By having the player decide on a campaign goal ahead of time, they have at least an initial direction for their first stepsĪs mentioned briefly in the Tutorial dev diary, the Objective system includes a pacing mechanism that hands out appropriate Journal Entries to players at the appropriate time.By having the player tell the game what kind of game they want to play, the game can suggest suitable countries and provide relevant challenges.The Objectives system helps with this in two ways: This was particularly true for strategy players new to Victoria, while those with prior experience could more easily formulate goals for their campaigns before they started: "I want to liberalize Tsarist Russia" or "I want to form Poland as Krakow" or "I want to make Qing the globally dominant economic force". In early playtests we found that many players were intrigued by all the systems and how they fit together but didn't know why to perform certain actions in the game, because nobody was pushing them in a particular direction. Too much direction and you feel railroaded or puppeteered, too little direction and the goal just becomes noise competing for your attention instead of something to strive towards. Much like the Journal system walks a tightrope between historical accuracy and the player's ability to create their own alt-history, the Objectives system has to balance agency and direction. It is entirely up to you to solve and complete the task at hand. There are no “How” and “Why” tutorial lessons that guide you towards completing the tasks. These are their own challenges available as an additional option.
One thing I would like to make clear to you is, these are not an extra set of tutorials. Now we have a mission for you to complete either as a specific nation or a random one. Say that you are in that, “I wanna play (insert Paradox Title)” mood, but you don't know what you want to do or who to play as. How the player chooses to complete the tasks in the end is up to them.Īnother one of our goals is to make an extra challenge for players who have dipped their toes into the tutorial and now want to try and take that knowledge and see if they can carry themselves without the extra help from the tutorial.Īlso we see it as a way of giving the player an idea of what to play. First and foremost we wanted to present the player with some suggested accomplishments to try and achieve before the end of the game.
There are multiple goals we are trying to achieve with objectives. Finally, we have a sandbox for those of you who want a completely unguided campaign. Then you have the three Objectives to choose from, we’ll go into those in a bit. If you missed the last Dev Diary and would like to know more about the Tutorial ( click here). You have the tutorial, three different objectives and the Sandbox. Here we give you the player a choice on what you would like to do in your game.
You might have already seen this screen from the last Dev Diary, but I will go through it again quickly.
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