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Victoria II: Heart of Darkness

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Victoria II: Heart of Darkness is the second expansion for the grand strategy and political simulator Victoria II. This expansion focuses on the Scramble for Africa. Compete with other colonial powers and experience international crises which require Great Power mediation if the world is to avoid wa...
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Description
Victoria II: Heart of Darkness is the second expansion for the grand strategy and political simulator Victoria II. This expansion focuses on the Scramble for Africa. Compete with other colonial powers and experience international crises which require Great Power mediation if the world is to avoid war in this experience crafted by Paradox Development Studio.

Key Features

  • Experience a brand new colonization system: Use your navy to expand your empire, compete against other colonial powers and struggle to maintain your overseas control. Colonial conflicts can spiral out of control and become international crises. They will have to be decided by diplomatic negotiations or risk costly wars
  • Battle your enemies in the new naval combat system: Together with the new colonization system, your navies are more important than ever. A new system of gun ranges brings more depth and strategy to warfare on the high seas. Powerful new battleships also join the other classes of ships to bridge the gap to Dreadnoughts
  • Prepare for International Crises: Around the world international crises continually call on the Great Powers to mediate and compromise, with war always being the last resort. As one of the lesser powers, use your influence to stir up local flash points so you can use fleet footed diplomacy to get the Great Powers to right the wrongs that have been committed against your nation!
  • Follow the global events with the new newspaper system: Attain a greater sense of immersion by receiving local and global reports on world events. Over 60 newspapers, both historic and otherwise, periodically present you with the latest news reports of war, major events, royal gossip and other matters of interest
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Posted on: May 27, 2020

Honved2016

Games: 55 Reviews: 29

Decent expansion

Heart of Darkness is an expansion to Victoria 2, and requires both the base game and the House Divided expansion. It's not major change over the base game, but does add a few features, some quality-of-life improvements to the User Interface, and a few bug fixes. The final patch for this expansion fixed the one bug with corrupted Relations values which plagued me since the early patches for the base game, and that alone was enough to justify the discount price. It also rebalances a lot of costs and score values, so France doesn't amass a huge industrial score by spamming Luxury Clothing and Luxury Furniture factories. As said in the description, it revises colonization, requiring ports and ships to be competitive. The international crisis system and generating legal excuses to declare war (C-Bs) are great in theory, but in practice seem only marginally better than what they replace, in my opinion. If you enjoyed the base game, this is definitely an improvement, but not a drastic one. If you didn't enjoy the base game, this won't change that.

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Posted on: January 26, 2024

steinsohn

Games: 4 Reviews: 1

Why is it sold separately?

Heart of Darkness in itself is rather mediocre expansion. It introduced a bunch of features to the main game, some of them were OK (like new colonization mechanic or naval system), some were broken (like crises or dynamic dominions), some were useless (like battle plans or newspapers). It could've been better with proper patch support, but then Paradox promptly abandoned the game in order to milk Crusader Kings II and Europa Universalis IV. The thing is that most players who are still playing this more than a decade old game is probably playing it with mods (because, lets be honest, the base game overall is very much diamond in the rough), and literally every mod in existence requires having Victoria II version 3.04 with both expansions. So this is not some optional feature pack that could be skipped, it's a MANDATORY purchase in order to experience this game in best possible way, and selling it separately IMO is inconvenient and somewhat misleading.

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Posted on: January 5, 2020

Ennson

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The Heart of Darkness!

Unfortunately the title describes Paradox very adequately lately.

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