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^^ Going to play this tomorrow. By 'play' I mean start the 10 hour induction course on Youtube.
^^ Going to play this tomorrow. By 'play' I mean start the 10 hour induction course on Youtube.
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EU IV for example is fully matured and is a fantastic grand strategy game.
Hope you enjoy IV, the more you put in the more you will get out of it in my experience.
I've been thinking about what I said yesterday and upon reflection I'm even more disappointed this morning
It has so much potential but at the minute it's missing too many key elements. Maybe, just maybe, under pressure, PDX will re implement some core features. Time will tell.
Edit: I see they have released a beta patch already! Paradox are very good at supporting their key titles. So that is one huge plus.
Gawd, it's worse than I thought. It's awful actually and I'm half tempted to ask for a refund. I posted on the pdx forum to gain some insight. A lot of the things I loved, and things that I deemed essential like the OOB, the event box etc etc will not be reappearing apparently. Someone even suggested that they are aiming for tablet users in future releases by streamlining some of the more complicated options. Now it's a point and click fest. I mean you can't even see where the battles are taking place unless you either click on a general and have a huge endless box appear with all your theatre divisions, or you scroll the map. In HOI3 there was a small opaque box with everything listed in the top right. It was simply brilliant. All my info at a glance.
Apparently air battles are completely abstracted now and with no counters for the aircraft it's actually impossible to see them. You have to go with the 3d models.
Spying has gone completely. Or rather, 'abstracted'. That word is being used a LOT in this game.
They will definitely add depth, but with the key features not returning I'm not so sure it will ever be as good as a heavily modded HOI3. It's the end of an era.
From what I've seen on YouTube they're saying it's just as indepth. But what they've done is just male it more accessible and easier to get to grips with.
That is pretty standard for HOI games, i.e. a slight chance to deviate from history.