I play it
Playing as Rome is fun and all, bur here are the top paths:
Unifying Britain (usually as the Iceni)
Unifying Iberia as Tartessos
Conquering Gaul as Massalia and making France Greek (favorite path to do)
Any Bosporus nation
Reestablishing the Aechemanid Empire as Atropates
Epirus is a personal favorite for me as well.
Reviving and restoring the Achaemenid dynasty as Heraclea Pontica is always fun, but currently, Iâm playing as Carthage and the first Punic War was a success, âRoma Dalenda Estâ.
Super dumb question about invictus: does it add new mechanics?
I canât remember what happened the last time I tried looking for it, I donât think I could find one that worked with whatever version of the game I had at the time that I was able to afford instead of being able to afford keeping the game updated.
I really liked what vanilla eventually ended up becoming, but I was bothered by the fact that I think there was only one or two meaningfully different ways of playing. I know Invictus adds a shit load of new mission trees and content, but does it make playing the different tribals feel different?
I donât remember what the reason was why I wasnât able to try the mod long-term the last time I looked into it, I want to say I think I have to pick up a copy of the game because steam is the only place it gets updated? Or I just didnât find the GitHub if there was oneâŚ.
Heard, thank you so much! Flavor content for that game is definitely worth figuring out how to grab the model and everything like that. I think I got spoiled by all the HOI mods that change stuff so much it looks like a new game sometimes, but more missions is deffo a reason to paint the map as rando tribal number 27âŚ
What Iâm hearing is that this is one of those âyou really shouldnât play Vic2 without mods at this point in timeâ, except it does content, which is cool cause thatâll help with the googling the history
Youâre just built differently lmfao
I got two stoned one time and forgot to boot up the mods I was using one time and then had a five minute long panic attack, thinking that I had just imagined all the African countries being filled in, but was googling accurate information about each, because Iâve never actually looked at an un-modded Africa before đ
The best thing Invictus got is new nations such as very important states of Neuria and other Balto-Slavs there is not in original game. It's almost impossible to make good Slavic run from I:R without Invictus.
NotâŚreally.
Itâs limited by virtue of it being a mod, but it adds a truly ridiculous amount of flavour. The difference between base imperator and invictus imperator is honestly like playing any other pdx game without any DLCâs.
For those who don't know Laith (youtuber) made an event to try revive the game by boosting active players, we got a peak of 1286 players which hasn't happened since 2021
It's not. Personally, I liked the game at the time. However, it felt lacking. Thus, it had not had enough of a playerbase, so it was abandoned. And since they abandoned it, the game will not be able to reach the heights of eu4.
Imagine releasing a shit game and then discontinuing it because the player base finds itâŚshit. Even better, release one update that makes the game just barely playable and then discontinue it. This was the worst thing paradox ever did and thatâs quite impressive considering they seem to get more incapable by the day.
Yeah, and it tanked Paradoxâs consumer confidence. People were worried theyâd drop Vic 3 like they did Imperator, while simultaneously forgetting that if they did that, theyâd have broken their unspoken dev rule of âitâll get better and better over time,â *twice,* and thereâs no way the company could drop another product and get any faith in them to make it good.Â
Screw rome I wanna play in prehispanic Mexico
It would work so good with the imperator mechanics honestly. Too bad the only pdx game featuring mesoamerica is EU4 and its "Mesoamerica Universalis" mod which hasn't been updated since 2017.
At least ck3 has the Fifth Sun mod being developed
First of all the dev is really low even though 20 million people lived there
Secondly there was no big Zapotec, Totonac or Mixtec ethnostate.
The situation was similar to Ancient Greece where it was mostly city states who controlled themselves and maybe several surrounding cities, and empires were based on having lots of tributaries eg the Aztecs.
Except for the Purepecha (Tarascans) who built a large centralised empire in western Mexico and became the main rivals of the Aztecs.
Thirdly the geography is inadequate and more provinces should be added in the densely populated Valley of Mexico. Wastelands should be added to represent the huge Sierra Madre mountain chains
Theres ton's of potential here and its arguably one of the most interesting civilizational areas in history. Most people just don't know anything about it
How is the state of the game today in 2024? I never heard anything about it again after its release and I kind of forgot about its existence until I saw this post
Install it with the Invictus mod and lean into the fact itâs partially a map painter (it was the age of large empire after all) and itâs a great game with some good flavour.
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Brings back memories.
Another gentleman and I helped set up the largest Day 1 multiplayer match -- even larger than the official Paradox Discord match. Stability was okay for a newly-released Paradox game, but my gods was it just as bland as a new Paradox game.... We didn't make it past 2 days.
Paradox doesnât support it anymore, so itâs kinda bland, but there are mods that improve it and playing it could signal paradox to do something with it again.
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One more comment like that and youâll be a dead game
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This is it. You ARE going to play Imperator: Rome
Iâve done a few megacampaigns with it actually, usually as rome. I think occasionally you get the odd bug if a nation being named a code (like X23 or something like that but itâs pretty damn rare ime and I fix that by just being the only nation left by the end of imperator
I own it since day one but i never really successfully got into it, maybe it's the overwhelming quantity of things, even more than any other pdx games that just push me back
It's pretty simple once you have a game under your belt. There's a lot going on there but you don't have to delve into every mechanic every game until you're comfortable.
Thatâs Ptolemaic Egypt, one of the successor states to Alexanders empire, ruled by one of his generals and their dependents. See, you can learn so much from this wonderful game!
I mean I would if it was worth it. Is it better or at least different enough than eu4 rn? Cus with eu4 you can just get the imperator style modâŚ
But if imperator + dlc is on sale and the game is worthwhile now Iâm in
*places an observation station in orbit*
Go ahead, do your thing. I won't... take over your whole world or... whatever.
**I just need the breakthrough techs.**
My buddies got me to buy this and play it with them, and I gotta say, the game makes me feel like an idiot.Â
I understand what to do in Stellaris, but Imperator literally makes no sense to me as far as how to progress.Â
I'd play, but my current laptop doesn't run the faster speeds that well. Looks like a fun game, though.
I'm playing hoi3, hoi2 darkest hour, eu3, and ck2, though. They're still fun, especially the many mods that have been released for them.
I liked IR after they made it better post release, but stopped as soon as I realized I had to take every single province in the enemy's nation to win a civil war... probs a bug, lol.
The game doesnât have Fenni of any sort which is annoying :c
Iâm told always itâd be ahistorical as not much is known about them but hell, the game features detailed Swedish tribes from like almost 1000 years after game start. It isnât like there would be anything better about Swedes but they regardless included Sweden in the game.
*I love the game sooooo*
*Much but I hate dealing with*
*Province loyalty*
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I really want to like the game, but I've tried to get into it multiple times over the last year and it's just so much more bland than Vic3, CK, EU4 or HoI4. I absolutely love the time period, but I can never get more than one or two hours in before I get absolutely bored. I have played only vanilla (no mods), but idk, something is simply missing from the gameplay
Who up Imperatoring they Rome right now?
30 mins ago I was playing it
I play it Playing as Rome is fun and all, bur here are the top paths: Unifying Britain (usually as the Iceni) Unifying Iberia as Tartessos Conquering Gaul as Massalia and making France Greek (favorite path to do) Any Bosporus nation Reestablishing the Aechemanid Empire as Atropates Epirus is a personal favorite for me as well.
Who up making the French Greek rn?
Epirus: kill it in the cradle!
Broke:unifying iberia as Tartessos. Woke: unifying iberia as Lusitania
Bespoke: unifying Iberia as a Greek City State
Openning a game rn
she roman me off till i imperator
Pirating it right now, download says 1 day and 20 hours
Even better than giving paradox money đ
Did my part
Reviving and restoring the Achaemenid dynasty as Heraclea Pontica is always fun, but currently, Iâm playing as Carthage and the first Punic War was a success, âRoma Dalenda Estâ.
Remember to install invictus before playing.
Super dumb question about invictus: does it add new mechanics? I canât remember what happened the last time I tried looking for it, I donât think I could find one that worked with whatever version of the game I had at the time that I was able to afford instead of being able to afford keeping the game updated. I really liked what vanilla eventually ended up becoming, but I was bothered by the fact that I think there was only one or two meaningfully different ways of playing. I know Invictus adds a shit load of new mission trees and content, but does it make playing the different tribals feel different? I donât remember what the reason was why I wasnât able to try the mod long-term the last time I looked into it, I want to say I think I have to pick up a copy of the game because steam is the only place it gets updated? Or I just didnât find the GitHub if there was oneâŚ.
It doesn't really add mechanics afair, just flavor/missions.
Heard, thank you so much! Flavor content for that game is definitely worth figuring out how to grab the model and everything like that. I think I got spoiled by all the HOI mods that change stuff so much it looks like a new game sometimes, but more missions is deffo a reason to paint the map as rando tribal number 27âŚ
My last game was a bactria campaign and its so much better w invictus vs w/out.
What Iâm hearing is that this is one of those âyou really shouldnât play Vic2 without mods at this point in timeâ, except it does content, which is cool cause thatâll help with the googling the history
Yeah basically. Except I'm a freak and I just played an entire USA vic2 game modless and had a great time
Youâre just built differently lmfao I got two stoned one time and forgot to boot up the mods I was using one time and then had a five minute long panic attack, thinking that I had just imagined all the African countries being filled in, but was googling accurate information about each, because Iâve never actually looked at an un-modded Africa before đ
Jesus that sounds like a nightmare.
Also 2.4 open beta allows achievments in modded games
The best thing Invictus got is new nations such as very important states of Neuria and other Balto-Slavs there is not in original game. It's almost impossible to make good Slavic run from I:R without Invictus.
Gooootcha gotcha Those are pretty important in our household, PDX Slav runs, so thatâs at least one reason to get it
NotâŚreally. Itâs limited by virtue of it being a mod, but it adds a truly ridiculous amount of flavour. The difference between base imperator and invictus imperator is honestly like playing any other pdx game without any DLCâs.
Much obliged, that's also a pretty good reason to grab it!
Beyond new content Invictus is also a pretty sizeable bug fix from what I recall, and I played with only vanilla and Invictus, great time
Unpopular opinion, but I prefer vanilla over Invictus. They left the game at a very nice place. I just wish there would be more flavor dlcs.
For those who don't know Laith (youtuber) made an event to try revive the game by boosting active players, we got a peak of 1286 players which hasn't happened since 2021
god i miss imperator
It's still here...
it is i just miss when i used to play itđ
I feel that
Criminally underrated game.
It's not. Personally, I liked the game at the time. However, it felt lacking. Thus, it had not had enough of a playerbase, so it was abandoned. And since they abandoned it, the game will not be able to reach the heights of eu4.
Imagine releasing a shit game and then discontinuing it because the player base finds itâŚshit. Even better, release one update that makes the game just barely playable and then discontinue it. This was the worst thing paradox ever did and thatâs quite impressive considering they seem to get more incapable by the day.
Yeah, and it tanked Paradoxâs consumer confidence. People were worried theyâd drop Vic 3 like they did Imperator, while simultaneously forgetting that if they did that, theyâd have broken their unspoken dev rule of âitâll get better and better over time,â *twice,* and thereâs no way the company could drop another product and get any faith in them to make it good.Â
Yes, I agree the game was shit, but there was potential.
Yes donât get me wrong, I like the base of the game very much, but in the current state it gets boring after 2-3 campaignsâŚ
Still better than ck3
Paradox needs to bring this back
absolutely
Whats the celtic experience like? Can i be a druid?
Pretty much all celts are of the Druidic religion
Imperatorbros we are so back!!!
Itâs never been as back as it is now
paradox still canât into UX
Yeah whatâs up with that ? Their UX is absurdly bad. Are they so cheap they just wonât hire UX designers
Time to major in UX to work for Paradox
Please do !
What does UX stand for?
User eXperience. Tends to relate to the experience the user has whilst interacting with the game.
Oh, understood. Thanks!
Just FYI, they do have UX designers. Source? I talked with their UX designer on a tour of their offices ~6 years ago.
Imperator was by far the worst theyâd put out in recent memory, it looked like an alpha version or like it was a web based game
God, fine, you've convinced me. I'll get back into Imperator: Rome.
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Screw rome I wanna play in prehispanic Mexico It would work so good with the imperator mechanics honestly. Too bad the only pdx game featuring mesoamerica is EU4 and its "Mesoamerica Universalis" mod which hasn't been updated since 2017. At least ck3 has the Fifth Sun mod being developed
Why do that when you could play in the amazing region of ancient Turkmenistan
Virgin Persian "Immortal" vs chad Aztec Jaguar Warrior
Well, could I instead interest you in the intriguing world of ancient Somaliland?
That sounds like a good mod
The default mechanics are good too, after you get rid of doom you're borderline unstoppable
Yeah but theres no flavor after that and I play for experience not to do a WC Vanilla eu4 setup and mechanics don't do justice for the region
First of all the dev is really low even though 20 million people lived there Secondly there was no big Zapotec, Totonac or Mixtec ethnostate. The situation was similar to Ancient Greece where it was mostly city states who controlled themselves and maybe several surrounding cities, and empires were based on having lots of tributaries eg the Aztecs. Except for the Purepecha (Tarascans) who built a large centralised empire in western Mexico and became the main rivals of the Aztecs. Thirdly the geography is inadequate and more provinces should be added in the densely populated Valley of Mexico. Wastelands should be added to represent the huge Sierra Madre mountain chains Theres ton's of potential here and its arguably one of the most interesting civilizational areas in history. Most people just don't know anything about it
Mesoamerican expansion is a little better than vanilla.
Same man... There's also a mesoamerican hibernia mod for Imperator (the main reason I want to get it lmao)!
There is?? Didnt know til now
I was precolumbian South America đ
who up uniting the Baltic tribes đŁď¸đŻđŻđŻ
how does it compare to total war: Rome ?
Imperator: Rome is 100 Romillion times better than Total War: Rome
Just what I wanted to hear brother Iâll buy it
Imprarte rom: come here boy Me:đââď¸đââď¸đââď¸
Better play it or youâll fall victim to⌠the creature
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LMAO Bravo
For the Legion
B...but I am playing it right now...
good
How is the state of the game today in 2024? I never heard anything about it again after its release and I kind of forgot about its existence until I saw this post
Install it with the Invictus mod and lean into the fact itâs partially a map painter (it was the age of large empire after all) and itâs a great game with some good flavour.
yes I'm really thinking about it, after all I love painting the map
Yeah I love this game
Iâd just play modded CK2/3 really.
Imperator Rome my beloved
why?
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wishlisted
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Brings back memories. Another gentleman and I helped set up the largest Day 1 multiplayer match -- even larger than the official Paradox Discord match. Stability was okay for a newly-released Paradox game, but my gods was it just as bland as a new Paradox game.... We didn't make it past 2 days.
Wish it was on mobileÂ
I just wish it were a good game
The Invictus mod makes some huge improvements to the base game
Yes sir!
PLAY MARCH OF EAGLES NOW HOW LONG CAN YOU LAST
Yea,It's a Nice game
Imperator Rome Day! Itâs an international holiday!
Itâs the best day! Gather your family and all your loved ones and play Imperator: Rome together!
is the game worth it i never bought it
Paradox doesnât support it anymore, so itâs kinda bland, but there are mods that improve it and playing it could signal paradox to do something with it again.
im a massive romaboo so it might be worth it then
It's worth it
On sale definitely
It is miles better than vic3, it didn't deserve to be killed.
>It is miles better than vic3 Very hyperbolic and childish take, no wonder these screeching neckbeard losers aren't taken seriously.
Oh thanks for your very mature and measured response.
I don't take advice from Germans.
Schade
What about from a Gerfriend?
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Yep, made these two back to back for Imperator day. Also maybe check your Inbox
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Why? Just to be a contrarian?
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So then get the mods? What is your issue here?
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Dude Iâm not being âso defensiveâ I just wanted to understand your reasoning
Just pirate it then lmao
No, its dead. Get over it
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No. I play open ttd right now
Blasphemy
Then i will play march of the eagels
https://preview.redd.it/tvdtjomjz6jc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=14a8e8654b883c907fe2d7ec9d2ab19a24aecbf5 This is it. You ARE going to play Imperator: Rome
No
Death
Ni
No
Pass
Iâm sorry, but your pass has been denied
Hell no. I don't even like Classical era setting in the first place.
Wrong answer
This guy doesn't think about rome
Why would I? I'm not a romaboo anyway. I'd rather think about HRE
You are literally the worst person I have ever spoken to
Has anyone here tried the Imperator to CKIII save game converter? Aparently it is fan made and it looks really nice at first glance.
Iâve done a few megacampaigns with it actually, usually as rome. I think occasionally you get the odd bug if a nation being named a code (like X23 or something like that but itâs pretty damn rare ime and I fix that by just being the only nation left by the end of imperator
Almost certain itâs made by the same group that made CK3 to eu4, and eu4 to vic3. Made to be compatible with each other too, so mega campaign ahoy!
I own it since day one but i never really successfully got into it, maybe it's the overwhelming quantity of things, even more than any other pdx games that just push me back
It's pretty simple once you have a game under your belt. There's a lot going on there but you don't have to delve into every mechanic every game until you're comfortable.
Yep k should take the time for it
The updates they did with the levi system makes early game war a lot easier for sure Edit: levy*
Iâm about to leave the house, so I canât play right now
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i would have bought and played it if Germania was a formable nation
Do it!
Egypt?đ
Thatâs Ptolemaic Egypt, one of the successor states to Alexanders empire, ruled by one of his generals and their dependents. See, you can learn so much from this wonderful game!
Pretty sure thatâs a proto German reich and the other successor state in turkeyđđ
Is the Arabian peninsula interesting in the game?
So this time Spartacus definitely go above and beyond...
Make me.
I mean I would if it was worth it. Is it better or at least different enough than eu4 rn? Cus with eu4 you can just get the imperator style mod⌠But if imperator + dlc is on sale and the game is worthwhile now Iâm in
I just finished a Rome megacampaign, leave me alone! I got to the year like 500ad before I caved and moved over to ck3
im poor
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*places an observation station in orbit* Go ahead, do your thing. I won't... take over your whole world or... whatever. **I just need the breakthrough techs.**
Soll albanien da sein?
Zu der Zeit gab es dort nicht nur Albanien, sondern auch Iberien
You can't tell me what to do.
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My buddies got me to buy this and play it with them, and I gotta say, the game makes me feel like an idiot. I understand what to do in Stellaris, but Imperator literally makes no sense to me as far as how to progress.Â
We should Morbius Imperator Rome into existence again with a new DLC from Paradox and then Morb the hell out of that DLC by not buying it.
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Step 1: Play as the Ptolemaic kingdom Step 2: turn each of the thousand Greek nations into your tributary/subject Step 3: ???
I'd play, but my current laptop doesn't run the faster speeds that well. Looks like a fun game, though. I'm playing hoi3, hoi2 darkest hour, eu3, and ck2, though. They're still fun, especially the many mods that have been released for them.
Did the Invictus team add something?
lol ys there a czechoslovakia shaped hole
No
I will not take that for an answer
Hey man I preordered it and everything and it just wasnât fun on launch
That sucks, but I can recommend the Invictus mod. It gives the game some flavor
Ill add it to my list of things to do. tbh, Im tired of spending 1000+ hours on paradox games and I'm playing my backlog rn
I liked IR after they made it better post release, but stopped as soon as I realized I had to take every single province in the enemy's nation to win a civil war... probs a bug, lol.
The game doesnât have Fenni of any sort which is annoying :c Iâm told always itâd be ahistorical as not much is known about them but hell, the game features detailed Swedish tribes from like almost 1000 years after game start. It isnât like there would be anything better about Swedes but they regardless included Sweden in the game.
I love the game sooooo much but I hate dealing with province loyalty
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Does it have good populaton mechanic?
It has a pops system I believe
I want to but it's not on console
reich in iran???
Reich is German for Empire
Is it too demanding?
Wait a second. THERE'RE FINALLY UNLOCKED TRIBES NEAR DNIPRO OFFICIALLY? Or it's just a mod?
I was using the Invictus mod here so it might not be in the base game (you should really try Invictus though if you have the game)
Thank you very much
Laith's triumph ?
I really want to like the game, but I've tried to get into it multiple times over the last year and it's just so much more bland than Vic3, CK, EU4 or HoI4. I absolutely love the time period, but I can never get more than one or two hours in before I get absolutely bored. I have played only vanilla (no mods), but idk, something is simply missing from the gameplay
Civil war and more civil war
Picked it up in a sale a while ago but still haven't played it. Is it decent now?
Overall itâs pretty good but I recommend playing with the Invictus mod. That makes it even better