Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead. I'm Len. I am your host for this week, and I am joined by our friend, Dr. Brett Devereaux.

Yop. And by my former NoCB co-host, Father Loris.

Hello, not a doctor. Just local idiot.

To be fair, I'm not a useful kind of doctor, right?

No one is ever going to stand up on a plane and like desperately required to have some Latin translated.

Quick, we need an analysis of the social dynamics of the late republic.

Is anybody here?

Yeah. Well, we are here a little bit past the first anniversary to talk about Victoria 3 one year later. It is a, you know, grand strategy game set in the

Victorian age from Paradox, as I'm sure pretty much everybody listening to this probably already knows.

And it got off to a little bit of a rough start, shall we say.

Maybe not as rough as Imperator Rome,

but the community, I think, quickly cooled on it might be the most

diplomatic way to say it.

Loris, I know, so we're going to be talking a little bit about the updates that have happened

over the course

of the last year, where it is now, particularly the big 1.5 update, which was one of those

like huge swing for the fences kind of paradox overhaul updates that they like to do sometimes.

But Loras, I know even at launch, you were, you were, you were kind of ahead of me, I think, on

realizing Victoria 3 had some fundamental issues that, you know, they became apparent to me

later, but I think you were, you kind of caught on to them a bit quicker.

What would you say were the main issues with Victoria 3 at Lodge?

Oh, gosh, where to start?

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