Beta? HOI4

[QUENisBAD]

So I was the guy who challenged Daniel and Jake in the last World War Wednesday episode (

) (56:13). Jake and Daniel, that challenge still stands >:L. I have logged more than 500 (359 online on Steam)hours on HoI3; I think? That's a guess really I would sometimes spend whole days away. I know at one point you could get the beta if you invited like 20-25 people to the game page? This was quite a while back and I haven't checked since then because that was a high amount of people to invite to get into the beta so I quickly gave up.
Has anyone else felt this way as well? That goal seemed kinda large especially since Hoi is largely a single player experience.
Don't want to seem rude by asking if there is a way to get the beta currently? I do love this game as it fills up my free time. HoI3 is absolutely my go-to game for boredom. I'm very active minded and enjoy a game that can make all my neurons fire.
I also wanted to thank Paradox for choosing to release HoI4 on D-day this year since I'm going off to college in the fall. Very nice I get some time to play it before I get into my studies. I also wanted to say thank you for making such a great series and I hope to see it live well into future. It's hard to find a grand strategy game that could ever compare to the HoI series. Total War comes close but is not nearly as entertaining as HoI.

Also, some questions if I may:
1. Will the UK and France be able to release all those puppets they start with like they were able to in HoI3?
2. Will the removal of money drastically alter game play? Money is essential to WW2 and was the bases for the large buildup for the war to even take place. I think it was one of the few times in history where money was completely ignored and Allied nations signed debt treaties to pay off later. It would be weird to me to trade anything with anyone for factory space. Especially before the war breaks out.
3. What other states can be released?
4. Is Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, India etc. able to be released like as in HoI3?
5. How are you folks doing today? xD
6. Also, where is Espionage? I don't remember seeing a single thing about it in any of the WWW episodes.
7. Is that feature taken out or has it not been added yet?
8. Will the generic focuses for other nations be fair and balanced compared to lets say Germany? I know in HoI3 Germany got ridiculous bonuses for staying historical and I found that a little odd. I also found it impossible to play as France since my divisions kept shattering as soon as combat broke out.

Cheers,
Quen

 

[Holdy]

Well, the Beta is not for filling up time, they chose (as far as I know) people who were active in the support and bug forums already. They needed people with a lot of different PC compositions to find bugs and ofc to balance the game

And 500 hours is not that much in the end

 

[QUENisBAD]

Well, the Beta is not for filling up time, they chose (as far as I know) people who were active in the support and bug forums already. They needed people with a lot of different PC compositions to find bugs and ofc to balance the game

And 500 hours is not that much in the end

I certainly got a different PC composition. Have you heard of a HP computer tanked? Lmao. For some reason HoI3 crashes on me often for no reason really. I'll be an hour into a great campaign and boom. I mean I can still load up my save but it kinda turns me off yanno?

 

[gamedude]

HOI 3 crashes on everyones PC. It just take lots of time to figure out the problem and solve it to make it work 80% of the times. Also... BRAND of your PC has nothing to do with how well your game runs on the computer. the Equipment does.

 

[GhengisKhan]

HoI3 rarely crashed on any of my PC's. Maybe once out of every 3 or 4 games. Takes me forever to complete one game usually so thats not very often. When it did happened it was very late game usually and possiblly due to me leaving the game up for days at a time.

 

[QUENisBAD]

HOI 3 crashes on everyones PC. It just take lots of time to figure out the problem and solve it to make it work 80% of the times. Also... BRAND of your PC has nothing to do with how well your game runs on the computer. the Equipment does.

Yeah I meant to say that my equipment is pretty much maxed. Just funny because I bought this computer at BestBuy some years ago and it was 1200$ at the time. Glad I got it, it can max almost any game a few years ago when I got it. Still holds up pretty well, just got a newer graphics card.

 

[Sun_Killer]

The crash issue with HoI3 can be fixed with a new .exe that podcat posted ages ago.

 

[potski]

I have logged more than 500 (359 online on Steam)hours on HoI3; I think?

Some of the beta testers will have already completed way more than 500 hours on HOI4.

I know at one point you could get the beta if you invited like 20-25 people to the game page? This was quite a while back and I haven't checked since then because that was a high amount of people to invite to get into the beta so I quickly gave up.
Has anyone else felt this way as well? That goal seemed kinda large especially since Hoi is largely a single player experience.
Don't want to seem rude by asking if there is a way to get the beta currently?

You could be entered in a draw where 10 people would get an early release beta code, if you signed up people on the website. The people doing the beta testing were invited by Paradox before Christmas. The only people getting early access now are people like Quill18. If you have more than 100,000 followers on YouTube you might still have a chance

2. Will the removal of money drastically alter game play?

Did you notice any issues in the videos?

Money is essential to WW2 and was the bases for the large buildup for the war to even take place. I think it was one of the few times in history where money was completely ignored and Allied nations signed debt treaties to pay off later.

Interesting logic.

5. How are you folks doing today?

It's a public holiday today and Monday. They are having a break from all of the exceptional hard work they have been doing to make this an awesome game.

6. Also, where is Espionage? I don't remember seeing a single thing about it in any of the WWW episodes.
7. Is that feature taken out or has it not been added yet?

Not included. There was a feature planned to discover your enemy's battle plans, but that was dropped alooong time ago. Espionage with spies recruited from your leadership like in HOI3 is gone. But if you have the techs you can see what NFs other countries have researched.

8. Will the generic focuses for other nations be fair and balanced compared to lets say Germany?

The generic focuses are only for minors. They will be covered in the next DD. You wouldn't expect them to boost minors to the same level as Germany? There are already DDs covering most of the majors, with information about their NFs.

 

[fuzzymanbowb]

Beta is like school during summer. Closed 8)

 

[Had a dad]

Some of the beta testers will have already completed way more than 500 hours on HOI4

one has way more than that

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