What expansions/DLC do you expect to see?

[Saint Gwynllyw]

With EU4 and CKII we have seen many bold changes to the original game, do you think that this will stay the same for HoI IV? I personally cannot think of anything at the moment, other than extending the end date with new events and technologies.

Randomised world DLC

 

[Milten]

Randomised world DLC

One step closer to "EU4 save import" DLC.

 

[Adonnus]

Es braust ein Ruf wie Donnerhall,
wie Schwertgeklirr und Wogenprall:
Zum Rhein, zum Rhein, zum deutschen Rhein!
wer will des Stromes Hüter sein?

Lieb Vaterland, magst ruhig sein,
lieb Vaterland, magst ruhig sein,
Fest steht und treu die Wacht, die Wacht am Rhein!
Fest steht und treu die Wacht, die Wacht am Rhein!



Anybody else thinking what I'm thinking?...

 

[GeneralPetrov]

I seriously doubt HOI4 is going to get as many DLC's as EUIV. Probably less than half.
The basegame won't sell as much because:
1) game is pretty complex (we might love it for this, but not most people)
2) will probably be released very close to Stellaris, which seems to be more popular already

I disagree, there's always improvements that can be made, and I think if anything, HOI4 will be one of paradox's most popular games. WW2 is a very popular genre. Heck even HOI3 despite all it's flaws is one of paradox's most popular games.

 

[Shatterfury]

Es braust ein Ruf wie Donnerhall,
wie Schwertgeklirr und Wogenprall:
Zum Rhein, zum Rhein, zum deutschen Rhein!
wer will des Stromes Hüter sein?

Lieb Vaterland, magst ruhig sein,
lieb Vaterland, magst ruhig sein,
Fest steht und treu die Wacht, die Wacht am Rhein!
Fest steht und treu die Wacht, die Wacht am Rhein!



Anybody else thinking what I'm thinking?...

The guard on the Rhein. Smooth man !

You are thinking of a POD with the German Empire winning or escaping WW1 almost intact ?

 

[Adonnus]

The guard on the Rhein. Smooth man !

You are thinking of a POD with the German Empire winning or escaping WW1 almost intact ?

I will give you a hint: It starts with Kaiser and ends with Reich

 

[Leon_Aditzu]

-period between 1933-1953 (Rise of Hitler to the Death of Stalin period)
- faction enhanced mechanism about economy for the main type of nations Capitalism(USA), Imperialism/Colonialism(UK, France), Fascism(Germany and Italy) and Communism(USSR).
- WW3
- more features for minor nations and partisans
- Alien Invasion with a world alliance mechanism

 

[Amur_Tiger]

For HoI it's hard to see what's missing until I see the game. There probably will be more national trees, but PD usually don't add something like that without new gameplay features.
Right now I'd like to see more personalized ministers and generals, with individual habits and ambitions. Like "Rommel was drunk during landing in Africa and fell of the ship" events, so you could go full "Neeeeein" over them.

I swear I saw screenshot with something like this already. Perhaps they could enhance it to tanks and other stuff, though combat mechanics will probably need a rework, so stats of individual brigades would be more important.

I think that might be the XP 'upgrade' you can apply to ships I'm not sure how much room there is with the initial class being laid out, there's a lot of question marks around some of the core of the game so it's hard to say how it'll turn out.

 

[rjohansen]

I see someone already mentioned the Sunset Invasion I used to have the habit to buy all DLCs... Well, not anymore

The DLC I hope for are:

1. OOB - better version of the one in HOI3
   1. Corps/Armies/Army Groups at least
   2. Attachment to these: corps attachment can provide support to all divisions within corps etc. AI decides where it is needed at any time. Or just a flat bonus for all divisions within corps.
2. Flat (topograhic) map / counters → a map that look like a map and counters we all know from most war games
3. New supply system / fuel
4. A "normal" cabinet - where you can appoint ministers in different positions
5. A cold war → modern times scenario would be awesome as well (Then I woulden't even mind the neon-graphics of the game)
6. Symbols DLC (German symbols instead of NATO etc)
7. A fix to the volunteer mechanics, where volunteers are actual volunteers. For instance, if playing USA or any other democratic country, a certain percent of your manpower can go missing from USA and from regiments in Spain... Spain then group these volunteer regiments into divisions themselves. Same with SS - get volunteers from occupied and other european countries. Also it would be nice if some occupied country that goes into exile, managed to escape with some of the manpower to an allied country and would form new regiments there (again that country could groups these into either seperate divisions, or into other divisions)

I would also buy DLCs which expands nationals goals for other nations (at least European nations), but I will not buy any "crazy" stuff again, nor will I buy any "uniform packs" and whatnot. I hope for a mod that let us remove the toy soldiers from the map.

 

[FUregistration]

The best DLC would be a modding pack with modding tools and information on how to properly mod the game. This basically would create even stronger modding teams that could throw out amazing mods spawning since world war 1 to modern times.

Some HoI4 abstractions are just to abstracted for my taste, so all I hope is that I can mod the game extensively just like I did with HoI3, then I will buy HoI4.

 

[Shatterfury]

I will give you a hint: It starts with Kaiser and ends with Reich

Haha.....awesome mod buuut I would like something a wee bit more realistic.

The German Empire surely will not have the willpower to muster enough forces to interfere in Asia, the population will go berserk after what they went through in the Weltkrieg.
And the fall of UK to Syndicalism is pushing it.

Awesome mod none the less and you can bet that there will be people porting it.

 

[Shavanna]

The SS are well known to have performed abysmally.
The support of the SS by the Fuhrer hamstrung the Wehrmacht.

The SS was not an elite guard or super-soldiers.
They were a political symbol with about as much tactical value.

The SS was some kind of militia, that suppressed the people who opposed the system. They were some kind of private police of the NSDAP and thus not 'official' (=part of the power of the country).

 

[FerdinandVeblen]

Kaiserreich DLC: You've played the mod, now play the fully integrated scenario!
Wunderwaffen DLC: All the terrible superweapon concepts on both sides, from Project Habbakuk to flying wings!
Alien Invasion DLC: Martians land sometime between 1938 and 1943, basically the old alienattack cheat but far more detailed.