Holy Fury

Type

Expansion

Release date / Patch

2018-11-13 / 3.0

Store: Expansion

Paradox / Steam

Crusader Kings II: Holy Fury expansion feature spotlight by CK2's game designer Alexander "rageair" Oltner.

Holy Fury (HF) is the 13th major expansion for Crusader Kings II. It was announced on 2018-05-19^[1] and released 2018-11-13 alongside patch 3.0.

Expansion features[edit | edit source]

Shattered and Random Worlds: Start your game on a fictional map of Europe as a small realm fighting for space, or on a random map with historical analogues for the great kingdoms of yore.
Warrior Lodges: Join a Pagan warrior lodge and raid your way up the ranks, unlocking access to powerful allies and greater military skill.
Legendary bloodlines: Descendants of great warrior heroes will have bonuses that match the accomplishments of their forefathers, including historical bloodlines of Charlemagne, Genghis Khan and others..
Sway or Antagonize your neighbors: Try to win a reluctant vassal through charm and persuasion, or provoke someone you want to push into conflict.
Sainthood: Pious Christians can become canonized, passing on their glory to their descendants and making their resting place a site of great value.
Coronations: Feudal catholic/fraticelli kings and emperors must find clergy to crown them, since all power descends from the heavens.
New Crusade events: Deeper gameplay for the religious wars of the era.
New Succession laws: A Pagan Elder Council may have the final word in how a realm is divided among heirs, or a ruler may challenge his brother to combat to unify a realm.
Playable Hellenism: A ruler can revive the dead ancient Greco-Roman religion when meeting some strict requirements.
New portraits for the French, Arabic, West Slavic and Italian cultures.^[2]
And much more: Changes to religion, custom names for people or objects, deeper baptismal mechanics, lists of people you’ve killed, and other small changes for flavor and variety.

Free features[edit | edit source]

Map and setup improvements (including Tartaria, Russia, Scandinavia, the Wendish Empire, the HRE, Italy, Francia, Britannia, Hispania, the Byzantine Empire minus Bulgaria, Wallachia, Mali, Abyssinia, and North Africa).
New game rule, reducing "border gore" if enabled.
Reworked Crusade mechanics for Catholics and Fraticelli.
Reworked character view interface.
Added flavor events around lifestyle and battles
Reworked elective succession laws. New princely elective for the Holy Roman Empire and imperial elective for the Byzantine Empire
New imperial government for the Byzantine and Roman empires
Rebalancing of the personal combat rating system
to be added.

Trivia[edit | edit source]

Holy Fury patch was initially targeted as "patch 2.9", as visible in some documentation in game files.
The project lead had to sell a 1 full year development cycle to the product manager^[3], probably the biggest development time for any Paradox expansion so far.

Dev diaries[edit | edit source]

All developer diaries about the Holy Fury expansion and patch 3.0.

No.	Title and Link	Description	Date
1	Polishing up the Map	Slowly working through some of the more neglected areas of the map and increasing the granularity of the playing field.	2018-01-29
2	Beautifying the Baltics	Map and setup changes in the Baltic regions.	2018-02-19
3	Finishing Finland	Improvements to the map and setup changes in the Finnish region.	2018-03-12
4	Cleaning up the Map	New game rule about the succession of exclaves	2018-04-09
5	God Wills It!	A rework of the Crusade mechanics.	2018-05-14
6	Renovating Russia	Map changes to the Russian Region.	2018-05-21
7	Legacy of Legends	Bloodlines features displayed.	2018-06-01
8	Character View Redux	Rework of the Character View Interface	2018-06-08
9	Killing Spree	Keeping a list of one's kills	2018-06-15
10	A Faith In My Own Image	Dynamic pagan reformation -- tailor the new religion to suit your needs.	2018-06-21
11	Mass Conversion, or how I learned to stop my Pagan ways and love God	An easy way to convert, but with varying results.	2018-06-29
12	Splendid Scandinavia	Updated maps for the Scandinavian nations	2018-07-06
13	Altering the Alps and Idealizing Italy	Reworked map of North & Central Italy, Bavaria, parts of Burgundy	2018-07-13
14	Orders of Magnitude	Changes to Holy Orders, part of incoming free patch	2018-07-20
15	Venetian Guile	Fixing an existing crusade event chain and adding new ones	2018-07-27
16	Conquest and Reconquest	The crusades of the Baltics and the Iberian Peninsula	2018-08-03
17	Amending Africa	Map changes in Africa	2018-08-10
18	Maybe I should diet…	Fat and malnourished traits, reflected by character portrait	2018-08-17
19	Pagan Pals - Warrior Lodges	Warrior lodge societies explained	2018-08-24
20	Catholicism what? Constantinople where? Charlemagne who?	Shattered World and Random World systems	2018-08-31
21	Do you like me yet?	Swaying and Antagonizing	2018-09-07
22	Come Fight Me	New duel and battlefield events, and scarring and tattoos	2018-09-14
23	Saints and Ancestors	Saints, their potential Pagan counterparts, and how they will work in Holy Fury	2018-09-21
24	About that one dead religion...	Hellenism (Zeus Vult!)	2018-09-28
25	Long live the King!	Catholic Coronation Ceremonies	2018-10-05
26	Forging a Bloodline	Custom Bloodlines	2018-10-12
27	Clergy Interactions Revamp	Improved interaction with the Papacy	2018-10-19
28	New Succession Laws Extravaganza	Imperial government, new succession types and revamped nominee system	2018-10-26
29	Sprinkling Flavor	New flavor events for baptism and pregnant women, and reformed pagan doctrine flavor	2018-11-02
30	Achievements & Appearances	Summary of new achievements and character portraits	2018-11-09
31	We Released the Fury	Continuing to work on small improvements for the game before the winter vacation.	2018-11-16
32	It's not a bug	The team shares their encounters with amusing bugs during the development of Holy Fury	2018-11-23
33	Early Patch Notes for 3.0.1	Early peek at the bug-fix patch notes	2018-12-03
34	Until Next Year	Closing this year with a teaser picture for the next year	2018-12-14