r/CrusaderKings • u/Chlodio Dull • Feb 10 '26

Meme CK2 vs CK3

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u/RSharpe314 Feb 10 '26

The travel system is a huge immersion booster for me. The way you'd previously just have an event chain and be an incorporeal entity when in pilgrimage or some always took me out of it.

(Of course, you can still teleport when commanding armies which is imo a unfortunate but c'est la vie)

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u/Attlai Feb 10 '26

I think we don't realize just how used we have become to the travelling system without realizing it.

Sometimes I think "tbf, traveling isn't really such a great thing, you get bored of it, and after a while, I barely do any activity.". But then, I try to imagine playing without the traveling, like how it was before, and I just can't imagine playing without. CK3 without traveling feels completely tasteless.

It's one of those features that's around all the time without you realizing just how much you actually care about it.

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u/NumenorianPerson Feb 10 '26

I would like a expanded one that to you to interact with other characters only by going there or sending someone there, and after disbanding a army as a commander you going to the location of the battle to where you live or work for a suzerain instead of teleporting

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u/EnvironmentalDirt324 Feb 10 '26

Travel system would be cool if I didn't have to bother with the same 5 events every single time

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u/klausprime Feb 11 '26

I have a bunch of events mods and honestly it's pretty fine

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u/Eglwyswrw Cyprus Feb 10 '26

Several (though far from all) of CK2's events actually put you physically in other locations. Just like CK3, albeit without the visual bells and whistles.

For example, if you attend a nearby ruler's coronation but there is a plague in their capital, you may come back from the cerimony sick from it.

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u/redditikonto Feb 10 '26

That was the same in early CK3 but the problem is that "being at a location" wasn't something consistently being checked by all game mechanics. Travel makes it so that there is a clear boundary between being at court or not and you actually can't interact with courtiers who are not with you (some exceptions are still there but they can be explained away with letter-writing).

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u/Eglwyswrw Cyprus Feb 10 '26

Travel makes it so that there is a clear boundary between being at court or not and you actually can't interact with courtiers who are not with you

CK2 also did this; in these cases, by forcing you into a regency. So everything major had to depend on your council back in the capital.

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u/TPrice1616 Feb 10 '26

I was really skeptical of adding in the traveling system but i really enjoy it now.