Paradox Studio Thread

[Rome's rightful successor]

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Paradox screwed up on making naval combat again.

It has became so routine and normal now for Paradox to release a DLC that inevitably gets bad reviews.

 

[LOWERCASE LETTERS]

Figured I'd ask here, is there a way to use mods with a pirated version of HOI4? I want to fuck around with mods but I don't want to give those kikes at Paradox any money.

This'll do ya.

 

[Red Dragon]

Figured I'd ask here, is there a way to use mods with a pirated version of HOI4? I want to fuck around with mods but I don't want to give those kikes at Paradox any money.

Yes, use the Irony Mod Manager. Works for a lot of Paradox' titles and you can even customize the mod folder location. For the mods themselves, Skymods is the place to go.

 

[Carbiter]

Victoria 3 DLC Great Wave reviews

I wonder if Paradox used whoever tested Creative Assembly's Rome II: Total War all those years ago. Maybe not as it appears not to hard crash after 5 minutes, but it basically doesn't do what it's supposed to do, that is, deliver a tolerable naval mechanic. Patches are being fired out, but after a month, the reviews aren't improving. Massively nerfing small countries is also a real anti-fun measure, leaving aside what seems to be patent flaws. I could never get in to the base game, tho I play it on a rare occasion.

They're still leagues above CA, although it can always get lower. Fingers crossed. CA is a fucking dumpster fire at the moment.

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I didn't realize that Jersh had such a following in 40's Russia.

We really shouldn't be giving Jersh money. He could just wait for 70 days and get free civilians

 

[Mussolini’s Merkin]

It has became so routine and normal now for Paradox to release a DLC that inevitably gets bad reviews.

Last positively received one was Gotterdamerung I think, which was a pretty good one honestly. I don’t really play much of the other titles but Graveyard Of Empire was utterly unplayable on release and No Compromise, No Surrender looked just as bad.

 

[ConsentAccidentVictimNo98]

Last positively received one was Gotterdamerung I think, which was a pretty good one honestly. I don’t really play much of the other titles but Graveyard Of Empire was utterly unplayable on release and No Compromise, No Surrender looked just as bad.

Gotterdamerung wasn't all that good, a lot of it was it being over rated because of the German revamp; something that had already been (partly) paid for previously with Waking the Tiger. Hungary was another case of an updated focus tree. The only countries to actually receive a focus tree which didn't have any are Austria (Habsburg larp omg), Belgium (it was the last involved country not to have one in Europe) and the Congo (who asked?)

The raids feature, the main stay of the update wasn't all that good. Special projects are meh, the type of thing you do once and don't do again because it's not worthwhile unless you're going for a specific play, say super stealthy subs with the tiles. But it's not really good game design and you're made to go out of your way for something you don't need. The last DLC which was actually good, and needed, was No Step Back. I'm still not a fan of designers (unless it's a mod with a good navy one, but that's just autism. I suppose others would be the same with tanks and planes. But in the base game, it's just predisposed to a simplified meta and I will bitch about how badly the starting navies are done by Paradox. Case in point, the Renowns only having 1 gun slot added which is a big no. It had 6 15 inches). It still had problems, but Gotterdamerung must be understood as being the start of returning to focus trees and making people pay for them again, and for the new features to be useless bloat.