Hearts of Iron IV Dev Tracker

@theSStreamers @Fatherlorris chonk up a couple of hundred million and we got a business case :)

@Zervel if you havent done this before be careful and watch a lot of technique videos. sh*t is hard. I like to use stuff that looks in angles like this but I really respect ppl who are good at whetstone work

@RightsizedDoru did you jetpack to the store though?

@producerjohan yea I think that aspect is great

@Athel20596969 v2 combat was pure pain imo. the game did not handle lots of stacks well (and I coded several parts of this)

@Lambert2191 @konbendith twitter is a special slice of people. dont make the mistake to treat it like the general player. You'd get very different results polling 4chan, reddit or doing some anonymous survey I bet

⚙️ Attention Generals! ⚙️

There's a new Open Beta (Patch 1.11.12) available this weekend on steam! Don't miss the chance to do some early testing!

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@Lord_SAS @konbendith its the superior way :3

@CountCristo42 @konbendith poking precisely is what I mean. But my telemetry on this is quite shoddy so big spoon of guesswork on exactly how

@CountCristo42 @konbendith its also dependent on how good the planner controls are. I think most are happy with it these days but around release it was very divisive. You dont want a system necessarily that takes 5 years to tune :D

@CountCristo42 @konbendith its hard to measure but with some confidence I would say that 99.9% of ppl use the battleplanner, but also that similar number of people do at least once or twice manually poke around. The general person, more than that

@konbendith the loss of control is very scary to most players tho I think and the option to do both means you feel forced to engage in a mechanic you may not always enjoy because you are better than AI

@konbendith I am the same. for hoi4 I tried to strike a balance but I am one of those disgusting people who will play HOI3 without micro. just high level goal setting and HQ stances

@albertlondres13 @BurntShooter FPS would actually scale quite well because then you would design the game to be player character centric and you can only affect stuff from where you are :D

@BurntShooter do you also have a good idea for how that would scale to allow you to do all other stuff you need to do in the game :D

What is your dream combat system in a paradox game?

@No431onthelist @HOI_Game branches aside after NSB this isnt as apparent, altho you still need a light hull to use the matilda visuals.

We got the Kangaroo in the canadian tree if my memory serves

@No431onthelist @HOI_Game my memory on the exact reasoning on this is a little hazy but the tank trees are a bit of a square peg/round hole situation sometimes where light and heavy definitions dont always exist for each nation + you need to weigh in the fact that you want the most well known tanks there

@konbendith for designers I seldom get it stated in numbers, just that they like game X and Y. I'll often ask to get an idea though and start a conversation. I dont think you should really list your steam stats :D