Dev Diary - Prototype Vehicles Unit Pack

[Arheo]

I think the solution to that is to simply find ways to lock you out of those functions later in the game. Much like World Tension gives you new abilities as it goes up, it also takes some away, so the players can concentrate on fighting. "Sorry, we can't sell you [STATE/RESOURCE RIGHT], we need everything we can get [while we're fighting the Axis/in case we need to fight the Axis]!"

There are other options, like National Spirits: German Reich's Bitter Loser will make it so they'll never accept a peace treaty, no matter how badly they're losing, or things like being at war with a country that has X number of factories/deployed troops.

If you want players to concentrate on the war when it goes into full swing, that's perfectly fine, this IS a game about World War II, and the war itself should be the main focus. But the more you can do in the time leading up to the war, the more possibilities can play out during the war.

I don't disagree with the latter part, but I feel like there are perhaps other ways to achieve it - still, in either scenario it's a big change, and would likely be the focal point of an expansion rather than a maintenance update or so. Hypothetically speaking.

 

[Arheo]

Historical ON - Total capitulation required for peace

Historical OFF - Limited peace allowed

That halves the player added value of all the work you're doing.

We can't keep pretending limited peace is this insane idea outside the scope of the game when there are so many ahistorical conquests that are a complete chore because you have capitulate the UK because you wanted 1 province.

I don't think EU4 style peace deals are the only way to achieve that while also remaining true to the game's core premise.

 

[Arheo]

I get your point that many small peace treaties are somewhat contrary to HoI4's "DNA" and I don't want to derail this thread further...but is there any chance of fixing the fairly serious overflow bug occuring in the peace conference after long, dragged out wars? As it is a fairly disappointing end of a playthrough one likely sunk an considerable amount of time, if then the supposed big, "I reshape the world" peace conference is ruined due points being negative. Roughly half a dozen reports on this have been made since BBA (but not yet a visual "confirmation label" has been given); I linked the ones I found here:

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I think that was fixed in one of the recent updates, I forget which.

Edit: Our internal notes suggest 1.16.3 but I see that didn't make it to the external log. Has it still been occurring after that update that you're aware of?

 

[Arheo]

One thing I don’t understand about the game is that we can’t individually use some of the existing mechanics unless they’re triggered by events or scripts (like wars). For example, the game has a mechanic that allows temporary access to resources or factories in non-owned states, but we can’t request or offer them through the diplomatic interaction menu.

You can get this by defeating your enemies: reparations or "soft" occupation. To do this diplomatically would circumvent the trade mechanic, so where we do it outside of peace conferences (sparingly) it requires some narrative explanation.

 

[Slurpen_Paradox]

- Could we get a list of which countries will have access to each 3D model?
- Are these all the new vehicles being added?

Good feedback! These are all brand-new models.
I have added the country names and flags under each vehicle here so that you can see who has access to what:

Keep in mind that changes may still happen!

 

[Slurpen_Paradox]

Would it be possible to have all the UK models added to the commonwealth states as well?

They're quite lacking in content and you wouldn't really have to change the roundels or skins.

You've also added the T43E1 to the USSR even though it's an American vehicle.

That's an interesting point, but we have no plans to do this at this time.

Ah! I knew I would make a mistake somewhere when I was moving the flags around on these images.
The T43E1 is indeed available for the US in the game, so don't worry!