latest-updates

[crimson tartan]

let's count it?

[coral drift]

Yeah, just surrender
Play strictly historical

[crimson tartan]

🙂 👍

at least you have completed 3 focuses before surrendering

[coral drift]

Before WW2 even starts

[drifting star]

So any secret focuses ?

Or hidden formable

[crimson tartan]

not for you

[distant fox]

Idk

[crimson tartan]

hehe sorry mate ;)

[distant fox]

Hopefully there’s a zapdoslavia in there

[lament quail]

One crashes Hoi4, installs RT56 and reboots

[safe plover]

3 things, 1. wtf are these borders, 2. why did i get renamed to czechoslovakia again , it should be central european federation. 3. GENERIC LEADER COMON

[lilac cargo]

this looks oddly like the old one

what a flop release

[unique dome]

then you dont have the DLC

that is literally the old tree

[kindred beacon]

You didn't buy the dlc

😭

You need to sacrifice your wallet to PDX for more content silly

[fickle torrent]

pls tell me this is a joke

[lilac cargo]

but i have the subscription

[unique dome]

maybe restart steam

[lilac cargo]

which clearly states i get every new add-on

[fickle torrent]

you dont

you got scammed

rip

[unique dome]

or check if the DLC is enabled in the launcher

[brittle venture]

you do

[hollow lion]

Hampl should I believe never be in charge, he was added so at some points his name can be used as party leader

[brazen shore]

how do u access this screen

[hollow lion]

Do the first industry focus

[brazen shore]

1. Is it czech only
2. Which one

[lilac cargo]

this was a good suggestion but unfortunately didnt help

[hollow lion]

Czechoslovakia only yeh

Its uuh lemme memorize the name

[brazen shore]

😭

[fresh cedar]

So is there any hidden content guys?

[hollow lion]

Raise More Industrial Funds

[crimson tartan]

😔

[hollow lion]

I hope it goes up when people actually play it

[fresh cedar]

People are so dramatic. It’s been such a fun dlc and imo the price is fair

I hate the HOI4 community sometimes

Professional complainers

[onyx hull]

Real

[crimson tartan]

so true

[fresh cedar]

What are their complaints even about? It’s such a solid tree

[compact fractal]

probably slovakia

[crimson tartan]

sure bud

[safe trail]

only one monarchist tree

[crimson tartan]

[coral drift]

<@&846894118219022336>

[fresh cedar]

<@&846894118219022336>

[crimson tartan]

IT IS TOO EXPENSIVE

[fresh cedar]

Degenerate advertising gambling

Bruh, McDonald’s costs like $10-20 a meal now. $5 ain’t expensive

[green scaffold]

why is the capstone industry focus 140 days for basically no bonuses 😭

[coral drift]

Almost 60k Rupiahs for a focus tree
Maybe i'll buy it if it's 35k

[safe trail]

for you

[compact fractal]

for a moment I thought the price was 65.99 but then I realized thats just the expansion pass

[green scaffold]

if you're not out of resources the focus literally does nothing

[coral drift]

Funny, Big Mac is 40k here

[green scaffold]

why are thr focuses before it also 140 nd 105 days

its so bad

140 days focuses are never a good thing

[fresh cedar]

No, $5 for something I’ll put more than a few hours into and most likely 10+ hours is cheap. That’s like 50 cents or less per hour of enjoyment

[green scaffold]

there exist no justifications for 140 days focuses

[fresh cedar]

Would you go out to eat for less than $5? For an experience that is even less time

This is cheap

[coral drift]

Last time I ate it was 5 years ago, though

[crimson tartan]

but it's 50% cheaper 😟

wrong

30% or something

i'm not a math guy

[compact fractal]

unfortunately a lot of the reviews are negative

[crimson tartan]

than was for you frind

[compact fractal]

even the positive ones talk about negative things

[coral drift]

Wait
Ooh, 57k is Warships of the Pacific, my bad

[fresh cedar]

People should not be gaming, especially playing paradox games if they can’t afford $5 😭

Like get to work if that is a deal breaker for you 💀

[compact fractal]

it is 8 where I am

[coral drift]

Why i somehow did not notice?

[compact fractal]

7.99 for me

[hollow lion]

Oooh it might modify Skoda which isnt active at game start

[crimson tartan]

i think people can see things i can't see

[compact fractal]

didn't road to 56 crew make this

[safe trail]

i read all of them right now

[fresh cedar]

Which currency do you use?

[coral drift]

Yeah, lack of laptop too. I'm broke.

Probably would update my East Indies mod tomorrow and then offline again until who knows

[hollow lion]

Yes, 2 of us called that out lol

[safe trail]

yes

[compact fractal]

canadian

[copper knoll]

any secret paths?

[fresh cedar]

Bro I’ve been asking.

[hollow lion]

Only 3 of us but still, yeh

[green scaffold]

all i can see is -5% lack of resources penalty and lack of power penalty, and 10% powered factory output
is it supposed to do anything else

[crimson tartan]

this guy is saying pdx sell this dlc for 1000 rubles
yet it is 400 rubles

[hollow lion]

Yup

[compact fractal]

I suppose you can see what I mean by the community wanting more for less price

[coral drift]

We only have 25% of Americans' purchasing power yet the price is 66%

No wonder!!!

[copper knoll]

no slovak tree, monarchist path is slop ggs

[crimson tartan]

sometimes i think people can't see things i can see...

[compact fractal]

what price in canadian

[safe trail]

monarchist path is trash

soory

[fresh cedar]

Bruh

[hollow lion]

I think Steam encouraged less regional pricing at some point because people were using VPN etc?

[hollow lion]

Idk though, we obviously dont have influence on it

[safe trail]

yeah communiy is not happy

[compact fractal]

ah

[coral drift]

Indonesians and Polish are screwed on this matter

The Poles were complaining about it in early 2025

[fresh cedar]

I genuinely want to know what they’d do differently

[crimson tartan]

i wonder if anyone cried about lack of content in icons dlc 🧐

[fresh cedar]

Czech should start debuffed as it basically was IRL

[safe trail]

yes

[compact fractal]

maybe they want things easy for them

[coral drift]

Haven't bought it

[copper knoll]

no secret path bro

[crimson tartan]

just
how can you cry about the content that never meant to be there 😭

[compact fractal]

cover the screen with your hand and you got a secret path

[fresh cedar]

Yeah and people would then complain about that too

[coral drift]

Well, at least Arheo admitted yesterday that they mistakenly put Slovakia in the initial description

And he said that "we did not see that it got in until we removed it a week ago"

[crimson tartan]

if i was hoi4 dev i would have SO MUCH questions for my community

like what the hell do you want from me

[safe trail]

yeah but this was a stupid mistake

really stupid

[coral drift]

I blame the one who managed to put Slovakia in the desc, hence making ppl expecting too much

[crimson tartan]

we made big expansion
you don't like it
we made focus pack
you don't like it
we made even smaller focus pack
you don't like it

[fresh cedar]

Tbh it was a bad idea cutting the Slovakia stuff but CZE seems really solid

[compact fractal]

what if they add a czechoaustroslovakislovenihungariromanicroatbosnian formable

[crimson tartan]

really

[hollow lion]

There wasnt any Slovakia content cut last second if thats the impression

[proud basin]

what do we think of the new dlc should i buy? because 6 quid isn't a lot but is it worth funding nothing

[safe trail]

yeah without slovakia mention the dlc would not get rewiew bomd

[fresh cedar]

HOI4 community in a nutshell. Basically degenerate ill mannered jobless redditors

[hollow lion]

Its just that the wording is very unfortunate indeed

[coral drift]

Really stupid, indeed
Ppl are expecting things even if they did not even created it in the first place

[compact fractal]

what is the DLC called

[safe trail]

yeah i fell bad for you now you get sadly hate

[fresh cedar]

Moreso that it was on the description of the dlc I just posted. Personally IDGAF about Slovakia and the dlc is fun

[crimson tartan]

cost of political game 😔 🥀

[safe trail]

but i aso was expecting slovakia because of that

[coral drift]

If the desc was corrected before NCNS' release, the outrage would not be as much as this

[proud basin]

Is the DLC any good? because its hard to see past the no lifers who will call anything bad

[crimson tartan]

well you still have slovakia

[safe trail]

59% on steam

[crimson tartan]

you can even play it!

[safe trail]

it makes no sense to play generic slovakia but you are correct

[coral drift]

Good Czech-only historical contents
Solid alt-dem, fascist, and monarchist paths, solid Stalinist paths

[hollow lion]

either try it out yourself or wait a week for more in-depth reviews I guess

[fresh cedar]

It’s fun, kinda reminds me of playing Austria but you’re in a better position to expand

[proud basin]

I love me some austria.

[coral drift]

If you expecting Czech-only historical contents, then this DLC is for you

And congrats, enjoy it

Genuinely

[fresh cedar]

Genuinely is just stronger than Austria and Hungary so you can form Austro Hungarian Empire easier

[crimson tartan]

you can tell your own story
use your 🌟 imagination 🌟

[proud basin]

i know next to nothing about czech history aside from very basic stuff so ill give it a try and somehow end up a genius on the topic

[fresh cedar]

It was always advertised as a primarily Czech DLC. Idk how Slovakia is the deal breaker for many

[brittle venture]

i havent played hoi is czech fun

[proud basin]

tbf really easy to form anyway just annex the others

[safe trail]

hahahah yes

[coral drift]

Blame the desc writer for overselling

[safe trail]

only thing i hope is monarchist expansion i dont like the path

i find him boring

[fresh cedar]

Yeah when it originally got published. 😭 Didn’t even say it would super focus on Slovakia

[safe trail]

fshist path is good

[safe trail]

fachist

[fresh cedar]

“Pursueing independence as Slovakia”

Like this is really what people are mad about 💀

[coral drift]

Playing Slovakia in a WW2 game is nothing ridiculous

[safe trail]

it is strongly implaing playing as slovakia

[hollow lion]

Ideally we would have rewritten it as "pursue regional independence for Slovakia and Ruthenia" but translation-wise that wouldve been too last-second

[hollow lion]

You can play as them with new content to be clear

[safe trail]

yeah but not really

[crimson tartan]

well i'm not a native speaker and etc
but where "focus tree for slovakia" is here? 😟

[proud basin]

lets be fr they are mad that they can't play it once and then can't complain about balance or difficulty completing an achievement

[lofty ruin]

fr man

[drifting star]

Hey are there any secret trees or paths ?

[fresh cedar]

Guaranteed if Slovakia had content they’d still be review bombing

[coral drift]

After all Czechia was annexed by Germany even before WW2, and Slovakia is there in the 1939 start

[hollow lion]

Not in the focus tree, idk if Logan hid anything in the events/decisions

[safe trail]

slovakia is important from 1939 to 1945

[drifting star]

Thank you

[coral drift]

Not as much as now

[lofty ruin]

i as slovak see this as my duty

[crimson tartan]

from 1944 to 1945*

[hollow lion]

the only silly focus we have a focus hidden behind Skoda focus that forms the bookmark you can jump to

[fresh cedar]

Ngl man it’s a fun DLC. Sorry the HOI4 just is moody

[proud basin]

"Slovakia is too op bad" "Slovakia is too underpowered bad" "Slovakia is balanced too perfectly bad"

[coral drift]

Ppl aren't as mad when GoE got beefed up 2 months after release

[fresh cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/hell-doom-doomguy-doom-slayer-gif-1856426728697571896

Avg state of Paradox on release day

[fresh cedar]

Literally

[drifting star]

Slovakia maybe will come on a update

Like with the loyalist India path

[lofty ruin]

insallah

[drifting star]

Which is peak

[fresh cedar]

In salad

[drifting star]

Inshallah*

[proud basin]

yeah wouldnt surprise me if it comes out and people will still be mad

[coral drift]

Yeah, personally current GoE is 7/10 compared to the 3/10 state on its release date

PfoT is 6/10 due to overselling, without it it's 7,5/10

[brittle venture]

its so much bloat to learn tho which is annoying

i looked at it for a minute

[crimson tartan]

hmmm
you added slovakia in my czechia dlc
yeah that's cool and all but who asked for this? you guys making my game slower and slower
also 6$ is too much for such a dlc, i doubt i would take it even for 3$
also why there is no content for ruthenia and poland? you guys are lazy you need to rethink your strategy
slop

🙂

should i add "/s"

[coral drift]

Should be.
NSB is there

[brittle venture]

there was a guy in the comments complaining about how road to 56 does it better...

[fresh cedar]

Tiring community tbh. I just wanted this to go well so I could get future content

[real agate]

Quick question How much sub mods are to much?

[fresh cedar]

If it works it’s fine

[brittle venture]

NCNS was good too, people are just expecting a lot from an old platform

[real agate]

https://tenor.com/view/true-point-hes-got-a-point-gif-no-no-hes-got-a-point-meme-true-meme-gif-25315797

[compact fractal]

why is the portrait

[coral drift]

NCNS got flaks from the Musketeer update

Solid 7,5/10, probably expecting too much from the Filipino contents

[compact fractal]

how do I fix the portraits

[fresh cedar]

People review bombed TOA which was one of the most fun DLC I’ve played for HOI4. After that I lost all respect for the cro-magnons posing as the HOI4 community

[coral drift]

NSB is a solid 9/10
Fix fascist Poland and democratic Russia and it's 10/10

[hollow lion]

Not sure whats happening there, no mods?

[compact fractal]

yes

mod

[copper knoll]

is this focus bugged

[compact fractal]

mod is called peace in our time

[fresh cedar]

Mods can mess up portrait pathing

[coral drift]

Poland must be capitulated

[hollow lion]

Polan- ^^

[crimson tartan]

I guess there's something wrong...

[copper knoll]

thats so stupid bro

[coral drift]

Tbh it can be expanded to "have greater surrender progress than CZE"

[fresh cedar]

I think HOI4 reviewers also tend to leave more negative reviews bc positive reviewers simply don’t review. They enjoy it and move along. Meanwhile the loud opposition posts

[coral drift]

I posted good reviews there

[lofty ruin]

wtf why does hussite legacy give +30 compliance?

[fresh cedar]

I never have 😂

[lofty ruin]

thats so op

[thick edge]

True

[coral drift]

Anecdotal case then

[fresh cedar]

What does that equate to daily? .3%?

[lofty ruin]

i quees

[fresh cedar]

Nah like I have a bunch of friends that play and they never reviewed but they enjoyed dlc

[fresh cedar]

Idk if it’s .3 or .03. Bc 0.3 would be cracked

[compact fractal]

looking at the focus tree of the DLC it seems very good

[crimson tartan]

my brother in christ...
do you even know how 2018 focus tree look like

[compact fractal]

Im not sure what the negative reviews are ]

[fresh cedar]

Obviously not 😂

[compact fractal]

maybe they're looking at the old focus tree

[lofty ruin]

idk even if this is more op than than one bulgarian focus

[compact fractal]

I personally think that the coders outdid themself

[coral drift]

WTT Germany is goated

[fresh cedar]

Bulgarian is like .1 daily I think. This might be 0.03 daily. I’ll have to check

[hollow lion]

📝 Make...hussites...give 1% compliance gain bonus /s

[fresh cedar]

How much daily compliance gain is 30%?

[hollow lion]

I hope 30% on top of the base growth

[lofty ruin]

i play now

[hollow lion]

I made it a while ago so I cant remember the number

[lofty ruin]

growth speed

[fresh cedar]

Bc base is like what 0.05? So would be like extra 0.03?

[lofty ruin]

but still it sounds like its from some op mode

[hollow lion]

0,02 maybe

[fresh cedar]

Many countries get like 0.05 daily, if it is 0.03 that’s not OP

Bulgaria gets 0.10 😂

[lofty ruin]

oh

[hollow lion]

I could change it to base compliance if thats more consistent

[fresh cedar]

Think base modifier of like 0.03 would be less confusing. Though many countries have like 0.05, Japan like 0.07? And Bulgaria 0.10. So tbh if 0.03 that’s balanced

I just pray someday Anarchist Spain gets daily compliance and coring is half as expensive

[lofty ruin]

wdym you could change

[hollow lion]

I made that focus

[lofty ruin]

your a dev?

[fresh cedar]

He’ll be the one fixing things after its release today 😂

[lofty ruin]

oh

[hollow lion]

Only for this DLC

Mainly modder

[lofty ruin]

ahh

[brittle venture]

its OP tbf

[fresh cedar]

Not really, compliance base has diminishing returns so will eventually be like .035-.04 daily compliance.

[fresh cedar]

You should sneak in daily compliance gain for anarchist Spain. 😏 Or tell them to add it. Would go from being dated to fun

[brittle venture]

no

if its flat its flat

no diminishing returns

[fresh cedar]

I’m saying in conjunction with base

[brittle venture]

as india

you can put Aden on harsh quotas all game and have 25% more factories

for no cost

when building

[fresh cedar]

The base has diminishing returns and the extra 0.03 would go from being strong to just slightly weaker than base rate

[fresh cedar]

Oh no, 1 extra factory and 20k recruitable from Aden. Gamebreaking

[brittle venture]

you can get like 12-15? build slots

so thats like 3-4 extra factories for no cost not from focus or anything

for a nation thats supposed to be super factory limited because of its OP other buffs

[copper knoll]

how do i get rid of this

[fresh cedar]

Idk man, 0.03 isn’t OP as far as compliance gain goes in this game.

Ideally would be between 0.01-0.03, though many have 0.05-0.10

And imo it’s less OP for Czech to have it than like Japan

[brittle venture]

its ok, its just better to have it as % or flat

[fresh cedar]

NGL I’ll play trees simply bc they have the flat

[green scaffold]

is there anything you can do to stop the "threatening neighbors" from moving the balance of power? im not seeing anything

[copper knoll]

italy lost HARD to ethiopia on my first game wtf

[fresh cedar]

Focuses? Forts? Idk

[green scaffold]

no not to move it

to stop it from moving

[copper knoll]

prob being at war with germ

[green scaffold]

that's pretty stupid

[fresh cedar]

No more neighbors

[green scaffold]

also choosing to not do forts screwing you up with the balance of power is so stupid

forts are so bad

why do i need to lose all my war support if i choose to build an army instead of forts

[fresh cedar]

Is this for historical or every path?

Bc makes sense in historical

[green scaffold]

just for the focus to use the fortification funds elsewhere

[fresh cedar]

I’m guessing the citizens don’t want an offensive war but would rather just defend if attacked

[hollow lion]

No but you can remove the BoP altogether

[brittle venture]

lets not

[hollow lion]

Achieving major status solo is actually surprisingly doable if you survive 1938-1939

[fresh cedar]

I mean, it’s directly comparable

[hollow lion]

the plane requirement is easy to meet if you dont remove the starting production line

[brittle venture]

#server-rules

[fresh cedar]

Idk if it’s controversial. 😂 It’s legit just according to NATO’s reason for existence. Defense

NATO is legit in game

[brittle venture]

modern politics tho :>

[fresh cedar]

I thought it was for controversial topics not just modern politics in general tbh

[brittle venture]

both but mostly latter in this case

[fresh cedar]

Wait, shouldn’t I be the offended one though since I’m American? 😂

[fresh cedar]

Citizen dislike war. If you search for war, they mad. If war find you, it ok, they fight. But build army mean search war, bad. Fort mean defend, good.

[thick edge]

is it just me or do the flags on the country selection screen glow now

[peak flame]

Yes they do, new countries glow (ie, NCNS and Peace For Our Time)

[broken horizon]

So the new dlc only has content for czechslovakia ?

[peak flame]

Yes, it's a country pack focusing on one country

[hollow lion]

It has small bits for others, see todays changelog

[broken horizon]

Ah ok for 6 euros price its valid tbh i thoigh paradox would be much greedy

[crimson tartan]

bro what 😭 🥀

[broken horizon]

Glad i was wrong

[keen totem]

where can you see todays changelog?

[green scaffold]

how do you remove it

[opaque grove]

Guys how do you rate new dlc

[green scaffold]

its a little silly that I've killed Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Yugoslavia and "threatening neighbors" is still there

who are those neighbors exactly

[opaque grove]

Bro germany defated me when i refused suterland

[green scaffold]

Germany didn't even ask me for sudetenland they just got a wargoal on me somehow

and they also declared on the baltics and Benelux at the same time

[brittle venture]

🇨🇿 / 🇸🇰

[opaque grove]

is it beter to play on historical or not historical

[green scaffold]

can the focus to demand Romania subjugation made to work even if i annex Hungary and not puppet it

[brittle venture]

what happened historically is what you should ask yourself there

[opaque grove]

if you do historical you cant do think with soviets

[tulip rain]

Can czechlaslavokia still make Austria Hungary? I’m the guy in my group that has all DLCs, one of my pals loves to try to create Austria Hungary. I would guess it would stay since it’s a formable not a focus?

[hollow lion]

Yes

[hollow lion]

Top decision inside it

[tulip rain]

Anything to note before I buy it or nah

Rather than what others have said in reviews

[fresh cedar]

It’s fun, similar to Austria but in a better position to expand than Austria or Hungary. Review bombers are braindead

[green scaffold]

oh

150 pp is expensive

i got Hungary and Romania to annex i don't have the pp for that

[tulip rain]

That’s what I thought, thanks

[tulip rain]

Oof

[green scaffold]

surely we can get a focus to annex them

[brittle venture]

its a 1 nation dlc so, i mean most dlcs are kind of focused around one but yk

[green scaffold]

having a focus that reduces autonomy without annexing is kinda ehhh

whats even the point

the hard part of annexing is the 350 pp cost

[brittle venture]

ttheres so many czech focuses its really hard as first playthrough imo

i mean i didnt play yet but still

[tulip rain]

I mean I usually buy DLCs for just one country I’m exited about, I think that 6$ isn’t the worst though

[fresh cedar]

Single big Mac with no sides is $7 for me before taxes. I could eat it in like 5 mins then be done with it forever. This DLC I’ll probably get 10-20 hours of enjoyment out of for less money which I can go back to whenever

It is a reasonable price for the content imo

[brittle venture]

youre so american

[tulip rain]

That’s an awesome comparison

[fresh cedar]

I haven’t eaten McDonald’s in years. Though fast food is the archetypical cheap purchase that many make

If people are willing to spend this on junk food daily. Then the DLC shouldn’t be regarded as expensive

[tulip rain]

Fair

[crimson tartan]

mmmmmmmmmmmm delicious 🤤

[peak flame]

I mean the Big Mac Index is a real thing, economists use it to compare currency values / purchasing power

[dull delta]

скибиди туалет

[compact fractal]

also you can eat computer

[hollow lion]

I regret knowing cyrillic rn, please English (script) only

[compact fractal]

well you shouldn't but you can

[brittle venture]

skibidi toilet XD

[fresh cedar]

Mordred. Anarchist Spain daily compliance advisor/spirit when 🤧🤕

Czechs got it. Time Anarchists do, it’s their whole thing 😂

[jaunty basalt]

the new update is a dlc or an integrated dlc?

[compact fractal]

DLC

5 dollars in U.S

I think

[wise oxide]

biblically accurate d-day

[still glade]

bro ddont play the second communist path in czechoslovakia

takes till late 1938 to flip communist

that path was not tested

[hollow lion]

All of them were tested

Perhaps you didnt take the advisor the 2nd communist focus unlocks?

[drifting star]

Can you for HRE

[harsh hull]

Guy writing fire.gif

[drifting star]

He said the thing

[compact fractal]

why are so many people saying the DLC bad

[drifting star]

Cuz they wanted Slovakia

[harsh hull]

Because they saw that the DLC will contain content for one nation and were annoyed that there's only content for one nation

[compact fractal]

they get slovakia but its in a union with czechia

so if you think about it then maybe we got a slovak focus tree all along

its just a czechoslovak one though

[hoary siren]

DLC have been bad for this game for years now

[thick edge]

The Regime knows best 🫡

[fresh cedar]

Newer dlc is significantly better than older DLC.

[stable tusk]

Is it bugged or do all the reviews on the DLC page have 0 hours on record

[thick edge]

I think that’s just steam in general

[compact fractal]

i think they've been good from what i've seen

[fresh cedar]

Didn’t really love graveyard of empires apart from Iraq, but others since TOA have been fun

[heavy bolt]

Another one got hacked

[stable tusk]

<@&846894118219022336>

[compact fractal]

I was confused for a moment

what it had to do with the update

[keen totem]

personally i only really liked iran from GoE

iraq was alright tho

[fresh cedar]

Prison shower simulator

[keen totem]

ToA was good in my opinion, and GDR and NCNS are pretty nice

[fresh cedar]

TOA was really fun and had good end goals.

[keen totem]

only real complaint is they feel a bit too overpriced

[keen totem]

brazil especially is fun

chile is fun too

argentina is my least favorite of the three

[fresh cedar]

Naw Hidden Argentina tree goated

[fickle torrent]

From South America i only like brazil

[fresh cedar]

Can core Germany

Fourth Reich 🤧

[keen totem]

argentina ive only had fun with that path and the fascist one

actually the communist path is nice too

but eh

[fickle torrent]

Brazil is just good if you want a mindless spend pp annex south america path

[keen totem]

ive played paraguay once to form greater paraguay

out of boredom

uruguay i havent played once

[fresh cedar]

I’d rank em like

1. Communist Brazil
2. Fourth Reich Argentina
3. Kingdom of Portugal Brazil
4. French Chile
5. Mapuche Chile

[keen totem]

i dont really like communist brazil

[fickle torrent]

When i dont wanna play a major on historical and fight axis and wanna feel like i somewhat contributed i play brazil

Its great

[keen totem]

this was funny

[fresh cedar]

Gets cores on all of South America from one focus

Don’t need to spend like 3-4K pp coring stuff like the others

[fickle torrent]

The civil war is so annoying tho

Supply is really bad

[fresh cedar]

I don’t super mind it but it is a little annoying

[keen totem]

the civil war is really annoying to me

[compact fractal]

I was trying to add more ideologies to america but it looks a bit bad

[fresh cedar]

Really liked how Spanish Empire got the ability to core its former colonies around TOA too

[fresh cedar]

Not bad

[fresh cedar]

Same

[keen totem]

as in the falangist spain path?

[fresh cedar]

I forget which tbh. Whichever one becomes Spanish Empire and cores Portugal

[keen totem]

personally

1. Monarchist Brazil
2. French Chile
3. Mapuche Chile
4. Democratic Brazil
5. Fascist Argentina

just based on how much i liked playing these paths

[keen totem]

pretty sure thats the falangists then

mole and prima de rivera

[fresh cedar]

I just dislike chile bc their manpower

It’s rough

Democratic Brazil is pretty cool though

Wish Africa felt more like South America.

[keen totem]

yeah fair

but it also makes it a bit of a fun challenge

[keen totem]

i am in the minority of hoi4 players that actually likes playing democratic paths

[keen totem]

yeah it'd be nice if there was just a bit more love to africa given

[fresh cedar]

Brazil actually has a good democratic path though

Like genuinely fun

[fresh cedar]

Ethiopia and Congo can form African Union but takes until 1980’s to complete

[fickle torrent]

I like the historical more since it allows me to get down to expansion faster

[keen totem]

yeah and that's pretty painful and not fun

[fresh cedar]

With some trees definitely same. Though at times I prefer a bit of chaos for the challenge

[fresh cedar]

And extremely expensive. If Anarchist Ethiopia was effectively the same as anarchist Spain it would be fun. But you basically just wait for rebellions to fire then spend like 500 pp per country to annex

[keen totem]

yeah that's bs

[dry quiver]

Guys are strategic region names bugged out because of patch or its just a me issue

[fresh cedar]

Wym?

[dry quiver]

It shows "strategic region_number" instead of the name

localization issue

i guess

[fresh cedar]

Did you happen to change languages from and back to English?

[dry quiver]

No no

[fresh cedar]

Have any mods?

[dry quiver]

Yes but dont touch the map

only cosmetic

I think its because i used the nudger a few days back

to submod another mod

[fresh cedar]

Some mods can throw off code mapping and result in names being off. Try running with no mods to see if it still happens. If not it’s a mod, if yes then it’s something else

[dry quiver]

I saw something in the localization file that was wrong

something left over from my nudger work

deleted it but still didnt help

Which i expected it would be surely fixed

I managed to fix nvm it had to do with my nudger work indeed

[vestal nova]

i love cooperating with Iosif Stalin what about yall

[compact fractal]

do you know how to delete all the nudge files that it makes

[mild ledge]

its literally broken

i tried to play it a few days ago

i cannot get the resistance over like 60 percent

it doesnt help how u get like 2 spy slots

[green scaffold]

man this is so stupid

Hungary would refuse being your puppet most of the time

but then doing the focus to puppet Romania requires having Hungary as a puppet

so its like lose lose

getting Hungary as a puppet is not good, wargoal is better, but why is getting wargoal on Romania locked behind that

and then you have a focus to integrate Hungary like what even is the point

in general i feel like the odds for anything in the monarchist path to work are very low

you get focuses to ask for stuff but they just never work

just give direct wargoals atp

the fact that you need to do a 70 day focus to demand territory from Poland, and then they refuse, but if you use the wargoal you get you lose the core you can get with the next focus

because it bypasses

[hollow lion]

If you puppeted them and want to form Austria Hungary is can be quite useful

[hollow lion]

Some of the focuses actually use bypass effects, Ill check if it applies to that one

[green scaffold]

yeah, but its like
why force you to release Hungary to later annex it

[hollow lion]

because if youre not ready to form Austria Hungary I assume the puppet is better in the short term

[green scaffold]

its not really
you already get Austria for free before, and wargoal on yugo which is also easy

so with Hungary and Romania

you can easily form it at that point

so puppeting them both is only more work

[hollow lion]

Theyre pretty decent chances but are negatively impacted by major guarantees

[green scaffold]

Hungary and Poland aren't guaranteed but it still failed, both in the runs i did and what i watched others

[hollow lion]

Ill check the event in a sec

[hollow lion]

I think basically all effects are in the bypass effect too

If you mean "dismantle Poland"

the focus that gives you cores for yourself doesnt bypass

[green scaffold]

oh yeah just now realized its not cores for yourself

lmao

[hollow lion]

Multiple diplo things are 50/50, that is also just the default way the AI does 2-option events but there isnt really much for the AI that I imagine should strongly impact their chances

I could maybe make it slightly more likely if your army is really strong, and balance that out with expanded guarantee checks

[green scaffold]

that would feel better yeah

being able to effect it

[hollow lion]

It has a really bad result for them hence I didnt think anything like opinion should affect it, but in hindsight army size probably should

[polar jasper]

Question, do the Czechs give up sudeten when you play democratic senation poland

Sanation*

That absolutely pissed me off when my ally gave up its epic fort line for no reason

[stable mica]

So, when will TAOG be released approximately?

[hollow coral]

Before july

Probably mid to late june

[drifting star]

Wrong before gta 6

[eternal bay]

i hope Yugoslavia gets the next dlc

[blazing flint]

Next dlc is south east asia and australia

[eternal bay]

oh crud

[fresh cedar]

I’d say this was a very solid dlc

[fresh cedar]

Really like the dlc so far. Though my only wish is that maybe the trees would have different territorial end goals. They all seem to lead to Austro-Hungary borders, apart from Central European confed.

But like I played communist and thought I could core the Balkans but it just wasn’t a choice.

[hollow lion]

You should get quite a bit of industry from the puppets

[fresh cedar]

Oh so there isn’t like some greater communist formable?

Like if the Kohler Faction could form this to represent like a communist pan Slavic union.

Or if the Zapotocky was like a Balkan Federation/Austro Hungary hybrid

Germany’s communist tree for instance has a really cool unique formable

Heck the panslavic one I proposed even fits nicely with the German one

[fresh cedar]

Apart from the end goals kinda all being AHE though, it’s been super fun. Challenging but rewarding country. I definitely prefer it over Hungary. Think for me it’s on par with Austria maybe

[keen totem]

ive played the federation path and started a new campaign with the monarchist path

its really solid

im having fun

[hollow coral]

anyone tried the fascist path yet

[fresh cedar]

I did a Little Entente to commie path. Tried Fascist Junta but got curbstomped

Fascist kinda takes too long to kick off. So Monarchist/Little entente is def stronger atm

[fresh cedar]

Ngl if German Reich exists, just better to become their puppet

[hollow coral]

the feeding the crocodile path?

[fresh cedar]

Yeah

The other one they just invade you and put like 1500 CAS over you😭

Little entente still strong counter to Germany tho

[narrow oyster]

question for the latest dlc what did base game get from it?

[hollow coral]

can see from the patch notes

[meager rose]

Train MIO's for majors

[frosty oak]

@hollow lion hey man, sorry to pester you, but do you know the chance that AI Poland has to accept the Czechoslovak-Polish Union?

I know it’s a bit of a hassle to have to wait for them to surrender, but I enjoy the long plays, and was curious what their chances were since my first attempt failed

I’m theory crafting a game plan to make a giant Central European federation, using the polish and Austrian Hungarian formables to bolster it

[heavy bolt]

is anybody really enjoying the new dlc? and if so, what paths are fun?

[vale torrent]

communist is good and democracy is good

except for facist

monarchist is good

[harsh hull]

Does the fascist branch do anything besides submit to Germany?

I didn't have much time to study the focus tree earlier, and that was the only thing I saw of that part

[keen totem]

i believe there's multiple paths you can take with the fascist tree

one where you can just go down the same expansion route as the monarchist path and go back to democracy afterwards

or another where you submit to germany

[keen totem]

monarchist path is fun

coalition building democratic path is fun too

[median bronze]

@hollow lion

[brittle venture]

on what

[hollow lion]

Youre using incompatible mods apparently

[glacial bane]

I think isn't normal. I was observe Czecoslovakia, and notice the focus tree is... wrong.
It is the "Austria-Hungary" branch display when Hungary do Hasburg.

[crimson tartan]

i do like google spreadsheet 😭 👍

[hollow lion]

Im 99% certain your mods are doing that

[glacial bane]

The only mods I use are my mod for France for French focus (nothing to do with Czechoslovakia), state transfer tool and my mod like Chaos mod. So is strange. I will try in 100% vanilla if is still occurs.

[sonic rivet]

any secrets discovered yet

[sonic rivet]

u don't have to return to democracy

u can just keep expanding

[vocal zenith]

Why is the new version of the game five gigabytes instead of ten?

[fresh cedar]

Don’t think there are any

[gritty lava]

Not every dlc needs a secret larp path

[low plover]

did they fix the submarines?

[fresh cedar]

Yeah but hidden paths and formables are fun. It’s still a game afterall. You know, intended to be fun 😂

[fresh cedar]

Fix what about them exactly?

[low plover]

they are so detectable

but maybe the nerf was due

i dunno

[fresh cedar]

They were pretty stealthy before tbh

[low plover]

yea

easy to just spam subs

but i liked it lol

nevertheless, i enjoy all of the navy

[gritty lava]

Well yeah, secret paths are fun, don't get me wrong, but idk what you could do to make a secret Czech path
Plus, if every country had a secret path it'd kinda lose the point

[fresh cedar]

Idk, think they were kinda fine. If you built dedicated sub hunters they still got shredded

[low plover]

yea

true

[fresh cedar]

I just kinda wanted unique formables

Like one of the reasons Germany is good is bc every ideology/path almost has its own formable

Examples like the greater German proletarian state, HRE, Europe, Greater German Reich

CZE is kinda just Austro Hungarian empire. Which is still fun but doesn’t feel very different

Like would Communist, Democratic and Military Junta Czech all have the same territorial ambitions? 😭

[gritty lava]

Fair
But let's be real, sometimes there isn't a lot to work with when it comes to a country's expansion opportunities

[fresh cedar]

Gotta get creative at that point IG and extrapolate what they would’ve been capable of

[coral drift]

The supply mechanics are quite brutal and challenging for the old-timers, the new players must quickly adapt to this now-complex game to fully experience the art of logistical strategy that is World War II. Tank Designer are pretty good and you can even design cheap tanks for less steel-heavy nations such as Dutch East Indies.

Also, the devs are willing to accept our opinion in the development cycle and changing some contents that aren't fleshed enough. 9/10, Polska Gurom!!!

@fresh cedar lol, I looked at some DLC reviews of mine

[coral drift]

I wish Big Mac is that cheap

[fresh cedar]

Solid review tbh

[coral drift]

Well, based on my convo with @keen totem some weeks ago about Dmowski's Poland, I should've lowered it a bit to 8.7/10 since we got barely any internal policy changes for Poland's fascist path since 2021, but i'm too lazy lol

[coral drift]

This
Played a lot of NSB Poland but it still clocked at 0 hours

[glacial bane]

I found it. It was "Expanded Generic Focus Tree". I forget it I has it. In vanilla, it is fine.

[coral drift]

I would personally alright if in the future Indies content, if Indonesia rebels early they would have less territories (maybe only Java and Sumatra) and then you spend the rest of the game getting them back

Indonesian nationalism was not that spread-out in the 1930s

Also many formable potentials too considering different political groups existing

[green scaffold]

peak focus

70 days to lose 2 mills 🔥

(it probably has another effect that you can't see now but like, I'd like to know what it does before lol)

[fresh cedar]

It adds factories to everyone in your faction I believe. So you lose 2 but faction can gain like 10-20

[safe plover]

why tf does the civil war opponent spawn in this much shit

thats legit impossible

and they are all veterans like wtf pdx

[hollow lion]

Going communist?

Wait actually I think I know

[hollow lion]

If you delete your army in an attempt to cheat the civil war, the other side gets a bunch of free units, its the same anti-exploit mechanic active on the UK and USA

[coral drift]

Definitely can use tooltips if the condition aren't met yet, @hollow lion

[hollow lion]

The effect is hard to describe but ideally yeh

[coral drift]

Custom tooltip if you have less than 3 faction members 🤔

I did that in EIR if you did not control certain states in the industrial fixing focuses

[fresh cedar]

Despite lack of formable diversity, still left a positive review. Enjoying it so far. Have yet to do historical

[keen totem]

im really enjoying the monarchist path

[coral drift]

Oh ya
Does the other paths outside of democratic can have Central European Federation formable too?

[keen totem]

and the a-historical democratic path ive had fun with too

[green scaffold]

i was in the middle of doing a decisiom in the province when i released carpt ukraine, which canceled when they got released, but still counts as ongoing which stops me from clicking this now, probably forever?

[hollow lion]

Only autonomist democratic

[hollow lion]

We did look into situations like this, try waiting for a month or however long the decision was

[green scaffold]

this is after 2 months

[torn gazelle]

I think that if Czechoslovakia forms Central Europe and Danubia, it shoud keep the name Central European Federation and core Romania and if they unite with Poland they shoud also core East Prussia (if they are Central European Federation) and if they just form Сentral Europe, they shoud also core west Austria

[coral drift]

Pity
CEF is unique and make more sense than communist!Austria-Hungary

[hollow lion]

Ill look into it

[keen totem]

it was a very welcome surprise

i like the flag

[safe plover]

btw how do u actually core stuff as the united balkan federation?

[green scaffold]

oh hell no the democratic path also gives puppets without anything to annex them?

on your cores

[coral drift]

Mhm
Like, I prefer it to both AHE and BUF

[hollow lion]

No, but your puppets will cede a lot of industry

[lone arch]

How to remove the army balance of power for the peace in our time focus?

[safe plover]

i can only regime change and get 40 civs

[hollow lion]

Top decision inside the BoP

[keen totem]

it feels unique to czechoslovakia and that just feels nice

[lone arch]

?

[hollow lion]

Its a decision inside the balance of power

[lone arch]

Oh ok

[safe plover]

why do u not get köhler as leader if u go the köhler path

[hollow lion]

Ideological simularities with Gottwald

Smeral meanwhile becomes leader instead of Zapotocky because Smeral had much better images out there for a leader portrait

[safe plover]

i mean ig but like why are they even 2 stalinist paths then instead of just making one bigger

also united balkan federation without directly controlling any balkans is hella silly

[hollow lion]

The puppet names are a bit cursed but I didn't want it to be the same as like every other formable in the region

[opaque grove]

what is the best way for czechoslovakia after i chosed benes

?

?

can somone tell me?

??

[safe plover]

ig u can still core poland lol

[opaque grove]

what uis ig

is

wchich way @safe plover

[safe plover]

democratic or commie path

[opaque grove]

or

@safe plover

@safe plover

[opaque grove]

first or second image

[safe plover]

dude why bother with that just do the eco and army tree

[opaque grove]

so i dont need to do political?

[safe plover]

no

not if u try to kill germany while holdinng sudetenland

get this guy though

[opaque grove]

k

thx for help

i should go for left way right not fasist

[solid gyro]

how do you form Austria Hungary as the new Czechoslovakia ?

[hollow lion]

Formable decision, the focus tree focuses on other formables but also helps getting the territory for the decision

[solid gyro]

thank you

[gusty hornet]

Whats a fun nation to play

Im bored

[fresh cedar]

Wdym best way

[fresh cedar]

As literally any tree 😭

[crimson tartan]

so austria hungary is one of the few countries that can be formed by several other countries right

like germany, austria, hungary, czechoslovakia...

❓

[coral drift]

Tbh methinks CEF is underutilized, also i recall that the Czech actually hates AHE

[coral drift]

Also Croatia

[crimson tartan]

yeaaaah

[green scaffold]

ok no that's not what it does

unless the description is lying

[crimson tartan]

is this official hoi4 reddit

[green scaffold]

it removes factories from your territory

and then only if they agreed

you get factories back

[crimson tartan]

ow wow are you for real

😂

[green scaffold]

is it?

i didn't see the factory count before it finished

but both nations in my faction said no

and from the description it sounds like you only get factories back if they agree

but you lose factories anyways

[gray osprey]

lmao

wtf

about Slovakia?

or what

[gray osprey]

ooooh so it is

[gray osprey]

Scandinavia/Nordic Union can also be formed by all scandi countries/nordic countries respectively afaik

[keen totem]

yeah

[keen totem]

reddit being reddit

[smoky atlas]

it's silly, but they're not wrong!

[lofty heron]

why isn't the artwork for the new DLC the main menu screen?

is that intentional?

[crimson tartan]

oh so now people gonna cry about this dlc for 2 montsh straight

until toag

and then they gonna cry about toag

[vale torrent]

different modders

plus it is a good tree for 6

[crimson tartan]

can we ask these guys crying about lazy devs/boring trees/etc to make their own focus trees and we will judge

[drifting star]

Don’t ask for that

That’s a terrible idea

[thick edge]

I lack the creativity to make my own tree sadly

[drifting star]

They should add Slovakia in a future update tho

[compact fractal]

you would think making a focus tree would be easier then adding a new nation, giving it a flag, and a name, and land, would be harder then a focus tree, but I find a focus tree harder

[thick edge]

A focus tree needs to make sense

[drifting star]

Slovakia needs a tree tho the way HOI4 Reddit acts I hope they never add one just to piss them off

[thick edge]

Research a bunch of Wikipedia articles

I tried making my own mod with a friend but we lost interest in it

[crimson tartan]

ye

i made this egypt focus tree something like 4 years ago

it took about 3-4 month to make it look like this
then a tried to make israel
and then i was like nah who cares about this mod i'm not gonna do this anymore

it was cold war mod btw

😔 🥀

[thick edge]

It took 3-4 months to make?

/ how do u make one

[fresh cedar]

I don’t understand the hate. Apart from end goals/formables. it’s a super solid tree.

The new special project is so good 😮‍💨

[crimson tartan]

i just made basic layout of the tree
it was like 10-12 focuses and then i started upgrading it while searching for more sources, info, references
it took a few weeks to make historical tree (that one on the right) but a-historical stuff was somehow hard to make

[fresh cedar]

Meh Slovakia got portraits. Thats enough for me 😂

[crimson tartan]

noooo you don't get it!!!
it is bad because

because uuuuh oh well
there is no slovakia!!

[hollow lion]

We would never be so crude as to punish the whole community for the behavior of some Redditors

[fresh cedar]

Idgaf about Slovakia. 😂

[crimson tartan]

they do :(

[fresh cedar]

IMO if countries don’t exist at game start, they shouldn’t be the focus of any DLC

Hell I’d rather get Egypt than Slovakia

[drifting star]

I get that but imo Slovakia is there for so long during the war it is reasonable

[keen totem]

it'd be nice but honestly id rather just play a better version od czechoslovakia if it means that a releaseable isnt given content

[fresh cedar]

And it’s in game. Doesn’t really need a whole special tree if it’s just gonna be a puppet basically

[fresh cedar]

You don’t like the new tree?

[keen totem]

no i do

thats what i mean

[drifting star]

It should get an hre formable

[fresh cedar]

Ooooh

[keen totem]

they said they early on cut slovakia to make room for a more refined tree

and id rather they do that then cut potential content from czechoslovakia

just so we can say we "got" slovakia

[fresh cedar]

I mean I tried telling Marjin that all it needs is formables. Since it’s an easy fix and gives obtainable end game content

[keen totem]

id rather have one really good focus tree then two mediocre ones

[fresh cedar]

He wasn’t having it 😂

IMO the Arabia formable getting reworked made Iraq go from being meh to fun

[keen totem]

it got reworked?

how so

[fresh cedar]

It used to require more land to form, now it’s incremental

I pushed hard for it to become an incremental formable and they did it.

You used to need basically all its territory to form

[keen totem]

might try iraq out another time

[fresh cedar]

Hashemite is the best way imo

[keen totem]

but i still have yet to play every czechoslovakia path and im very intent on doing that

[keen totem]

i usually end up joining the allies and using gibraltar to take spain

[fresh cedar]

They’re fun, just feel kinda samey territorial ambition wise

[keen totem]

hashemite path is really strong and fun

[fresh cedar]

They all just form Austro Hungarian empire

Think one should have some pan-Slavic union formable. Maybe one a Balkan. Another some German hybrid kinda like what Austria has. HRE etc

Just makes end game way more fun

Once you beat Germany rn the content kinda ends imo

[hollow lion]

I mustnt have seen that

[fresh cedar]

Please Marjin please, I beg for formables 🥺👉👈

[keen totem]

i see what you mean but i dont find it that big an issue tbh

[fresh cedar]

Not an issue, just gives me a reason to go back to it.

[fresh cedar]

Like I primarily play Austria/Hungary/South American countries for formables. Like for instance, some countries are only worth because of it. Such as Morocco, Tanna Tuva etc

[hollow lion]

I dont think we missed any ones remotely based in reality though right?

🤔

[keen totem]

i mean all i could think of is HRE for monarchist czechoslovakia

Polish-Czechoslovak confederation is really nice

something unique

and grounded in reality as well

[fresh cedar]

HRE and Balkan Fed?

[hollow lion]

I didnt wanna redo what Bulgaria already has hence the puppeting decisions

[fresh cedar]

Reality is fun, and worth I get it. But a commie tree similar to Greater German Proletarian State would be sick.

Czechs were super grounded in the identity of Slavs

Plus Panslavic already exists for Poland and Russia

Just saying, commie pan Slav would be dope

[keen totem]

given there were active proposals even to unite poland and czechoslovakia during WW2

between the exile governments

i like that they implemented the polish-czechoslovak confederation

[fresh cedar]

Even Poland can unite without CZE having to die

[keen totem]

i wish poland got a cool name change when they annex czechoslovakia like the other monarchist formables

[fresh cedar]

That makes sense

[hollow lion]

HRE was pretty Germany centered I think?

[fresh cedar]

What if you explored a formable with Ukraine, Belarus and Poland?

[fresh cedar]

Was once run by Bohemian’s

[hollow lion]

mhm

[keen totem]

i believe bohemia was an elector of the HRE though

[hollow lion]

Yeh I know that much from CK3

[fresh cedar]

HRE more grounded in CZE than Austria imo

[fresh cedar]

Ik Baltics can unite as German/Soviet puppet. Is there anything Equivalent for Czechs?

[hollow lion]

Afaik we lock everything behind indepedence checks

[thick edge]

Yes

The only useful thing u learned from eu4

Wait wasn’t Part of France in the HRE too

Like Alsace

And I think Calais?

[keen totem]

yes

[fresh cedar]

Does it not?

[fresh cedar]

What if this was a commie formable 😮‍💨

[green scaffold]

how about slavic union
which like yeah exists for Poland but is a secret path and you can also have different flavors to who is included in that

or actually really even just the EU

[fresh cedar]

I argued that already. 😭 He doesn’t want formables

So I’m trying to present more realistic ones

[green scaffold]

EU is pretty realistic

way more realistic than pretty much any other path lol

why does Hungary get to from the EU but Czechoslovakia, the actual democratic nation, wouldn't be able to

[fresh cedar]

For real

Hungary isn’t exactly known for being democratic or diplomatic

Though part of me wishes there was some Slavic equivalent of the EU just to differentiate things

Pan Slavanism cough cough

[hollow lion]

😛 Itd be funny if a Pan Balkan state was tied together only by the Czech Corridor

[fresh cedar]

😏

[thick edge]

I hate how Romania and Hungary is just there

[fresh cedar]

Same but realistic

[thick edge]

And bro really tried to sneak in the Greeks taking part of turkey

[fresh cedar]

In game you’d probably annex them. Just wouldn’t have cores

[thick edge]

Wait why is Berlin there

[green scaffold]

but turkey taking Macedonia

wait no

Bulgaria taking it

[thick edge]

Türkiye strong

https://tenor.com/view/homelander-türk-homelander-türk-milliyetçisi-türk-kahraman-yurtsever-gif-15085610499242363624

[hollow lion]

🤔 That still leaves a lead-up...maybe requesting Yugoslavia to become a puppet first like Bulgaria does

[fresh cedar]

Or incremental. Like Yugo can be a seperate part to integrate once it’s already formed

Like initial would be Czech and Poland. Then Ukraine Belarus, Yugo seperate. Similar to Arabia Tree, EU

[hollow lion]

There is already a focus to form a puppet in Ukraine

that could even link to a next focus

[fresh cedar]

True

[hollow lion]

I love reorganizing entire branches to fit in one new focus

[fresh cedar]

Feel like that could work. Especially if the other Hungarian corridor left out. Pretty grounded, would be difficult but a good end goal and different than Bulgaria

[hollow lion]

I think I mirrored parts of the diplo branch like 6 or 7 times because I was trying to fit in focuses xD

[fresh cedar]

Did a really good job imo

[hollow lion]

Its changing a bit soon though to fit in the Czech corridor focus

[fresh cedar]

Conquered Europe last night with Entente path

[fresh cedar]

Tragic 🤧

[hollow lion]

I assume people would prefer Poland can be unified with without it capitulating?

[fresh cedar]

Think it would be cool depending on the tree

[hollow lion]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/525890897959714819.webp?size=240

[fresh cedar]

Like if communist involved a joint invasion with Soviets

Would give a reason to pursue Soviet ties, or if Russian civil war happens. Can capitalize on Ukraine and Belarus being seperate without eating Russia

[safe plover]

I mean yeah its kinda silly cause i had to take their division through the expeditionary mechanic to even make them cap. Cause u alr weaken germany so hard

[safe plover]

It is u can still do it with the commie path

[fresh cedar]

Just not get the cores. Only has AHE cores

Think more Slavic focused Commie formable would make more sense

Especially if Russia goes away from communism. Would be like Czechs picking up the torch of communism for Slavs and Eastern Europe

[tame ivy]

bru

i jist realised i been using ironman off

[safe plover]

Not at all it was mostly habsburg led and well sigismund (u know the guy from kcd) was king of the hre and bohemia

[fresh cedar]

RIP

[tame ivy]

and the cze focus tree has a focus that is supposed to give mils but removes 2

for nothing

[safe plover]

The thing is at least the nobiltity of bohemia for most of its time were very german

[fresh cedar]

Did you have puppets? 😏

[safe plover]

So not having the monarchist path be related to germany felt weird

[tame ivy]

no 😿

[fresh cedar]

Was Moreso Austro Hungarian. When in reality probably could’ve been HRE where upon taking Germany you get the formable for HRE

[fresh cedar]

Think this is why. As I understand, it gives allies/puppets the option to support

[tame ivy]

hmm maybe

[safe plover]

Would have loved for slovakia to form pannonia since that isnt at all out of the picture since we have god damn mesopotamia

[keen totem]

nope

[tame ivy]

NZL

[hollow lion]

Why would it be?

[mild ledge]

Why are there no formables for czech

Great moravia

Secret hre path

Zapadio slavia

so much more

where are they?

[hollow lion]

Lemme get rid of the scammer first

[hollow lion]

I guess thats sort of there already

IIRC Zapadoslavia is a fictional name for the union

[harsh hull]

Yugoslavia was only a colloquial name, and not officially adopted until 10 years later

All that to say that all names are made up, and letting people choose to call the Polish-Czechoslovak commonwealth "Zapadoslavia" is categorically correct and, more importantly, funny

[hollow lion]

Maybe Im just irrationally afraid of using it because I associate it with mods full of meme paths

[mystic agate]

Where should I send "bug report"? it should state .45 yet it states 45mm

[hollow lion]

Here is fine if its Czechoslovakia-related

[mystic agate]

Yes it is CZ Uherský Brdo MIO when you are choosing pistol caliber in second row. I assume it should be 9mm-.45 ACP

[hollow lion]

Or could it refer to 7.62x45mm I wonder, that is a Czechoslovak cartridge

[mystic agate]

it doesn't make sense why would one of the first researches would be 7,62x45 which was in early 50s and being mutually exclusive with 9mm also doesn't make sense

[hollow lion]

Ill note it down for Spicy

[mystic agate]

Thank you, it could be just simple mistake in heat of passion or it could mean flare guns, but that would be weird given the context

[hollow lion]

Welcome to the server btw

Ive forwarded the bug, got confirmation its unintended

[mystic agate]

thanks, I quickly joined cuz I wanted to help.

Also releasing a DLC I've waited for just when two days back I bought a game I can potentionally sink hundreds of hours just so I have to go back is peak Paradox :D

[keen totem]

this is quite fun

[harsh hull]

Yeah, but this isn't a mod, and Paradox has put two separate animals on the throne of different kingdoms

[mild ledge]

so sad this guy isnt in the game

[nova smelt]

when going monarchist Czechoslovakia should I do align slovak catholics or align Czech nationalist parties

[hollow lion]

Slovak if you want manpower so most games, otherwise Czech

[keen totem]

slovak catholics for the advisor

extra manpower

you can get a lot more manpower with other focuses down the line

[coral drift]

Tbh i have numerously said that i would be happy if the Indies dev can surpass me

PfoT's wacky stuffs is minimal and my biggest gripe is the BUF. It's a solid 8.5/10 if not for the description mistake

[coral drift]

Eh, if you know where to read, you can do it

Making the political stuffs is easy, kinda on the armed forces, but honestly i draw a blank on the industrial stuffs.
But if i have a working laptop, i would like to revisit the two different plans for economic recovery. Between Wellenstein-Hart-Van Mook's equity-oriented, and industrialists' pro big-business plan

[coral drift]

Also a starting nation in the 1939 start

[coral drift]

I mean, the effort to make it incremental has been started since 2020

[fresh cedar]

Yeah but it became much easier than it used to be to start it

[coral drift]

The forums pretty much asked for it, and the credit is for them that we get a reworked Arabia

[fresh cedar]

Wish many formables were like this tbh

It’s funny because Umayyad was added so long ago but remains one of the best

[sour furnace]

Why can I do this focus as Fascist Czechoslovakia?

[harsh hull]

Because you haven't done Overlord of Central Europe first, it would seem

[sour furnace]

still can do the focus

[harsh hull]

Oh, why CAN, not why CAN'T, sorry

Hm, probably because they're threats to the state that happen to also be fascist, I guess

[polar jasper]

They are the wrong form of fascism or you are such a czech nationalist that all other nations must be puppeted

[keen totem]

even without the slovakia tree this is a solid content addition

im satisfied

its 6 bucks for an optional focus tree and it doesnt add anything new mechanic wise to the game

[coral drift]

I said it again
Good Czech contents

I never say that the existing contents are bad

Okay, BUF is bad and CEF is underutilized, but that's just a nitpick

[keen totem]

that's fair criticism i feel

but there's a difference between nitpicks and the shit people say about the dlc on like the god forsaken place of reddit

feels like such an overreaction over a little focus pack

[keen totem]

what will it take to please these people damn

people hate on every dlc besides NSB its honestly incredible

[subtle spear]

They are selling a product i think its very much open to criticism if you agree or not.

NSB also changed one of the core mechanics of the game (that being supply) while more recent DLC has only really incorporated mostly filler content.

[keen totem]

it's open to criticism absolutely and i do have some little nitpicks here and there, but some of the reactions do feel a bit insane to me

[harsh hull]

I personally don't like how they changed the wording of the DLC description to remove the implication that there would be content for Slovakia

But it's not the first time Paradox has done that sort of thing, and it's not the dev team's fault

The content is otherwise solid

[lament quail]

Wait, am I reading the event files wrong or going little entente you get to diploannex and core Poland before Sep '36 with no RNG?

[crimson tartan]

criticism != endless yapping nonsense

🙂

saying "dlc is bad because there is no slovakia" is not criticism imo

(when there definetly shouldn't be any slovakia)

remember my words, people gonna cry about myanma or malaysia not being part of toag

not all people ofc
90% of the community are great guys like you

[thick edge]

Nice pfp

Elite ball knowledge

[swift granite]

I think they forgot Slovakia

[fresh cedar]

No, they left it out intentionally. It was always a Czech DLC.

[fresh cedar]

To be fair it did add a new special project and the industry tier/star is new

[fresh cedar]

Professional complainers fr

[opaque grove]

what is best p[ath on czechoslovakia?

[static rampart]

Reddit overreacts to everything and is made up of the worst parts of the fandom

[loud plank]

@autumn oriole sponsor me hoi4

[autumn oriole]

Hell nah

[lofty heron]

so are there any secret paths? I thought I'd get one by feeding the crocodile but just got the non-aligned second republic

[coral drift]

At least the devs are upfront on this in the desc and did not stated otherwise. Still on hopium for a surprise content but only that

Unlike "pursuing independence as Slovakia" which stayed there from September all the way until January before it gets removed (if we take Mountain General's words)

[coral drift]

But well, otherwise this

[fresh cedar]

I’d say monarchist or anything dealing with the little entente.

So everything but Fascist 😂

[fresh cedar]

Personally I was never remotely interested in Slovakia. So it was a win for me 😂

[fresh cedar]

It’s funny bc the youtubers who normally dump on DLC liked this one

[coral drift]

I wishlisted TaoG, Bosporus, NCNS, and Gotterdammerung, but thought that the devs would lightly rework Czechoslovakia then put full contents for Slovakia from 1939-1945

[fresh cedar]

But it was a Czech dlc?

[coral drift]

Like, "finally Slovakia would get content, it's a 1939 starting nation after all"

[fresh cedar]

All I wish is that commie paths had pan-Slavic formable, Monarchist had HRE path, Fascist/Military had HRE, and Democratic had European Union or something similar

[coral drift]

Czechoslovak, not Czech only

Masaryk is crying from above

[fresh cedar]

Technically you integrate Slovakia, so there you go 😏

[static rampart]

It gave Czechoslovakia an actual tree that has everything it needs, so I don’t really see the problem with it. Not buggy, isn’t a boring / irrelevant nation and has some interesting paths