Community19 Aug 2026Tinto Talk 121 - ExpeditionsHello everyone! Ryagi here, your friendly neighborhood community manager. As promised, this week we’ll be taking an early look at expeditions. Before we get too deep into them though, we have a caveat to stress first. Expeditions are still under development, and as we’re actively continuing to test and iterate on them in the places we can. We see a system like this as a potential solution to ma…
Politics Political Influence Mana is back on the menu boys! Seriously, though as you have noticed we had a lot of places in the game we end up with insanely varied gold costs for various actions, or weird usages of legitimacy or stability. This was creating balancing issues that were not present in EU4. Political Influence is a new country currency, ranging from 0 to 100, and it represents your…
Hello everyone! Happy Wednesday, today we’re excited to start going into more details on update 1.4. Last week we discussed some of the scope changes we made to 1.4, so we highly recommend you read that short but important Tinto Talk if you haven’t already. To recap, Ambitions have been moved to the future so we can spend some more time, love, and testing on them. And update 1.4 is not focused…
Happy Wednesday Everyone, for Today’s Tinto Talk we have some important news and updates to share with you. Every Grand Voyage needs a course, and part of steering honestly is telling you when that course changes. Straight to the point: Ambitions will not come with 1.4. And we want to be upfront about why that is. We’ve indicated before that Ambitions are one of the features we're most excited…
Whether you're new to the game, a returning player, or a veteran that's been with us from the start, We want to hear from you! 🫵 That's why we've published a new Community Survey for update 1.3. Surveys like these will continue to be a key piece in guiding our ongoing development and community process. We'll be accepting responses until the end of July so spread the word! Take the 1.3 survey h…
Hello everyone! Today we're releasing patch 1.3.11, which seeks to primarily address Mercenary Spam and make some trading adjustments, along with a fix for imperial circle notification spam. You can find the full patch notes below: Checksum: b08d Date: July 16, 2026 Previous Patch: 1.3.10 Economy · The base trade range is now wider and the merchant capacity penalty for trading beyond it is less…
Happy Wednesday! I’m Ryagi, Community Manager at Tinto. We’re back with yet another Tinto Talk, and this time we’re taking a moment to give a retrospective on the 1.3 Open Beta, which concluded with the launch of update 1.3 July 9th, last week. Somehow it feels like update 1.3 has been out for a month, but nope, I triple checked… It’s been less than a week at time of writing. Overall we certain…
Hello everyone, You can now get the official Europa Universalis V 1337 Europe Paper Map , made in collaboration with Kartenverk . If you want a physical version of the new starting setup for your wall, here are the details: · Sizes: B1, A0, and B0 (for the massive war room effect) · Materials: Silk paper, vinyl sticker, or textured wallpaper 👉 Get yours here Let us know which corner of the 133…
Good day everyone! Today we're happy to say Update 1.3 Pavia, has officially concluded it's open beta phase of development and is now available by default on Steam. Firstly, 1.3 would not be here without the help of those that opted into our Open Beta, and especially those that gave their feedback on it. So thank you! 1.3 Feature Video: Here are some of the highlights: · Estates & Rebellions -…
Happy Wednesday everyone! I’m Ryagi, community manager, and it's time for another Tinto Talk. We have a short one this time, as we’re deep in preparation for 1.3 to hit live branches. And similar to last week, this touches on the things that most impact stable players. That means this time we're focusing mostly on what update 1.3 entails, and next week, we'll be holding a retrospective on the b…
Hello everyone! 1.3.10 is our final beta patch before 1.3 beta goes onto the stable branch. It makes some changes to diseases, as well as some further adjustments to institution spread. Checksum: c764 Date: July 07, 2026 Previous Patch: 1.3.8 Society · Using the cabinet action to assimilate Primary Culture pops with a non-primary culture is now correctly much slower, instead of being the same f…
Hello everyone, Happy Wednesday, and welcome to another Tinto Talk. I’m PDX Ryagi and joining me for todays Tinto Talk are PDX Habibi Community Ambassador on EU5, along with content designers PDX Bigboss and PDX Pintu. This time rather than our usual look forwards, we’re instead covering some of the feedback we’ve gathered on the reworked Italian Situations throughout the 1.3 open beta and what…
Checksum: 98b8 Date: June 30, 2026 Previous Patch: 1.3.7 Content · Added 6 new Achievements based on 1.3 mechanics and Italian flavour content. Interface · Added filters to the mercenary captain hiring view. Government · Fixed the bureaucracy removal efficiency modifier to now apply correctly. · Fixed frustrate annexation working in the wrong direction. Economy · Fixed military sponsorship paym…
Ambitious Rulers and Franchise Fans! We’re delighted to announce that the Steam Summer sale is upon us, where there are plenty of deals across the Europa Universalis franchise to be had, as well as another upcoming collaboration with Makeship. Let’s start with the sale! Here’s a highlighted breakdown of the discounts to be had for Europa Universalis V & IV: Summer Sale Discounts Base Game Disco…
Checksum: e29f Date: June 23, 2026 Previous Patch: 1.3.5 Government · Updated Traditional Economy to now allow rural resource operations to grow up to 33% larger and removed the −10% building construction efficiency penalty. · Reduced the penalty on estate satisfaction from individualism from 5.0% to 2.5%. · HRE election no longer stalls indefinitely when an ineligible candidate (e.g. extraterr…
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Hello everyone, happy Wednesday and welcome to another Tinto Talk. I’m Ryagi, Community Manager at Paradox Tinto. First a confession of my sins, last week I said: "Next week we'll be diving into the feedback we have received on the updated Italian Situations in 1.3" If you were looking forward to this I’m sorry to say it’s no longer accurate. Instead, I wanted to spend the effort on some more t…
Checksum: 3244 Date: June 16, 2026 Previous Patch: 1.3.2 Government · Changed estate culture/religion to now be weighted by acceptance and tolerance. · Changed estate dominant culture/religion to only flip when the challenger beats the incumbent by 10%. Economy · Stockpile Capacity: Market stockpile capacity has been significantly reduced, base values cut from 200–250 down to 25–50, with late-g…
Happy Wednesday! PDX Ryagi here, Today’s Tinto Talk is going to be a very short one, so that we can dive straight back into processing 1.3 Beta feedback itself. Still, we wanted to give a brief update on what’s coming up in the 1.3 Beta and where we’re at in the process. While the initial launch of 1.3.0 open beta was a bit rocky, we feel patch 1.3.2 was a huge improvement building off the grou…
Some good news for those of you opting into the 1.3 open beta, as today's beta patch addresses some of the major issues found, including smallpox outbreaks causing mini apocalypses, as well as a fix to balance market stockpiles (Which will likely have knock on effects to the economy as a whole). Please let us know if these changes have sufficiently solved the disease and econ issues present. As…
Hello everyone, Following our recent Tinto Talks and the release of the 1.2 update, we have gathered a wide variety of questions from across our official channels. The team at Paradox Tinto sat down to provide clear answers regarding our vision, current balance concerns, and the future of the game. You can watch the full Q&A session here: Thank you for your continued engagement and constructive…
Hello all, Today we are releasing the Open Beta for version 1.3. It is available to anyone who would like to opt in and help us test. As with every Beta, your feedback matters a great deal to us. Please share it in the dedicated 1.3 Beta Subforum here: For bugs and crashes, please use the in-game bug reporter. This lets us track and resolve issues as efficiently as possible. How to opt into the…
Hello everyone! Happy Wednesday, and welcome to Tinto Talks 111. I’m Ryagi, Community Manager at Paradox Tinto. Today I wanted to give you a short rundown on what’s in store for 1.3, our plans for feedback collection in the Open Beta, as well as a brief overview of how we handle feedback in general. So what’s in update 1.3? Update 1.3 has a key focus on Italy, and the Italian Renaissance, with…
Hello everyone! You've been asking questions, and we've been listening. Today we wanted to give you the news that our Europa Universalis V Q&A video arrives June 9th 10:00 CEST/16:00 GMT on YouTube and Bilibili. Each question featured being submitted by you, the community 🌟 But of course... one video wasn't going to be enough. We received so many great submissions that we're also hosting a Liv…
_____________________________ Patch notes 1.2.5 Checksum: cf2f Date: May 20, 2026 Previous Patch: 1.2.4 All · Added missing localization for all languages · Fixed various OOS issues Other · Optimized RAM usage for diplomacy Bugfixes · Fixed CTD related to Renovatio Imperii (i.e. forming the HRE). As usual, here is a list of handy EU5 links: Bug Reports Player resources Suggestions Official Vide…
Hello Everyone, and Welcome to another Happy Wednesday. This is the place where we talk about Europa Universalis V. Today we released 1.2.4 which amongst other things did this. · Fixed an issue where a 0-morale army could be auto-overrun by a much smaller force. The overrun calculation now uses each side's true nominal strength, meaning a collapsing army can only be overrun when the attacker ge…
Happy Wednesday, today we're glad to say Patch 1.2.4 is out now. It primarily gives some buffs to population growth, fixes for unit morale which should hopefully lead to less frustrating stack wipes, and more. In addition to these changes, we have also made some minor tweaks that we hope will positively impact performance. Performance improvements are an ongoing effort that we intend to carry t…
Patch 1.2 has been out for a while, and we know you have thoughts. We value all feedback equally, and we want to make this absolutely clear. The developers at Tinto are sitting down for a Q&A session, and we want your questions to lead the conversation. Whether it's about the patch changes, what's coming next, or how a specific mechanic works under the hood, now is your chance to ask the devs d…
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