Topic by Agami 2023-12-29 14:27:23 (edited by Agami 2024-01-25 11:56:19)

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Crusader Kings 3 is a grand strategy with a heavy focus on characters.
It's technically an RTS, but you can pause at any moment and warfare isn't the only thing to do.

It is now fully accessible, with all DLCs, using OCR Support mod and NVDA.
Yes, OCR is reliable and with hotkeys we can get around pretty fast.

And it can be played in multiplayer with sighted people. They will need to use the mod, but they can switch to sighted mode.

For now the mod itself is in English. You can try to play the game in your own language, make sure to set NVDA's OCR language to it as well. Later I'll set the mod up for translations.

Mod wiki, with all downloads and installation steps:

https://github.com/Agamidae/CK3-OCR/wiki

A video demonstrating the game with the mod in action:

https://youtu.be/5WDPgkGHPJM

Store links

CK3 is available on Steam and Gamepass, but we would recommend Steam.
It's easier to update and you'll have access to more mods.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1158 … Kings_III/
https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/store/ … 7gg222gtth

Tutorials

The game is rather complex and takes a while to learn.
It has a built-in tutorial which will explain the basics, including hotkeys.
You can watch Shane play through it in the following videos:
Part 1 of the tutorial
Part 2

There is also a well written guide explaining the game in general:
https://space4games.com/en/games-en/cru … s-3-guide/

We have an active discord, join it if you have any questions.
https://discord.gg/eYZFq3yj26

Roadmap

I will continue to improve the mod and adapt big total conversion mods, like AGOT and LOTR, if I have time to work on it.
Plans for February: set the mod up for translations. Maybe make a compatch with the Fallen Eagle, it's a mod set in the fourth century, it the time of the Roman Empire.

Donations

You can support my work on ko-fi
I will greatly appreciate it, since I'd be able to put more time into this project. Right now I have to juggle this with other work.

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Reply by hadi.gsf 2023-12-29 14:36:14

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A very underrated modder in the community, Agami's spent hours and hours on making ck3 accessible for us. This game is wonderful, one of the best games that's out there that has 14000 to 20000 concurrent daily players on steam playing it. A masterpiece of a strategy game and it is now 100% accessible along with all the dlcs.
We're very lucky to have him in this community!
Congratulations on releasing v1.0 of the  mod Agami

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Reply by firefly82 2023-12-29 15:32:14 (edited by firefly82 2023-12-29 15:33:53)

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So is it absolutely necessary to install the game in English or can I also try it as a wild mix of English and German?

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Reply by Agami 2023-12-29 16:03:12 (edited by Agami 2023-12-29 16:03:52)

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firefly82 wrote:

So is it absolutely necessary to install the game in English or can I also try it as a wild mix of English and German?

Yes, it will be a mix of languages, but I can't vouch for how correctly NVDA will pronounce German words.
Can you try to OCR this screenshot from the game? With NVDA + R.
https://i.imgur.com/4ESigKD.png

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Reply by firefly82 2023-12-29 16:14:26

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First of all, thank you for answering my question!
I took a look at the screenshot. It looks a bit strange in a few places with the umlauts and I'm not completely sure whether everything was recognized correctly. But basically very, very useful. I'm afraid I now have plans for tonight.

What about the more demanding mods?
As far as I know there is a cool vampire mod, one for Lord of the Rings and even one for Elder Scrolls.

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Reply by Agami 2023-12-29 16:22:24

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firefly82 wrote:

What about the more demanding mods?

I would need to make compatches for them. If mods change the map or the interface, they won't work out of the box.
But there are other mods, like RICE and VIET that would add a lot of events and other flavor without problems.

We have a collection of compatible mods, but I will need to double-check on some of them:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/ … 2971166063

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Reply by arnold18 2023-12-29 16:38:56

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Are you considering making patches for other mods sometime down the road? I wanted to check one called the fallen eagle omens from the eastern steppes one time but it doesn't work as far as i could tell. Its not required at all, i still have loads of content to try, but the mod looked interesting.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/ … 2243307127

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Reply by firefly82 2023-12-29 16:41:09

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Oh thanks for the link! Thats a perfect starting point i will definitely check out!

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Reply by Atlan 2023-12-29 16:57:32

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hi how can i use slider? i want turn down the music volume

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Reply by firefly82 2023-12-29 17:06:15

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@Atlan: In the worst case scenario, you can get around it for now with the NVDA-shift-d combination.

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Reply by Berenion 2023-12-29 17:06:36

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@7 Each total  conversion mod requires its own compatch. The first one created was for the Game of Thrones mod, but that requires updating. Now that he is done with 1.0 Agami will look at what total conversions are feasible with compatches.
There were a lot of them suggested including Fallen Eagle, Shogun, Elder Kings, LOTR and Stormlight, but we'll have to wait and see which one is feasible.

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Reply by hadi.gsf 2023-12-29 17:16:05

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If you have a reddit account, please upvote agami's post on here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CrusaderKings/ … _heres_an/

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Reply by sightlessHorseman 2023-12-29 18:09:49

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Do I need to left and right click in the game? I only have a keyboard without a numbpad and would need to figure out how I could do this.

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Reply by zkline 2023-12-29 18:16:28 (edited by zkline 2023-12-29 18:17:55)

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There’s no need, the hotkey script can do all of that for you, and there are shortcuts for NVDA on the laptop as well. I don’t play with a numpad.

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Reply by shane 2023-12-29 20:23:30

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@9 if you go into the settings options, their are buttons to increase or decrease all the sliders.

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what are the hotkey for use them?

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If you have the mod running you need to use the keys provided by the AHK script, such as slash, or route the mouse manually using NVDA commands. There are no separate hotkeys specific to using sliders.

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@Atlan not every button has a hotkey (most can't, for example clicking on specific things in a list.) You'll need to move over the text and hit / on one of them to click it.

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If you hit escape in the game, their's a list of keystrokes included in the mod and auto hotkey.

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If anyone wants help understanding what's going on, or a live demo, some of us who've been playing this for a while are willing to hang out for a bit in Discord and walk through things if there's interest. It's a complicated game and a bit weird to get used to.

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Reply by aziz1media 2023-12-30 09:06:53

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The people that have experience with the game. it would be amazing if you write an article. like a walk through explaining some basics of the game in the article section of the audio game forum

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Reply by zkline 2023-12-30 19:07:09 (edited by zkline 2023-12-31 14:22:13)

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We're talking about doing a live demo on Discord next week for anyone interested. Articles are also possible down the line but I'm not sure what people would want them to cover. The game is very complex and has a lot of information available for sighted players which applies.

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Reply by apostolosm7 2023-12-30 19:20:45

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Since I had version 0.8 of the mod I guess I need to re-download the whole thing correct?. Happy new year to everybody

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Reply by zkline 2023-12-30 19:23:35

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If you were subscribed to the mod on the Steam workshop it will redownload automatically. If you installed it manually you would need to redownload, yes.

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Thank you very much if I subscribe to steam workshop will it download it automatically? Or I need for another update for it to trigger?

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