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First previews makes the game look very complex and I'm all for it. Some notes of interest:
Individual pops, every human on Earth is given a class, religion, culture etc.
Pops are levied into armies affecting the economy
Every culture is represented in some way, from Europe to the east with China and the west with the Aztecs and the south with Africa
Start date is 1337, with the start of the hundred years war stretching 500 years forward
Armies are levied from the population and need to be supplied with supply lines
The fog of war is affected by terrain, and scouting seems essential to track enemy armies
Trade has been reworked from EU4
Plagues are represented, starting with the Black death
I haven't been following the dev diaries. Is the population mechanic like the new pop mechanic from the Stellaris 4.0 patch? I can't wait to start watching let's plays of the game and then buy it on a massive sale years later. I still have tons of achievements left in EU4, so I'm not in too much of a hurry to get EU5.
I really hope they make the estate system a lot more dynamic. It felt like it was bolted on in a DLC and just means clicking buttons and completing objectives.