HOI4 Dev Diary - 5th Anniversary

[kimidf]

Because this isn't an Italy update.

neither was it British or the Southeast Asian front XD

I think they should have put some commanders who fought eastern front taking advantage of the cosmetic of the area

 

[kimidf]

I understand not implementing Lithuanian radio, but you should add their planes (ANBO). They made them themselves and had a lot of sales to other European countries. There aren't a lot of them, because of soviet occupation. But still it Would be really cool if they would appear in game.

possibly they will be introduced when they come out in the new dlc NSB since all countries receive their own trees always receive their own art and skins

 

[Khelkafuin]

Few words about new radio content. Do you really want to add track "White army, black baron"? It is associated with Civil War in Russia (1918-1922) and doesn't apply in any way to the 30s - 40s. Why don't you want to add "The Sacred War"? This track resonates in the hearts of everyone who is familiar with the German invasion of Mother Russia.

Sincerely, hoi fan from Russia.

 

[general_de_golle]

@podcat
Version 1.10.6. Italian and French AI still deletes battleships production at the start of the game. Japan also deletes battleship production.
Any chance to fix this?

 

[ngazi]

Do you mean you changed the internal borders in Brazil? Can you please fix the internal borders in China? Also please fix Xinjiang and Shanxi going communist focuses in historical mode. I made a thread explaining the historical problem.

 

[cotne22]

Speaking of namelists, can you change it so east and west germany use the german namelist?

 

[Civit]

Naval fix is not working (Italy still deletes battleships) and I don't care about 3d planes.
Imo, the usual missing opportunity.

 

[jayz806]

Defence of Moscow is actually a cover of Radio Tapok's song; origionally in Russian. I don't think they'd be able to license it, since it's not technically Sabaton's song. There's also not quite enough remaining ww2 Sabaton songs to fill up another music pack.

Just have to start an Iron Maiden music pack...Where Eagles Dare, Aces High...

 

[Skylax]

I truly thought that you would release the stuff you announced here for free as a celebration of the 5th anniversary of HoI. I usually defend the DLC policies of Paradox because I have supported this company forever and don't mind paying good money for good work (I even did not buy the Colonel Edition but bought every DLC via the store here).

But I was truly shocked today. I really understood yesterday's diary in a way that you wanted to celebrate 5 years of successful existence of HoI by giving the ever supporting player base a couple of goodies. A patch (with some concerning bug corrections in there that should have been hotfixes!) is all that we get for free, the rest costs 10 bucks in total. I usually don't mind paying money for this stuff, but this was really something else. Let's celebrate and let the customers pay the bill. No thank you. I am starting to get frustrated with really long update cycles, slow addition of content beside promises to the contrary from last year, when Covid was already in effect. I really don't post much here and mostly positive things, but I really wanted to voice my displeasure with that.

 

[DocDesastro]

The sprites look nice and well-made. the music selection is fine although I still must laugh about the funny accent the singer for the German songs has. Sounds weird in my ears. The bitter drop is only one thing. It does not feel like anniversary but just like another generic sales event. The DLC release was not timed well in my eyes. Celebration is for the heart and not for the wallet. It could have waited till expansion release in my book. But that said, happy 5th anniversary.

 

[DiNardo1910]

I truly thought that you would release the stuff you announced here for free as a celebration of the 5th anniversary of HoI.

I thought this too, I assumed it was the usual free anniversary stuff. I was shocked to find I had to spend $10.

I mean... I bought it. I love Hoi4, and want to support it. But it leaves a bad taste in my mouth, I got the impression it would be free.

 

[minimouse007]

Naval fix is not working (Italy still deletes battleships) and I don't care about 3d planes.
Imo, the usual missing opportunity.

well, more than two years after launch, the naval side is still not working properly
why am i not shocked

 

[Kosaki MacTavish]

People are hired based on their primary discipline, as with most other jobs in the gaming industry. We could, in theory, hire for positions that require professional level art skills, industry standard coding ability, knowledge of game-specific script, research ability, management skills.... you see where I'm going with this.

On top of this, one doesn't just 'slip a cheeky focus tree in', in between slapping together a few 3d models. These things (models and focus trees) take a significant quantity of time to create, and I guarantee that you'd enjoy a Finnish focus tree created by an artist in an evening about as much as you'd enjoy a character portrait painted by me in, well, any quantity of time.

So much this, hahahaha..... I can't wrap around my head to create 3D/2D models or create mechanics, but contents and decisions are rather easy to create and fix. Everyone has their one thing they excels in, and with good communication, many great things can be created.

 

[MrMcQue]

Cheers for the DD Podcat, and the extra info pdx-sanke and Arheo Very exciting to see HoI4 make (almost, just needs to survive three more days!) five years - and super-impressive where you've all taken tha game Very much looking forward to the future. Plane pack looks very cool (imagine how even cooler the game would look with that many different ship models per nation ) and I'll be sure to pick it - great work to the artists involved

As for the bugfixes:

Thank you so, so, sooooooo much . For a thematically-appropriate naval pic, here's the French battleship Richelieu (laid down in October 1935) under construction in 1937

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This is also super-helpful - having to bring up the details in the naval battle display to work out how many convoys were sunk was a little fiddly


Ooooooh, very nice and elegant - great work



Great work - a very fix



I'm not so sure about this. Is it possible to go crazy on ship purchasing decisions? Does not everyone need more ships?

Your points are good and all, but could you please tone down your use of emojis a bit?

It becomes just so much more readable without an emoji every few words .

Thanks.

 

[grahamjoshua]

@podcat
Version 1.10.6. Italian and French AI still deletes battleships production at the start of the game. Japan also deletes battleship production.
Any chance to fix this?

Maybe they need their Resources elsewhere? It´s a bit stupid sticking on Naval Production when you will face immediately a Land-based War.

 

[general_de_golle]

Maybe they need their Resources elsewhere? It´s a bit stupid sticking on Naval Production when you will face immediately a Land-based War.

It`s just the start of the game. France faces the first war after 3.5 years with historical focus on and has enough resources.
For Italy however, BBs are key to Middeterrenean. And their BBs have best templates in 1936 start.

 

[Carlyle1]

I don't understand the point you are making. The Oxford Advanced Learners' Dictionary says a jungle is:

"an area of tropical forest where trees and plants grow very thickly"

This seems to describe large parts of Burma and India.

I looked up "jungle" on Wikipedia and found:

Are you implying that the game should use "rainforest" rather than "jungle"? That seem anachronistic for a game set in the 1930s and 1940s and the game's meaning is still within the common meaning of "jungle". But maybe there is some aspect that I've missed.


The best place to report bugs is in the bug report forum. At least the Korea bug has already been reported a couple of times. If you'd like to see it fixed, I recommend upvoting the bug using the arrow in the top right hand corner:

No i was trying to say, there are no jungles in burma or in india in game. Obviously there were IRL.

 

[Ultimaratio]

We have to pay for the birthday gift? Really?

 

[SeekTruthFromFx]

No i was trying to say, there are no jungles in burma or in india in game. Obviously there were IRL.

OK, that's the crucial information that was missing! Now we're talking about the same thing.

And there are jungles in in-game Arakan and Tenassarim (in Burma) in vanilla 1.10.7. You're right that there are none in India though, which does seem an oversight.

 

[BrotherJonathan]

Yes, they could have made it a bit clearer that the new sprites and music are paid, since the way the post is initially formatted kind of makes them seem like free gifts.