Hearts Of Iron 4 Is A Broken Mess (And It's Great)

Hello and welcome to a look at some of the pointless and broken stuff still in Hearts Of Iron 4 that hasn't been updated or messed with much since the game released.

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[hmmmmmmmmmm]

The fact it takes so long to upgrade a minor railway in Australia is actually accurate to how competent the Australian government is at building shit

[mikerotch]

>Hoi4 has a lot of content

>No new continents in eight years

Paradox get your shit together

[ducksareurlords]

The tutorial is much worse than the hoi3 one where literally Hitler teaches you the game mechanics

[petrol_vadim]

4:55 sudden shipyard focus does actually give you 3 dockyards but that is only if you control a coastal province, if you dont have any coastal provinces it only gives 10 naval xp

[Smolly-chibi]

70 days to have a 10 plus opinion with China or Japan as Germany. Yeah...

[nildzrecastellanos]

To be fair that czech naval focus actually gives 3 dockyards, it just don't show up as an effect if you don't have a coast.

[riyvk]

I randomly played Mengkukuo today and theres a weird thing going on with the Japanese focus tree. If Japan either goes communist or democratic usually Mengkukuo becomes a puppet of Manchuria, but this happens *even* if Mengkukuo is a free nation. You can achieve this by going through a civil war as Mengkukuo, winning and waiting for Japan to go through their civil war. I guess the devs never really expected for Mengkukuo to be a free nation, like ever

[tibersulla]

As Portugal, if you go monarchist, and instead of picking the normal reuniting with Brazil path, you choose the take Brazil by force focci, congrats you broke the game.
You are now stuck with a permanent spirit that will eventually reduce your stability to zero with no way to remove it.

[gfdx]

I think the coordinated strike is supposed to be an ATTEMPT to simulate things like Taranto and Pearl Harbor but fails so darn miserably.

[TNOBasedBatov]

We’re not getting any Paradox sponsorships with this one 🗣🗣🗣

[KAPTAINmORGANnWoeva]

I once actually used Plant False Intelligence and I think it actually did something. It was in a game as historical Finland where I put all the fake troops on ports and the Soviets actually stopped naval invading for the duration they were there.

But this could be a placebo effect.

[commandercorl]

I used to think that "free civilian factories" meant that I should build a bunch, and once the popup goes away I had ran out of my free factories that I had been awarded by an obscure Nigerian prince.

[slsticefr]

France having a +2% special forces modifier when South America has like +15%, lmao

[Spidehman]

In Waking the Tiger, there's a mechanic where, as a minor Chinese warlord, you can engage in border skirmishes with another warlord or, eventually, with China itself. It's a 6v6 where, if you win, you gain control of the entire province.

However, there are two massive problems with this system.

1, you cannot pick where you start the border skirmish. The decision will say "start one in X province", and you don't get multiple options here, you have to pick where the game decides your next fight will be - but when it actually comes time to fight, it could be a completely different province for no reason and you only have 30 days to redeploy your best units there.

2, it used to be prior to 2023 that terrain did not factor into the battle. But I believe it is still bugged where you now get terrain penalties as the attacker - and given a vast swathe of China is either mountain tiles or city provinces, it's hard to win against warlords even though they tend to have worse supply, divisions, and tech, but near impossible against China itself, without pulling some shenanigans.

Effectively this means a warlord can never conquer all of China without outside help!

[kategrant]

How is this game 8 years old and it still feels like the devs are figuring out the kinks still?

[MrBrockHeinz]

As someone who got into the game post the reworking of planes/tanks etc, i've always wondered what the focuses were talking about when they say something like "100% bonus for fighter research" I'm like wtf, there's a fighter specific technology??? It's quite impressive that they haven't bothered to reword the text in what has been years at this point.

[redthegamer]

I bet the Sudden shipyard focus is meant to give 10 xp as a bonus to 1 or 2 dockyards. I would say that it would pick a state that has naval access to put the dockyards in, but I can't verify because why would I do naval Czechoslovakia?

[FatheredPuma]

"Let's make it so focuses show different things based on if you have stuff for them."
iSorrow: "10 NAVAL EXPERIENCE!"
and dockyards if you get a port"

[hanneslundin]

Really enjoyed this 16500 special, almost as good as last video, the 0 subscriber special, bravo ISP, another “Drew’s Daddy” banger

[aaronzamora]

The one time I saw the 'Plant Intelligence' operation worked was in a Bokoen game where the Finland player lived rent free in one of the Russian player coop. So yeah, that operation is for multiplayer only...