HoI4 Dev Teasers (previously Podcat's Twitter Teasers)
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Great. Now we can have stupid internet meme wars within the game, too. I was thinking we didn't have enough of that IRL.
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When's the last time PDX did a playthrough that didn't involve alt-history focuses and early wars? There was that one with LaR as England in February 2020 where the player let France fall without a fight and then capitulated Germany in 1942, but before that?
EDIT: Actually the first Three Day War event from June 2016 also involved things like the USSR invading Turkey in 1937.
Has PDX ever done a "historical" playthrough of HoI4 (in the sense of not making ahistorical choices the AI wouldn't make specifically on "historical mode"), besides the UK AAR (if we can include that)? I had a recollection of a dev MP doing a somewhat historical game back in 2016, but I might have been thinking about the Three Day War event.
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they can't because it would show how awful the ww2 experience is.
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They did one as the USA for Man the Guns.
In my memory it was rather historical (except that the US heavily focused on the Pacific with advanced fortified naval/air bases in Guam and Midway).
Are you sure? They did a video playthrough as USA in MtG but elected Landon, fought the 2nd ACW, invaded Canada and then became the CSA.
I do have this vague recollection of the Japan naval AAR having a US counterpart, but I couldn't find it. Btw I didn't include the Japan naval AAR because it wasn't really a country playthrough: we didn't get to see much of anything except a few screenshots from naval battles. There's a convoy raiding AAR as Germany as well but it's the same deal.
Good point, would love to see this. I can take smaller things like the Soviets taking Turkey before Barbarossa, though, as long as it mostly follows the events of WWII.
More naval improvements - every expansion/patch should have more naval improvements
Sorry, just being silly (or hopelessly one-eyed
) - looking forward to Cranium Muppet's AAR - toasty!- 2
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Well guys, do you think we're close to the end? I really hope that the release date will be shown tomorrow., as well as the start of dev streams, pre-orders and all...
How many diaries do you think we have left? I think 4-5, considering tomorrow. Achievements, formables and releasables, arts, AI and possibly modding. Modding may come out with a patchnote right before the update, as it did with LaR.
Can't wait to play with new mechanics, it's already boring in the current version!
How many diaries do you think we have left? I think 4-5, considering tomorrow. Achievements, formables and releasables, arts, AI and possibly modding. Modding may come out with a patchnote right before the update, as it did with LaR.
Can't wait to play with new mechanics, it's already boring in the current version!
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I really hope so. If we don't get a release date this month, I'm going to have some doubts about the productive effeciency and ambition of the dev team on this DLC. One of my worries for this DLC is that it is going to be too big, and take too much time to develop (to the community's liking). I think we are approaching the date that community starts to get impatient over the release of NSB, and really hope the dev team (expecially marketing) realize this. If I don't get more info on this DLC by the end of the month, I'm going to start asking questions.
I would say your right. There surely cannot be that many more, but as they've shown last week they could do more AAR DDs. I like them, but at the same time, they feel like their padding the time the team needs. That's fine, but it raises the standard at which this DLC will release at, something that I think PDX should be cautious about considering recent releases and their general history of poor releases.
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The fact that they still haven't changed their current stand on the release (this year, according to Devs), is a good sign.
Since we had last week a wrap-up of all features, we can expect that there is nothing special to be shown anymore, so we're lacking:
One Diary for artwork and music (maybe also achievements)
One Diary for map changes as well as releasables and formables
One Diary for Modding.
Did I forget one?
So I guess we can expect the release by the end of October/first week of November. Or even earlier if they should suddenly put everything together at once.
And to people saying, that it will take longer because older DLCs also needed longer: Don't forget that they have at least two teams working on NSB, and not only one. Since BftB was made by an external team, and LR was released in February '20, they are now 20 months with two teams working on it, so it should be enough by now and we can expect something really nice out of it.
Since we had last week a wrap-up of all features, we can expect that there is nothing special to be shown anymore, so we're lacking:
One Diary for artwork and music (maybe also achievements)
One Diary for map changes as well as releasables and formables
One Diary for Modding.
Did I forget one?
So I guess we can expect the release by the end of October/first week of November. Or even earlier if they should suddenly put everything together at once.
And to people saying, that it will take longer because older DLCs also needed longer: Don't forget that they have at least two teams working on NSB, and not only one. Since BftB was made by an external team, and LR was released in February '20, they are now 20 months with two teams working on it, so it should be enough by now and we can expect something really nice out of it.
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While I'd also be worried, I'd rather not put this kind of pressure for a release date, lest we get another Leviathan situation.
Ideally, if they are facing issues and it can't be released on time, they'd be open to us, but I don't think that is up to devs themselves.
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Agreed, but do keep in mind that we've planned for delay and we are now approaching one year since the last DLC/CP. I'd love the team to take their time, but it would be nice to communicate an ETA for DLC soon.
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The funny thing ist that people take BfB as the last DLC. However BfB was actually subcontracted and the work on NSB already started way before.
This is veeeery long for DLC. Anyway no offense here, I see something very big, very good coming, so I don't mind. (And I am an actually impatient person, good thing that they did not tell me once LR was released how long it will take...)
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honestly I want it rather yesterday than tomorrow, but if they say, we want to work on the AI for a few months more, really balance the new features and stuff so we will release only next year I would be fine with that. This is the biggest and in my opinion most important update, so they should take their time.
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if they are in development hell, a few more months won't do any good. Better release it and improve it with customer feedback
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Actually this. From our experience we know that between their internal tests and the actual gameplay is a lot of difference, since the players have much more diverse approaches to playing the game than the small set of testers they have. So as long as there is nothing game-breaking in it, it should be ready for release and then rather a couple of good post-patches to work it up.
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Hy guys I want just inform you that on the official Instagram page of HoI4, they have released a set (3) of art image with the description "Hearts Of Iron 4: No Step Back coming soon!". So I assume (and of course I'm also hoping for) that today or tomorrow they will tell us something.
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