>Military strategy game
>Half of players don’t understand how the navy works
Bad design or moronic community?
>Military strategy game. >Half of players dont understand how the navy works
>Military strategy game
>Half of players don’t understand how the navy works
Bad design or moronic community?
only 20% of the playerbase have played a on the intended difficulty for more than 15 minutes
This isn't unique to hoi4
Deep Rock Galactic has the same problem, 80% of the player base play on haz3 or lower
intended difficulty is when AI gets unfair bonuses?
The AI only ever uses bad templates and designs, and for some things it never upgrades from initial designs.
Mods that teach the AI to play using meta templates will really frick your shit up.
No matter what mod you use the AI still builds garbage planes and boats. Also the AI on vanilla already uses the meta inf template as soon as its possible
The player gets extra bonuses that the AI doesn't on the intended difficulty you filthy casual pussy
"Being a human" isn't an extra bonus, anon.
And which difficulty is that? I exclusively play the game on normal difficulty simply because lowering that makes the game just a breeze through and disables achievements, while amping up is purely artificial, A.K.A the AI gets to cheat.
I admit it, I play Russia/Soviets most of the time so I an ignore the navy
>I admit it, I play Russia/Soviets most of the time so I an ignore the navy
Putin?
Close enough
>Military strategy game
I think you mean visual novel with military theme
Hey, just like the historical Germans.
Historical German navy did really well considering it was massively outnumbered, had almost no capital ships due to the naval treaty, and half of its ships were Victorian era coal burning ships. Conquered Norway right under Britain's nose, dominated the Soviet baltic fleet and made Britain crap its pants by torpedoing all their merchant ships
The sinking of the Hood is an amazing story and they were 100% going to get away with it. It was a massive stroke of luck that a WWI era plane managed to hit the Bismarck's rudder while on the last leg of the race home.
Cuz navy in games is always bad
I just want to throw a wall of infantry at things
both
The navy is disproportionately more complex than the rest of the game, for a game element that ultimately doesn't help you win any ways.
If blockading an enemy or sinking their enemy lowered surrender limit, then you'd see more people willing to learn.
By the way, it's not actually hard, just takes a 10 minute presentation and you'll understand perfectly.
This is a good point. The game lacks certain rather logical things that really should be there regarding navy and construction and war participation IMO.
For example, I'd like to play a Eco game as something like Fascist Denmark, or Switzerland for example (since they have such bonuses for civ construction). Let the germans do the fighting while I supplement their industry, by building infrastructure, railways etc... (Speaking of which construction in general shoul dbe exanded upon). But I can't. Why? That doesn't provide war participation AT ALL. Justg as blockading with your navy and sinking convoys is rather weak to be honest, with you decreasing the enemy war support by ONLY sinking convoys.
Then there is nukes, which are mostly garbage anyways.
All in all, the game needs more shit to do, more options, more everything. Even though it's already quite nice.
>select all ships
>create big old deathstack
>pick generals and buffs all around positioning
>pull subs out of death stack into 3-5 groups and put them under a sea wolf general
>use subs to convoy raid places you can outgun the enemy navy
>set deathstack to attack where your subs are
>enemy fleet comes to try (and fail) to attack your subs
>your fleet shows up crushes them
This is all you need to BTFO the AI as any major
The South America DLC comes out this week. I'm a bit hyped.
I recognise Montgomery and Douglas but who are the Kraut and Iron Curtain reps?
Rommel is the Kraut.
For some reason I had it in my head that Rommel didn't look like that
Good to know
Rommel and Zhukov
Hoi4 is a glorified map painter like all Paradox games.
The people playing those games pretend to be master strategists but they seethe every time Paradox do something that makes the game actualy more game'y
>AHHH FRICK OFF WITH THIS SPY REWORK I DO NOT WANT TO TAKE CARE OF AGENCIES AND MICRO THIS
>FUUUUUCK WHAT IS THIS INFRASTRUCTURE SHIT WHY DO I HAVE TO DO LOGISTISTICS NOW I JUST WANT TO PAINT ARROW ON MAP AND TROOPS GO WOOSH
>STOP IT WITH THE TECH REWORKS ALL I WANT IS A NEW MEME FOCUS TREE SO I CAN CREATE THE HOLY EMU EMIRATE OF AUSTRALIA OR MAKE HITLER QUEEN OF ENGLAND
Actually playing the game makes you unpopular with the "hardcore" community. All they want is micromanage troops at the front for ebic encirclements. The easiest way to get kicked from a HOI4 multiplayer session is actually playing the game or doing something funny that goes beyond the historic route cause "hardcore" fans can't adapt.
It takes 10 minutes to watch a video in YT on how the navy works, I've you still don't get it after that I think you might be moronic. hoi4 is simple as hell
I learned it fine by myself the same day MTG launched without all the YouTube resources there are these days. You must eat glue to struggle with any single aspect of Hoi iv
I have played Hoi4 for over 1300 hours and dont have a single achievement for the game unlocked
Trans community
how come like 3/4 of the nations still dont have focus trees yet?
better yet, why the frick there a good all-in-one mod that adds a focus tree for every nation that doesnt have one?
sick of playing the same 3 or 4 nations over and over again
>how come like 3/4 of the nations still dont have focus trees yet?
Thats what $30 DLC is for