IMPERATOR: ROME's 2024 COMEBACK is REAL 

If guys are always thinking about Rome, by default, they are always thinking of Imperator Rome, lets bring it back!

Random person: How influent is this Oversimplified guy? 2024:

Who doesn't want more Classical Anqutity DLC or more games set in this time period? There was a Call of Duty concept for a Roman game but that got scrapped :( I want MORE of the Classical Period in video games.

If they bring the game back, I hope they name the first patch "Laith" because nobody has worked harder to bring back IR than that guy

The average users for the last 30 days is around 1/8 that of Victoria 3 which is their newest grand strategy title! We can easily get rather close to that and why would Paradox not pick it up then? It is essentially free DLC money for them since the expensive core game development is done and now they can just produce flavour content and sell it at unreasonable prices :)

When Project Caesar actually turns out to be a global version of Imperator Rome, I'm going to laugh so hard

Combat update can include more decisions. If you’ve played Expeditions Rome there’s a battle mechanic that if you choose to use your cavalry to chase enemies you can roll the dice and lose the battle. I want that in imperator Rome

The best game ever, by far, from ancient civilizations...

I swear I just added this to my wishlist on steam and I logged onto RU-vid to search videos of the game. The coincidence here is incredible

I actually bought the game after seeing paradox youtubers praising it heavily lately and I was very pleasantly surprised. There are multiple things in this game I like even more than in EU4 which I've been playing for 10 years. Thank you for the recommendation.

lets do it guys. Lets revive the game

bought this game few days ago, seems to be very good and not that hard to learn

Highly recommend playing with the terra indomita mod... it bundles victus along with other mods.

Excellent video Andy, this is one of your best! I want this game to have more roleplay mechanics and the decisions to decide laws and make trials on individual citizens cases, I feel the game needs way more dilemmas and events. This is great to see this game coming back! I too will make a video but only one thing holds me back; how to learn how to play Imperator.

I just wanted topoint out that PDX games best peak was making CK2 F2P, which was able to get way above 100K players at that time

Imperator has the most challenging ai in all paradox games, making even late game challenging to play until you conquer all

Hell yeah, I still contend that this is the last release to actually feel like a paradox game, at least in my opinion. Still praying for that that barbarian rework🤞

Fall of Rome or crisis of the third century as an expansion would be awesome

When I was on a Rome Binge, I got this game, but then I saw all the reviews and people saying the game was dropped and would never reach the level of content like other PDX games, so I never installed it and played it. I guess it is time to finally give it a shot.

Thanks for reminding me this game. I always thought this is not a good enough game after its first release. But your video makes me give another chance now.

imperator rome's issue was paradox's usual release method, drop a shitty broken game and then make people pay money for the complete product in the form of the first 5 dlcs, but that only works when you're backed by having hoi, eu, or vic in the title

i played the diodachi in the vanilla campaign and it was the best experience i have ever had in a game like this. as a alexander buff, i cannot even describe the feeling i got with SO MANY events. the empires are huge and dynamic, there really is nothing even close

its a joke that a giant company like paradox can not spare 1 or 2 guys to keep working on it how minor it is.

I personally always loved the game even since its launch, and loved it more with the improvements they made. It hurt when they dropped it. But to hear people coming back and realizing how good it is makes me happy, and Paradox taking this game back up would be AWESOME.

There was once a dream that was Rome...

That CK2 trailer was amazing. I can't see it exciting totally new players, but it sure does excite me who play map painting simulators regular. Maybe they could do something silly with imperator and reeeally lean into some Romeaboo jokes in a trailer. Can't think of any good examples right now, maybe overly arrogant and snarky senators looking down on the uncivilized plebs. Could also be "war propaganda" against the literal demon barbarians who don't even dilute their wine with water *gasp*

I:R is already very good but it desserve a trade system update: the production of good by slaves should be less "gamey" (per cluster of pops is crap, production should be calculated per slave), bonuses should depend on the quantity of good (production+import) depending on the total population of the country, and especially the province-by-province trade system is fun at the start of the game but when you find yourself with a huge capital it quickly becomes boring as hell, and to top it off all the automatic trade in the others provinces hardly works, imho an empire to empire trade system would have been both simpler and more consistent with the bonus system.

I currently play a new Imperator Rome Campaign as the Seleucid Empire. I played perhabs 5 hours as Rome before, so I am relatively new to the Game and I like it. I played mostly CK 3 and Vic 3 in the Paradox World (besides that EU 4 and minimal HOI 4 and Stellaris)

If they do pick it up again, I wish they worked more on regulating the noble families. You'd deprive a specific one of any position of power (sometimes that might even be because they don't have enough eligible candidates for public office), and they'll still have a crazy influence bonus to provoke a civil war.

I still remember that CK trailer like it was yesterday…

I wished they extended the timeline a bit. The timeline ends too soon. At the height of Romes dominating the world, so it should be an option to go for a bit longer.

I remember buying this game just before 2.0 and l remember loving it from the beginning. I'm glad to see it getting the attention it deserves.

Why not hope for a completed game rather than continuous updates? Maybe that is what people want but having a finished game without buying any more dlcs isn't bad in my book. Does it really need many more patches or updates?

It's SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCH a great game, if you can get through learning it. It really does have the biggggest return for doing so. Infinite hours of infinite satisfaction.

Been playing this game since launch and havent stopped

Thanks for putting this out. I dodged the game in 2019 despite being very close to picking it up. I love Paradox Games, especially CK and I love Antiquity Content so I was really interested.. but the Reviews were terrible and it looked rough when I looked into the game. Game looks like it has come a long way, and it's on Sale right now, think I'm gonna pick it up and try it out the next time I wanna mix things up.

One of the most beatiful map games, Ui Ok

I'm sooo here for an Imperator revival! Glad it's now getting the recognition it deserves! Edit: that ck2 trailer hit it hard with the nostalgia

Imperator Invictus makes this playable, got 1250 hrs going..

About Rome trailer, maybe it’s because Rome is too scholarly ambiguous as a subject to trivialize it into our Imagination of what is Rome. About the map, even though many good arguments exist about why Terra Incognita map mechanics is not necessary, I still want that EU4 function, just because I want to “discover” Rome as China

I'll play imperator if someone made a mod where when you get into a battle you get redirected to Rome 2 battles. Someone already made the Crusaders Wars mod so I think this is possible.

I would love to see the game being updated. The biggest problem with IR is that the game has little flavour and, thus, replayablity. For the first few gameplays, I had a true blast. A little later, the thrill just burned out. I think that we should show them our support for the game, and our desire for it to continue, but we can't lie to say that it was released on par with other paradox titles. If the player base and the developers "work together", we can and will make this one of the best strategy games of all time, but for that, they have to work with us, and show their desire to make it happen, not simply abandoning it. It was a big blow to my confidence on Paradox Interactive when this game was released, not because of the game itself, but because of how quickly they dropped the game and how they valued my money. Until that point, I had bought ALL GAMES AND ALL DLCS they had in steam (apart from Stellaris), damn, I even bought Magika and other smaller titles. But after Imperator Rome, my confidence went away. Before, I believed that even if my money didn't pay out at first, they would eventually make it worthwhile. But after Imperator Rome, I lost my faith on them. Now I always think a lot before actually paying them. I still like Paradox, but trust is another thing entirely.

ended my first campaign in Imperator with Carthago at 300+ pops

Here's hoping.

Coincidentally picked up Imperator Rome a week ago

2600 players rn, good job!

i honestly think that patch last year was someone going into IR to use it's engine as the base for EU5. Also if we get up to 8k like Vic3 i think we have a chance.

I love this revival

Roma Invicta ❤

One can dream

2019: 25 hours played total. 2024 after downloading 2 weeks ago: 200hrs total

I really want a polished paradox game for this period.

Our max numbers were actually 2.7k 😊

Lotr and elders scrolls mods. Haven't touched vanilla in years. All praise to the two moddrs, Lonely modder (ES) and the War of the Ring team. Think they are the true drivers in these increased numbers.

5k would definitely make it worth a small team developing or 3k consistent for a few weeks/months

There is the crusader kings 3/1212ad cross over mod, would this be possible with imperator and Rome 2?

I always enjoyed playing I hope to return one day

Can we get a let's play tutorial for 2024? 1 that is for new players? I'd love to start playing, but it's pretty dense and the learning curve is super steep

I just have a very hard time understanding how to play. I even spent 5 hours with guides and completely invested into trying to learn it and couldn't. I'm willing to try again, but I must be able to be in a learn as I go environment. Is there a setting I should change to ensure my learning mistakes won't cause my game to end as I play with Rome? Is it like CK2 in that it is almost impossible to actually lose the game?

Frankly, I think you'll need to hit 3k players for them to give it another shoot. I just don't know how profitable it is for them to make a large update or even a DLC for 1.5k players. HoI4 has 30-day average player count of 33,621.5, EU4 is at 14,167.4, CK3 is at 16,133.8 and Stellaris is at 11,043.5. For continuous updates and development, I'm thinking these numbers need to be at least 5-7k for Imperator. Still, hope for new updates. Love the game.

Let’s bring it back

I really hope they come back to it to some extent. TTW Rome 2 is my absolut Favourite Total War Game, not Only cuz of the Timeline tho. I wanted a Ck3 like Game but in the Roman Timeperiod and i startet getting used to Imperator Rome over a span of like 2 years? Because first i didnt know how to do anything at the Game but it was like Ck, you have to spend some Hours til you get used to how to play the Game. But than it makes great Fun! Thanks for the Video and giving it more attention :) P.s.: After seeing this i set the Goal to Play IR 2-3 Times a Week when i have time to higher that Number :D

I hope EU5 takes lessons from I:R. I’d love to see the pop system, trade, modular army system and graphics, among others, on a massive EU4-like scale

It's 70% off now on Steam. A bargain if the game is OK now.

This was thr big game I was waiting on for a long time and when I saw the reveiws it just pissed me off to the extent that i said to hell with it. Then they did the few big patches and it sounded like it was good now, but then Paradox threw their hands up and abandonded it. I was jaded about that so I never played.

It just got updates today

I love the game I started playing it while the peak players was 50 at a time and I never understood why paradox abandoned it

Bro is cheating on us with his secret channel T-T

2.5k players. Looks like you did something.

They should go balls deep and make an empire-divided expansion for Imperator Rome. Imagine the Hype of an Aurelian Time stamp with some added mechanics. I know it steps away from the ancient world, but the hype would actually revive that game. Then they could go back to the original time stamp once the player count had been reestablished.

how do I pull up those graphs about players?? I need theeeem

I'll give it a go again but I need a list of mods that won't break the game to install.

The map is good but the rest of the GUI needs improvement There are too many beige and grey windows and they could do with jazzing that up a bit to make it more user friendly

If its being revived, lets face the facts - there is A LOT that can be brought over from mainly Vicky3 but also in some part from CK3. What Imperator is still struggling with is a form of identity crisis of what it wants to be. Does it want to be EU4-styled? Or CK2? Or have its own take on Vic2? I think that CK2 styled character interactions are wrong for this sort of title. I think the classical period is perhaps one of the most interconnected in history up until pre-modern era. I think that it is a title if revived should not completely abandon character interactions. It could look at certain things CK3 has, for example. It should however look way more to Vicky3. A Vicky styled game set in the roman period - that would in fact be awesome. And lets face it. CK3, Vicky3, HOI4 has opened some doors that even even PDX Tinto will have to take into account if EU5 is on the way. The way paradox games worked up until EU4 is fairly obsolete by now. And I think Imperator is the definite proof of that, even if I really enjoyed the game.

I just want 3 things in vanilla: 1) Extend timeline to 456 AD 2) Give us China to have a huge worthy enemy at the end for Rome 3) Give us 2 more timestamps -- triumvirate and empire divided.

I kinda don't want Paradox to pick up the game back up, but to instead become/remain a stark reminder to the publisher on the dangers of pushing out a game when its still half-baked with the intention of patching and forcing players to pay to improve the game.

Restore Imperator!

I played this game at release for a bit but haven't touched it since. Has it changed a lot since then?

🔥 REVIVE 🔥

can someone send this video to paradox

Paradox did this game dirty.

I quit IR when I encountered the stupefyingly bad trade system. It seemed to me at the time like it was designed by a psychopath with OCD, who didn't know anything about trade.

Whatever they do, they better integrate the invictus mod

The only thing that I don´t like is that it takes decades to subdue a province through religion and culture, so that in the later game you can set the clock for rebelions....

See, I want to get into Imperator Rome, I own it, but I always end up booting up EU4

“Terra indomita” still have a lot to improve on the east Asian side I think, “To the end of the world” feels somehow better than “Terra indomita” despite Terra literally porting “To the end” in its mod

Tbh, the Imperator Invictus mod is what makes the game playable

I hate that Paradox abandoned this title

think they messed up by not having *more* of a character focus like ck3, since you're *generally* playing at such a small scale, it only makes sense. it's still an ok game but idk still feels like a missed opportunity to me.

Two words: Imperator Rome

Imperator has the best map ever made by Paradox, and serves my fetish well, which has always been a huge number of provinces in a strategy game. The problem for me was always how underwhelming the Diadochi Wars seemed, because you have these huge, wealthy, populous states, that have neither money, nor manpower in-game. I remember how futile it was to play as the Antigonids, fighting against everybody with an army less than 10k strong, and running a deficit, whereas the Antigonids controlled several royal treasuries from Alexander's time, and had armies in excess of 100k men. The initial years of the game should have been occupied by massive wars involving hundreds of thousands of troops, and money, at least in the Diadochi areas, running abundant.

I know it finaly

There's no way that they'll pick it back up

Please Paradox

I love the game

They handed it off the the modders. And the modders are bringing people back. They arent coming back imo

ive revisited the game and have been playing it for the last month and a half and pleasantly happy with it. The only thing that needs to happen is the marriage mechanic is still a bit woke.

is it tho

if they revive it, i'll play. - 4k EU4 player

An update could be dangerous : right now the game depends a lot on its modding community, and having a frozen game version is a great help for them. Any update which introduces new features would break many mods, which have been slowly developed over years by a community which might not be strong enough to provide an update. I think the best thing Paradox can do is taking the lessons from Imperator and its mods, and creating a brand new game in the Antiquity or Bronze Age or so. Probably something much less Roman, avoiding the stain of the Imperator reputation, but similar enough to keep related mechanics.