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>>14842542

HoI4 is a meme game. "Haha lets recreate the HRE in 1940 xD"

>>14842542

>notification spam

Tbh I just click through and ignore all the notifications. The important ones are all outlined in red anyway. The rest I identify based on sound. So if I here a bunch of "unit produced" sounds, I know it's time to deploy new units. If I hear a bunch of "unit upgraded" sounds I know it's time to check my prioritized units to see if they still need to be prioritized. If I hear a "technology researched" sound I know it's time to pick a new tech etc.

>takes a year to produce infantry

That's a major problem I have. I can never produce as many units as America/Germany/Britain actually had by 1941 for Germany and 1945 for America. America made a hundred aircraft carriers during WW2, but I can barely squeeze in a dozen at best while also racing to produce an entire air force, other naval units, reactors so I can start producing

GLORIOUS NUCLEAR BOMBS

and two army groups before the Soviets steamroll Germany and Britain invades Yugoslavia or something weird like that and ends the war by 1943.

>manually separate armies

It's a bit of a chore, but it's nice to be able to min-max things by putting together combined arms corps with good commanders and the right amount of brigades so I can win in the most efficient manner possible.

>Soviet Union OP

They should be powerful to be honest. They were in real life. They do get a lot of events that spam units at them for free, but I see that as mostly making up for the fact that the AI will always be inferior to a human player and that there are gamey ways to inflict more casualties on the AI that the AI itself won't use.

>spacebar to pause

That's another thing I don't like, but it's a minor inconvenience for me.

>HoI IV

I played it for an hour then gave up. The tech tree is simplified to absolute retard levels, and combat seems far too easy. The decision system is superior to HoI2's, but then again so is Darkest Hour's.

HoI3 is my favorite Hearts of Iron overall. I just don't play it because I'm not aware of any NWO2 style mods that provide a detailed Cold War game.

>>14842563

>optional content is forced on the player

Stop being a retard once in your life. hoi4 has many flaws, but picking out the completely optional alternate history options that can only happen if the player is actively working towards it is the most retarded reddit way to criticize the game.

>>14843035

>HoI3 is my favorite Hearts of Iron overall.

kys retard

>>14843066

>>14843071

>can't comprehend responding to two posts at once

>calls others retarded

>>14843071

>play strategy game for strategy instead of meme shit

>get called a retard

Are you a member of the Kaiserreich development team?

>>14842431

shit i got to get hearts of iron 2,only played 1-3 so far

>>14843441

Don't bother with the base game, just get Darkest Hour. I'd recommend the New World Order 2 mod, which lets you play from 1933-infinity (well, 9998 to be exact). It adds a bunch of Cold War events (partition of Europe, Korea, Vietnam, space race, Chinese civil war, etc) so you can play capitalists vs commies like I'm doing now. You could also use the Grand Campaign mod, which lets you play from 1914-infinity so you can do WW1 and the interwar years, but I've found that to be a bit buggy (France always declares war on Germany ~1930, crushes them, and forms Uber Frankreich; the U.K. goes to war with some minor South American countries after WW1 ends and uses the wartime IC modifier to build 500 divisions of infantry over the next twenty years so WW2 starts and ends in September 1939, the Soviet Union declares war on China in the 1930s and is so busy killing chinks that they have no soldiers on the Western front, so they get steamrolled by Germany, etc).

>>14842542

>Superior UI

kill yourself

>>14845521

>if we show He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named's face, the people will magically all become evil gnatzees upon seeing his visage!

Is that basically it, or is there some actual logic behind Germany's "we must declare damnatio memoriae upon the NSDAP" policy?

>>14842542

Late to the party but I'll bite: The issue is that HOI4 is the ultimate culmination of the BELIEVABLE meme, and honestly I'd forgive it if it just stopped at it being an ebin meem game, but it's not just that (though I'll concede that the production line system is certainly a step forwards)

>AI is fucking dumb, doesn't defend properly and higher difficulties are just debuffs on you instead of higher strategic skill demand which is why you see so many people rush paratroopers for easy wins

>Allied AI is even worse, it refuses to comprehend supply limits and fucks your organisation every time you enter any war

>On that note, organisation and division manpower are basically "battle mana" and "manpower mana"

>Organisation is even dumber: oh, your extremely powerful division has slightly less green mana than your opponent's dumbass light infantry division? sorry, you get fucking stomped

>Nearly incomprehensible naval battles, it's almost as if you're flipping a coin to see who sunk who

>No political gameplay of any kind, just pick a different ideology without any particular repercussion or influence countries in the same way (though random civil wars all over the place is pretty funny)

>Still poorly optimized at late game, enjoy your powerpoint presentation when the war reaches the whole world

Those are just from the top of my head. I know that some of these issues were addressed with waking the tiger and the modding community certainly do wonders with the game, but that's just more proof that the base game isn't good, and people here have plenty of reasons to shit on it.

>>14846290

Let's not forget the fact that Gibraltar is a big place that can house millions of troops and was the most fortified place in the world during WWII

>>14845837

You forgot to mention that:

>The AI can't understand how to perform naval invasions, so you'll just see them teleporting behind you with like one division and getting crushed at every opportunity

>The AI will never defend their mainland if they're at war somewhere else, they just rush every division out of their continent if need be

>The AI can't stop sending waves of themselves into your fortifications, killing themselves by the millions

>The AI chooses random spots to drop nukes instead of covering a retreat or forcing a peace deal

>Without Player-Led Conferences mods, the AI will go full BELIEVABLE worlds and eschew areas that produce more resources just to expand their borders arbitrarily, or in the case of democracies sometimes forming puppets that they can't possibly defend

>Resources are a complete mess, America and some Oceanic regions have so fucking many of them just to make the late game challenging for a non-democratic player and to help them overcome the AI's stupidity for a democratic one

>Influencing other countries' political parties is way too fucking easy, you can form a fascist Russia if you're quick enough

>Playing on anything but Europe, Asia or the Middle East is impossibly boring because of the terrain debuffs and the very scattered victory points

>All the important and historic decisions don't happen because or in spite of your efforts, but just by clicking on a goddamn focus tree's leaf

>Somehow Paracucks missed the memo that the Kaiser favored the NSDAP because they were one of the few parties that didn't want their head on a stick

>>14846290

Which reminds me, some areas of the map are completely undefendable, like Italy, the Midwest and South East Asia, for no other reason that the AI can't into tactical warfare.

But then again, the game is just built for memes and mods.

>>14845657

pictures of the führer arent even forbidden here so i dont get why parakike removed his face

>>14843066

>PDX got time to come up with retarded alt-history shit that only affects a minority of players

>PDX got time to cram women into the game because SWEDEN YES

>PDX doesn't have time to actually fix the game

>This is in any way excusable

The entire series is a complete clusterfuck by jewish developers

>play darkest hour

>impossible to play anything but the actual course of history

>can't make your own history which is the only appeal of these shit games

>combat is utter dogshit

>raining nukes on your enemy has zero effects

>russia will have army stacks of several million soldiers but this is considered okay

fucking trash

>>14843517

nice,i always wanted to play in the cold war scenario,hearts of iron 3 only lets you play either from close to d-day or a small event with england e.t.c fighting soviets