latest-updates

[fresh cedar]

Really helps with naval and air

Wish spy agencies were more customizable. They all feel identical and like there’s no specialization

[solid gyro]

than make a mod and fix "your proplem"

[fresh cedar]

Or rely on paradox to balance their game. Like how they’ve shortened some focuses from 70 to 35 days

[nimble torrent]

it's quite different in its use from what it was used for historically
like

• all the deception before major operations? gone
• supplying the resistance is far too expensive and time consuming to be worth it for anyone but the uk or someone else
• infiltrating a country to destabilize it? it's there but it's not that "fun", you set up a spy and just forget about it
• you can gain intel on the enemy but it's one thing to know that they have X factories on planes, another'd be to have access to their production screen, see exactly how much they have on fighters for example
• most operations take too long for it to be worth it: "oh i want to do an offensive against the british in africa, quick, let me move my spies there" aaaand there's no intel anywhere close to that and you will have to wait forever to get a slight bonus
• hell, you can't sabotage the enemy factories or armed forces, no false flags, no "operation greif", no "let the germans underestimate our fighter numbers"
• stealing technologies? realistically you'll get a 5% bonus on a random category because by the time you were doing the op you already researched that tech you were missing, since it was important, if it hadn't been important you would not have even started the operation
• spy level up system is mad silly, you go from level 1 to 2? that's it? no traits, no player choice into how i want to build my spies? maybe some special training of sorts?
  on top of all this, enrcyption and decryption, although cool in theory just cause 2 things to happen:
• increase the time it takes for an enemy spy to complete the operation (leading to massive waiting times)
• counteract said effect
  slowing down the system at best

even the mere fact that realistically most nations can only successfully infiltrate and operate in one country alone is iffy if you ask me

[cobalt jay]

Most of the time, I just build passive defense and max out cryptography and call it good

[nimble torrent]

same, at best i add civ, mil and air techs to get the edge

[outer whale]

I liked the new mechanics

I wonder If the successors will have their own focus trees as well

when they become fuhrer*

[obtuse ingot]

assassination missions…

“Kill Himmler”

“kill FDR”

[nimble torrent]

that feels a bit excessive if u ask me
but disabling commander bonuses or abilities for a while? sure, that'd be good

[red oar]

what was the upsate just rn

with 400kb

[terse slate]

most of the operations are never done by the players

most players just ignore coordinated strikes, infiltration missions, coups, etc. unless its either a very specific strategy or a roleplay thing

[undone kelp]

In all timelines, that ice pick still finds Trotsky

[silent prism]

I support this claim

I do most of them

But some are just useless imo

Not useless but unneeded

[terse slate]

me too, i try to use them and take advantage of it

I still wish they'd do an update or rework on them because they get pretty annoying, takes too long and the reward isn't that... rewarding.

[fresh cedar]

Same

Intel network is if I’m struggling

[fallen kite]

Nah bro

I plan ahead

If I’m gonna be fighting a country I’m putting a spy on their border so they get no planning

If I’m gonna be fighting a country for their resources or factories damn straight they’re getting hit with that 100% collab government

Anyway I had a thought

With the new update does that mean that Germany cannot fight any long stalemate wars?

Like say they clean out Europe but get stuck against the Soviets and can’t beat the Allies’s navy

Then they’re just doomed cause Economy of Conquest is gonna collapse their economy

[fallen kite]

Ooh, also

Look at these “Fate of ___” focuses

[karmic oar]

Please tell me that the orchestral music that was in the dev diary for political branches will be in the dlc ost

[fallen kite]

Hopefully

Anyway looks like those focuses are getting a rework too so they aren’t just puppeting the country or handing off parts of them to Bulgaria

I always wondered about that, cause sometimes Bulgaria wouldn’t even be fascist or in Germany’s faction and they’d get the territory.

[karmic oar]

Bulgaria/romania/hungary in the actual game are country sized scames : you give them what they want and they doesn't get to help at all

[solid gyro]

I'd why anyone wouke do war with when you can do fate of

[hearty blade]

probs cuz they can say no

and assuming u dont get wargoals after they say no

(its germany u probably will who am i kidding

[solid gyro]

Finally we get more RK's makes it more interesting now i wonder what the monarchists get as puppets

same goes for the communist route and the new democratic route

[fallen kite]

To kill them faster

You’re fascist war goals take 10 days and like 52 pp

[silk jacinth]

I hope they post resources for the Congo, it makes sense really

[fresh cedar]

I’m guessing they will.

[fresh cedar]

I think that’s the point yeah. So if the Soviets, or France hold them off the eventually stagnate like crazy

And so attrition is much worse

[solid gyro]

No I mean the focus

I'd rather do the focus that avoids war

[fallen kite]

Oh yeah

But I bet there’s probably something in there where the Yugoslav or Greek AI will refuse if they’re guaranteed

And it may have a ‘incoming war’ effect on it so the allies guarantee them.

So then you can have an alternate WW2 where the whole thing starts in the Balkans

But, even if you are at war I bet this focus comes with some puppets and some partitioned territory.

[trim quartz]

Can’t wait to replace Adolf Hitler with Albert Speer and create mega wholesome global dictatorship

Also paradox added some new people to the game, notably Rudolf Hess and Helmuth Wilberg. Will Hess disappear when WW2 kicks off, and will Helmuth die in 1941?

Wilberg’s death is also quite ironic

[frank gulch]

Hoping they have their own flavor

Maybe one or two hidden focuses

I eanna do a batshit crazy himmler run

[obtuse ingot]

Imagine Wilberg in the Inner Circle

[obtuse ingot]

Have you heard of “the war comes early”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_That_Came_Early

[fallen kite]

I was referring to specifically Yugoslavia or Greece

Which is probably why the Ljubania awards are there so Germany can’t just keep tension below 25 and dodge the guarantees.

[fallen kite]

Also

These are nice stats, but there is a modifier that encompasses both Offensive War Stability and Defensive War Stability, so I wonder why they used each of them.

It’s probably that he gains one of them at a time, so that the effects look all green and not like you’re losing something.

Also, very excited for the new ownership types with disputed owner that we see in the Reichkommisariats, seems like it could be very useful

[long ruin]

Any guesses on secret focus trees ?

Luxembourg I guess

[stable tusk]

Luxembourg probably, only one that makes sense

[fallen kite]

Yeah

Lichenstein too small

Ireland too out of the way

Albania would be a waste

And any other country would be too out of the DLC scope the really consider

Although who knows maybe secret Arctic focus tree

[polar jasper]

Yes. AlternateHistoryHub said the plot went very wacky and off the rails

That moment when the Western Allies stop fighting the Nazis to fight the Soviets, then change their minds again

[next root]

what stops germany from starting ww2 extremely early to end MEFO bills? (turn into economy of conquest)

From what I understand wouldn't that be the new meta?

[polar jasper]

Why don't you simply just do the Prioritize Economic Growth

Canceling MEFO explodes your economy

[next root]

Well it's althist for one

[polar jasper]

The thing with economy of conquest is that you win if you achieve autarky

So keep economy of conquest

Conquest quickly and achieve artarky

[next root]

yes I'm saying wouln't the meta be to speedrun economy of conquest?

[polar jasper]

Loot the gold to keep consumer goods down

Just like IRL, Germany had to win quick battles

[next root]

like declare war on some minor in 1937 to swap to conquest econ

[polar jasper]

Its economy was beginning to implode IRL

[next root]

So this would just encourage extremely early wars, no?

[polar jasper]

You still need to build up

[next root]

I suppose it does depend on german starting industry

[polar jasper]

Your eco isn't as strong anymore

No more free 12 civs

I think

I think you go to war when you exhaust the free pre war consumer goods factor reduction

Some of them are completely beneficial

[stable tusk]

Because Churchill died in a drunk driving accident

[tender bough]

They should add Reichskommissariat Burgundy for a funny.

[nimble torrent]

In a game against ai? Nothing pretty much
In a game against players (or someone competent)? The fact that you will need some build up to kill the allies reliably
You will need to break France with tanks and the British with planes and boats, and you don't have nearly enough at the start of the game

But yeah economy of conquest basically tells you "if you don't win hard, you'll lose hard"

[tender bough]

So are we getting the basic historical tree for germany for free?

[gilded hazel]

yes

[limber carbon]

👌

[nimble torrent]

Since we're seeing a German mio focused on Assault Guns, is it safe to assume we'll get some changes to tank destroyers/self propelled artillery?
Like making SPA actually useful?

[silent prism]

Dunno

Would be good though

[hollow coral]

without inner circle though

[static valley]

yeah this industrial update for germany will completely wreck multiplayer balance

[subtle spear]

i love the fact the gui is off centre

[royal marten]

I saw this on reddit

Wth are you doing to the portraits paradox

First we get hitler with his comically large iron cross and now himmler and göring are being turned into generic smoothface 1 and 2

I read the dev diary and it’s looking very good so far but what happened here?!

[trim quartz]

What in the tarnation

No way this is real, because these looks absolutely rubbish

Himmler looks like Ryan Gosling 💀

They removed Goerings blue uniform and drip

They put him in a generic suit 😭

[hollow coral]

Who let them cook💀

It is a bit blurry so ig its looks a bit weird

[nimble torrent]

Praying it's cap

Damn they all really do have receding hairlines

[hollow coral]

Peak of the aryan race

[trim quartz]

Chak please tell us this is not real 🙏🙏🙏

[hollow coral]

I rlly hope they are not

[mellow rapids]

It's like Hearts of iron losing the "Custom" aspect of portrait

[trim quartz]

Same. I still have the sneaking suspicion that they aren’t, because Himmler’s uniform isn’t right, and the colour and shading is completely off for paradox style art

[mellow rapids]

I feeled the same thing with AAT swedish leader

[hollow coral]

What does custom mean

[mellow rapids]

The art style applied

It's not just a colorized photo

[hollow coral]

Ah

[royal marten]

Hoi4 artstyle has changed and I don’t like it

[hollow coral]

I kinda like the new smooth style of portraits

[mellow rapids]

Before there was a Style common to all portrait but now (I feeled that with AAT too) some just look like a photo

[royal marten]

New portraits look terrible

Yeah ever since AAT

[hollow coral]

Have you seen communist netherlands leader?

Its bad

[mellow rapids]

Nop

[hollow coral]

Same with napoleon

[mellow rapids]

Don't play NET a lot and never Commi

[hollow coral]

Its like coloured in photo

[mellow rapids]

I think he is alright

The style was still here

Less but still

[royal marten]

Napoleon is aboslutely better than whatever they are doing now

[hollow coral]

Horthy looks good though

[royal marten]

Then why don’t these guys?

[trim quartz]

I think the new portraits and art, starting from No Step Back are a lot better. But sometimes - and now quite often for some reason - the portraits are scuffed and really ugly, and don't capture the look of certain people

[hollow coral]

Ig they look uncanny

[trim quartz]

For example Franco's portrait is abysmal, he looks like a block of triangular cheese

[royal marten]

Franco is an actual potato

[trim quartz]

Umberto II is a bit nit-picky, but he looks angry in his portrait as well

[royal marten]

But they also messed up hitler and I’d argue that’s one of the most important portraits

[hollow coral]

He looks like a generic portrait bruh💀

[trim quartz]

I get if older portraits look weird, because they're old, but newer ones should look better

[royal marten]

They took görings iron cross away, resized it 200% and gave it to hitler

[mellow rapids]

This Goering is

But I prefer the OG portrait

[trim quartz]

I really do think it isn't official

[mellow rapids]

I hope

Because it's more Go Drink than Goering here X)

[royal marten]

I fear it’s from the sev diary

Dev

[trim quartz]

I'm going to check the dev replies and see if it's there

Because that photo is from reddit Afterall

[royal marten]

Yes please do because if that’s not real then it’s a huge relief

[mellow rapids]

Him leer and Go Drink X(

But I am still completely over hyped

This DLC is wild

[hollow coral]

Looks rlly out of place

[mellow rapids]

Germany was a fun a country but kinda boring , now it will be fun and Interesting

[hollow coral]

I love new horthy portrait

[mellow rapids]

He look so ...dark and red

[hollow coral]

Better than current

And doesnt look uncanny

[mellow rapids]

I prefer the current one

[hollow coral]

Proportions in photo just look off to me

[trim quartz]

I like his new one

Very nice

[royal marten]

Hitlers iron cross is all wrong

[mellow rapids]

Yeah this one look good , but feel really out of place at the same time

[royal marten]

Looks like a mobile game version of hitler

[mellow rapids]

Alone it's good , but it feel out of HOI art style

[trim quartz]

I don't understand why people got upset about the iron cross, but nevertheless they removed it, I don't mind

[hollow coral]

Why only fascist leaders get hats😤

[trim quartz]

I had a look at the latest dev diary and forum, and there is not dev reply or comment that shows that image of Goering and Himmler

Certain it's fake

But I found this guy

[hollow coral]

Very saturated photo

[royal marten]

I sure hope so

[royal marten]

Did they remove the iron cross finally?

It was in the dev diary still

[trim quartz]

They said they did in the Hungary dev diary video

[royal marten]

I wonder how it even got added in the first place

There isn’t one picture of hitler with him wearing an iron cross on his neck

[hollow coral]

the portrait is from a mural

but not even the mural has a cross

[royal marten]

Artist took some creative liberties bruh

[mellow rapids]

I really hope they will make the game more playable past like 47

Because there is so much cool new tech (SS Jet, nuclear sub) almost a cold war but if the game can't last long enought...

[royal marten]

That’s past the timeframe of hoi4 so I highly doubt that

[hollow coral]

the game is run on an engine created in 2007

[royal marten]

Focus trees end too soon for it to continue until 1947 and past

A lot or countries would need to be redone for the game to go past the timeframe of WW2

[hollow coral]

yes

thats also the same for people asking for 1930 start date

[mellow rapids]

I know

But that would make all those tech rather useless

[royal marten]

Researching them early will probably be an option

[hollow coral]

i dont know why more countries dont have preresearched tech

besides army

like industry is never that preresearched

it just makes sense for industrial countries to already have it preresearchewd

[royal marten]

POV: ypu tried to do a naval invasion as a minor power and forgot your country hasn’t invented the rowing boat according to hoi4

[hollow coral]

cant believe mexicans havent figured out how to put soldiers on a boat and send them to panama

[hollow coral]

i see they also changed the brightness

but still looks hella uncanny

maybe cuz its a mural

[native herald]

Hitlet still looks like he was played by an actor frl

[mellow rapids]

Bring me back OG portrait

[hollow coral]

definitely fake since they used original goering portrait in inner circle

[trim quartz]

Never mind it’s real 😭

[daring forge]

The shadows seem a bit exaggerated on the Goebbels portrait compared to the other one, might be some weird compression or filter going on

[burnt sail]

Agreed, especially the Hitler and Himmler portraits look horrible. I hope they’re gonna change it in the final release.

[hexed mango]

Much better honestly

[daring forge]

I’d just wait to release to see and not make up my mind just yet tbh

[hexed mango]

Also I hope they'll take into account the complaints regarding the reichskommisariats

[hollow coral]

that might be the end of me

[mellow rapids]

What's the problem with those ?

[fallen kite]

Mfs complaining about good looking portraits

[hexed mango]

I'll show u

1. Ukraine shouldn't require vinytsia or odessa so that romania can annex them, crimea should also be spearate
2. Rk balkan should not include hungary, sovakia and posibil greece (it should be yugoslavia, bungaria and romania)
3. Rk arabia should definitely not include iran nor turkey
4. America should be split into souther (confederate states) rk, middle, pacific, western and canada separately
5. Central and south africa needs to be separate
6. We need rk nordland/scandinavia
7. We need the possibility to expand belgium into a burgundy rk

[daring forge]

For the first one it probably doesn’t but you can choose to hand it to them if Romania are annexed, they showed of this just doing annex all - from what we’ve heard there will probably be decisions to expand the RK’s which can explain some of the things

Like this looks like them expanded fully rather than the required states to form them to me

[trim quartz]

Why does Moscow own Siberia

Look, all this is still wip, so I'm not going to worry too much

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/866512480842022972/1209338439405928488/Vase_Break.gif

[daring forge]

Because you can give it to them ig idk

[native herald]

There should be reichkomissart Western Siberian, Central Seberian and eastern Siberiean

[hexed mango]

I'm okay with only one of them tbh

Or 2 would be nice

[solid gyro]

Yeah that's because the RK in that case has cores on it (well it was like that in the current version not sure though) lets take an example lets say you managed to cap america you make a puppet on the east coast but you left them live on the pacific area: california etc then the both of em get cores on each other

[hexed mango]

3 is too much

[native herald]

For africa should have Ostafrika Zentral Afrika and Sudwesakfrika and Nord Afrika

[solid gyro]

Tbh yeah but we finally got more RK's the old once got a bit boring for me

[native herald]

https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=2910757018

This mod is good for basing off the reichkomissarts

[spice helm]

That's such a RK+ thing to say

[solid gyro]

I never play with mods i really had no fun with those

[daring forge]

I can get them wanting to add less ahistorical ones tbh, seems like a lot of work with the new mechanics and portraits and everything for not much more flavour

But that doesn’t stop a mod from rk+ to decide to devote more time to it etc

With the new mechanics those can hopefully become more fun

[native herald]

Russia should be divided tbh

[fallen kite]

Mfs be explaining why we should have 50 Reichkommisariats like they haven’t ever seen a puppet only game (lag)

[solid gyro]

I can already see myself building alot of ratte tanks without thinking cause yes

[native herald]

We could do like hyper reichkomissarts

[daring forge]

Also if they want more puppets the puppet mechanics still exist (and are probably better due to having cores)

[native herald]

Like a giga reichkomissat Asia, Afrika, Norden America and Sodern america

[fallen kite]

Yeah

[solid gyro]

Wait i saw yesterday in the diary that RK flags are a bit different or did i see that wrong like ukraine for example has a golden thingy on the top left

[fallen kite]

Also they are not adding Burgundy to the game

That’s like a goofy ah TNO only thing they are not adding the hyper SS state to the game

[daring forge]

I can see RKs having a purpose for like during Barbarossa but once they capitulate a puppet would probably be better

[daring forge]

I think so too, probably to help differentiate them

[native herald]

RK equivalents for the other

Paths for germany

[solid gyro]

Yeah i was so confused for the first time as i did those cause they all had the normal german reich flag

[fallen kite]

Maybe they have special autonomy levels

Or they’re collab governments

[daring forge]

Create a collab government in Russia and then make moskowien but don’t give it Siberia and now you have two russian puppets, now everyone is happy

[daring forge]

Yeah I think they did them like that just for that purpose, flags tend to work that way in hoi4 where they switch more than historically for gameplay purposes and having 5 puppets with the exact same flag can be a bit confusing

[native herald]

Guys What rk equivalents for the other paths?

[daring forge]

We’ll see if they have any on the 6th November ig

I don’t see them doing the exact same thing for a non aligned path or whatever but it’ll be fun to see what new foreign policy they’ll have

[solid gyro]

I wonder if we get a secret meme Strasserisy path

Could be mixed in with the Communist tree

[daring forge]

I don’t know about a path but they posted this so he might pop up somewhere

[cobalt jay]

You say that yet its confirmed we have a way to bring Himmler into power

[royal marten]

NOOOO!!!

I wished I got trolled by reddit and it wasn't real now

[nimble torrent]

i've read somewhere that they specifically said he won't be a path
maybe an advisor?
like the mladorossi for the russian monarchist, less stability and growing popularity of an opposing ideology but you get something good out of it

[fallen kite]

Yeah you can do that
But at the same time there is absolutely no reason for Burgundy to exist it is literally a work of fiction

[fresh cedar]

That’s what I’m saying. They’ll say it look horrible then give no details as to why.

[deep apex]

@pseudo wing where can we attend the q and a ?

[fresh cedar]

Crazy to me not as many people are asking about nukes

[deep apex]

I’ve seen a lot of nukes questions

[fresh cedar]

We know basically nothing about nukes or their potency in game now

[deep apex]

I think they’ll talk about it in depth in the raids diary

A new nuke button is linked to it

[fresh cedar]

Ask and chat here, and answers

To attend

[deep apex]

Nice! Thanks

[barren tusk]

@pseudo wing when is going to be answered and which platform?

[pseudo wing]

its going on rn my guy

[barren tusk]

Ah

[barren tusk]

I have already ask

[pseudo wing]

then wait for it to be answered in the #answers tab if the devs decide to answer it

[cobalt jay]

I'm tempted to ask about Burgundy and SS states

[barren tusk]

Ok

[fresh cedar]

Oh god Lichtenstein and Luxembourg about to carve up Europe

[fallen kite]

guys its joever they're adding burgundy

i was wrong

Guys they're adding a decision category for Italy's puppets once Italy capitulates Albania gets more minor content once again

https://tenor.com/view/lebron-james-gif-22614127

[wary spade]

https://tenor.com/view/albania-gif-15772705698764907763

[fresh cedar]

Where did you see that answer?

[fallen kite]

#answers message

[fresh cedar]

Alright? I read through them all and didn’t see that

Can you send a screenshot

[fallen kite]

huh?

I put the message link right there

[fresh cedar]

Alright but they said RK get generic focuses

Albania realistically probably would have the same tree

[fallen kite]

yeah I'm not saying Albania gets a focus tree

[fresh cedar]

I thought you saw somewhere that it’s getting more content

[fallen kite]

I'm just saying Albania gets a minor bit of additional content so now the Germany Puppet State gets some represenation

[fresh cedar]

Ah shame

[fallen kite]

yeah but hey any tiny bit of content is a W

[fresh cedar]

Balkans will probably be reworked someday. Specifically Romania, and Yugoslavia

They’re just such boring trees imo

[fallen kite]

Yeah

[fresh cedar]

Pretty much zero buffs, and are almost generic trees

I’m guessing they won’t really comment on nukes as much till the raids Diary

[coral drift]

By yours truly

(would be hilarious since he attempted to join the German revolutionaries in 1919)

[craggy cave]

when will devs answer the questions in the Q&A? is it still today?

[fresh cedar]

They are right now

Have been for like half an hour

[astral atlas]

did they release gotterdomrang dlc yet or is it a future update

[fresh cedar]

Ask here, answers. Happening now

[fresh cedar]

November 14th release

[astral atlas]

alr

ty

gotta start saving

[fresh cedar]

The DLC will probably be like $20-25 individually, or $40 in the expansion pass

Expansion pass is also getting an Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, India country pack which will be super worth imo

[astral atlas]

thats nice

ive been waiting for a smarter ai to fight in vanilla

[fresh cedar]

I hope that the new AI is

[astral atlas]

usually i just wait for them to send all of their divs to a mountain then eat them there slowly

[fresh cedar]

It’ll concentrate forces and try to mitigate losses more. But idk if that’ll just make it more predictable and easier to encircle

[astral atlas]

i feel like they should make the ai focus more on building armored units

[fresh cedar]

If Russia makes defensive lines like that, can it just force them into weak pockets and encircle entire armored units?

[astral atlas]

they usually just make like 3-5

[fresh cedar]

I think it’ll concentrate armored units now rather than have them divided equally along the line

So where armored units are they’ll be felt harder

[fallen kite]

once the questions close, will the devs continue answering questions after that?

[astral atlas]

thats gonna be intresting to see

[fresh cedar]

I like how they answered like 3-4 of Lu-Jians questions

Give some other people a chance ffs 😂

[fresh cedar]

In theory Russian offensives and D-Day should hit harder

[cobalt jay]

Hey I asked solid questions that have a straight answer

[astral atlas]

oh yeah are they gonna buff the soviets

they're so weak

like super weak

[fresh cedar]

I did too. “how effective will nukes be” and “will Africa have more resources”

[fresh cedar]

Considering Mefo slowly shuts Germany down if its conquests stalemate, then yes Russia should be stronger

[astral atlas]

would be cool if they made it so you can control individual battalions in a battle

[fresh cedar]

Pretty much once Germany has a ton of Russian cores, it’ll begin to slowly die if halted

Until its economy is halted

This should greatly benefit the UK and USSR

[obtuse ingot]

Not what I meant though…. I mean like replacing Himmler with Canaris… that sort of thing

[cobalt jay]

I mean this can be countered by going to the ahistorical industry tree

[fresh cedar]

True, but will going the ahistorical industry allow Germany to snowball in time to counter late game Soviets?

I’m under the impression it’ll be harder to make initial gains

[fresh cedar]

I’m just like it’s kinda lame some people got 0 while others got 3+ 😔

[obtuse ingot]

frustrated sigh did I ask my question wrong?

[fresh cedar]

At least it was answered lol

[obtuse ingot]

But we already knew that the inner inner circle could be swapped around

[fresh cedar]

I’m under the impression from the dev diaries that the inner circle people we see are the only ones that exist. And if one does or leaves before choosing them, that branch is locked

So if Himmler dies, there is no replacement. His tree is locked

Bc they’re effectively upgradable advisors

[obtuse ingot]

I think it’d be more fun to upgrade advisors to inner circle

[fresh cedar]

It’s kind of nice to place a level of scarcity on it though

I get what you mean by wanting the option to customize. But sometimes no option is better as it forces tough decisions to be made

Which seems to be the whole point of the inner circle

[obtuse ingot]

It means the inner circle is broken by anything except Nazi government it seems

[fresh cedar]

Wdym broken?

The inner circle is only intended to be for the Nazi government, similar to Russia’s propaganda system with Stalin, or the US senate for Democratic US

[obtuse ingot]

A communist Germany wouldn’t have inner circle… neither would democratic Germany…

[fresh cedar]

Yeah, as intended

It’s supposed to give a unique feel to the Nazi tree

It was a mechanic designed specifically for Nazi Germany, no other polity

[obtuse ingot]

Now if there was a copy polity system I’d be very down for that

[fresh cedar]

Like I wouldn’t expect the US senate decisions to be replicated with other countries or even fascist US

[fresh cedar]

Feel like it just needs a random mode at that point

[obtuse ingot]

Like Democratic Germany decides to try the US system. Or Communist Germany copies the Soviet System

[fresh cedar]

No matter how hard they copy it would still differ

I like that they are limited to specific countries

[obtuse ingot]

Just seems like railroading a bit

[fresh cedar]

I think that’s the intention yeah

[daring forge]

Yeah, I don’t see how it would be applicable outside of the fascist branch

[fresh cedar]

I’d personally hate it if every country had an inner circle

Would make the game insufferable

But Nazi Germany having it is nice

[steep glade]

I think when we play mid-late game as major countries building slots were always used up

When i play Germany there is always not enough building slots

[obtuse ingot]

But democratic/communist Germany gameplay is reduced

[fresh cedar]

I’d say different, not reduced

I don’t feel reduced as fascist US bc I don’t have to gain senate support

Or limited as Tsarist Russia as I don’t have propaganda

It’s nice that different trees focus on different things

Makes them unique

Not trying to have the identical experience for every country.

[jolly bluff]

Fair enough, I for one, always appreciate unique mechanics for different paths.

[fresh cedar]

Same. Adding the same features to every country would be so boring and tedious imo

[barren tusk]

Will Germany have a Prussia focus tree in monarchist path I hope so

[jaunty nymph]

yooooo nukes can destroy monuments

eiffel tower gonna be felled

[hearty blade]

im going to nuke london

[jaunty nymph]

nuke paris

eiffel tower gone

[hearty blade]

gonna nuke the statue of liberty

cuz i dont like liberty

[jaunty nymph]

pdx devs did cook so well for this dlc

they did amazing

sm content plus quality of life changes

[hearty blade]

i wanna buy another silly powerwash simulator like game tbh

im so bored

o shit this isnt off topic

when i see shyy my brain automatically assumes this is #off-topic

[solid gyro]

Are the Portrais AI generated?

Someone on the Reddit kinda made a good point about the company that they outsourced the portraits to are making them ai

Which I find highly dissapointing

[fresh cedar]

Kinda interesting majors will only get like 1 landmark

[solid gyro]

England may get two idk

The buffs may not apply

[fresh cedar]

US should have like 3 imo

[solid gyro]

What 3?

[fresh cedar]

Statue of Liberty, White House, Golden Gate Bridge

Golden gate would Moreso be for Japan

[jaunty nymph]

true

[barren tusk]

Hearts of iron W

I know what to do

[fresh cedar]

Seems like they’ll just get 1

[jaunty nymph]

sad

[fresh cedar]

Cool how even Brazil is getting one though

[jaunty nymph]

wait

[fresh cedar]

China gonna have the Imperial palace ig?

[jaunty nymph]

the colosseum

NUKE ROME

[daring forge]

I don’t think the portraits they’re talking about are ai generated tbh, maybe using an image upscaler that uses ai in some way to grainy photos but I just feel like the hoi4 smooth style has some similar traits to ai that can be mixed up especially when looking at them when they’re slightly compressed like with the recent Reddit post

[barren tusk]

Spain will have sagrada familia (Barcelona) and in Madrid?

[fresh cedar]

Hagia Sophia 😏

[barren tusk]

Berlín all doner kebabs no?

[fresh cedar]

Apparently nukes will destroy monuments as well as leave a state debuff for a while

Like some sort of ambient radiation

[barren tusk]

I suppose radiation could kill civilians no?

[fresh cedar]

Probably not

I imagine it would temporarily nerf building slots/build speed or something to that effect

Maybe division attrition

[barren tusk]

Not realistic at all...

And hydrogen nuke?

[fresh cedar]

They said they’re never really going to add ways to kill civilians

But it can be somewhat represented by a less effective state industrially

[barren tusk]

But if you nuke a city where some divisions are there would be automatically dead or not?

[hearty blade]

deorged heavily

[fresh cedar]

Currently does kill armies

[hearty blade]

can kill

if u drop enough of em

[fresh cedar]

Like will remove 80-95% of a divisions organization and supply, so you’ll have to effectively refill it with manpower

[hearty blade]

yeah so everyone is basically dead but the division exists and gonna be filled up by new people and new guns

[fresh cedar]

Can be costly if they’re killing 200-500k in a strike

[barren tusk]

So a chilling farmer can survive but not a soldier 🗿

Jajajaja

[hearty blade]

yeah true but nothing is more useful than nuking airport

[fresh cedar]

They just have insanely effective fallout shelters in the HOI4 universe

[hearty blade]

300 CAS damage :evil:

[fresh cedar]

I just nuke divisions for the most part 😂

If I’m dropping nukes, their airforce is typically gone

[barren tusk]

At least I have a reason to use nukes just to see Paris Eiffel tower down

[hearty blade]

i nuke divisions too but usually only river crossings

or mountain tiles

[fresh cedar]

Oh, I just nuke the entire frontline

McArthur strategy basically

Which won’t be as good now that nukes debuff states

Imagine attrition will be insane

[craggy cave]

i wonder, what the effects of nukes will be

they confirmed some "lingering effects"

of nukes being dropped on the state

[craggy cave]

i hope that includes factory output

[solid gyro]

I would say only first two tbh, but the Statue of Liberty is much much more representative of the US

Maybe we could get a 'Burn the Whitehouse' decision for Canada tho

[solid gyro]

Someone posted like a blog by the company outsourced that claimed that they were using ai

Which is what has got me concerned

[spiral sparrow]

Is it true that new German portraits are AI generated? Kinda looks like it, and I hope its not that

[slim veldt]

When will there be a dev diary on raids?

[fresh cedar]

Not sure how you could affect factory output on a state level.

[solid gyro]

Monday

[daring forge]

Unless they state explicitly that they are (which I don't think) I wouldn't assume it

[pseudo wing]

They are not, they're just updated to match the newer art, though I can see the argument that it looks too smooth and whatnot

[daring forge]

I think the weird compression here isn't doing them any service tbf

[barren tusk]

Developers stopped to answer questions or it's a pause?

[fresh cedar]

I’m guessing they’re done

Considering its late for most of them

[pseudo wing]

It was a one hour Q&A so yes it is closed, there will be another one soon for the same time span but it will be on another platform

[barren tusk]

Aren't swedish?

[fresh cedar]

I’ll have to ask on there, asked a couple but didn’t get answers sadly

[fresh cedar]

Many, yes

[barren tusk]

I have already an answer why Sweden is OP

Ajajjaja

[fresh cedar]

Yup, that’s why

[solid gyro]

Are you outsourcing to rocket brush studios?

Someone on the Reddit implied y'all were working together, and said studio had an article claiming that they were using AI in their work, are you ensuring they're not doing anything without saying it?

[fresh cedar]

Would nukes be included in the raid diary? Or should I ask my question again in the next Q&A?

[pseudo wing]

I do not know who is making them, personally, only what I am aware of. From what I know, they are not AI generated, they are only smoother since before we used more simulated 'brush strokes' in our art

[pseudo wing]

for this one I am not sure, I think they're touched upon in the Raids DD but I don't think it goes into depth from what I remember

[fresh cedar]

Ah so I’ll still ask then

[obtuse ingot]

I don’t mind if it is… but I have a different view of art. Art as a living organism. Art owns itself. We are only caretakers of it. Hosts to its virus. Bodies for it to replicate and spread

[solid gyro]

Alright thanks!

[fresh cedar]

Thought maybe it was ignored bc would be in Raids

And African resources in the Belgium/congo diaries

[fresh cedar]

This is what I mean when I say I think you’re an AI sometimes 😂

[fresh cedar]

So are these Q&A’s kinda random or weekly/scheduled?

[pseudo wing]

they were supposed to be biweekly, and this one today was supposed to be last week but I was turbo sick so it got delayed

which again, my bad, I should know not to get sick once a year during a dlc campaign

[barren tusk]

@pseudo wing do you know the reason why developers did a country pack of Afghanistan?

It's so curious because he was invaded by CCCP

I don't know much history about Afghanistan

[pseudo wing]

Its a region they wanted to cover and a regoin that players really wanted to see content for

i cant type today

dear lord

[barren tusk]

What?

[barren tusk]

I was looking forward for Saudi arabia

Not gonna lie

[fresh cedar]

Getting sick is fine, just hope you get plenty of sick time. Though not sure how that works with being a contractor. Was hard being one myself in the past as benefits were non existent lol

[pseudo wing]

I keep misspelling things, it annoys me a lot, so I tend to say 'I can't type' because I cannot do it properly lmao

[pseudo wing]

I was allowed to take time off if needed, but technically I do not have 'sick time' since I am my own boss and don't like not working, but I did sleep more and have some soup

[fresh cedar]

Being an intern and being told “no work, no money” was so trash

[pseudo wing]

....I hate soup

[fresh cedar]

Ah figured it would be like that. Good to know

[pseudo wing]

typically you guys will see me at random times of the day as well because I enjoy being around to help everyone out, even when not technically 'on the clock'

[fresh cedar]

More of a passion at points sorta

[barren tusk]

But you job is community manager @pseudo wing

??

And YouTube editor?

[pseudo wing]

my passion is more having a good space for people to enjoiy, and unfortunately I am sorta good at it

[barren tusk]

We appreciate it especially me because I am new ar this game and community

[pseudo wing]

I am a community manager, yes, and I do know how to edit videos though I dont do it for this team at the moment

I am not the overall community manager, though, I am slightly lower on the totem pole there so to speak

[barren tusk]

Good communication by you chak

[fresh cedar]

Yet always extremely reliable and thoughtful with your responses. Definitely appreciated by the community

[fresh cedar]

I was interested Iraq wasn’t with a middleastern DLC, but instead with Iran, India, Afghanistan.

[barren tusk]

Some community managers was said who knows or something. This says little spoilers or content

[pseudo wing]

Taking the time to explain something in the right manner can be a somewhat difficult task at times, and ofc if I have no input I make sure to mention it, but to me I prefer it if I am transparent with decisions and communications so that people get as little confusion out of it as possible

[fresh cedar]

Oh yeah don’t even get me started on customer service. 😂 I often do it for work too

If everything isn’t perfectly worded people flip out

[pseudo wing]

no matter how perfectly one communicates it is not always understandable by everyone, can't win em' all

[fresh cedar]

Ain’t that the truth

[pseudo wing]

I can direct you to a place you can read something if I dont want to answer though lmao

[barren tusk]

Because some of them wants more spoilers

And for you job is risky

[fresh cedar]

I wish I could. I have to perfectly explain everything to people like they’re 5 despite them being in higher positions than me

[barren tusk]

Joe p how many hours you have in HOI4?

[fresh cedar]

To be fair they super drop spoilers on YouTube and the Forums

[pseudo wing]

I don't spoil things at all, since I take answers the other devs have mentioned over on the forum into consideration

Like the Landmarks stuff, someone asked me what my new favourite thing of the DLC was and I couldn't spoil it, but now everyone knows what it is

[pseudo wing]

I am hoping I get the specific monument I want for canada (if it gets one)

[fresh cedar]

Hope they do a landmark dlc.

[hearty blade]

webfishing enthusiast

5,8k is insane though

[fresh cedar]

You know it

[barren tusk]

Ah yes you are insane

[fresh cedar]

To be fair I’ve played since it came out

[obtuse ingot]

Secret Syria

[barren tusk]

Are you Canadian?

[fresh cedar]

And probably 2k of the hours are just the game open without me playing

[pseudo wing]

correct, I am canadian

[hearty blade]

fair enough, i started in like 2023 july?

[pseudo wing]

the evil kind of canadian

(Quebecois)

[hearty blade]

do u speak french natively or

[barren tusk]

I've been to Canada and it's almost impossible to find a truly Canadian of 3 generations there

[pseudo wing]

I am an Anglophone, but I do speak french

[barren tusk]

So you are Quebecois not Canadian

[obtuse ingot]

Only one I can think of for landmark is the Toronto one

[hearty blade]

kinda cool

[barren tusk]

Like Catalonia

[fresh cedar]

Yeah, like 6k in 8 years is a lot. But it equates to almost like what. 800 a year? And maybe 30% of that wasn’t me playing

[stable tusk]

I want Parliament Hill added

[pseudo wing]

Quebec is inside of Canada, so I am Canadian primarily

Quebecois is simply a diaspora within the country

[barren tusk]

Which yest did Hoi4 released

[hearty blade]

16?

[fresh cedar]

Dated a québécois lady and she was very adamant that she was quebecois

[hearty blade]

i think

[fresh cedar]

Yup 2016

[barren tusk]

I just need to visit Quebec to complete Canada the most beautiful part. Kinda European vibes

[pseudo wing]

you will find most of them in Quebec and Newfoundland, but we have a lot of immigration as well so its great to experience all the other cultures 🙂

[pseudo wing]

Is similar to Catalonia, but that's a political thing I won't get into bc touchy touchy and rule 2

[barren tusk]

I've been to Hamilton and Toronto and the villages are almost turkeys, indians, Asians and some chineses

Literally a inmigrant country with wealthy people

That's my points of view

[fresh cedar]

Kinda how North America is Lowkey

[barren tusk]

I am from Spain (a region where is also independentist movements) and all I can say is decreasing their voters

[pseudo wing]

North America is a continent primarily built by immigration so that'd make sense

[barren tusk]

I am trust worth person

[barren tusk]

Except mexico

[cobalt jay]

I mean Chak has to speak French, its the official language of Quebec

[fresh cedar]

8 years, and split between mods/idle. I’d say maybe 2k was vanilla, 2k idle, 2k mods? Over 8 years, so maybe not too bad 😂

[cobalt jay]

Same

[barren tusk]

But Chak Canada has been a excellent destination for wealthy English colonies people.

[cobalt jay]

I remember when Man the guns first came out

[hearty blade]

tbh thats very normal if youve been playing for 8 years

[barren tusk]

That's why most of us colonies in the past people are in Canada with money

The life expectancy is huge

[fresh cedar]

Last 2 weeks, playtime 20 hours

[pseudo wing]

Mexico is sorta built on the same foundation but also more of the indigenous population integrated, and are now less reliant on such

[fresh cedar]

But that’ll go up to 100 in November 😂

[hearty blade]

and french too btw

[fresh cedar]

Especially since most signage is only French

[pseudo wing]

Canada was colonised by the french, then taken over by the English

[fresh cedar]

Vikings did it first 😤

[barren tusk]

The french part was Quebec

[hearty blade]

i happen to know someone who has a pretty big last name that has to do with like one of the first permanent migrations from france to canada

[barren tusk]

English was vancouver

[hearty blade]

i think they held lil more but didnt have time to francify them and lost em pretty quick

[fresh cedar]

Would honestly still rather visit French Canada than English

[pseudo wing]

It was also colonised by the French, it was spearheaded after the English took over, however, when they wanted more colonists to go and farm out west

[hearty blade]

yeah is more special i agree

[cobalt jay]

Because there is law stating that all signs must be in French, but signs in English are optional

[pseudo wing]

both are worth visiting

[fresh cedar]

I’m just not a super modern busy city type of person

Like English Canada is pretty comparable to parts of the US

So would want something more unique

Especially since I’m from New England

[barren tusk]

Because they went to the actual USA

I believe Quebec has a breath of Europe

Don't get me wrong

[cobalt jay]

Most of the French people got sent to Louisiana

[pseudo wing]

Quebec also had all of the loyalists from the American Civil War colonise a good chunk once the British lost the War to the USA, since they had already beat the French

specifically in quebec

hence why there are places in QC where they are named in English and French

[barren tusk]

Remember french slavery was sent to Haiti

[cobalt jay]

I thought the Loyalists mostly went to Nova Scotia

[pseudo wing]

it was, but I'd be careful of breaching that subject

[cobalt jay]

If you want the most American experience in Canada go to Alberta

[pseudo wing]

TRUE, canadian Texas

[cobalt jay]

Alberta is just Texas with Canadian characteristics

[barren tusk]

I will not open

[barren tusk]

Why?

[stable tusk]

Basically full of Canadian cowboys

[hearty blade]

ok good to know

going to alberta

if i have the chance

to ever go to canada

[barren tusk]

Btw @pseudo wing tim Hortons is honestly better than ordering a coffee in McDonald's

[stable tusk]

Come to BC, we have Vancouver and cool mountains

[barren tusk]

I tried in canada

Not really bad

[stable tusk]

And rain

[barren tusk]

But it pissed me of that I have to go by car and not walking like Europe

Most annoying culture about america

[hearty blade]

canada been up there on my bucketlist for places i wanna visit atleast once before i die

[barren tusk]

I recommend you to go. Toronto and Quebec

[hearty blade]

will do

[barren tusk]

But I couldn't live there

No sidewalks, every time car

[hearty blade]

yeah thats most of america too

😭

[barren tusk]

As a European using the car every time for meet friends, parties, take a coffee or candy etc... Is just horrible for me

I like walking

[pseudo wing]

timmies has gone a bit downhill but is often better than mcdonalds (imo)

[barren tusk]

But nothing superates a coffee in a bar

My destination would be Italy (never gone) Japan and Russia

And I have to do several things inside Spain

Like "camino de santiago"

[barren tusk]

It is

I always ordered coffee and a cookie

Or the balls

The box full of balls dunno the name

So much calories ajjajaja

[fresh cedar]

Goodluck here when your friend is a 30-60 min drive away and no public transport inbetween to help

[cobalt jay]

At least you guys have bike lanes

[craggy cave]

i dont want the E. Coli from Mcdonalds

[hearty blade]

russia my #1 rn

st petersburg and moscow both look so nice

[fresh cedar]

When Ame says Russia they mean northern Siberia

[hearty blade]

yeah so i can go back to my people

[pseudo wing]

that is a bit of an off

[pseudo wing]

Timbits

[hearty blade]

im gonna live on one of those nothern russian islands :evil:

[fresh cedar]

Accidentally finds mammoth

[hearty blade]

this one looks solid

[thick edge]

Call me dumb but isn’t Ecoli a virus?

[hearty blade]

or maybe this one

[hearty blade]

yeah its just when food prepared wrong iirc

[thick edge]

Oh

[hearty blade]

or in a unhygenic way

[craggy cave]

Bacteria

[thick edge]

I thought of Ebola

[fresh cedar]

Imagine HOI4 had viruses as a form of attrition

[hearty blade]

This one doesnt look all that bad either

[craggy cave]

whats that

[fresh cedar]

Looks like an X-RAY of a big person

[thick edge]

That lake is kinda thicc

[hearty blade]

random russian island 😭

[thick edge]

JK

Which island

Like

There is a lot

[hearty blade]

random one idk its name

surely like 10 people live there

[thick edge]

Zoom out on map

[hearty blade]

and 2 of them are polar bears

[thick edge]

My god

https://tenor.com/view/banana-weird-japanese-gif-4569773

[hearty blade]

i cant find it

lemme look

[thick edge]

I love Banana man

[fresh cedar]

Ah yes, remote Russian Siberian islands. Much fun

Basically Valheim irl

[thick edge]

Hello comrade

Rawr

https://tenor.com/view/polar-bear-coca-cola-want-offer-gif-9013933

Pretend that’s vodka

[hearty blade]

i found it

here

[fresh cedar]

Pretend the bear is an alcoholic

[hearty blade]

kinda looks like qatar

a place in the sun for russia

[fresh cedar]

It’s like Anti-Qatar

[thick edge]

I don’t live in Qatar

[fresh cedar]

More like a place without sun

[barren tusk]

which country are you?

[fresh cedar]

USA

[hearty blade]

good old merica

[fresh cedar]

We drive everywhere

[thick edge]

Is that an oil reference

[hearty blade]

[barren tusk]

i want to do the moscow - vladivostok by train. Also my destination of russia is also because i can speak russian (or atleast try)

[barren tusk]

same as canada right?

[hearty blade]

yeah that also sounds very fun to do

the trans siberian train

[fresh cedar]

Comparable transpiration wise

[fresh cedar]

I’d do that

Snow-piercer simulator

[hearty blade]

central asia also seems cool to visit

[barren tusk]

that's my list

and i have much time and money visit some republics

[fresh cedar]

Best way to travel by horse naturally

Apparently will be able to core Africa

United Africa and United South America would be a cool faction

“The colonies strike back”

[sleek thicket]

What is liver of Africa?

[fresh cedar]

Depends whichever is in a civil war

[cobalt jay]

I got a great meme for this

[solid gyro]

Where did you get this?

[vagrant remnant]

From the QnA

[solid gyro]

Nice

[fresh cedar]

QnA got some good stuff

[cobalt jay]

https://images-ext-1.discordapp.net/external/Wb67_Gy1GaRtE2KYQaQw_CKW58YiG46UD8AkXSE49y8/https/www.ddinstagram.com/images/DAO4xSHygSk/1

[fresh cedar]

Heck yeah

Car centric

[barren tusk]

same with spain

search Barcelona-Girona

[solid gyro]

Hungary not being able to switch sides is a crime

We must riot

[worn depot]

LIECTENSTEIN

[main elk]

San Marino focus tree when?

[spiral sparrow]

Well were you supposed to type this here?

[stable tusk]

You were supposed to do it in #1297923697104916490 but it's over

[spiral sparrow]

Yeah but its blocked

Does it periodically unlock during q&a?

[stable tusk]

Because it's over now, it will unlock again the next Q&A

[spiral sparrow]

And when that will be...?

[pseudo wing]

The Q&A was held for one hour, and it is now over, so no more questions will be taken here

There is another Q&A scheduled for I believe sometime next week or the week after, but it will not be here in the Discord, I have simply kept the channel visible for the moment, and will be removing the 'questions' one on Monday

I will, of course, be leaving the answers up until the DLC launches, maybe a week afterwards as well

[spiral sparrow]

So where will it be?

Or where can I check on it?

[pseudo wing]

There'll be more info next week regarding it, when I know the time and place

I can't redirect y'all until I know everything

[stable tusk]

I wonder if all the questions will get answered, because it looks like they skipped over some

[pseudo wing]

some questions can be answered, some cant, but they'll answer what they can

[karmic granite]

Is the demilitarized rhineland historically accurate in gotterdammerung?

[mellow zenith]

will the protektorat bohmen und mahren exist on start date 1939? and will it have czechoslovak focus tree?

[polar jasper]

Real DMZ was I believe was 20 miles from the Rhine river, so more accurate

[obtuse ingot]

Honestly Rhineland should be independent after ww1. Same as AL… then have France/germany and the independent states as part of a proto-economic union

Or like Saarland but bigger

1935 but Saarland becomes independent could be fun game

[polar jasper]

No

[stoic mist]

Just saw that it was said that befriending Czechoslovakia as Germany still lets the nation be integrated. If that's the case, is there some sort of complication to doing so? That is, does Hungary refuse to join the Axis or something in that vein?

[supple vault]

Guys this is the lastest ipdat

e\

[pale horizon]

the new DLC's portraits are horrible so far , will they be fixed ?

[silent prism]

I don't agree that they are horrible

I like them

[hollow coral]

@karmic granite @mellow zenith thet are answered in the videos and dev diaries

[daring forge]

I still don't get why people are freaking out over that darkened compressed image of Himmler and Göring, like we can see Goebbels in the same video and it looks different from the portrait in the DD so there's some kind of darkening and compression in the video - I'd just wait until release instead of judging before we can even see them fully

[mellow zenith]

ok sorry, i didnt see it in that, could u please help me and tell me where it was? or what the answear is

[hollow coral]

German systems shows that protectorate bohemia and moravia will be a formable along with genoural government👌

[mellow zenith]

i didnt ask that tho

[hollow coral]

Im a tually blind

[mellow zenith]

i asked if the protektorat will be on the map in the start date of 1939 and if it will have focus tree

[hollow coral]

I dont have a clue

But im actually blind

[mellow zenith]

its fine dw, thanks tho for trying to be helpfull

[mossy stone]

hi chat

[worn depot]

Hello Mao

I did notice that the reveal for the dlc when talking about reichskommissariats they said you could customize their territory, yet they didn’t mention it in the dev diary

I hope they just forgot to mention it

[mossy stone]

fr

reichkommisterate of mongolia!!!

[burnt sail]

Hopefully

[daring forge]

#answers message

[worn depot]

Huh, guess I overlooked some of the answers

Oh my god burgundy

The larp is getting truly real

[harsh hull]

Dang it, I missed the Q&A

And nobody asked about if Sudetenland would be finally split up

Sad

[hearty blade]

pretty sure that was already confirmed somewhere

i think its gonna be split in north and south sudetenland

[harsh hull]

I mean, I've seen screenshots from videos, but the pixel difference between province border and state border is very inconclusive at the scale the screenshot shows

For the best though, I suppose, I would have spent the entire Q&A asking about map changes

[daring forge]

it is, you can see a slight border by the thin province too

(from the hungary live stream part)

[harsh hull]

Oh good, that does make me feel better

The border gore is defeated

[worn depot]

Woooo!

[stable tusk]

They probably should've made that one tile that only borders Germany to be a part of the north Sudetenland state so that it looks a bit nicer when Germany goes for Munich Conference without Austria

[worn depot]

But then southern Sudetenland would look awkward

[harsh hull]

I do agree that this province should really be a part of the northern half of the region

After the Anschluss, the southern 4 tiles were integrated into Upper and Lower Austria, and the northern half was reformed into two separate administrative regions

But that area in red was mostly integrated into Bavaria, so for historical realism, it would make more sense to make sure it goes to Germany

[obtuse ingot]

I feel like i worded my question wrong.

I was wondering about replacing people on the outer circle

[native herald]

Do you guys think we will create hyper reichkomissarts

Like Reichkomissart Afrika, Asien, Norden Amerika and SudernAmerika

[harsh hull]

Probably not - the point of puppet governments is to govern

Mashing everything into one hypergovernment leads to so much bureaucracy, corruption, and ineffectiveness that you govern nothing

[native herald]

Hopefully it will get balkanized russia

[polar jasper]

Reichskommisariat Nord Amerika is combined US and Canada, close enough

Or however they phrased it in the dev diary

[harsh hull]

RK Nordamerika is Canada and about... 38? US States

The others go into the Central American RK

(Unless that's one of those customizable things)

[polar jasper]

Think about the logistics of commanding such a large RK

[native herald]

Zentral Amerika

[polar jasper]

Literally going to implode in less than a year

[native herald]

What if we have deicisions to invest on equipment

[polar jasper]

Probably can

Lots of shooting required though 😐

[native herald]

Gamer moments

Gamer moments

You mean

[fresh cedar]

It seemed don’t in the diary/video

If anything was in a hoi4 video

[dark galleon]

yeah

[oblique perch]

is there a way to get the ussr to leave commintern.

i have 800 positive reasons to get them to join but i cant cus their already in a faction

[trim quartz]

I think it’s practically impossible to make a country leave, or disband their own faction

Best you can hope for is a NAP and military access

Or just fight on the same side of a war, but as seperate entities or factions, like how the Comintern fight along side the allies but are seperate

[oblique perch]

yee i alr baited them to join my war

i have zero clue how since its historical.

but uh they declared war on free france randomly for some reason

[trim quartz]

Everyone hates the French

[signal cargo]

Rip french people

Theyre trying their bestt

[worn depot]

I know youre right, but it just feels off/ wrong to me, it looks like Northern sudetenland has a little hook in the south which bugs me

having the divide at the narrowest point is more asthetically pleasing in terms of state boundaries

[signal cargo]

Now what if there was much more red

Czech anschluss?

[outer whale]

yes

I saw it at the stream

thing I am curious of

I wonder If we can install puppet kingdoms as kaiser path

in europe

like kingdom of poland

courland

kingdom of finland

kingdom of belguim

etc

[signal cargo]

Theres something like that with the austrian tree where you put habsburgs in charge of all the nations

Unless that’s Hungary and im mixing them up

[hearty blade]

Oh that'd be SO cool

like rks but for monarchist?

[outer whale]

yes

example united baltic duchy = adolf friedrich mecklenburg

kingdom of lithuania = Mindaugas II
Wilhelm Karl, Duke of Urach

[hearty blade]

ame, duke of the world

[outer whale]

tbh I think Mindaugas II must be a leader trait instead of the name of the charachter in lithunaia

because mindaugas was the regnal name

[solid gyro]

Nah

[hollow coral]

mindaugas II died before game

[outer whale]

Wait

Do we have the mindaugas III?

[hollow coral]

its mindaugas III

[thick edge]

When does the plushie come out

The Kaiser

[fresh cedar]

Oct 29

[marble plaza]

No developers stream for today?

[thick edge]

So excited to spend $40 on a plushie

[hollow coral]

When they come out with puyi platypus i will buy it

[thick edge]

Real

[hollow coral]

Please paradox give hungary all of greater hungary💪💪🙏🙏

Realise hungarys greater purpose to include funneh croatia

[thick edge]

A white background

With a white flag

https://www.makeship.com/products/kaiser-platypus

[thorny shell]

when is Paradox adding the Cook Islands 🙏

[fresh cedar]

Probably within 2-4 hours

[obtuse ingot]

There’s a vic3 mod that adds Pitcairn

[thorny shell]

Pitcairn is already in HOI4

[obtuse ingot]

Independent?

[hollow coral]

Not even cook islands

[thorny shell]

no

but as a state / province

Cook Islands aren't a state, province, country, or any of that

[hollow coral]

Technically it is a country governed by new zealand

Along with niue

But isnt internationally recognised as an independent country

[thorny shell]

it is

Well.. not by everyone, but the USA, Israel, and others do recognise it as an independent state

same with Niue, with around 40~ countries recognising it as so
They are like Protected States, per say

[obtuse ingot]

Could be part of navy thing next year…. (Unless they do other countries)

[thorny shell]

Paradox has a lot to add when it comes to the Pacific

because they dint think through with it properly and just added whatever they felt like, which now is a mess.

[obtuse ingot]

Imo SEA, Madagascar, South Pacific as part 1 of 2025’s “season”

Would be cool

Part 2 being North Africa and Levant

[hollow coral]

Pacific is hell to naval invade

[thorny shell]

maybe but Middle East has already taken that place

so our dreams will have to wait

[obtuse ingot]

Can combine that if they consider French colonial possessions

[thorny shell]

oh yea speking of French Possesions..

Wallis and Futuna
another island nation dumpted into the trash

[hollow coral]

Next expansion pass will probably be japan dlc with SEA and china rework

[thorny shell]

interesting part is that it was actually a Protectorate until 1961

[thorny shell]

very possible. either that or some other country-pack

[obtuse ingot]

Maybe a reworked decolonization/occupation mechanic?

[hollow coral]

Morocco and tunisia should be puppets instead of annexed

[thorny shell]

a lot of countries should be like that

[hollow coral]

Egypt

I dont like how egypt isnt puppet

[thorny shell]

Tonga (Not in the game but still my point), TransJordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, U.A.E, Brunei, and others

[obtuse ingot]

SEA and Japan being like Gotterdamerang and North Africa/Levant being like “Graveyard of Empires”

[hollow coral]

What

[thorny shell]

im going to be honest, after G.O.E i see a DLC similar to the Nordic one

i dont recall a time where Paradox released such a big rework one after another

[hollow coral]

No majors

[thorny shell]

ya

[thorny shell]

i dunno where exactly but maybe some S.E.A stuff like the other guy said

Yea, that is actually possible for S.E.A

Malaya and Indo exist, without content either, so it is fully possible. but only the future decides

[hollow coral]

What is this wording?

[hollow coral]

Siam, indochina and british burma should also be added

[obtuse ingot]

Q3 2025 navy & S.e.a
Q1 2026 for North Africa

[thorny shell]

S.E.A and Japan rework being as big as the Germany update and then North Africa being a smaller update / country pack like G.O.E

[thorny shell]

nahh those arent really neccesary

Indochina maybe

[hollow coral]

Just adds flavour

Siam definitly needs flavour

[thorny shell]

but i think their main point is going to be updating Indo, Malaya, Siam, and Philippines if they ever make a S.E.A update

[hollow coral]

Yeh

[thorny shell]

maybe FRI and Burma but their main focus will be on those already independent nations

[hollow coral]

I also see a pacific dlc with usa, canada, australia and newzealand just to fredh it out

[obtuse ingot]

and touching up Japan probably along with it (Japan being very involved)

[thorny shell]

and if im being extreme, maybe even Papua and Micronesia

[thorny shell]

Probably

[hollow coral]

Too extreme

[obtuse ingot]

Battle of Madagascar was HUGE

[thorny shell]

Possible but not as much as the others, since they are also relevant when it comes to the region

[hollow coral]

The glaze is crazy

[obtuse ingot]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Madagascar

[thorny shell]

i despise how they made Malaya one state

and if they ever make a S.E.A i beg to the Paradox Gods for them to change it

[obtuse ingot]

Japanese navy in Madagascar is something they don’t teach much of in school