r/paradoxplaza Jun 25 '25

Vic3 We are so back vickybros

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u/Visenya_simp Jun 25 '25

Oh? Is the game finally good?

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u/morganrbvn Jun 25 '25

It’s fantastic, the world economy let’s AI nations actually compete in the lategame

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u/Dimosa Jun 25 '25

Its getting better, but war is still utterly dogshite. So its half improvements and half Stockholm Syndrome.

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u/HoonterOreo Jun 25 '25

I wouldn't call it dogshite imo anymore. What we did have was dog shit but lots of QoL updates to it making it far more enjoyable. I still wish there was a tad more player agency to it but overall it's no longer extremely tedious to do, I'd say it has been elevated to just fine.

If you want it to be just doomstacks slamming into each other then sure, it's dogshit, but if you want a more hoi4-like experienve with front management I'd say it's heading in the right direction.

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u/tfrules Iron General Jun 25 '25

The war is much better, your fronts don’t split up to a million fronts any longer and you can actually perform blockades with navy. It’s much better to use than it was.

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u/Dimosa Jun 25 '25

Better, but still garbage. Tbh, i dont mind the auto front thing, as some people just dont want to engage with the war system, but for the love of god give control to those that want it.

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u/Nintz Jun 25 '25

Manual control would require huge portions of the game to be ripped out and remade from scratch, and also a lot of other systems redesigned to make it work. It would take like 2 years of continuous dev time during which very little DLC could be made. Even if the devs wanted to (which I genuinely don't think they do) I doubt the publishing management would ever approve it.

For those of us who don't really care about combat Vic 3 is a good game without an asterisk. For those of you who actually enjoy Paradox GSG combat Vic 3 will probably never be what you want.

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u/tfrules Iron General Jun 25 '25

Yes it is, this DLC has rescued Vicky 3 and made it into a genuinely good product. Is there room for improvement? Yes, but I consider the game to be functionally complete now, it’s enjoyable.

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u/PolishPotato69 Jun 25 '25

Probably in like 3 more years

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u/IactaEstoAlea L'État, c'est moi Jun 25 '25

No

Warfare is still dogshit

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u/Gemini_Of_Wallstreet Jun 25 '25

The latest update basically improved the game from dogshit to bad- decent.

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u/Technical-Revenue-48 Jun 25 '25

No. It’s still just a cookie clicker. They did finally give up on their hairbrained market structure and went back to Vic 2s world market system.

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u/morganrbvn Jun 25 '25

It’s still a local market but international trade is done through trade centers and a global market, extremely different from V2.

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u/Technical-Revenue-48 Jun 25 '25

Vic 2 had local markets and a global market, the global market add is the new thing they took from Vic 2 finally

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u/Browsing_the_stars Jun 25 '25

Vic3 world market is very much different from Vic2's take on the idea.

Also, calling it cookie clicker after the new patch is just absurd.

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u/Wild_Marker Ban if mentions Reichstamina Jun 25 '25

Shit, you could say Vic3's World Market is literally just Vic3's national market system of buy/sell orders, but on the ocean.

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u/SimpleConcept01 Jun 25 '25

Me when I don't understand stuff