"You don't know anything about what it's like under the surface, because a lot of companies are so good at presenting this facade. "When it comes to when people talk about bugs and stuff in games, you always hear 'QA don't do their job, blah, blah, blah.' But what they don't know is that there's so much more stuff going on behind the scenes at these games companies that they don't know about," one person told us. Last year, we spoke to several current and former Paradox QA staff who alleged being underpaid and poorly treated. Prison Architect's DLC has been similarly criticised for being buggy and imbalanced. Including every major expansion for the game, up to and including 2021s. Dharma, the DLC before that, has mostly negative reviews. The Grand Europa Universalis IV - Development Diary 2nd of August 2022. The previous DLC, Emperor, was buggy albeit less so and currently has mixed reviews on Steam. This isn't the first time Paradox DLC has been released to heavy criticism from its community. I can however promise you that we are working as hard as we can to get patches out, and we've taken a good hard look at how this could be allowed to happen." But as I also said earlier: at this point no words alone, we or I say can fix things. "We obviously made a grave miscalculation of the state of the version we decided to release and we are truly sorry about that. In a post on the same forum, Paradox community manager BjornB expressed similar sentiments. In a since deleted post (available on the Web Archive) on the game's forum, Andersson wrote that they had "identified and corrected some issues in our production process based on learnings from this release and are taking concrete action - both to fix the existing issues and to ensure future releases meet the quality you expect." If you're wondering what all that looked like, well, here's a demonstration.Leviathan is the first EU4 DLC produced by new studio Paradox Tinto, led by original EUIV designer Johan Andersson. Players reported that games crashed after 100 in-game years, settled provinces reverted back to being unsettled, and Horde Government-Religious policy would set missionary strength to 100 percent instead of one percent. It's just as well Paradox has committed to focusing on getting these bug fixes out, as Leviathan sure did have a lot of them at launch. Our goal is for you to be able to enjoy it now, and for the foreseeable future." "We apologise if you haven't been able to enjoy 1.31 and Leviathan the way we had hoped for, but we hope you'll give it another look with these fixes in place. "1.31.1 is now available through Steam it should be compatible with 1.30.0 saves (but we cannot guarantee this), and we have already begun work on 1.31.2 which will provide more updates in the near future.
We have identified and corrected some issues in our production process based on learnings from this release and are taking concrete action - both to fix the existing issues and to ensure future releases meet the quality you expect. We've been hard at work getting the 1.31.1 hotfix out to you as soon as possible, and we feel confident that it will solve many of the most glaring issues that we have collected and identified.
"We know that Leviathan and 1.31 Majapahit did not live up to the expectations you and we had set for this release. Hotfix 1.31.1 was also rolled out at the end of April to tackle some of the issues introduced with Leviathan.Įurogamer contacted Paradox last month for comment on the release, and was told the following:
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One patch is planned to release this week, with another due by the end of May or early June. He felt that there should have been a break in the development of EU4 after the release of the Emperor expansion, "until we had a team ready to start designing and working early in 2021".Īs a result of the negative feedback from the release, Paradox Tinto is now accelerating its plans to fix all legacy bugs for EU4, and wants to ensure these fixes are rolled out frequently. "This is entirely my fault."Īndersson explained he should have delayed the release of Leviathan until the team had the resources that were needed, along with giving them "time to properly onboard on the project". "As the studio manager and game director, at the end of the day, this is my responsibility, so I have to apologise for this," Andersson added. Over on the Paradox Forums, Andersson admitted "Leviathan was one of the worst releases we have had," and that the expansion "follows a long trail of low quality releases starting back with Golden Century for EU4.
Watch on YouTube Europa Universalis 4: Leviathan - Release Trailer
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