I have three pieces in this month’s issue. My column tackles the issue of story based campaigns in RTSes (and why Starcraft 2’s is still terrible), I preview the upcoming scifi 4x game Sword of the Stars 2 and I review Victoria 2. <\/p>\n
There are also reviews from other people of Elemental and RUSE.<\/p>\n
I’ll publish more from my interview with SotS2 design lead Martin Cirulis here on the blog later.<\/p>\n
Regarding Victoria 2, I haven’t played much since the patch. Early reports from acquaintances and friends say that it has fixed a lot of the weirdness with craftsmen being hard to satisfy and immigrants flooding to tiny islands.<\/p>\n
In our podcast interview with Chris King, it became clear that this is a game that is very hard to balance. Victoria 2 almost has too many systems, each of which has a distinct purpose but all of which are linked by the flow of money.<\/p>\n
There have been some complaints in the Paradox community that it took so long for this patch to be released, but considering how complicated this game is, I’m not surprised. A patch can easily introduce new problems. There is probably some domino theory of Paradox patching that has fixing one thing breaking two more and fixing those breaking three others.<\/p>\n
Still this patch has been a long time coming. I hope to give it a real workout once I get some time free. Fill the comment box with your insights and reflections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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