No Steam? No Linux?

[son of liberty]

I have been watching a few let's play vids for HOI4 and the game seems much better than I expected after the debacle of HOI3. Is there anyway to buy/run the game without going through Steam? Also, I am in the process of switching to Linux after seeing Windows try to heard everyone onto WX. Is there a Linux version? or wil it run under my Wine emulator?

 

[Streydeymn]

Download Ubuntu, then steam and HoI runs fine. Also workshop is functional. So yeah, I would recommend Ubuntu.

 

[son of liberty]

Thanks, but I really do not like Steam. My main concern is avoiding Steam. I would buy a separate computer to keep windows if necessary, but will not use Steam under any conditions.

 

[rust95]

Thanks, but I really do not like Steam. My main concern is avoiding Steam. I would buy a separate computer to keep windows if necessary, but will not use Steam under any conditions.

You had a look at the Green Man Gaming version of the game and whether that can run through their client?

 

[son of liberty]

Are you telling me HOI4 can only be run from an online client? Is there no downloading it to my computer and playing it SP without hooking up to someone's site? I had hoped Paradox would decide not to adopt that model. Maybe someday I will see it ob G.O.G. and I can buy it then. Thanks for the replies :/

 

[grandad1982]

You need Steam. Regardless of where you buy it from its downloaded via Steam. It is also updated via steam.

I haven't tried it but I assume once you have it on your computer you can move it out of the steam folder, remove Steam and play the game just like other PDX titles.

 

[son of liberty]

Ok, thanks. I will have to pass. Maybe someday they will change it. Thank you for the replies.

 

[browd]

Yes, you need Steam to install and update the game, but that is it. For Steam haters, after installing the game, you can:

1. Restart Steam in "offline" mode, and launch the game from the "Play" link in offline Steam

2. Exit Steam altogether (or reboot your computer and choose not to launch Steam after restart) and then launch HOI4 directly from the executable in the Steam/common/Steam Apps/HOI4 folder

3. Copy all of the game files from the Steam/common/Steam Apps/HOI4 folder to a non-Steam folder and launch the executable from that location

I suspect that you could combine 3. with also deleting Steam altogether (so you would only re-install Steam when you needed to update the game files, e.g., when a patch is released, and then manually re-copy the game files to the other location and uninstall Steam again). Seems like overkill/make-work, but I suspect it would work (but haven't tested it myself, as I have no problems with Steam).

 

[Flipity]

I have been watching a few let's play vids for HOI4 and the game seems much better than I expected after the debacle of HOI3. Is there anyway to buy/run the game without going through Steam? Also, I am in the process of switching to Linux after seeing Windows try to heard everyone onto WX. Is there a Linux version? or wil it run under my Wine emulator?

to be honest, if you think HOI3 was a debacle, you will not be happy with HOI4 anyways. This game is in a worse state than HOI3.

 

[fyrkrans]

To be able to play MP you definitely need Steam though.

 

[son of liberty]

I haven't had time for MP in years. Not since HOI2 Doomsday or maybe Armageddon. I just want to buy the game and play it without Steam or anyone else trying to intrude into my computer. That is the whole reason I am dropping windows and moving to Linux. What they are doing with windows 10 irks me to no end.

IMO, HOI3 was a serious debacle when first released. By the time Their Finest Hour came out, it became a pretty decent game.