

Ok, it gets a little more complex when you factor in retinues and when you have money to train the troop types you want.Īnd the existence of random events that give you traits you as a player do not want really kills this game as an RPG for me.According to its report for the full-year ended December 31, 2020, revenue increased by 39 percent year-on-year to SEK 1.79 billion ($215.7 million), while operating profit rose by 33 percent to SEK 628 million ($75.7 million) over that same period. CK2 is mostly about merging all your armies and smashing it into the enemy army. Somehow, EU warfare feels more fluid and intuitive. In CK2, even when there's a challenge I find it a bit of a chore to play, and I mainly put it down to the 'blob vs.

Usually I'll be doing well, so well that I don't see the point in going on. I've played other PDS games, and I've never completed a campaign. And I'm really not the backstabbing, scheming type so playing CK2 feels like being a bureaucrat trying to put everything in order until the clock runs out. 20 years later, I'm thinking 'good God, how am I supposed to get through four centuries of this?' The warfare is unengaging to me and peacetime is a drag.

Although CK2 is not exactly my thing because of the focus on diplomacy, I went into it thinking 'hell yeah let's do this, I'm gonna build a massive empire, I'm gonna change the face of Europe, and when I import it into EU4 we're gonna have badass high-tech Aztecs to fight'.
