Hearts of Iron 3

[sheek]

There are about 50 scripted events in the game total.

 

[Chef_Hathaway]

So they now followed the EU3 school of historical adherence or do historical events still happen like they did in HOI2?

I'm not entirely sure. I had Soviet Union never declare war on Poland after Germany did early 1939, instead they gained the rest of Poland the second Germany took Warsaw. Shortly after that they gave ultimatums to Baltic countries, who immediately folded and Winter War started in fucking July. They might've been bugs, or the AI been scripted to act unhistorically according to some unknown parameters.

Well, even things in HOI2 had a certain amount of leeway, like the AI Japan's Pearl Harbor could fire earlier or later than normal, or Poland could cede Danzig to you as Germany, so I can only assume it does as much in 3...

 

[Erzherzog]

In HoI2, history repeating itself is unlikely.

In HoI3, history repeating itself is impossible.

Which is not necessarily a problem, but in this case...

 

[kris]

I'm not entirely sure. I had Soviet Union never declare war on Poland after Germany did early 1939, instead they gained the rest of Poland the second Germany took Warsaw. Shortly after that they gave ultimatums to Baltic countries, who immediately folded and Winter War started in fucking July. They might've been bugs, or the AI been scripted to act unhistorically according to some unknown parameters.

Countries get "historical events" that they can trigger themself. They generally can trigger those earlier than what happened or they could do it later.

 

[Emotional Vampire]

Is there any way to start before 1936? Since some tech has a year req of 1918.

 

[Spectacle]

It's probably possible to change the start date by editing the scenario files. But in general "1918" just represents any time before the start of the game.

 

[entertainer]

you can change the starting dates in common/bookmarks.txt

 

[Emotional Vampire]

Now I just need swastikas and I'm good to go.

 

[Mefi]

Now I just need swastikas and I'm good to go.

Stony Road forums usually host a pack. Not checked for HoI3 yet, but it's usually the first place to have them up for a new HoI game. Think you have to register for their forums to download their stuff.

 

[Spectacle]

Just download the nazi flag from wikipedia and paste it over the german flag file in the game. Hoi 3 flags are just flat images, all the fancy folds and stuff displayed in the game are applied dynamically.

 

[Emotional Vampire]

For fuck's sake, why is that bothering you people? Isn't the whole point of this game to shape history? If you just want to see World War 2 all over again go watch fucking Discovery Channel.

 

[entertainer]

Yeah but stuff should make sense.

 

[sheek]

Pro tip: if you have a multi-core switch the game's affinity to just one of your cores.

You do it through the Windows Task Manager while the game is running (right click HoI3.exe)

I think it has doubled performance.

 

[Frau Bishop]

I played the "demo" for some hours. Horrible.
1.1c feels like vanilla MOO3 and looks worse.

...back to Doomsday.

 

[xrm1]

1.2 patch is out, I really should have bought HoI3 on impulse instead of gamersgate.

1-5Kb/s download speeds and providing mirrors = ZOMG HELPING THE PIRATES according to Paradox.

It's also great how game support and patch downloads are tied to their shitty forums where idiotic volunteer mods decide who gets the ban stick.

 

[Satori (original)]

So after a month of play would you say this is this better than HoI2?

 

[xrm1]

If you can live with the map (till that map mod is done at least) and the 1.2 patch doesnt break half the game then I would say yes.
I dont need 5000 events to enjoy the game though and I dont rage over Australia's 1941 OOB being slightly wrong, people that do that should probably wait until the HoI3 version of SMEP or CORE is done.

 

[Frau Bishop]

So after a month of play would you say this is this better than a medium rare steak and a couple of Mojitos plus some bonus dustbin item to fuck with while drunk?

 

[MetalCraze]

According to a review on AG.ru they turned HoI from a grand strategy into a grand wargame (hence so many provinces, basicly akin to hexes) and a complex one at that. You can create armies from different type of units this time which is cool. I'll certainly get it when it will get fixed in a few years and won't put down my system with a whopping 10 polygons on the screen.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

I still say that the biggest problem with HoI3 is Leadership system's current state making smaller (= funner) countries nigh impossible to play without tweaking the game files first.

 

[Raghar]

It's also great how game support and patch downloads are tied to their shitty forums where idiotic volunteer mods decide who gets the ban stick.

Then don't talk on these forums. No talking, no baning. I still wait for 1.3 patch, because 1.2 wont be enough.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

It's also great how game support and patch downloads are tied to their shitty forums where idiotic volunteer mods decide who gets the ban stick.

Then don't talk on these forums. No talking, no baning. I still wait for 1.3 patch, because 1.2 wont be enough.

It's surprisingly enough. The game runs smooth and the only real problem left is with the ridiculously low Leaderships smaller countries get slapped with.

 

[MetalCraze]

The game runs smooth

Considering how it looks and what it is - on what PC?

 

[Demnogonis Saastuttaja]

The game runs smooth

Considering how it looks and what it is - on what PC?

Well, when some big war breaks out it becomes unplayable on my Q8200, and it crashes often enough. Unplayable in this case means much slower than any decent turn-based system.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

The game runs smooth

Considering how it looks and what it is - on what PC?

2.4 GHz Pentium 4 with 1 GB RAM and an ASUS AH3650.