HOI2 demo!

[Gaute65]

Download the demo from Ganmershell.com

[Nikolai]

I'm 94 % through it now, WOW! I never believed I'd see the day when Paradox released a demo of one of their games...!

As Johan said it:

It contains a playable battlescenario, where you can play as either the Allies or the Germans in the Ardennes Offensive.

Its a cutdown version, where you can't techresearch, build new units or conduct diplomacy. (As most our battlescenarios work.)

[JCG]

I'm pleasantly surprised as well....it's a good marketing move, and it looks like this will either please or disappoint a lot of would-be buyers (hopefully the earlier, of course)......and now I understand why their forums are currently down too...

[Havard]

Originally posted by JCG
...and now I understand why their forums are currently down too...

All the demo downloads killed it

[Nikolai]

People should have used the mirror... I started to DL from Paradox, and got only 14 kB/s, on a broadband 2 Mb/s line! Then I tried the mirror location, and got 3000 kB/s for a few seconds, declining only ~50-90 kB/s until it landed on ~350 kB/s!

[Gaute65]

Originally posted by Havard

All the demo downloads killed it

Paradox should get bigger and better server(s)!

ps

the best hint;HINT_100;Hearts of Iron 2 is a game, not a simulation. Sometimes you may get unexpected outcomes in battles and events which seem contrary to what happened historically. This helps ensure that no two games are ever exactly the same and reduces the ability of human players to predict what will happen next

[ravagon]

Nuts. 90Mb. Oh well, nevermind. I can wait for the full game.

I've never been a huge fan of demos anyway to tell the truth. Particularly wrt strategy games - To me they never really seem to give enough of a feel for true extent of the depth (which is what I tend to look for more than anything else) ...

[Dinner]

I'm getting about 100 kb per second out of the North America mirror.

[Havard]

Originally posted by Gaute65
Paradox should get bigger and better server(s)!

Oh, I totally agree. I've been pushing on them to do so for some time...

[Nikolai]

They could need it. But a new and bigger server costs money, no? I don't know how their economy is, but they aren't that big a company yet at least.

[Dinner]

If a company is so broke that it can't afford the proper server to support their products then they are really hurting.

[Nikolai]

Well, I don't know what the price for servers is. But bear in mind that the forum is a free service to us, nothing they need to prioritize.

[JCG]

Well, the full game's out (though US distribution is rather slow apparently)....has anyone tried it yet?

[Nikolai]

It's only out for people who has preordered.