Remark regarding the map of HoI 4

[Daemoncool]

Hey there!

I was just looking at the Angry Joe preview of HoI4 where I noticed that so far the political map of Europe looks pretty awkward and inaccurate. Especially Czechoslovakia, Romania and Hungary (as far as I was able to see). I know that the game is still in a very early stage of development, and so many things will and could change, inculding the map. I only write this, because I thought exactly the same about Hearts of Iron 3 and then it was released with an inaccurate political map (which was really disappointed me ).

So just guys please take your time and create an accurate map of the world... I strongly recommend to take a look at the Darkest Hour map, because it is really accurate

Looking forward to this game and fingers crossed! Thank you guys for your great work!

Ps: The new war strategy looks brilliant aswell as the map in general

 

[shal5]

Don't worry, I think they've already said it's not finished yet. I mean, the game is still in alpha, right?

 

[jat85]

Don't worry, I think they've already said it's not finished yet. I mean, the game is still in alpha, right?

They have:

For the guys saying the borders are wierd - we know we havent tweaked out the province borders at all in europe yet I hope you liked what little you could see of the visual look though

It is early and political borders are not yet polished to be accurate enough to show them off.

among others.

 

[Daemoncool]

They have:





among others.

Great to hear that, thanks! Can't wait to see more sneaky previews of this game, so far it looks very promising

 

[FOARP]

Don't worry, I think they've already said it's not finished yet. I mean, the game is still in alpha, right?

Yeah, on the one hand they said the same before HOI3 Vanilla dropped - "don't complain because this is just a work-in-progress" - and the borders were terrible, India had a border with the USSR for Christ's sake! On the other hand CK2 and EUIV both had decent borders. I hope the borders we're looking at right now aren't representative, but we'll know how they are closer to release.

 

[EmperorTojo]

Pretty sure we do not have to worry.

 

[Thanik]

I hope this time we will see Stalinigrad in proper place.

 

[DPKdebator]

I don't think they were going to put too much effort into an early alpha build for eyecandy.

 

[Suaske666]

on the other hand CK2 and EUIV both had decent borders.

Bullfeces. They both have pretty terrible borders, but this can be overlooked due to tge large timeframe. Tge borders are very generalized though. In fact i didn't even want to play EU4 till MEIOU came out because the map was so shit. I do think it should be good for HoI 4 since so many people complained. But i seriously hope we will get a rich modding community either way

 

[CocoBZ]

Yeah, on the one hand they said the same before HOI3 Vanilla dropped - "don't complain because this is just a work-in-progress" - and the borders were terrible, India had a border with the USSR for Christ's sake! On the other hand CK2 and EUIV both had decent borders. I hope the borders we're looking at right now aren't representative, but we'll know how they are closer to release.

CK2 had horrible borders. SWMH fixes that problem more or less.

EU4 looks good enough.

 

[anam]

The map will always be wrong.

 

[the_evil_one44]

Where can I find a picture of the map?

 

[anam]

There are some links around , but this is the Angry Joe review the OP is based on i think. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ5aNIEDbPw Starts at about 19:50 or so.

Edit: And i think that is as much as any has seen of the map so far

 

[jat85]

DD1 had this screenshot (probably way more representative of the quality of the map)

 

[Daemoncool]

This map is actually looks beautiful so far... lets hope we'll get proper political borders this time (aswell as cities placed in their correct places)

 

[anam]

Yeah, that gives a better picture of the map But honestly my issue with the map(s) in PDS games has never been borders or what provinces are where(correctnes of provinces etc.). It that the textures are boring. Looking at some of the map mods made over the years wich have had a lot more nice textures i wish that PDS could have stepped up and done more about the looks of the maps.