Is Victoria 3’s First Expansion Worth It? Voice of the People Review

Victoria 3 Voice of the People (paid expansion pack) and Patch 1.3 (free update) release tomorrow (May 22nd) at the time of this video's release. In this Voice of the People review I'll give you my honest impressions and experiences from playing the new patch and voice of the people, with patch 1.3 gameplay in the background highlighting some interesting new features in this DLC, where Paradox has targetted internal politics, events, and flavor. The new political agitators, character actions, law enactement and revolutions systems are great and add a lot of variety to events in the base game. The VOTP expansion adds a more attractive UI, additional events fro France like the Paris Commune, and 60 historical agitator characters. It honestly adds a lot of fun to the game, and in this video I'll consider - is voice of the people worth it? The answer depends on who you are, but I think anyone intersted in Vic 3 (new or returning) should give the extensive free patch 1.3 a try before making any buying decisions. Thanks for watching this Victoria 3 review! #victoria3 #gaming #strategy

Contents:
0:00 - The New Stuff (Voice of the People & 1.3 Update)
3:30 - Laws, Revolutions & Events are at their best!
8:50 - Is Voice of the People worth a buy though?

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[doyouevenpraise]

seems nice but I think their next focus should be improving the War sytem. Sure Vic 3 is an economic and political simulation more than war but for a game that have WW1 in their timeline should at least have a decent enough war system

[shayanhosseini]

Next update should focus on diplomacy and countries interaction like influencing your colonies or making a conference of Berlin with colonial powers and the ability to build or kinda influence other countries in some way would be great, bcs I find countries like Java and east India wired since there is no way to tell them to invade this place of do this and that

[Kyle_Schaff]

Very happy with the direction the game’s going and the goodwill in the free update. I’m excited for a much larger expansion which is probably next on the docket. We need a diplomacy overhaul! The intertwining international interests and strange bedfellows is what made the Victorian era really swing

[loudradialem]

Mixed feelings. It's great there's good free content, but the price of the all DLCs recently have been too expensive for little.

[PossibleTango]

This dlc would be cool if the core systems of vic3 didnt still suck ass. Economy is just a construction simulator. War is just stacking modifiers with no logistics or strategy. Diplomacy is at least getting an update with spheres of influence in the first expansion. Plus foreign investment.

[AB-gmyi]

Thanks for this informative and clear review! This channel is so underrated I hope you'll get more subscribers 🖖

[Aldrahill]

I think I agree with this - most of the best parts of this release that I want to praise are actually in the free update, so it’s hard to recommend the DLC unless you are specifically interested in playing France.

Plus, the whole divided monarchist bit is kinda weird, and lacks clarity, but broadly, the actual content surrounding France and journal entries is fun as hell!

Overall, I’m loving the new patch and the new direction, and especially love the jank of the agitator system :)

[phluphie]

I bought the Grand Edition when V3 was released. So I guess I'm getting the DLC for "free". I was intending to play Japan on my next play through but I guess I'll try out France this long weekend.

[dzzykzzy]

I mulled it over and I realized that I don't mind the DLC bring this. After playing the new patch and seeing the improvements to it, I was having a lot of fun and didn't feel like I needed the DLC. After going through "necessary" DLC in CK2, EU4, and Stellaris, being able to completely ignore the DLC is great.

[Anuxinamoon]

Thanks for this video! Been waiting for your thoughts on this new patch.

[LaVaZ]

Essentially a France DLC, doesn't bring much to the game. Crack it if you really want to play it.

[zanzibart]

I have not tried the update yet, but I get the feeling that it has increased the number of time I'm going to say, "Who's this now?" And making me do research to find out if dealing harshly with them will make me lose my best general, etc. There is already too much busywork in this game.

[louisw]

Kinda feel stupid getting the steam deal to get the first dlc included 😅

[firecez]

Can you call it a expansion? More like a immersion packs for EU IV which also costs 5€ less.

[billyadaw]

I don't think they ignored the war system on purpose, but they really think what is the solution, i mean it's so unique that maybe they confused how to make it better but i believe once they figure it out, victoria 3 war system will be the best one

[bfmtrooper]

I seem to really struggle with expansion in Victoria 3. Like, as France I could conquer catalonia and then that would be it for decades. Maybe it's cause war isn't Victoria's main thing or maybe I'm just still nee to the game but yea.

[blackcoat]

I can't wait the 7 hours till this releases ..

[paulbywater]

1.3 seems good but the dlc seems like they just ignored what most players want (a better war mechanic) and just added french flavour.. it is like the devs have decided that as they did not think warfare was important, then they refuse to make changes to it out of stubbornness

[LP-zcgy]

I really want a way to either play a decentralized nation and make it centralized or somehow centralize it from the outside without colonizing. I would love to create a Great Sioux state for example.

[FeZe]

im at work rn, can any of you tell me if Vancouver is FINALLY an island?