What's your favourite feature/change so far?

[mike1097]

Hello,

From playing Hoi3 the last couple of days I've been reminded of the significant changes to hoi4.

To list a few I love:
Air now has a greater purpose.
Manually change party through advisers + coups.
Less of a linear path.
Create your own faction.
Nation focus tree (one of my favourite part of hoi3 was the nation decisions)

I'm interested to see why you're looking forward to this game?

 

[ArcandSpark]

The naval combat is a huge bonus.

I really like the battle planner and assigning generals to carry out your plans.

Air combat is well... up in the air but I am optimistic. There was a lot of micro in HoI3 for air units which was both difficult and rewarding.

The production efficiency and division template is really cool! Now adding or taking away brigades won't be such a chore like it was in HoI3.

 

[Number 7]

i love that tanks and planes (and destroyers and subs for that matter) are now individual things that you build. for me its so much more immersive to have a division that i can see are made up of Tigers and Panzer IVs than a division that just says STR 100% and doesn't tell me how many tanks i have and how many i lost in battle. i love the new industry system

also upgrading divisions. SO MUCH better. in hoi3 attaching artillery brigades was such a chore, in 4 it will be easy

 

[Brave Little Belgium]

I have not played HOI III so I can only talk about HOI IV. National focus tree is my favourite feature.

 

[Ostheim]

• Battle planner
• Politics
• Tank/Plane/Ship variants
• Division designer & the way units are setup (actual soldiers and equipment represented)

 

[Daddl]

Naval invasions being much more difficult. I just can't enjoy a game with Germany if you can invade and make Great Britain surrender with nothing more than one battleship, 4 transports and 10 divisions.

 

[Hunterheimlicht]

My favorite is the production line, battleplan and the tech tree.

 

[Mac Lazer]

There are so many things about Hearts of Iron 4 that I love and are so much better than Hearts of Iron 3.

Here's a list of everything I like about HOI4:

http://www.hoi4wiki.com/Features

 

[bagalas]

I'd like to see short archive movies for every national focus you unlock. For example When you unlock the Anschluss as Germany the message window should play a small video as Adolf makes a relevant speech. Or when you unclok some major naval focus it could show black and white archives of battleships shooting. You know what mean. Immersion.
Same goes for standard research. Right now I just find it rather boring. hey I research panzer IV, yay... oh well. Need some immersion! Please?

 

[CyberianK]

Equipment is by far my favorite change.

Also with that the division designer and then the national focus trees.

 

[Admiral Piett]

There are so many...

Equipment and production is probably the thing I'm most excited about.

 

[KalZakath]

I'd like to see short archive movies for every national focus you unlock. For example When you unlock the Anschluss as Germany the message window should play a small video as Adolf makes a relevant speech. Or when you unclok some major naval focus it could show black and white archives of battleships shooting. You know what mean. Immersion.
Same goes for standard research. Right now I just find it rather boring. hey I research panzer IV, yay... oh well. Need some immersion! Please?

Would love to see this as single player - multi-player could see it being a pain in the butt - kind of a pause, that would keep happening every time just about any power unlocked a bunch of stuff. If the Naval focus one unlocks, and you see the vid, would it show each time anyone with a similar focus tree unlocks it, or pause the game if you're able to turn it off?

Single player I can see this definitely, but think it's something for the modders.

 

[Nicolas I]

From what I have seen, the naval and air combat look great. I also like the equipment production.

The division designer seems good...but it's sad you cannot customize individual divisions afterwards without using the templates (I know it's possible, but its limited and a bit complicated).

The lack of fuel use on the field still puzzles me...

 

[bagalas]

Would love to see this as single player - multi-player could see it being a pain in the butt - kind of a pause, that would keep happening every time just about any power unlocked a bunch of stuff. If the Naval focus one unlocks, and you see the vid, would it show each time anyone with a similar focus tree unlocks it, or pause the game if you're able to turn it off?

Single player I can see this definitely, but think it's something for the modders.

I really don't think it would be much of an effort to simply turn off the feature in multiplayer.

 

[VladPrus]

Battle planning - very immersive and prevent you from being mad from moving every single unit
Peace conferetions - again, very immersive, possibility of creation realistic resulst of the war. The best peace system in Paradox Games.

 

[Hiiri]

Production screen absolutely! Battle planner also, if I didn't have my doubts and fears about it.

 

[mike1097]

I'd like to see short archive movies for every national focus you unlock. For example When you unlock the Anschluss as Germany the message window should play a small video as Adolf makes a relevant speech. Or when you unclok some major naval focus it could show black and white archives of battleships shooting. You know what mean. Immersion.
Same goes for standard research. Right now I just find it rather boring. hey I research panzer IV, yay... oh well. Need some immersion! Please?

Sadly, I doubt that would happen, but wow, that would be amazing!!!!

Edit: This needs to happen.

 

[Lionace]

If I had to pick one favourite, then it is probably the new production system. It should give more purpose to the smaller nations, as you won't be spending your country's entire industrial capacity on producing a single division. And secondary powers should feel more powerful now as well.

What I'd like to be expanded is the politics system, so I hope that it will be a part of one of the future expansions.

 

[Ostheim]

What I'd like to be expanded is the politics system, so I hope that it will be a part of one of the future expansions.

Politics appear to have more depth and detail than any previous HOI version

 

[Axe99]

There are soooooo many good features in HoI4, I couldn't possibly pick a favourite. My 'top' new features are*:

- Production system - three types of factories, equipment and variants.
- Battle planner
- Naval combat (and organisation)
- Air warfare
- Peace conferences


* Although guaranteed I'll forget one or two and kick myself for doing it later.