Formed the Roman Empire. Lost the Byzantine content. Thanks.
Let me tell you what happened to me, so you don't make the same mistake.
I started as Byzantium. The first 50 years were rough — constant survival mode, barely holding on. Eventually I cleared all the debuffs and built a real army. The game kept throwing events at me about Rome's legacy, and then gave me an almost unfairly strong "Reclaim the Borders of Rome" casus belli. The message was clear: go rebuild the empire.
I'm a roleplayer, so I didn't rush it. I took Sicily first, then Naples. I wanted Rome to feel like a reward. When I finally took the city and formed the Roman Empire — the event was pretty underwhelming, but okay, I moved on.
What I couldn't move on from: all my Byzantine events disappeared.
The Events tab was just empty. I thought it was a bug. I manually triggered the conditions for events I knew about. Nothing. Turns out, forming the Roman Empire erases the Byzantine content — the content this DLC was literally built around. The tech tree still has Byzantine and Roman techs sitting there, but the actual events? Gone.
This is a country content pack. That's what we paid for. And I couldn't experience it because I played the game correctly.
So now what? Start a new save and grind through the Byzantine early game again just to see the DLC content? Play a base-game nation instead and pretend this DLC doesn't exist?
For a first DLC — and a delayed one at that — I expected more. The events I saw before the transition were genuinely fun. The concept is great. But there's a pretty serious design flaw here: the content vanishes at the moment it should feel most rewarding.
