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Quoting: Segata SanshiroLOL the patch has made the game pretty unplayable. Everyone in the kingdom hates me and without the DLC it seems there's no easy way to get them to like me. Gifts and honorary titles only give half the points as they used to...

So Paradox gimps the game to force you to buy the DLCs, or is it an honest bug?

No idea. It might be different if you start a fresh game, but this is for one I started a while back.

EDIT: OK, so even the "hold a grand tournament" decision is missing for me... Essentially all of the mechanics for getting people to like you are either missing or severely reduced.

You should start a fresh game since things like crown laws were reworked and thus will be reset/messed up in an old save game. If you need to finish your game, try rolling back to the previous patch in the 'betas' tab on Steam.

Yes, Paradox has always recommended you start a new game any time there is a major update.

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You know, one of these days, I'll actually manage to finish a game of Crusader Kings II or Europa Universalis IV before the next major patch is released. Hasn't happened yet, though.

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All this means is that they don't get my money. Their loss.

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Wait, Bundle Stars? Isn't that one of those fly-by-night key resellers? Chances are good these will count as Windows sales. Keep that in mind before spending your money.

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Well, it's a pity he doesn't have the integrity and professionalism to admit that his problems are apparently due almost solely to his unfamiliarity with his non-standard monitor and his inability to troubleshoot a fairly trivial issue (such as simply trying a different monitor, or connecting a second HDMI cable).

What's happened to the tech industry? Used to be that technological advances like a dedicated Linux-based gaming OS would have been celebrated, and tech journalists would have eagerly dug into it to explore all the new possibilities. These days, anything that challenges the status quo is ridiculed instead.

It's a shame.

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Quoting: maodzedunBecause I wanted for kodi to be added as a launcher in there. Anyway, I'm happy you like it but imo it's crap. Ubuntu is a much better solution. In the end I just boot in ubuntu with kodi for movies and a modded Windows will solve my streaming problems (that one's on AMD though).

As Liam mentioned, SteamOS is explicitly designed as a platform for playing games through Steam. It's not meant to be a general purpose operating system.

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Update:
As I suspected, a hardware issue as pointed out by a comment on their website.

To bang on the "try a different monitor" issue, looks like the monitor he was using has known issues with hdmi connections and requires 2 hdmi cables to display at 4k. That's hardly a mainstream situation. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/asus-pq321q-4k-monitor-review,3698-4.html [External Link]

Well, that's embarrassing.

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It sounds to me like he was using a standard HDMI cable instead of a high speed HDMI cable. The fact that he was apparently unable to troubleshoot this doesn't give the author much credibility as a tech writer.

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I lost all respect for him as a developer back when he blew through his backers money with nothing to show for it and then said, "Oh, yeah, I'm rewriting the game from scratch. Please give me more money."

The guy comes across as a snake oil salesman.

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Quoting: adolsonThat screenshot doesn't make it look very exciting. Guess I'll have to go find a trailer or something. lol

It's hard to make a turn-based 4x strategy game look "exciting" in a screenshot. Look at the screenshots for Civilization V. It looks pretty dull, but it's one of the greatest games ever made.

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