Gotta shout out invictus mod, has basically kept the game alive in a lot of our hearts. honestly it's my favorite paradox game and I wish it got the love
1700 hours player here. For many of us the game never died. What did die, was any remaining trust towards paradox's board of directors. The only reason the game in it's current state is even playable for more than one playthrough is Invictus's team (Shoutout to Snowlet for coping with the comment section). No matter how many concurrent players we reach Paradox will do what Paradox does the last decade or so. I like to call it, Pyrrhic strategy. You start something until the first hardship arrises and move to the next thing.
Imperator Rome vs other Paradox games : 1. Best game sound track. 2. Best looking map. 3. Interesting new mechanics. 4. Huge development possibilities. 5. Very good UI. After patch 2.0 the game was in a very good state. I hope Paradox will eventually reinstate the development of this game who has a huge potential.
This is one of my complaints about Vic 3. Slaves that are still residing in slave exporting African nations have a quality of life three times higher than the low class of their captors (QoL 9 for slaves, QoL 3 for African peasants... or was it labourers) and it certainly doesn't go down when they're exported. That somewhat acceptable slave QoL is on par with low class Europeans.
The interesting thing is how different is your playstyle compared to most of people playing other paradox games (me included). You do the same thing that you do in Civ games, that is "you crank the numbers" and it's so refreshing to see. Personally I cannot possibly stop conquering even if my country has 4 rebellions ongoing at the time. I really hope this game gets revived :v
If you keep playing Imperator, play with the Invictus mod and play on the 2.0.4 open beta. A small patch was randomly released for the game a year ago that fixed some minor bugs but also added some helpful UI to the trade screen to show when you already have a capital surplus (that might be part of invictus but I think it's from the patch). Invictus itself just adds so much new content that there's no point playing without it
This has been a really interesting video, I love how you explain the intricacies in ways that very few other channels have would love more episodes of Imperator
This was my first paradox game and it's my favorite one still. I hope and dream it gets dlc someday 😢. Such a great time period. Thank you for playing this. I would watch every video you make of this game
Very nice! I always like seeing you play strategy games besides Civ. Speaking of, I'd love to see more Old World stuff from you. Your barbarian streams have been a frequent thing I listen to and watch while doing homework or studying.
Your video was the most interesting of the ones I saw in IR revival. The whole playing tall thing and focusing in stability was a breath of fresh air. People tend to forget it and play similar to EU4
I like Imperator but the battle mechanics are way too close to EU4/Victoria for my Hoi4 brain to get used to once more, especially since I don't even play vanilla Hoi4 much anymore I usually play TNO.
Basically my dream paradox game, it's a tragedy it didn't get the polish and content it deserved. Still the pdx game I get drawn back to the most in spite of the flaws.
I play this once in a while, game ends too fast for me, but then again, I'm one of those crazies who play Civ 6 on Marathon only on largest map size, whenever I'm not playing a 1000 system stellaris game on slowest speed, that is.
Oh my god, I never thought I'd see the day! Imperator: Rome's last update was so promising, fixing so many issues, I was crestfallen when it was immediately abandoned for Vicky 3. Please make this happen!!
I'm actually not surprise if they do start updating older games again considering PDX's last financial report. Good for us if they do start updating this again!
if you really want to play with 'new' content for the game, then try imperator invictus, is a community mod that expands the game in a bunch of places (I haven't played in the steppes, so I can't say for sure). from Warfare to flavor and 'ancient' bloodlines.
I think Imperator's biggest problem was it tried to be every Paradox game at once and didn't really develop its own identity. Family mechanics from CK, pop mechanics/tech trees from Vic and Stellaris, trade goods with bonuses/colonization/government mechanics/ideas/mission trees from HOI and EU4. If you never played a paradox game before, these systems together would be overwhelming. If you have played paradox games before, these systems seem like a downgrade from their respective game. For comparison, I have only 30 hours on this game compared to over 2000 on EU4 and even a game as new as Vic3 I have over 200 hours. Vic3 has it's problems for sure (looking at you warfare mechanics) but it still at its heart is mostly an economic simulator. Vic3 years from now may be as nearly as complicated as EU4. EU4 is still the best paradox strategy game but its main problem is its not new player friendly and has many hidden mechanics buried in tooltips. Imperator feels like they were going for EU4 levels of complexity from the start when they should have been going for Vic3 levels of complexity and add more with each update.
Now try EU:Rome the primordial grand daddy of Imperator. But for real, I love this. I agree 100% that imperator was onto something and that johans passion project deserved better.
The devs should make a new expansion for the late Roman Empire! Create a new start date for 395AD and make the 304bc start date playable until 476AD or 500AD. That alone would breathe some much life into the game!
They made a post, about a year ago, that most of the development team would be moving on..but that they FULLY planned on supporting the game with patches and additional content. I called BS on them then (Steam forums), and my post is still there, if you want to go look for it. The game is dead, and it was all planned.
I’m tempted to grab it because it’s only $8 on GOG which is very nice, but I’d rather have it on steam. But as you and everyone says a few more updates and DLC and Imperator might have been another Paradox mainstay like EU, Victoria, CK, and HoI. Oh well. I hear/see the invictos mod is very good and basically the only way the game stays alive. I mean hey, if Paradox is willing to keep Victoria 3 alive I think they can do the same with Imperator Rome.
The fact that they took away the ability to buy units w/ gold + manpower pissed me off. 279 hours and when they forced that mechanic I said F this game I’m done.
This game recently disappeared from my Epic account. I had installed it, but never got around to playing it. I recently uninstalled it because I needed disk space, but after seeing a few videos on it I wanted to install it again. I can't, because it's no longer in my library. I don't know if it's an Epic problem or a Paradox problem.
Something I cant stand about renewed discussion of Imperator is that people seemingly forget that the whole reason it was abandoned was becuase it got such a level of turbo hatred at the start and throughout most of time year or two after its release where Paradox kept developing what was pretty much a dead game with a quite a lot free updates. Then only years after they understandably stopped pumping money into a dead game have people began to get into it again, and then cite paradox abandoning it some new crime. I'm by no means some paradox fanboy or suck up, but man people have no middle ground response to them seemingly, they desvered the hate for it being so bear bones on release etc. but that people were so commited to it never improving or ever giving it a chance(imo mainly due to having just watch some highly edited YT videos and without having ever actually played the game) that it at the time franky would have been described by these people as a "win" for Paradox to totally dump the game a few months after release. For sure the modding teams getting a more stable game to work with has helped a lot, but that point imo is rather silly when compared to the numerous overhual mods that exist in all paradox games with if anything them being highly aided by paradox themselves who occasionally add in new tools for them and have started to directly co-operate with them in getting the mods stable faster. Imperator would be a better game in the long run if people had been more open to it improving and not been so quick to dogpile over a game many hadnt even played themselves. This annoy's me only because I see the exact same thing happening with newer games like Viccy 3, people for some reason so emotionally invested in hating Paradox would rather see the game totally fail rather than in the longer term give it a chance to improve. Its not even something dumb like "well their not buying it so are ruining it" its them actively constantly crapping on the game when their in too many cases just lying about the game and acting like there is nothing redeemable about it or no chance it will improve(which any sane person who has played it since release can say it has done massively, not that there isnt much more to be done to improve it of course.) People need to be less over the top emotional about this stuff and be more nuanced, people seem to get more fun out of just dumping on a company whatever it does than they do about there being better games to play. Too many people will just watch a youtube vid and base their whole opinion on that alone, actual hivemind behaviour.
