I don’t know why they added -33% AE to the list, the AI naturally has that

@@sharkythedev the AI really doesn’t take much land. Unless they are at war with you, then they get an extra 200 war cost just to annex your entire country

I think very hard gives the ai the bonuses the player gets in very easy

@@tankerscrub5811 for my games France annexes all of England in 10 years with less than 2 AE, that’s the most AE for least amount of land taken I’ve ever had

@@sharkythedev ai is shit at everything but they're godly at managing AE, I've see a grand total of two coalitions form against the ai in 1500 hours of eu4

What? Im gonna check it

PU claim or just a free PU with royal marriage?

@@Harsh-tf9he free PU with event, they just become ur PU

Central European Depression should be the title of my life.

bruh

Oh God no! What are you? A sadist?

@@Quarbit if you want to beat this simply play as a horde since it technically classifies as tribal according to the game just with a special government reform

It's funny because for 99.9% of the player base.. the Ottomans are already basically an end-game boss (them or Spain)

Dunno, i'mo whackamoling endless stacks of turkish mercs around anatolia and alt+f4ing and waiting years to do anything while improving relations with people who hate you with a vengeance even when they have never interacted before to try and make an ally and start the warring is that interesting or even hard. Arbitrarily hard i guess, but not really requiring any different amount of skill than playing on any other difficulty. I did play VH exclusively after getting í was familiar enough with the game i had an inkling what i was even diong. After 2k hours of very hard i tried hard for the first time and it's been more enjoyable tbh. The game advances smoothly and i rarely if ever alt+f4 anymore too. That is something everyone i've seen on very hard does A LOT and it's kinda backwards. why play on that difficulty if you just evade the consequences of that difficulty. Shrug

@@justaride7444 Yeah I think mid-late game EU4 is dogshit tbh, I've tried so many times to enjoy the game past 1600 but the enjoyability of the combat just disappears. Diplomacy, Colonising, Religion, all the different conversions and things get a lot better as time goes on, so playing tall past 1600 is surprisingly fun, but trying to fight any great power just forces me to ditch the campaign cause it's always one of 2 things. Number 1 is the typical Spanish Invasion experience, you are decimating a countries homeland, to the point that in real life they would have capitulated into a puppet or at least surrendered years ago but because they have half of the Americas and a loyal ally in fucking Tibet you can't get the warscore to win, and any logical outcome (like the colonies going independent because their ruling nation has basically not existed for 20 years due to occupation) can't happen because of other game rules. Number 2 is the typical Ottoman Invasion experience, the numbers are so big and the fronts so long that you have to spend 9 hours per in game month pausing and unpausing to move units around without getting destroyed by the AI's terrible but better than any humans ability to handle such big numbers in real time (all while getting 10fps on a brand new multiple thousand pound computer) to the point where you just stop, I had a Germany game a few months ago (I owned pretty much all of Western Europe directly, and the rest of Europe in vassals/clients) fighting a regular 1700s Ottomans, where I straight up deleted the save file because the Ottomans were so tedious to fight it just wasn't worth playing anymore, they had about a million men, me about 5 but only ~2.2 in Europe/Africa ready to fight, I was also techs ahead and with much better quality and a Golden Era on, it wouldn't have been a challenge to win the war, I just couldn't be bothered achieving the inevitable. It's like when I launch Civ V now, I play for 100 turns till I see the layout of the map, then I instantly know how the entire game is gonna go, how I WILL win ahead of schedule in a convincing fashion no matter which victory I go for, I am no longer playing against the AI, I am playing against my own will to live, and in that I will always lose. I like how XCOM does it, I don't know the actual numbers going on, but on hard it doesn't feel like there's just more enemies or that they do more damage, they just find a way to inject more stress into the game at higher difficulties and especially on Ironman. and the Stress and uncertainty is what leads to the tactical decisions that make strategy games fun. To get that same feeling after you've blobbed in the first 60 years of EU4 you have to actively destroy your own nation or pre-emptively play super risky like guys like Laith and Red Hawk do on purpose to make their games more interesting and thus the videos more entertaining. I really hope the difficulty and progression gets a hard look in EU5 because while it worked great on Launch, the game evolved into something that doesn't feel right and doesn't make any sense most of the time. Sorry I think I derailed that a little from what you were talking about lol, I think I'll try hard out cause I've only done normal and very hard and they each have different problems that hard might find a nice middle-ground on.

@@danielmacpherson8487 I think you need to touch grass mate, you playing the game too much if you feel that way.

@@luisrodrigues7960 i dont play often, i have almost 2k hours but thats over 9 years of playing, i do one or two campaigns worth a year, whether thats like 2 games to 1800 or 8 to 1500.

The colour is honestly the best, I always go hussite just because of it. Well, and because I like hussites irl, they fights against all those constant crusades were epic.

@@pizmak6154 by fights do you mean tossing old catholic missionaries out of windows?

@@danielmacpherson8487 That also, but I thought about five antihussite crusades. :) and as a bonus, lovely invasion on teutonic knights

Yeah, that was good content. But in a way, it's like exploiting the challenge of the settings rather that facing them. On the other hand, I really don't like the idea of giving buffs like that as the miracle solution to poor programming.

AI bonuses do not apply to vassals.

if we are talking about the same video, he uses favors to install his dynasty on other nations which doesnt work on very hard( I think the option is disabled)

@@pavlostafasani5535 no it just requires more favours.

What budget monk does is use favours to build trust so your ally doesn’t betray you. He gets those favours by giving out heaps of land to the Allies. Then he cheeses staying at war to get their dynasty on your throne. Then when it’s possible he grabs the PU. Edit: because you fed the PU heaps of land you don’t get the AE but ok still get the land in the end

EU7 will be out 100 years from now

No

I totally agree I don't play in anything but very hard anymore

I did exactly the same today, just peace out ming via offering to release some nations and 1v1 korea, and later you can easily recapture released nations.

They don't have it anyway. The player modifiers on Very Easy are different from the AI modifiers on Very Hard (though the army, navy, and blobbing modifiers are mostly identical except for VH-AI having +50% Improve Relations while VE-Player has only +10%)

if TO has no allies, you can actually get Neumark + full money and war reps

also, hard mode disables using favours to request a relative to be their heir. a dumb little change to make PUs harder

@@Quarbit Wow,i actually don't know that. Because i don't know how to make PU outside of declare war with restoration of the old tie CB

Fair point. The AI having less aggressive expansion certainly allows them to consolidate faster, which I didn't get to experience in the early game. I'll give it a fairer try

I think I try that in this video. they just remove the bonuses for player subjects

crying and seething over this information

Thing is, after the first initial wars, very hard doesn't matter much.

certified bruh classic

no

I've nearly run out of "it is what it is"

@@Quarbit Maybe try playing something else on the channel? Just try? Making the same kind of content when it's hammering you like this is not good for your brain

@@samwill7259 I'm working on some ideas for sure, but they won't be ready for at least a month

@@Quarbit I look forward to it!

@@Quarbit Oh Jesus, have you talked to someone or is it not as bad as I think it is?

Also it's stupid because it wont reflect on the realistic experience they pretend that creates for the player. France in the 1600's was a powerful country. But they were not the Borg for Christ sake. There was rivals all around, agitation, separatism, money was not printed like that etc... For me the settings on very hard are really a cheap and easy solution for poor programming.

That is a really interesting idea

It doesnt get "easier" you just spent all those hours remembering stuff you keep forgetting, to the point that you know enough to not ragequit cus . You basically know why, and it's always your own fault, so you morph to never make the same mistakes and like the intro said, too comfortable being comfortable (in other words).

Ottomans ally catholic Bohemia or Orthodox Muscovy quite often. And I've seen Kebab allying France once or twice. Historically there was a brief period where France tried to build an alliance with the turks to break the 'habsburg encirclement' but it didn't lasted.

@@Stephen64138 Yes, Suleiman did find France as ally in history, but eventually break up. I mean normally without same rivalry, similar army size and interest, players can't ally a big nation with different religion simply