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HOI4 Dev Diary - Back from summer!

Hi everyone! The whole team is now back from vacation so its time to kick off dev diaries again!

At the moment we are all working on an unannounced expansion and the 1.8 Husky Update and work is progressing well, so we can start sharing some of it with you guys and gals again. The expansion will remain unannounced until PDXCon so look forward to that. Or better yet, come join us for fun, reveals and gaming in Berlin.

Just because we can’t give the full overview yet doesn’t mean we can’t start revealing stuff in true Paradox tradition, so next week we will be taking a look at France which is getting a full revamp. We are going to be doing our focus trees a bit differently this time around, so expect new nations to get covered in two diaries rather than a single one to better match their scope and structure.

I don't have a lot for today, and spent all my vacation moving and not going to any cool WW2 places, so I will end this diary with a cool WW2 related vacation pic from @Bratyn. Bonus points if you can spot where its from :)

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See you all next week for something a lot more meaty!
 
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One thing I'm hoping for with this update is a change to the volunteer system. Take the Spanish Civil War for example. While Germany, Italy, and the USSR all sent "volunteers" from their militaries, France, the UK, and the USA all had volunteers from without the military come from their country to aid Republican Spain. Maybe something like the government-in-exile mechanics?
 
I'd also like to see an increase in the number of states/provinces/cores in the Southern Hemisphere. Africa and South America need some love, because they have provinces bigger than entire European nations and a minimal number of states apiece. This could be fixed in the next patch with hardly a blip on the radar.

For inspiration, this mod could be a good starting point: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=891719743&searchtext=
 
South America should probably be low on the priority list when it comes to map changes. There are more important issues with the map that need attention (like the Yugoslav and Eastern Polish states being modern versions of themselves instead of WW2 which just makes my blood boil).
 
Also any chance of hotfix for Italy and Japan´s AI? Italy commits suicide by boat by sending troop convoys in the Channel, and wastes precious divisions in Ethiopia.

Meanwhile Japan is yet another victim of frontline shuffling.
 
ThatGuyFromSeinfeld said:
South America should probably be low on the priority list when it comes to map changes. There are more important issues with the map that need attention (like the Yugoslav and Eastern Polish states being modern versions of themselves instead of WW2 which just makes my blood boil).
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Well, the mod covered the entire world, so it should be easy to do them all! ;)
 
Michael Gladius said:
Well, the mod covered the entire world, so it should be easy to do them all! ;)
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There's a huge difference between a mod that carves up the world and that's it, and the base game where the devs need to consider how their state divisions affect gameplay, borders, balance, etc.
 
hkrommel said:
There's a huge difference between a mod that carves up the world and that's it, and the base game where the devs need to consider how their state divisions affect gameplay, borders, balance, etc.
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Slavish copying isn't what I had in mind, but a mod that focuses purely on carving up the map is a good reference for inspiration.
 
Prpbably isn't the best place to ask this, but what are the devs' thoughts on 40 width divisions? I personally think there should be a scaling combat penalty for divisions over ~24 width.
 
Very excited about future World War Wednesdays.
 
Dsingis said:
Sad, but understandable.


But this being said, if France is a focus in the new expansion I wonder what it's theme is going to be? Considering both Czechosovakia and Romania have a focus tree, it's not gonna be a little Entente theme.

Maybe Franco-Iberia? With France, Spain and Portugal getting trees?

Ugh, I want to know it now!
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My guess: France, Italy, Spain, and either Turkey or Greece.
 
J.Verbruggen said:
When is Luxembourg getting a focus tree because it's outrageous that a nation that important doesn't have one yet.
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Shall I start the hashtag?
#LuxembourgFocusTreeNao
 
I would like some air warfare rework, teleporting bombers, inefficient CAS in ground support battle due to the range when they have an airfield 10 km from the battle but "the whole air zone is big" etc.
cheers
 
Hmm, with France announced I'm seeing a Mediterranean themed expansion. I'm thinking France and Italy will be the two majors to have their focus trees overhauled. Spain, Greece, and Turkey might be the minors that supplement it. We also know that espionage and a defensive warfare revamp are road-mapped for attention. I think that the gameplay changes would be centered around either of these two things. In my opinion, the game would benefit more with a defensive war overhaul, but this also seems to fit better with a Soviet themed expansion.
 
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