#CRUSADER KINGS 3 FACTIONS INSTALL#

(It seems like everything I've read on this subreddit suggests people struggle the most with independence factions, and while I've had my fair share of those, I can always defuse them with diplomacy since that seems to be the S tier lifestyle for this game. Anyone else feeling this? Catch me playing Stellaris for the foreseeable future, because this is unbearable. I want to enjoy this game so bad but I just can't when it plays like this. Is anyone else having this experience? It's making this game nigh unplayable, and honestly, I've got to know if it's just me. Dread doesn't work, befriending doesn't work, disinheriting doesn't work, murder doesn't work, bribes don't work, and I'm sick of spending thousands of gold on mercenaries for civil wars just to lose anyway despite running the cleanest, neatest, tightest fucking ship of a kingdom for an entire lifetime just to have my vassals (all of who have normal or low feudal obligations) choose my heir's drunkard, pagan, incestuous, murderer uncle to replace him as king. Befriending doesn't work because there simply isn't enough time between the new heir taking the throne and the near-instantaneous formation of the claimant faction to befriend or murder each and every claimant-faction-supporting vassal, and bribes are worthless because claimant faction supporters will routinely stay inside factions even at 80+ opinion of my heir. And before you say 'oh just kill a bunch of prisoners and raise your dread', I have, it only works roughly half of the time (even at 100 dread!!!) and it shouldn't be a necessity to have to store nearly 30 prisoners like livestock only to kill them all and still have to shell out my entire treasury to buy several armies of mercenaries when my vassals decide 100 dread just isn't threatening enough to stop them from choosing a drooling rapist to replace my heir as king.

#CRUSADER KINGS 3 FACTIONS INSTALL#

Every time my ruler dies, there is always, ALWAYS a claimant faction to install a sibling, uncle, or distant relative over my chosen heir, even if the heir is wildly popular, trained his whole life in diplomacy and friendly with everyone, and the replacement candidate is a complete shithead that everyone hates. I've been playing a lot of CK3 lately, but I've finally had it with the faction mechanics in this game (specifically and almost exclusively the claimant factions).

Crusader kings 3 factions