HOI4 Dev Diary - LaR Post Release and Statistics

[kimidf]

Paradox, many of France’s focuses take 70 days and the tree is immense.
Please review the duration of these.

I am sure that they will take this into account or have said it before in the forums: the new dynamics of the DLC are not retroactive in the national's tree.

They have done a great job on this DLC and from what I know the Spanish HOI4 community is very grateful. They have more than met our expectations.

Thank you.

although it is well dlc, there is something they should have had more cure in some aspects as a subject differentiated skins for the great side of the civil war and insert third for colonial troops also of the lack of portraits both Spanish and French sides

 

[FStefanak]

Please reconsider putting off GA until april. Current beta is already so much better than 1.9.0. and also stabler. Then april could be 1.9.2. Please don't tell me that the extra release makes THAT much difference in terms of QA effort, especially with the beta already out. You'll save time reading duplicate bug reports for 1.9.0 which you've already fixed

Hope it's not the case of working around corporate BS that you are only allowed to do one minor version before moving to next DLC.

 

[LORDoflisbon]

I get that there are historical reasons for the national spirit, but I highly doubt that the focus tree path is intended to be unplayable, else why are they giving the choice? There really is no feasible way to keep your stability up, especially with a -0,5 PP modifier. Once you hit 0 stab (likely somewhere in 1940) you're sitting at 0,1 PP/day, -20% construction speed and -50% factory output without any way to fix your country. That's worse than even the French Disjointed Government.

Historically I also seriously doubt the country would've remained unstable as being at war tends to unify a country. I guess the US would be the most obvious example of that, not wanting to get involved but once forced into it fully behind the cause. I guess that's all just ahistorical guesswork on my part though.

But Portugal is not being force into the conflict it's joining because it wants to, if you don't know, Portugal performed Terribly in WW1, the army was under equipped and understaffed, and even after the victory it barely gain anything, no land and the war reparations that Germany add ro give Portugal, were never given, the allies ever forgive the war reparations from WW1, because they thought their destroyed economy was good enough to warned they from doing it again, but Portugal that had fought in the war had no say in the matter, 432 million pounds sterling(in todays money that is ~18.36 Billion) whourt of war reparations till this day not given to Portugal from WW1.

In Portugal the war was and still is seen as a disgrace, a mistake and error, since if it had not joined it would not have lost so many lives and would gain the same thing it did by joining ABSOLUTE NOTHING(they actually capture some german ships and after the war kept them, but they also lost some ships more than the ones they gain so...).

During the time of the game noone wanted to join the war because of what happened during and after WW1, it makes sense that the nation would be still in chaos if it joined the new conflict if not in a worse position.

"Two factors made it especially important for Portugal’s interventionists not only to seize control of the Paris Peace Conference negotiations, but also to emerge victorious from the conference. The first was the nature of the Portuguese intervention in the First World War. The second was the reputational damage endured by the country’s young republican regime as a result of its army’s poor performance on the battlefield and Sidónio Pais’ ‘New Republic’. It was both expected that the Allies would force Germany to pay for their military expenses and also hoped that Portugal might receive a share of Germany’s colonies and battle fleet – but in vain. Portugal’s ill-fated campaign for the reparation of wartime damages would continue until 1933."-Quote from Encyclopedia 1914-1918 Article Post-war Settlement (Portugal)

 

[Alycidon]

There were two things in this game that frustrated me so much I haven't played it for some time.

The first was the inability to lock certain aircraft to certain air wings, such as creating long and short range variants and keeping them separate. The addition of the wing management system and being able to specialise is very welcome and solves this issue for me.

The second thing is units being randomly sorted when added to armies. I like to micromanage and key to that is being able to easily select units from within Army lists but the system seems to constantly shuffle them into random (dis)order. Stopping this happening so that units remain in the position in the list it was added or having the system sort alphabetically so renaming or adding numbers to unit names (ie 1/1 Infantry Division, 1/2 Infantry Division, etc) that would achieve this.... well I shall quietly wait in hope

 

[themunck]

So, as long as you're updating the spy stuff, I have two suggestions.
1) I'd really like the list of completed operations to go to the bottom of the list of operations rather than the top. It's annoying to scroll through in the late game if I've launched a lot of operations.
2) I like to keep my spies busy, so I'd love some better notifications for when an operation is over so I can reassign those agents ASAP.

 

[adil3tr]

You can never 'stop' the Anarchists from breaking away, anyway. But I am aware that there is a timing issue and it's impossible to reach the focus to delay their rebellion. A fix for this will be added to the beta at some point

I thought they were put down way in advance in real life? I also took the soviet research alliance focus but it disappeared. Is it timed?

 

[SoulStriker 13]

What about random AI Germany never taking Oppose Hitler without custom rules?

 

[Casko]

@podcat - can I ask you guys. but have you thought about reducing the time needed to complete some of the focus down to 35 or the like. For the focus that are less than impactful. Stuff like " Mechanized Focus". as currently those are really underwhelming in the grand scheme of things. and, as the focus trees continue to grow, it really comes down to not having enough time to pick those kind of focuses at times. Such as with Portugal.

 

[TheKillingJoke]

I do think that SOME of the focuses across many trees could be lowered, well at least the larger ones. France could use one... actually thats the only tree besides the soviets that could use a decrease.

 

[Mr.Grizzly]

Britain in my opinion is probably the tree that needs the most reduction, so many events and decisions are tied to them and they can't do everything they did historically before the war starts. They have to help China, remove their military penalty, AA and radar defences, build up Asia, help their dominions, build up Egypt, get their research slot and industry, help out the Balkans and list goes on, just runs out of time.

 

[Sounds]

I'm pretty sure that most Portuguese army uniforms in the 30's were light blue, not green.

Yep. This is one of the reasons that I've not gone ahead and purchased the expansion.

I know its just cosmetic, but as Portugal got an update for this DLC it seems a strange oversight. Leaves me wondering how much was missed and whether it was release too early.

 

[Mr.Bajskorv]

Very nice, so now we also need the duplicate fleet.

Also some sort of sorting in the Operations would be nice. To be able to hide completed operations and filter out nations.

Also if you are in Intellegence view and you get a new trained division and that's unassigned to an army. If you click on the notification symbol it should auto change to the regular or army view.

 

[UlulvarCape]

Should mention this as well. Netherlands joining the french faction is broken because France doesn't have humanite unie anymore. Will this be fixed? Some of the Netherlands alternative history paths in this update is kind of ruined, like continuing the war in batavia. As like how monarchist netherlands cant align with imperial germany (ALready mentioned it in this comment section before, but might as well.)

 

[Todie]

So, no update to the beta before the weekend?

lend lease is still broken a full week after 1.9.0 release? (it's simply non existent in 1.9.x without together for victory DLC)

I guess ill try to learn my lesson and think thrice before buying a pdx dlc close to its release. It's bad enough to restrict a fix to such a basic functionality to a potentially unstable beta branch for one and a half month...

... but the fact that it's apparently not even a priority to push the fix until next week? (@podcat confirmed he found and fixed the bug the night before 1.9.1 9a9b - not in time)

At this rate, PDS games like hoi4, with any history of locking features behind DLC are proving increasingly volatile purchases for any consumer who is not willing to keep up with all DLC just for the sake of it — even if the developers intention going forward would be to have features be free (while content is paid).

 

[cnwi]

So, as long as you're updating the spy stuff, I have two suggestions.
1) I'd really like the list of completed operations to go to the bottom of the list of operations rather than the top. It's annoying to scroll through in the late game if I've launched a lot of operations.

You can click a completed operation to make it disappear.

 

[Falkenhayn1]

Some tips, Paradox.
1.The battlecruisers that are in the navies of the world at the beginning of the game still have battleship armor, not the battlecruisers armor. This changes their combat stats. This problem has not been fixed all year.
2.Please do something with AI so that it does not create dozens of collaboration governments in its colonies.

 

[DocDesastro]

Question about 1.9.0:
Is it correct, that France cannot form its own faction unless defeating Germany? This sounds a bit stupid concerning they can put Napoleon VI to power and call out the French Empire again. If an empire is not warranting forming a faction, then I am lost at words here. At least, if they go this route and install him as Emperor of France, they should be able to form a faction. Anybody care to shed some light on it?

 

[Captn_Rektz]

What happened to the configure map mode option?

 

[jye42]

"For HOI4 that balance is around 4 spies as it allows the most impactful operations as well as a spy to keep networks alive and thus speed of doing them, something we wanted to reserve for spy masters only. We are also looking at duration and impact on some of the operations to make them more suitable for different types of nations for another update."
- Are you going to address the Decolonised UK Spy Mater having dozens of spies?, I feel like if you are aiming for 4 spies to be roughly balanced than it should be capped at say 8 spies, no matter how many independent nations are in the faction.

-Side note, since Sweden has a national idea 'En Svensk Tiger' I really expected them to have that focus changed in some way to reflect the new spy system, maybe make him recruitable as an agent and make the focus give +1 spies or something.

 

[guprad]

Are you going to address the Decolonised UK Spy Mater having dozens of spies?, I feel like if you are aiming for 4 spies to be roughly balanced than it should be capped at say 8 spies, no matter how many independent nations are in the faction

They fixed this in the beta, now it's capped at 10, no more than 10 spies .