HOI4 Dev Diary - Beta Batch Update III

[Dzharek]

I have a request. Can you make sure that a country has enough political adviser and military high command options to fill out the three slots? Playing as Republican (Democratic) Spain in my last campaign and I only had two high command options. It was a little irksome that I would never be able to fill that third spot.

Same here, i played Manchuko into Chinese Empire, and you get only 3 Political advisors at all, and one of them is locked behind the Focus tree that requires that you are staying a vassal of Japan. I think also at least every nation should maybe have the option for a Elusive Gentlemen for one more agent, since it was really infuriating to play as a Chinese Empire that Spawns all of Asia but only having 2 agents and 2 political advisors.

 

[Axe99]

Cheers for the DD Podcat and the extra info Shultays, and the bug fixes by everyone . Lots of goodies, but my favourite is probably:

- GER now will try to put more armor to low countries instead of france border

I'm not sure how you've done it, but getting the AI to use ARM more sensible in any situation is a good thing .

On the other hand, I'm concerned by your clear discrimination against the undead

- Tito should no longer be able to serve as chief of army if he is dead

Not really of course

Super-tough week for an on-topic naval pic, but here's a crack at a naval 'bug' - a US interwar torpedo test where the magnetic influence exploder didn't go off when it should have. The US suffered more than most nations due to technical faults in its torpedoes (due, in no small part, to not putting enough resources into testing), but when it finally ironed out the kinks, its submarines really went to town.

 

[Idle America]

Are there any plans to fix the anarchy of factions? Every single game, Manchukuo winds up joining a European faction, even when it makes no sense for the Europeans to invite them, resulting in fascist Japan joining the Comintern, or some other nonsense. It completely throws everything off-balance, and has ruined countless games for me.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/a-simple-fix-for-factions.1343622/

Above is a suggestion I have made previously, inspired by HOI III. I really do hate to keep hammering the point home, but the game is practically unplayable at times because of this nonsense.

 

[Idle America]

The US suffered more than most nations due to technical faults in its torpedoes (due, in no small part, to not putting enough resources into testing), but when it finally ironed out the kinks, its submarines really went to town.

We don't build subs, we sink them!

 

[currylambchop]

Why are non-aligned nations no longer allowed to create collaboration governments? Was it necessary to fix something? It will make non-aligned runs less fun.

Portugal always made weird 'Chinese collaboration government' in Macau

 

[currylambchop]

- neutral countries no longer allowed to create collaborations

Instead of doing this, why not just make it so AI neutral countries won't create collaborations? Players should still have the option.

 

[j4l]

- Ai now able to send volunteer airwings again (optimization broke it in 1.8.1)

SOV volunteer airwings are back, but now volunteer airwings from two nations fighting on opposing sides don't fight each other

 

[Berlichingens]

Thank you，please let the good work continue

 

[La Espiga]

Hi, I have run into two mayor ahistorical facts when playing historical, with Republican Spain and Yugoslavia.

I love HOI4, I have almost 1700 hours, and every expansion, including coametic one. With everything going on, I decide to buy La resistance and return to the game so I can teach my new roomate how to play it (we are confined in Madrid).

We choose historical, played Italy. Everything was going well, finally we had a good, slow and grinding conflict in the SCW. I explained him that with historical checked, everything goes more or less historical until 1941, when the war achieves it's peak and you have to win it... And then, the uprising happened.

Catalonia and Aragon became it's own country. He looked at me, I said it may be bad luck. Since then, I have run various test (historical checked, played Buthan, let the game run) and everytime, the revolutiom of 1937 succeded.

This is huge, the SCW loses it's pace, and the conflict ends almost one year prior to the real ending because that situation it's unreasonable. Also, it is highly inmersion breaking: in reality, the revolution lasted 5 days and failed, the republic never loosed control.

I can have a shorter spanish civil war, but breaking the inmersion is too much in an historical game. Is this point going to be adressed, or is it intended to be ahistorical every game?

About yugoslavia, the five test I have run endend with them joinning the axis, wich also is inmersion breaking.

I hope both this things gets fixed, the rest seems to be better than before, great job.

Thanks!

 

[Hemothep]

If my game from yesterday evening is any indication then there's an entry missing:

- AI now uses its navy to gain naval supremecy around its coasts to prevent sneaky early invasions.

Can someone confirm this?
If its true, than this is a very good change.



...however I still would like the cores of the formable nations fixed....

 

[Áurum]

Hi, I have run into two mayor ahistorical facts when playing historical, with Republican Spain and Yugoslavia.

I love HOI4, I have almost 1700 hours, and every expansion, including coametic one. With everything going on, I decide to buy La resistance and return to the game so I can teach my new roomate how to play it (we are confined in Madrid).

We choose historical, played Italy. Everything was going well, finally we had a good, slow and grinding conflict in the SCW. I explained him that with historical checked, everything goes more or less historical until 1941, when the war achieves it's peak and you have to win it... And then, the uprising happened.

Catalonia and Aragon became it's own country. He looked at me, I said it may be bad luck. Since then, I have run various test (historical checked, played Buthan, let the game run) and everytime, the revolutiom of 1937 succeded.

This is huge, the SCW loses it's pace, and the conflict ends almost one year prior to the real ending because that situation it's unreasonable. Also, it is highly inmersion breaking: in reality, the revolution lasted 5 days and failed, the republic never loosed control.

I can have a shorter spanish civil war, but breaking the inmersion is too much in an historical game. Is this point going to be adressed, or is it intended to be ahistorical every game?

About yugoslavia, the five test I have run endend with them joinning the axis, wich also is inmersion breaking.

I hope both this things gets fixed, the rest seems to be better than before, great job.

Thanks!

True, the Anarchist revolution is very overrepresented ingame, it should be just a series of events and debuffs, and if the Republic chooses the wrong decisions, which should never happen in historical, the new tag appears. Right now the civil war goes relatively well until the Anarchists appear, weakening the Republic so much that Franco steamrolls them.

The problem with Yugoslavia is that it's set up to join the Axis (relatively historical), but UK is supposed to stop them, triggering the Axis invasion. I've never seen the Axis invade Yugoslavia in 1.9.1 yet.

 

[Aeroclub]

- Danzig and Memel are no longer required for forming Poland-Lithuania
- Memel is no longer required for forming the United Baltic States

Maybe Karjala shouldn't be required for the Nordic empire either?

 

[Balesir]

we can try and make the checks a bit smarter

I see what you did there...

 

[GianpietroU90]

So is LaR now at a level of polish where it is worth buying?

Absolutely no man! I love the game, but really they need a couple of months to fix everything. France guarantee ruin the game for Balkan's nations and Italy too ( and no one is answering our questions about that ), collaborations government are totally out of control in most of the cases and performance are going down as well. I mean I have a Ryzen 3600X, 16 GB 3200mhz ram, an RTX 2700 and an NVME SSD and after the last major update ( 1.9 ) the game is practically unplayable after 1941 it lags as hell. So what kinds of pc do I need to play the game smoothly?

 

[Emren]

Absolutely no man! I love the game, but really they need a couple of months to fix everything. France guarantee ruin the game for Balkan's nations and Italy too ( and no one is answering our questions about that ), collaborations government are totally out of control in most of the cases and performance are going down as well. I mean I have a Ryzen 3600X, 16 GB 3200mhz ram, an RTX 2700 and an NVME SSD and after the last major update ( 1.9 ) the game is practically unplayable after 1941 it lags as hell. So what kinds of pc do I need to play the game smoothly?

Interesting. Performance isn't really a problem on my end, and my (gaming) laptop is from 2012. I'm into 1944 with Africa full of colab free french countries, and game pace is still acceptable, with the odd pause at the end of a month.

 

[j4l]

Absolutely no man! I love the game, but really they need a couple of months to fix everything. France guarantee ruin the game for Balkan's nations and Italy too ( and no one is answering our questions about that ), collaborations government are totally out of control in most of the cases and performance are going down as well. I mean I have a Ryzen 3600X, 16 GB 3200mhz ram, an RTX 2700 and an NVME SSD and after the last major update ( 1.9 ) the game is practically unplayable after 1941 it lags as hell. So what kinds of pc do I need to play the game smoothly?

That sums it up very vell. Bought LaR last week. While spying could be nice a nice feature, they made it a pain to play. On the normal way you only get 2 Spies after buiding your agency for 7 months and a 3rd one with recuiting the advisor. Thats nothing. All missions need at least 2 Spies and take ages. But to do missions, you need to build up your intel about your target first, which also takes ages. If you do a mission with your only 2 spies the intel goes down because nobody is doing intel mission and you have to restart doing intel before you can do another mission.
If one of your two spies got captured you can reload the game, because rescuing needs again ages (build up intel, prepare mission, do mission. While its a nice feature, its so unfair balanced and simply boring and repetative using it.

@podcat: Why can't we easily get one spy after every 5th upgrade not only one spy after the 5th upgrade?

 

[Crispin]

Same here, i played Manchuko into Chinese Empire, and you get only 3 Political advisors at all, and one of them is locked behind the Focus tree that requires that you are staying a vassal of Japan. I think also at least every nation should maybe have the option for a Elusive Gentlemen for one more agent, since it was really infuriating to play as a Chinese Empire that Spawns all of Asia but only having 2 agents and 2 political advisors.

Yes this so much. Manchukuo is so lackluster regarding advisors it's almost unbearable. A pretty shallow nation in that dlc - which is also understandable but a little bit more meat is definitely warranted.

 

[Taghmon]

There were many collaboration governments under the Reich as well as Japan during their conquests. They had some autonomy built in that allowed locals to police to locals. Releasing a puppet government should be using the same collaboration % that the conquering nation has on the given provinces. If Germany conquers Poland and establishes a puppet state using locals to manage day to day affairs.. should they really be stable? As in no more resistance even though they know they're under the yoke of the Germans.

I realy like the idea, but I think it breaks with the related cases:

• the new puppet would need some boni: maybe it's current support for the forced upon as starting collaboration and a faster increase; it should be noticable easier for the puppet than for the overlord to get collaboration
  
• changing your ideology would be about the same, giving new-ideology-support as starting collaboration with every core state; but that would be real brutal
• This might only possible by removing the core (disaster should the state be conquered again) or only leaving it as original_tag but not the new goverments tag; but the puppet should have an option to get a full core. But I don't think a conquerer should ever get a core on a state in the games time frame (just focus special cases)

Integrating a puppet state should be coring at this point for a particular nation as the resistance is now 0% and the local government is now fully aligned with their puppet master. I think a puppet rework is needed after this patch.

I would love a generic way to core conquered land even if it takes some turns, BUT I don't think it is appropriate in the games time frame!
Integrating a puppet would be to easy and fast to end in a core.

On the other hand puppet-integrated states should start at a high compliance, maybe even 100% ( you would still lose 50% slots because they are not cored)
I have to check, if I can mod that myself There should be a "state change owner"-action or even a specific one.

 

[seldon]

I got the update a few hours back and ever since, France guarantees Czechoslovakia, blocking Germany from Getting Sudetanland. This pretty much breaks the game. Can you please fix it?

I agree, at the very least could someone see if there has been a change since 1.8.

 

[pdstanbridge]

The problem with Yugoslavia is that it's set up to join the Axis (relatively historical), but UK is supposed to stop them, triggering the Axis invasion. I've never seen the Axis invade Yugoslavia in 1.9.1 yet.

I did in my game last night, just to add. They were obliterated rather quickly too.