Legends of the dead: what went wrong? Crusader kings 3

Crusader Kings 3 is in a bit of a controversy right now with its latest release of Legends of the Dead on March 4th and today I'm going to explain a bit of what this is and why it happened starting off looking at the steam page it is sitting at mixed reviews right now and many of the comments below is talking about its $20 price tag and how it's not worth it a common theme in many DLC releases currently such as the one with Total War Warhammer 3 many of the reviews also quote that the content in the DLC is not worth the $20 price tag do you think it's worth $20 let me know down in the comments I'll also be doing a deep dive mechanical overview on how plagues work in this new DLC in this video up here if it's not out go ahead and subscribe so you know when it comes out I'll be talking about all the plagues and stuff in it so it'll be great Jolly fun Shameless advertisement over in this video I I'll be talking about everything in the DLC some of the controversy around it and my personal thoughts on it since I've been playing the hell out of this game for a bit so let us begin starting with Legends of Legends of the Dead Legends is a new feature where you can spread legends about yourself and where your Dynasty came from a good example being the sons of scod exclusive to Scottish characters there is an achievement related to completing this legend by the way hint hint and I might be doing a real life lore video on what this is so more advertisement anyways Legends come in various types this being mythical legitimizing or heroic with various effects for the owners people who promote it and the baronies and counties that these Legends are in however they come with a creation cost of a lot of money usually around 240 gold some Prestige and they need maintenance every month personally Legends feel a little bit Half Baked some of the mechanics can use touch-ups such as Legends don't last even third rank Legends which are supposedly supposedly the most famous ones only last for 75 to 100 years so they feel more like a meme instead of a mythical legend about your Dynasty the bonuses are pretty nice and you do get to make some pretty neat buildings out of them now from a gameplay perspective a legend lasting a 100 years in a video game where the entire game takes place between 600 or 400 years depending on your start date it makes sense that it's limited time one Legend Max rank lasts pretty much a quarter of the game but on the other hand Legends like Arthur Pendragon the king of England I'm Arthur King of the Britain which is a legend in game is still very well known to this date hundreds of years later but in the game that only lasts 100 years and it's like oh what who's King Arthur King of the the Britain oh the Britain moving on to the of of Legends of the Dead hey before we get to the next part of the video I'm just going to say this uh here is right about the point I ran out of memes for the video and I couldn't grab any more screenshots from ck3 because the game decided to crash on opening so I've taken it from a sign it did not want me to continue this so from here the quality just goes down yeah have fun keep watching if you want go complain in the comments sorry this is going to be the most controversial part of the DLC and that is the new legitimacy meter this is a new bar in the bottom left you can hover over and this is basically the expectations of your vassals which they really should just rename it to this is a bar of what your vassals expect of you as far as your actions go so anything you do that is not very very Noble or really anything that happens impact this bar an outbreak of plague there goes your legitimacy win a battle eh you get some legitimacy lose a battle that's going down by 50 points and God forbid if you marry a lowborn cuz your vassels would rather staple your balls to a ceiling fan than let that happen it will tank you 300 legitimacy bringing you down from a rightful ruler to an illegitimate one and you're probably going to have a few rebellious or angry three vassels on your hands yeah have fun with that it sucks I found out the hard way as many reviewers have said it just feels like a new thing to manage that makes your vassals a little more Upp and not like you and things like that it does add a bit more of a challenge to keeping vassals in check but things like hunts feasts and other things and activities do raise your legitimacy so it isn't that hard to manage you just pretty much throw gold and sway at it moving on to the Dead the biggest thing about the DLC ads in is plagues this ranges between everything from typhus dancing plague and the big bat itself bubonic all and round there's no complaints here it's exactly what it is it's deadly it kills even minor plagues killing dozens of characters with major plagues killing thousands and I have yet to see an apocalypse one cuz I cannot get my Dynasty to survive that long from the 866 start to get to yonic plague so it's all around fun except when it Coes your doctor just saying all in all I will give the DLC three plague rats out of five I can see where the devs are going at with this and I have no doubt that they are going to update and change a few things and make it work better as the community gives it it feedback so I expect it'll be pretty good in the future it's just it's just kind of iffy right now the plagues are great though my only real criticism with the DLC is that it's more money to spend more activities to do more little things to manage instead of being Legends of the Dead they should have made this trades and plagues and added trade routes and plagues spread along those like they did in real life but hey I'm not a Game Dev Paradox probably has it reasons anyways have a good night don't catch the plague I'll see you next time

Channel: Katiozi

Views: 3,430

Keywords: Ck3, Crusader kings, Crusader kings 3, Paradox, Review, crusader kings 3 gameplay, crusader kings 3 guide, crusader kings iii, paradoxinteractive

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Length: 6min 40sec (400 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 16 2024