HoI3 demo and manual

[Dinner]

anybody got the full version yet? how is it?

I understand they released a patch before the game even officially went on sale but that the patch was rather small and mainly dealt with the AI doing ****** things instead of the piss poor interface or the ungodly slow performance even on systems which greatly exceed their minimum specs.

[Jon Miller]

Well, it made it very difficult to trade period. No one would trade my supplies, and thanks to a bug that just hits the allies, the game was really hard for the first 1.5 years. Basically youd on't have the production to do the needed supplies and consumer goods....

Some would like the rare metals that I Was trading and so would have traded me supplies, but sinec you can only trade one thing at a time it wouldn't go through.

JM

[Nikolai]

You can't trade resources for resources any more and instead can only trade them for cash. I find that odd since the USSR (and later other communist states) normally traded resources for resources due to a shortage of hard currency.

Comintern can trade resources for resources.

[Nikolai]

PI's plans for 1.2:

We're aiming to spend a 1-2 weeks just improving performance and adding the most commonly requested interface/automation things you want, while improving AI where possible.

We all sat down on friday afternoon and discussed what people wanted from playing the demo and the first 1.1 players.

I'll get the roadmap up early next week.

[Spaced Cowboy]

http://apolyton.net/forums/showpost.php?p=5618032&postcount=2

Anyone who seriously thought this was going to be a smooth ride needs to get their head examined.

I'm not sure they can actually "fix" the performance issues.

[Dinner]

Comintern can trade resources for resources.

My understanding is no one can as of right now.

[Nikolai]

Then your understanding is wrong. There is a bug with supplies which will be fixed with a hotfix as soon as it's located. It was introduced with 1.1, Allies have to use most of their IC during peace on consumer goods. A user made emergency fix is made, but to the cost of trade not working as it should.

Spaced: I know I didn't expect it to work smooth. PI is good at fixing their games though. The next 1-2 weeks will be used to fix performance in a 1.2 patch.

[Jon Miller]

Currently the bug with CG makes peace time play for the AI unplayable.

A human can change policies so that he survives, the AI ends up disbanding all their units.

JM

[Nikolai]

Have you tried one of the mods that "fixes" the issue?

[EPW]

What a surprise, paradox releases another broken game.

[asleepathewheel]

I'm just pretending that HoI3 launches March 10 for $29.99.

Maybe next game they will launch with all features functional as advertised and only have minor balance tweaks to patch in. yeah right.

[Jon Miller]

Someone found a way to use the hex editor to fix the worse errors in the EXE.

Which I found really impressive.

The link to it on the paradox forum is http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/...=418373&page=7

JM

[Nikolai]

An official fix + speed optimalization will be out tomorrow.

[Protra3211]

I still plan to buy HOI3 even with the many reported problems.I know they will fix the game.But its going to take time.Older fans of Paradox,s games will understand but new people picking up this title will wonder what is going on.