GDC

[CHRIS3169]

Maybe we'll get a release date at GDC in a few days? They mentioned they're going in the last WWW... Patience is one thing, but this is getting frustrating.

Paradox, release this game soon or in protest I'm only going to buy half of the 2 dozen cosmetic DLCs you end up releasing...

 

[Daddl]

I'm sure Paradox is gladly exchanging the few bucks they miss out from you compared to the tens of thousands they miss if the initial release is a buggy mess.

 

[CHRIS3169]

I was clearly being sarcastic in the 2nd paragraph...

 

[Gort11]

Yeah, I'd have thought the half-dozen fairly-important bugs we saw in WWW would be enough to convince people that the game needs further work.

 

[Oddb@ll]

Yeah, I'd have thought the half-dozen fairly-important bugs we saw in WWW would be enough to convince people that the game needs further work.

The version they were playing was outdated and some of the bugs might have been squashed by now. Next weeks game will be a more accurate portrayal of the games state.

 

[adam_grif]

I suspect that they might announce the release date there, but don't set yourself up for possible disappointment by assuming that they definitely will.

 

[Gort11]

The version they were playing was outdated and some of the bugs might have been squashed by now. Next weeks game will be a more accurate portrayal of the games state.

True. I guess we won't know until we see a fair bit of gameplay with no evident bugs.

 

[kviiri]

True. I guess we won't know until we see a fair bit of gameplay with no evident bugs.

They'll play SP next week - which is a brilliant idea IMO. Single player will showcase the game's features far better than multiplayer did, I believe.

 

[Evan05]

Yeah, I'd have thought the half-dozen fairly-important bugs we saw in WWW would be enough to convince people that the game needs further work.

Sarcasm doesn't translate well into a purely text-based format.

 

[paranoidsteve]

The probability of this has greatly increased.

From Johans twitter feed ;'@thehappybuns we'll give out more info on hoi4 release at gdc next week.'

 

[StillwaterRotter]

They'll play SP next week - which is a brilliant idea IMO. Single player will showcase the game's features far better than multiplayer did, I believe.

Yea, Daniel will be able to pause, show off stuff, micro more, and probably show off more stuff than he could compared to the multiplayer game.

 

[AndrewT]

Posting off-topic, swearing, personal insults, and trollish comments all deleted.

This things are against the rules of this forum, that you all agreed to abide by when you signed up here.

This behaviour stops now, or some people are going to find themselves access-deprived pretty soon.

 

[Ultimate_Hobo]

As much as i desperately want HoI 4 i would rather wait 3 more months than see it released badly. I'd rather not see paradox shackle themselves to a release date if they don't feel ready and while they've shown a willingness to set back deadlines that tends to annoy people more than never making one.

Honestly, the news that air supply is planned but wont be in at launch is enough to make me want the game setting back until features like this are added. The expansions should be expansions rather than adding features which are fairly important from the get-go.

I appreciate that they are, at the end of the day, a business and they can't pump unlimited money and time into HoI 4 but I really don't want to see a botched release.

 

[Number 7]

As much as i desperately want HoI 4 i would rather wait 3 more months than see it released badly. I'd rather not see paradox shackle themselves to a release date if they don't feel ready and while they've shown a willingness to set back deadlines that tends to annoy people more than never making one.

Honestly, the news that air supply is planned but wont be in at launch is enough to make me want the game setting back until features like this are added. The expansions should be expansions rather than adding features which are fairly important from the get-go.

I appreciate that they are, at the end of the day, a business and they can't pump unlimited money and time into HoI 4 but I really don't want to see a botched release.

i highly doubt they're shackling themselves to a release date they dont feel prepared for. Even though you can't just keep delaying a product forever (every day is a lot of money in wages to programmers and other expenses, if you delay a game too long in search of perfection you will never make your expenses back...) i dont think they've been doing that.

i think if they're going to set the release date at GDC, its because they really feel ready to do it.

 

[Clarkyy]

Yeah, I'd have thought the half-dozen fairly-important bugs we saw in WWW would be enough to convince people that the game needs further work.

IIRC every bug that cropped up during the WWW sessions had already been dealt with in the most up-to-date build, as Daniel commented each time on it. Particularly in the last 2 or 3 episodes there wasn't a single problem I'm pretty sure. If anything I feel like the WWW streams have shown us that the game is practically at a level of completion - I imagine at this point they're just touching up balancing issues they may have encountered and still just keeping on the lookout for any more bugs. Here's hoping for a release date at GDC!

 

[safe-keeper]

As much as i desperately want HoI 4 i would rather wait 3 more months than see it released badly. I'd rather not see paradox shackle themselves to a release date if they don't feel ready and while they've shown a willingness to set back deadlines that tends to annoy people more than never making one.

At the very least, I think there's high hopes for a release window at GDC. As in, "Q2 2016".

 

[CHRIS3169]

IIRC every bug that cropped up during the WWW sessions had already been dealt with in the most up-to-date build, as Daniel commented each time on it. Particularly in the last 2 or 3 episodes there wasn't a single problem I'm pretty sure. If anything I feel like the WWW streams have shown us that the game is practically at a level of completion - I imagine at this point they're just touching up balancing issues they may have encountered and still just keeping on the lookout for any more bugs. Here's hoping for a release date at GDC!

I believe a few mostly cosmetic bugs still occurred in the last episode or 2, namely ships sailing through land in several locations(northern Germany and Indonesia clipping I believe happened in the last 2 episodes)

 

[Ariakus Fordring]

Yeah I saw that "land-worthy" ships.Looks like Turks are doing their tricks just like they did in Constantinople.
They are "skipping" some parts of the game (like air supply) because of time issues,and this makes me think we're really close to release and PDX is not willing to postpone it again and meaking some cuts.

 

[CHRIS3169]

The probability of this has greatly increased.

From Johans twitter feed ;'@thehappybuns we'll give out more info on hoi4 release at gdc next week.'

I'm going to say that while the game may be released as early as June or July, if I had to guess, the release date will be August 9. They've released several games on the 2nd Tuesday of August, and it seems like the right amount of time for them to sort out all the issues and finalize content.

August 9. You heard it here first...unless I'm wrong of course, then you heard it on gamefaqs

 

[Ariakus Fordring]

August is Q3,and nobody likes Q3 releases.