Can play as Crusaders, but the Crusader battle cry of 'Deus Vult' is being omitted because of reasons.
a) Deus Vult was on 2 events firing for Catholic countries only, over the best part of 6 1/2 years. And the "cry" was added last year on the Holly Fury DLC. So nothing will be missed.
b) CK2 over the years has attracted an altright toxic community, generating pretty offensive and racist content using CK2.
c) Unfortunately we are all responsible having left SJW fascists running wild instead of shutting them down.
When Holly Fury DLC came out, the complains from the SJW blogs were so many that many media in various countries started making news, resembling the whole game as a cultural game of hate and Islamophobia.
Last thing a company needs is negative news like these, especially given the the game mechanics and many are surprised about the video and such "politically incorrect" game is coming out in 2020.
Unfortunately we do not live in 2012 any more and we are responsible for having given up our freedoms piece by piece.
Similar pattern we see on Extinction Rebellion atm. We laugh at them, yet their manifesto (worth to read it) is taken seriously by governments and is backed by banks and corporations having influence and smelling the money that we as consumers and tax payers will hand to them. When at the same time we lose out freedoms. Yet we do nothing.
If tomorrow the government comes out and bans private ownership of any kind of vehicle, imposing veganism and electricity rationing you will complain? If so, why you do not do anything against the XR fascists today before is too late?
You might thing this isn't related but it is in the world we live today.