Hearts of Iron IV - 43rd Development Diary - 5th of February 2016

[EU3NOOB]

Poland can't into relevancy.

 

[FOARP]

Finally minors can be a decisive part of the game, not only a cannon fodder just like in HOI3.

Umm, world conquest was possible playing as Albania in HOI3.

 

[Ctanr]

please do my a great favor and release the game at the 15th of June,which is one day after my last exam for my Abitur (german high school grade)
and it is 3 days after my bday

if you release it before 15th of june you will ruin my final exams and if you release it after september you will ruin my first semester in the university

 

[Angelos]

This is getting really exciting with each passing dev. diary. I am hoping for a Q2 release, it's been a long time since i had some fun with HoI, ever since Darkest Hour. I didn't really like HoI3, but this seems to be going back to its' roots.

 

[Markath Avogoth]

So you got the ability to form new factions and unions etc. But how will this game portray the major power and faction of Luxembourg and Liechtenstein combined with Andorra?

 

[Midden]

Congrats on the milestone.

The diplomatic options look really well done.

 

[Razielus]

I know That famous Albanian WC.
Even as Poland I made WC in HOI2

But I would be happy to have more diplomatic influence rather than military one

 

[kac500]

Finally it's Beta. I was waiting for it.

 

[Axe99]

Cheers for the DD and a big congratulations on the beta . I have no doubt you and the team are very excited (and hopefully don't wake up feeling too rough this morning ). The diplomatic options look really good, and the way things like guarantee independence have been balanced to (hopefully) prevent guarantee spam sounds elegant - people will have to make strategic choices about how to block expansionist powers, and those powers will have other options.

One addition has me particularly interested....

Offer peace
For HOI4 it's possible to offer to surrender assuming the war has gone on long enough. Terms are set by the winners in this case, but needs to be approved by the surrendering nation. This is different from an unconditional surrender which is what happens when your nation get occupied past the limit set by its national unity. You can read more about peace conferences in this diary.

Would this make it possible for (say in a historical-like situation) Germany to get a separate peace with either the Western Allies or the USSR in certain circumstances, to potentially turn the war on its head, and will the AI use this sensibly? It sounds very tasty, a great addition .

 

[fuzzymanbowb]

I missed it when you were in alpha.... not

 

[Gwayne]

Wohoo Beta I did not know that the timetable of Paradox was based on Chinese New Year ;-)

 

[dreadunsought]

I think that it is unavoidable that the army cannot invade and attack from the border under "Military Access".

However, I think that I want you to improve it to count a port and the airport of the neutral country for the starting point when exe calculates the range that a strategy is possible when the navy and an air force do landing operation and airborne tactics.

 

[Daddl]

Offer peace is good, but I hope its not only possible to offer your own conditional surrender, but demand the enemies conditional surrender if your are actually winning as well?

Just got remembered about this game-breaking flaw in HoI3, where for example as China its just not possible to peace out the Japanese for anything more than Manchuria. I'd happily take Manchuria, Korea, Taiwan and some pacific islands, leave them their home territory and then be best friends without having to completely break them, but you just can't do it.

 

[Nats]

Beta thank the gods.

 

[LoLLarN]

Beta thank the gods.

The Paradoxian gods.

 

[human-looser]

Very nice DD and HoI IV looks better and better by the week.

Just one suggestion:
Can we please please please get the dog into the game? You keep teasing us with it and I'm afraid it won't be in the final release . I was thinking about a dialog setting like in hoi3 where you could say you want a pop-up or a notification in the log etc. Just set up the dog ("notification from the dog") as one option of recieving your messages for example. Any news will seem significantly more alarming (untill you actually check what it says) and I would love to have a panicky dog secretary to keep me up on my most urgent and terrifying news (like the cancelation of a trade agreement or the like). If you have to, make it a DLC. This should be enough to appease the Old Guard that would get a heart attack, if they were ever forced to see the button "activate national dog" in the options menu. Or just implement it in secret and PM me the command to active it. I suck at modding involving anything but code

 

[bujin90]

so how can we beta?

 

[EU3NOOB]

so how can we beta?

Easy. If you got chosen last November you're in.

If not, then sorry, gotta wait til release like everyone else!

 

[The Balbinater]

congrats on beta...

this game looks far more polished already then HoI3 was at this stage.... well done!

really looking forward to this game!!!

Avanti, paradox!

 

[henzington]

Will the AI transfer occupation like in EU4 especially when the territory is the war goal?