Hearts of Iron IV

[edyzmedieval]

6th of June 2016.

The new release in the Hearts of Iron franchise is slated to release tomorrow esentially - 6th of June 2016, 72 years after the D-Day.

Apparently it's exclusive only to Steam, so probably no physical release, but there are some interesting special edition packs over there!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/394360/

[Hooahguy]

I decided to pre-order because... not sure why. Ill let everyone know how it is, but Ive been watching a bunch of the Youtubers who are streaming it and so far it looks really good! Have high hopes for this one, especially as its being fleshed out down the line.

[edyzmedieval]

Pass some impressions once you get to play it, I am very interested in purchasing it. It would be a new (almost) experience for me, so HoI IV is definitely on a to-buy list.

[Hooahguy]

Same here. Tried my hand at the HOI3 demo a long time ago but found it too daunting. A big complaint from the early review versions sent to youtubers that Im hearing though is that the AI just gets dumb at around 1942 and it gets way too easy once you have your economic infrastructure in place. It seems to suffer from the same problem that the TW games have: after a certain point you can just steamroll opponents. We will see how this is addressed. Also there is the concern that it is too easy to create coups in other countries but this I think can be somewhat easily remedied in a patch. The AI issue might be more difficult to address.

[I of the Storm]

I have high hopes for this title too. I'm a HoI 1 & 2 veteran, but could never get into HoI 3. Too complicated for me.
So that's why I hope no. 4 will be an improvement.

On the other hand, Paradox titles these days tend to be in a state of completion that others would call Early Access. Which isn't too much of a problem bc they continuously improve their games. See EUIV - between 1.0 and 1.17 ... it's a completely different game now.

Anyway, I'm holding off buying it on release. I'll wait for the first 1 or 2 patches.

[Hooahguy]

I had a bit of time to try to learn the ropes. Its still a very complicated game with a ton of moving parts that arent always so clear. Certainly will take more than 40 minutes to learn this game. The tutorial has you playing as Italy and their offensive in Ethiopia. Took way longer than expected to accomplish the objective. Probably because it was Italy. Also because I had no heavy support and minimal air support. Need to learn more about the economics as it said I was low on oil and stuff. Overall though the game plays smoothly, no glaring bugs but I didnt get much time in the game yet.