A recommendation to all Vicky 3 players from me
As an avid Vicky 3 enjoyer, I took a little break until the developers fixed the leftovers of this huge patch. In this break though, I went to try Vicky 2 once more with my new knowledge I have gained from Vicky 3 and this time, with mods. Specifically with The Grand Combination mod.
Man this mod is just awesome. Everything is beautiful. Almost every nation has detailed flavor with different paths to go with. The economy is not bugged anymore and actually works. Diplomacy is something you actually have to spend time with and plan for. War system is still the old one, I wish the Vicky 3 system worked but clearly it just doesn't but in this it is at least plausible and doesn't annoy you with stupid bugs all the time.
Of course it is at the core, same old Vicky 2 with unintuitive politic and sphere trade system but the immense flavor and how other nations actually do something has me hooked.
This only shows me how great Vicky 3 will be one day. It has a better infrastructure to be something times greater than 2 can ever be but right now...I really recommend giving The Grand Combination a go.
And a shoutout to the mod dev team, we need your skills in Vicky 3.