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Old World - The Sacred and The Profane

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    Old World - The Sacred and The Profane
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    From city building to grand strategy, turn-based tactics to RTS, see more strategy games from Hooded Horse. Old World - The Sacred and The Profane adds a touch of religious fervor to your play with a wealth of new content that explores how religion impacted the fortunes of ancient empires...
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    3.2/5

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    2023, Mohawk Games, ...
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    Windows® 10 (64-bit), Intel® Core™ i5-4570 (quad-core) / AMD® Ryzen™ 3 2200G (quad-core), 8 GB RAM...
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    From city building to grand strategy, turn-based tactics to RTS, see more strategy games from Hooded Horse.




    Old World - The Sacred and The Profane adds a touch of religious fervor to your play with a wealth of new content that explores how religion impacted the fortunes of ancient empires. Experience over 350 new events, recruit new historical characters, and deal with the demands of the clergy as you try and appease the various faiths that exist within your empire. Be warned, if a religion disapproves of your rule, it can lead to dissent, riots, or worse.

    Old World - The Sacred and The Profane includes:

    • 350+ new events - from small rituals and everyday belief, to the power struggles of state religions and the emergence of world religions, you’ll need to keep your wits about you to navigate the complex world of ancient worship.
    • Clergy characters - these new characters can join your court and bring their own missions and projects. How much they benefit you depend on how well their religion likes you. Existing characters can be inducted into the Clergy through a mission by the state religion's leader.
    • Over 10 new character traits - The Sacred and The Profane adds a variety of new character traits, including new core traits, event-related traits, and traits unique to Clergy characters.
    • Six new historical characters:
      • Mani, the founder on Manichaeism
      • Paul, fiery Christian convert and early Bishop
      • Josephus, Jewish rebel, general, and scholar
      • Ostanes, one of the rumored great magic users
      • Sappho, Greek poetess
      • Hypatia, Alexandrian scientist and philosopher
    • Religious dissent mechanics - Negative opinion from a religion can lead to dissent in cities with that religion, which can have lasting consequences.
    • Over 10 new ‘cult’ city projects - There are new cult improvements added by events, as well as improvements for existing Shrines. Each has a powerful and unique effect.

    This DLC pack features a lot of 'what ifs', reflecting a time during which many religions were young and the empires of the known world were forced to reckon with competing faiths old and new.
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    Posted on: August 4, 2023

    Mevelios

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    Turning on the easy mode

    Honestly, the extra stars are mostly there for the work put into writing new events, though some definitely need proofreading in english. Even a non-native speaker/writer like me can spot several typos. In short, this DLC is mainly there to turn on the easy mode. While new events bring more dynamics to the game, they rarely make you run into choices that come at a cost - instead these new events are largely bringing for nothing either positive outcomes, either more positive outcomes: free courtiers, free laws, free unrest removal, free culture gains, free military units... The extra traits are welcome for more diversity, and you're less likely to stall for time until you get your ideal ones since several of the new events force the acquisition of traits onto your leader. Still, the righteous one to reduce unrest over your whole nation does seem to appear often, again it feels as if you turned on the easy mode. On the bright side, the cost of this DLC is low and feels worth the return. Yet everything becomes suddenly far easier as I almost never have anymore a city at unrest lv5 or above; fortunately you can turn the DLC off at the start of a new game, so it's worth testing!


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    Posted on: March 30, 2024

    mshaw477

    Games: 1 Reviews: 4

    Hypocrisy and h@te.

    Why do you show so much hate towards Chrisianity but push islam??


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