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HOI4 Dev Diary - PdxCon & Moving Madness!

Hi everyone! Today will be a short dev diary because we are preparing for PdxCon and also moving office at the same time. Its not chaotic at all :D

PdxCon this year is in Berlin, and there is going to be lots of cool reveals, beers and pretzels! We will be announcing our expansion (the trailer is <3 guys) and talk about most of the details in it. Here are some of the HOI highlights:
  • The big Announcement Show starting at 10am CEST over at twitch.tv/paradoxinteractive
  • I do a talk on HOI, HOI community, expansion and the future
  • We have a both with a new challenge (so make sure you have done 30 minutes of Hel) because the winners record this year on the new one will be a new achivement :)
  • @Bratyn and @Archangel85 are holding a talk about content design and focus trees
  • We have a competitive HOI4 MP stream with streamers and devs on Sunday the 20th at 5pm CEST - (twitch.tv/paradoxinteractive)
  • Most importantly you get to hang out with us and look at cool paradox stuff. The other games have a lot of cool things to announce also.. :)
A lot of this will be streamed as well if you cant make it to Berlin :)

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Probably last day I get to say hi to the old office sign!

We are also moving offices. The company is always growing and me being an old hand feel like we move about every year ;D but I guess it has been a few years now since the last move ;) This means we will have proper space to work (its super cramped at the moment), and more importantly.. more space to play boardgames ;)

This is currently what most peoples desks look like:
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Next week I will do a diary to talk a bit about PdxCon and summarize all the new announcements and stuff for those that couldn't be there and after that we will dig into the details of the announced features. We wont have a stream next week because the studio wont be ready, but we plan to start those up soon so we can show you guys what we have been working on. Look forward to it!
 
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Have devs considered Cold War expansion to hoi4?
 
Mr_Dimento said:
Have devs considered Cold War expansion to hoi4?
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After East Vs West fell on its butt, paradox has steered clear of anything to do with the cold war. So I highly doubt it :p
 
There are mods like Road to 56 and others for that :D
 
If the devs go Cold War, it should only be early at the most, once you get mid to late Cold War you'd need completely new and dedicated mechanics for things that only affect the Cold War. I'd say 1960 at the latest, prefer if the game sort of ended around 1955.
 
An early Cold War extension would be pretty cool down the line, but not really for now. I think their current focus of going around the world reworking trees and mechanics is pretty solid, and I hope once they finish the majors they can do a few country packs (while they spend time building large mechanics).

I think the Korean War can largely be simulated by Hoi4 battle mechanics, but MAD is a bit of a challenge.
 
Is there plans to Rework and/or overhaul peace conference and peace mechanics in this Patch/DLC? Because while I had successful game, the bordergore after the war really killed the game for me and I really tried to make the map look clean as possible after I beaten and capitulated the Axis.
 
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N3UTR0N said:
Is there plans to Rework and/or overhaul peace conference and peace mechanics in this Patch/DLC? Because while I had successful game, the bordergore after the war really killed the game for me and I really tried to make the map look clean as possible after I beaten and capitulated the Axis.
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Nothing has been announced yet, if they are planning to rework that I'm sure they'll tell us at PDXCon on the weekend. It is on their list of things to rework, so if it's not this update/DLC it'll be done eventually.
 
Was under the impression that you guys were gonna stream The announcement show on twitch... what gives?
 
Yeah, you’re right. I’m in the states and when I was trying to convert from metric CEST to imperial EST I lost a day and thought the show was Friday. My bad!
 
Mr.Grizzly said:
Nothing has been announced yet, if they are planning to rework that I'm sure they'll tell us at PDXCon on the weekend. It is on their list of things to rework, so if it's not this update/DLC it'll be done eventually.
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surely they will do it sooner or later there will be a rework of that mechanic because it is on your list thing on your roadmap
 
Ewww Twilight Struggle. HATE that game, Cards are way too swingy, should be called the nut punch game since that's literally all you do to yourself in it. Play Labyrinth instead, much better design.
 
what do you mean by 30 min of hel?
 
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