tankdrop24
Tread First into Hell
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- The Center of the Universe: Toronto, Canada
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- He/Him
The Hearts of Iron Megathread
- Thread starter Kiyone4ever
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- Megathread
always_confused
Perpetually unwanted
- Location
- SEA
The best part of teasers, to my fried brian, are the juicy and full focus trees. UwU
Mechasaurian
Big Bossu
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- Lost among fields of history
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- They/Them
I have it on good authority that Toolbox Theory is complete!
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It's just that the devs are deliberately withholding it as a punishment, because they hate the TNO community for poopenfarten, the Speer Hoodies, Anime Girl Dirlewanger, and the rest.
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It's just that the devs are deliberately withholding it as a punishment, because they hate the TNO community for poopenfarten, the Speer Hoodies, Anime Girl Dirlewanger, and the rest.
Random Member
Gardener of Human Happiness
- Location
- Behind You
I can't even fault them tbh.
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Yeah jokes on you I've been playing Toolbox Theory since March. /s.
Anyways. Have a minor bit of Argentina Lore
Mechasaurian
Big Bossu
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- Lost among fields of history
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- They/Them
What's this?Yeah jokes on you I've been playing Toolbox Theory since March. /s.
Anyways. Have a minor bit of Argentina Lore
Actual WW2 lore, in my TNO?
Parzival
They shall not pass. We shall overcome.
- Location
- Northern Virginia
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- He/Him
Honestly, that would make sense.
Mechasaurian
Big Bossu
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- Lost among fields of history
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- They/Them
More seriously, the probable real reasons for Toolbox Theory taking so long to come out are:
The economy actually mattering now means that pretty much every country and every path within that country needs significant changes and tweaks. Special things like the Atlantropa Dam (both before and after completion) and WerBell's mercenary contracts will need to be accounted for.
And No Step Back, along with its various free updates (including new mechanics for railroads and truck fleets) is on the way. Which makes it pretty bad timing to overhaul all of TNO's economic-industrial systems.
The economy actually mattering now means that pretty much every country and every path within that country needs significant changes and tweaks. Special things like the Atlantropa Dam (both before and after completion) and WerBell's mercenary contracts will need to be accounted for.
And No Step Back, along with its various free updates (including new mechanics for railroads and truck fleets) is on the way. Which makes it pretty bad timing to overhaul all of TNO's economic-industrial systems.
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Walker Of Chaos
Best/Worst Dynasty
- Location
- Sweden
No Step Back has not meaningfully impacted TT development at this point. We don't have any really modding info on it so we can't really plan around it and the core of what we are doing does not touch what it would involve regardless. The main thing taking time woth TT is that global mechanics that suit all countries are hard as hell to develop and make fun (and the initial version of TT not being fun was why we had to do a near total rework).
King Washington
Semi-Depressed Lurker
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- Indiana
Always thought this would be an interesting path for him. Nice.
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- A lull in the conversation
Interesting that Fascist popularity still exists while he is ConDem, I wonder if they'll add a mechanic based off of that split. It'd be kinda interesting if he could be coup'd by someone who actually believes in the 'Compassionate Conservatism' should he fail to radicalize the party sufficiently.
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- somewhere on this dying planet
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See! President Shafarevich is no fascist, he's simply a nationalistic conservative who's been constantly smeared by the
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A mod based off Beyond Earth of all things? Weird. I never would have expected that.
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Wrong thread.
always_confused
Perpetually unwanted
- Location
- SEA
Incredible how one screenshot has more content for Central Asia than any (other) mod being developed or that has been released.
I'm totally not salty about my odd geographical focuses.
I'm totally not salty about my odd geographical focuses.
When it comes to possible settings for a mod, its actually a pretty good choice.
The ultimate issue one has when playing a mod in any time period is that it has to both be viable to use armies in the manner we use them in HOI4 while also having either one giant war or lots of different wars you can get involved in directly.
This is why NWO is not a very good HOI4 mod. Its basically the HOI4 version of watching paint dry outside of Russia. Russia and Germany before the GCW actually builds up into something not more paint drying. But everyone else is worse than playing democractic in vanila: waiting around for someone else to do shit, expect you dont get to actually do much shit once someone else does something. It be better off being its own game so it could have mechanics that actually involved doing shit other than ignore 80% of the game. Like you are probably as many nations better off deleting most your army since you arent using it at all.
But Beyond Earth before the seeding? Earth is explictly in a situation where things are getting very unstable and it is canon that it will probably get worse as time goes on. This makes for plenty of oppertunity to get nations to fight each other regardless of ideology, just to secure resources to thrive as a nation. You actually have reason to care about most of the UI and core game mechanics.
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What's NWO?
hmmmmm ohhhhh it the tno NWO= The New World Order
Parzival
They shall not pass. We shall overcome.
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- Northern Virginia
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- He/Him
Actually, right thread. There's a Reds! mod coming out, and I am a contributor. And to answer @King Washington 's question, the timeline of the mod does not go that far, I think.
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King Washington
Semi-Depressed Lurker
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- Indiana
Woops. I hate when I do that
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See I figured as much but I didn't want to start an argument and then discover they were talking about something else.
tankdrop24
Tread First into Hell
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HOI4 Dev Diary - Officer Corps #2
Hello there C0RAX, here! For my first HoI dev diary, I’m here to show you the second part of the Officer Corps, a new way of personalising your military that will be included as part of No Step Back and the Barbarossa update. In the last dev...