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I had to laugh when they declared war on Germany and were ignoring the most important front, get a popup "Kiev has fallen" and click through. "Enh, that's probably not something I need to pay attention to!".
 
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That strikes me as rather poor idea for any country with more than a few divisions -- with a war or two going you'd be getting constant spam of notifications that'd lead to ignoring these reports sooner than later, defeating their very purpose?

The beauty of the system is that you get to turn them off if you want to and I get to turn them on if I want to. I actually feel the exact opposite: the notification system works OK for a division or two but completely breaks down with a war or two because it cannot handle the sheer number of occurrences, forcing a constant state of notification that stops being useful. That's why I'm OK with playing Stellaris: not many units to track. I still hope they put message settings into the game, but it's not a deal breaker for me.
 
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I found it very much entertaining. It displayed well how challenging it can be to keep focused and how easily you make mistakes - happened to me more than once in HOI3 as well. I do not understand why everybody wants a perfectly polished stream - if you want that, wait for some professional youtubers who upload their vids after cutting and so forth. That was life at its finest and I loved it. Thumbs up for the Führ.. ähh fun =)

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I had to laugh when they declared war on Germany and were ignoring the most important front, get a popup "Kiev has fallen" and click through. "Enh, that's probably not something I need to pay attention to!".

Well, this should hush-up the people going "HOI4 is so easy, a noob could win with their eyes shut". After that stream, we know that's not true! :p
 

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Germans marching into Russia be like: "Where are the Russians?
 
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While its easy to say it was a big waste of time, actually what you have to realize is they showed off the AI reallllly well.

We don't watch WWW to just have Devs show off their skills and beat up the AI, we watch to see the game. This week we saw, for instance,
1) how the AI takes advantage of Human error really well
2) how important planning bonus before attacking is
3) how losing works out in the diplomacy screen

That said we got screwed out of at least 45 minutes of gameplay which was not good.
We also got to see how much it takes for Russia to fold in a normal game. :). You don't need to take every last scrap of land, as had happened in the MP stream with Da9l and Johan.
 
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Ah, a pop-up showing Soviet influence growing in Soviet Union... Trotsky's death event overflowing the event box... and I was thinking it looks too polished for a PDX game :p
 

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Well, this should hush-up the people going "HOI4 is so easy, a noob could win with their eyes shut". After that stream, we know that's not true! :p
Well an undefended front is zero challenge for the AI, So it is not a true scenario to judge the AI. It was a silly misatake by them.
 
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I as as beginner found the stream to be entertaining and rather motivating to see People other than me struggling too :V
 
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I'll try to not go rude here, since I'm sure everyone had best intentions. But hower, stream was so bad that after about 40 minutes i just skipped through it till the end (I watched it a bit later when I got the time). It was not that that they lost... I would not be happier if they won either. It was lack of any interest for the stream by the all included that was mayor waste of my time. I feel sorry for the people who watched the whole thing to be honest.

As someone who is REALLY looking forward to world war wendsday this was major disapointment for me personaly. However I'm gratefull that effort was made when there was bad situation but I feel it's important to say that effor was bad and it was not worth making.

I'm still looking forward to the game just as much and I don't think this has anything to do with gameplay or game itself, if you guys streamed 'best game ever to come out in the history of the world', I still could not be watchig it in a stream like this.

Again, thanks for the effort, but next time don't bother, write up explanation/apollogy and cancel it. Things like this are not worth wasting time on.
 
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People would be pissed either way. Can't please everyone.

I think was funny to see a failed game :D could already see first mistake when @TheLetterZ removed 50%+ from german line to help in Finland :D
Declaring war too early on Germany causing all other wars to merge was probably (as explained) bad timing (rofl)
And noticing that AI does push for encirclement and troop destruction when possible proves even if older AI it will perform very nicely