HOI4 Dev Diary - Back from PdxCon

[DominusNovus]

I’m going to be crotchety: I don’t care about the new office, particularly in the HOI4 dev diary. In the studio forum? Sure. There’s effectively no new information about the game itself here.

 

[Xerberous]

Is there any way for neutrals (e.g. Kaiserreich) to intitiate Coups with the new system?

 

[PRTM-E]

Own bar and ballroom. Nice.

 

[Ossiv]

@podcat
Will each country have just one intelligence agency, or more, if they historically had various organizations?
The Soviet Union seems to get NKVD, but they also had the Soviet military intelligence GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate).
The German military intelligence was Abwehr, but the SS had SD (Sicherheitsdienst) as it's competitor.
The Great Britain had Directorate of Military Intelligence, that included MI5 (counterintelligence) and MI6 (spies), among others. But during the WWII the British also had SOE (Special Operations Executive) that did not belong the DMI.
In the USA conterintelligence belonged to the FBI, but they also formed OSS (Office of Strategic Services) for foreign operations.
And so on.

 

[Voigt]

How is the spysystem working of different but collaberating factions. So Allies and Comintern, aswell as Axis and Co-Prospertisy Sphere?
There are multiple Spymasters, one per faction I would think.

Can these collaberating factions spy on each other, maybe even let them spy, so the spymaster level gets higher, or some usefull systems get unlocked?

 

[Shneemaster]

And the entire "Civil War" thing is just dumb, and one of many nerfs to punish players that don't want to spend 210 days shooting themselves in the foot.

Well Stalin did shoot himself in the foot with all his purges, and it contributed to the Soviet Union being weaker than it should of in the early years of the war. Players won't do something so blatantly stupid like the purges without some kind of downside if they don't, and in-game the penalty for not purging is what Stalin was paranoid about actually happening, Trotsky returning and starting a civil war.

I do agree that it shouldn't take a 210 day focus to do this, however. It would probably be better if it was a standard 70 day focus, starting a series of events lasting 210 days, but allowing you to work on other things in the mean time.

 

[Major Malfunction]

That calls for Victoria ]I[ theme

 

[Dafuka72]

Searching the ballroom image on google ...

Victoria III confirmed ?

 

[SeekTruthFromFx]

In the espionage screenshot it shows a spy behind bars, presumably arrested. Will this mean that there are no double agents? German intelligence was infamous for its failure to keep anyone from being flipped or caught in Britain.

Surely arrestable agents are a prerequisite for a double-agent mechanic, not an obstacle to one?!

 

[xtfoster]

Well Stalin did shoot himself in the foot with all his purges, and it contributed to the Soviet Union being weaker than it should of in the early years of the war. Players won't do something so blatantly stupid like the purges without some kind of downside if they don't, and in-game the penalty for not purging is what Stalin was paranoid about actually happening, Trotsky returning and starting a civil war.

I do agree that it shouldn't take a 210 day focus to do this, however. It would probably be better if it was a standard 70 day focus, starting a series of events lasting 210 days, but allowing you to work on other things in the mean time.

More likely would be replacing the current 210 day focuses (there are 3) with 3 normal 70 day focuses (1 each for Army, Navy, and Air Force).

 

[Roland Traveler]

Surely arrestable agents are a prerequisite for a double-agent mechanic, not an obstacle to one?!

Knowing an agent’s been arrested kinda makes it hard for them to be a double agent, though. Why would you expect them to be effective when their cover has been blown?

 

[N3UTR0N]

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[Orlunu]

Knowing an agent’s been arrested kinda makes it hard for them to be a double agent, though. Why would you expect them to be effective when their cover has been blown?

Generally, you get around this by not sending your enemies a letter telling them that you have captured their agent.

 

[po8crg]

This is just the short announcement talk. There is a longer 20+ minute one as well that I dont think is on youtube from us yet

It's at about 6:16:55 on the twitch VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/496641130?t=06h16m55s should get you there for as long as the VOD stays up.

 

[Roland Traveler]

Generally, you get around this by not sending your enemies a letter telling them that you have captured their agent.

Let’s take a look at the picture in the diary with the espionage screen. You can see three agents, two of which are on the map and active. One is behind bars in their portrait. These things imply those are Soviet spies, not Polish ones. So, if the Soviets know one of their spies is behind bars, that begs the question “Can there be double agents or are all discovered spies immediately jailed?” Do you understand?

 

[podcat]

Is there any way for neutrals (e.g. Kaiserreich) to intitiate Coups with the new system?

its run from scripts now so modders should be able to loosen restrictions etc

Knowing an agent’s been arrested kinda makes it hard for them to be a double agent, though. Why would you expect them to be effective when their cover has been blown?

Generally, you get around this by not sending your enemies a letter telling them that you have captured their agent.

A lot of agents also managed to "escape"

 

[nacklus]

Looks absolutely fantastic, the expansion and the new office. Thank you devs for all your work. I hope it comes out before Christmas.

That's what they all say, and then its gonna come out 4 years later.

 

[Bandua_of_Gallaecia]

Knowing an agent’s been arrested kinda makes it hard for them to be a double agent, though. Why would you expect them to be effective when their cover has been blown?

What he means is that just because that one agent has been arrested, doesn't mean one of your other agents who are not arrested doen't end up being double agents afterall.

Having arrested agents doesn't automatically exclude the possibility of having a double agent mechanic.

 

[CzechKronner]

Will LaR come out this year?

 

[marcelo r. r.]

I am extremely jealous of these map-decorated glasses.
Can you sell them in a cosmetic pack? Lolz.

i dont want buy more PDX games..
now i want buy their office.