Game Released: 6. June 2016 What is this game? Hearts of Iron IV is the latest installment of Paradox Interactive’s Hearts of Iron series of grand strategy games, covering the rough time period surrounding World War 2 (1936-1948, though previous games have bumped the cap all the way up to 1964). Prior to Europa Universalis III, the Hearts of Iron series was Paradox’s best-selling product, allowing the player to take control of an country in the world during the conflict, from the great powers of the Allies and Axis, all the way down to tiny little Bhutan. The Hearts of Iron series (mainly HOI2) have been showcased in almost all of the major goon mega-LP’s that span the entire timeline of Paradox games. I thought Hearts of Iron 3 was a poo poo game? What’s different now? Hearts of Iron 3 is sortof a sad story. It was broken at launch in ways that are With Hearts of Iron 4, Paradox has spent several years in what has generally been a quite long development cycle to re-examine the holy cows of the Hearts of Iron series and to make sure they hit this nail on the head. A short bulleted summary of the major changes:
Aren’t Paradox games just one big DLC-fest? Yes and no. Paradox has a fairly unique continuous development cycle for all of their internally-developed titles, with games continuing to be supported with regular new content for years after their release. Crusader Kings 2 was released in like 2011 and is still getting regular expansions. Also unique to Paradox is the release of huge free patches with each expansion, providing all players with some of the content of the expansions for nothing. The DLC model is meant to be a la carte based on what the player wants in their game (“want to play Vikings in CK2? Buy The Old Gods,” etc.). The same is likely to be true for Hearts of Iron 4. Also there’s a bunch of cosmetic DLC that is purely optional. The music DLC’s tend to be very good though, and Andreas Waldetoft is probably one of the best composers that nobody has heard of in the business. Also, Paradox DLC and their games in general go on sale really often. What about multiplayer? In the past few years, Paradox has placed a much greater focus on their multiplayer development. Paradox multiplayer games now have pretty good netcode, and are known for being a lot of fun. There is currently a long-standing group of goons who play weekly Paradox multiplayer, MapGoons. It’s fun, there’s diplomacy and backstabbing, and shooting the poo poo with goons for 3 hours at a time while politicking and warring is pretty great. For HOI4, Paradox has also added the option of co-op country management. If it’s just you and a buddy, the both of you can control the same country, dividing the duties up between yourselves. This could potentially result in some hilarious Japan games where one player takes over the IJA and another the IJN, simulating the infamous real-world rivalry between army and navy in the Japanese Empire. That's also a pretty good way to onboard friends who are knew to the game. Expansions/DLC
Mods There are so, so many alt-history mods out there these days, some of which are really detailed and neat. Here just a few of the ones that seem to have stood the test of time.
Are there a lot of wehraboos in this community? Boy howdy. Useful links: Official HOI4 wiki All HOI4 dev diaries Official Paradox Twitch channel tl;dr should i buy this game Drone fucked around with this message at 12:14 on Dec 10, 2021 |
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Radio Free Kobold posted:Rules of Thumb for Hearts of Iron 4: Drone fucked around with this message at 09:02 on Mar 12, 2018 |
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They picked a nice picture to use for Adolf Hitler, at least!
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# ? May 19, 2016 08:12 |
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I think it's cool that the major nations have unique tank tech trees.
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Apoplexy posted:They picked a nice picture to use for Adolf Hitler, at least! What's up with the blue eyes, though, or am I blind?
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Reposting for posterity. Agean90 posted:We were somewhere around Berlin when the drugs began to take hold
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# ? May 19, 2016 09:15 |
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# ? May 19, 2016 09:25 |
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Apoplexy posted:They made their artist create a majestic picture of Adolf Hitler, at least!
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# ? May 19, 2016 09:31 |
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It's me, I'm the stupid fucker who put hundreds of hours into HoI3
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# ? May 19, 2016 09:49 |
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this game i assume fixes the thing where id tell bombers to hit, say, london, and they'd go off and indefinitely bomb some shithole province that shared its territory, right "bomb uh, generally, in this area, sort of" *blasts the poo poo out of the same field for 3 years*
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# ? May 19, 2016 09:58 |
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Drone posted:Crusader Kings 2 was released in like 2011 Crusader Kings 2 actually came out on February 14th, 2012 Which is basically 2011 so yeah.
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# ? May 19, 2016 10:05 |
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2012 was a better year than 2011.
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# ? May 19, 2016 10:07 |
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Stairmaster posted:I think it's cool that the major nations have unique tank tech trees. There isn't any difference statwise - it's just a picture and some text, same as every HoI game. The interesting new bit is armament companies that modify every vehicle researched in some way.
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# ? May 19, 2016 10:28 |
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Verviticus posted:this game i assume fixes the thing where id tell bombers to hit, say, london, and they'd go off and indefinitely bomb some shithole province that shared its territory, right No
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# ? May 19, 2016 10:29 |
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Verviticus posted:this game i assume fixes the thing where id tell bombers to hit, say, london, and they'd go off and indefinitely bomb some shithole province that shared its territory, right I wouldn't hold my breath on that one.
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# ? May 19, 2016 10:31 |
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god loving damnit
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# ? May 19, 2016 10:43 |
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It's a realistic depiction of how strategic bombing worked in ww2 however!
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# ? May 19, 2016 12:17 |
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Get in the HoI4 mood by watching this vid about wartime industrial design https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_0z1kvM6ns
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# ? May 19, 2016 12:53 |
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Apoplexy posted:They picked a nice picture to use for Adolf Hitler, at least! The paradox forums are currently having a complete meltdown about that (or more specifically, the lack of it in the German version).
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Didn't they say they were going to use the blacked-out portrait as the default for all countries, but those who aren't in Germany would get it "activated" by a DLC that everyone automatically gets at launch (except Germans)? Or was that just a silly rumor? We have reached the age of Hitler DLC. While I love all of the leader portraits their artists have done for this game, I really honestly think they should have done Hitler's up in a Looney Tunes caricature style instead of going for full-on glorious Nazi propaganda of blue-eyed, Iron Cross-wearing Hitler.
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# ? May 19, 2016 15:00 |
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Sniper Elite V2 already had Hitler DLC.
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CommunistPancake posted:Sniper Elite V2 already had Hitler DLC. To be fair, it was DLC about shooting Hitler in his Nazi ball
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# ? May 19, 2016 15:29 |
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Drone posted:Didn't they say they were going to use the blacked-out portrait as the default for all countries, but those who aren't in Germany would get it "activated" by a DLC that everyone automatically gets at launch (except Germans)? Or was that just a silly rumor? Yeah, but you see, the German version is geolocked and that's basically the holocaust all over again. People are literally unironically canceling preorders over it. Really the only thing I care about is whether my German version plays nice with mods and MP, and if it means that I have to use the no doubt terrible German translation.
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# ? May 19, 2016 15:36 |
ArchangeI posted:Yeah, but you see, the German version is geolocked and that's basically the holocaust all over again. People are literally unironically canceling preorders over it. For what it's worth, I live in Germany too and I'm nearly positive that you can play the German version in the English language. No Hitler portrait for us though. It's not like this is exactly a new thing for Paradox, and it is German law. In previous Hearts of Iron incarnations, the German versions even went so far as to completely rename Hitler (to Alois Hiller or something like that)
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# ? May 19, 2016 16:05 |
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Even if they release Hitler DLC™ geo-locked, I'm confident that within 48 hours someone will have an unofficial patch in the form of a mod that contains the unlocked graphic file. And the type of people bitching are also probably the kind that can figure out how to install a mod. It's really no big deal and people need to chill the hell out.
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ExtraNoise posted:Even if they release Hitler DLC™ geo-locked, I'm confident that within 48 hours someone will have an unofficial patch in the form of a mod that contains the unlocked graphic file. And the type of people bitching are also probably the kind that can figure out how to install a mod. It's really no big deal and people need to chill the hell out. Germans using It's gonna happen.
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# ? May 19, 2016 16:44 |
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They should just make it clear it's actually Mr. Hilter and the National Bocialist party
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# ? May 19, 2016 16:52 |
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Does this game represent tank destroyers accurately? Asking for a friend.
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# ? May 19, 2016 17:23 |
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ExtraNoise posted:Even if they release Hitler DLC™ geo-locked, I'm confident that within 48 hours someone will have an unofficial patch in the form of a mod that contains the unlocked graphic file. And the type of people bitching are also probably the kind that can figure out how to install a mod. It's really no big deal and people need to chill the hell out. By the way does anyone want to help me with my mod to accurately represent the OOB of every SS division ?
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# ? May 19, 2016 17:26 |
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ZearothK posted:Does this game represent tank destroyers accurately? Asking for a friend. If your friend cares enough to ask the answer is no. This applies to all issues of accuracy in the game.
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# ? May 19, 2016 17:26 |
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ThaumPenguin posted:Germans using Couldn't they just get the Hitler portrait .DDS file from the international version from a friend/associate and replace it with the one in the game's base files, then? I don't know if this would alter the checksum and/or if this is what disabling achievements checks.
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# ? May 19, 2016 17:47 |
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Graphic mods usually don't change the checksum.
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# ? May 19, 2016 17:58 |
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O cool is this the new dating sim from paradox?
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# ? May 19, 2016 18:50 |
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Can't wait to play HoI4 Kaiserreich
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Takanago posted:Can't wait to play HoI4 Kaiserreich Seconding this. Aren't there one or two KR dev goons?
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# ? May 19, 2016 19:08 |
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ZearothK posted:Graphic mods usually don't change the checksum. Does changing country map colours in EU4 still invalidate achievements?
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# ? May 19, 2016 19:16 |
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ExtraNoise posted:Reposting for posterity.
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# ? May 19, 2016 19:34 |
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Don't forget that they completely redid logistics in a way that's less resource intensive to simulate, easier for the computer to make decisions based on and making everybody freak the gently caress out because why couldn't Hitler build some Speer-sized pseudo-neoclassical monstrosity of a gas tank and fill it with enough fuel in 1936 to last him for the whole war?
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# ? May 19, 2016 20:02 |
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I can't really put my finger on why but the UI bothers me somehow. The colors and the size of buttons and stuff feels way too bloaty or something.
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ZearothK posted:Does this game represent tank destroyers accurately? Asking for a friend. It's got a little bit more to it than hoi2 at least, every tank design has a researchable Spaa, Spag and Spat version. 1337JiveTurkey posted:Don't forget that they completely redid logistics in a way that's less resource intensive to simulate, easier for the computer to make decisions based on and making everybody freak the gently caress out because why couldn't Hitler build some Speer-sized pseudo-neoclassical monstrosity of a gas tank and fill it with enough fuel in 1936 to last him for the whole war? Tbh stockpiling was a large part of the pre war game in hoi2. Yes Stalin, I vant to buy all your oil and rare metals. Vat for you ask, oh nothing really, just vorking on my Lebensraum. But the new system looks good and if the paradox forums are mad about it it has to be good. az fucked around with this message at 21:45 on May 19, 2016 |
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