評論

• gamedeal user

  Sep 28, 2022

  20 euro is not worth it but for gods sake we're all gonna buy it anyway alright actually played the dlc now the new system for planes is messy and complicated, and honestly just a hassle to get done. especially considering a lot of nations have planes, but for some reason they can't produce the plane? feels like an overlook to me focus trees are meh. only really enjoyed switzerland
• gamedeal user

  Sep 28, 2022

  "We will charge them for new content and they will thank us for it!" -Mussolini
• gamedeal user

  Sep 28, 2022

  I would like to preface my little rant here with the mention that I have *never* left a non-joking review before, let alone a negative one. I just feel that this DLC is one of the worst paradox has released in it's latest generation of games. I have played EU4, Vic2, CK2 and 3, and Stellaris, and own the dlc for all of them except ck2. And I still believe this dlc is an utter joke and unworthy of your time, let alone money. Switzerland fash tree is horrible, completely boring and unplayable tree, you cannot join the axis until roughly 1941, and I was doing everything as soon as I could. You also cannot make your own division templates and are stuck with horrible pre-assigned ones. The fash Switzerland is an actually insulting spit in your face. But that pales in comparison to the new peace deals. Whoever at paradox decided that letting puppets participate in peace deals with their own war score should be fired immediately. I was playing as historical Japan, with a-historical ai. Russia went with the 2nd civil war, and I got lucky (i thought) where they even became my puppet. After struggling through the China war (manchu declared independence war halfway through), I got into the peace deal, excited to try the new features. I was taking the coastline, and planned on turning the rest into a puppet, before, along comes my puppet, Russia, and liberates roughly 80% of China to the CC clique, forcing me to burn my remaining score on turning roughly 5 of the remaining states into my puppet. I was so enraged by the utter waste of time how insulted I felt, that even though I was on non-ironman, and could fix it in 5 seconds using console commands, I came here to write this rant instead. The new features, embargoes, new peace deal options, are part of the update, not the DLC. But, there is nowhere on Steam that I can vent about these features other than here. The new air designer and combat is meh, I honestly prefer the older versions of hoi4 without the plane, tank and ship designers and other things added since La Resistance, but I do not know whether I am in the minority there, but I just cannot bring myself to enjoy the "complexity" that Paradox likes to add to perfectly fine mechanics. I overall do not enjoy this update and dlc, and do not recommend it. Rant over
• gamedeal user

  Sep 30, 2022

  >Start game as Ethiopia >Hold out against Italy for 3+ years >Italy joins Germany >Germany declares war on me >I take focus to sue for peace with Italy >Italy accepts >Germany is not included in the focus scripting >Still at war with Germany >Germany calls Italy back into war with me 3 months later >?????? Paradox, how does this shit still happen? Does literally anyone play test their DLC? They have a Ethiopian war system that rewards Ethiopia the longer it stays in war against Italy with increasing maluses for Italy, but by the time you reach the end, Italy has already joined Germany and thus broken the focus that is supposed to end the war. If this is intended that you get dragged into the global world war, then why is the focus still available? And why does Italy accept peace? These silly inconsistencies and bugs are ALWAYS present with paradox DLC. And this is when playing the most main stream scenario one could think of, Ethiopia holds against Italy until the Ethiopian war system reaches the final stage. I ask again, did ANYONE play test this before release? Did anyone play Ethiopia? EDIT: Holy christ, the border gore. My first world war 2 conclusion resulted in a 'German Republic" in the West, a "Soviet occupation zone" of one province, a "East Germany" (also a soviet puppet?), and the German Reich with one province. Yes, with Hitler and all. Fascist Hungary also continued to exist in one single province. The Italian civil war that happens caused the new Italian state to become a puppet of mine, but the war conclusion then created another TWO Italian puppet states between the UK, and my ally the Soviets. Mongolia laid a claim on the Libyan province of Cyrenica. Wat? Honestly at this point, just hard code 10 different world war 2 outcomes, put them on a scale of 1-10, and pick the most appropriate one depending on the contributions of the allies and player.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 2, 2022

  Pros: - Italy has a rework, which was long overdue - New ethiopian & swiss tree too i guess - you can design planes - new peace deal options - field officers lead divisions & now form a pool of potential new generals (= RP) - see the combat history of each divisision (= RP) - Assign medals to divisions for certain combat actions, granting a combat bonus Cons: - plane designer is very unbalanced - ethiopian and swiss trees are unbalanced and not thought out very well - italian civil war triggers WAY too fast, losing 1 non-core state can trigger it, crippling your entire build-up - AI can't properly handle embargoes - border gore is guaranteed even more now - the entire DLC is essentially untested, as happened with almost every other DLC paradox released for HOI4 Verdict: This DLC will need a lot of balance- and AI fixes before you can consider this even close to good. If you want a good italy tree, go play LVN, which still does it better than this DLC. This was hyped up to be No Step Back 2.0 in quality, it fell waaaaaaaaay short of that. Maybe this DLC will improve after some patches but i'd recommend just waiting until that happens. I had high hopes after No Step Back, sadly I am left immensely disappointed and am now forced to return to touching grass or other gross stuff like a social life (which by comparison causes me less frustration). Score: 4/10
• gamedeal user

  Oct 4, 2022

  Untested products should not be released and put on sale for a good amount of money. This is an industry standard yet Paradox never manage to understand that. Shame, a MOD developer team knows more about coding and testing than Paradox Interactive development team.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 7, 2022

  The purpose of this DLC was to fix broken peace conferences and they managed to absolutely destroy them even more.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 10, 2022

  I have over a thousand hours across vanilla HOI4 and various mods. I love the game, and like to think I'm a reasonable player and at this stage I feel like I've learnt most of the game systems pretty well. But this new peace conference system? It scares me. It ends up in absurd amounts of border-gore, and it's fair to say that this was already a major problem with peace conferences in this game. If Kaiserreich has a system to avoid said gore, keeping nations roughly intact (while giving you annexation options at a penalty), why can't the vanilla game implement similar? It seems, instead, that they're even worse. I've played through a single game as France, so I can't comment on the new focus trees, of which only Italy would be interesting to me anyway. Focus trees are also the most "meh" part of any expansion, I find, since there are often superior options available via. mods and it's relatively easy to do. I will say that a single playthrough is also not generally enough to learn all the intricacies of a new expansion in this game, but there was a major glaring fault. The AI doesn't know how to use the new aircraft designer. It seems - fighting against Germany - extremely easy to make an overpowered fighter plane that gives you complete dominance of the skies while suffering almost no losses. 400 planes vs. 4000, and they were losing 20 a day. I had some 40 aces in my pool. You can then stack absurd amounts of ground attack on your bombers, basically wrecking your way through the front line with uncontested air superiority. Fun? Kinda. It would be if the AI could respond, or if that was a reward for a hard fought battle to get air superiority. But it felt like the air war was almost taken out of the game. Some of the expansion launches have been rough, but generally with time they've added depth and made the game better. I think this one needs a full rework, honestly. There's not a lot to recommend here in its current state. It actively makes the game worse.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 19, 2022

  Hearts of Iron IV: By Bugs Alone
• gamedeal user

  Oct 21, 2022

  This is quite possibly worse than Leviathan. This is so bad that I... I don't even know where to start. They broke peace conferences, for starters. Yes. The thing everyone hated, they made orders of magnitude worse. Want to de-Nazify Germany? Too bad, you ran out of the now finite pEaCe pOiNtS and while you were able to create a puppet Germany, you ran out of points, so Hitler still exists and is in power in Bohemia. You can do nothing about this. Bordergore? Well, this absolute farce now means it is *also* worse. The new focus-trees? Mediocre. Who cares. Barely qualifies as enough for a free-update. I legitimately have no words. I can't even think straight. There is so much wrong that it's like trying to focus on one pixel on a static-screen, I can't pin down thoughts. Air-wings? They are now hard-limited to 100. Aircraft-carriers? They no longer automatically upgrade the aircraft. You have to manually delete the carrier-wings and replace them. Medals? They cost political power. Not command-power, political power. Functionally making them not worth the absolutely garbage buffs they give A SINGLE DIVISON. Generals? You can now no longer just promote one like an admiral. You have to promote a division commander. How much does this cost? 100 command-power. Embargoes? You can only embargo a nation that has generated 15 world tension. This effectively means the only nations anyone can embargo are Italy or Germany. Just... don't buy this. Not even a patch will fix it. The devs have stated a lot of these absolutely despised, garbage, incompetently made systems and "mechanics" are working exactly as they made them to. Honestly, consider just ditching the game. I'm not sure it can be saved. It's in such a horrendous state that it would take months of patches just to bring it back to pre-BBA quality. I don't want to give up hope. I loved this game. But it has been the absolute worst managed Paradox game, of all time. It is the single greatest waste of a community, of potential, that I've seen.