Share you worst fear (hoi 4)

[fastfreddie77]

In HOI3, factions fought to the bitter end. I hope that doesn't repeat itself. There are plenty of times peace between factions should be a possibility before total occupation by the enemy.

I'd say thats my biggest 'fear'

I don't mind total or near total occupation for most of the majors as long as you've captured all the main objectives but it should also depend on national unity. German didn't quit, England, Russia, or United States wouldn't quit either. Japan had to have 2 nukes and was looking at the invasion of all the allies including Russia before it quit. Italy, France, etc with poor national unity or a fractured government should fold or negotiate for peace.

My biggest fear for HOI 4 is I won't be able to create a military the size of the historical ones. I'd like to see diverse air forces with naval bombers, ground attack, long range fighters or interceptors. I want to see huge navies in the Pacific or long hard fought battles on fortified islands. But most importantly I want them to work correctly because the AI hasn't done the greatest job putting together fleets or building air forces for their national goals.

 

[General WVPM]

Biggest fear is bad AI, like Japan attacking USA when it is getting rekt in it's current wars

 

[RUUR]

Another fear:

I hope hoi4 is as less gamey as possible. Example: You could leave some borders completely unprotected for years just because you know the basic timeline of wars and invasions. I would like to see in HOI4 mechanisms that prevent the over exploitation of timelines and other situations on the part of the player. A minimum of troops on x border depending and size (provinces?) and threat, for example.

This kind of border patroll would be nice to have in the AI as well. It would prevent cases brought earlier in the thread where Italy leaves its border with France completely unprotected because 100% (or close) of Italy's war effort is in Africa.

Fortess Europa is another example of gamey explotation. It doesn't take a lot of troops to defend the sea border from Norway to Spain. One knows that the AI won't make a great job invading. Result: Germany devotes 95% or so of its war effort to the Eastern front beating the USSR too easily. A minimum of troops defending Fortress Europa as a deterrant of early invasion could work IMO.

 

[Anichent]

I don't mind total or near total occupation for most of the majors as long as you've captured all the main objectives but it should also depend on national unity. German didn't quit, England, Russia, or United States wouldn't quit either. Japan had to have 2 nukes and was looking at the invasion of all the allies including Russia before it quit. Italy, France, etc with poor national unity or a fractured government should fold or negotiate for peace.

My biggest fear for HOI 4 is I won't be able to create a military the size of the historical ones. I'd like to see diverse air forces with naval bombers, ground attack, long range fighters or interceptors. I want to see huge navies in the Pacific or long hard fought battles on fortified islands. But most importantly I want them to work correctly because the AI hasn't done the greatest job putting together fleets or building air forces for their national goals.

Germany would have quit under a different leader, or tried to. Britain would have quit if the US never joined. there are lots of scenarios.

 

[joe9594]

Murderous Clowns. I am most afraid of the Wehrmacht drafting murderous clowns.

 

[afghanrabbit]

Aside from Hillary, Bernie, or Trump being elected president I'm most afraid of not being able to play the game this year...

 

[Raptor83]

worst fear: game being released at the same time as HL3

 

[Brownbeard]

Delegating an overwhelming force to the AI to do something trivial, and it just sits, sits, sits and does nothing. I would have prefered HOI3 on a CK1 map rather than to have to invade manually every irrelevant piece of sand in the Pacific. After a few playthroughs, I just could not bring myself to repeat, was more a chore than entertainment.

 

[Flexan]

My biggest fear since I first saw this game is that I won't be able to cross the ice of Öresund and once and for all finish of the Danes.

And of cource if the game suddenly stops like in EU4

 

[griffor]

And of cource if the game suddenly stops like in EU4

that is by far the most annoying thing in both vicky and eu4 the random stop sure the score could be finished, but why am i not aloud to continue playing if i want to so depressing.

 

[Flexan]

that is by far the most annoying thing in both vicky and eu4 the random stop sure the score could be finished, but why am i not aloud to continue playing if i want to so depressing.

Correct me if I am wrong. They should make like it is in the total war games where you can choose to continue even though you won or the time is out, and like in Civ where there is no time limit.
I'm not saying paradox games are too short but at least in EU4 most of the fun stuff happen in the end.

 

[TexasJaeger]

I would have to say my biggest fears are; the lack of customization (renaming ships, divisions, wings, etc...), poor AI, lack of named units (Sherman tank, BF109, etc...), inability to have production license (already confirmed). And finally a Q3 or later release date. Johan commented on a post of mine earlier last week confirming no Q1 release but hopefully there will be a Q2. Because honestly if it goes into a Q3 release I'm probably not going to buy it at release and just wait for it to go on sale. because at that point it will be almost 2 year delay.

 

[SturmerFIN]

They simplify it until it can be run on consoles...

Various network problems in multiplayer.

 

[goliard20]

My biggest fear is, that the map looks ugly after ww2. In Hoi 2 it was scripted nice, even for Germany. In Hoi3 it was a desaster. the worst thing in the hoi games are the country borders at the end of the games hope with claiming provinces from a map (no list) it gets better...

 

[Sinbuster]

If the problems of HOI2/3 still persist: bad invasion AI (ie. UK invading Denmark in 1941, never invading Italy; Commonwealth troops invading completely haphazardly), doomstacks, an AI that doesn't recognize it's being encircled, fleets with terrible screen to capital ratios, transports moving without escorts, the East Front wrapping up in 1942 making a UK or US game a total waste, never-ending attacks along the same axis, Japan being unable to fight china and the US simultaneously. And as someone else mentioned rather astutely, the feeling of the AI just collapsing. When playing as the Germans, I'd prefer the Soviets to stiffen significantly as opposed to having large encirclements leading to smaller ones followed by an easy victory.

Oh, and a supply system that doesn't work.

 

[Red Roo]

Bad AI. Easily achievable unrealistic objectives.

 

[Enfield303]

Bad AI.

Oh and endless forum threads complaining about the game on release because people have set expectations too high due to delays.

 

[HeilLoki]

Biggest fears:

a) Simple "draw a line - click a button - win"-strategy is good enough

b) Meaningless air warfare, because you can't target individual provinces (put 1000 planes in a huge area, AI does the rest)

c) too much automation in general

d) ...


My biggest fears are simply one thing: Everything is automated.

 

[HeilLoki]

Aside from Hillary, Bernie, or Trump being elected president I'm most afraid of not being able to play the game this year...

Nothing is worse than Shillary...

 

[Stuckenschmidt]

That it is the same as with CK2. 700 years of game time, but anyone can be God-Emperor of Eurasia in the year 1000 starting as small Duchy.