Plagued /r/TNOmod and the Reddit HOI4 modding community - When a subreddit for a video game mod turns to utter insanity

[Computer God Autism]

(even the biggest TNO hater can admit that superevents are pretty cool for example)

Cool? Sure. Innovative? You do know that Civ IV and Medieval 2 were doing 'superevents' fifteen years before TNO launched, right?

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Genuinely surprised that TNO autism hasn't translated yet into someone making a DnD module.

 

[I_Lurk_Here]

You do know that Civ IV and Medieval 2 were doing 'superevents' fifteen years before TNO launched, right?

I think that's kinda irrelevant. It's innovative to mod new things into HOI4. Not a contest to create entirely new concepts.

 

[EpicGamerMoment]

I am convinced that TNO fans are kids who don't play games besides hoi4, and don't read books. Which is a shame, because there are countless books with better writing than TNO. If you cannot read something without flashing lights on a screen, there are also many video games that outshine TNO. It's been said a thousand times, but Hoi4 is not supposed to be a narrative game.

I remember reading posts by TNO fans about how they tried vanilla and other mods and ended up utterly failing. TNO is a good strategy game for people who don't play strategy games, and a good story for people who don't read. The "placebo effect" of Soy4 mods. Young people need to read books more, otherwise they will mistake some 15 year old's fanfic about dead Nazis and U.S. Politicians as "good writing"

 

[Computer God Autism]

I think that's kinda irrelevant. It's innovative to mod new things into HOI4. Not a contest to create entirely new concepts.

Sure, it's technically impressive to mod a soundtrack into a popup event in a Paradox game, but I don't think adding something that big titles in the genre were doing over a decade ago should be considered innovative and it just further showcases how illiterate HoI4's target demographic is when it comes to strategy games that bringing Paradox's presentation to their level is treated as lifechanging.

 

[Caligura]

I remember reading posts by TNO fans about how they tried vanilla and other mods and ended up utterly failing. TNO is a good strategy game for people who don't play strategy games, and a good story for people who don't read. The "placebo effect" of Soy4 mods. Young people need to read books more, otherwise they will mistake some 15 year old's fanfic about dead Nazis and U.S. Politicians as "good writing"

The 2010s era of young people reading YA dystopiaslop like Hunger Games and Divergent suddenly doesn't seem so bad anymore, at least people actually read books.

Also I'm shocked no one made a HOI4 Hunger Games mod. There is like kind of divided America in that lore.

 

[Grave Ghost]

Also I'm shocked no one made a HOI4 Hunger Games mod. There is like kind of divided America in that lore.

If such a mod ever got made it either would have become a gem like EAW and Old World Blues, or it would have been the definition of 2017 HOI4 mod slop.

 

[Amerikaner Teddybär]

A true desciple of Sun Tzu's art of war would type in "delall" followed by the tag name to achieve a flawless victory.

As Sun Tzu once said, "The bad gamer tries to learn the game, the good gamer learns how to exploit the game."

On the Lacerda update, I give up. Not because of the difficulty but because some arbitrary event within the game changes the main focus tree, thereby erasing most of the progress I made. Add that to another reason TNO is a shitty mod.

 

[Notorious N.I.G]

As Sun Tzu once said, "The bad gamer tries to learn the game, the good gamer learns how to exploit the game."

HOI4 honestly has become a game that i just boot up and map paint when i'm bored, idgaf anymore about learning whatever faggy mechanics Paradox decides to cram into their 9 year old game.

 

[Kyria the Great]

All this spergery about TNO makes me realize, why isn't there a proper grand strategy set during the Cold war and all the unique situations and flashpoints that is a balance of winning the ideological war for the major NATO and Warsaw pact nations and unaligned a unique position.

 

[Ryona420]

Even the Reddit is revolting. All these years without updates is too much even for some of them, it's a sea of deleted posts (deleted for "being a dick") out there and everything that survived is shitting on the devs for ruining the mod. Fun read.

Also maybe take it with a grain of salt since it's a 4chan screencap but the lead for this update may have followed through on his promise and resigned. This is something he said he would do last year so it's actually believable and given how these things have worked out in the past that likely means that the tag is now dead.
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A true desciple of Sun Tzu's art of war would type in "delall" followed by the tag name to achieve a flawless victory.

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Ostland had the best content ever planned for Europa Narben when I was on the team. I remember a SS pirate path with Lovecraftian theme, which had the best artwork ever made (even to this day). But I believe the team collapsed, and last time I heard about it, Ostland development was frozen after restarting it from scratch three times since release. It's the biggest missed opportunity of the TNO

This is the cool shit that we could have gotten. Honestly it weas mentioned before but TNO shoulda been KX cold war. One dude once mentioned stuff like Oskar Dirlewgner being owned by some sledgehammer wielding babushka was the Hart and Seol of TNO and I kinda agree. Is this realism any better than Sablin whom if being honest I hope they don't actually axe him. I learned to appreciate him too given if they get rid of him its another thing of lost content. I wish former devs came forward more with their ideas.

 

[EpicGamerMoment]

Even the Reddit is revolting.

"I was graduating high school when TNO came out, now I'm in my last year of college."

Jesus fucking christ

No disrespect to this guy but he should've realized his sophmore year that this isn't going anywhere.

 

[Amerikaner Teddybär]

HOI4 honestly has become a game that i just boot up and map paint when i'm bored, idgaf anymore about learning whatever faggy mechanics Paradox decides to cram into their 9 year old game.

Ever since I stopped my subscription to the DLC pack, my enjoyment of HoI4 has increased. Makes you think about what Paradox is even trying to do anymore.

All this spergery about TNO makes me realize, why isn't there a proper grand strategy set during the Cold war and all the unique situations and flashpoints that is a balance of winning the ideological war for the major NATO and Warsaw pact nations and unaligned a unique position.

Closest game I can think of is Supreme Ruler: Cold War. Even then, that game has issues to say the least.

 

[I_Lurk_Here]

As Sun Tzu once said, "The bad gamer tries to learn the game, the good gamer learns how to exploit the game."

This reminds me how HOI4 feels so arcade-y to me. It really doesn't feel like a WW2 strategy game at this point. I remember in the comments of a YT video about HOI4 someone described the game as something like "EU4 in 1936".

All this spergery about TNO makes me realize, why isn't there a proper grand strategy set during the Cold war and all the unique situations and flashpoints that is a balance of winning the ideological war for the major NATO and Warsaw pact nations and unaligned a unique position.

I'm hopeful for a game called Espiocracy.

 

[Computer God Autism]

All this spergery about TNO makes me realize, why isn't there a proper grand strategy set during the Cold war and all the unique situations and flashpoints that is a balance of winning the ideological war for the major NATO and Warsaw pact nations and unaligned a unique position.

Paradox was going to make East vs West but that died in development.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Paradox was going to make East vs West but that died in development.

If Paradox ever gets the Cold War Iron Curtain team to rebuild the cancelled East vs West it would be a match made in heaven.

 

[The Wise Shaman]

Someone on the TFR discord server made a Kiwi Farms super event.

Meanwhile, their subreddit is still gooning to Brandon Russell.


Sometimes I wonder how would he feel about having a sizeable amount of trannies wanting to have sex with him.

 

[EpicGamerMoment]

Meanwhile, their subreddit is still gooning to Brandon Russell.


Sometimes I wonder how would he feel about having a sizeable amount of trannies wanting to have sex with him.

Big dawg in the slammer missing out on all the troon poon he coulda had.

 

[Amerikaner Teddybär]

Big dawg in the slammer missing out on all the troon poon he coulda had.

I think getting raped by Bubba in prison is much preferable to sex with a tranny.

 

[NashSuvorov]

Also I'm shocked no one made a HOI4 Hunger Games mod. There is like kind of divided America in that lore.

The Hunger Games setting is so uniquely dogshit that it is honestly not surprising.

 

[Amerikaner Teddybär]

The Hunger Games setting is so uniquely dogshit that it is honestly not surprising.

Frankly it's one of those book series where the initial premise is cool but once you go into the wider world-building, it falls apart like a house of cards.