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The 20th anniversary of the strategy game series from Paradox Interactive has come. To celebrate this occasion, we would like you to not only read our article about the cult series. Until 24th October 2020, 1 PM UTC, Europa Universalis II is yours for the taking as a free giveaway on GOG.COM, so - enjoy!

Apart from that, today we have a treat for all strategy game fans out there. Until 24th October 2020, 1 PM UTC, selected titles from Paradox Interactive will be available on GOG.COM with discounts reaching up to 80%.

That’s not all! The Paradox Strategy Sale comes with completion bundles consisting of 7 great franchises - Age of Wonders, BATTLETECH game, Europa Universalis, Hearts of Iron, Imperator: Rome, Stellaris game, and Surviving Mars. Until 24th October 2020, 1 PM UTC, if you buy at least 3 titles from one collection, you’ll receive an additional 10% discount on those bought games (from the already discounted prices!). If you complete the entire collection the additional discount on games present in the bundle will be 15%.
Post edited October 20, 2020 by emter_pl
Yes. Anyway, specifically the games not available in the bundle related to Europa Universalis Engine are: Victoria Complete, Victoria 2 Complete, Sengoku and Crusader Kings Complete.

And Other titles not available in GOG could be March of the Eagles and Knights of Honour. The latter is a very good and polished game that could fit perfectly in GOG. I own it on Steam, it was pretty cheap time ago. The sequel is being developed by original creators but apparently not related to Paradox at all this time.
I was trying to get this game to run under Wine just last week, but now everyone has the game. :-)

I just get a black screen with the music playing.
On WineHQ it says it can run fine, so it's probably something on my system (missing library, some option missing?). PlaysOnLinux has the same problem.

Has anyone tried it yet?
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Gede: Has anyone tried it yet?
No idea how to help you. For me it runs fine. I installed using PlayOnLinux and used Wine 5.16 (it's just the recent version I installed, nothing to do with my or game's preferences), 32-bit. I can see that game switches screen resolution like crazy – i.e. I can see 3 blinks every time game switches between intro, menu and actual gameplay, but it just last 2-3 seconds and everything seems to be fine. Perhaps you can run EU settings exe from game folder or somehow manage the game's resolution or run with checked "Emulate a virtual desktop" option in POL? I don't know...
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Gudadantza: So I´d say that for a newbie it can be relatively hard to get into at first. So I recomend that you enjoy and learn the GOG EU2 Giveaway and then you will see if it is a game to fit your tastes.
Tell me about it. I didn't play it back in these days (I had purchased robin hood on eBay alongside other pc games and they featured eu II in the manual) but even nowadays it seems fairly hard to learn but satisfactory as heck when you do. Probably one of the most unique PDX games in most ways.

What people (especially young folks) tend to think and thus spread the word about this series particularly is that "nah, bro, don't play this dated eu II game; here's the awesome eu 4 instead!". Yeah go figure. I know euIV is amazing, a labour of magic and love. But it's like skipping mario 2 (I love and hate this one) and going straight to super mario world. Why would you do that? Might as well skip mario 3, too? Might skip eu III. Why?

There's a chronology there mate, you don't wanna miss that. You'll miss a lot, you'll skip things when game dev was somehow a little more whimsical, simple, fun et al. From the OST to new elements in gameplay. I skipped euII and went to FTG for all mattters sake. Shame on me. Don't be like me! Hey you got this masterpiece for free. Don't fall for this BS. Play all the games, even if they seem a tad ugly or somehow clunky for your tastes. Even if there's a new mario in 4k with outstanding worlds and incredible mechanics you don't care, you gotta dig through the oldies still. Some stuff is timeless, and Europa Universalis II (not you, eu 1, you tough game to run;P) is one of these. Much like age of empires II.

TL:DR it's time for Paradox to remaster some games ;P
Post edited October 25, 2020 by victorchopin
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ciemnogrodzianin: No idea how to help you. For me it runs fine. I installed using PlayOnLinux and used Wine 5.16 (it's just the recent version I installed, nothing to do with my or game's preferences), 32-bit. I can see that game switches screen resolution like crazy – i.e. I can see 3 blinks every time game switches between intro, menu and actual gameplay, but it just last 2-3 seconds and everything seems to be fine. Perhaps you can run EU settings exe from game folder or somehow manage the game's resolution or run with checked "Emulate a virtual desktop" option in POL? I don't know...
Thank you. That is a good tip. When I do that I get the image right but the loading bar stops half-way, and so does the music.
The problem is that I get a "Windows" window informing me that the program will be terminated due to a Null pointer being followed.

Not surprisingly, EU: Rome Gold acts in the exact same way.
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Gede: ...
No idea what may cause this kind of error, but perhaps you can use something generic prepared by adamhm - there is a link in this post to something called "common dependencies meta-package". Try to install it maybe?
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ciemnogrodzianin: No idea what may cause this kind of error, but perhaps you can use something generic prepared by adamhm - there is a link in this post to something called "common dependencies meta-package". Try to install it maybe?
I'll look into that. Thank you for your suggestion.
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