So I am currently enjoying the game immensely with all of its downfalls.
But there are a few things that need to be insta fix to make the game (as is) play well:
1. After you make your own kingdom, you cannot get a wife.
2. Other kingdoms announce war a bit too soon after you start your own kingdom.
3. You cannot take a town/kingdom for yourself if you have vassals. The vote decision is always for other vassals and you cannot vote it for yourself. A work around is to kick the clan that has the town/castle you want and then reinvite them, but it doesn't always work.
4. Aserai are incredibly passive, they never wage war and either just sit there or get invaded by others. Same goes for Northern Empire.
5. Sieges have terrible optimisation and I have to go to low settings and 500 troops for a siege, otherwise, sometimes FPS drops so low that the game crashes and I have to start the siege all over. (I have ryzen 3600, rtx 2070s, 16gb 3200 ram).
6. Let us declare war/peace from the Kingdom menu and not having to look for a noble from the kingdom we wanna declare war/peace to.
Overall, everything else is fine for me, at least for now.
1. I think this is due to the availability of women in the game. I noticed that a lot of lords didn't have offspring or if some did it was very few. I don't think this holds true with historical accuracy. People had lots of children in medieval times, I feel like there should be more. This could expand on later gameplay that allows some intrigue and deception, for example, you could marry into a family, destroy/kill your siblings if they are slated to inherit fiefs.
2. I haven't encountered this yet. I think it may be due to you being a weaker kingdom and they may want to take the opportunity to get your lands.
3. This, I think this is silly. Your clan should be able to vote on this. Maybe once you start having your own children the option will become available?
4. I've noticed they could be any kingdom.
5. Make sure your graphics card is selected in the settings menu. I noticed this issue in some battles and I toned down the number of troops and some settings to compensate. I started fooling around with the settings and noticed my GPU was not selected, once it was I haven't had an issue and I'm on max settings now.
6. This, the kingdom management tab is lacking in utility. Yes, policies and such are great, but I should have a lot more control over my kingdom from it.
*EDIT*
Anyone feel like the main menu music should be siege music?