Game too easy

[BillyThePoo]

From what I have seen on the www to me the game seems extremely easy against the IA.
Will we have the option to increase the difficulty of the game?
And if yes on what difficulty they are playing in?

 

[Denkt]

Normal I think, Daniel mentioned a Veteran difficulty which will make the game harder.

 

[Bridger15]

Plan to play Multiplayer for the first few months if you are a HOI/paradox game veteran. The AI will get better over the first few patches. It may even surprise you.

 

[seattle]

From what I have seen on the www to me the game seems extremely easy against the IA.
Will we have the option to increase the difficulty of the game?
And if yes on what difficulty they are playing in?

A HoI game is never too easy nor is it ever too difficult, it will be precisely as hard as you want it to be.

FYI, there's a difficulty.txt which you can easily edit to your liking. There'll also be plenty of mods of varying difficulty and so forth.

 

[BillyThePoo]

Well, thanks

 

[Truth]

There'll also be plenty of mods of varying difficulty and so forth.

We need to stop letting mods do the developer's work.


It does look easy on the streams, but it is true the difficulty will be ramped up as bugs are fixed and AI is improved (Rome II had terrible campaign AI on release, and right now Stellaris AI is fairly passive as well).

 

[Ibn_Solmyr]

Normal I think, Daniel mentioned a Veteran difficulty which will make the game harder.

By wich way ? I very disliked the way diificulty level was handled in HoI3, hope they did much better this time.

 

[spoonmaster]

We've also seen very little war between nations that are properly matched up. Japan running over China seems like Spain fighting Morocco.

 

[Mountain Man]

[Watch a skilled player play a game]

"Pfffft... this looks so easy."

[Play the game myself and get my ass handed to me by the AI]

"Oh..."

 

[safe-keeper]

AI wasn't complete when streamers played it.

 

[Amadís de Gaula]

From this last WWW seems pretty pretty easy, we´ll see. HoI 2 and HoI 3 AIs put a good fight against you. Germany should beat France... And it clearly seems it will be the other way around...

 

[GeneralPetrov]

HoI 2 and HoI 3 AIs put a good fight against you.

I think that's up for debate.

Germany should beat France

I think that's also very much up for debate.

 

[Volodio]

By wich way ? I very disliked the way diificulty level was handled in HoI3, hope they did much better this time.

He said that increase the difficulty put malus on the player.

[Watch a skilled player play a game]

"Pfffft... this looks so easy."

[Play the game myself and get my ass handed to me by the AI]

"Oh..."

He's not that skilled. He's good, yes, but he did some mistakes. Like let some parts of his front open, don't encircle the enemy. Moreover, he didn't care about winter and snow and he didn't manage too much his divisions. He didn't play slowly. They even let the AI manage the war against Spain and Switzerland, so his level has nothing to do with it. He went through the pyrenees easly and with tank divisions... And he had a ratio of one man dead to ten killed.

So no, it's not just him, the game seems easy. And also too fast, they can't do long battles like Stalingrad here.

Still, maybe they played with a low difficulty or maybe the balance isn't over, I don't know. We can hope this will be changed.

 

[Ownage]

But should It always beat France though? Doesn't that make it very static? Isin't it meant too be a bit up in the air who wins that? Especially a non-historical france. Having the same outcome is very fucking boring to be honest, it makes for very little replayablity.
It should be that, if you're playing as France and are good enough of a player and things go your way you win. Otherway around but with Germany, perhaps a bit easier than france but it shouldn't be set in stone.

 

[cKnoor]

I could just get "normal" players to play the game on stream. But it's usually more fun to watch someone that is really really good at the game.
We tend to call Daniel the best player in the world for two reasons, it's a silly thing to call someone, and he pretty much is at this moment.

 

[Ownage]

I could just get "normal" players to play the game on stream. But it's usually more fun to watch someone that is really really good at the game.
We tend to call Daniel the best player in the world for two reasons, it's a silly thing to call someone, and he pretty much is at this moment.

Do that, make someone not so good play and show the forums that the game isn't that easy. Please do since it would end so much AI hate/speculation.

 

[cKnoor]

Do that, make someone not so good play and show the forums that the game isn't that easy. Please do since it would end so much AI hate/speculation.

I would if I thought it would end any type of speculation, but I don't think it will. So I'd rather try and produce enjoyable streams.

 

[seattle]

We need to stop letting mods do the developer's work.


It does look easy on the streams, but it is true the difficulty will be ramped up as bugs are fixed and AI is improved (Rome II had terrible campaign AI on release, and right now Stellaris AI is fairly passive as well).

If devs like PDS provide awesome moddability and modding tools, then they already did a great service to us customers.

 

[Uladh88]

in todays stream france is defending against germany and italy while at the same time defeating spain, i think in hoi3 this would be impossible?

i am quite terrible at the game and cant defeat china as japan in hoi3 while the ai seems to to it at ease tho

 

[Ctanr]

From this last WWW seems pretty pretty easy, we´ll see. HoI 2 and HoI 3 AIs put a good fight against you. Germany should beat France... And it clearly seems it will be the other way around...

the only attackdirections for germany are currently through the mountains of france or the maginot line

both are pretty terrible for attacking