Multiplayer limitations / multiplayer setup

[Munin]

Does anyone know what kind of focus their is from paradox on keeping the multiplayer community as a whole for HOI4? Will it split up after each small expansion untill it is too splintered to actually find any players at all?

Games like companies of heroes focus on making it so that even people with expansions can play together with people without expansions, with great succes for their multiplayer community


Many strategy games have been lacking this as they have been focussed on single player packages and the multiplayer being a boost to it.


I m guessing this is quite impossible for Hoi4?

 

[Sleight of Hand]

There won't be a split. They've avoided this with CK II and EU IV as far as I know.

 

[laijka]

Assuming HoI IV works the same as EUIV and CKII all players in MP will have the same DLCs active as the host during the MP game.

 

[Mac Lazer]

The way the few recent Paradox games have worked in this regard have actually been really cool. Basically, expansions don't change the checksum. Patches do. So, as long as both players have the same patch (which they usually do anyways), they will be able to connect together, even if one player has a DLC and the other doesn't.

 

[Uladh88]

the hosts dlc decides what everyone else uses , this is the way it was in eu4 anyway

 

[Emperor Caligula]

the hosts dlc decides what everyone else uses , this is the way it was in eu4 anyway

It's like this in CKII, EUIV and Stellaris, so it is a 99.9% chance that it will be like that in HOI4.