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HOI4 Dev Diary - Back from PdxCon

Hi everyone! We are now back from PdxCon (most of us) and landing in our new offices, so brace for a ton of pictures! Oh and we announced the new expansion! If you haven't see the trailer <3 start there:


PdxCon 2019
PdxCon this year was imo one of the best ones so far. It was held in the Funkhaus Berlin. This place was super cool, and was basically the center of all radio and recording for DDR from the 50s until the german reunification.
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We had announcements (among them CK3 and La Résistance!), LAN parties, presentations and Q&A sessions with fans as well as a scramble-for-africa multiplayer game on sunday. Most of all though it was super fun to chat with fans and modding groups (several ones were there!)

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WW2.. in hot pink!

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A very humble picture of @Bratyn on a throne ;D

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HOI boardgame preview

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Animals in the audience?


In our booth we ran a challenge which we plan to be an achivement for LaR, just like we did with 30min of Hel last year. It was called "Don't Die for your Country" and was to capitulate France and Poland as Germany with as few of your own casualties as possible (and no using paratroopers). The final score was 475 casualties :O
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@Voigt was the winner, and you can read about how he did it here.

We had a ton of fun and basically just crashed when we got home ;D it felt a lot like coming home from a music festival :)


La Résistance

So 'ere we go... Our next expansion is now announced: La Résistance!

Its main theme is Espionage and Resistance and the main country focuses are France, both sides of the Spanish Civil War as well as Portugal. We will be starting off by going through espionage in the coming weeks in details
For more info check out the announce post and there will probably be uploads of videos from PDXCon and my talks popping up on youtube in the near future.
also here is a fresh unused screenshot to wet your appetites...
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WIP etc ;)

New Office

We have a new office, and it is INSANELY COOL. Me and Daniel have been cruising around and checking it out this morning. Here are some highlights:

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Meeting rooms with battleplans and maps!

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armed artists...

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Mugshot-wall for employees :)

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WILD ANIMALS

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Toilets with inspirational quotes o_O

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Aliens

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A space wall where you can literally sit and stare into space...

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Casual meeting areas :)

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Extra big meeting rooms

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The Bar :)

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And finally our awesome lobby


Thats it for today. See you again next week when we will start digging into the new LaR features!
 
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To answer your second question of "When will Italy be revamped?" I'd say in the actual Mediterranean expansion, since Italy was the main player in the Mediterranean fronts such as Greece and North Africa, and of course Italy itself. Greece is an interesting minor who managed to fight off a major, thus is deserving of a focus tree in that DLC, and North Africa is currently an insignificant theatre with little strategic value that usually gets steamrolled by Italy or the U.K imo it needs some more flavour.
Other minors who also made geographical sense and synergise well in this hypothetically dlc would be Bulgaria and Turkey.[/QUOTE]

I personally do not think Turkey comes together in Italian rework that this country will come in its own dlc set in the Middle East together with Iraq and Iran

I think Austria and Albania would come perfectly when Italian rework is done
 
This question will probably sting you. But How long will we have to wait for that?
 
the Germans and the allies will have diplomatic struggle to take control of rights for certain resources of the Iberian countries as really happened with the Tungsten