Wow that is a massive improvement for the Air UI, but what about the Air warfare itself?
HOI4 Dev Diary - Air Improvements
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There is no new interception in-between zones no. The thing with that is that in almost all situations planes end up being able to come from all sorts of directions and its a really difficult thing to get right interaction wise with players. So it would require a huge effort to get right and have fairly limited end result, so we decided we didn't have time for that. Doesn't mean we never do it though.
As for training, yea that would be cool for sure. As I said see this as step one and we'll do more air stuff in the future.
Can we rename the air wings now? Will there be any experience-like bonuses for air wings? Any reason to keep, reinforce and relocate existing wings rather than disbanding and re-forming air units? Will they get any "specialisation" like generals (meaning that for example some wing gets extra-good at bomber interception and then I post it to protect my key industries). Also, will it be possible to set wings to receive a specific equipment model? For example I might wish to produce a standart-specification fighter for units in less-important theaters of war and a more expensive more powerful model that will go to elite units or units at key areas (this is especially so with mods where there are more air equipment models).
Finally - will we see any improvement in Allied strategic bombing? I just don't see AI doing anything that is even remotely threatening to my industry or infra at the moment.
Finally - will we see any improvement in Allied strategic bombing? I just don't see AI doing anything that is even remotely threatening to my industry or infra at the moment.
This is a very needed overhaul of the air UI but I have to agree with @adski42 . Nothing changed regarding the teleport issue is very unfortunate.
Has the balance or air combat system been changed at all? Has the naval air system been changed at all?
I think Air Improvement is wrong title for this Dev Diary. I would call it Total Air Overhaul!
Actually IRL Allies had very good results against GER Me262 units by posting a more-or-less constant CAP at or near German long-runway airbases and catching Me262 when they were landing or taking flight and thus had low speed and limited manouver options.
Woow is great!! could be that there is a new mission? The one that is before port stike...
Nice improvements. Really looking forward to getting to grips with the air war in 1.4
There is a however .... Have you done anything about teleporting planes? This is my single biggest air complaint. Can we specify what plane models can go in a wing? building long range fighters for the Pacific to only have them reinforce Europe is very annoying. Is there a way to direct CAS to a specific part of a front such as where my tanks are trying to break through?
There is a however .... Have you done anything about teleporting planes? This is my single biggest air complaint. Can we specify what plane models can go in a wing? building long range fighters for the Pacific to only have them reinforce Europe is very annoying. Is there a way to direct CAS to a specific part of a front such as where my tanks are trying to break through?
I thought the existing air UI was ok, but this is amazing!
I can't wait to get my hands on this, tempted to stop playing my current game until release (back to Stellaris for a bit?).
I can't wait to get my hands on this, tempted to stop playing my current game until release (back to Stellaris for a bit?).
Looks like someone trying to crash their plane into that ship. Or so I suspect.
The little blue flag indicates that its an allied base. As for radar, no there is no way, you can see multiple now and tooltip the ones that overlap. Detection will summarize radar impact though when observing combats etc
That might be the first meaningful improvement of the game. It looks actually really good.
If you're gonna add an actual supply system in the game and make the AI non-retarded (live streams suggest, that AI is still dumb af), I may be able to convince myself to buy the game. With the pace you're going, that's 2-3 years from now.
If you're gonna add an actual supply system in the game and make the AI non-retarded (live streams suggest, that AI is still dumb af), I may be able to convince myself to buy the game. With the pace you're going, that's 2-3 years from now.
@podcat could you make those attack bubbles totally different colours please? As a colour blind person they are not really that easy to read at a glance.
Two things:
1. Air wings should be trained like divisions
2. If you got your bombers in N France and want to bomb S England and UK has its fighters in the English Channel will those fighters intercept your bombers?
Sry, i v seen it now. The answer is no, maybe in the future
1. Air wings should be trained like divisions
2. If you got your bombers in N France and want to bomb S England and UK has its fighters in the English Channel will those fighters intercept your bombers?
Sry, i v seen it now. The answer is no, maybe in the future
Tactical bomber and heavy fighter icons are very very similar. Hard to distinguish.
Afraid not. The NATO symbols for different aircraft types aren't very easy to distinguish on icons that size and they don't really cover all our use cases.
If you look at other wargames, both computer and tabletop, very few use NATO-style symbols for aircraft. In fact, most of them just use stylized airplanes instead.