latest-updates

[coral drift]

Mhm
Again, the commotion would not be this big if they rectify the description before NCNS' release

[fresh cedar]

I honestly like it more than Austria or Hungary

[coral drift]

Like, I would be disappointed, but hoping that at least the Czech content would be solid

[fresh cedar]

It is solid

[static rampart]

I feel like focus trees work as single dlcs rather than bundled as well, especially if the dlc isnt adding any mechanics

[fresh cedar]

I enjoy it more than any tree since GDR

[coral drift]

Also the ones who get over the line to preorder because of the Slovaks can reconsider their choice

[static rampart]

gives people more freedom to pick and choose what they want

[coral drift]

Yes, it is solid, no doubt on that

[fresh cedar]

Who is preordering solely for Slovakia from a Czechoslovakia dlc 😭

[static rampart]

What would Slovak content actually be, like I feel it’d just be a watered down version of just playing Czechoslovakia

[coral drift]

Idk, from 8 billion ppl on Earth, there would be ppl who almost did not bought the expansion pass despite NCNS and TaoG, but ended up buying it because of Slovakian contents (And of course would be disappointed now)

[coral drift]

At least historical contents

[fresh cedar]

Slovakia would basically be a weak factory state for Germany

[static rampart]

I guess, but a historical game would just be collaborating with the Germans, doing nothing, then dying

[fresh cedar]

Even United Baltic puppet is more impactful

[static rampart]

Which you can like already do as the reichskommissariat bohemia

[coral drift]

As it is historically happened in WW2

[fresh cedar]

People are really cheesing over what would effectively be an insignificant country

I don’t get it

It’s like if NCNS mentioned Taiwan and people are mad it didn’t get a tree

[coral drift]

"including Nationalists' retreat to Taiwan"? Well, there is a secret branch for that, and i think it still counts

As Taiwan is RoC

[fresh cedar]

I mean Taiwan not ROC

No, in game they’re 2 separate entities

[static rampart]

Like when Japan goes into civil war and taiwan becomes independent

[fresh cedar]

Exactly

[coral drift]

Well, the devs did not said that there would be Governorate of Taiwan contents

[fresh cedar]

Neither did they say there would be Slovakian

[static rampart]

NCNS would of been saved if it had Palau focus tree 😔

[coral drift]

All the way from September until January, and Alfredo already owned the mistake

[fresh cedar]

“Pursueing independence” doesn’t mean a focus tree.

[coral drift]

Then state it openly on the forums and Reddit before NCNS is released

5 months late smh

[static rampart]

And listed under democratic focuses for czechoslovakia so I just assume it was very poorly written

[coral drift]

Yes, he admitted that in the forums

[fresh cedar]

He admitted that early on in development Slovakia was cut yeah

I just can’t see how Slovakia would’ve been fun to play

[coral drift]

But mistakenly not removed the description until January, and not told the forums openly until a week ago

Again, bad communication

And they admitted it

[static rampart]

Like the thing was always advertised as a one focus tree dlc and if slovakia was actually advertised as getting a tree itd be a whole seperate part of the dlc page, not hidden under democratic focuses

[fresh cedar]

Which their admittance is enough for me to move on from it

[coral drift]

Like seriously, the commotion would not be this big if they just convey it ASAP

[fresh cedar]

This is my logic. It was always always primarily focused on Czechoslovakia. Any other content would’ve been extra

[static rampart]

I never even realized people thought Slovakia was gonna get a focus tree until right before the DLC released

[fresh cedar]

Same

[coral drift]

Well, thanks for the poor wording some ppl think otherwise

I love the existing content itself, but please do a better communication

[fresh cedar]

It’s as if I bought a USA dlc and was super mad Hawaii didn’t get a focus tree bc it mentions Hawaii 😂

“Build up the pacific fleet on Hawaii” 😡🤬😤 NO HAWAII TREE

[coral drift]

If it worded like "pursuing independence as Slovakia", then yes ppl would think like that.

But if just "defend Hawaii from the Japanese" in the democratic path's description, ppl would think the other way

[fresh cedar]

I disagree. HOI4 community can be very entitled and jump to conclusions off a grain of rice

[coral drift]

"on Hawaii" vs "as Slovakia"

See the difference?

[fresh cedar]

I’m not disputing the developers should’ve said that ASAP and corrected sooner. But to review bomb an otherwise good DLC is pathetic

It’s like blaming the modders/content creators for the actions of a marketing/PR team

[loud plank]

Awwee

[coral drift]

Well, at least they blamed the studio as a whole

Albeit the devs should nudging the marketing team to notify the public ASAP if there is any changes in content before release

Not content designer's job to notify the public, but at least they can nudge the marketing/PR team

[honest sigil]

Hello! what is your opinions on the new czechoslovak dlc?

[coral drift]

Good Czech historical contents

[lament quail]

Decent amount of content, but I don't like the focus tree at all

[fresh cedar]

This is assuming they didn’t. Paradox is very aware of the production status of their content.

[static rampart]

it’s pretty good

[fresh cedar]

Good tree, enjoy it more than Austria or Hungary.

[coral drift]

At least there should be announcement on January when they rectify the desc
Or when they decided to cut the Slovak focus tree

[honest sigil]

Would you lot suggest picking it up?

[static rampart]

If you want to play Czechslovakia

[coral drift]

Yes, if you wanted to play historical until 1939 or go ahistorical

[fresh cedar]

Yeah, for the price it’s fun. It’s very fun beyond historical content too.

It’s about the cost of a cheap meal or drink. But can give 10-20 hours of enjoyment. Worth imo

[coral drift]

I wish it's that cheap in Indonesia

[static rampart]

i’m glad they didnt overprice especially considering how much ncns cost

[honest sigil]

Awesome!

[honest sigil]

Yeah... ncns seems quite overpriced

[fresh cedar]

Wouldn’t it be cheaper for you since cost of living is higher here?

[honest sigil]

i was wondering what makes NCNS overrpriced compared to gotterdamerung

[coral drift]

Nope, 70k is not worth the current investment considering my own economic situation

[honest sigil]

Personally i dont know much about NCNS i know it changes up china and modernises the focus trees for japan and china

[coral drift]

Maybe if i'm richer

[static rampart]

Thats kinda it, the focuses arent bad but not worth the price they want you to pay

[coral drift]

1/4 of Americans' purchasing power, but the price is only 2/3 of America's

[fresh cedar]

$6 = 103k rph

[fresh cedar]

Yes but cost of living is WAYYY higher here

[coral drift]

Again, the cost is 2/3, so Rp 70k.
But personally not worth it for me at this time. Maybe if it's using 2021's pricing I would buy it

[fresh cedar]

Indonesia is 60% cheaper to live in

[coral drift]

75% in my place (Central Java)

[honest sigil]

I see.. I hear Graveyard of empires is dreadful, and i have no idea about trial of allegiance... Are these two just overpriced? or are they just not fun? I've heard Trial of alleigance is quite chaotic

[fresh cedar]

Not according to statistics online 😭

[fresh cedar]

Trial of Allegiance is very fun. Don’t listen to the hate

[coral drift]

For Jakartans, it would be more affordable

[coral drift]

3/10 on release
6.5/10 now

[static rampart]

trial of allegiance goes like half price on sales so if youre interested maybe pick it up then

[hollow coral]

it was

not so much now

its just iran thats dreadful now😃

[static rampart]

graveyard of empires has a good india tree and sucks everywhere else

[fresh cedar]

Graveyard is more fun than it was. It is true

[fresh cedar]

Nah Iraq is a fun challenge

[hollow coral]

iraq is playable

afghanistan can be fun

[coral drift]

The joke is that the Americans sees Jakarta/Bali as cheaper to live in, but Jakartans would see Yogyakarta or Semarang cheaper to live in

[static rampart]

Iraq is ehhh i didnt mind it its just not somewhere youd ever play

Afghanistan is just boring as hell

[fresh cedar]

Forming Arabia is fun imo. Plus Hashemite path has really cool end goals like conquering Spain

[hollow coral]

the only gripes about afghanistan is that the civil wars are hell

[opaque grove]

how i am lossing

[fresh cedar]

Fr

[fresh cedar]

CAS probably

[hollow coral]

cant realy tell anything form the image

[fresh cedar]

Armor and CAS is brutal early game

[hollow coral]

maybe army preperation is low

[fresh cedar]

Same happened to me with max equip and prep

[hollow coral]

very true germany can just easily steamroll

[coral drift]

CAS is still king

[hollow coral]

the communist path for czechoslovakia is honestly fun as

[fresh cedar]

Legit if you don’t Little Entente if Ger Reich exists. It’s very hard

[hollow coral]

it looks small but you get a lot of focuses

[fresh cedar]

Monarchist is only super playable on ahistorical unless you want a super hard fight

[hollow coral]

havent tried monarchist it just seems lackluster

[honest sigil]

I love playing on ahistorical

[fresh cedar]

I prefer Little Entente. Think Monarchist would be cool if HRE

[hollow coral]

hre and more monarchs would be better

[fresh cedar]

Kingdom of Bohemia should be the main country forming HRE

[honest sigil]

you cant form hre as bohemia?!

That is stupid

[hollow coral]

hre or west slavic kingdom would be good end goals

[fresh cedar]

Pretty much every tree only forms Austro Hungarian empire with some extra cores

[fresh cedar]

This is what I’ve been saying

[honest sigil]

i see

Is it still only austria and germany that can form the HRE? or am i missing one

[fresh cedar]

Marjin keeps saying it’s unrealistic to have a panslavic formable or HRE one 😅

[fresh cedar]

Both

Lichtenstein Austria, Empire Germany

[hollow coral]

interestingly enough the monarch was associated with a fascist party

they probably couldve expanded on that

[fresh cedar]

IMO the military Junta path is the worst Czech path

[hollow coral]

but they chose a generic expansionist path

[hollow coral]

its like 6 focuses

pretty bad

[fresh cedar]

Takes too long to start to be useful. Germany most of the time still invades. No end goals

[hollow coral]

yeah i noticed that

you get one advisor and one other spirit to help you

[fresh cedar]

Austro-Hungary should be limited to Austria or Hungary. And maybe Military Jumta Czech

But to have it be the only real formable for Czech is lame

[fresh cedar]

Cool flag and leader that’s about it

[coral drift]

CEF should be used more

Better than BUF

[fresh cedar]

What are these acronyms, sorry

I just don’t know them

[hollow coral]

yeah i was confused too

[coral drift]

CEF: Central European Federation

BUF: Balkan United Federation (or smth like that)

I just realized that i mistakenly wrote the Balkan formable's name

[fresh cedar]

I agree with CEF. Marjin did argue he thinks United Balkans is overused which I was like fair

Though Austro Hungary is too 😅

I proposed this

[hollow coral]

dont you get that buf tag when you integrate a blakan country

[coral drift]

Yeah, CEF is a breath of fresh air
Same as West Slavic Federation

[coral drift]

The Polish-Czechoslovak monarchist path should also be able to get this cosmetic tag too

[fresh cedar]

Yup

[coral drift]

(the Polish one, not Czech)

[coral drift]

At least we're on the same wavelength for a more plausible contents

[hollow coral]

which one is that exactly?

[fresh cedar]

I just like end goals too

Like what’s the point of getting strong and taking a lot of it leads to nothing

[coral drift]

I forgot, AFK right now

Maybe the Habsburg one

[hollow coral]

the peace for our time capstone just seems like a meme

can kralovec please be added

[coral drift]

Would be a fun easter egg event when it reaches 80% compliance

That way ppl would not notice it straight away

[fresh cedar]

Like the buffs from it?

[frosty oak]

Anybody developed a successful game plan for a democratic Czechoslovakia?

I keep hitting my head against the wall, strong enough to hold, not strong enough to kill, I think I just need to give up on trying to min max my future core territory on historical mode I guess

[fresh cedar]

On historical or ahistorical

Bc if you rush Little Entente you good in either

[frosty oak]

Oh, I’ve specifically been trying to have my cake and eat it too, specifically tried multiple times to get the poles to accept a federation

Unfortunately Poland usually refuses to join it seems

[tired oyster]

Hey @peak flame

You have some mistakes in your new Czechoslovakia DLC. First or all Masaryk was called Tatíček - not Tatínek. Czechoslovakia should start with conscription as this was common throughout the entire existence of the republic. The government party should be called Pětka as it was 5 parties.

If you are interested I can give you more tips as I play along.

[hollow lion]

Please dont ping devs

The Tatíček thing will be corrected soon

[fresh cedar]

They actually love being pinged don’t be fooled

Especially Mordred

[tired oyster]

Sorry. I'm just too passionate about history 😄

[crimson tartan]

oh boy

[hollow lion]

Wdym was 5 parties btw?

[tired oyster]

sociální demokracie
národní demokraté
lidovci
agrárníci
národní socialisté

5 parties that worked together to ensure that the fascists and communists wouldn't get to power. Because the last elections the fascists actually won thanks to Sudetes

Not using the exact names of the parties here though

[hollow lion]

I did read that page xD

Wouldnt that come down to describing a coalition though?

[tired oyster]

These are the last election in Czechoslovakia

RSZML - the agrarian party - the most popular party in the country for many years (center-right)

SdP - fascist party, popular in Sudetes, wanted to join Germany (far-right)

ČSDSD - social democrats (left-wing)

KSČ - commies

ČSNS - national socialists (left-wing)

ČSL - christian democrats (center-right)

Autonomistický blok - Slovakian party that wanted to break from Czechoslovakia and have their own Slovakian state, fascists ideology (far right)

NSj - conservative (right)

ČŽOSS - liberal pro business party (center right, liberal)

[viral sandal]

Why is the Czech focus tree repeating the same design flaw that the Polish tree has made? The "Feeding the alligator" focus doesn't have relative focus position, just like the Polish focus "German military staff". I'm concerned about the additional added offsets that have to adjust to the changes and have to be tested as well.

Mayhap there is a clear advantage to use this method, but I see it as incorporating the placeholder as approved design choice. Do those things get accidentally overlooked when finalising the tree?

[hollow lion]

Its a focus shared between two branches that have many instances of branch hiding, so it ends up being about as convenient like this

[viral sandal]

But it would still be better to have some anchor point for the whole political focus as a category, than letting those entities be independent of each other. :(

[hollow lion]

It does have anchors but that focus could become connected to hidden focuses

[viral sandal]

Alright, thanks for the insight, Marijn.

[fresh cedar]

Hey Marjin, which focus grants the player the ability to get rid of army readiness? I know a decision within the balance of power for 150 pp becomes available but which focus enables that?

[hollow lion]

Doesnt need a focus

[fresh cedar]

It just appears eventually?

Seems to kinda appear randomly for me. Like I’ll be fully prepared for years then it finally becomes available

[fresh cedar]

What allows that to appear?

[hollow lion]

its always there

[fresh cedar]

Always???

[hollow lion]

yeh

it just has semi-difficult availability checks

[fresh cedar]

I’d have to double check because in my 3 gams it appears later

[fresh cedar]

Oh which checks?

[hollow lion]

High BoP, 25 mils, 25 civ, major or in faction with a major, all major debuff ideas removed, 425k manpower and 200 fighters in the field

[fresh cedar]

Ahhh

Dang that’s kinda hard to get

Atleast before 1940

[hollow lion]

Its not as bad as it sounds

[fresh cedar]

I’ve gotten it twice now around then just didn’t realize that’s what it took

[lament quail]

Honestly I'm not a fan of the Czech tree, neither from a layout nor from a design point of view.

[hollow lion]

Can you elaborate?

[lament quail]

Layout wise, I'm not a fan of how damn wide it is, even after the collapse of alternative trees, also I find some of the dependencies in areas with 3+ mutually exclusive choices unclear.
Plus the spacing and alignment of the focuses is inconsistent in various places and I find the general "glance view" of the tree unappealing (mostly due to lack of even rough symmetry within the various branches)

[lament quail]

Design-wise, I found it hard to approach, mostly because it has way too many "vertical" lanes causing a level of decision paralysis, with many resulting in small "island" focuses that don't lead anywhere, plus often multiple "middle lane" offshoots across mutually exclusive paths.
Also in various places thematically similar focuses are split in completely separate areas of the tree which I find a bit annoying.

[hollow lion]

Those all sound like side effects of the content we chose to implement, that we can't and couldn't have changed, to make the tree less wide would mean less player choices which is a major thing we wanted

And while initial decision paralysis is a fair concern that was also raised during development, almost all focuses are very straightforward and easy to compare to each other for value

[lament quail]

It's more on how it has been implemented regarding focus dependencies and placement tbh

[hollow lion]

The political paths can almost only be done one way because there's shared focuses, mutually exclusive focuses, etc.

[brittle venture]

FIGHTERS?

[hollow lion]

Mhm

[brittle venture]

thats so bad :(

[crimson tartan]

oh wowowowow they added warsaw pact in 1.17

😮

just noticed

[valid zenith]

Cold war?

[crimson tartan]

hmmm

just qol i guess

but who knows who knows...

[harsh hull]

Never a cold war setting for HOI4

The engine just wasn't designed for the conflicts inherent in that setting

But we love allohistorical references

I believe Red Germany can also form the Stasi as their intelligence agency

[verbal wave]

yea they can and the hoi4 engine just genuinely is dying in 1955

[thick edge]

hoi5 🤑

[gray osprey]

I mean 200 is not very many

[hollow lion]

You start with a fair with as CZE

you just need to keep your starting factory on fighters on that for like...1 game year at most I think, which is a good thing to get used to if like me you immediately trash most production lines at game start

[gray osprey]

what’s the Czech starting fighter

fighter 1 or 2?

[hollow lion]

Probably 1

[gray osprey]

is it worth keeping around even without the spirit removal

[hollow lion]

probably not, I think division AA is probably enough

I havent noticed fort damage from air getting too bad

[gray osprey]

or I mean you can change it to better ones or cas later which is nice, keep the efficiency

[gray osprey]

probably is

AA is so good against AI

[brittle venture]

id trash the plane line it sucks

[gleaming carbon]

Anyone else feel like none of the decisions sent out as Czechia get accepted? Like I understand it won't always happen. But even with Political Pressure from spies and increasing opinion the decisions never get accepted.

[keen totem]

yeah sort of

the only one i have a bit of luck with is the puppeting hungary decision

monarchist/fascist branch

[hollow coral]

the demand regime change for communist czechoslovakia is kind of busted

I dont think any of them denied it

except the ones in a faction

[fresh cedar]

What’s the current update?

[fresh cedar]

What would you do differently to make it better in your eyes?

[subtle spear]

I've played full length games Slovakia from the 39 start date, (I'm a sucker for minor nations). Something trivial for the HSĽS and the SNR in the same vein as Aussa or Paraguay would of been neat, considering the country is called Czecho__slovakia__ but idgaf that much.

I should just toss it together myself when I finish up my current projects so me and the four other Slovak enjoyers can play a larp march on the gates of the kremlin.

Ball knows ball

[timid nimbus]

nice balls

[lament quail]

Reducing the amount of horizontal branching / vertical lanes / isolated focus groups by adding some dependencies and moving things around for sure

[compact wharf]

Didnt order a yappochino

[crimson tartan]

1.18 i guess

toag will be 1.19

aaaaand i hope 10th anniversary will be 1.20

but no

[median bronze]

I wonder if they're gonna add those dynamic airfields and stuff soon and also make planes useful for the atlantic to hunt U boats

[outer whale]

You know

If it was brought up at Switzerland or Turkey (as I know their laws of obligations)

Court would see it as misconception from side of the paradox (applies to people who pre-ordered it btw)

But this only gives them the chance to cancel the agreement

Not literally changing one of the most important phrases about the debt lmao

So as of now, from the Swiss and Turkish law (I am pretty sure EU countries also include as our laws of Obligations was taken by Rome)

this dlc is a defective product

Us as creditors have 2 choices

Either we accept the debt paid to us by Paradox

or we sue

[crimson tartan]

bro are we fr 🥀

people cannot be that dumb 😭

[hollow coral]

because mods are good and paradox are bad

[crimson tartan]

https://tenor.com/view/fig-gif-26092737

[coral drift]

1.18 Case Green

[fresh cedar]

So basically what already happens when you isolate into a focus ideology. Got it

[coral drift]

And how much effort it takes to that point?

Devs did not have much time

[fresh cedar]

I personally really like how the tree looks

[coral drift]

I myself developed EIR for 3 years and i'm not even halfway done with the reworks for PKI and Parindra paths, and the Indies Gunseikan path is still just a concept of a plan beyond a skeleton content

Eh wait, we're past April 21st
So 4 years

[fresh cedar]

Czech layout is fine. Only tree currently that has a gross layout is India.

But if the argument is to add more symmetry to the Czech tree then nah. Would look terrible

[lament quail]

No, not really

[fresh cedar]

Is this what you’d want?

Not necessarily the content but the layout.

[lament quail]

A bit hard to tell with how densely packed it is, it looks to have slightly less side branching but not by much

[fresh cedar]

Can you show what you mean visually? Because it sounds like you’d be trading width for length which would isolate decisions even more

[hollow coral]

side effect from having the most focuses in game

they couldve structured it like congo tbh

[lament quail]

PRC focus tree to cite a recent example, there the side branches are more limited and feel more like "optional things"

[fresh cedar]

Or done anything IG

[lament quail]

Also a lot less "V" links between different branches

[fresh cedar]

India is still fun but the tree is insane

[hollow coral]

definitely

[fresh cedar]

So more optional decisions, I understand that criticism. Though PRC sometimes feels like you have no decisions based off the content

[cosmic stag]

PDX needs to readd the MP unit as a Combat battalion unit again

i mean the MILITARY POLICE

[fresh cedar]

Military Policy line infantry? Huh

[cosmic stag]

yes

[lament quail]

no, that's not the core of my issue with the tree, sorry but it's a bit hard to explain

[fresh cedar]

All good, I personally don’t see many issues with the Czechs. Yes it may force decisions or even force you to choose and jump around. But I imagine the Czechs were a bit frantic as Germany was looming around nearby for an invasion. Almost captures that energy

[cosmic stag]

why is the MP combat battalion no longer a combat unit?

[fresh cedar]

Is this to supplement occupation or combat?

[cosmic stag]

both half and half

[lament quail]

I'd rather have SH tanks back as a frontline unit

[fresh cedar]

Bc I’d argue motorcycles are kinda the occupation equivalent

[fresh cedar]

This or more support slots

[cosmic stag]

what wdym

[fresh cedar]

Paradox keeps adding diff support companies but we kind of don’t have enough slots anymore

I often don’t choose SH arty or SH tanks anymore as I just prefer other support

[lament quail]

super heavy tanks and variants were changed to support companies only some time ago IIRC

[cosmic stag]

OH alr

well can i readd them

as MODS

[lament quail]

Sure, I can do it as well, it's rather simple

But I'd like for that to be in vanilla

[cosmic stag]

alr

ill add em back into my hoi4 multi mod then

[fresh cedar]

I personally think MP support makes sense in its current state

They aren’t generally units you’d be sending to combat as their purpose is effectively to police their own men

[lament quail]

better than the current state of armored cars at least 😛
unit designed to do only one thing and straight out bad at it

[crimson tartan]

also creating a focus tree for alternative world is much easier than creating a historical focus tree 🙂

there is much more freedom

[fresh cedar]

They do go pretty fast and cheaply. Tbh think they should go faster than any light could though

[lament quail]

They have terrible stats and are useless in combat. Yhey were introduced as an armored garrison unit, but even there light tanks are straight better at it, hell even mediums are better.
Even more funny, if you research the later version they become worse at their job...

[fresh cedar]

I interpreted them as being early game units but to be phased out for armor. But they don’t even do that well

[fresh cedar]

Think they’d work better as support company replacements for motorized things

Just to add armor

But tbh mechanized should really fill that role

[lament quail]

yhey would sowk better as a specific role you could give to wheeled like tanks

tbh that should be the case for mechanized as well, but for cars it;s particularly egregious since they directly compete with them

[fresh cedar]

Think the armored car recon is a pretty good use of them

Beyond that, maybe Armored car AT?

Then obviously just MP

For them to be visible as line units I’d want more speed, and less supply usage. Just so they can operate easier

[cosmic stag]

hello

there is the mod called: BM Extended units

which does Readd the MP unit

its just simply called titled: POLICE

with the Original MP icon

[fresh cedar]

Nice

[cosmic stag]

@fresh cedar

heres a pic photo

[fresh cedar]

Wow they really let you customize a lot of:0

[cosmic stag]

yes ik

ive used it before

[cosmic stag]

yes

there is also a Air assault battalion

[fresh cedar]

Do wish the base game had stuff like this. Or maybe even just being able to change recon company to specialize in specific conditions like jungle, cold etc

[burnt sail]

Am I the only one who’s disappointed that Heydrich can’t become the protector of Bohemia and Moravia and that you cant have him assassinated through Operation Anthropoid?

As it happened in real life

[crimson tartan]

it is unbearable 😭

[outer whale]

there's no doubt that it's a misconception

but misconception only gives you the right to cancel the agreement

bruh

<@&846894118219022336>

scammer

[solid sun]

Ty for your ping

[outer whale]

np

[crimson tartan]

wishful thinking 🥀

[outer whale]

Not wishful, this is basically misconception on the topic of the debt.

[hollow lion]

We're thinking about adding it

[weary crystal]

Motorized MP has been removed from the latest version of the game?

[thick edge]

I think I watched like every episode when I was younger

And I think it had movies?

[hollow coral]

tbh the thing missing from this dlc is that you arent able to play after being annexed unless you specifically go down the submission path

i really wished that we could play after being annexed

basically how when denmark falls they still get to play and get to work through their own tree

playing as the protectorate

[crimson tartan]

👍

[subtle spear]

I used to sit up and watch the first 2 seasons with my grandfather a fair bit. I also lived on a small farm no mossy bottom but I had a pet sheep for a bit aswell one of the main reasons i won't eat lamb.

[thick edge]

I live on a farm with like 60-70 sheep

I have seen them go from like an hour old to a few years for some of them

(I eat them when they are grown)

[cosmic stag]

we need more GOOD SPs

[thick edge]

Since we are raising food sheep

[solid gyro]

the warlords are still bugged

plus no Shaanxi, Shandong and Hebei mini focus tree

[hollow coral]

tbh bro i think they have moved on from the warlords

but yeah the personaly leadership needs to be fixed

[solid gyro]

they did add a few Greek focuses sporadically

especially with GTD

[hollow coral]

not like a full focus path

[brittle venture]

youre in hollow's server? crazy

[hollow coral]

cant miss any of his videos

[green scaffold]

lol Czechoslovakia can get unlimited free generals

time to force attack stack to infinity

[burnt sail]

Nice, that’d be great. May I ask why it is that when you accept the German occupation, the game ends for you and you can’t continue playing as the Protectorate? It feels like a huge shame, since the tag and focus tree disappear from the game until they are liberated after the war. You should consider allowing players to continue playing as the Protectorate after accepting the occupation, with the Protectorate focus tree unlocking since it’s already been created. From there, players could choose to go into exile after the war breaks out or remain loyal.

[hollow lion]

what?

[green scaffold]

they have a decision in the BoP that gives -50% army leader cost
and you can pick the army spirit for another -50% cost
resulting in 0 cp cost for generals

[weary sorrel]

hello Marijn

hello haafy

[hollow lion]

Hello Vistula

[hollow lion]

🤔 Interesting...

[weary sorrel]

So I was curious, why was a Slovak focus tree never made in the end? Also I noticed that the 1939 start date B-M could core the states if you could manage to get enough compliance.

[green scaffold]

it is a fascist spirit, democratic and communist don't get access to the spirit tho, not sure if non aligned does

[hollow lion]

We were given plenty of time to finish things, but Slovakia might have turned that plenty of time into light rushing which would've impacted the degree of polish on CZE

Again, it was cut early on, the store page edit was only a correction to unfortunate wording

[weary sorrel]

Also, would you consider adding a Slovak focus tree in a later update (if the contract allows that)? I think that would be great if you did have a concept of the scrapped Slovak content.

[hollow lion]

We dont know if thats feasible this late

[weary sorrel]

Hey in a world where software is shipped and patched later, it could be done. Just look at GoE lmao.

[hollow lion]

GoE was simply quite buggy

[weary sorrel]

was there at least a concept of the Slovak focus tree if you are allowed to talk about that?

[hollow lion]

There wasn't much

[weary sorrel]

Oh, makes sense if it was scrapped all together in the end. Honestly most of the time I just give Slovakia to Hungary when playing as Germany

[burnt sail]

You could also make Hácha the leader of the Protectorate, with some sort of “puppet president” trait, as was historically the case. The German Protector (Neurath or Heydrich) could be represented as a national spirit or as an advisor you can’t fire.

[hollow lion]

We were thinking of a national spirit so its visible if he's removed, the idea isnt definitive though

[fresh cedar]

Is HRE or the Pan Slavic Congress feasible as formables? 🤧 Would go from a good tree to top 5 imo

[hollow lion]

Favorite of those two?

[fresh cedar]

HRE especially with monarchy. Would differentiate it from Austria or Hungary. Though for democratic/communist panslavic would probably make it one of the most unique formables

But since most play monarchist, HRE

1. HRE
2. Pan Slavic Union

[fresh cedar]

If Pan Slavic was added. Wouldn’t it be easier to do HRE later since it’s already a formable?

[hollow lion]

Adding the formables is quite easy I just want a somewhat good buildup to them

[fresh cedar]

Normally they’re enabled from a capstone to a tree right?

Currently Austro-Hungary kinda just perma enabled with no build up really

Thematically feel like the others almost would make more sense

If like Monarchist final focus enabled HRE reforming. Or one of the Dem/Com equivalent did pan-Slavic

Especially little entente would kinda build towards the Slavic one since you ally many of them anyways

[weary sorrel]

Once your contract expires could you show us the concept content if any please?

[hollow lion]

What I can and cant show doesnt change when my contract ends

[weary sorrel]

oh okay

apologies if I was asking a lot but I was wondering what the process behind the DLC

[hollow lion]

I could show some concept drawing we did for Skoda if anyone would find that cool

[weary sorrel]

sure go ahead

[lament quail]

depends on local laws, some limit NDA maximum terms

Still, unlikely to be relevant for years 😛

[hollow lion]

Reason for me to be a vampire /s

😂 what I draw vs what Abbus makes for reference

[lament quail]

@hollow lion out of curiosity, before being contracted out by PDX directly, did you ever have any success in having some modding-related game mechanics clarified by a developer?

[hollow lion]

Usually if I had questions other modders would know

[lament quail]

Generally the case, but has no such lack with a set of questions I posted around.

[meager rose]

Nah, first concept of the Skoda GUI is peak:

[hollow lion]

I was actually wanting to ask you if I could post that 😭

xD

it is peak

[meager rose]

We could make a small post about the evolution of that GUI. Kind of interesting journey that took interface wise.

[hollow lion]

I collected most the images 😛

[fresh cedar]

Cool how you guys expanded upon it too

[weary sorrel]

I don't have the Czech dlc but isn't this supposed to be like the MIO but better?

[hollow lion]

Basically flexible industrial company

[weary sorrel]

eh I could see why it's scrapped since MIOs exist in the game.

There is no need for a second MIO system

[hollow lion]

The last version is in-game 😄

[weary sorrel]

wait what? i don't own the new czech dlc sorry

[hollow lion]

Its in the trailer~

[weary sorrel]

oh was it added in the final version of the game? Again I don't have the dlc to check lmao

[meager rose]

https://tenor.com/view/simpsons-wow-gif-27296944

[lament quail]

😛

[green scaffold]

a small request, could the symbol for optimization tier be something different? because rn it looks like production efficiency cap symbol, and when hovering over focuses, its a bit confusing at first glance, thinking the focus gives efficiency cap when it doesn't

[serene cape]

everybody else is on this version too right

wait

whats the main version everybody pays on

plays on

[crimson tartan]

version case green?

is this official patch name

also why there is no credits for pfot

they also cleared changelog.txt 😭

[keen totem]

feel like Radola Gajda's fascist path would work better for pan-slavist formable honestly

[fresh cedar]

How so?

[keen totem]

i mean to me that path feels the most bare in terms of formables

[fresh cedar]

Can do Austro-Hungarian.

Which is sorta logical for fascist bc their immediate expansion route would be Austria, Hungary and the Balkans

[keen totem]

yeah but if it's available to all paths it doesnt feel too special

oh also this

[fresh cedar]

My argument was that they’d be the only real path that had Austro Hungary. Meanwhile monarchist would be HRE.

But yeah I’d rather them all get pan Slav instead of Austro Hungarian

[green scaffold]

does it really make sense for fascist to have Austria Hungary tho

aa cores

[keen totem]

it really doesnt

unless it'd be under a different name

[green scaffold]

yeah for sure it needs a different name

[keen totem]

pan-slavist path makes most sense to me under the fascist path if anything

[fresh cedar]

Would’ve rather it been that European confederation the democracy gets

[keen totem]

i think even under the other paths they should get different names

[green scaffold]

its kinda silly how all my Czechoslovakia runs end with me being called Austria Hungary with that ugly white

[keen totem]

like how forming the Empire of China as Kumul or the Ma Cliques give a different cosmetic version of the formable

[fresh cedar]

Yeah I know 😭

[keen totem]

given Gajda's party ideology was strongly anti-german and pan-slavist i feel pan-slavism for that path makes most sense

[fresh cedar]

Sounds like we’ll only get one formable sadly. But tbh would rather they all get Pan Slav instead of just Monarchy with HRE

Though flavor between them would be ideal

[stable tusk]

I think that's the name of the planned German invasion of Czechoslovakia
Since Case White is Poland, Case Yellow is Benelux, and Case Red is France

[crimson tartan]

yeah i know

i mean what's the patch name

they usually call it 1 word

[stable tusk]

Well ig that's it

Case Green

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[crimson tartan]

i don't like it 🤮 👎

[stable tusk]

But you're right most of them are one word

[crimson tartan]

except stella polaris and red ball express

aaaaand most of them were not related to the content added with accompanying patch

[stable tusk]

Red ball express?

[crimson tartan]

1.1

[stable tusk]

I'm imagining the flash game

[stable tusk]

Ah

[crimson tartan]

🙂

[brittle venture]

is this the new update

[median bronze]

alright I got most of the basic stuff out the way for my slovakian focus tree, if anyone wants to send some idea's feel free

[fresh cedar]

Played the crocodile path where you become a German puppet. We managed to beat the Cominterm and Allies. Was actually pretty fun

I imagine the historical path as Slovakia is that but worse

[keen totem]

interesting

[sinful hill]

I FINALLY GOT HOI4 GIFTED

\

[crimson tartan]

https://tenor.com/view/boom-cat-gif-12892056996301838631

[elfin plank]

Life = ruined

[sinful hill]

Why

Its my favorite game

[elfin plank]

Recon are you italian?

[eternal arch]

he's right this game will ruin your life

[sinful hill]

No

I'm Albanian

[sinful hill]

Js tell me why

[eternal arch]

it’s one of those games where people who have 2k hours in it will downvote it on steam and say they hate it and then get 2k more hours in it after that

[sinful hill]

Iii meean

Still

The game is fun

I enjoy history

[eternal arch]

it’s fun but it will make you catastrophically mad but you won’t be able to stop playing it

[sinful hill]

You dont know me

I play games that require people

To gamble

For better powers

And ive played it for a LOT

like since 2019

I also play rise of nations on roblox and its the same thing like you said

[elfin plank]

Ok, i thought you were a person i already knew

[sinful hill]

Alsi

Also

You hage

Have

The most italian name known to man

[elfin plank]

You can uninstall HoI4 from the PC, but you can't uninstall HoI4 from your heart

[sinful hill]

I play a lot of games like thst

That

Trust me i know the feeling

[elfin plank]

Try the Pax Britannica mod

[sinful hill]

Whats that

Does it give performance?

Like good performance?

[elfin plank]

A mod

[elfin plank]

No, for performance install the "FPS map" mod

[sinful hill]

https://giphy.com/gifs/jjk-higuruma-hiromi-uSoDr54W9M3uSBiTST

[sinful hill]

Does it give a lot of fps

[elfin plank]

Well yeah, because increase performance

[sinful hill]

Bet ima do homework then try it

[elfin plank]

How old are you?

[sinful hill]

14 i turn 15 in july

[elfin plank]

I cannot interfere with your gameplay (it's a canon event)

[sinful hill]

Huh

Tfym

[elfin plank]

You'll see 6 years from now

[sinful hill]

?

Whatever im a communist

[whole arch]

Twins wth 😭 🙏

creepy ass conversation like wtf

[thick edge]

how does that relate

[sinful hill]

Because

Glory to ccp

Cccp

[thick edge]

ew

[sinful hill]

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-rizz-gif-11588635391327265506

[sinful hill]

One man with a gun can control 100 with no guns.
-Vladimir Lenin

[whole arch]

https://tenor.com/view/moistcr1tikal-edgy-edgelord-emo-or-gif-25925748

[crimson tartan]

The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never be certain of their authenticity

• Joseph Stalin 🥀

[timid nimbus]

i remember this

[fading walrus]

Most typical ah 14 year old on the internet

[eternal arch]

why does japan have absolutely insane army buffs

[eternal arch]

they are somehow getting supply out of thin air

[stable tusk]

14 year olds when they want to be political so they choose one of two extremes (communism or fascism) based on vibes only

[polar jasper]

I know someone like that. They just have whatever belief they think looks the best (resulting in a weird hodgepodge of beliefs)

[whole arch]

Do they happen to be a German or Soviet main in War Thunder and a German/Soviet main in hoi4

[polar jasper]

No

They just go into the weird depths of instagram reels from what I can tell

[whole arch]

Ahh yeah, that explains a lot

[eternal arch]

what about the other 2 extremes

[radiant nacelle]

anarchist and accelerationism Ig

[stable tusk]

No 14 year old chooses those

[eternal arch]

14 year olds are sheep and are only drawn to authority

[mild ledge]

AI doesnt follow the same rules

Paradox denies it but

ai doesnt have supply or attrition

[eternal arch]

ok good cuz i thought i was a schizo when i took over the only 2 supply hubs in like a 200 mile area around them and they still took like 2 weeks to get to low supply (not even very low just low)

the 1 infrastructure scorching hot jungles of guangxi and north vietnam cannot possible be giving them that much food and ammunition especially because the ai was using pretty beefy divisions (like 13-15k manpower) compared to my well fed french troops who had a myriad of supply options

[keen totem]

and there's literally no reason to go for either

they both suck and if people somehow disagree then you're delusional

[coral drift]

Eh, i've been there

[coral drift]

He'll warm up to Left-Nationalism by 18

[coral drift]

Mhm
But once you learn real history you'll appreciate the intellectuals

[coral drift]

Those goes hard, not going to lie
But I wished for the same edits for Cipto Mangunkusumo in Indonesian Tiktok/Instagram lel

Or even if you're wanted natcons, make edits for Nasution, Thamrin or Supomo, not Hitler or Pinochet darn it 😭

[harsh hull]

My political beliefs depend entirely on who has the best flag and country name in HOI4 for that broad category of ideology

I call this ideology Astheticism

[sinful hill]

No its just that i live in socialism rn

And my dad through communism

I'm influenced by it

[stable tusk]

Bro you're 14, go play Roblox and worry about homework or smth not about politics

[alpine sphinx]

stop talking about politics

[sinful hill]

Bro

[compact wharf]

communism is trash

[sinful hill]

School is like

Almost done

For me

I don't need to think about it

And i already play roblox but i still like politics

[green scaffold]

(copium from people who don't understand how the game works)

[elfin plank]

As i said, canon event

[green scaffold]

did they have a port?

[elfin plank]

This is the second phase

[brittle venture]

well, eh

ai does more often see weird hoi4 interactions/behaviour

they dont use different rules but can experience weirdness way more commonly

and also they use small divs so like their attrition is less common due to that

[brazen vortex]

you just destroyed your entire point bruhhhh 🤣

[crimson tartan]

i thought there is rule that says Avoid discussing real-life religion, politics, or controversial topics.

seems these rules are not for ya boys 🙂 👍

[green scaffold]

in 98% of cases its just players not understanding how the game works

and i also don't think its really just ai experiencing that, but players not noticing when they do, because why would they complain if the game works in their favor

[thick edge]

They were just talking about their favorite cupcake recipes

Which coincidently looked like politics

[crimson tartan]

oh ok sorry then my bad

[fresh cedar]

Yeah I mentioned something the other day that was completely relevant to the newest update. It gets instantly deleted. Yet these guys can talk about it for hours

[crimson tartan]

why so toxic bruh 😭 ✌️

[sharp zealot]

That isnt toxic, just bantering lmao.

[crimson tartan]

i didn't know such a word 🙂

i will use it now

thank you very much (sorry for my english)

[fresh cedar]

Is there really no loading screen Art?

Surely this art would be?

[hollow coral]

they dont usually use the advertisement arts

Or whatever they are called

[crimson tartan]

they have not used adv arts as loading screens since nsb

but before nsb all the loading screens were also adverstisement arts

🙂

[fresh cedar]

I just wonder why, they had the art already? Not remotely a big deal or important though

[keen totem]

you're on reddit of all places

[green scaffold]

something i really liked about this dlc, that its clear that a lot of thought was put into those playing it on alt hist, unlike most hoi4 dlcs

with focuses that apply to stuff like soviet civil war, france going monarchist, Yugoslavia dismantling, etc.

[sinful hill]

anyone wanna vc

for fun

[fresh cedar]

Yeah interacts with alt history world really well.

Genuinely enjoy this DLC more on alt history which I generally prefer Historical. So it’s nice

On historical kinda had to do little entente or get stomped

[green scaffold]

eh historical is still really easy

you can do central European federation or Austria Hungary

before Germany declares

who needs ai allies when you can instead have more cores

[fresh cedar]

I like Entente bc it locks them out of other factions so you can easily kill Germany. Then once your major threats are gone you kick them out one by one and annex

But yeah can totally just invade too for Austro Hungary

And to be fair, Central European Federation is basically Austro Hungary

[hollow lion]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cats-explosion-explodes-cat-explodes-gif-10131775219258044191

[crimson tartan]

yooooooooo what

oh can we now ping arheo since he's not a dev anymore and just a big fan of hoi4? 🙂

[hollow lion]

🔫 Still a Paradox employee so no pinging

[fading walrus]

https://tenor.com/view/oh-wait-youre-serious-let-me-laugh-frowning-robot-gif-14586647

[median bronze]

nahhh its lies I called up paradox told them he refused to add dynamic airfields and new air missions so they reassigned him to another front 💔

(please add dynamic airfields why is templehof airport in seelow heights gng)

[thick edge]

East vs West remake??

[crimson tartan]

wdym dynamic airfields

make them province-based?

[crimson tartan]

this was not even pdx game i guess
it was outsourced, licenced etc and published by pdx, but it was another studio's game

[thick edge]

Just a hater smh

[sinful hill]

Meow

[median bronze]

guys please leave a comment or a like at least, took hours writing this https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/this-needs-adding-air-force-generals-dynamic-defence.1919158/

[sinful hill]

I liked it

[eternal arch]

i would expand on the dynamic airfields and say that states are a bad idea in general and everything should be province based and states should just be groups of provinces

e.g. factories and anti air should be province level

[crimson tartan]

and then why we need states at all

[eternal arch]

just for organization i guess and so there isn’t any peace deal bs like taking only someone’s coastline provinces or only someone’s city provinces

[drifting star]

They are 100% making hoi5

lol

Will it be buggy yes, will I complain on release ? Yes . Will I spend all my money yes !!!

[crimson tartan]

wdym hoi5

they are working on eu6 already

[drifting star]

No

[crimson tartan]

eu5 is bad and they decided to shift to eu6

😔 🥀

[drifting star]

Eu5 is amazing

HOI5 is gunna be the next game since it’s the one with the largest audience

[crimson tartan]

people on reddit and pdx forum think no

[drifting star]

Then they are losers

It’s such a peak game

I hope that HOI5 is same quality

[crimson tartan]

https://tenor.com/view/me-too-me-too-kid-incredibles-gif-19919940

[eternal arch]

why would paradox want to spend a ton of time and money making hoi5 when they can keep pumping out slop dlc's for the same price every 3 months

[fresh cedar]

Agreed on airfields. And it would be nice to have a devastation mechanic like Stellaris. Think the current system of just stuff getting damaged but no real state impact is suboptimal

[median bronze]

Yeah like u take a tile get meme enforced and vice versa but there’s somehow no state destruction makes no sense just makes HOI4 overall a tile stealing game like chess not actual war despite the other stuff

[fresh cedar]

They build in whichever state you click on, per province

[fresh cedar]

Tbh nuked states should lowkey change state type too 😂 Shouldn’t just be a regular city again in a year

I’m not sure if bridges need to exist at the scale of HOI4. While relevant, some states would have many bridges

[thick edge]

u can larp as the germans

and destroy the rivers leading across the rhine

but bridges would be too much ngl

[fresh cedar]

Basically just scorched earth

A mechanic I never use 😭

[thick edge]

they have like 2 more years out of DLC for this

[fresh cedar]

Think bridges aren’t for this scale is all I’m saying

[thick edge]

i use it at times

yeah yeah

[mild ledge]

they literally dont follow the same rules bro

theres no denying this

Play as like siam

or a africian country

or really any minor

Play as ethiopia and u will see for a fact

The ai doenst get supply issues and if they do it defaults to red supply and no attrition

[green scaffold]

beat china as Japan in a reasonable time and then I'll let you make any statement about how the game works

[mild ledge]

what

I beat china last week??

You know im right bro

[green scaffold]

in what year?

[mild ledge]

Late 37

[green scaffold]

you were claiming that it was impossible for awhile

so

you see how your mind changes

[mild ledge]

Because the ai cheats and they still do

[green scaffold]

the ai doesn't cheat

you just need to understand the game

[mild ledge]

In orderto beat china u need to just rush their vp with spam units

[green scaffold]

there are bugs

[thick edge]

AI is still horrible either way

[green scaffold]

they exist

but in vast majority of cases

[mild ledge]

Everyone knows the ai cheats with supply and attrition, theirs no denying that

Its to make up for their terrible ai

[green scaffold]

its the player being bad

you can literally read the game files, you know

you can check that

[mild ledge]

The ai literally doesnt have attrition firsty

Theres no denying that

Secondly they default to red supply no orange

[nova smelt]

Is the submarine detection glitch fixed with the new update?

[green scaffold]

that's just false

the ai take attrition lol

[eternal arch]

no the port was one of the 2 supply hubs i took over they literally had no access to supply in like a 200 mile radius

[median bronze]

id appreciate a like or a comment on it though

[hushed lion]

Ukraine's Kruschëv desperately needs a portrait

[crimson tartan]

why

[fresh cedar]

Can’t be bothered to login to the forum, sorry

[hushed lion]

Why wouldn't it, we already have the portrait for Kruschëv, all they would have to do is add it to Ukraine

[crimson tartan]

wait wait wait why

why are you asking

🧐 🧐 🧐

[pseudo wing]

Because we wanna know

obviously

:p

[crimson tartan]

you want to change it

right

we will get achievements without ironman

YAAAAAAAY

[pseudo wing]

Never said that

We just wanna know

[crimson tartan]

ooooohi i got it i got it

you are working on hoi5

[fresh cedar]

I’d hate it if achievements went off Ironman only

[crimson tartan]

ok ok let's keep it on secret

[fresh cedar]

Would be a terrible change

[pseudo wing]

why are we putting words that I've never said in my mouth here

we just wanted input regarding achievements lmao

[green scaffold]

ironman should be required for achievements but mods should not as easily make the game not count as Ironman

[fresh cedar]

Think where achievements are now is fine. With Ironman compatible mods

[green scaffold]

maybe let the mod choose if it counts for ironman or not or idk

but there are many mods that should not make the game not ironman

but do now

[hushed lion]

Giving Kruschëv a portrait in Ukraine is far more important than any achievements

[fresh cedar]

Nah

[hushed lion]

It absolutely is

[fresh cedar]

Quite possibly one of the last changes that should ever be made if ever

[hollow coral]

https://tenor.com/view/this-is-worthless-gravity-falls-dipper-pines-worthless-gif-25136060

[hushed lion]

Yeah but its also so effortless, there's no reason not to do it

[hollow coral]

are we being serious?

[fresh cedar]

They basically pay for portraits

[hushed lion]

Yes i do not want to see generic leaders

[hollow coral]

if you want a kruschev portrait just download my mod

[fresh cedar]

When it comes to portraits id just do mods

[hushed lion]

The soviets already have a portrait, all that is to be done is giving it to Ukraine

[hollow coral]

Vanilla Portraits Pack

[hushed lion]

There's no reason paradox cant do it

[hollow coral]

you mean an advisor portrait>

[hushed lion]

Yeah

It can be reused

[fresh cedar]

It would cost them an employees time which is effectively money for content people can already get for free

[hollow coral]

advisor portraits are different arts from leader portraits

[fresh cedar]

Oh didn’t even realize he meant advisor

[hollow coral]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3364994410&searchtext=vanilla+portraits+pack

the only mod you will ever need😉

[hushed lion]

Kruschëv already has a portrait for the advisor icon, it could be reused presumably

[hollow coral]

yeah not how it works

they still have to draw him

[pseudo wing]

just because there is an advisor portrait does not mean it can be reused as a full one

the resolution does not match at all and would result in the blurriest and worst portrait one could make outside of an MSPaint drawing (which is arguably better than all portraits let's be real :p )

[fresh cedar]

Different scale lil bro

[hollow coral]

i think he thought that advisor portraits were linked to full scale portraits

[median bronze]

u should read the first reply on there btw

[coral drift]

This
Advisor portrait is 44x70 (i forgot the width), and leader portrait is 153x210

Btw.... Love the new art

I really hope this is about them
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreri

[burnt saffron]

Yo

Can you core the Balkans with this one communist Czechoslovakia focus branch?

[green scaffold]

no

you can't core anything

you just get a little of their civilian industry

[fresh cedar]

Wild Arheo’s stepping down wasn’t really announced anywhere but the forum 😅

Looking forward to seeing what his next project is

[crimson tartan]

hoi4.2 😔 🥀

[fresh cedar]

Cold War game would be cool

Or modern even

[crimson tartan]

never in the history of pdx

[thick edge]

I said that lol

Would be nice

[crimson tartan]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1670650/Espiocracy/

Steam

Espiocracy

Take charge of the intelligence agency of your choice as the Cold War begins. Working from the shadows in this grand strategy game, you will influence the world using a variety of tools including agents, propaganda, proxy wars, assassinations, and coups. As an Iron Curtain descends across Europe, the era of the espiocrat begins.…

Release Date

2026

[thick edge]

Probably costs money so I can’t afford it

[crimson tartan]

whoomp whoomp

[thick edge]

My wallet belongs to paradox

[shrewd owl]

Do we know if we now have the option to choose our background image yet, at the HOI in game start menu? You know the image changes with each major update, that image?

[keen totem]

ive had this in my wishlist for a good while

cant wait for whenever it'll release

looks cool

[eternal arch]

i was gonna try to make a cold war themed game over the summer

keyword try

[crimson tartan]

i remember seeing this game announced in something like 2022

they said they gonna release it next year

hope it's true ❤️

[fresh cedar]

Man, Arheo stepping down is sad though. He steered the ship for 5 years atleast

[crimson tartan]

he's going to steer another, new ship!

you are saying like he's dying or something

[fresh cedar]

Generally people leaving a project and going to something else is a pretty bittersweet moment. Especially since he’s effectively been a driving force in a game I’ve enjoyed for 5 years by his part.

[keen totem]

me too

2023 i think i saw it

it looks really cool though

[hollow lion]

😢 I've forwarded it to the community team

[fresh cedar]

Crazy it’s been up for days

[echo shard]

Holy halalball

[hollow lion]

Wrong chat?

[echo shard]

No

[coral drift]

@fresh cedar

[whole arch]

Crazy new scam just dropped <@&846894118219022336> (in every channel)

[echo shard]

😭

https://tenor.com/view/sonion-gif-4370030053602687111

[smoky pagoda]

The latest dlc drop may have broken greece facist path

[obsidian anchor]

HOI4 game when germany invades poland without putting troops on the french border

[green scaffold]

huge

what do the new focuses do

[fresh cedar]

Man, no new formables. 😔

[green scaffold]

i assume they probably take a little longer to think through and implement

surely next patch

[coral drift]

Huh?

I mean, using CEF more often would be nice

[hollow coral]

Atleast bohemia is gold

Thank you

[coral drift]

<@&846894118219022336>

[fresh cedar]

This is a nice change. Though end game for Bohemia really should be HRE

[hollow coral]

Absolutely

[fresh cedar]

Bruh the formable already exists too. 😔

[hollow coral]

Hre formable and make the fascist path more unique

[fresh cedar]

Like I get not doing the pan Slavic one as that would involve work.

[hollow coral]

thats basically all they need to make it a good dlc

[fresh cedar]

Extremely disappointed tbh. Formables are a big part of why I even play the game. Like I’d buy a dedicated dlc just for them

[fresh cedar]

Legit

[hollow coral]

Maybe shortening some industry focuses but thats pretty much it

[fresh portal]

@turbid pivot This person is promoting terrorism

AND HE IS KID

HE IS OLD LIKE 11

[coral drift]

Agree with you, but i think just use the existing ones

[hollow coral]

in dms?

[fresh cedar]

Why in Latest update though

[serene gorge]

still no Zapadoslavia formable for Czechoslovakia? Damn

[fresh portal]

Are you talking to me?

[coral drift]

Yes, why reporting it here?

[hollow coral]

i think they meant for the polish czechoslovak union to be that formable

[fresh cedar]

Yeah it’s why I quoted you. This isn’t the channel for such things

[hollow coral]

Its just really convoluted to achieve

[fresh cedar]

New update came out. Not trying to talk about Roblox terrorism

[fresh portal]

Because he was on an audio channel promoting

In this server

[hollow coral]

general

[serene gorge]

I figured so as well, but, tbh, I‘d rather have it named Zapadoslavia

[fresh portal]

Im just warning you

[serene gorge]

but better than nothing

[hollow coral]

easily moddable

[serene gorge]

yeah, it‘s just changing a line in the loc files

[hollow coral]

localisation and flag modding and youll never go back

[serene gorge]

Ik, I‘ve done it already

good stuff

[coral drift]

Okay, talk in #hoi4-general then

[fresh cedar]

We’re trying to discuss the newest update 😂

@hollow lion Hey Marjin, do we know if any additional formables will make it to the Czech tree? Was really hoping either Pan-Slavic Conf or HRE would make it but did not see in the patch notes.

[hollow coral]

i pray theres more content and changes

Even small changes like the party names

[hollow lion]

Considering HRE for a followup patch

[hollow coral]

will there be more party names?🥹

[fresh cedar]

But not considering a Pan-Slavic formable?

It would be pretty grounded and unique compared to many formables of late.

IMO big reason GDR was as successful as it was is that it had clear end goals in the way of formables.

[thick edge]

They should obviously get a Central America formable

Because why not

[fresh cedar]

I was arguing for a Central/Eastern European one dependent on Slavic countries

[thick edge]

The only problem with that formable is getting all the land for it

[fresh cedar]

Yeah that’s the point. It’s supposed to be an endgame formable

[green scaffold]

is there a chance for EU formable?

[fresh cedar]

I’ve taken Europe as the Czechs like 4 times now and had nothing to do or form

End game gets boring and unrewarding

[thick edge]

90% of players won’t be able to do it 😭

[hollow coral]

this might have to be a late edition but

[keen totem]

agreed

[hollow coral]

can we please get a way to get him as leader

[hollow lion]

Maybe from.the democratic side of the branch with Peace for Our Time focus

[fresh cedar]

Same could be argued for so many other formables in the game though

[meager dragon]

what do you mean it wasn't already golden, Paraslop?

[fresh cedar]

The point is that it’s hard yet rewarding. This is almost like the Czech equivalent of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth

[fresh cedar]

It was blue as if as every other tree lol

[hollow lion]

💔 I just like blue

[pseudo wing]

where's my green formables, Marijn

[meager dragon]

stupidest thing I've ever heard lmao

[keen totem]

i wanna see the new color for bohemia

but im not home right now and cant test it

[hollow coral]

im booting up rn

[fresh cedar]

What’s stupid, the fact they’re all blue or what

The fact it’s gold is even further evidence it should have an HRE formable 😔

[green scaffold]

that would be super cool and fit the theme

[meager dragon]

that, but also the fact that Bohemia formable wasn't golden to begin with? like in, idk, EU?

[fresh cedar]

Or that one of the nations that led the HRE for a long time is one of the only ones without an HRE path/formable

Yet Lichtenstein can form it 💀

[green scaffold]

can this become less rng?

[green scaffold]

like it already requires so many pre conditions

[meager dragon]

yep yep

[keen totem]

interesting

[green scaffold]

and then you're just purely up to the 50/50 rng which is like

sad

[fresh cedar]

Very cool color

[fresh cedar]

Wish it was less RNG. Polish monarchy can just annex Czechs for free basically

[harsh hull]

Bohemoslovakia, my beloved

[fresh cedar]

Why is HRE just a consideration and Pan-Slavic not considered though. There’s basically no end game goal currently apart from spirits.

AHE is mid-game at best and also doesn’t make as much sense

[hollow coral]

big hat

[fresh cedar]

It’s just a bummer. Late game formables such as the German ones are what bring me back to countries again and again. With nothing like that I’ll have no real point to play it. :/

[keen totem]

i feel like AHE could use some cosmetic versions of the tag

[fresh cedar]

For sure

[keen totem]

like kumul or the ma cliques have for empire of china

[fresh cedar]

I think Marjin perceives it as me making a demand to “better” his dlc. But in reality I just want an excuse to play his DLC more and enjoy it. 😭

[fresh cedar]

Yeah China has good naming diversity

[harsh hull]

But why can't Czechoslovakia form the Silk Road Empire?

[keen totem]

the only czechoslovakia formable we truly need

[hollow coral]

wheres the kralovec secret path

[timid nimbus]

from the river to the sea czechochechnyoslovenoslovaka shall be free

[keen totem]

https://tenor.com/view/czech-republic-gif-15345665958023869745

[fresh cedar]

Bruh if I said something like this they’d instantly delete it and demand I don’t bring up modern politics 😭

[timid nimbus]

🤣🤣🤣

[keen totem]

😭😭

[fresh cedar]

I mentioned how NATO was a defensive alliance once. And public probably wouldn’t support offensive wars hence War Support tanking for Czechs if they pursue war

And they deleted 💀

[timid nimbus]

lmaoooo

[keen totem]

that sounds dumb to me but eh what can i do about it

[timid nimbus]

touchy subject

[fresh cedar]

Apparently lol

Imagine 😔

[keen totem]

intermarium borders

still annoys me poland doesnt have intermarium as a formable..

[fresh cedar]

Right

I mean it does have the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth Atleast

But somehow Czechs forming AHE makes more sense 😭

[keen totem]

yeah but monarchism wasnt a really big movement in interwar poland

democratic and sanation poland should have access to intermarium formable and be able to core belarus, baltics and ukraine at the very least

[fresh cedar]

Yet current Polish tree has like 4-5 monarchist paths 💀

[fresh cedar]

Would be nice meh

Pan-Slavic Romanov Poland probably the closest to it

Or PLC