Russian opinion of HOI

[Jon Shafer]

Ahhh, you have yet to get used to put up with my incessant nitpicking. You'll know better soon enough.

At least, until HOI comes out.

Where do you live Yozhik, and how is it that you know both Russian and English so well?

 

[Yozhik]

(needless to add, this thread is dying; as soon as I get HOI... ^_^)

http://www.snowball.ru/forums/?board=hoi&action=view&id=42964

Yeah, unit files do show that cavalry rules the day - until a few techs deep into the game. But they still have advantages! They move fast, they don't consume oil, they are cheap, and easier to supply than infantry. Do I hear, massed cavalry offensives?

But every tech researched makes them more and more obsolete. Yeah, they can take on the first tanks. But afterwards...

 

[Yozhik]

http://www.snowball.ru/forums/?board=hoiwish&action=view&id=42966

Getting rubber is not that hard - just keep several offers on the world market constantly! Like 200 coal for 100 rubber.

(translator's note: duh...)

 

[Yozhik]

http://www.snowball.ru/forums/?board=hoi&action=view&id=42967

Yeah 1942, USSR campaign 1936-1948, maximum settings of difficulty/aggressiveness.

Annexed: Rumania, Finland, Baltics, Poland, Sudetenless Czechs, Turkey. No one cared.

Germans are smoking something (translator's note - "smoking bamboo"? huh? they landed in S. America? in Africa? in Siam? huh?)... but they do have tons of tanks, Austria, and Sudetenland.

Guess what happens then... I win. And guess how... diplomacy. I love you, Molotov

Mongolia
Tuva
Bulgaria
Yugoslavia
Republican Spain
Portugal
France
Brazil
Argentina
Germany

are all members of my alliance and I have military control over them. Not a gunshot fired.

No one cared when I changed their government... only the latin americans actually dared to resist...

The problems started when I tried to ally UK No way. Each time I tried to influence them, USA influenced them right back!

So where's the balance? AI is 'absent'. Bad boy is absent. We need patches, patches, and patches...

General opinion: HOI = Panzer General + EU2 on the EU2 engine - oh I wanted something like that for so long, ever since the abovementioned PG and EU2...!

 

[Yozhik]

OMG

http://www.snowball.ru/forums/?board=hoiwish&action=view&id=42972

The German offensive shocked me to the core...

... because it sucked, horribly at that. They attacked 2 Baltic provinces and bombed 1 city... Wha... German airforce sucked! They never helped their own troops unless I actually went after the airbases. Turkey, Japan, Hungary, Rumania never helped Germans... (Finns couldn't, I annexed them).

So I won. I did use the airforce constantly, after all.

 

[John Poole]

Re: OMG

Originally posted by Yozhik
http://www.snowball.ru/forums/?board=hoiwish&action=view&id=42972

The German offensive shocked me to the core...

... because it sucked, horribly at that. They attacked 2 Baltic provinces and bombed 1 city... Wha... German airforce sucked! They never helped their own troops unless I actually went after the airbases. Turkey, Japan, Hungary, Rumania never helped Germans... (Finns couldn't, I annexed them).

So I won. I did use the airforce constantly, after all.

Wow Sytass must really suck then . Read his AAR hehe

 

[unmerged(2238)]

Re: Re: OMG

Originally posted by John Poole
Wow Sytass must really suck then . Read his AAR hehe

Yeah, no kidding. Talk about mixed signals.

 

[Mordoch]

Re: OMG

Originally posted by Yozhik
http://www.snowball.ru/forums/?board=hoiwish&action=view&id=42972

The German offensive shocked me to the core...

... because it sucked, horribly at that. They attacked 2 Baltic provinces and bombed 1 city... Wha... German airforce sucked! They never helped their own troops unless I actually went after the airbases. Turkey, Japan, Hungary, Rumania never helped Germans... (Finns couldn't, I annexed them).

So I won. I did use the airforce constantly, after all.

The innactive airforce for the AI will be dramaticly addressed in the next patch.

 

[unmerged(11444)]

Couldn't they be playing at differing levels of AI Aggresiveness? That could explain the difference, as well as could different levels of player skill. Just a thought.

 

[Mordoch]

Originally posted by Dryfear
Couldn't they be playing at differing levels of AI Aggresiveness? That could explain the difference, as well as could different levels of player skill. Just a thought.

Alot of it is probably the fixes to the AI. The AI simply didn't do much with its airforce in the gold version of the game.

 

[Yozhik]

Do remember: I take no (none, zilch, none whatsoever) responsibility for what I translate. If those Russians are intentionally BSing you, I have no means of countering that or even guessing that...

Anyways. Next post.

http://www.snowball.ru/forums/?board=hoiwish&action=view&id=42974

Autosave BUG

When I load an autosave some of my provinces become someone else's (especially someone who has owned them before I took them). Happened many times with autosave but never with a manual save.

 

[Yozhik]

http://www.snowball.ru/forums/?board=hoi&action=view&id=42992

(translator's note: hard to say whether he is talking about real life history or HOI... I'd say a 75% real life 25% HOI toss here)

Cavalry starts to lose as soon as one invents Maxim machine gun and other automatic weaponry... only when we're talking mountaineous and other hard-to-reach regions.

 

[Syt]

Re: Re: OMG

Originally posted by John Poole
Wow Sytass must really suck then . Read his AAR hehe

I do.

I played mainly hands off games during the beta, and this is my first "real" attempt of playing a ajor through the GC (and I do know most events and game mechanics). Besides, I neglected the airforce terribly, losing most of what I had during the early German attacks and haven't built any new air units (because I lag behind in tech).

 

[Yozhik]

http://www.snowball.ru/forums/?board=hoi&action=view&id=42977

Absurd Techs

I hate it that technology development is linear, without the reflection of some extremely advantageous breakthroughs and other research that led nowhere, etc.

(translator's note: and a lot more comments about why is a certain tank missing or another one made equal to some third one... useless for Westerners)

 

[Yozhik]

http://www.snowball.ru/forums/?board=hoi&action=view&id=42990

Hey, what's up with not having a tech that helps you choose whether you want gasoline or diesel engines on your tanks?

At least it's good that tech files can be edited. The overall playability of the game from the technology side is normal (decent, acceptable, OK - all of these can be substituted (translator's note)).

What I hate is that the cost of technology is constant. It's not real. It has to be easier to invent something again (translator's note: a reference to EU2 where it was easier to reach a tech level if your neighbor has already gained it).

 

[Yozhik]

(translator's note: the speaker does NOT have the game)

http://www.snowball.ru/forums/?board=hoi&action=view&id=42997

It seems like HOI is only useful as a base for an alternative campaign.

 

[Yozhik]

http://www.snowball.ru/forums/?board=hoi&action=view&id=42976

There IS economy in HOI and it does look decent.

 

[Yozhik]

(translator's note: modified from a particular example to a more general one)

http://www.snowball.ru/forums/?board=hoi&action=view&id=43000

Easy on the programmers! They can't know every name, leader or unit...

 

[unmerged(10680)]

Thanks again Yozhik!

It seems our Russian friends are learning more and more about the game and appreciate it better accordingly. With the new patch I think it will be great!

 

[Yozhik]

http://www.snowball.ru/forums/?board=hoi&action=view&id=43010

Why does Czech interceptor look like German Me-109?

Why doesn't Russian plane graphics ever change?