Europa Universalis V

I'm a big fan of Paradox games for more than 12 years, and while their are a few issues that need to be adressed to EUV, it still the most complete game at launched, with a lot and lot of content even if it's generic it's still very good, of course their not a lot of unique content outside of major nations but that is to be expected as it would have taken multiple years to do that, and their continued to work on the game and is not being abandoned (looking at you Imperator Rome), it is still weak compared to be EUIV but it had 11 Years of devellopement in total, but if we compared the released version of the two Europa V is the better one

Fix the union bugs. I joined a union as my own country and I am a great power with 48 score and rank 6 in the world but somehow ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Novgorod with 0 score becomes the senior partner. With the previous ruler I already pushed the union integration to level 5 and I was the senior partner. What kind of bug is this? Fix the Cossacks too because right now they are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ useless. With the policy that stops tribes from assimilating I had 300 thousand tribes and only 200 Cossacks around 1550. When I removed that policy the number of Cossacks finally started growing and reached 10 thousand. There are no events and no proper mechanic even though I conquered the whole steppe region. Finish the game first and then sell it for 50 bucks

i have stopped playing this for a while and when i came back now the game crashes in the ressource loading menu how did they broke something that was working

Dont usually leave reviews but this time I am. The game has the things to be good. Interactive trade and economy aswell as population. I love the way it works with cities, how you can focus and upgrade certain areas and even how you convert a social class into another one as your country blossom and industrialise. However, the bad. The AI always, always, forms absolutely insane hugboxes of Alliances that is just impossible to deal with and little way for the player to act or deal with. Unions are never broken nor interactable with, making it impossible to break them. The fighting is fine, the levies and regular system a fun thing to work with. I just feel some of the stacks and prices for regulars is way way way to high. Shouldnt be easy to get but some of these values are ridiculous. Also as you progress into the ages, nothing seems to happen in Europe. Ottomans wither and die, Protestants dont spread and even the hundred years war last either 8 years or 200. It lacks a red-tape so to say. A line of progress for your country, much akin to how the mission trees and desicions worked in eu4 and Imperator. Aggresive expansion also needs to decrease at a quicker pace or the AI need to consolidate regions better, because fighting endless wars because all of Germany is 1-province minors with 300+ infamy keeps declaring war on you. thus far, giving the game, 1/5

Fixing the Ctrl + Shift + right-click to move armies with navies made me want to play the game again. I was burned out after 500 hours, and it stopped being fun. When I came back, it was fun again, and the patching had taken the game in the right direction, and the obsession was fresh anew. I'm very pleased with what this has become. It's not its predecessor, and they can coexist as different experiences with the same flavor.

There are loads of cool new mechanics, but there are so many that it’s become a bit of a micro-management nightmare. You can automate things and so on, but what’s the point of it all then? After 1600, the game basically just turns into colouring in the map, because there are so many buildings and whatnot that you get completely lost in it all. I’d also like to point out that the balance of power is severely skewed; for example, Bohemia is incredibly strong, almost on a par with France until the 1500s, whilst Austria never really got going in any of my games. The mechanics of the unions are too strange; it often happened that my ally or a country that was on good terms with me would attack a Uniate, or – as happened several times – my Uniate would attack my ally or friend (I’m talking about the junior Uniate in a standard union). In short, the game feels unpolished to me. I love Europa Universalis, but the building system needs a revamp, as does most of the economy – and the same goes for the game’s balance. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)