Halop 最近的评测

Played through a game starting as Two Sicilies, eventually forming Italy and just experimenting with the economy system, I guess this review is for people more familiar with Paradox games.

As a base, I feel like the games economy and society simulation is great, much better than Victoria 2. It feels very satisfying to industrialize your nation and see your GPD and Standards of Living rise. Seeing how the economy fluctuates with supply and demand. At some point you realize you have to do some imperialism to get access to some special resources that are unavailable in your nation, like oil or rubber. Pop system is great, everyone has demands and expenses, and it's your job to tune your economy so your people can afford to meet their needs.

Problems start when you look at what other nations are doing, there is no guidance or special flavor for AI nations so countries like Japan have no incentive to modernize and they will stay as a Shogunate, with similar effects in other nations.
They will do their own things, but everything kind of goes completely off the rails as soon as you unpause your game in 1836.
I did not notice any successful mass national revolts in multi-ethnical empires like Austria, rebellions will kind of just pop out one by one and get crushed every time.

Military is weird. One one hand I don't mind the reduced focus on warfare as that's not what this game is about, but the battle system seems very random and opaque. I don't know the underlying mechanics, but basically you cannot control how many regiments will be involved in a battle even if you assign a whole army. The general will just grind against the defenders, sending tiny armies against much larger amount of defenders until you eventually break through after thousands of casualties.
Don't get me started when you start pushing and the game starts generating mini-fronts from your main front line, at some point it gets ridiculous. Hope you got spare generals to cover those front lines, or you are just gonna get pushed there by the AI.

Other topics like the diplomatic play system I enjoy, I think it's a better way to handle casus belli compared how it was done in every other Paradox game.
UI is fine, I could have used more dense information panels, especially when it comes to trading and buildings as it's kind of a pain to scroll so much but not much to complain there.

It's divisive, but I enjoyed my playthrough. I would recommend the game, if you know what you're going into. Watch some videos and see if the mechanics are to your liking, for me it's already better than Vicky 2 as at least all countries don't go bankrupt by the turn of the 20th century. It will be definitely worth it down the line, as Paradox already addressed many complaints and will be changing some mechanics.