AHD: First impressions

[GAGA Extrem]

So, share your thoughts. And your findings of neat new stuff, features - or exploits and bugs.

As for me, I am amazed by the new game speed. It's as good as the improvement from EU3W!

 

[s1234567890m]

Shattering china's nice

 

[walrus]

I loved that I could download it from GG at over 2Mb/sec. That's new for me!

 

[Cainrae]

Playing CSA is hard I managed to win the first American Civil War with a little help from the British, however it only took 6 years for the United States to realize they had 10 times the amount of soldiers i had. Needless to say, it wasn't a pretty sight

 

[damnt512]

darn it ! why did steam haven't released it yet ? i'm so excited my mind can't get far from AHD in every situation now

 

[delra]

My first impressions: Prussia is blue and economy is working.

 

[dskod1]

game looks and feels fantastic.

I was squirming when it was starting up and I was seeing the new loading pictures.

I love that decisions now have pictures. Adds that much more "feel of the time" to the game

 

[Danevang]

First impressions good, though Denmark still gets smashed by Austria or Prussia in the first few game years. What's up with that still happening? Other than that cool expansion.

 

[ThomasH]

My 1st expression - that the addon of course (like always) doesn't support german language
hopefully this will follow soon.

 

[zarinth]

Japan is so HARD ><.

 

[palmus]

How's the game speed? Any improvements since the multi-core support?

 

[podcat]

My 1st expression - that the addon of course (like always) doesn't support german language
hopefully this will follow soon.

yes we plan to update with german language support in the future. I have no dates or anything to give you yet but translation is being worked on.

 

[GAGA Extrem]

I just noticed: More national focus points! Belgium has two from the start. Nice.

 

[Orinsul]

its completely awesome and fast and beautiful and new featurey. I was thrown by the no borders thing but then i remember about patches and sure enough there was one and it fixed it and now everythings swimmingly!
Just one question, have saves moved for everyone or just me [as im also on a new computer so im not sure if its the game or that thats done it]
Only its in documents now! instead of wherever you installed it. Which is weird, totally fine and everything but you know, surprising. but um, yeah first impressions, that its completely brilliant! Much to brilliant to waste time forum going atleast!

 

[delra]

Only its in documents now! instead of wherever you installed it. Which is weird, totally fine and everything but you know, surprising. but um, yeah first impressions, that its completely brilliant! Much to brilliant to waste time forum going atleast!

Yes, the settings and the saves are gone from game's directory. Win7 era!

 

[RedRalphWiggum]

How's the game speed? Any improvements since the multi-core support?

Yes, definitely

 

[podcat]

Just one question, have saves moved for everyone or just me [as im also on a new computer so im not sure if its the game or that thats done it]

its intended. all new savegames/settings etc go in your documents folder under Paradox Interactive\Victoria II

it makes things much neater if you have multiple people using the computer, and less problems writing files if you install in protected directories. All our new games will follow this model.

if you dont like it you can get it working like before by setting a custom directory. just make a file called userdir.txt in the games directory and put a single dot(.) in it. that will make he game check for all files in its directory instead. I do recommend using the new way however. its much better

 

[Joe32320]

Aside from accidentally getting all of Europe to DoW me as the UK, its been good so far

On the plus side it was a good test to see if the AI follows it's alliances

 

[zarinth]

How's the game speed? Any improvements since the multi-core support?

I noticed a major improvement in performance.

 

[Cainrae]

A little note: I wish the rate of "Support X Party" was a little faster than 0.001% (Or 0.01%, can't quite remember) since it took my six years to get 1% support in a region, it's bit of a waste of national focuses in the end if it's at such a slow rate But that might just be me being picky