Will America help?

[Wimpola]

Americas contribution to the war was great. Will they contribute via script to send lend lease over to any nations or divisions of any sort to help? In HoI3 rarely did I see the US come in and invade the Germans or let alone help the Allies. Will this be the case for HoI4 or will they attempt to fix it? (I heard about them going to fix the AI and hopefully have the US go overseas but basically will it be well polished or just an attempt?)

 

[Scutatus]

In the World War Wednesday campaign coming to an end in a couple of days, the US had to be taken over by a player because the AI America was just staying nicely at home doing nothing.

Paradox SAY they have improved the AI since then and that it will actually contribute properly. We shall see what happens when they start a new campaign in the next week or two. I think close attention should be given to such things in the next WWW, which presumably leads up to pre-orders. I presume anyway. I may not be right, but it is the way it feels to me. The next WWW could very well be a very significant telling of roughly what we can expect on release day.

 

[Caesar15]

The AI right now is kinda eh for the U.S, they were pretty laissez-faire in the current WWW's which is no good. However, once the current WWW ends and the dev team starts overhauling the current build, we should expect a much more cooperative U.S. It's simply too important to get wrong.

 

[Number 7]

if the AI for the US is done properly, and they are capable of launching powerful AI invasions of german controlled france, i'd be really really happy. HOI3 US ai was never the games strong point...

 

[Zupanicarr]

 

[Jolt]

Paradox SAY they have improved the AI since then and that it will actually contribute properly. We shall see what happens when they start a new campaign in the next week or two.

Sounds quite a bit like Portugal going for India and Asia in Europa Universalis. Back in EU3 and EU4, Paradox was saying that Portugal was going to follow the historical route, but the end result in both games was Portugal ignoring India or Asia most of the times. The US's performance has been lacklustre both in HoI 2 and 3.

 

[BBBD316]

Well generally in DH and HOI3 you tended to see fighters and bombers arrive, but little help beyond that.

 

[calebmarkle]

The way they reworked invasions with the battle plans system makes me think that they will be more likely. The AI in WWW was super early AI before they developed it much so its unrepresentative of the current state its in. Ideally WWW this week starts up in like 1939 so we skip buildup and can see current AI sooner. Based on how the Japanese/British/American AI function in those will be a good representation

 

[Lither]

[joke about America sitting out half the war]

I sure hope they do help, and I doubt they'd try shipping it without a relatively functioning AI in such an important area

 

[Oriflamme]

Yeah, this is just one of those things where we'll have to wait and see.

It seems to me that it is (apparently) very difficult convincing the AI to send divisions across large bodies of water. But the USA had no choice but to do so in BOTH directions, so a solution needs to be found, if it hasn't been found already.

 

[fredgiblet]

I sure hope they do help, and I doubt they'd try shipping it without a relatively functioning AI in such an important area

Well it wouldn't be the first time...