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- "Where is the HOI4?"
- "Still in alpha, hoping to reach beta soon."
- "Where is the HOI4?"
- "Still in alpha, hoping to reach beta soon."
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Bad news, the game is still in alpha.
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I believe that the team working on HOI IV is very small,and that's why we are getting the huge delays.I was hoping for a spring game release,but now it could be a summer release.
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Why is it a bad news that they dont rush the game, exactly?
The team isnt small. The core team consists of 6 developer, with several others working on it aswell. Infact they recieve lend lease from the EUIV team aswell.
The team isnt small. The core team consists of 6 developer, with several others working on it aswell. Infact they recieve lend lease from the EUIV team aswell.
- Podcat (lead/design/programming)
- Darkrenown (script/research/design)
- TomaszKowalczyk (programmer)
- Guraan (programmer)
- Sideburnout (2D art)
- larre (3D art/map)
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and i still agree with it next new year's day if i get an great finished game in the end.
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"Oh dear, I'm dying" - "Awesome news, you could have died yesterday but no! You lived a day more".
The bad news is not that they're not rushing the game. The bad news is that it's still alpha. And if they made a submission for beta and failed, it means that what they thought was ok is not ok.
With each day the game come closer to release
Not if they keep pushing away the realase date
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Why is it a bad news that they dont rush the game, exactly?
The team isnt small. The core team consists of 6 developer, with several others working on it aswell. Infact they recieve lend lease from the EUIV team aswell.
- Podcat (lead/design/programming)
- Darkrenown (script/research/design)
- TomaszKowalczyk (programmer)
- Guraan (programmer)
- Sideburnout (2D art)
- larre (3D art/map)
I guess it's mainly the people who are working on the grand strategy,country management and battle mechanics who have to do the main amount of work,not the graphics developers. So I guess that would be the top two persons listed?
Same can be said about HL3....With each day the game come closer to release
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Paradox Developement Studio has around 80 employees. I'm sure more then 2 people are working on their next flagship release.
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Thanks for letting us know victor!!!
Did you laugh about that @Denkt ?
Why should Johan make a joke of that??? This makes no sense...Why is it a bad news that they dont rush the game, exactly?
The team isnt small. The core team consists of 6 developer, with several others working on it aswell. Infact they recieve lend lease from the EUIV team aswell.
- Podcat (lead/design/programming)
- Darkrenown (script/research/design)
- TomaszKowalczyk (programmer)
- Guraan (programmer)
- Sideburnout (2D art)
- larre (3D art/map)
Didn't darkrenown say lately, that he isn't in the HOI4 team anymore and has another project?
Well, if Beta got rejected again, this can have 2 reasons, concerning podcats post on the last rejection. It could be a lack of a tutorial, which i guess was not the reason for the actual rejection. Or the game has still performance issues, because it runs too slow, which i believe more.
From the accidental posting of a beta tester here, i can assume, that bug squashing is still a thing. So MAYBE a rejected beta doesn't push back the release too much...
And now here's the information policy of pdx again. Some people, me included, asked many times in the forum just before christmas, if beta got accepted. No answer from anyone. Now Johan tells it to some guy via twitter. Is it that hard, to make a small post in the forum @Johan , since not everybody reads up twitter? Wouldn't it be a better information policy, instead have smart people like @Victor Cortez finding out about the game status and telling us? With all respects, tell about the status of the game, so that the whole forum can read it or tell nothing. Telling only one guy via twitter just leaves more questions imho...
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as i said, that is just the core team. There are several other devs working on it aswell. Groogy for example was temporarily stolen from CK2 to help with the AI. Wiz seems to do some stuff with the HoI IV ai aswell but SteelVolt is the one that does the major AI work if i recall correctly.
@mdw1985 They dont have to tell us at all if the game was approved for beta or not. The only people who really need this information are the beta testers themself right now. The devs are still on vacation, remember that. Sure, they could post a quick info on the forum, but would you take work home with you when you are on vacation? Be happy that Johan told us at all.
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Everyone wants a good game, and a delay to make it correct is understandable....Why is it a bad news that they dont rush the game, exactly?
The team isnt small. The core team consists of 6 developer, with several others working on it aswell. Infact they recieve lend lease from the EUIV team aswell.
- Podcat (lead/design/programming)
- Darkrenown (script/research/design)
- TomaszKowalczyk (programmer)
- Guraan (programmer)
- Sideburnout (2D art)
- larre (3D art/map)
but a years delay is kinda bad, and we are way past that... rediculous.
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This is the exact reason they don't say anything though, people will just start to get all unreasonably pissy and start being unfriendly to the devs, and then the rather understandably devs wont want to interact as much, and nobody wants that.Thanks for letting us know victor!!!
Did you laugh about that @Denkt ?
Didn't darkrenown say lately, that he isn't in the HOI4 team anymore and has another project?
Well, if Beta got rejected again, this can have 2 reasons, concerning podcats post on the last rejection. It could be a lack of a tutorial, which i guess was not the reason for the actual rejection. Or the game has still performance issues, because it runs too slow, which i believe more.
From the accidental posting of a beta tester here, i can assume, that bug squashing is still a thing. So MAYBE a rejected beta doesn't push back the release too much...
And now here's the information policy of pdx again. Some people, me included, asked many times in the forum just before christmas, if beta got accepted. No answer from anyone. Now Johan tells it to some guy via twitter. Is it that hard, to make a small post in the forum @Johan , since not everybody reads up twitter? Wouldn't it be a better information policy, instead have smart people like @Victor Cortez finding out about the game status and telling us? With all respects, tell about the status of the game, so that the whole forum can read it or tell nothing. Telling only one guy via twitter just leaves more questions imho...
Its kind of a lose-lose situation for everyone either way.
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They already admited it was a mistake, but they cant exactly go back in time and revert the announcement, and they're certainly not going to rush it (at least i hope).
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Why is it a bad news that they dont rush the game, exactly?
The team isnt small. The core team consists of 6 developer, with several others working on it aswell. Infact they recieve lend lease from the EUIV team aswell.
- Podcat (lead/design/programming)
- Darkrenown (script/research/design)
- TomaszKowalczyk (programmer)
- Guraan (programmer)
- Sideburnout (2D art)
- larre (3D art/map)
Not a big team. But we have no idea how they have shuffled people over the years of delay.
TomaszKowalczyk Name sounds familiar- did he program his own WW2 title before joining P'dox?
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