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HOI4 Dev Diary - Merry Christmas

As is traditional christmas time means 2 things: The dev team all disappear off on holidays and I make some beutifulhorrible holiday art... so, merry Christmas everyone!
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As I said we now go off on a much needed break, so expect diaries to resume again when we get back after new years :)

I figured I'd also give a little summary of the year from out point of view. This year saw the release of Waking the Tiger back in march which we are proud of and seems to have been received really well. Then during the summer we hit a new record on amount of active monthly users playing HOI (540k!!). Otherwise we have been hard at work on probably our most ambitious expansion yet - Man the Guns, which we announced (very early) at PdxCon. I expect a lot of people wanna ask me for a release date, but it is what it always is: when its ready. I can promise that we'll tell you early next year though.

As is customary I usually drop some cool statistics as well. so 'ere we go:
  • We investigated tutorials a bit and found that the HOI one actually seems to work the best of the ones we have. a whole 89% of people who start it actually complete it, and people who do complete it have a much higher chance to stick around and play the game (I am not much of a tutorial man myself, preferring to get watch lets plays and the like, but this still makes me happy :))
  • We broke all our player records during summer. I dunno if the weather was extra bad this year or not, but people seem to have been spending their vacation charging across Europe in tanks.
  • Constructive Engineering and Training continuous focuses are the most popular by a wide margin
  • The most popular total conversion mod is Road to 56 (12%) followed by Kaiserreich (8%). 3rd spot is held by Millennium Dawn at 5.5%. The most popular non TC mods are Colored Buttons and player led peace conferences.
  • Multiplayer games sit at 11% (daily unique players) and 17% use ironman

Oh yeah, we were pretty excited to hear that HOI4 had been nominated for the 2018 steam awards under Best Alternative History. I'm not gonna beg you to go vote at all. Totally up to you!

I also figured we'd highlight my 2 favorite bugs that have popped up during development. Smoke launchers let submarines lay down smoke to escape... somehow without revealing their position ;D also we had a great one where whenever we iterated on stats for a ship design it would double the stats of those modules, and also double the amount of module slots. @YaBoy_Bobby was the undisputed king of the seas in this abomination:
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(its a while ago, so its an older iteration of the UI). I have no idea what -75% reliability mean, but I suspect it just explodes if you try to train with it.

See you all next year and have a merry Christmas and a happy new year - HOI4 Dev Team
 
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If anything, games should cost much more. They haven't kept up with inflation at all, and at tve same time the costs to make them have skyrocketed.

 
@ Oerdin: You have to know that all prevous updates / DLC´s predicated to the old basic Game and Gamecode (Version 1.0 to 1.5.x). And in the old DLC´s [TfV, DoD, WtT] are implentations which will work correctly with the upgraded and changed Basic Game Code.

This time the Basic Game Code will get big Changes to implement the new things [free / DLC MtG]. That means Version 1.6 is a complete upgraded Gamecode and not comperable to the old System.

It´s like the Windowssystem-History (Win 95, 98, ME are on the same Basics and with Windows XP an new Generation begun). The same is here in Hearts of Iron 4. And such evolutions need time, esp. if you upgrade the hole Basic Game for the new implementations from the DLC´s and free implementations. And much more Important for the Implentations from the older implementations [free / older DLC´s, which will be needed for the new Version and MtG].
 
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Hoi Neuling said:
@ Oerdin: You have to know that all prevous updates / DLC´s predicated to the old basic Game and Gamecode (Version 1.0 to 1.5.x). And in the old DLC´s [TfV, DoD, WtT] are implentations which will work correctly with the upgraded and changed Basic Game Code.

This time the Basic Game Code will get big Changes to implement the new things [free / DLC MtG]. That means Version 1.6 is a complete upgraded Gamecode and not comperable to the old System.

It´s like the Windowssystem-History (Win 95, 98, ME are on the same Basics and with Windows XP an new Generation begun). The same is here in Hearts of Iron 4. And such evolutions need time, esp. if you upgrade the hole Basic Game for the new implementations from the DLC´s and free implementations. And much more Important for the Implentations from the older implementations [free / older DLC´s, which will be needed for the new Version and MtG].
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Personnaly i hope the release date is soon,as @Oerdin said,this makes 10 months since Waking the Tiger,they should not have announce the dlc at PDXCON if it's not ready in my opinion.i'm a bit tired of waiting MTG now.
Cordially.
 
I understand that MtG is going to be a much larger and deeper upgrade and that there are many technical aspects which must be considered by the development team. That said, I really would like and hope enough resources could be dedicated to this project that at least one expansion pack could be released per year. Yes, like everyone else I want it to be right and well sorted out but every game has a limited shelf life before something new and shiny comes along so I do not want to see a game series I love languish due to excessively long wait times between updates.

That is just my $0.02.
 
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I understand that MtG is going to be a much larger and deeper upgrade and that there are many technical aspects which must be considered by the development team. That said, I really would like and hope enough resources could be dedicated to this project that at least one expansion pack could be released per year. Yes, like everyone else I want it to be right and well sorted out but every game has a limited shelf life before something new and shiny comes along so I do not want to see a game series I love languish due to excessively long wait times between updates.

That is just my $0.02.
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I see where you are coming from and I just feel like I should mention that they have been wanting to announce dlcs and updates to their games sooner to get the player’s opinions to help with the development of the game to satisfy the players as well as they can.
 
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