I noticed there are difficulty options, Beginner, Normal, and Hard, as well as Ironman Mode. What is it?
Ironman mode?
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It is likely very similar (if not the same) as Ironman Mode in EU4 - where the game is saved on the cloud, the console is disabled, the game autosaves at major events and every time you quit and there is only one version of the game - they use it to manage Achievements. I quite like the system.
Ironman for HOI would be awesome, but the fact it´s done in fractions of hours make it... difficult to implement, I bet. Saving every bloody hour? No thanks.
Maybe every month like in EU4? Just because unless you have an SSD it really slows the **** out of the game.
I think it's more likely to be every day or twelve hours, every hour would be a bit much.
Every month, what would be the point in a game that measures time by hours? Don't you think it would be too spaced out? I mean a month in a Hearts of Iron game, at the height of the war, can take hours, that means that if you lose some catastrophic battles, you can easily tab out and restart.
Well, I play the game a lot faster than you do. Ok, I'd say every 10 days as a minimum. In a perfect world it'd be every day but the lag is unbearable if you've ever tried ironman in EUIV.
Never played it before. Sounds like a better way to save gameplay. Noticed it on the 1:07 mark when Dan was starting the game.
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Oh I know, I've tried Ironman in EUIV, and I don't have the best processor.
But Hearts of Iron isn't Europa Universalis, on the fastest speed in EUIV, a month might take 30 to only a few seconds, Hearts of Iron, a month uninterrupted will probably take a few minutes, and with combat, events, and everything else, a month might take half an hour or quite possibly a lot more.
Maybe I should clarify, I'm not saying this from a performance point of view(Gods know I couldn't run this on Ironman). I'm saying this from a gameplay point of view, a LOT can happen in a month, I've lost an entire army in a month(albeit in DH where I can run a month in 30 seconds, not my finest moment:blush
!It makes a lot more sense that they'd have autosaves at least daily, if the player cheats in ironman in EUIV, they regain ten minutes at most, if the player cheats in ironman in HoIIV, they might regain half an hour or more of gameplay, ironman would be to easily abused.
Either way, if it's anything like Europa Universalis IV, I probably wont use ironman, I don't really get the urge to save scum(though I understand it), and I doubt my computer could handle autosaves constantly in any reasonable amount of time.
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Saves aren't really processor intensive, the delay you see is based on write time to the drive. I have a desktop from 2009 but I added a SSD drive to it, EU IV is fine even with ironman enabled
Or whatever it is with why not-so-great computer that causes the slow load times.Saves aren't really processor intensive, the delay you see is based on write time to the drive. I have a desktop from 2009 but I added a SSD drive to it, EU IV is fine even with ironman enabled
The hard drive....
Starting HOI3 on the old desktop pre SSD 5-10 minutes, post SSD < 1 minute
Starting HOI3 on the old desktop pre SSD 5-10 minutes, post SSD < 1 minute
In the future when we all have SSD's I think it'd be more reasonable to have it on a day by day basis. Until then maybe go easy on our poor, backward hard drives.
Ironman is tops, good fun, and keeps you honest when you might be tempted to reload .
In terms of the time it takes to save to the hard-drive, would there be potential, if it's not already the case (and clearly not for release at this stage, but down the track maybe) for some RAM to be used as a cache for the save, so that the game didn't have to wait until the save had finished before it continued, but the save was dropped into the RAM, and then copied over to the hard-drive in parallel with gameplay? Might be a silly idea, just throwing one around, ignore if silly.
.In terms of the time it takes to save to the hard-drive, would there be potential, if it's not already the case (and clearly not for release at this stage, but down the track maybe) for some RAM to be used as a cache for the save, so that the game didn't have to wait until the save had finished before it continued, but the save was dropped into the RAM, and then copied over to the hard-drive in parallel with gameplay? Might be a silly idea, just throwing one around, ignore if silly
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So...
Iron man mode stops you from scum-saving (if that's the correct term?)
Shouldn't they just call it Grow a Pair mode?
Or would that offend the ladies in here?
(yes there are)
Iron man mode stops you from scum-saving (if that's the correct term?)
Shouldn't they just call it Grow a Pair mode?
Or would that offend the ladies in here?
(yes there are)
Saves aren't really processor intensive, the delay you see is based on write time to the drive. I have a desktop from 2009 but I added a SSD drive to it, EU IV is fine even with ironman enabled
Don´t know man... there is battles happening ALL the time in HOI4. It´s much trickier than EU4.
If it´s save by the hour, I bet even your machine would feel the stress and lag.
It's not save-by-the-day in EU4, so I wouldn't expect it to be save-by-the-hour in HoI4 either.
Ironman mode is the best thing to ever happen to paradox grand strategy. So glad it will be in HOI4!
I have hope they also will disable console, game editing and game will require internet access all the time.
And all options must be set on if you want to play a game