After 1.30 I can recommend EU4 again as the septic estates system has been fixed, requiring less hand-holding and eliminating the excessive clickfest it was before. This also means Cossacks is finally a buyable DLC.

The game has gotten very well-rounded and over half of the nations are interesting to play for some reason or another, and only a few regions lack a lot of content like mission trees and such.

As anyone else will tell you, buy the game and the DLC you want on sale...

My main complaints:

- Navy doesn't matter. It doesn't matter how overpowered AI-controlled Britain, Norway or Portugal's navies are, navy won't win them any wars. At least it feels better to work with than Hearts of Iron's naval system, which is a pain in the neck.

- The antiquated engine needs a lot of work. It's simply unacceptable for this game to not be able to speed 5 properly on an overclocked CPU without occasional stutters and lowered framerate. It's not parallellized enough.

- Too many DLC with questionable functionality, even if their sale price was the normal price it would be hard to justify buying some of them on an additional 50% off. Like Golden Century or Turd Rome. And they are also prone to putting dealbreakers into DLC. Like the aforementioned estates garbage that made Cossacks and everything after it worthless for the better part of 2 years. I can't wait to see the next plan they come up with to ruin the game for a while.

After 1.30 I can recommend EU4 again as the septic estates system has been fixed, requiring less hand-holding and eliminating the excessive clickfest it was before. This also means Cossacks is finally a buyable DLC. The game has gotten very well-rounded and over half of the nations are interesting to play for some reason or another, and only a few regions lack a lot of content like mission trees and such. As anyone else will tell you, buy the game and the DLC you want on sale... My main complaints: - Navy doesn't matter. It doesn't matter how overpowered AI-controlled Britain, Norway or Portugal's navies are, navy won't win them any wars. At least it feels better to work with than Hearts of Iron's naval system, which is a pain in the neck. - The antiquated engine needs a lot of work. It's simply unacceptable for this game to not be able to speed 5 properly on an overclocked CPU without occasional stutters and lowered framerate. It's not parallellized enough. - Too many DLC with questionable functionality, even if their sale price was the normal price it would be hard to justify buying some of them on an additional 50% off. Like Golden Century or Turd Rome. And they are also prone to putting dealbreakers into DLC. Like the aforementioned estates garbage that made Cossacks and everything after it worthless for the better part of 2 years. I can't wait to see the next plan they come up with to ruin the game for a while.