I'm on 1440p. The UI scaling itself worked pretty well but I kept crashing with the hotfix (about every 10-15 minutes or so). I don't know if it was related to UI scaling itself or something else in the hotfix, but I reverted in any case.
Hearts of Iron IV - Development Diary 60 - Release Week and Beta Hotfix Patch 1.0.1
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I'm on 1440p. The UI scaling itself worked pretty well but I kept crashing with the hotfix (about every 10-15 minutes or so). I don't know if it was related to UI scaling itself or something else in the hotfix, but I reverted in any case.
I had late-game performance issues but turning off everything but 3D units + full render somewhat helped, glad to know you guys are working on it.
Love the game, but around 1944 with an allied push against Japan the game was slowing down to a crawl! Was getting frustrated thinking I would just have to start over only playing early years. Just downloaded the update and opened my game.. Works like a charm! Was able to win the war shortly there after!! Thanks paradox!!
8 out of my 10 games (which all had been cut short due to inaccuracies), 3rd Reich declares war on Switzerland.
10 out of 10 declares war to all Scandinavian countries, despite the fact that only in one have they invaded Sweden only.
Denmark never surrenders.
UK always does a naval invasion at mainland Italy.
8/10 Republican win the Spanish civil war.
5/10 UK loses Cairo and Alexandria to Italy. And that's due to the fact that they always invade mainland Italy, at least once a year.
1/10 Vichy France was formed and it immediately declared war to France, instead of being neutral.
Japan has never done the Pearl harbor attack, instead they choose a formal declaration of war (I have played as the USA in all 10).
No attack on Wake island.
When France capitulates they keep all the African territories and they keep fighting and trying to do naval invasions on the coasts of Normandy.
Denmark definitely needs to be scripted to surrender if it's not played by a human, ATM the Copenhagen issue is ridiculous and little is gained in for or historical accuracy from having Germany grind against them for years on end.
As for the Pearl Harbor issue, do you have the correct setup for it? IIRC the US has to take a focus for it to happen.
Can't wait for more updates! I have played hours so far... After I stop playing all I think about is playing more!!!
I've noticed in the two games that I've run through, Germany tends towards suicidal assaults through the Maginot Line (because it seems like the AI only uses the front line feature and not the fall back line), and the Western theater turns into a WWI stalemate. In my Italy game, Germany tended to deploy significant divisions to garrison useless territory in Libya and on the Italian mainland.
The error is that you have two tools that do the same thing. You have the Offensive front line creator and the Defensive front line creator. Would it not be better to have a single "Line Creator" and then if that particular Army Group is indicated for offensive operations to have advance lines and for defensive that it creates defensive fall back lines? Or combine the defensive/garrison orders (because if I'm supposed to defend and area, I need some divisions to be the speed bumps at the front and others to have the rear areas prepared when the front line guys fall back into position?
The error is that you have two tools that do the same thing. You have the Offensive front line creator and the Defensive front line creator. Would it not be better to have a single "Line Creator" and then if that particular Army Group is indicated for offensive operations to have advance lines and for defensive that it creates defensive fall back lines? Or combine the defensive/garrison orders (because if I'm supposed to defend and area, I need some divisions to be the speed bumps at the front and others to have the rear areas prepared when the front line guys fall back into position?
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UK also must stop utilizing the invasion plan that never happened and defend Cairo and Alexandria properly. Vichy France should appear and remain neutral (they had even burned the French fleet under their possession.
As for Pearl Harbor I have tried about 5 times to enable the focus and use under 7 capital ships in the harbor. Japan was already justifying a war against me and they declared formally.
Most probably I'm doing something wrong (heavily defended Hawai). But I still see no attack at Wake Island, and only a half assed one at Guam.
Thanks for that! The game has great potential, it's just that it needs a few patches. Right now the AI decision making is my biggest problem - Turkey joined axis when I as Soviet Union was past Berlin in less than 6 months. Such situations can easily be fixed though, I have faith in you guys!
My game is running fine on my PC, no issues with slowing down or graphics problems and hasn't crashed even once! Love it! 
A few issues I've noticed in my game (I started the Tutorial as Italy and have kept playing to learn the game as it is a bit different to the previous versions and have taken my time, so I'm still on my first game and it's now 19 Sept 1940):
1) I have auto save enabled but no auto saving is occurring!
2) I followed the Tutorial until step 5 (out of 15) and then did my own thing and conquered Ethiopia. However the big arrow pointing to Addis Ababa won't disappear! Also the Tutorial 15 step help tab won't go away either (it minimizes to the bottom right of the screen)!
3) Romania Declared War on Hungry (or it may have been the other way around, I can't recall now) and Romania joined the Allies when that occurred. Then France immediately declared Romania to be an enemy despite both countries being in the Allied faction! At that point the Axis was not involved in the war (that only happened a few days later when Hungry joined the Axis).
4) I built an Italian aircraft carrier, but when it rolled off the production line I got 2 (RM Aquila and RM Sparviero)!!! Not quite sure how or why that happened because I certainly only had the one production line producing 1 CV.
A few issues I've noticed in my game (I started the Tutorial as Italy and have kept playing to learn the game as it is a bit different to the previous versions and have taken my time, so I'm still on my first game and it's now 19 Sept 1940):
1) I have auto save enabled but no auto saving is occurring!
2) I followed the Tutorial until step 5 (out of 15) and then did my own thing and conquered Ethiopia. However the big arrow pointing to Addis Ababa won't disappear! Also the Tutorial 15 step help tab won't go away either (it minimizes to the bottom right of the screen)!
3) Romania Declared War on Hungry (or it may have been the other way around, I can't recall now) and Romania joined the Allies when that occurred. Then France immediately declared Romania to be an enemy despite both countries being in the Allied faction! At that point the Axis was not involved in the war (that only happened a few days later when Hungry joined the Axis).
4) I built an Italian aircraft carrier, but when it rolled off the production line I got 2 (RM Aquila and RM Sparviero)!!! Not quite sure how or why that happened because I certainly only had the one production line producing 1 CV.
Great Work so far, Paradox! Keep it comming!
Aside of the air war balancing, there is also an AI issue. The AI seems to concentrate their attacks on specific air zones constantly. Playing as Germany, when the war breaks out in September '39 up until Mai '40, when I attack Netherlands/Belgium, the AI concentrates their all their bombers in the East German zone (probably UK) and all their fighters (both France and UK) and bombers (France) on West Germany. First of all, at least the bombers should shuffle different air zones, whichever they can reach (fighters can only reach West Germany by then of course). Once Belguim and Netherlands join, allied planes are concentrated their as well. It is also not realistic to commit everything they have at that stage. Historically, UK even denied French request to station all their fighters in France in Mai/June '40.
Perhaps there could be a stacking penalty for large airforces (by % of your total planes) that can be reduced by doctrines later in the game.
This is similar about ships. The UK AI seems to conentrate what they have in the North and Baltic Seas leaving the Mediteranian and Asia pretty much alone.
The AI does not seem to build medium or heavy tanks. In Mai '40, France only has light tanks (as well as UK) and its Char B1 is just in development.
Also Italy is either overpowered or focuses too heavily on land divisions: 200 divisions vs 700 aircraft in Mai '40, while it did not yet join the war.
Thanks!
Aside of the air war balancing, there is also an AI issue. The AI seems to concentrate their attacks on specific air zones constantly. Playing as Germany, when the war breaks out in September '39 up until Mai '40, when I attack Netherlands/Belgium, the AI concentrates their all their bombers in the East German zone (probably UK) and all their fighters (both France and UK) and bombers (France) on West Germany. First of all, at least the bombers should shuffle different air zones, whichever they can reach (fighters can only reach West Germany by then of course). Once Belguim and Netherlands join, allied planes are concentrated their as well. It is also not realistic to commit everything they have at that stage. Historically, UK even denied French request to station all their fighters in France in Mai/June '40.
Perhaps there could be a stacking penalty for large airforces (by % of your total planes) that can be reduced by doctrines later in the game.
This is similar about ships. The UK AI seems to conentrate what they have in the North and Baltic Seas leaving the Mediteranian and Asia pretty much alone.
The AI does not seem to build medium or heavy tanks. In Mai '40, France only has light tanks (as well as UK) and its Char B1 is just in development.
Also Italy is either overpowered or focuses too heavily on land divisions: 200 divisions vs 700 aircraft in Mai '40, while it did not yet join the war.
Thanks!
I'm surprised USA is so high on the list seeing you spend most the game waiting around.
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There is a kind of fatal error that debug mode can't check it but it would let the game crashed(CTD problem). If the modder deleted some naval bases(must be the exist in orignal game ones) in nudge mode when he was making a mod. THE DEBUG MODE WOULD NEVER FOUND THIS ERROR. AND THIS ERROR MUST MAKE A CTD PROBLEM!!! Hope to improve the debug mode for avoiding this kind error.
It would seem impossible to fight a war like how I've always done against China in DH, AoD, HOI, HOI II, HOI III as Japan. You just do not have enough divisions to do so, and getting new ones takes a long time if you want to reinforce what you have - so no new units. To bring your forces to max, you need to build tons of weapons for all the existing divisions, let alone any new divisions. The Chinese overwhelm you at their northern border when you put everything up there. I'm not asking for a China Nerf, I'm asking for Japan to have all it's Manchurian and homeland units at max strength at start. It ain't cool to need 3+ years of building rifles, without any training, or making new units.Its a bug we know about now. AI backing out of factions it doesnt fit it was added late so we forgot about this case. Will be sorted.
Exactly, its a great way to know what to focus on (but not the only, I suspect poland being quite popular is because it has extra content already for example)
Could you make a report in the bug forum where you can zip a savegame where its slow and upload it and we can take a look and optimize based on that
Yes, their position and situation in the world makes them a lot of fun
1. Have you reported this in the bug forum?
2. I can suggest it as an option to sales for sure on monday
I think its the fact that most of the losses seem to happen quickly and then slow down rather than being at a more steady pace that makes people feel this way
Italy was the most popular by far the first day, but then went down to where its at now
yeah, if they are in the allies I can see AI going the other way
maybe some division cant get to the frontline. look through and see if one of them doesnt ahve the prepare progressbar?
Can you report this in the bug forum (include savegame zipped up)
oops, forgot japan! They are quite popular at 8.2%
as much as I wish it our artists do not know how to code ai
should be fine
I call BS on this. Just give Japan full strength units at start! That will go a long way here, especially since you cannot make any new ones if you want the existing ones up to strength!
Please, fix this - PDS!
Guys, any chance the names will be placed in the avatar photo picker on the forums? I had to rummage through the game to find the names of each of the leaders in the avatar forum.
Amazing photo of Manuel Quezon btw. It actually looks like the one I remembered in the old 20 peso bills.
Amazing photo of Manuel Quezon btw. It actually looks like the one I remembered in the old 20 peso bills.
No I have to dissagree. I got well over 80 hours now and I have to say its laughable to steamroll China as Japan. In my last 15-20 games Japan just rolled over China. They dont have weapons to supply their troops nor supply equipment. Of course you shouldnt wait more than 1 year to declare against them. And dont forget naval invasions. 70% of the wins came down to the usage of naval invasions. Or you could just take shianxi(or how its called, the place that shares his lands with the communist party of china) and the other Warlords and take out the big powers behind China.
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I have constant crashes after the hotfix. Is there some way to debug the problem? I have been sending reports from my constant crashes.