HoI3 Betas

[BVN]

O've seen people on the forum talk about Switzerland and Sweden joining the Allies for instance. I'm not sure...but that sort of takes the fun out of a WW2-era game. This is the same issue that existed in EU3 Vanilla, though, so I'm sure after months of saying "this is the way the game works, if you want history read a book", they'll release an XP that addresses this.

Actually, I want a Churchill smiley being crucified, since it's the only way to express my disgust at this if it's true.

There will already be a patch on the release day that will deal mostly with tweaks in the diplomatic part of the game. I'm too lazy to find the thread on pdox where this was announced by Johan.

[Warspite]

Huh.  The tutorial is presented to you by Adolf Hitler.  It reads very strangely.

No kidding. It's full of typo's and badly written English

[Tamas]

I so knew you guys were a bunch of HoItards

All this QQing based on some second hand info gathered off the paradox boards.

[Razgovory]

The game is bit overwhelming and the map is extremely strange.  My home town is there which is nice.  Also Salem Missouri which has about 4 thousand people in it.  It's about 5 miles away from the town of Rolla which had 4 times as many (though in 1939 I don't know how many people lived there).  Strangely St. Louis (which is a decent sized City) is in the the "salem region".  You could easily get lost using this map.

I played a little bit but didn't know exactly how research or production worked and saw France over run West Germany.  Also for some reason some provinces have a different countries color added to them.  For instance parts of the US have Canada or Mexico's color scheme.  No idea why.  Game runs pretty slow but I'll be getting a new Video Card in a day or so.  That should help in that department.  Reminds me of Victoria's first release.

[frunk]

Surprisingly the demo runs fine on my older computer (1 gig of ram, 128mb video card).  It runs slowly but no problems.  It really is quite bewildering when you first start up.

[BVN]

Huh.  The tutorial is presented to you by Adolf Hitler.  It reads very strangely.

No kidding. It's full of typo's and badly written English

 

[Ed Anger]

Runs ok on my quad-core, but the game has a blah feeling.

That makes it sound distressingly like a 20th Century version of EU:Rome. 

The feeling you get looking at the screen is, bleh. I need more bright colors.

[Razgovory]

The world was still in black and white then.  Only the Pacific and parts of the US head become colorized at that time.  This was embarrising for the Soviets when they found out that many units of the Red Army were actually green.

[Darth Wagtaros]

The world was still in black and white then.  Only the Pacific and parts of the US head become colorized at that time.  This was embarrising for the Soviets when they found out that many units of the Red Army were actually green.

Nice.

[Razgovory]

I thought it was a clever joke.

[Darth Wagtaros]

I thought it was a clever joke.

I found it so.

[Faeelin]

Also, apparently there was no Naval AI in the Beta?

[MadBurgerMaker]

It's too bad he never finished that AAR.  The suicide cavalry thing to Stalingrad was...different...

Also, apparently there was no Naval AI in the Beta?

Apparently not.  It's in the demo though.

[Syt]

Poking about the demo some more I notice that (rural) Vienna is located to the North East of the Danube when the central city is located to the South West of it. Someone posted on their forums that Warsaw has a similar fate (north of the river instead of south of it).

[KRonn]

The map scale looks larger than HOI2. Along with many more regions, or "squares" for combat, the game looks quite larger and more intense.  I've been looking forward to it.