Did you know? The release of EU IV is actually now closer to the setting its based on than today!

@moises3545

Ай бұрын

I already messed up in 2604, 2605 gonna be my year fr

@emilcioran7444

Ай бұрын

Wdym?

@thegodv_

Ай бұрын

can't wait for 2725 to come

@Shaman42069

Ай бұрын

Wow how the fly times

@Bleed1987

Ай бұрын

now... than today makes absolutely no sense. cause now is today

That Beijing trade node was definitely one of the trade nodes of all time.

At least Portugal is green...

Something I distinctly remember from this era of EUIV was when a nation was released or spawned from rebels, they would NEVER get any allies, like the AI just never turned on for them.

Really fun video, but wait we had fluctuating Trade goods prices with supply and demand in Eu4? Why was that removed it sounds awesome!

@FenrirAsgardwolf

Ай бұрын

Performance Like dude, the game ran like shit on 2013 computers, imo much worse than today

Why do I really want to try a campaign in this version? Modern EUIV is great, but this just looks so simple…closer to its boardgame roots

@anbersker3356

Ай бұрын

its awfull i try it, having to seige every province its hell on earth

@user-kf9rf3zy6b

25 күн бұрын

It looks so much alike EUIII + last dlc

Never forget square memel

There are a few things i really miss form early EU4: - more buildings - beter culture groups (at least in Europe) - the way terrain & maneuvre worked (every province had multiple terrain types with a % and what type of terrain you hit during a battle was a dice roll influenced by your general's maneuvre stat. - if an ally is stronger than the main attacker or defender in a war, that ally can become the war leader. This was crazy. Some times annoying, but also very fun to have to think about (EU4 has always been a game about checking the diplomatic situation). I get that it needed to be reworked, but i think removing this was a loss. Now the League War is basically the only continent wide war you'll see. If this system was reworked to come into play in the mid to late game we would see way more awesome giant wars! - Being able to set whoever you want as a rival. In current EU4 it is waaay too limmited which quite often results in long-time allies with 100 trust randomly breaking the alliance with you because you became their only possible rival..... - the AI actually doing culture convertions - the new world not staying 90% native American cultures and religions the whole game (again, AI colonial nations very rarely culture convert, and since they added a billion native tags, the colonial nations can't actually colonize the land and spread their culture through colonisation....) There are also some things that i am so glad aren't in the game anymore though: - WESTERNASATION - not being able to develop your provinces - you couldn't take the capital province of a nation unless that province had become an enclave or it was the nation's only province.... this often let to very annoying peace deals. I remember in like 1.8 or something when the Inca nations were added. I played Cusco and i only borders 3 provinces.... AND ALL 3 PROVINCES WERE CAPITALS SO I COULD LITERALLY NOT EXPEND!!! - The awful mission system before mission trees became a thing.

@dearingo

Ай бұрын

Never cook again 🙏

@Sp00nexe

Ай бұрын

I agree with almost everything except for mission trees and westernization. The current institution system is dogshit, and results in the entire world living in a fantasy where the Congo is at the same level of technological advancement as France in 1690. Westernization was a tough, very tough mechanic, but my god was it so rewarding to get western units and be on par. It kept the world properly separated by technological advancement and rewarded you accordingly. Dynamic missions, imo, were also far superior to this HOI4 style dogshit mission tree system that tries to lock you into certain paths rather than entertaining a "anything could happen hee hee" alternate history the game is supposed to do.

@gad8476

Ай бұрын

Lmao that Inca campaign no way

@takkorinus7909

Күн бұрын

​@@dearingo I agree. How tf can you put Romanian in the same culture group as South slavs and make transylvania Hungarian?

This was the game I fell in love with. I forgot how big the provinces were back then. I wish we could find the release version, that was back when colonial nations weren’t a thing. Can’t wait for EU5

11:35, the Cardinals still have names in modern EU4. You can see them if you hover over your cardinal icons on the religion tab as a Catholic.

I first starting playing EU4 with Common Sense back in 2015, right when Development was introduced, so I've never had to deal with Base Tax... Though, *man,* I remember *old* Estates, honestly, I'd *love* to see a video highlighting the old crappy estate system, because I honestly think everyone has just gotten to used to the new and improved estates that we've all *forgotten* what they *used* to be, back when there was no simple abstracted "crownland" and you had to *individually assign* provinces to be owned by different estates, and there were *no* privileges, there were just like, three buttons for each estate that you pushed every decade or so... Man... Takes me *way* back.

@Chewbert

29 күн бұрын

Unpopular opinion, I like the new system but the old system was good too. The provincial buffs you got were cool 😂

@JirenThegreylien

6 күн бұрын

Wasn’t that long ago, it was before emperor

Peak EU4 was 1.12 Common Sense, change my mind 😆

giving me old berber idea PTSD.........

@PatPremium

Ай бұрын

+50% hostile ccr and then they pick defensive ideas too

reminds you so many things from eu3

22:30 The supply/deman system got axed for multiple reason. Two main one being that it was relatively poorly optimised and confusing as hell. There were like gazillion different modifiers; and while some were straight some were less straight. Like, if province produces cloth and country is not overlord of another country which happens to have more than 4 cotton provinces then cotton demand *500%. And because supply/demand was a global average... you could have done a little bit of trolling by nuking the demand for a certain good you weren't producing in your provinces and screw over someone on the other side of the world.

Great vid Chewby!

The culture map mode was low key better 10 years ago

@buurmeisje

Ай бұрын

For real, at least Estonian and Finnish are together, the Celts are all together, Basque is an isolate

@pauh4578

Ай бұрын

I still miss celtic Brittney. Thier idea set even today if you read the description of thier ideas when you hover over it with your mouse one of them mentions how its the last bastion of celtic Gaul despite the region no longer being celtic.

@pauh4578

Ай бұрын

I belive its thier first idea, "legacy of Breton independence" that mentions it when you hover over it.

ranking in eu3 is based on prestige so you should do so for early eu4

They removed supply and demand and dynamic prices because it was too costly in terms of calculations. From what I remember, they used to be calculated every tick, which was limiting their ability to add stuff to the game. They wanted to reduce the rate of calculations, but figured it would have to be updated so rarely to be worth it that the new system made more sense, which costs pretty much nothing. AFAIK

I can't believe I already forgot about green Portugal

@bjornerluffy

Ай бұрын

Green portugal was just correct idk why

@rayres1074

Ай бұрын

As someone who hasn't played EUIV in a long while, I'm baffled why Portugal ISN'T green anymore

@Bleed1987

Ай бұрын

the colour switch between portugal and tlemcen makes no sense. i mean what is this for? literally no difference

@safs3098

Ай бұрын

@@bjornerluffy nah blue portugal is correct because old Portuguese flag was Blue and White

@evanhawkins6186

Ай бұрын

Im so used to seeing portugal being green, but i agree with the guy above. Blue Portugal would be accurate

Hello. I just wanted to say thank you for these videos I been really sick recently (im getting better) but your videos have helped me a lot through it just binge watching. Wish you much success!

@Chewbert

26 күн бұрын

I wish you a fast and effective recovery 🤝

@BigDap1625

26 күн бұрын

Thank you! Getting better every day :D

1:18 Square Memel was the best Memel. I'll forever be sad the the devs changed it to its current state instead of making it a cube.

Brings a smile to see you post man 🙌

@Chewbert

Ай бұрын

thank you kind sir!

"Hungary is not slavic country" EU4 devs: hold my beer!

You can bo back 10 years, but you shall never escape from the Dutch😊

@LarsSteenbreker

Ай бұрын

I honestly don't remember putting that emoji there.... I think I might be shizophrenic or I was drunk, one of the two.

I remember that green Portugal... aaah the nostalgia

Manchu not being Altaic is enough to get this banned in some countries

you missed it when looking at cultures, but Welsh, Cornish, and Breton used to be in the Celtic culture group. Still don't know why they changed that.

@wotanvonedelsburg1610

Ай бұрын

gamplay maybe

@Robeedrill

29 күн бұрын

I remember there wasn't Cornish and Cornwall province was Welsh

"rustling jimmies" Credits to you Chew! Using decade-old terms for a video showcasing a decade of improvement

Northen Spain being Bordeaux trade node makes much more sense

Would like to see a base game comparison when EU5 drops xD

EU4 now with Ray-Tracing!

And eu5 is going to be a lot bigger!

If there's no Square Memel in EU5, we riot

You say the mughals aren't worth forming..... But you neglect to remember forming them as Ming

england and beijing sure are different but you completly missed the part where genoa isnt even end node (as is england...) and can be steered into antwerpen which is actually the end node (same as england) :D so getting inheritance sure would be huge boost

Probably Ming's best game in 10 years.

Video idea: Eu4 but India is like the HRE. (Week 7) Vijayanagar = Austria Mewar = Brandenburg Orrisa = Saxony Bahmanis = Bohemia Gond/Garjati states = Hanseatic League Gujarat = Burgundy Malwa = Palatinate Rajput/Gugrati/Malayam minors = HRE minors Delhi/Sirhind = Bavaria Bengal = Teutonic Order Janpur = Wolgast Hindustan = Prussia Bharat = HRE (united)/Germany Sikh = Protestant Jainism = Hussite Hinduism = Catholic (This wouldn’t be a switch though, just bringing hre mechanics to India)

I miss the old estate system sometimes :P

I miss that Portugal green

I hate EU4 after the introduction of mission trees. The gameplay loop was much less repetitive and more creative before it's introduction

if you dont have that dlc, you still get a colonist as the siberian frontiers are a DLC mechanic

Green Portugal my beloved

more accurate reformation than today

Damn, this looks like a demo version now.

Why protectorates got removed?

i mean i liked eu 4 when it was released but still in my opinion eu 4 is the game that made the biggest and best development since its release from all games i have (ca 300)

You should make a mod where there is a fort in every single province and make the forts cost nothing.

Europa Universalis always does that. The current game starts off as just an updated graphic version of the previous game. EU4 was EU3 with better graphics before they added updates and DLC

I had no idea it was *that* different back then. No missions, big provinces... Haven't you come far, game...

I love tartars

Seeing Hungarian culture being considered west slavic burns my eyes

yea no i dont think i wanna pay for an dlc just to see casualties of my war

Gotta love the Tartar and Khazak cultures 💀

Tbh kinda miss these Province sizes

@Chewbert

29 күн бұрын

Easier to click 😂

Never been this early with only 2 comments before

hungarian is in the polish culture group

Ah, the good ol' stuff, when technology group modified your tech cost and westerrnezation was o big disaster

@Chewbert

Ай бұрын

Oh shoot I forgot about westernization 😂

@komeijisatori6612

Ай бұрын

You just didn't border any westernized nation, so there was no option to talk about it 😂

I see that the Aztec, Mayan and Incan religions didn't exist in the old days, either.

Music used in the intro?

@sirflasm3456

Ай бұрын

It's "Magic Hag's Potion Shop" from the game "the legend of Zelda majora's mask"

@Shuaib_Aslam

Ай бұрын

@@sirflasm3456 I knew I heard the music somewhere before, thanks anyways ur a good lad

2:29 why the fuck is hungary west slavic?

@brajansporys1392

Ай бұрын

they are basicly west slavs with ugirc language

@losisansgaming2628

Ай бұрын

@@brajansporys1392 try telling that to a magyar.

@bushar1461

21 күн бұрын

@@brajansporys1392 😨😨😨

ah yes EU 3.5…

Ah yes, the good old race between Russia colonizing the South East Asia and Spain colonizing the Russian Far East. I miss that.

First cheap-people-comment! 🎉 And we all remember yellow Fars 😅

@Benwut

Ай бұрын

I have a mod which restores yellow fars lmao

@EaSkateVideo

Ай бұрын

That's the best Fars! 😍

Thanks for dose of nostalgia, but it's surely not the first version of eu4, it's kinda like 1.4, because there aren't colonial nations and totemism (bruh) in 1.1)

@Chewbert

24 күн бұрын

.. I literally said that within like 30 seconds of the video bro 😂

@Nano_Kano

24 күн бұрын

I just skipped first minute because of pizza courier kekw

i fell old....

I'm surprised how different the map is. Not the nations but really the map itself. I play EU4 for very long but when I'm started development was a thing and the world already looked 99% like it does now in terms of geography.

As an australian resident, can confirm, that map of habitable regions is far more accurate for our continent, and as a tunisian (by birth, not ancestry), I do agree yes, we are one province, big tunis is one singular region without any cultural diversity. Not like we had tuareg terrorists in our south or anything...

I wish colonizers in the modern EU4 went to India, Arabia and other non-european territories with local states

Wow, I played EU4 since Rule Brittania DLC so I never knew how barebones and honestly bad base game EU4 was

“Russian” culture is more accurate than in 1.37, “Muscovite” “Ryazanian” and “Novgorodian” aren’t real things

@Chewbert

Ай бұрын

Ok

@wotanvonedelsburg1610

Ай бұрын

really?

@AEH-df7ho

14 күн бұрын

Yep