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

[Computer God Autism]

While we're on this topic, isn't it strange how reliant PDX is on modders? They don't just source talent and ideas from them, they use them as unpaid labor and free promotion. Heck, the official mod migration guide for the latest patch was written by modders, not by employees.

Paradox wants to larp as a AAA studio but doesn't have the budget or expertise, so they spread themselves thin and abuse the preexisting symbiotic relationship they had with their modding community to try to make up the shortfall.

 

[85CentSoda]

Heck, the official mod migration guide for the latest patch was written by modders, not by employees.

I don't know if this is true or not, but I heard that the team behind Equestria at War developed some engine performance improvements to the HOI4 engine that were adopted by Paradox. This of course speaks to the astounding autism of the EAW dev team and the absolute laziness and incompetency of Paradox's own dev team. I know BubblesZest and Sejozwak have documented a lot of bugs/broken features that have been around for years, as well as lackluster attempts to fix old content, e.g., Canada finally getting the mutually exclusive decision between Send in the Zombies and National Steel Car removed, which is one of Paradox's better examples.

 

[Caligura]

I don't know if this is true or not, but I heard that the team behind Equestria at War developed some engine performance improvements to the HOI4 engine that were adopted by Paradox. This of course speaks to the astounding autism of the EAW dev team and the absolute laziness and incompetency of Paradox's own dev team. I know BubblesZest and Sejozwak have documented a lot of bugs/broken features that have been around for years, as well as lackluster attempts to fix old content, e.g., Canada finally getting the mutually exclusive decision between Send in the Zombies and National Steel Car removed, which is one of Paradox's better examples.

Paradox, much like its host country of Sweden has lost its hard working indigenous Nordic staff and instead they were all replaced by lazy Somalis and Pajeets.

 

[Mussolini’s Merkin]

I don't know if this is true or not, but I heard that the team behind Equestria at War developed some engine performance improvements to the HOI4 engine that were adopted by Paradox. This of course speaks to the astounding autism of the EAW dev team and the absolute laziness and incompetency of Paradox's own dev team. I know BubblesZest and Sejozwak have documented a lot of bugs/broken features that have been around for years, as well as lackluster attempts to fix old content, e.g., Canada finally getting the mutually exclusive decision between Send in the Zombies and National Steel Car removed, which is one of Paradox's better examples.

I’m not sure about engine improvements, but EaW definitely runs better late game than any other mod/base game.
I know they’ve done a lot for the modding community with tweaks and fixes, such as allowing 10 dockyard production for large ships. They also got a shout out in some dev notes a while back

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Guess who did an interview. Still listening through it, but at least Panzer's not doing one of those fake tranny voices (or is he?).

His voice sounds like he regress from puberty a bit and now he sounds like a 14 year old chain smoker in the earlier stages.

 

[Sooty Soot]

so is the new HOI4 dlc good or no?

 

[VariableOverflow]

Its pretty good so far, only played commie Germany for a bit but its an interesting path that focuses on subversive means of expansion instead of conquest. The special project stuff is also neat, and if you want there's little consequence to completely ignoring it (apart from missing out on some busted tech).

Of course, the DLC absolutely fucked mods once again, we'll see how long it takes to update them.

 

[Sooty Soot]

bros...

i think it's time to feed

 

[Notorious N.I.G]

Those mods are still around but they're flagged as "incompatible" and quarantined in gay baby mod jail, unlike the coomer mods the edgy flag packs don't break any ToS so they dump them in the forbidden zone because they're too mentally estrogenised to be a man and just outright delete them, WEAK.
Shout out to German people, ship, planet & star names, holding the line for 8 years and counting.

Funnily the only time the Iron Sky and other mods were taken down, was when the Owner of the mods took them down himself due to the Christchurch Shooting back in 2019 (As the uploader was living in Christchurch at the time)
Granted he got hassled by people who just wanted to Larp in Space and so he put the mods back up, But yeah they're all basically quarantined. Once again Paradox being Fags as per usual.

so is the new HOI4 dlc good or no?

Tried it and it's alright, Digged through the files and apparently you can get a Punished Eva Braun in as Fuhrerin of Germany. Austria also has a Secret Hitler Portrait as well. I recall seeing some people say you can get Blondie but i couldn't find a portrait. So likely just not true.

 

[Schnoz]

Just tried TFR out and man, can i just say how absolutely gorgeous this mod is? Let me be autistic for a minute here:

I am an absolute sucker for beautiful Focustrees. This shit just does it for me.

I really don't like TNO but i have to admit their Focustrees look stunning. But then i tried OWB and it is even more beautiful.
Then came the Ponymod, and imo being the best HOI4 mod, the Focustrees are the most stunning ones out there. I never thought anything would be able to top that.

But, fucking hell, TFR ist just on such another level, it isn't even funny anymore. The whole look of the mod is just downright inspired. Compare that to Vanilla Hoi4 and it just sems so bland and boring in comparison. They really put the devs/artists/designers at paradox to shame.

I thought it was just another mememod, without much substance. But this is something else. It is legitimately crazy how good it is. There is this other big modern day mod - i don't remember the name - that just feels so bloated and bland. I think TFR has potential to be the Modern Day Hoi4 experience. The atmosphere, the insane amount of research done, the look, the feel, the flow of gameplay. It is just Top-Tier stuff. Glad we have weekenend coming, i will play this shit like a fucking junkie the next 2 days. Already told my wife she won't see me leave my gamingcave this weekend. Can't wait to see where this one goes. Just amazing stuff, really.

Hoi4 modding is so back, baby!

With that being said, any country or path you'd recommend i play?

 

[Sooty Soot]

With that being said, any country or path you'd recommend i play?

medvedevs russia/lukashenkos USSR

 

[Clanner Scum]

I don't know if this is true or not, but I heard that the team behind Equestria at War developed some engine performance improvements to the HOI4 engine that were adopted by Paradox. This of course speaks to the astounding autism of the EAW dev team and the absolute laziness and incompetency of Paradox's own dev team. I know BubblesZest and Sejozwak have documented a lot of bugs/broken features that have been around for years, as well as lackluster attempts to fix old content, e.g., Canada finally getting the mutually exclusive decision between Send in the Zombies and National Steel Car removed, which is one of Paradox's better examples.

It was the Wittenland National Focus AI improvements that got rolled back in to the main game. The E@W team did something with how the NF file was written that made the AI both more responsive to the world state and less computationally intense.

 

[85CentSoda]

Speaking of Sejozwak, he uploaded a video titled "HOI 4 is Dead."

Honestly, half the video is legitimate complaints, but the other half just comes off as sperging. For instance, he turns off the checks for decisions in the console and then complains when there'a bunch of unexpected behaviour. I do agree that it's not correct behaviour for AI to do formables in historical though. Also it's really funny that there's a shitload of errors just when starting the game in debug mode. Typical Paraslop. I haven't noticed any performance issues either, but I have a good CPU and I've been playing TFR a lot recently so my perspective may be off.
I really don't like the new localizations. I guess it's cool for "flavour," but all it does is create confusion. Like, IDK what the fuck Trans-Olza or Tesinsko is, but I do know what Zaolzie is because that's what the province has been called since the game fucking launched.
Also, I think he's right that the new Hitler portrait looks borked and I would 100% not put it past Paradox to use AI to generate leader portraits. That level of laziness from them is exactly on brand. There's a clear lack of polish and play testing, like the building slot issues for the new states.

I think that it's clearer more now than ever that HOI4 as a WW2 sim/grand strategy game is over. HOI4 since like No Step Back has been more and more devoted to alt-history RP (is it actually LARP if it's in a video game?). I'm kind of fine with that direction, since I've been tired of playing HOI4 the historical way (i.e., historical Germany or historical UK where you let France fall, etc.) for a while. Maybe that's just because those paths have been really lackluster and if Paradox actually put effort into developing historical gameplay they would be interesting again. I like the new special project system, but it feels like Paradox gave it basically no balance testing. The sub tech seems extremely busted and there's no equivalent counter for anti-sub tech, e.g., aircraft deployed sonar buoys.

I'm hoping for a new UK/Commonwealth expansion next, the UK has always been my favourite to play, but I think Japan is going to get the next expansion. Anybody else wanna take a guess?
EDIT: local archive in case he takes the video down (360p).

 

[NvII iS 8ulLt f0R 88C]

Speaking of Sejozwak, he uploaded a video titled "HOI 4 is Dead."

This nigger tries to do the "haha I hate this game but I'm addicted and I hate my life haha" schtick that ISP used to do but worse, atleast be somewhat funny depressing no fun nigger.

 

[Hillary Clinton's Ass]

I'm hoping for a new UK/Commonwealth expansion next, the UK has always been my favourite to play, but I think Japan is going to get the next expansion. Anybody else wanna take a guess?

I think you're right with the major expansion focusing on UK/Commonwealth since they have been sort of forgotten by Paradox since Together for Victory, hopefully it also brings new ways to deal with puppets and ways of telling to focus on certain things specifically. Example, as the UK you could have South Africa be focused entirely on resource extraction with only defensive military posturing. Telling your puppets to defend certain provinces/areas on the map. Or even have full military control akin to old HoI titles (HoI 2 my beloved)

 

[85CentSoda]

depressing

He's a South Slav, I think he may legitimately just be depressed lol.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

WTF happened to Red Flood? Why did development seem to crawled to a stop or at least slowed down a lot?

 

[Toji Suzuhara]

WTF happened to Red Flood? Why did development seem to crawled to a stop or at least slowed down a lot?

Rewoorking and feature creep, for the looks of it

BM is Burning Memories, which will rewoork France and give content to Spain... and Poland, and Finland, and Russia, and the UK, and a tree for Brazil and skeleton content for the rest of SA, and will also add a a new resource and change how the economy works . See where I'm going?

 

[EpicGamerMoment]

Rewoorking and feature creep, for the looks of it
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BM is Burning Memories, which will rewoork France and give content to Spain... and Poland, and Finland, and Russia, and the UK, and a tree for Brazil and skeleton content for the rest of SA, and will also add a a new resource and change how the economy works . See where I'm going?

They also tease Turkey/The Ottomans from time to time even though it’s not slated for release in BM

 

[Amerikaner Teddybär]

Rewoorking and feature creep, for the looks of it
View attachment 6650752
BM is Burning Memories, which will rewoork France and give content to Spain... and Poland, and Finland, and Russia, and the UK, and a tree for Brazil and skeleton content for the rest of SA, and will also add a a new resource and change how the economy works . See where I'm going?

Oh boy, The New Order but even more batshit? Can't see how this will go wrong.

He's a South Slav, I think he may legitimately just be depressed lol.

I've never met a South Slav that was content with life.