Well, might be time for another playthrough attempt.

My first one got cut short by a bug (of course), which made basically every NPC permanently hostile to me for absolutely no reason DURING a fight - and it would be 100% reproducible so reloading didn't solve anything...

Of course, I have no idea if that actually got solved by now or not.
I'd hope so, but then again, that was not even the release version but 1.03 or so.

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Quoting: BeamboomYeah, the reality being as it is, I support DRM 110%. Of course I do. Especially as a software developer myself for many many years I can *totally* relate to the challenge it must be for the company to suffer a grand scale theft of their hard work and investments.

While that's true, I don't see how it applies here.
This open source project did no harm to anyone - no money was made with it and it did not allow anyone to play the game without paying for it.
Reverse engineered code is also generally not the same as the original code - unless Java, but I have my doubts Vice City was written in Java ;)

Of course, you could just download a pirated copy, and use the assets from that in order to use this project - but if you got as far as downloading a pirated copy, you already did the thing, so...

As I said, they were fully in their right to stop the project, I just completely fail to see how not doing so could have done any damage to them.

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Quoting: BeamboomQuoting: scaine
It would be the kind of brain dead thinking you often see from publishers (re: DRM).
I don't think it's brain dead to defend your own intellectual property.

I don't think so, either.

I do think they are stupid to go about it in that way, but they are fully in their right to do so and anyone creating a reverse-engineering project like that should really know what they are (potentially) getting into.

The guy who created Daggerfall Unity, for example, actually contacted Bethesda beforehand (or at the beginning anyway) to check if they're fine with what he does.

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Quoting: scaineI just find it weirdly funny that a title who's sole premise is to promote car theft, prostitution, drug crime, gang warfare and violence to police is now relying on a posh LA lawyer to prevent "loss of sales" due to a fan effort. It's kinda pathetic.

*insert not sure if serious emoji*

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Quoting: TheSHEEEP

Quoting: slaapliedjeI really wanted to do the CK# -> EU4 -> HoI4 transfer all the way through. I can't recall if you can transfer from the roman era one on up? Anyhow, would be cool to try to survive through all games with the same character.

First of all, I think it would have to be CK -> EU4 -> Vic2(or 3 if it is out by then :P) -> HoI4.

Basically, I've had the same idea, but honestly:

I don't think it is possible.
Not from a technical standpoint, that can be done (with limitations, obviously).
But I don't think you could do that, anway - how would you actually manage NOT to have conquered the entire planet by the end of EU4?

Realistically, if you play the game normally, not artificially restricting yourself, you'll be at least in a very good position starting EU4 and starting EU4 with a very good position basically means you'll have conquered half the planet by the end.
So then you'd start Vicky having already conquered half the world...
I think such a run would end before you'd even start with HoI4.

If you did limit yourself to stay below what you COULD do, you'd spend the majority of all games doing nothing at all - and that would be boring anyone out of their mind.

I didn't think Victoria2 had a transfer program? But the others seem to, and you'd start with Rome Imperator?

Oh, you're right. There'd be another game in the row.
With that in mind, you'd have to try really hard not to achieve world domination by EU4 :grin:

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI really wanted to do the CK# -> EU4 -> HoI4 transfer all the way through. I can't recall if you can transfer from the roman era one on up? Anyhow, would be cool to try to survive through all games with the same character.

First of all, I think it would have to be CK -> EU4 -> Vic2(or 3 if it is out by then :P) -> HoI4.

Basically, I've had the same idea, but honestly:

I don't think it is possible.
Not from a technical standpoint, that can be done (with limitations, obviously).
But I don't think you could do that, anway - how would you actually manage NOT to have conquered the entire planet by the end of EU4?

Realistically, if you play the game normally, not artificially restricting yourself, you'll be at least in a very good position starting EU4 and starting EU4 with a very good position basically means you'll have conquered half the planet by the end.
So then you'd start Vicky having already conquered half the world...
I think such a run would end before you'd even start with HoI4.

If you did limit yourself to stay below what you COULD do, you'd spend the majority of all games doing nothing at all - and that would be boring anyone out of their mind.

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Quoting: denyasisSo honest question....
Is CK3 so much better than 2 that is worth buying 3? Or should I hold off until it gets fleshed out with a couple more expansions?

I have CK2 and most of it's expansions, which cost a lot. I haven't played it much and would basically be a new player.... I guess I'm worried that I would spend a lot of money on a game I fundamentally already have.

I may be stating the obvious here, but you should probably first play the game you already have, see if you even like it, before you decide to by the sequel :D

It is also a Paradox game, though.
Those tend to not really be very meaty and "finished" until a year and a handful of patches and DLCs are in.

No idea if that is the case here, as CK is really not my cup of tea. But HoI4 or EU4, 4 example (heheehe...) I wouldn't have recommended until 1-2 years later.

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That's good news.
This game was the ONLY reason I booted up Windows in the last year for a game.

Just be aware that Fatshark is one of the slowest developers out there when it comes to fixing stuff & communication.
So... any result here is likely to take a while.

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Wtf?!

Only 10 finger support?!

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Nice. Might actually play the game in my lifetime still.
Don't like to step into episodic games before everything is out.

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