Paradox Interactive Thread: V3 'Check out my sick Germany blob' - Games

[QUOTE=Lone Wolf807;48882075]There is way too much stuff going on in that picture.[/QUOTE] If anything its been simplified frrom HoI3

One thing I've noticed a lot is that most of the reviewers for Hearts of Iron 4, from gaming websites mainly, never actually played Hearts of Iron 3 or Darkest Hour.

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;48885288]One thing I've noticed a lot is that most of the reviewers for Hearts of Iron 4, from gaming websites mainly, never actually played Hearts of Iron 3 or Darkest Hour.[/QUOTE] Not surprising. Both of those games have an extremely difficult learning curve without a good tutorial and are not very well fleshed out either plus require a lot of micromanaging almost on the level of Dwarf Fortress. At least HOI3, i can't comment on Darkest Hour because i never played it. I mean hell i have never even advanced beyond 1944 in HOI3 because the game just breaks. They are not for your average gaming journalist. They were also released at a time when grand strategy and Paradox weren't a big thing as they are now

If I wanted to know that I would just read a textbook/Wikipedia Though I won't lie CK/EU4 has taught me geography and history through events :v: I got Jeopardy question right once because of EU4, but I don't remember what it was now i also have the coronation of Queen Victoria memorized because of that event in V2 [editline]12th October 2015[/editline] [t]http://i.imgur.com/3g5sVKS.png[/t] My budget [editline]12th October 2015[/editline] Russia is allied, and at war with France [t]http://i.imgur.com/CXUX7E1.png[/t]

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;48885288]One thing I've noticed a lot is that most of the reviewers for Hearts of Iron 4, from gaming websites mainly, never actually played Hearts of Iron 3 or Darkest Hour.[/QUOTE] which is why pdox have completely misunderstood the approach and development for 4 it's gonna end up disappointing

They want it to sell more so they're making it easier to get in to.

HoI 4 looks great and miles above HoI 3 in every way, the fact it's more accessible is awesome and it looks like they aren't taking away any of the complexity either. Production in HoI 4 looks so much better, I can't wait for that.

Really, the biggest thing they're removing is the unit hiarchy thing with HQs and that, which I'm fine with. I don't think the (vocal) majority who played HOI3 liked managing all that that.

[QUOTE=Adarrek;48885297]Both of those games have an extremely difficult learning curve without a good tutorial and are not very well fleshed out either plus require a lot of micromanaging almost on the level of Dwarf Fortress. At least HOI3, i can't comment on Darkest Hour because i never played it.[/QUOTE] DH is just an upgraded HoI 2, there is not even remotely that much micromanagement. It's not even that hard to grasp on a basic level. Not sure why you'd claim that and then turn around and say you've never even tried the game.

Darkest Hour is piss-easy

First great war in my new game [t]http://i.imgur.com/oaLBdTF.png[/t] France wants to liberate Albania from the Ottomans, the USA backed the Ottoman Empire and the crisis didn't cool down. Great Wars were discovered during this war, so it became one as soon as it was "invented" [editline]12th October 2015[/editline] The one time I get the Reverse Civil War without touching the game, and I miss it [t]http://i.imgur.com/yU2PRrD.png[/t] I totally forgot Vicky2 was running and I started playing another game. [editline]12th October 2015[/editline] The french alliance won the great war [t]http://i.imgur.com/4s7vwlS.png[/t] [editline]12th October 2015[/editline] New stellaris DD [url]https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/stellaris-dev-diary-4-means-of-travel.886502/[/url]

Man i want to play Stellaris so bad

Fascist Papal State [t]http://i.imgur.com/H0JIGhk.png[/t] [editline]12th October 2015[/editline] Canada loves boats [t]http://i.imgur.com/vq0lbNE.png[/t] [editline]12th October 2015[/editline] game over [t]http://i.imgur.com/YCwIYZ4.png[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/Xa7v5yG.png[/t]

darkest hour is actually the best though at least the devs still work on it whilst hoi3 had the unit hierarchy, it was still too railroaded and buggy

[QUOTE=Tuskin;48887163] Canada loves boats [t]http://i.imgur.com/vq0lbNE.png[/t] [/QUOTE] Holy crap, what [editline]12th October 2015[/editline] [t]http://i.chapelcomic.com/garrison.png[/t]

Well, IRL Canada had the 3rd Largest Navy by the end of WW2. Plus they can't do very much else with less then 5 Million People :v: I'm editing a map of that Vicky game, here is what I have so far [t]http://i.imgur.com/a7qw1eU.png[/t] Countries with 'Republic' or no title at all are Democracies or non-fascist dictatorships. The Communist ones are obvious. Argentina is fascist

That is the least offensive map of South America that I've seen by 1936

Have a sneak peak at the rest of the world then :v: [t]http://i.imgur.com/NOnmaeV.png[/t] [editline]12th October 2015[/editline] I'm not very constant with names.

Also, I was playing HoI3 last night as Germany. "5. SS Panzer Battalion 'Wiking' has been shattered!" NOOOOOOOOOO [sp]That's the group that I reenact with[/sp]

Russia exploded after a great war. There was a Ukraine, but Russia uh.. Ate it. left Crimea alone though. UK lost a lot of the North Western Indian territories. Used to have everything up to Half of Afghanistan., Russia had the rest.

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;48888567]Also, I was playing HoI3 last night as Germany. "5. SS Panzer Battalion 'Wiking' has been shattered!" NOOOOOOOOOO [sp]That's the group that I reenact with[/sp][/QUOTE] I'm sorry for your loss of yourself

[QUOTE=Tuskin;48888553]Have a sneak peak at the rest of the world then :v: [t]http://i.imgur.com/NOnmaeV.png[/t] [editline]12th October 2015[/editline] I'm not very constant with names.[/QUOTE] Qing lost Tibet + Mongolia, the Raj is pockmarked, Germany looks messy, poland is just a mess too, belarus exists for some reason, albania too big, italy isn't fully unified, morroco isn't looking healthy, and don't get me started on the russian far east all in all, if i was an IGN game reviewer i'd give your map 9/10

Russia lost a Great War and had a dismantle empire war goal against them which is why it exploded. They only reconquered Ukraine before the game ended Great Britain never (at least in my experience) manages to conquer all of India, they just sphere/puppet them all

Honestly, as cheap as it is, I just wrote in the history files so Britain owns all of India from the get go. It's really annoying to see a huge cluster of independent Indian principalities in 1910 when the British should have wiped the floor with them

Quill18 is playing HOI3 again, no mods He said he won (as in achieved the 15 goals) last time he played as the soviets. [media]https://youtu.be/K9crfUv2O0E[/media]

Still watching Marco Antonio's Tibet World Conquest. Iirc it's 40+ parts

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;48888412]Holy crap, what [editline]12th October 2015[/editline] [t]http://i.chapelcomic.com/garrison.png[/t][/QUOTE] where do you get these pictures from?

[QUOTE=Hamsteronfire;48893229]where do you get these pictures from?[/QUOTE] [url]https://www.reddit.com/r/thechapel/[/url]

Quill's 2nd HOI3 video, sounds like he knows what he is doing. [url]https://youtu.be/ugMQ9yd92bw[/url]

First time I've seen Romania and Hungary not shit the bed in Barbarossa. (Finland is SU's puppet) [t]http://imgkk.com/i/ucle.png[/t] [t]http://imgkk.com/i/15e9.png[/t]