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The factions implemented in BftB are great however they don't feel like Hoi4. I really like them, Bulgaria's in particular and I think that the game is better for them but imo it just doesn't feel like they fit in. Maybe its because they've been jury rigged into the decisions or maybe I haven't played with them enough idk it's odd
 

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I feel alternate history sometimes is a bit "weird", although if you play with AI on historical focuses the game doesn't feel odd so the factions of these minors shouldn't be a problem playing historical.
 

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It feels very much in the vein of alt history HOI 4 but not so great from a historical war perspective. As in in the actual war there were only a couple of factions and also a lot of neutrals.

I find that the more "unmerged" wars that go on, the more confusing it gets. Or you get situations where all factions are at war with each other and the game has slowed to real time.
 

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I don't think the factions are a good idea - in general I've found the increasing amount of political management in the last few releases to detract from the game as I hate all the political micro - I hated it with the US tree in MtG, and in my plays with Bulgaria I hate it there. It's poorly explained, and difficult to assess the impact of, with options flicking on and off based on various focuses and who knows what else. It's like having a little text-based game in the midst of a graphical one. I would like to see future releases with no new political management stuff - just focus on the main game-play.
 
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I don't think the factions are a good idea - in general I've found the increasing amount of political management in the last few releases to detract from the game as I hate all the political micro - I hated it with the US tree in MtG, and in my plays with Bulgaria I hate it there. It's poorly explained, and difficult to assess the impact of, with options flicking on and off based on various focuses and who knows what else. It's like having a little text-based game in the midst of a graphical one. I would like to see future releases with no new political management stuff - just focus on the main game-play.
tbh, most of yuot gripes are due to 1: not understaing what yuo need to do, and 2: the fact that it's not well explained what to do, for example americas internal poltics is increadably easy, since one dosen't have to do much no mather the path, but with other's get very hard very quickly because it's not properly explained even the wiki does a rather poor job of explaining it, so for most of us boot open the cheats, and start testing stuff, which is far from ideal.
 

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I don't think the factions are a good idea - in general I've found the increasing amount of political management in the last few releases to detract from the game as I hate all the political micro - I hated it with the US tree in MtG, and in my plays with Bulgaria I hate it there. It's poorly explained, and difficult to assess the impact of, with options flicking on and off based on various focuses and who knows what else. It's like having a little text-based game in the midst of a graphical one. I would like to see future releases with no new political management stuff - just focus on the main game-play.


I Blame the Kaiserreich mod,
 
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tbh, most of yuot gripes are due to 1: not understaing what yuo need to do, and 2: the fact that it's not well explained what to do, for example americas internal poltics is increadably easy, since one dosen't have to do much no mather the path, but with other's get very hard very quickly because it's not properly explained even the wiki does a rather poor job of explaining it, so for most of us boot open the cheats, and start testing stuff, which is far from ideal.

My gripes are having to play a weird text-based game in the political actions section when I bought an interactive graphical strategy game.
 

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Paradox are always sure to pander to the alt-history people who want ridiculous meme-esque content. Just how it is.