Europa Universalis 5’s development team has been on top of the grand strategy game’s post-launch issues, already delivering a series of patches and hotfixes to address them. Next week’s update aims to rework pop demands, among other things, while the team behind the game is targeting AI and performance improvements for the remainder of 2025.
Paradox Tinto Studio Manager Johan Andersson has explained that EU5’s upcoming pop demand rework will make it so that wealth will “impact what type of goods the pops want,” further adding to the focus on simulation showcased in the series’ latest entry.
Europa Universalis 5 Pop Demand Rework
In addition, we’ll get to “decide how much you want your pops to starve when you don’t produce enough food and don’t want to spend money on buying food.”
Cores will also stop instantly disappearing when next week’s patch becomes available for EU5 players, while characters will also “no longer all be clean-shaven.”
In the same Tinto Talks post, Andersson also revealed what the team at Paradox Tinto is focusing on for the remainder of the year, as it aims to deliver weekly patches:
- Further AI improvements
- Quality of Life in the UI, like easier ways to upgrade buildings.
- Performance, Stability and Multiplayer Improvements
- Improvements to China and other parts of the world not working as they should.
- Improvements to localisation
- And as much bugfixing as possible.
On top of that Europa Universalis 5’s patch 1.1 is slated to go live in early February with new content for the German region, additional fashion options, and more.
Europa Universalis V is available now on PC. For more on the grand strategy game, check out its many console commands, learn what its start and end dates are, alongside whether or not PS5 and Xbox Series X/S versions might be planned.
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