Agreed. I only played in the 1944 scenario as Germany as it was the biggest challenge.
I'm getting lost, but I know I'll do better once I've got 3 years to develop my own army.
The game is splendid, looking like a very nice step for the HOI series.
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Agreed. I only played in the 1944 scenario as Germany as it was the biggest challenge.
I'm getting lost, but I know I'll do better once I've got 3 years to develop my own army.
The game is splendid, looking like a very nice step for the HOI series.
Most negative comments on the demo are mainly from people who - like me, mind you - expected a HoI2 with more provinces and better graphics. Subsequently I was a bit turned off by the multitude of choices, options, "wierd" hierarchy and theatres and generally not finding things where I expected them to be - like foreign ministers for example.
PI though, thankfully produced a whole different beast of a game. After playing the demo for a couple of times I realize that I must simply sit my butt down and learn it from the beginning. I am sure it will keep me company for at least as many years as HoI2.
PI though, thankfully produced a whole different beast of a game. After playing the demo for a couple of times I realize that I must simply sit my butt down and learn it from the beginning. I am sure it will keep me company for at least as many years as HoI2.
i didnt enjoy the demo as thoroughly has i had hoped to do but the main reason for that is the '39 scenario which i completely despise.
i dont like going to war without building up my army from 36-39.
industry & research are completely pointless in the demo cause you cant really do anything useful with those in the 4 months.
but with that left aside i really enjoyed it. i love the name command hierarchy, the new map, improved interface(which takes some time to get used to but once you work out the details its quite powerful)...and so on.
i dont like going to war without building up my army from 36-39.
industry & research are completely pointless in the demo cause you cant really do anything useful with those in the 4 months.
but with that left aside i really enjoyed it. i love the name command hierarchy, the new map, improved interface(which takes some time to get used to but once you work out the details its quite powerful)...and so on.
I acctually enjoyed the demo very much and can't wait until I get my boxed version home to me 
I enjoyed the demo, too. i like the music, the new command structure and the new map.
It only needs some AI tweaking and optimisation. Otherwise it's a fine game, and easily superior to HoI2.
I really quite liked the demo. I will be disappointed if various AI and gameplay elements are not tweaked/fixed, but looks like a very good game to me.
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about 50% of the changelog for the releasepatch is ai improvements.
Oh yes, I absolutely love it. Have taken a few hours to get used to the command system (and a few sheets of paper drawing out org charts) but cannot wait until tommorrow morning.
I think one really useful inprovement, (especailly for those struggling with the command system) would be an Org Chart type wiring diagram in the statistics page. Something with filters on for Armees, Coprs, Divs etc would give you a really good graphical overview of your forces. At the moment I am doing this by hand, it takes a while to draw it up, but once done everything else is fairly simple.
It does not help that the German OOB is a real mess in the 1939 scenario
I think one really useful inprovement, (especailly for those struggling with the command system) would be an Org Chart type wiring diagram in the statistics page. Something with filters on for Armees, Coprs, Divs etc would give you a really good graphical overview of your forces. At the moment I am doing this by hand, it takes a while to draw it up, but once done everything else is fairly simple.
It does not help that the German OOB is a real mess in the 1939 scenario
Nice to hear that.
Positive things about the demo.
I beat Poland using only two Panzer divisions under my control. The rest were commanded by Theatre AI.
My navy clashed with the French Navy and I lost a light cruiser, They lost three transports, a light cruiser and one sub.
Polish forces did not just crumple and die and actually put up a fight.
France hit my lines hard and punched a hole in it.
My western theatre AI commander successfully bottled them up to prevent a breakthrough. The tactical ai performed several encirclements on it's own.
I only played the demo once, I never liked demos actually. But I know I will just love the game.
I love the possibilies to make HoI3 more historical accuracy.
It's a very big leap for mankind ;-)
About bugs... nearly every program has bugs today.
(ok my bash-scripts were allways without errors)
With the amount of columns and programmers the probability is rising exponentially. And needed time and money to fix these bugs are rising too.
When you wanted to play HoI3? In two or three years?
It's a very big leap for mankind ;-)
About bugs... nearly every program has bugs today.
(ok my bash-scripts were allways without errors)
With the amount of columns and programmers the probability is rising exponentially. And needed time and money to fix these bugs are rising too.
When you wanted to play HoI3? In two or three years?
Give hoi3 1 year of patches and maybe one expansion and it will be the greatest grand strategy game ever conceived. I see the potential, and I see the developer talent hiding within it's depths. Polish will make it all surface and armchair generals will not need another game for the next 10 years. As it stands it's buggy and runs like a dog, but welcome to version 1.0
I think it's nice, except for a few flaws, but I think they will be fixed as they are pretty obvious. But since it's only a few months in-game time in the demo I'm looking forward to building up a country on my own from the start and test the game in the long run before really getting an opinion.
My only complaint really is that it started me off in 1939 without any tutorials available on how to actually control and utilise your army or the army AI for that matter.
I pre-ordered and very much look forward to starting off from 1936 to find out how this works step by step. I didn't have a lot of stability issues, only on higher game speeds. (Which I doubt are 'fast' enough for multiplayer games btw)
I pre-ordered and very much look forward to starting off from 1936 to find out how this works step by step. I didn't have a lot of stability issues, only on higher game speeds. (Which I doubt are 'fast' enough for multiplayer games btw)
