The main problem with all these 30 mins tutorials is that those plebs don't even plan out how to teach the game they just click start recording and improvise. Gj gamestach.
Thats the worst lol. "This is how you do this, but I cant show you right now bc I didnt set it up" gee, thanks... and thats why theyre 3 times longer than needed because they just ramble without direction.
This is the prime example of what a tutorial should be. I am not asking to have every aspect of the game spoon-fed to me and how I should handle any and all situations. Give me the barebones of how things work and let me figure out the rest. Thank you for making this wonderful tutorial!
Half of playing a paradox game is learning how it works. CKIII is my game of choice, and despite playing hundreds of hours I still discover new little mechanics and stuff about the game every now and then. This tutorial is great because you want to prod the player to the point where they can figure out the game while playing it. Certainly that's how CKIII has been for me - the most fun is had when you're experimenting.
What's this?! An EU4 tutorial where the first 20 minutes aren't about how to click the Single Player button?! Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?!
Oh my gosh I just bought this game and was looking for a simple tutorial and you my man have done it. Straight to the point and no deviation. You are awesome just because of this video I am subbed and man keep going. I like your voice it doesn’t sound like a high pitched teenager who rambles endlessly. 😄
Wow, thank you! That is so nice of you to say :D And about those teenagers: those "WHAAAAAAAAAAT IS UP GUYS MY NAAME IS BLABLA AND WELCOME TO TODAY'S VIDEO HEHEHEHEHE" RU-vidrs really piss me off. I'm actually considering doing a sarcastic video on them. But that is probably something for a later point in the year. Anyway, thanks for subscribing! Welcome! :)
Yeah you are right they do start like that. I’m usually like come on come on I don’t have 12 hours on my hand to watch this. Also can’t believe you responded but thx. Good intro too.
EDIT: I made follow-up video where I answer your most asked questions! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--cX0mfL7i18.html I feel humbled that so many of you have watched this video and found it useful! Thank you for watching! If you found this video useful, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel. That really helps me out a lot :) If you still have questions after watching this video, please don't hold back and join our 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐃 server: discord.gg/UU3fJEP Here, all your questions will be answered by either me or other like-minded gamers in a beginner-friendly environment. Hope to see you there :)
Amazing tutorial! Just one more thing, when and where should i invest in development? Should i wait till iam ahead of tech and at peace? Should i invest primarly in my capital or everywhere?
That is a good question! I don't have a definitive answer to that, unfortunately. However, I'll tell you what I usually do: Investing in development is primarily used to increased the stats of your provinces. It will gain you most to: - Increase Admin Dev. in your capital (however, that is expensive) - Increase Diplo Dev. in provinces with high value trade goods (this depends on the period your in, but Gold is always highly profitable) Secondly, you can use development to help the spread of institution. For example, let's say you are very unlucky and "Global Trade" spawns in China and you're somewhere in Europe. It is not smart to wait until it all spreads to Europe. Instead, you can increase development, which will help the growth of that institution. (Just try this out in a game and you'll get what I mean). My rule of thumb of when to invest is generally: - I need the institution (as explained above), or; - I have an excess of power points and I have nowhere else to spend them on. Hope this helps :)
@GameStach thx for tutorial. Do you know, if I started the basic game without dlcs and afterwards I would buy a dlc, will I able to continoue my save game with dlc ? Which dlc gives me the right and chance to give some occupied region to my ally at peace? Cosscks maybe? Thx in advance
@@roninodikai If you start the game without dlc, and then buy ones, you can no longer play that save game sadly :( I have had this lots of times. I believe that transfering occupation is not part of a DLC anymore. You have to click the province, and that is where you can transfer occupation. If you want to give the province to you ally in the peace deal, simply select it there. It should now show up in the summary of the deal :)
This is hands down the best beginners guide for any game on RU-vid. I was so overwhelmed when I first opened the game. After watching this... I have put 50 hours into this game in the first week playing. RIP me.
As someone who already vaguely understands the game (~2500h), all i can say is that it was very clear tutorial, I'm definitely going to use it teaching a friend of mine today.
Despite having watched a great many tutorials on youtube in the last year or so since i bought this game. ive still only managed about 5 hours of game play so far. and yet this is exactly the sort of game i enjoy playing. this is the one of the few tutorials ive seen which is concise and to the point. thank you.
Thank you! I also find it hard to start playing EU4 sometimes. I come up with a whole of reasons not to play, but when I finally DO play it, it's fun. So I would suggest: Just try it again :)
I just bought EU4 today and I was initially very confused on how complex it looked. This guide was very fast and very informative! Thank you so much for making this tutorial you did a great job!
Old video and still relevant, have played eu4 for some time now and this is by far the best tutorial I have seen for the game. The quality comes from the intention, "quick guide, so you can start to learn from playing yourself"
My god, I was looking for a simple straight to the point tutorial for the game, and gosh it was hard to find one. Your tutorial should be much more visible on RU-vid! I started some of those 8 hours long tutorials and I almost gave up buying the game because everything seemed so hard to understand and confused, I'm happy I found this one.
After playing with my buddy for 3 hours for the first time today, having no idea how to play, clapping him in war, and finally watching him take over 25 bank loans to get out of debt i think its time that i learn how to play this for real lol. thanks, great vid
Watched a multipart tutorial and barely understood the game afterwards and put it down for like 6 months. Found your video on a fluke and now i am 20 hours into a playthrough and feeling confident. All hail my Sicilian Empire. Thank you for the concise tutorial.
Seriously, this is what a tutorial video should be like. I don't need to know 100% of what things are or how to maximize them. I just want to know how to PLAY.
It seems I watch a tutorial and maybe pick up a thing or two, playing Castile, usually go incredibly into debt, get attacked and then not sure what to do. The basic functions I know how to do. It’s things like should I go into debt to get the best councilors, combing regiments into an army, the nobility and making peace. Most tutorials talk too fast, they show things way to fast without zooming in or like yours is too blurred to often read. It’s nice that yours is easy to skim through and maybe I will pick up something that will help or I can build upon.
This game can be really tough. I also struggle to not get into debt with Castille. It is a deceptively difficult nation in my opinion (even though it is listed among the "recommended nations"). I personally prefer Aragon over Castille when it comes to playing in Spain. Good luck! :)
Thanks for using the generally accepted English spelling of Castile. One of my pet peeves of Paradox's EU and CK games is that they spell Castile with two Ls. And don't get me started on Victoria giving the names of German provinces in German when so many other countries have their provinces in the English equivalent.
Coming from HoI4, I am so confused with EU4. I have watched or listened to AT LEAST 40 hours of tutorials on this game, and this 20 minute video taught me more than all of that. Thank you SO much for making this! I want more content that HoI4 has, and EU4 has that. But it would appear that comes at the cost of a steep learning curve, and this video helped flatten it! Even if I never watch another video, you sir have earned a sub!
Wow, thank you very much! That's very nice of you to say :D Personally, I started with EU4 and then switched to HOI4. You are right that it's easier to go from EU4 to HOI4 than the other way around, haha! Anyway, good luck and let me know if you have any questions!
I’ve watched so many tutorials for this game and the information here is ALL WAFFLE FREE and says exactly what a new player needs. Thank you so much for creating this video.
GameStach: Never fall behind on Military tech, because that means you can loose a war, even if you have more troops. Soviet Union in WW2: Am i joke to you?
Thanks man! I really wanted to get some friends into eu4, but the barrier to entry was too high, but this video has certainly lowered the bar for them! Thanks!
Thanks for making a tutorial based entirely off things that you'll need to worry about within the first hour instead of mixing it with random lategame stuff that only comes up in niche situations and involves DLC that someone looking to try the game wouldn't have anyways
I just got the game a few days ago and i was struggling to learn about it before this video. I really want to thank you for this amazing work! Its helped me understand the game a lot more and I'm finding it super fun now.
Dom Graves Great to hear! It was a real headache for myself when I just started out, so I’m glad you’re already enjoying it! What nation did you try first?
Yes, that is nice indeed! Preventing map gore and such, haha! I had some real trouble with England when I just started out because of France. Nice that it is going well!
Man i wish there were good Stellaris / HOI4 videos out there like yours; your intro was 100% correct in that most Paradox tutorial content on YT tends to be meandering, unscripted and full of unhelpful info or too overly technical for a beginner tutorial. You make very good use of the phrase "worry about that later."
Wow, thank you for your amazing compliment :) I have a degree as a teacher, so I know that most people (myself included) don't have an extremely long attention span; so I try not to tell non-essential information. Before making this video, I obviously watched what other tutorials were like, and most of them start by going over the icons in the top bar. That sometimes takes them an entire episode of 20 minutes. I did that in under a minute, because I think people can read a tooltip themselves - they don't need me to do that for them. But anyway, if people know enough to play the game comfortably after my video, my goal is achieved :)
man, I feel you, I bought stellaris like 2 years ago and I just gave up because the games tutorial is so hard to grasp and to watch tutorials with 40 mins about 1 single thing is just ridiculous
Great tutorial! I watched a different one not too long ago, but the tutorial itself was 4 years old.. I hadn’t realized how much had changed, so this rocks!
I just want to say that this is one of the best tutorials I've seen about a game EVER. I'm new to Eu4 and I stopped playing it for a while but lately I've been getting back into it and I'm trying to learn the game because I really love it and I love how realistic it can be. Don't get me wrong I also love Hoi4 and other paradox games but lately I've taken a keen interest in EU4 and it's starting to become one of my favorite games. One reason that I would prefer EU4 over Hoi4 is that EU4 is in it's own way really realistic becasue of the complexity which for some reason most people don't understand or even try to understand. I'm planning on doing a lot more EU4 in the coming Thanksgiving break and I really cannot wait until I actually get good at the game. I just want to say that this tutorial has definetly helpled a 70 hour noob like me. And I can say for a fact that this tutorial is going to make me enjoy the game evem better. Thank you so much and stay safe. Just earned a sub btw
Thank you man! I'm really happy you say that! :D If you ever want to play game or ask questions, feel free to join the discord server: discord.com/invite/UU3fJEP Hope to see you there!
It sure is! CK2 is, in my opinion, more about the characters and not so much about conquering (although you can still do this of course). I'm more of an "I want to conquer everthing" kind of guy, so that's why I enjoy EU4 a bit more than CK2. How about you? Anyway, thank you for your compliment! Glad to hear it helped!
@@GameStach I like both lol, the characters are very interesting in ck2, I would never have come up the idea of a dwarf immortal Augustus of rome by myself but eu4 looks like alot of fun so again, I thank you for making the transition easier :D
i love how most paradox game "tutorials" on youtube are just 8 hour uncut live streams of people badly explaining the game mechanics really slowly and then cut that into like 10 seperate videos which makes the game look really daunting for new players
@@GameStach you are welcome can you help me with something I'm playing with castile now and the nobilty hates me and always do something that let me choose to either stand with him but the pop will hate me or they will make a revolt
Awesome! Thank you! I hope you'll enjoy the game. It can be reaaally frustrating at times, but if you give it some time, you'll waste more hours on it than you'd like :D
My very first game I played as Ottomans in Rise of Ottomans. After only a few months, I gathered 20k troops and went to reclaim a province from Albania (i think). I made sure to position my troops so they wouldn't have to cross a river when entering the province, but when I went to attack, my troops first moved so they would have to cross a river before entering the province. It was taking forever compared to the tutorial, so eventually I said fuck it and sped up the time. I spent like 10 years trying to siege one province and during that time I spent all of my money, every country I had a truce with started making claims on and taking my provinces, and then Venice came and destroyed my army. I haven't touched the game since.
Amen for the opening sentence of this video. I just stumbled on an EU4 tutorial for Castille that looked pretty popular, but it was boring as F### telling me all minutiae that didn't tell me ZIP about the game and what's the point of it. Already I can tell this video is the video for me (a newb wanting to know what this game is all about). Thank you!
This guide was very helpful and informative. I am from Kazakhstan and I speak Russian and there are no good guides for this game in Russian. Thank you :)
i've had EUIV for a long time now (from Epic) but never tried it because i found it overwhelming, but with this tutorial i can play it. I find strategy games comforting when i'm fed up with shooters and RPGs :D
I had put way too many hours into HOI4 {2200} and ive always wanted to get into EU4, only thing offputting me was the 400$ DLC pricetag & i couldnt exactly understand how to handle my economy & politics, ive tried using tutorials but they were so insistent on small details that never mattered to me, thank you for being straight to the point.
@@GameStach Economy and politics are simple, it's the combat micro and template's but its not that hard of a game unless ur playing mp or a mod like black ice But eu4 is pretty funny , did a Castile play through colonizing the Americas and India definetly will play it more
I played two games on my own and was confused af, watched 10 minutes of a 30 min tutorial and was still just as confused. Watched this video and literally, every question I had was answered in addition to a few things I hadn't thought of but that I probably would have been confused about when I encountered them. This is indeed how tutorials should be, now to go take over the world.
Thank you for this amazing comment! Made my day :D If you have any further questions, let me know! (You can always join our Discord and ask them there of course: discord.gg/UU3fJEP)
I have little over 100hrs in CK3 and now deciding I want to try out other paradox titles, and CK3 is by far imo the easiest to grasp, HOI4 being the hardest. I was intimidated by EU4 but now it seems so simple thanks to this tutorial !
As a hoi4 player trying to play eu4 alongside it… it is somehow similar yet entirely different. Stuff like political power is money, you don’t need heirs or anything in hoi4, vassals are basically puppets etc
3:37 "Read the tooltip"...well, I'm expecting a lot of reading now. 😂🤣 So, I didn't do the tutorial like an idiot. Loaded up an SP match. Was lost in 5 minutes and quit. You've clarified so much for me within 10 mins.
As someone with over 1k hours on HOI4 (my most played game on steam) I can confidently say that paradox games don't have a learning curve but a learning launch into orbit. The time period between finally starting to understand what happens in the game and knowing 98% of everything there is to know is like 6 months
Thank you for your compliment! Yes, EU4 can be quite confusing at the start. Don't worry, you'll master it in no time :) Best tip ever: Just hover over things you don't get, read the tooltip and it should help you big time. If you happen to have any questions, just let me know :)
Thank you very much! Answered some questions and was even entertaining to watch! I'll watch your videos where you will be playing as well, as I'm sure it will give me allot of insight in navy, trade/merchants, battles, and a whole lot of other stuff I didn't even get the chance to fuck up yet
Thank you! That is very nice to hear! :D I also have a few tutorial series that could be helpful. You could check out the Ottomans if you're interested in playing them or if you want to learn more about the basics of the game (ru-vid.com/group/PLneeyHrEgpDiiy0SotgFuOBHW7BJYaRsA). In case you're a bit more experienced, then the Castille series could be useful (ru-vid.com/group/PLneeyHrEgpDhPqih5ksxf1MXikUeaOYvx). That one introduces colonization and colonial nations. (And new videos are of course on the way :) )
