Will Paradox ever add new or rework focus trees for the other major factions as well as some minor ones,preferably not through some DLC?

[deadshot20044]

I know I'm probably not the first nor the last to say this,but the game could really use more unique focus trees for more nations,expecially for majors like USSR or Italy and minors like Greece,Bulgaria,Turkey,Sweden,Finland and even Persia. Hell,if some mods can have those,why can't the vanilla game? Also,I'd rather have them without having to pay for another one of their overpriced DLCs.

 

[Dlin369]

Majors will probably reworked - the historical paths will probably be free, alt-history paths will come with DLC (based off current strategy).

Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, Sweden, Finland, and Iran will probably be attached to DLCs, with Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey probably packaged with Italy.

Vanilla takes a while to create focus trees compared to mods because HOI4 has relatively few content designers (that is, programmers specifically focused on creating focus trees) and most of those content designers also work in other parts of the process. Each update/DLC often introduces new mechanics, which means time needs to be spent playtesting and incorporating new features into the new trees. Art also slows things down - HOI4 uses painted portraits vs photographs, which helps create some degree of exclusivity regarding purchasing DLC vs using mods.

For better or for worse, the DLC model is what Paradox uses for its games. While free content comes along with new DLC expansions, at least a part of each update will include a paid component for the near future.

 

[Kryndude]

I'm really looking forward to Finland getting its own NF, watching WW2 realtime series on Youtube got me pumped up to play Finland but was disappointed to see they have generic tree. And to stay on the topic, no I don't expect them to be free nor do I wish they were. Only thing I care about is the quality of new contents, money I can pay.

 

[GSP Jr]

You really cannot expect new content for free. Devs gotta eat. Even marketing and sales people have to eat, not to mention drink.

 

[Zauberelefant]

You really cannot expect new content for free. Devs gotta eat. Even marketing and sales people have to eat, not to mention drink.

With Sales, especially Drink. These folks party hard!

 

[GSP Jr]

With Sales, especially Drink. These folks party hard!

Would you trust a sales person that wouldn't have a drink with you to close the deal??

 

[Zauberelefant]

Would you trust a sales person that wouldn't have a drink with you to close the deal??

Right on. You know a Sales-Person who would forego a chance to have a drink? (JK, but in 20 years I have yet to meet a salesperson that would not socialize).

 

[Darksworthyone]

They really need to update Canada!

 

[--Yigito123--]

This is all speculation on my part yet, but I would expect that after all the major trees have been overhauled, they will start updating older focus trees on the side of DLC's. At the very least, they will have freed up resources that they once spent on the free paths of the major overhauls, and they can't very well charge money for changes to a DLC that they sold to people with money already.

 

[master_templar]

Why would they do it for free when they can sell it?

I would assume USSR will be the next DLC, hopefully the biggest tree so far as there is a lot of potential there.

 

[Kryndude]

I would assume USSR will be the next DLC

1.0 is Colie and 1.1 is Barbarossa. I think Russia's going to be the patch after next.