To many Achievements?

[pheonicia]

I did a few achievements early on, but haven't attempted much less complete any in years. I just enjoy my core game play mods too much to be confined to vanilla ironman. And the achievements just struck me as pointless.

I'd be curious to learn from PDX's usage data what percentage of players actually attempt/complete more than just a handful of achievements. My guess as for why we haven't seen new ones in a while is because most people don't do them.

You can see through steam that most achievements are in the sub 10% range, so people don't really do them.

I'm at 120 now, with 3 left for the US and another 3 for Australia, so will run out soon. I find that I've still been learning tactics recently though. About 10 achievements ago doing Finnish Him!, was the first time that I started using request lend lease and got tens of thousands of free infantry equipment from the Axis. I did the same as anarchist Spain in my last run, which made a lot less sense, considering that they were giving me guns to kill their own volunteers.


Yeah, at 239 I still only have 75%. I haven't played EU:IV much lately, what patch made Three Mountains harder?


Bevrijding is mostly about holding against Japan. I ended up restarting because I got so annoyed at the garrison AI, because it was moving troops around all of the time. Since then I do all garrisons manually. One king, two crowns was painful too, because I had to invade the US in the late 1940s to finish the Allies. I generally enjoy any Balkan achievements and I found that the way that you can play as Portugal rather unique for Go ahead, Macau my day.

I found bevrijding to be easy since with me preventing japan from running wild in the pacific, the allied ai pulled off D day in '43 without me even noticing. I'm just moving troops around repelling invasions and I see Paris liberated event, look over and Europe's already half won.

 

[Znail]

Is it me or are there just to many achievements in HOI4? After playing a long time and trying to get the achievements I am still on 25% done. Got some very hard to get achievements like "treading the narrow Path" and "last for a thousand years". But still the achievements are hard to get and some even look impossible to me.
How far are you with the achievements? Some suggestions for "30 minutes of hel" achievement? (like to do the hard onces first... easy onces will come by just playing the game)

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More is better as it means more content and more things to do. It's only a "problem" if you want them all and without work.

 

[Anthropoid]

You can see through steam that most achievements are in the sub 10% range, so people don't really do them.

I found bevrijding to be easy since with me preventing japan from running wild in the pacific, the allied ai pulled off D day in '43 without me even noticing. I'm just moving troops around repelling invasions and I see Paris liberated event, look over and Europe's already half won.

I know that for Bevirjidging (?!) you are supposed to somehow change the status of your Dutch East Indies puppet, but I'm not entirely clear how those mechanisms work. I've watched Feedback Gaming's guide on this at least once (though probably on 2x speed while multi-tasking! ) so I have a vague sense for what is involved. It sounds complicated though.

 

[pheonicia]

I know that for Bevirjidging (?!) you are supposed to somehow change the status of your Dutch East Indies puppet, but I'm not entirely clear how those mechanisms work. I've watched Feedback Gaming's guide on this at least once (though probably on 2x speed while multi-tasking! ) so I have a vague sense for what is involved. It sounds complicated though.

Just take the continue the war in Batavia focus.

 

[SRhistory]

More is better as it means more content and more things to do. It's only a "problem" if you want them all and without work.

I don't mind the "work" (work? Playing is fun). Like to do the hard ones first. But sometimes I just mis a bit of a guide on how to get to the achievement. Anyway, this thread provide me with a lot of info.

 

[elektrizikekswerk]

But sometimes I just mis a bit of a guide on how to get to the achievement.

It's part of the fun figuring that out - especially for the tricky ones

 

[ArzhurG]

I found bevrijding to be easy since with me preventing japan from running wild in the pacific, the allied ai pulled off D day in '43 without me even noticing. I'm just moving troops around repelling invasions and I see Paris liberated event, look over and Europe's already half won.

That's about what happened in my second run. The difficult thing in my first run was that the garrison AI was randomly moving my troops to different islands while I was being raided/invaded. I could almost have stepped away once I had two divisions on each port and another one on every tile beside a port during my second run.

I know that for Bevirjidging (?!) you are supposed to somehow change the status of your Dutch East Indies puppet, but I'm not entirely clear how those mechanisms work. I've watched Feedback Gaming's guide on this at least once (though probably on 2x speed while multi-tasking! ) so I have a vague sense for what is involved. It sounds complicated though.

Just take the continue the war in Batavia focus.

There are two ways to annex your puppet in this case. The first and intended one is to use the focus which will just annex them. However, I didn't do it this way because all of the divisions that I had trained from their manpower became bugged. They didn't replenish manpower and if I editted the divisions, or just swapped them to a different template the entire divisions just disappeared. I therefore annexed them the standard way, by decreasing their autonomy by building in their states and then used 300 political power to annex them. Being able to fully use your army is worth the 300 extra political power. I did have to wait a little longer to save that much up, but my puppet increased their manpower law while I was saving it, allowing me to get even more divisions.

 

[stid33]

Not enough achievements for me. I have now completed them all and have nothing left to do with my days Almost envy of you getting to do them all - although there are some horrific ones out there. Just wait until you need to make Siberia with Tuva