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

[NvII iS 8ulLt f0R 88C]

Being able to play the bad guys in the eyes of these kind of modders is akin to personally endorsing the policies they promoted, only wholesome socialists allowed.

No wonder why the syndies get tweaked every update. Hell, they got tweaked in the Germany update and they didn't even address that SRI basically wins every time and is objectively the strongest Italian nation by far. I wonder when they add wholesome socialist Qing path.

 

[Corpun]

Don't forget a ton of the plebbitors in the HOI4 scene cannot for one minute play 'bad guys'. You can find them talking about this a lot in any subreddit how they won't touch X faction or Y country path ever because they are fascist/bigots/right-wing/Stalinist/etc.

These people are so fucking insulated and insecure they can't even have fun in a video game. Is creating an Imperium as a 20-year-old Yockey that owns all of North America and Europe crazy? Yes. Do I fucking care? No it's a video game, i'm not going to suddenly become some skinhead or whatever half these fucking retards think is going to happen.

Of course, you all have to remember these people are the unironic LARPers they project onto and probably use one hand to sweep across the globe as some wholesome 100 socialist nation and the other to jerk off.

 

[The Foxtrot]

Don't forget a ton of the plebbitors in the HOI4 scene cannot for one minute play 'bad guys'. You can find them talking about this a lot in any subreddit how they won't touch X faction or Y country path ever because they are fascist/bigots/right-wing/Stalinist/etc.

These people are so fucking insulated and insecure they can't even have fun in a video game. Is creating an Imperium as a 20-year-old Yockey that owns all of North America and Europe crazy? Yes. Do I fucking care? No it's a video game, i'm not going to suddenly become some skinhead or whatever half these fucking retards think is going to happen.

Of course, you all have to remember these people are the unironic LARPers they project onto and probably use one hand to sweep across the globe as some wholesome 100 socialist nation and the other to jerk off.

In my HOI4 games, I love playing "Bad Guy" nations. Fuck, Burgundy in Old(Good) TNO was my favorite because it was so pulpy and insane while also being unfortunately not far off from what it would have been in real life had it existed. Himmler completely losing his shit and deciding to nuke the world to repopulate it with only "Pureblood Aryans", while running an entire country like a concentration camp? Yeah that definitely makes for very interesting gameplay...
...and then they got rid of the entire reason Burgundy was so interesting and turned it basically into Super Nazi North Korea. Also, you can't win no matter what you do, so you've literally got no reason to give a shit about how good you do since you're just going to suffer the Burgundian Spring anyway.

Maybe playing as Saddam's Iraq in Millenium Dawn and finally somehow winning against the evil Americans will scratch that itch.

 

[NvII iS 8ulLt f0R 88C]

In my HOI4 games, I love playing "Bad Guy" nations. Fuck, Burgundy in Old(Good) TNO was my favorite because it was so pulpy and insane while also being unfortunately not far off from what it would have been in real life had it existed. Himmler completely losing his shit and deciding to nuke the world to repopulate it with only "Pureblood Aryans", while running an entire country like a concentration camp? Yeah that definitely makes for very interesting gameplay...
...and then they got rid of the entire reason Burgundy was so interesting and turned it basically into Super Nazi North Korea. Also, you can't win no matter what you do, so you've literally got no reason to give a shit about how good you do since you're just going to suffer the Burgundian Spring anyway.

Maybe playing as Saddam's Iraq in Millenium Dawn and finally somehow winning against the evil Americans will scratch that itch.

I played Iraq in Novum Vexillum and it was bullshit, I got a huge debuff despite holding out against the Americans.

 

[DJ Grelle]

I played Iraq in Novum Vexillum and it was bullshit, I got a huge debuff despite holding out against the Americans.

That unironically is the worst part; modders (and the base game makes this error as well) being unable to adequately balance thus throwing insane national spirits and other debuffs on the nation that is supposed to lose.
Or their favorite faction should win thus they get OP, unbalanced stuff (see the Commie US in kaiserreich).

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

Don't forget a ton of the plebbitors in the HOI4 scene cannot for one minute play 'bad guys'. You can find them talking about this a lot in any subreddit how they won't touch X faction or Y country path ever because they are fascist/bigots/right-wing/Stalinist/etc.

These people are so fucking insulated and insecure they can't even have fun in a video game. Is creating an Imperium as a 20-year-old Yockey that owns all of North America and Europe crazy? Yes. Do I fucking care? No it's a video game, i'm not going to suddenly become some skinhead or whatever half these fucking retards think is going to happen.

Of course, you all have to remember these people are the unironic LARPers they project onto and probably use one hand to sweep across the globe as some wholesome 100 socialist nation and the other to jerk off.

If the being realistic that every left-wing faction should have massive penalties to public order constant rebellions infighting and the best factions should all be liberal center right to right wing historically those are the most stable forms of government the Soviet Union collapse after 70 years the French Kingdom lasted a thousand
The Roman Empire lasted nearly 2,000

 

[Irredemable Retardation]

Don't forget a ton of the plebbitors in the HOI4 scene cannot for one minute play 'bad guys'. You can find them talking about this a lot in any subreddit how they won't touch X faction or Y country path ever because they are fascist/bigots/right-wing/Stalinist/etc.

The modding scene going from "what if" to "how it should be" was a disaster
Just look at the TNO subreddit for emotional retards thinking they are high and mighty for reaching the enlightened conclusion that nazism is evil, or the development team's hilarious research failures for a deconstruction of nazi ideology, caused by both laziness and commie bias.
Also, Hyper-spartan nazism may not be entirely accurate, but it does not romantize/whitewash "regular" nazi ideology at all, and it's actually coherent with how nazis reacted to failures.

 

[Corpun]

Or their favorite faction should win thus they get OP, unbalanced stuff (see the Commie US in kaiserreich).

And when you point out how ridiculous the CSA is in Betareich (And redux as well, but the civil war can be avoided in that mod) people come out and say how it's actually underpowered somehow.

The whole debuff scene with mods is awful as other people here have said, but there is no fucking reason the CSA should not be suffering massive penalties at the start as the Industrial heart of the USA suddenly loses all it's factory overseers and managers when the commies rise up and threaten their lives.

 

[Enginig Gaming]

No?, it was kinda established pretty early on that the owner hated trannies, he larps as one as a sympathy card to bait troons to help him out. Their entire thing was fighting random mods and calling them pedos.

>Their entire thing was fighting random mods and calling them pedos.
The spirit of Slackjaw still lives on in some people it seems.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

The Germany update made by that Lithuanian brony leftist faggot is out.

Ok that title screen and bringing back Die Wacht am Rhein is at least kind of a win.

 

[NvII iS 8ulLt f0R 88C]

The Germany update made by that Lithuanian brony leftist faggot is out.


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Ok that title screen and bringing back Die Wacht am Rhein is at least kind of a win.

for fucks sake

to be fair, he changes to AuthDem 2ndACW
also finally:

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

for fucks sake
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to be fair, he changes to AuthDem 2ndACW
also finally:
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And it includes more minigames.

 

[Moja Zemlja]

And it includes more minigames.

I don't mind simple PP management minigames to represent the actions taken during the crisis, but I fucking hate when it goes this far. Is there a reasonable way to just skip it with console commands?

 

[dalurker99]

You can legalize homosexuality in 1938 Germany as the le ultraWholesome social democrats

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

You can legalize homosexuality in 1938 Germany as the le ultraWholesome social democrats
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Magnus Hirschfeld was a real creepy piece of shit that helped ruined our modern world and am tired of people praising him.

 

[foreman 89]

You can legalize homosexuality in 1938 Germany as the le ultraWholesome social democrats
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While it likely wouldn't be possible, this is historically kinda accurate, the SDP did impose and seek to remove this paragraph.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paragraph_175#German_Empire

 

[EpicGamerMoment]

Took RedditReich’s Germany rework for a spin.

Holy shit the amount of fucking minigames you have to do and random debuffs you get is ridiculous. The new tree is alright and if you play your cards right you can build a super OP army.

But there’s a ton of stuff to do and it’s impossible to do them all before the 2nd WK (without cheats)

Instead of making up political crises and minigames to pass the time I wish they leaned on foreign policy stuff more. I honestly had fun doing the foreign policy tree and making sure German hegemony remains powerful etc.

 

[Your Local Sped]

Took RedditReich’s Germany rework for a spin.

Holy shit the amount of fucking minigames you have to do and random debuffs you get is ridiculous. The new tree is alright and if you play your cards right you can build a super OP army.

But there’s a ton of stuff to do and it’s impossible to do them all before the 2nd WK (without cheats)

Instead of making up political crises and minigames to pass the time I wish they leaned on foreign policy stuff more. I honestly had fun doing the foreign policy tree and making sure German hegemony remains powerful etc.

Total Minigame Death.

 

[Corpun]

The Germany update made by that Lithuanian brony leftist faggot is out.


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Ok that title screen and bringing back Die Wacht am Rhein is at least kind of a win.

I have to admit, the artwork for the mod is still pretty fucking kino.

And it includes more minigames.

Oh boy, another mechanic the AI will never be able to manage. Just make a simple deicison you clock for a PP cost, not this convuluted bullshit.

You can legalize homosexuality in 1938 Germany as the le ultraWholesome social democrats
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Can you legalize trannies down the line? If not this isn't blessed enough.

I take it even SocCon or MarkLib Germany is evil right wing bigots since they aren't SocDems. Is Von Lettow-Vorbeck still a possible Kanzler, or is he gone because he was a racist colonial officer?

Total Minigame Death.

Minigame autism will be the death of HOI4 mods.

 

[VariableOverflow]

Is there a reasonable way to just skip it with console commands?

You can disable the whole thing in the game rules. Apparently its replaced by an idea that slowly ticks down. Very nice move from them tbh.