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Paradox Convention : New Hearts of Iron 3;Mount and Blade expansions + More.

Saty

Member
The convention is taking place right now in NYC. PC Gamer is supposed to be covering it live, but i guess the site is hammered because it isn't working for me:
http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/01/20/paradox-press-conference-were-covering-it-live/

There are also Tweeter updates : http://twitter.com/search?q=#pdxconvention

Mount and Blade: With Fire & Sword
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Due out sometime in the first quarter of 2011, With Fire & Sword will add new elements to the game franchise such as firearms (muskets and pistols) and the new Captain multiplayer mode which will let up to 16 players control a squad of soldiers. Look for seven new multiplayer maps, new castle siege features and multiple endings for the game's single player mode in this new game.
http://news.bigdownload.com/2011/01...expansion-with-fire-and-sword-anno/#continued

Hearts of Iron 3: For The Motherland.

Edit: Got the PC Gamer page up:

There are 15 new PC games being covered today that include: Magicka, Cities in Motion, Defenders of Ardania, Pride of Nations, Supreme Ruler Cold War, Sword of the Stars 2: Lords of Winter, King Arthur 2, Magna Mundi, Navar War: Arctic Circle, Crusader Kings 2, Pirates of the Black Cover, Hearts of Iron, Dreamlords Resurrection, Salem, and Gettysburg.

Of those, Gettysburg, Pirates of the Black Cove, and Salem are brand new announcements
 
mount & blade trailer is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGINp5NNQoQ

pride of nations preview http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/01/20/pride-of-nations-preview/


a lot of new fun stuff.

salem mmo by paradox, hearts of iron card game, gettysburg armored warfare :D paradox are on fire

ConfusingJazz said:
Have they talked about fixing the Victoria 2 Post Load Game Economy crashing bug?
haha. unless someone ask them directly about patches for victoria 2 this is all about new and upcoming releases. no new victoria 2 expansion announced here.
 

Saty

Member
Fredrik West, the company CEO, is up front talking through the history of the company, and the things people have said to me over the years. In 2001, people said hardcore was dying, but Europa Universalis 2 sold 250,000 copies. In 2003, he was told that the PC was dying, but since then the company’s revenue is up 1000%.
Other important stuff from Frederick Wester’s (CEO) quick opening talk: Paradox’s 2010 Gross Revenue +45% from previous year / profit up 300% year-over-year. Quoted Gamestop executive that said in 2008 that digital distribution was 10 years away, compared it to a quote from a European patent office that they were going to close because “everything has been invented.” Oh, and 70% of Paradox’s revenue is digital. Wow.

Salem: Free-to-play MMORPG. “light-hearted gothic setting with a charming and cute art-style.” 2011.

Gettysburg: Armored Warfare : Free-to-play RTS\FPS hybrid. Alternate universe.

Hearts of Iron III : For The Motherland :
goal with the expansion: a deeper political system, coups, axis vs. allies vs. comintern (who’s that?). They also want you to be able to play through a game in a single evening.

Basically, the PC Gamer article has all the information about all the games so check it out.
 
the pc gamer separate news posts are slightly better written than the real time or what that was blog crap. who is comintern indeed. lol.

oh wait. sword of the stars 2 is a homeworld inspired rts. lol.
 

Ceebs

Member
Pirates of the Black Cover = RTS pirate game. Interest piqued.

Salem sounds neat. A very different take on the F2P MMO.
 

zoku88

Member
ConfusingJazz said:
Have they talked about fixing the Victoria 2 Post Load Game Economy crashing bug?
Hmm? What bug? I don't remember crashing after loading after the 1.2 patch.
 

speedpop

Has problems recognising girls
Nice.

Is Magna Mundi somehow related to the EU3 mod? I haven't kept up with it and I really should invest more time in going through the Paradox forums.
 
speedpop said:
Nice.

Is Magna Mundi somehow related to the EU3 mod? I haven't kept up with it and I really should invest more time in going through the Paradox forums.
yeah, it's a full game version of the mod.
 

Kuran

Banned
That Mount&Blade trailer almost bests that Duke Nukem trailer for literally showing nothing... this series deserves better trailermanship.
 

speedpop

Has problems recognising girls
Haha yeah it's the most pathetic trailer I have ever seen. What made them choose to show absolutely nothing?
 

zoku88

Member
ConfusingJazz said:
It doesn't quite save all economic factors in the file, so after a load, the economy crashes like a rock.

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...I-save-and-reload-without-trashing-my-economy
Huh, never noticed that.

Does that only happen for liberal democracies? Or is it just noticeable more in that system? I'm usually either socialist, state capitalist or communist, so maybe that's what my economy doesn't crash that much, even though the resources were set to 0 or something.

Bad bug
 

Walshicus

Member
No EU:Rome expansion... :(



goal with the expansion: a deeper political system, coups, axis vs. allies vs. comintern (who’s that?). They also want you to be able to play through a game in a single evening.
What the? How the fuck can someone NOT know what Comintern is? I mean even if you hadn't heared of the term before, it's obvious from the context!
 
Sir Fragula said:
No EU:Rome expansion... :(
yeah, surprised the expansion wasn't eurome aswell. it was the second highest game on the poll last year. hopefully the other expansion team is on rome, but just not ready to announce yet.
 

BigSicily

Banned
Saty said:
Hearts of Iron III : For The Motherland :

goal with the expansion: a deeper political system, coups, axis vs. allies vs. comintern (who’s that?). They also want you to be able to play through a game in a single evening

Awesome, coups would be fantastic! Some AI tweaks would be welcome too.

Sir Fragula said:
No EU:Rome expansion... :(

Same feelings, even though the populists started getting on my nerve.
 

shintoki

sparkle this bitch
M&B F&S, Definitely will pick up. My 2nd favorite title of the year.

In general, I'll at least be trying out half of what they announce today. With 2, for sure buys. It's also wonderful to see them raking in the cash <3
 

ixix

Exists in a perpetual state of Quantum Crotch Uncertainty.
Saty said:
Salem: Free-to-play MMORPG. “light-hearted gothic setting with a charming and cute art-style.” 2011.

I find this description, paired with this title and the fact that it apparently is all about the permadeath, to be inordinately delightful.
 

Corto

Member
Salem sounds that it will be an MMO for me. The permadeath thing can bring great tension to the world.

M&B and Hearts of Iron expansions (and maybe the card game) will be mine. Gettysburg and Magicka are on my radar. <3 Paradox.
 

tiff

Banned
speedpop said:
Haha yeah it's the most pathetic trailer I have ever seen. What made them choose to show absolutely nothing?
I'm pretty psyched just knowing that one of the storylines is about the 30 Years' War.
 
For the last 10 years I would be excited about this, but I'm still waiting for the last couple of PI games I bought to be made into working games that improve on their predecessors. Being able to play HoI3 in an evening like I used to with HoI2 certainly sounds good at least.

Sir Fragula said:
What the? How the fuck can someone NOT know what Comintern is? I mean even if you hadn't heared of the term before, it's obvious from the context!
I'd like to think so but then there was a thread recently that basically involved not knowing what Comintern was.
 
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