Interesting, I wonder if they'll ever revisit the Soviet tree, because my boy Kerensky is just hanging out there like chopped liver. They have him as an available advisor for democracy but you can't fulfill the requirements for him from what I've found
Maybe pdx drones are right and Paradox manages to capture mythical wider audience and it will be hit.
Despite the possibility of multi-roles I suspect it'll end up exactly like the naval/tank designers where hyper focusing on one aspect per design (stacking light attack on cruisers, stacking breakthrough on tanks etc) becomes the default.
Doubling the price of future flavour packs is bad, doubling the price of existing ones (especially as they're already considered borderline not worth it for the content you get) is utter bullshit. I also love how the ambassador dropped this and then noped the fuck outta the forums and hasn't been back since, gotta love that community engagement.
Paradox only likes interacting with their game communities if it has nothing but pure praise for the company.
I'm really enjoying all these trailers where the gameplay is literally just watching animations on a map.
It's what they got with HoI4- that was their first big "meme" release, where you had a small core of the HoI2/3 playerbase and then 90% of purchases by people who had never heard of Paradox before and have maybe 10 hours total on their Steam library after five years. It's easy to watch and "get" compared to something like CK2 or EU4, where the UI is very elegantly designed but requires you to hit more than a single button.
Some of the changes seem interesting, but some of them just feel like "Our design lead said to change this meta, and these tweaks sounded good on paper, but we're not wasting money on play-testers. That's what you guys are for." That's Paradox for you.
That bar is so low even Paradox would have to intentionally dig under it. But I'm sure they'll manage to fail even harder with Victoria III if what we've seen of its development is any indication.
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Also they somehow managed to make CAS even more broken.The Italian dlc for HOI4 just released today and it looks like the reworked peace conference mechanic has kept the fun AI border gore peace borders intact.
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That song is more fun than it has any right to be.
Its not bad so far. Now it really feels like the old DLC's are really falling behind IE canada and south africa trees.The Italian dlc for HOI4 just released today and it looks like the reworked peace conference mechanic has kept the fun AI border gore peace borders intact.
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Who would want it to? Normies are garbage and should fuck off out of our genre.
Its got a ways to go. One of the biggest issues is your attention gets massively split between Earth and the rest of the solar system pretty early on, and that's not good because you've got less ability than XCOM to do shit about the steadily advancing alien invaders, and you also need to engage in a shadow war against everyone trying to exploit the crisis for their own goals, either good or bad. You also have six operatives (councilors) max to do shit with, a mere four at start, two coming with tech, and if you're lucky two more you can snag as turncoats, but there's eight factions max (including the aliens), so you need to deal with 7 other assholes doing the same thing you're doing, so you don't have the manpower on hand, and you need to get into space and start gathering resources and tech, and that's no fun because shocker, there's no magic wand there. If it was just Earth and Luna it would be manageable, but I've barely gotten in and already I ran face first into a wall.
