What countries are likely to get some attention for the next patch?

[Anani]

I have been wondering about after Australia, New zealand and South Africans getting their own focus trees.

(which imho shouldn't have been the priority while there are actually well played european minor nations. Even communist china doesn't have its own focus tree right now)

What new national focuses are we going to see?

Personally I would like to see some European minors get some love. I mean Turkey, Spain, Yugoslavia, maybe Greece would make the game interesting.

 

[War Emblem]

Well I would imagine they did Canada and the rest for economic reasons giving Australian and Canadian gamers an incentive to buy the DLC and HOI4.

The other NF groups seem fairly obvious -

China and Asian minors
Balkans and Greece
Scandinavia
South America and Mexico

 

[Kaszub]

They should fix the damn thing, mainly the AI before even thinking about DLCs.

 

[rcbricker33]

They should fix the damn thing, mainly the AI before even thinking about DLCs.

I really shouldn't feed into this as it has been stated many times before, There are reasons to move on to DLC even while the AI is being fixed. Here are just a couple.

1. Project management - The timeline for the game was set before release. DLCs are expected to be released to continue the revenue stream which drives the continued support (including AI).

2. Much of the DLC work is done by non-AI coders. Better to have them working on something than having them moved to other projects (to earn their pay) and then having to fight to get those resources back on to the team.

3. Even if they were to fix a large portion of the AI issues, new DLCs would create new issues. It is better to work congruently.

 

[rjohansen]

I hope they ditch the whole "national focus" stuff and instead make normal events again, let it be possible to actually get stuff on the actual dates it did in history. However, that is unlikely I guess. If I had to choose what nations to focus on, it would be European countries first in my opinion. Axis minors perhaps, or even tweaking the Axis + Soviet? "Most" of the war did happen in Europe after all, eastern front being by far the most important in the whole war. So if it is possible to make that front seem (something) like the real front and not the stupidity we have today, this should be the #1 focus.

 

[Sourlol]

I have been wondering about after Australia, New zealand and South Africans getting their own focus trees.

(which imho shouldn't have been the priority while there are actually well played european minor nations. Even communist china doesn't have its own focus tree right now)

I can't fault them for giving the Allies minor nations first. There are three factions, they stated they would prefer to have focus's on dlc, as opposed to a smattering for everyone. We know Axis is up next and Asia after--so comintern since PRC is the only other real commie--so they are hitting all three factions first.

As far as Allies first--specifically commonwealth--my assumption is it was A) the timing to roll out a puppet/master system B) To play UK without her Empire flushed out is a bit of a sham.

Germany, Japan and Italy were not defined by their colonial empire as the UK was.

Beyond that, Good Axis majors depend on their puppets manpower, specifically Italy and Japan come to mind.

 

[BurdenedWarrior]

I remember podcat sayings he polled Twitter and the Commonwealth came first and axis second. They let us choose...

As for the dlc hate, be constructive. There's so much toxicity on this forum already. The AI is being worked on and has the utmost priority.

Likely focus trees in my opinion are: Romania, Hungary, Spain, Finland, Bulgaria.

 

[Sleight of Hand]

Given that we know the next DLC is Axis-themed, you should be able to narrow down the answer.

 

[Constans]

My money would be on Hungary, Romania, and as sure bets for focus trees next DLC.

Next tier of likeliness is Finland and Yugoslavia.

Final tier would be Greece/Bulgaria/Turkey.

 

[melkor88]

I would like to see the Axis get a good overhaul. Especially the majors, as I feel they are a bit lacking. Maybe a few new features for them, or maybe just update their NF trees.

 

[jura28]

I think focus trees are very exciting addition into HoI series. Every game I play I check who is doing which focus and it's really fun. The more unique focus trees we get, the better.

 

[Anani]

Not doing any dlc hate here sorry for giving that impression if I did

 

[ocelot64]

I'd like to see Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Spain getting their own focus trees. Greece and Turkey are also candidates, because of their enmity and because Turkey always ends up in the Axis, thanks to the German focus after 'War with USSR'. So rather than being subject to foreign focus trees, it might be good for Greece and Turkey shape their own history, if a player is so inclined.
EDIT: I forgot about China. Which desperately needs more attention.

 

[Sourlol]

I think Romania and Hungary are the obvious two.
We then have Finland - Axis but not fascist
We have Spain - Fascist but not Axis
There is also the question of conquered or would be conquered countries: Bulgaria, Vichy, Yugoslavia, Slovakia.

I would like to see Siam and Manchukuo given NF trees, but I suspect those will come with the Asia patch which I hope gives China and PRC.

 

[heliostellar]

China is at the very top of my list. Frankly, the fact that not all of the historic victors of WW2 (exemplified as the permanent members of the UN Security Council) is inexplicable to me.