Ok, I've seen enough. I've had my fill, I've played my money's worth. When did you realize you were done with your favorite strategy game, and that it was time to move on?
>>2220582>Ok, I've seen enough. I've had my fill, I've played my money's worth. When did you realize you were done with your favorite strategy game, and that it was time to move on?EU2: When EU3 came outEU3: When EU4 came outEU4: When Mandate of Heaven came outAoD: When I played each country I was interested in onceHoI4: When I realized that every DLC made the game shittier, and the base vanilla game was more funStellaris: After one playthroughCK3: One month after releaseVictoria 3: One day after release
>>2220582>10k hours>0 achievements>anon must commit seppuku to reestablish his honor
>>2220586I don't want achievements. I don't want my steam friends to see what I'm up to. They don't need to know what I've done in-game.
>>2220587>I don't want my steam friends to see what I'm up to.You know that you can put them in private, right?
>>2220592I could do that, but also I want the game to be on my steam page. I want people to know I play these games, but I don't want them to see "progress" or whatever. What if one of my friends get competitive, or thinks he's better than me because he has achievements I don't have. By deliberately not getting achievements, it's a signal that I'm in it for the game itself, and I find that more noble.
>>2220582>hoi 4When I could do historical Germany runs better than the youtubers. I played OWB mod and it got me into game making, which is the next step in fun.>CoH 2When I realized that I had spent more time in WW 2 games than the time WW 2 actually lasted.>WC 3When they made it so I needed an dedicated external graphics card and ruined it by having to go through an app. Reforged ruined being able to play on just about any kind of system no matter how potato.>ranked CounterStrikeWhen I realized it was me against the matchmaking system, similar to doing random 4's in RTS games. What the hidden player skill score did more to the game than my skill could ever do.
>>2220582Will you finally stop making these dogshit threads then? Cancerous cocksucker.
I would like to create a HOI4 mod, for no WW1, with the game set in the usual period of 36' to 45'.
>>2220586I have around 5k hours on HOI4, I mainly just use it for map painting nowadays.
you've drank your fill
>>2221734>no WW1Austria-Hungary fucking dissolvesDenmark gets further cuckedIs that Bulgaria that owns Constantinople??Also, just a note here, in the event of the fall of the Austrian state, Hungary would definitely get partitioned by the powers around them, this is because the Hungarians basically registered all minorities as Hungarians as soon as they were able to speak it regardless of their opinion so they could lie to the Austrians about their numbers.
>29,99Even more then Götterdämmerung
>>2220586vanilla is just too vanilla innit
>>2221734lol
>>2250929I like Hungary's odds. They're quite a large landmass and they kicked ass in 1848. They're geographically protected from the south and north and it wouldn't be crazy to suggest an alliance with Germany to protect their west. It looks like in this scenario Germany is calling the shots in Europe so.
>>2220582Bump
>>2272692...why?
For MP strategy games: When the meta gets stale or something new comes out. It's nice to rotate around though between whenever has the latest hype and whatever has a fun meta.For SP strategy games: When I've beaten it thoroughly, but also when the UI becomes too unappealing.That said, if a fun game is fun I like to come back to it months or years later down the line. Older games have their niches too: I don't play WC3 everyday anymore but it's always a favorite whenever I go to a LAN.What I don't get it "I've played X billion hours of this game, I'll never touch it again." Not saying OP said that but I know a few people like that for several older games and it's just weird to me. Unless something happened to really turn me off from touching it again I won't write it off entirely.
>at war with USA on Allies' side>civil war happens>USA tag (MacArthur junta) somehow instantly flips to Allies>previous war and war scores deleted>FDR USA somehow gets control of all previously occupied territoryAnd I thought Italian civil war was cancer
>>2276415>play meme mods>get memedHow unexpected.
>>2276436>meme modsThis was vanilla
>>2276456Color me sceptical.
how was the update?
>>2290217As dogshit as this thread
>>2220582literally neverI replay total war atilla from time to time, always funrecently had slavic conversion wre run, most busted shit you ever see (well excluding ere which is just btter but less of a challenge, sucks to play without 2h axes tho).
>>2290217absolute shit, its an actual downgrade of japs and chink trees are those of minor nations, not something big like soviets or italians in their dlcsor even austriaabsolutely horrible
>>2290217New doctrines are kinda coolNew focus trees are kinda assNew navy stuff is a giant pain that is just a big middle finger to deathstackersCoal is just a stupid idea in general but its a non factor for pretty much any nation with a focus tree
>>2220599>What if one of my friends get competitive, or thinks he's better than me because he has achievements I don't haveHoly fuckI am amazed by this level of retardation. Truly stunning and brave.
>>2220599This is the gayest thing I've ever read huh
>>2290217Japan and communist China has the best focus tree, the rest are mehfactions feature is jankythe free update is dogshit as you can't request garrison from your puppets anymore
>>2220582Jokes on you for paying for it.I just had enough of it... Just one fucking missing peace conference feature, that you can't change whether to puppet, or to take for yourself territory in the peace conference, once you already spent your points into it. I was having 2000 points left, after taking and puppeting (minors) all I wanted from the soviet union, and decided to bid for an extra zone to annex to myself for the remaining score, but I didn't notice that I was still in the puppeting zone, and ended up puppeting the soviets accidentally, in just one zone, I deleted all my 1949 ironman saves (3 already since the latest add on), and I'm deleting the game too. I just can't handle it, too repetitive, and yet too easy to screw up in peace conferences while not paying attention out of boredom.Also one actually broken feature in the peace conference, that when you only want to cancel taking one zone, multiple get cancelled, and you have to redo what you take again, likely ending up forgetting something, out of repetition, and boredom.
>>2295043>user error>i-it's the gayms fault!!11!OK zoomzoom.
>>2295277It is something so common to mistake (happend to me multiple times, in varied playthroughs), that they should have retard proofed it already. After hours of repetitive tasks (that people basicly only do while listening to podcasts) half paying attention, you have to click through shit, and without much thinking (as you'd conquered the world dozens of times already), trying to get over it asap, and you may misclick then.What frustrated me the most, that I tried to be less concerned with perfection in the recent playthroughs, and just go through with hardship, however misfortunate things turn out (coup civil wars failing, and major allies shitting the bed, etc), but this broke the spirit, I just can't be bothered to tolerate a soviet puppet that I don't want to. Also ragequitting ruined my stats, that I played to 1949 jan 01 in every prior playthrough in this add-on.
>>2295309Also one thing I really fucking hate, that keeps happening to me, when I play Italy once in a long while, that when Croatia is offered up to be released, they take my core state, and remove my core from it too... and there is no option during the pop-up release to keep core states, you have to release them outside of the pop-up, if you want to keep your core.Other thing that I hate, is the scripted civil war in Italy, no matter who you try to conquer them with.Also hate the forever war in Ethiophia, because AI Italy can't finish them off soon enough. Once I bothered to even edit the text file, so the ethiops won't pick the government in exile focus, in a prior add-on, but that ruins ironman runs.
>>2295321Hate the fucking puppets spamming shit divisions at me, and ask me to join into my wars over and over again, but when I'd ask them, they don't immediately join, into the same war they offered to join a day or so ago on their own.
>>2295309Bruh, stop playing buggy and extra buggy post any major patch parashit games on mememode and pause your game while you masturbate to something on your second monitor.>scriptshit sucksYeah, it does. Mostly because they're all Band-Aid solutions to problems caused by featurecreep and dlc focuses breaking muh historical narrative that's there since release and rarely updated. It is what it is.
>>2220599Imagine being this insecure about pixels on a screen no-less. Grow up.
>>2220582
>why aren't my fleets reinforcing I should have enough ships now>check reserve fleets>40+ ships stuck in "reinforcing"How is this buggy piece of shit still not fixed
>filtered by ui
My girlfriend loves this game
>>2220599Now this is autism!
>>2298380sweaty, I keep telling you, I am pre-op :(
>>2220582what the fuck are they going to do with Australia?
The fucking danish ai spamming me with request about hosting their troops daily, unless I'm part of the Axis...
The devs really should enable to auto-max repair for naval factories, unless manually changed, and AI should have max naval repair enabled as well, because otherwise ships being end up piling up unused in their naval bases, if one is not paying attention.
>>2220582about 700 hours into HOI4 I realize that I've basically solved it. I don't even like the new alt his slop DLCs. all of my time is on historical.
>>2300707And it's not fun because they never bothered to improve the flaws that make it not fun.It's ok though. All their new dlcs have been flopping.
Every recent playthrough devolves into pajeet apocalypse, that you conquer the raj just for non-core manpower, as if any person from any race would be just as good as the other, and the game made that even worse, that the non-core recruits even get their controller countries specific bonuses. The ethiop cancer forever war is still permanently ongoing in the background.Tanks are useless waste of research, AI can't control theirs, just waste them randomly, trying to cross rivers, using them in mountains, marshes, and forests, instead using them on optional terrain only, and their templates are too low width. I made maxed out divisions out of captured tanks, but could not even reach the first rank of the tank doctrine in a dozen or so playthroughs, they give so little exp.Lately I find that air power is fully optional against AI too, just have an anti-air support company assigned instead, less research.Ships starting to get useful, now that they give a bunch of warscore if you sink your opponent's ships, and their convoys too, but the AI can't counter doomstacks.It's extremely tiresome to see the AI do the same retard shit over and over again, and even if I'd fix their focus order via modding, their templates would still suck, and even if I'd fix their templates, their tactics would still suck. Setting decent templates for AI would ruin the game's progression, and gradual improvement.Managing puppets is still cancer, they constantly nag you about joining wars. Unless I play a minor country, I just take land instead, the few extra factories are not worth the constant extra clicks. Only good idea to get puppets if you can puppet an island, so you don't need to guard that.Peace conferences randomly deselect what you have picked, as you jump from taking states, to forming satellite countries. Navies get wasted, because no countries try to take them, even if they have warscore left. AI waste their warscore to mess with you, instead of what is strategic for them.
One more run turned into fucking cancer because of a bullshit 3-way peace conference freeing nations the others don't even control.
Have an army of 24 divisions about to surround Bhutan, just one tile from them, all 24 on one tile, suddenly Bangladesh rise up, teleports 24 divisions spread out into my main country (Spain). Scripted cancer, that is retardedly inplemented, and the game is full of shit like this. I have a second army standing at the borders of Saudi Arabia, so it's wasn't playthrough ending, but it delays me a month at least to fix this shit.This new captcha is cancer too.
>>2301039Mein neger, all of those things were a thing since the literal release. And make your own tincans. AI template tanks leave a lot to be desired.
The game is enshitified (rigged to make you waste more time), even in single player. Reinforcing battles is not random, you encircle opponent units, you can't reinforce your combatting troops, despite having a near max level general, and a near max level field marshal, the enemy still brakes out, and when you need to push through a choke point, the enemy always reinforces in time, for months, until they run out of equipment. It is designed to be cancer, to leave you frustrated, expecting players to keep retrying, or even if quitting out of frustration, they don't realise the game is rigged by design. Could be a rig specificly agaisnt the Axis players, to make players associate these countries with negative emotions (being beaten down, instead of standing up against the evils of the world, and triumphing). Of course a player controlling a major will always end up winning anyways, but it will be drawn out twice as long as it would need to be, with all the nuisance of rigged situations.
>New Japan update drops, this looks cool>new focus tree with a million different paths>Conquer China and Southeast Asia, wipe out pacific fleet of US and UK with starting navy.>Conquered half of India>notification pops up>Fall of Berlin!>Check date>early 1943I just closed the game. I don't have the energy to sit through another WC anymore.
What are the chances HOI4 is going to get released on GOG like all the other pre-CK3 games?
>>230775490%+ when hearts of iron 6 comes out
>>2307431AI Germany have been playing like dogshit since a while. I think there are some scripted halt orders for their troops, because they don't advance on the Eastern Front even when there are mostly empty tiles in front of their troops (due to me drawing the soviets either north, south, or east).
>>2308317I think it might have something to do with forming their puppet countries, in czech, and polish lands, and those puppet countries somehow breaking the german supply route. Blatant anti-axis propaganda, Italy played by the AI is broken since the add-on featuring their new focus tree, with the Ethiop forever war, and Germany played by the AI is broken since the add-on changing their focus tree with making the formable puppets. If one is not set about the ironman vanilla experience, one could fix those things with editing the focus file (e.g. Ethiops not to pick the forever war focus, and Germany not to pick the form puppets focus). Also could remove the italian scripted civil war, that was put in the game to prevent another fascist country getting a free navy to doomstack with, by taking out Italy first.
>>2308325Also hate the scripted forming of Croatia, that screws either/both Italy, and Hungary. Also hate that even when AI Germany accepts AI Hungary's demand for Slovakia, AI Hungary is scripted to keep them as puppets, instead of reintegrating them, that would be more useful.
>>2220599>>2220587Anon is either 1) A shitter who cheats or tag switches to play or 2) He only play with mods 3) He only play with mods AND shits 4) He's a gay retard
>>2308328>AI would be better if it was replaced with an actual humanMany such cases. Too many, in fact.
My problem with HOI is that aside from making templates and autistically moving every unit individually (what you're not incentivized to do), the game is very shallow. You even have to play around the 'battle plan' mechanic. Best part is planning your production.
>>2308474It's AI in name only, basicly it's a script, with minimum randomness, because even the focuses that are not picked by default, there is a "weight" of what "AI" will more likely do. In many cases, it's scripted for the AI to "pick" the wrong choice, deliberately set by the devs. Some focuses AI will never pick, even when avaible, and it have nothing else to pick (e.g Manchukuo will never claim all chinese cores, or at least did not until the latest add-on).
>>2308484Just play a mod
>>2308484>Best part is planning your production.My favorite part of HOI4 was making a MATLAB script to take a current and future date, IC cost, number of factories, production efficiency, production efficiency cap, and production efficiency growth, and spit out the needed number of factories to have X produced by Y dateThe DLC absolutely ruined the game with retarded bloat and if I ever replayed it, I'd roll back to whatever the last patch before the first DLC was.
>>2309035Any good mods for people who don't like fanfic-tier visual novels written by Nick Fuentes fans?
>>2309816Just play Red dusk or kaiserreich
>>2310679KR is literally a fanfic written by groypers. Germany is the most OP country.
>>2307431Playing as Peru, taking the entire americas by 1943, all of it, Berlin still falls in 1943, with the only variety being that soviets reached them first, instead of the brits. Did a Manchukuo run, taking all of China by 1941, all of Raj the same year, AI Japan is free to go wild in the pacific, Berlin still fell, in 1943 to the allies. The most common issue is AI Italy falling fast. Either way, AI Germany is performing significantly worse than irl Germany did in WW2 (they seldom even reach Stalingrad without player help), since they got their focus tree reworked, despite facing more favorable situation.
>>2310828The whole game is absurd at it's current state, if you start as a major nation, you'll win by default. Only fascist aligned playthroughs matter, since Allies win without player intervention. This leaves the player only having any meaningful contribution as a fascist minor country, that is not auto-win, but have to correct retarded AI gameplay of Germany, Italy, and Japan. The problem is, it takes a lot of time to get most minors going, and only a handful can participate in both the eastern front, and against the Allies. The only moderately fun playthroughs I had lately were Finland, and forming the Nordic Empire, everything else sucked. Spanish Empire forms too slow, Manchukuo gets independent too slow, Bolivarian Empire too slow (could try to speed that up though), that I tried recently. Playing as either Italy, or Japan are too easy already, as you can take the soviets before the germans would even reach the focus to attack them, and allies are similarly easy opponents.
>>2310922and fucking finland isn't too strong?
>>2310932Godlike, with their bonuses if played properly, but one screwup, and you are doomed, little room for error.
>>2309816Collapsed World: Rise of Radicalismself aware schizo paths
*Collapsing World
>>2310715Yeah as it should be in a world where America disintegrates into many pieces. As I said multiple times, kalterkreig is based on the canon ending of KR
Holy fuck this naval rework genuinely ruined the game.>destroyers don't have the range to convoy escort anywhere, so north american and europe are effectively isolated>subs don't have the range to raid anywhere beyond their coastal waters, so they're basically worthless outside of coast europe and the med>support ships claim they extend the fleet's range but they basically do sweet fuck all.>can barely cover a single pacific seazoneI spent the entire prewar building up a big long-range blue water navy and all the requisite supporting infrastructure across the pacific islands only to discover when Japan finally attacked that we literally can't reach each other and I can just ignore the pacific entirely.Who thought this was a good idea? I have planes that can fly further than my destroyers can sail.
>>2310828>Playing as poopruWhy do you fags always make it so obvious you are not WhiteAlmost all of you gsg hoi4 players are latinx obssesed with the idea of making your irrelevant nations genocide White nations
>>2220582I get the urge every now and then (especially the AGOT mod and it's submods) until I remember how shit it runs after a couple hundred years.CK3 being utter baby tier garbage doesn't help and just pisses me off more.
>>2310715Uninstall and kys then tranny
>>2311352Are Argentina and Chile considered white? They have a considerable european population.
