00:12Welcome to this video diary for the new expansion for Victoria 2, Heart of Darkness.
00:18I'm going to be talking about some of the new features and show you a bit about how we were
00:24thinking when we designed them and how they work.
00:26The first feature we started with was to add newspapers to the game.
00:31The 19th century was a period where the Industrial Revolution made it possible for mechanical printers to print large amount
00:39of newspapers.
00:41In the game we put in about 60 individual papers and it depends on your ideology and things like that.
00:49So for example if you have a communist revolution in your country, your newspaper is going to change.
00:54You'll be reading the Daily Worker instead of the Daily Mail for example.
00:58Newspapers give you three things that we want.
01:03The first one is historical flavor.
01:05We've written a couple of hundred historical events and articles that are presented to you through the paper.
01:11The paper comes out roughly once a year and it will have special editions that do come out if there
01:18is a big event like the ending of a great war or resolution of a crisis.
01:25The newspaper also gives you things that you can't get from anything else, like it will give you insight into
01:30how the AI is thinking, so you're going to be getting more of a view of what's happening in the
01:36world.
01:38The second big feature of the expansion is the new crisis system.
01:41The 19th century, what made it pretty special was the fact that you had these big old empires and also
01:48very strong nationalism.
01:51This led to a pretty unstable climate.
01:54We wanted to capture this and we've added a new system that basically adds diplomacy where you can exchange land
02:02without shedding blood.
02:04It also gives an option for smaller nations where they can leverage the power or great powers to expand their
02:13nations.
02:14A crisis starts off through what we call a flashpoint.
02:19A flashpoint is a province that has some kind of course from another country.
02:27And these have a tension value.
02:32Smaller nations that would have their cores there can use a national focus to boost the tension.
02:38And this is basically to get the attention of great powers.
02:43Tension is also affected by things like rebels and social unrest going on.
02:49Once the tension hits 100% one of these things, it can turn into full-blown crisis.
02:55Once the crisis starts, any non-great powers in the crisis are going to need a backer to handle the
03:02diplomacy for them.
03:03Once backers are there, you will kind of get bidding war where interested other parties can be bribed to join
03:11either side in the crisis
03:12or they're also free to join on their own will if they so chooses.
03:16As the crisis progresses, the leaders of the side are free to send offers to the other side trying to
03:24resolve the crisis through diplomatic means.
03:26If this has no clear resolution, the crisis can turn into full war at the end.
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