I've never once played vanilla HOI4 as I always play with mods such as the fallout mod, the WWW 1 mod, the Kisterrich mod or the Millennium dawn mod. So I'm just wondering how many other people have never played vanilla HOI4.
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Have you ever played vanilla HOI4?
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I tried a few games in vanilla, but I would never have gotten the game except for the mods.
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The only total conversion mod I’ve played is my own, alt hist scenarios don’t really interest me so I tend to stixk with vanilla
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Like, 80% of my playtime is vanilla, or so. The remaining 20% are for debugging my own mod.
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I usually play vanilla with Expert AI and a few QoL mods. I also like The Great War. I’ve tried Kaiserreich and I think it’s fantastic, but I generally like my games historical.
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I would LOVE to play vanilla, if I could turn off non-focus faction joining (and if PDX would take care, that focus trees don't break with other focus trees).
At the moment, I'm only playing mods for that very reason. I find them to be much a more reliable game experience.
At the moment, I'm only playing mods for that very reason. I find them to be much a more reliable game experience.
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The only mods I play with are usually small tweaks or graphical. The vanilla gameplay is untouched
also I don’t get only playing total overhaul mods. I actually like the WWII scenario
also I don’t get only playing total overhaul mods. I actually like the WWII scenario
The total overhaul mods also have a WWII-like conflict. It's just way more flexible, so that every game can be new.
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Despite the huge praise Ive heard for HOI4 mods and how people cant play without them, when I tried the most suggested ones I was kind of underwhelmed. They didnt seem very good.
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It’s just not the same. I need actual historical WWII
Fantasy stuff just doesn’t do it for me
With Expert AI buffed the vanilla actually becomes really good imo. I would say better and even the most of the good mods
As I chose this game as a WW2 era experience (what did or could have happened) the only mods I play with are expert AI and some QoL mods. Never played with anything game changing. Essentially mods which should probably be part of the vanilla game anyway but aren't for some reason.
I haven't played vanilla in many years. I like doing stuff like having a facist civil war in USSR, and playing the fascist side, or release a country, then play the new country. I always do that with a mod.
I'm sure that their are many fantastic mods out there and I'm planning to play some of them at some point, but with several hundred hours of playtime I still don't feel like I have sufficiently explored and learned the base game. That's why I personally disagree with the statement that it is a bad game without mods.
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That's why I would rather say: The basegame is pretty bad, if you are used to the high quality of mods. Give Kaiserreich a try (for starters), you will feel the difference in quality.
Regarding mechanics, they aren't too different. You can perfectly learn the game with (e.g.) Kaiserreich.
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