Let's guess the remaining DD topics

[kviiri]

Assuming a DD once every Friday before release except the next one (Good Friday, Easter holidays) there are exactly ten DDs left before release. The next one is about the generic focus tree. In this thread we guess what the final nine are about.

I guess the final one is a mostly ceremonial one. Probably pictures of HoI 4 guys wearing IKEA lampshades to celebrate a release. The penultimate one I believe is about modding. That leaves seven topics which I think are, in no particular order:

- Combined arms bonuses for divisions
- Dynamic Historic Events
- Rockets
- Encryption and decryption
- Puppets
- Resources and synthetic production
- Spain and Spanish CW

 

[Number 7]

I would love a developer diary specifically on the AI and how they've improved it over HOI3. There's a lot of great improvements from HOI3 to 4 that i am absolutely pumped for, but overall the quality of the AI directly translates to quality of gameplay and it is the single most important topic to me.

maybe in the lead up to the release @podcat would be so kind as to give us an AI focused developer diary, although its certainly harder to talk about than other topics as its more nebulous than a straightforward topic like speaking about how the industry works in hoi4.

 

[Mac Lazer]

-Rockets and Rocket Sites
-Encryption and Decryption
-Updated info on how the Air War Works / Air Doctrines
-Modding
-Troop Training and Deployment
-User Interface
-A DD for any additional noteworthy changes

 

[safe-keeper]

My hopes and guesses:

• Various minor nations: Yugoslavia and Greece, the Nordic countries, Romania, Slovakia, and Hungary, Brazil, India, Australia and New Zealand and so on.
• Lessons learned from CK2 and EU4.
• Near release: various ideas for DLCs, to let us know what to expect.
• Soundtrack.

I love the idea of an AI DD .

 

[kviiri]

The AI DD is an excellent idea. They might do it in the same vein as EU4 or CK2, can't remember which, where a single DD contained sections written by different devs about their respective fields. An AI programmer writing about AI, a scripter telling about events and mods etc.

 

[paranoidsteve]

The only DD I am really waiting for is the one detailing how the combat systems actually work. What are the effects of numbers, soft attack, hard attack, reliability, detection etc.? And when do these effects apply? A DD detailing how the AI and its limits would also be welcome.

Next weeks DD on non majors focus tree was already covered in WWW in the single play Finnish game.

 

[Grallak]

I'll be sad if we don't see a DD on Sweden. China Finland and Spain got one, so why not Sweden?

 

[kviiri]

I'll be sad if we don't see a DD on Sweden. China Finland and Spain got one, so why not Sweden?

I haven't seen a DD on Finland or Spain (although Finland was in the WWW singleplayer session).

 

[Victor Cortez]

I think we're done with the country-specific DD's, but maybe they could group them together (Portugal + Spain, Scandinavia, China + India, Australia + NZ + Canada...).

 

[Grallak]

I'd like to know how a nation can support secession movements or independence movements in other nations. Take for example Japan who chooses to incite revolts rather than hostile takeover in dutch indonesia and french indochina or even India. This hasn't been brought up even once and I think it's a really important idea that needs to be brought up. Japan had huge opportunities to do this in real life but never followed them through satisfactorally