox enrich the existing systems first, like Royal Court and Tours & Tournaments, both being incredible on paper, but still leaving a lot to be desired. I don’t think the approach of leaving every dlc as it is and moving on to the next content is healthy for the quality of the game. It all feels uncooked.

short answer: no long answer: noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

While tournaments were rather popular across medieval Europe, it is right to say that royalty and many higher noblemen weren't participating on the ground in quite the way CK3 portrays.

They need to add more interesting War stuff. Expand it, let us command battles and such. Watching little numbers go down isn't exactly engaging. The other big missing aspect is trading and economy, it's too simplistic.

smaller and smaller dlcs for more money... now we need to pay more than 20€ every time they do anything more than cosmetics edit: even those big dlcs are out of touch, they are good but don't belong... like they should've done two big dlcs about trade and warfare already (even maybe county development/buildings one), then add tours and tournaments and struggle mechanics for specific regions

I want conclave like mechanics, but better

I'm just straight up not touching this game until they add byzantine flavour

The tours and tournaments doesnt actually add that much, the free update was a massive step in the right direction

I hate Wards and Wardens. Never once have I taken or offered a hostage and I really don't want CONSTANT notifications about hostages. So fucking annoying.

Notice how you use the word tedious concerning BOTH the big expacs. And that sums up CK3 for me. This game is just more tedious than fun. I had a blast in my first playthrough and then everything is just the same and you realize you are only pushing numbers up. The repeating events become tedious, and this is why the RPG-elements of CK3 never worked for me. How can the same events still be fun and manage to immerse you for the n-th time? I’ve never understood the fabled roleplay of the ck series. So you can kill your kid and sleep with your sister? Or have an allergy from your cat for the millionth time? This game needs real depth, mechanics, a robust economic system.

Republics still aren’t playable

we have most of ck2 stuff already. they left out about 5 of the DLC at base. then northern lords gave us the old gods content. and the others were left off because they want to avoid the supernatural stuff. people really don't understand how good we have it not having to pay 500 dollars for everything piece by piece. this low DLC schedule is so much better for our wallets.

They deleted it from steam now lol😅

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I don‘t get your praise of Northern Lords. In hindsight it is very barebones and not at all worth the retroactively raised 15$. Imo it‘s the most lacking DLC of all

"crusader" kings

Have to hard disagree, bureaucracy tasks like tax laws sounds boring as hell. dude I think u miss the point of the dlc s not about hunting or tournaments that's just the surface level stuff, s bout wat u use them for. Example my duke went hunting the other day and his brother died in an hunting "accident", My Spanish warrior king who never lost a war participated in a tournament hosted by the king of France and was killed wrestling.

Good analysis. However, I would argue that the thing we need the most is a flavor pack for the Byzantine Empire. The region (Balkans, Anatolia and Caucasus) needs more flavor, more impactful choices and, most importantly, new mechanics for the Empire-title management system. I still don't understand why, after 3 years, running an Empire feels ver similar to ruling a Kingdom, but with more resources. As a player, we should receive a notification when an Empire title might go through a succession crisis and have a chance to put one of our relatives on the throne.

CK3 is a RPG/Strat game.... it sounds like you need to play a different Paradox game, Europa is a primary strategy game. Hence why CK3 has more pop ups than a bad porn site.

for me, only Legacy of Persia is worth it.

My problem with these DLCs is that they are not obligatory to success in the strategy part of the game. I mean, it's possible to grow from count to emperor without making any realm tour. Same for tournaments, grand weddings, pilgrimages, holding courts, artifacts, etc. Every new mechanic should be designed in a way to punish players that don't use them, mainly in the vassals' and neighbours opinion of you. Examples: if you are a king, a grand wedding should be kind of mandatory, prestige-wise. If you spend a growing number of years without touring your realm, you should have a growing penalty in your vassals' opinion. Same if you deny a hunt invitation from your chancellor. The game is too easy.

No, definitely not. Only click away events and nothing more.

While I respect your opinion, I disagree with many of your conclusions. Many of the streamers, if not most of them, play CK3 with focus on role-play. Therefore, role-play focus of the DLCs is not problematic for me. Additionally, I love struggle mechanic, and some of the most popular mods, like RICE or The Fallen Eagle have many additional struggles (TFE has three struggles in the Middle East area alone). I think players enjoy struggles then. I agree that clothing packs should be free, or much more meaningful if paid. Event packs are a waste of money, and both Friends and Foes as well as Wards and Wardens have mostly negative opinions on Steam. Aforementioned RICE offers much more content than both of them, and it is made by a single modder. I disagree that Northern Lords was a very good DLC: it was first DLC for CK3, with little content: only clothing and cultural flavor, a slew of mods focused on Vikings shows that it barely scratched the surface. The Heathen Invasion of the sons of Ragnar Lothbrok is laughable in this DLC, just yet another war, with no real consequences. Fate of Iberia has similar content in terms of culture additions, but adds the struggle mechanic and completely reinvents the entire region. The consequences of the struggle are meaningful for the entire continent: the winner of the struggle may emerge as the most powerful empire in Europe. The main problem for me is that we got only one meaningful DLC before 2023: Fate of Iberia. Royal Court provided much less content, although still not bad, it would be nearly bare-bones without mods expanding on that idea (e.g., adding Byzantine and Holy Roman courts, etc.). Tours and Tournaments, and now Legacy of Persia change that in 2023, and I hope they follow that in the coming years.

I absolutely hate the struggle mechanic, it's tedious and defeats the idea of a reconquista. I really hope they stop adding it to areas that have such high potential