玩了几十个小时，从DLC里能明显感受到P社的野心与诚意——他们确实想做一款颠覆性内容，但DLC的问题和诟病太多了。
首先，天朝制游戏体验很差：无论扮演皇帝还是官员都很煎熬。以天朝皇帝为例，不管盛世乱世，皇帝都像吉祥物般束手束脚——想打仗没宣战理由，赚的钱全入国库，想用国库的钱又用不了。这种机制下，天朝制大帝国实力甚至不如封建制王国，逻辑上完全不合理；还有大量鸡肋设定，让整个天朝制玩起来很怪异，本质更像换了包装的西方行政制，而非真正的天朝体系。
其次，游戏对中西方权力划分的还原严重失真。西方君主或许更像象征性领袖，但中国古代皇帝是至高无上的存在，天威不可触犯，地位堪比西方教皇，所有人见到他都需俯首称臣、不敢忤逆，臣子与皇帝交谈都需谨小慎微，说错话可能招致杀身之祸；即便皇帝做了错决定，大臣也只会用不冒犯的方式委婉指正。可游戏里却出现“宴会上殴打皇帝”等的离谱情节——这在现实中足以让全宗族丧命，类似不合逻辑的事件还有很多，玩起来既出戏又荒谬。
这款DLC的问题远不止这些，但我真心希望P社能优化更改，这个DLC不应该如此。
After playing for dozens of hours, one can clearly feel Paradox Interactive’s ambition and sincerity in the All Under Heaven DLC — they truly aimed to create groundbreaking content, yet the DLC still has far too many flaws and criticisms.
First, the gameplay experience of the Tianchao System is extremely poor: whether playing as an emperor or an official, the process is agonizing. Taking the emperor role as an example, regardless of whether it is a golden age or a chaotic era, the emperor is as powerless as a "mascot" — you want to go to war but have no casus belli; the money you earn all goes into the state treasury, yet you cannot use the treasury funds when you need them. Under such mechanics, the strength of a large Tianchao empire is even inferior to that of a feudal kingdom, which is completely illogical. Additionally, there are numerous useless settings that make the entire Tianchao System feel awkward to play; essentially, it is just a repackaged version of the Western administrative system, rather than a true Tianchao system.
Second, the game’s portrayal of the power division between China and the West is seriously inaccurate. Western monarchs may be more like symbolic leaders, but ancient Chinese emperors were supreme beings whose imperial authority was inviolable. Their status was comparable to that of the Western Pope — everyone had to bow and submit before them, daring not to defy. Officials had to speak cautiously when conversing with the emperor, as a wrong word could cost them their lives. Even if the emperor made a wrong decision, officials would only gently point out the mistake in a way that did not offend him. However, absurd scenarios like "an official assaulting the emperor at a banquet" appear in the game — an act that would have led to the execution of the entire clan in reality. There are many other illogical events like this, making the gameplay feel both jarring and ridiculous.
The problems with this DLC go far beyond these, but I sincerely hope Paradox Interactive can optimize and revise it. This DLC deserves better.
玩了几十个小时，从DLC里能明显感受到P社的野心与诚意——他们确实想做一款颠覆性内容，但DLC的问题和诟病太多了。
首先，天朝制游戏体验很差：无论扮演皇帝还是官员都很煎熬。以天朝皇帝为例，不管盛世乱世，皇帝都像吉祥物般束手束脚——想打仗没宣战理由，赚的钱全入国库，想用国库的钱又用不了。这种机制下，天朝制大帝国实力甚至不如封建制王国，逻辑上完全不合理；还有大量鸡肋设定，让整个天朝制玩起来很怪异，本质更像换了包装的西方行政制，而非真正的天朝体系。
其次，游戏对中西方权力划分的还原严重失真。西方君主或许更像象征性领袖，但中国古代皇帝是至高无上的存在，天威不可触犯，地位堪比西方教皇，所有人见到他都需俯首称臣、不敢忤逆，臣子与皇帝交谈都需谨小慎微，说错话可能招致杀身之祸；即便皇帝做了错决定，大臣也只会用不冒犯的方式委婉指正。可游戏里却出现“宴会上殴打皇帝”等的离谱情节——这在现实中足以让全宗族丧命，类似不合逻辑的事件还有很多，玩起来既出戏又荒谬。
这款DLC的问题远不止这些，但我真心希望P社能优化更改，这个DLC不应该如此。
After playing for dozens of hours, one can clearly feel Paradox Interactive’s ambition and sincerity in the All Under Heaven DLC — they truly aimed to create groundbreaking content, yet the DLC still has far too many flaws and criticisms.
First, the gameplay experience of the Tianchao System is extremely poor: whether playing as an emperor or an official, the process is agonizing. Taking the emperor role as an example, regardless of whether it is a golden age or a chaotic era, the emperor is as powerless as a "mascot" — you want to go to war but have no casus belli; the money you earn all goes into the state treasury, yet you cannot use the treasury funds when you need them. Under such mechanics, the strength of a large Tianchao empire is even inferior to that of a feudal kingdom, which is completely illogical. Additionally, there are numerous useless settings that make the entire Tianchao System feel awkward to play; essentially, it is just a repackaged version of the Western administrative system, rather than a true Tianchao system.
Second, the game’s portrayal of the power division between China and the West is seriously inaccurate. Western monarchs may be more like symbolic leaders, but ancient Chinese emperors were supreme beings whose imperial authority was inviolable. Their status was comparable to that of the Western Pope — everyone had to bow and submit before them, daring not to defy. Officials had to speak cautiously when conversing with the emperor, as a wrong word could cost them their lives. Even if the emperor made a wrong decision, officials would only gently point out the mistake in a way that did not offend him. However, absurd scenarios like "an official assaulting the emperor at a banquet" appear in the game — an act that would have led to the execution of the entire clan in reality. There are many other illogical events like this, making the gameplay feel both jarring and ridiculous.
The problems with this DLC go far beyond these, but I sincerely hope Paradox Interactive can optimize and revise it. This DLC deserves better.
