#WUCF VICTORIA III HOW TO#
With nearly every previous Paradox grand strategy game, you were given a very base tutorial that mostly entailed how to navigate menus and complete actions. But fine, if you want something juicier than menu improvements, how about an actual developer-made tutorial mode? Ooooh, teach me, Amadeus. I know what you’re thinking, “menu design, what a place to start for a preview” - but all of your decisions and actions will be made through menus, so it’s nice to see that a concerted effort has been made to streamline the intake of information for a topic as complex as economics and how that affects your populace. It did start to get a bit crowded for simple mouse movement, but I had all the information I needed, and it didn’t require going to the Official Victoria wiki.
#WUCF VICTORIA III WINDOWS#
I think I maxed out at three tooltip windows as I was delving deep into my economy. After a few seconds of hovering over the term, the tooltip window will soft lock on your screen and you can then navigate to a nested tooltip within your nested tooltip. By hovering over a color-coded word in a menu, you will get both a breakdown of what it means, as well as a look at how well you are doing in terms of said metric. Those who have played Crusader Kings III will recognize the feature as it is used in the base release of that game as well.
On top of menus, important overlays of the map have also been given big buttons at the bottom of the screen to show you the big picture of how your empire (and anyone else on the map) are doing in regards to metrics such as production and consumption, quality of life, what have you.Īdditionally, nearly every term, metric, item, and country has been given what is called a nested tooltip. Your basic menus where you take the various temperatures of your nation are all still present, but sorters and filters have been given big buttons to help you get to what you need quickly. At a closed-door press demo, game director Martin Anward emphasized that while Victoria 3 would be easier for new players to get into, it would not come at the expense of complexity but through streamlining how information is presented. The first improvement that stood out to me was the UI/UX design, even compared to games as recent as Imperator: Rome. From the Version 0.1 build that I played, I can safely say that Victoria 3 is well on its way to addressing many of the barriers to entry that its previous entries had.īringing the Modern Age into the Digital Age
#WUCF VICTORIA III SERIES#
The problem with the Victoria series is that we’ve been devoid of a new entry since 2010 and the last entry is a notoriously hard nut to crack for various reasons. You know how you always scream at your screen that you “can do better” whenever some talking head politician messes everything up? Victoria allows you to put your money (or national credit) where your mouth is. Starting in 1836, you control a country and all of its economy and laws while trying to improve the lives of your citizenry. Whereas other entries in the Paradox family of grand strategy games focus on war or lineage, Victoria‘s focus lies in economics and the changing political landscape of the dawning Modern age. Victoria is a grand strategy game series aptly set during the Victorian era. To quote Sidra Holland and Jackie Chiles, it’s “real, and it’s fantastic.” And soon, you too can politick to your heart’s content when the game releases on October 25, 2022.įor those of you present who aren’t cool enough to know what the Victoria series is all about, an introduction is in order.
I was provided a preview build of the upcoming socio-economic grand strategy game thanks to Paradox. It was a strategy game in-joke for so long that I couldn’t believe it was really happening.
Become a politician without selling your soulĮver since Paradox Interactive announced Victoria 3, I’ve been in a state of semi-disbelief.
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