That'll be some time this year, they're still the last patch before launch without a release date. When you say you never beat the first game, do you mean that you never beat the Final Boss or that you never made it to the credits?
The whole fucking bourgeois ideological ecosystem is utterly convinced that the person who pays money for a thing is doing a favor to the person who sells it
The new update finally pushed the reviews to Mostly Positive, the most important change being that international trade mostly takes care of itself from a player perspective. The game still has issues, the biggest one being that every time a country is at war for any reason, it brings its whole military and the militaries of its vassals to bear, turning every squabble over a colony into a great power conflict (though this can be kinda fun in itself)
That'll be some time this year, they're still the last patch before launch without a release date. When you say you never beat the first game, do you mean that you never beat the Final Boss or that you never made it to the credits?