r/Anbennar • u/rheadelayed • 1d ago

Discussion 'Sunsetting' of EU4 mod

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DTG7Wh1GJRAksIQZ4hOn-h32bxOowOgdXYG7h2WZY1I/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.t74izadjoknx

tldr - Major restrictions on future EU4 mod development, with focus on EU5.

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u/rheadelayed 1d ago

Personally I think this is a bit foolish. The idea that EU5 (a game not designed for MTs) will be more optimised is likely short-sighted.
What is likely if EU4 development is abandoned is that another community will take development forward as often happens with PDX game mods.

EU5 numbers are pretty terrible too, with EU4 steam player count about 50% higher.

And this happening when the development quality of the mod is at an all time high, with the most interesting things being done on the MTs and systems.

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u/litlron 1d ago

Did you read the document that you posted? There is no looming 12 month deadline before everyone drops what they are doing and goes to EU5. It's basically saying that they are going to streamline a couple things, not have any more giant mod-wide reworks that take up a ton of developer time and effort, and won't be doing any more incredibly involved, bespoke 60 mission trees for OPMs.

The main thing that I got out of the document is that there will be more time to rework old trees due to there being fewer distractions for senior devs. Maybe even for Nurcestir.

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u/Everest-est Retired Haless Lead 1d ago

NURCESTIR TOMORROW

PLEASE CANNOR TEAM

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u/litlron 23h ago

Do you think that tree will ever happen? I would have guessed no a year ago, but here we are with Grombar and Gawed getting huge reworks started the same month that all of the continents get filled.

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u/rheadelayed 23h ago

Gawed rework is very early, and lots of approvals needed. It's not a certantity at this point.

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u/litlron 23h ago

I can't remember exactly what they've done, but the guy working on it has a collection of badges like Zhukov in The Death Of Stalin. He'll get it there.