Demo - Questions and Help

[Mrdie]

The inability to see ministers is bad and will be very annoying for modders. I liked seeing ministers (decent way to pass the time too), seeing ministers of puppeted states, etc. At least have it so they can open up in a window or something. It will also annoy those who make AARs. "In other news, there was a coup in Bolivia led by someone. Unfortunately, our foreign minister is blind and the rest of the nation's cabinet have vowed to abstain from looking at foreign government members." "The President met with his French counterpart, Jean Doé, and his Prime Minister, Ving Rhames."

 

[Poh]

i dont think thats that how its supposed to work.
i rather assume its something like the bitter peace event in HOI2.
russia either comes under german control OR if they choose to fight you have to destroy their forces and take all their provinces...
that poland event would make absolutely no sense otherwise

IIRC the manual said that if you choose to fight all your units will scatter guess they also transfere the provinces. it works pretty well imo

 

[Lordban]

2. The tutorial is useful, but disturbing. Why does the little man kill himself at the end?

He could have started to ignore you when a dog named "Blondie" for some reason went to him, giving you time to slip out of the bunker

 

[Kaelic]

im PISSED off.

They Changed the capital of Argentina ( Buenos Aires ) To CHACABUCO.

Its like saying that the capital of Japan isn't Tokyo, but its Osaka. Or saying that London isn't the capital, but oxford.

Or, more likely, that Sydney is the capital of Australia.

RAGE

Cheers;
Nick

It's a stupid mistake of theres but why are you "PISSED OFF"? Get over yourself, not everyone is mega informed about EVERY country in the world. Especially ones that are less important in international media.

 

[unmerged(146320)]

that would be the new combat delay methinks
first time offensive i also asked myself WTH arent my guys attcking, but when you hover your mouse over the red arrow you will see that after an attack now it takes up 170housr(practically a whole week) before you can attack again with that unit.

Nope it is not that, they just moved units around and did little with them in actuality..

 

[unmerged(57247)]

i'm gonna have to wait for a graphics mod to play. The vanilla map gives me a headache after just a few minutes.

 

[Kaelic]

I find the constant frame blocking when a day ticks over to be very annoying. It seems no effort to write a bit of concurrency into the UI was made. Nothing more frustrating than having to pause the game just to select something effectively. The most disappointing part is how this isn't very hard to do, this is why companies should stop putting grad programmers on UI jobs. The UI functionality is important.

 

[unmerged(59454)]

When I was building like 30 Panzer Divisions as Germany in order to see the unit names I noticed, that when I did this again (because the paralel build stayed at 30 which I didn't expect) the naming went further down the list. So when you build a Panzer Division and the game calls it like "1. Panzer-Division" and you then delete it and build again 1 armour division it won't be named "1st" but gives it the next name from the according file, although the name before isn't actually given.

 

[Jebus]

It's a stupid mistake of theres but why are you "PISSED OFF"? Get over yourself, not everyone is mega informed about EVERY country in the world. Especially ones that are less important in international media.

I don't think this is about not knowing what the capital of Argentina is (I mean, they researched so much it would be an absolute freak occurence to make so glaring a mistake) - I'd guess it's just an honest mistake, like putting the wrong number in the 'Capital={}' line. I guess it'll get fixed soon enough.

 

[SuperKyle]

thats weird i think, all other posts ive read so far conclude that the AI is overly aggressive. what difficulty are you on ?

Normal + player controlled everything

It's November 1st, I moved all my divisions to warsaw and nothing happened. I moved them all to 1 province and attacked 1 german brigade and they cant win lol. Stacking penalty works to a fault I guess. I mean, 1 million men, even disorganized and stacked apparently can't beat 5,000 germans in a month long battle.

Something is seriously f'ed up with this demo...

 

[unmerged(45977)]

well did you declare War on Belgium and the netherlands ?

Of course! Not the Netherlands tho, but Bruxelles isn't in hte Netherlands. They ALSO took Bruxelles.

 

[unmerged(18239)]

After about an hour of downloading:

A, never mind i'll just wait.

 

[unmerged(86397)]

Not really. You can get the AI to auto-manage production but you can't tell ti to auto-manage the sliders.

Horrible!
:wacko:

well, maybe a lot of clicking on sliders then

edit1: ok so now we all know about the sliders, so does anyone know if it is possible to auto manage convoys without AI taking over production?

 

[Alex_brunius]

The most disastrous things with the entire Demo seems to be that Germany starts with the land doctrine tech called "Operational level Organisation" at lvl 0.

This means the German troops have a roughly 140hour (about 6days) cool-down after attacking before they can attack again.

 

[Jazumir]

Okay - just posting away not having read what has been said before:

- There should be an ingame option (in the mainmenu-options actually) to switch languages. German users can already play with german texts on, if they edit the settings.txt. But the option should be ingame. (Ideally it would be trying to figure out the default language based on windows settings)

- The various screens (technology, production...) should scale with the screen resolution (WPF style, if you know what i mean). As is, i am probably going to play in 1400x900 or even lower, instead of 1680x1050 (or whatever it is).

- The default setting for the message when troops arriving at a new location should be the pop-up IMHO.

On a sidenote: I am a bit confused now about the legal issues concerning the german version, for the demo clearly displays Hitler as Hitler and the demo is free to DL for everyone everywhere. Not that i mind at all. Just odd i think.

EDIT: And what the post above mine says.

 

[unmerged(12303)]

hmm not only is the wind speed 0 but the weather is like 1,2 deg with frozen terrain ... its the 1st of sept and we are not at the north pole....
plus when you click on the weather map the clouds only appear if you scroll out or in.

 

[Evie HJ]

Not strictly a NEGATIVE comment, more of a minor suggestion, but province # 6972 Tracy could probably have its name changed to Sorel.

The actual city of Tracy was founded (and the name given by poll suggestion) in 1954, so outside the HOI3 timeline. It existed only 46 years, before being merged with the neighboring city of Sorel in 2000 to form Sorel-Tracy. Until 1954, it was known as the parish of Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel.

As the name of Tracy in the HOI era implies, its immediate neighbor Sorel has historically occupied a much more central role in the region.

 

[Veer]

Well, for me at least it's pretty much unplayable. It lags so much. I am not exaggerating here, I really can't play it. If I try to scroll the screen, it jumps from over Germany to the United states if I even touch the side of the screen and thats after about 5 seconds of waiting when the game chugs along at its happy Sub-1 FPS.

I have found the scrolling jumping to be dependent on your zoom level. At zoom out and close zoom in levels it lags. However at around a mid range it is smooth.

 

[Lord V]

Way too lag...

 

[unmerged(145650)]

plus when you click on the weather map the clouds only appear if you scroll out or in.

They appear if you move map too, but still it's a little bug.