Share you worst fear (hoi 4)

[Raticon]

Really my fears are what others stated above:
Stupid AI incapable of changing it's plans, recovering from a decisive defeat or thinking "out of the box". In previous Hoi installments one just basically had to win one major offensive and the AI lines just crumbled like a house of cards, with the only effort at regaining control was to throw more infantry on the front lines to die and the process repeats. I would hate to see that again, with fancier graphics.

The other main fear is lack of alternate routes mainly for the AI, which limits replayability a lot but after todays stream with the crapton of "plans" each country had i see this as a minor fear.

 

[bkuepers]

Wanna rename troops? Nah.

Yikes, I hope we can rename divisions and ships! That would be just crazy.

My biggest fear is more delays, and spending too much time playing the game once it comes out.

I'm sure it will be a little buggy and unbalanced at release. This will get fixed over time though.

 

[Kozer]

My biggest fear is that it just wont come out.
Also hello. First post here.

 

[bkuepers]

My biggest fear is that it just wont come out.

This would be a complete shock with how close the game looks to being done plus all the DD's and streaming of the gameplay. No way it isn't going to be released.

 

[The_Meme_Man]

Weird, arbitrary and lazy restrictions, like the ones present all over Victoria 2.

Wanna rename troops? Nah.
Wanna rename ships? Nah.
Wanna move your precious capital, which happened all the time in history (and especially during wars)? Certainly not.
Wanna conquer individual territories instead of entire states? Nah mate, even though we gave you such a thing at the start of the game.
Wanna rename provinces other than Eurocentric names we have pre-decided for you? Wanna change Vladivostok back to Haishenwai after you conquered it back from Russia? Nah, not possible.
Wanna cut some of those arbitrary restrictions away? Nah ne ne nah nah.
Wanna make mods that allow you to do these things if we officially don't add them? Sorry, we will hardcode them.
Why? Because we are too lazy to develop the game to allow that much customization. We don't want to even develop the game to that extent. Gib teh money plox. Lolololol!!!!!111!!!

These are my only 'fears'.

I demand that San Francisco automatically be renamed to San Fransokyo if I conquer it as Japan.

Though if Eu4 and CKII are anything to go by, I kinda think we will even have that limited level of customization, perhaps more.

 

[Thanik]

Final release after 2018.

 

[mdw1985]

My biggest fear is the performance. The game didn't seem to run totally fluent today and Johan and Jakob pretty sure had decent PCs to play on...

 

[Will Steel]

Final release after 2018.

You are actually talking about Mount and Blade - Bannerlord.

 

[FieldMedic]

I'm mostly fearful of the lack of oil supply being a thing. That and the over-reliance on 3D models. Oh and the AI being bad.

 

[agus92]

I'm mostly fearful of the lack of oil supply being a thing. That and the over-reliance on 3D models. Oh and the AI being bad.

This. And clowns. Clows dressed as Hitler.

 

[RUUR]

Going a bit away from my OP purpose, I´ll share a very minor fear, not my worst one which I already did.

I wish the developers get help from the english native speakers they have to avoid such explanations as: Leader X susceptibility to allies + 10 (????)
This kind of cryptic explanations have triggered numerous threads in different games where many people in the community cannot make the best of choices just because the on game explanations are not clear. One sometimes makes a smart guess atr what the explanation is supposed to mean or write a post and get the anwear (sometimes conflicting answear as the explantions are obscure for many).

I know it is a minor fear but... so easily avoidable.

 

[Kovax]

My biggest fear is an AI that can't respond to the situation at hand, and will always do the same couple of things. For example, Germany plays a totally passive game while Italy gobble up Albania, Greece, and Yugoslavia, with troops moving to the Romanian border, so the UK responds in its usual way by guaranteeing Poland.

 

[CocoBZ]

Wanna conquer individual territories instead of entire states? Nah mate, even though we gave you such arbitrary borders and such a thing already at the start of the game. We can do it, you cannot! Teh lulz!!!!!11!!!!

A hundred thousand times this. It is one of the biggest regresses made in comparison with previous games. "Oh, you wanted to fine tune borders? Nope, have Europa Universalis with tanks."

 

[Fulmen]

Yikes, I hope we can rename divisions and ships! That would be just crazy.

Speaking of division names, I noticed today that the unit names in HoI4 are very bland and a massive downgrade from the previous HoIs.

I.e. "5. SS Division". What ever happened to "5. SS-Division "Wiking""? It's a simple matter of copying the names from the previous games' text files into the HoI4 text files.

I hope this is not final, but I fear it is.

 

[CocoCincinnati]

My biggest fear is oversimplification of combat.

 

[LoLLarN]

I fear that the Swedish nuclear weapon Surstömming won't be implemented due to how overpowered it is.

 

[cahtush]

I fear that the Swedish nuclear weapon Surstömming won't be implemented due to how overpowered it is.

Due to the thing we cannot discuss here it and Gammeldansk was removed unfortunatly.

 

[OhMyGawdon]

My biggest fear is fear itself. And playing as the Soviet Union but failing miserably with Germany conquering me.

 

[calebmarkle]

My greatest fear is that the game is released during exams and I fail a bunch of classes when I play it instead of study. I do not want to have to pay for a 5th year of university

 

[Admiral Fisker]

I didn't like how confusing everything was, my biggest concern being the frontlines. In HoI3, despite it's many flaws, you could atleast always clearly see where the frontline was drawn, how many troops you had stationed in the individual provinces, where they were attacking/defending, etc. So far, I can't say the same for HoI4.

Another thing that worries me are all these events, and how difficult it seemed to get the AI to act historically. Sure, it's neat to be able to form the Franco-British Union, but I certainly don't hope that it's a regular occurrence - I want to see de Gaulle leading France to victory. Furthermore, if the Union is formed, it shouldn't just be the UK annexing France, it should be a seperate country.