A glance at HoI3

[MadBurgerMaker]

They seem to be. Thing was, in Hoi2 I tended to forget about the airplanes, so I got used to fighting without them. In this one, I see the air groups roaming ahead of the Panzers. So any improvement is better to me.

Usually what I tend to do is make a corps or army, name it something like "Air Force" or whatever, and assign it at the highest level I'm allowing AI control.  Throw tacs, interceptors, multiroles, etc, in there as you build them, and let the AI dish out support as it sees fit through it's area of control. 

At one point, I was using scrubby exp. forces to invade Greece (as an independent army), while letting the AI theater handle the other 5 fronts, or whatever silly number, and it was sending TACs and multiroles over to give me some support when things bogged down.  They absolutely devastated the Greeks, then went back to slaughtering French, Czechs, and whoever else.  Works great.

I do keep naval bombers and strategic bombers under my personal control though.

[Josephus]

...a lot of stuff about Paradox patching stuff

The other thing that gets me, is that  their patches seem to be in "Betamode" for ever. I'm still waiting for the latest patch for IN which has been in Beta for over a year now. There's no doubt the zeal with which they used to release patches ended sometime after EU2.

[ulmont]

The other thing that gets me, is that  their patches seem to be in "Betamode" for ever. I'm still waiting for the latest patch for IN which has been in Beta for over a year now.

Same for the latest Deus Vult patch.

[Ed Anger]

Lolz, Swedes have no staying power. Take Stockholm and they fold quickly.

[Ancient Demon]

...a lot of stuff about Paradox patching stuff

The other thing that gets me, is that  their patches seem to be in "Betamode" for ever. I'm still waiting for the latest patch for IN which has been in Beta for over a year now. There's no doubt the zeal with which they used to release patches ended sometime after EU2.

I think the issue here is that it was decided beforehand that there was going to be an arbitrary limit of patches, say 2 for IN. Johan's superiors won't allow any further updates after version 3.2, hence the workaround of continuing as a beta patch.

[MadBurgerMaker]

I started a game as Japan, and have begun the long slog through China and those shitty little nations all around it.  A massive amphibious assault took the Nationalists by surprise and pulled a bunch of troops off the main Manchuko line, allowing those guys up there to break through, smash the Commies, and take a bunch of property down south of that, but now part of that army is moving into Xibei San Ma, where supplies are impossible to find, infrastructure sucks, etc.  I've set up supply chains stretching all the way back to Dalian, but the transport planes can't haul enough to keep things moving.   

The damn chain is already four airbases long, and it looks like it's going to need at least one more.

I will say, it's pretty cool watching them take shit shipped in from the islands, fly it to Beiping, where another transport grabs it, shuttles it to Yan'an, where it gets thrown to Chankou, then dropped on the troops at the front from there.

I guess the good news is after I finally take this damn country and puppet them, they'll be pretty hooked up with airbases, infra, etc.

[Josephus]

I think the issue here is that it was decided beforehand that there was going to be an arbitrary limit of patches, say 2 for IN. Johan's superiors won't allow any further updates after version 3.2, hence the workaround of continuing as a beta patch.

Right. So, like I said, the zeal with which they used to patch games stopped sometime after EU2.

[Ed Anger]

I'm going to be starting the invasion of Russia on a historical timetable. 2 army Groups (Hurrying Heinz and Manstein), with about 6 large armies launching from Poland and Hungary. Romania is being pissy because I gave the gypsy nation their land.

I'm going to try and give army level specialist divisions a try, such as artillery divisions(2 arty & 2 rocket brigades each) attached to army HQ as a sort of army asset.

fucking game better not crash.

[sbr]

Fantastic thread in the HOI3 forums.

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=445921

First post.

I purchased this game on Steam.

Since 1.3, no Steam players can play mutli-player with non-Steam players unless they apply a "user fix" which is a sticky within Tech Support.

I have not seen one post, not even within the sticky, regarding this issue from Paradox.
I can only conclude that they will not fix this issue until a future patch or whenever it is convenient. That is simply pathetic & lazy.

Paradox has 10 days to fix this issue or I will declare internet warfare upon them. That does not involve hacking, anything malicious, or anything illegal. I do not think I'm a bad-ass threatening the apocalypse upon Paradox.

But it will involve the spreading of information across the intranet, something of which, among very few things, I have a knack for.
Please fix the issue for your game's sake. I do not take issues of irresponsible business lightly when it involves my own cash, time & the free market.

Best post so far, #16

I am speaking to you from the "Why Would I Ever Buy This Game Again" thread at HoI3 Forum, Paradox Forums. This morning pbar25 in USA handed the Paradox Team a final note stating that unless we heard from them by 10 days that they were prepared at once to withdraw their different HoI3 version from Steam, a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and that consequently this internet is at war with Paradox.
You can imagine what a bitter blow it is to me that all my long struggle to win peace has failed.

Yet I cannot believe that there is anything more or anything different that I could have done and that would have been more successful. Up to the very last it would have been quite possible to have arranged a peaceful and honourable settlement between Paradox and the Internet.

But Johan would not have it. He had evidently made up his mind to attack Steam users whatever happened; and although he now says he put forward reasonable proposals which were rejected by the "Steamies", that is not a true statement. The proposals were never shown to the "Steamies" nor to us; and though they were announced in the Paradox broadcast on Thursday night, Johan did not wait to hear comments on them, but ordered his staff to cross the checksum frontier next morning.
His action shows convincingly that there is no chance of expecting that this man will ever give up his practice of using force to gain his will. He can only be stopped by force and we and France are to-day, in fulfilment of our obligations, going to the aid of Steam users, who are so bravely resisting this wicked and unprovoked attack upon their videogame.

We have a clear conscience. We have done all that any forum could do to establish peace, but a situation in which no word given by Paradox's ruler could be trusted and no people or forum could feel themselves safe had become intolerable. And now that we have resolved to finish it, I know that you will all play your part with calmness and courage.

Another good one

Whatever you do, Johan, don't hand your war effort over to the AI.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Eh.  See post 6.

Edit:  I do like the guy on page three talking about buying it from Steam, then having to "pirate" a copy to have an actual working game and almost immediately getting a :MADFACE: THAT'S NOT COOL MAN type response.  Yeah asshole!  Buy it again from somewhere else, or wait however long for a possible fix! 

[Ed Anger]

I'm going to be starting the invasion of Russia on a historical timetable. 2 army Groups (Hurrying Heinz and Manstein), with about 6 large armies launching from Poland and Hungary. Romania is being pissy because I gave the gypsy nation their land.

I'm going to try and give army level specialist divisions a try, such as artillery divisions(2 arty & 2 rocket brigades each) attached to army HQ as a sort of army asset.

fucking game better not crash.

never could be arsed to finish it.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Those posts are funny.  The internets are petty dictators and their demands are unforgivable.

[Faeelin]

Incidentally, do we have any ideas of sales compared to past titles?

[sbr]

Incidentally, do we have any ideas of sales compared to past titles?

There was a post about a year ago maybe where Johan gave a vague list, but never any real concrete numbers.

I know he said that EU1 sold more copies than EU2 and that EU2 was one of, if not the worst selling of their "major" games.  Rome sold better than you would have thought, probably only behind HOI3 and EUIII.  I am sure HOI3 and EUIII are far any away their top sellers :obvious:

[Faeelin]

I know he said that EU1 sold more copies than EU2 and that EU2 was one of, if not the worst selling of their "major" games.  Rome sold better than you would have thought, probably only behind HOI3 and EUIII.  I am sure HOI3 and EUIII are far any away their top sellers :obvious:

I'm sure EU3 was, but I wonder about HOI. It's already 15 bucks on steam after all.