In HOI3 you had the very basic option of letting the AI control your armies, setting simple goals for them (“take Warsaw”), that they would then attempt to carry out. Micromanagement of your armies is now supposed to be much less of a thing.In the latter, you tend to see some interesting ahistorical events like the rise of the French Commune, a civil war in the Soviet Union, a union between France and Great Britain. There are two game modes to choose from at start: one where things will tend to follow more of a historical path that leads to WW2 starting in August of 1939, and another where things are slightly more open-ended in a vein similar to CK2 or EU4. Historical railroading is now less of a thing.
A short bulleted summary of the major changes: With Hearts of Iron 4, Paradox has spent several years in what has generally been a quite long development cycle to re-examine the holy cows of the Hearts of Iron series and to make sure they hit this nail on the head. Still, it has a small but dedicated base of people who somehow insist that it's great. As with most Paradox games it gradually got better over time (and with expansions), but it remains a mediocre game. It was broken at launch in ways that are pretty much unthinkable for modern Paradox games (welp, Imperator: Rome's awful release pretty much undid all of that progress but at least it was playable, unlike launch HOI3), and suffered a lot from questionable design, bad AI, overcomplexity, and piss-poor optimization. I thought Hearts of Iron 3 was a poo poo game? What’s different now? The Hearts of Iron series (mainly HOI2) have been showcased in almost all of the major goon mega-LP’s that span the entire timeline of Paradox games.
Prior to Europa Universalis III, the Hearts of Iron series was Paradox’s best-selling product, allowing the player to take control of an country in the world during the conflict, from the great powers of the Allies and Axis, all the way down to tiny little Bhutan. Hearts of Iron IV is the latest installment of Paradox Interactive’s Hearts of Iron series of grand strategy games, covering the rough time period surrounding World War 2 (1936-1948, though previous games have bumped the cap all the way up to 1964).
0 kommentar(er)
