--TIME STAMPS-- 00:00 Intro 05:02 Brazil national focus review 14:44 Chile national focus review 16:29 Paraguay national focus review 18:02 Uruguay national focus review 18:37 Argentina national focus review 23:00 final tier list 23:19 thoughts on the modding comparison 27:14 final thoughts
@CatfoodChronicles6737
6 ай бұрын
Bro became that guy 💀
@thencrranger5628
6 ай бұрын
are you seriously ignore En Unión y Libertad mod?
@guybrushthreepwood362
6 ай бұрын
Honestly if they just gave all of Latin America focuses I would be so much less annoyed with this dlc because at least it wouldn't feel so anemic for the price, even without features you could justify the cost if there were like 15ish trees. I still would not buy it unless if I was playing in the region and I would prefer some universal features but it wouldn't feel like such a scam
@owangejewice
6 ай бұрын
Feedback: Brazil is a bit overwhelming... Have you played Russia?
@cristiansaez8132
6 ай бұрын
Just for the record: * "América du Sul" is Portuguese, not Spanish. * Incas are as native to Chile as the British to North America. What Paradox used are the Mapuche, an umbrella term for several native groups from Chile (exact composition is context dependent), located on south Chile and parts of the Argentinian Patagonia. This path makes about as much sense as the Cherokee taking over USA's government and setting a kingdom presided by the 3rd pretender of "Emperor" Joshua Norton (Do note that Norton had more real power and estime that the entire line of "Mapuche Kings" ever had... and Norton left no pretenders).
@FogoPQ
6 ай бұрын
The pricing went wrong
@red14carbluebattleship76
6 ай бұрын
I think this is the thing. If it was cheaper, I don't think people would have complained as much. The entire Modding thing I ignore, because while they are cool, at the end of the day they are simply bonuses to stretch out a games lifespan.
@Nerazmus
6 ай бұрын
The pricing is the same as every other regional pack of the same size. Well, technically a buck more expensive, which is remarkably low given the massive inflation the world went through.
@CausticSpace
6 ай бұрын
@@Nerazmus the V3 version of this DLC is 6 dollars and has way more content, insane cope
@krasnamerah1926
6 ай бұрын
@@Nerazmus, Rupiah lost 50% of its value in January 2022, resulting in the contents becoming twice as expensive for Indonesians. I preordered No Step Back on November 2021 at 109k Rupiahs, and when i discovered that the preorder for By Blood Alone in August 2022 is at 215k Rupiahs, i stopped buying DLCs altogether.
@piskishomo
6 ай бұрын
but every over dlc adds some expansion to gameplay, aside from focuses. Eg tank, airplane designers, weapon market, agencies, etc
@dirkoftheblaze2352
6 ай бұрын
If this DLC was all of South America it would be a lot less painful.
@burch8400
6 ай бұрын
Try American Dictator mod
@123four...
6 ай бұрын
Yeah currently it's just a worse paid version of "En Unión y Libertad"
@FairyRat
6 ай бұрын
Yeah that's just bizarre.
@haukionkannel
6 ай бұрын
If it would be whole south america… it would be at least douoble as expensive… So do we get two dlc $15 each or one dlc $30… whatnis the difference?
@mccleaner2214
6 ай бұрын
@@haukionkannel i would have whole south america with focus trees and some flavor and i dont need to wait for another dlc to add the remaining focus trees instead they would focus on germany?
@LizardlandArcanium
6 ай бұрын
The "mini" focus trees for Uruguay and Paraguay are the same size as the German focus tree LMAO
@Darktrap-e5d
6 ай бұрын
He says mini because most of them are focuses where u have to choose one or the other. It makes the focus tree alot smaller when you play it
@sejozwak
6 ай бұрын
XD
@sejozwak
6 ай бұрын
half of german focus tree is mutually exclusive with each other @@Darktrap-e5d
@Inquisite1031
5 ай бұрын
@@Darktrap-e5d I mean, the german focus tree is rather small tbh, for todays standards and considering how big Germanys is in the game, u could even say the entire game is focused around Germany, a Germany rework of the rework is long over due
@Bizmarckus
2 ай бұрын
@@Inquisite1031 One that doesn't cost cash, we already paid for the DLC that reworked Germany, shouldn't have to pay for the same thing twice just because they decided to change how they make their focus trees.
@nathanstruble2177
6 ай бұрын
USA and Japan still need reworked Focus Trees, but instead we got half of South America. For the price of an expansion.
@MrEdioss
6 ай бұрын
4 games during summer fest
@Labargoth
6 ай бұрын
Exactly. They chose this because they can make more money that way. Reworking previous DLC focus trees would be way harder to justify monetizing again to the community.
@randompillow5146
6 ай бұрын
And Germany. It isn’t a bad tree, but it’s quite lackluster for the most important country in the war.
@alsob1062
6 ай бұрын
@@Labargoth they made 3 DLCs free to justify just that.
@krasnamerah1926
6 ай бұрын
Nah, the last time i viewed the Workshop, AAT (an expansion) is at 20$, Battle for the Bosporus (a countrypack) is 10$, but Trial of Allegiance is at 15$. So it seems a halfway point between a countrypack and a proper expansion with mechanics.
@AtlantiansGaming
6 ай бұрын
Paradox Failed their Trial of Allegiance to the players! 🤣
@saddleg00se77
6 ай бұрын
Yoooooooo ☠️☠️☠️
@Joshua429
6 ай бұрын
Frrrrrrrrrr
@HerrLindstrom
6 ай бұрын
Vote with your wallets gentlemen. Dont buy it and tell PDX "No! This is f*cking bull💩!" Then they will do a Creative Assembly apology and lower their price. We can do this!
@KaiczeriC
2 ай бұрын
Bro cooked PDX 😂😂😂
@tagus100
6 ай бұрын
- Shared military path between all the trees, which lead to Brazil becoming horrifically unbalanced. - The sentiment that not every country needs an in-depth, 100+ foci tree, especially when they didn't have a noticeable impact on the period of history in general. - The neglect of trees that desperately need a re-work, such as Japan, Germany & the USA. - The fact that mods, primarily Road to 56, already gave us an overhaul for South America, completely for free. - The price was too expensive given that no new mechanics or features were included.
@Featherus_
6 ай бұрын
As a dev on Road to 56: our South American trees are bad. Some of the oldest in the mod. These are absolutely better trees.
@vlanderytbr
6 ай бұрын
There is also a mod called Union y Liberdad that is literally better than a DLC made by a company that is worth millions 😂
@Featherus_
6 ай бұрын
@@vlanderytbr Yep! Its a very good mod.
@crit-c4637
6 ай бұрын
That last point is the biggest, especially since they've acknowledged through their recatagorizing this and Battle For the Bosporus as "Country Packs", rather than expansions.
@DefaultProphet
6 ай бұрын
2 and 4 are nonsense
@tensai9906
6 ай бұрын
it's not a DLC it's a focus tree mod that you could find on steam workshop
@sejozwak
6 ай бұрын
what was the name of the mod?
@Eldesmentidordecreepypastas
6 ай бұрын
@@sejozwak I think he's talking about En Unión y Libertad
@sejozwak
6 ай бұрын
@@Eldesmentidordecreepypastas Ah yeah, paradox
@aidanfedorochko3728
6 ай бұрын
Bizzare choices hurt Brazil like no coring Portugal as monarchists and the United States of South America not getting cores which hurts the play through.
@Guns_Blazin
6 ай бұрын
The former is especially bizarre especially considering the Portuguese monarchist path can do so and is almost the prerequisite for the Macau My Day achievement.
@ZetoBlackproject
6 ай бұрын
What cores the USSA doesn't get?
@eclipse_434
6 ай бұрын
I kind of agree with what you're saying, but Paradox really needs to learn how to give the player more freedom to incrementally and slowly gain more manpower and cores without ridiculous and comically overpowered focus trees granting the player millions of manpower at the click of a mouse. Things like modifiers to non-core manpower, monthly population growth, weekly manpower increases, boosting pop growth with public health, immigration policies, compliance of occupied territories, impressment of encircled prisoners of war into the military, etc. could be used alongside gaining additional cores. The player should be allowed to utilize resources like political power, factories, trade resources, command power, construct civilian buildings, etc. to slowly gain cores over the course of years of in game time. Paradox has arbitrarily and foolishly limited themselves in game design and development to only assigning cores through focus trees and political power decisions when we could have more comprehensive and fleshed out system instead.
@Бекрия
6 ай бұрын
@@eclipse_434hoi4 isn't the same global strategy as eu4/vic2/stellaris, it's more of an ordinary wargame about preparations for the Second World War and the Second World War itself. Monthly population growth is an absolutely useless thing while most of the games aren't last for even a 10 years, when you conquered Axis/Allies and the game starts to lag and slow down.
@eclipse_434
6 ай бұрын
@@Бекрия Monthly population growth can easily net you tens of thousands of extra manpower over the course of a few years. You just don't notice it because it's really subtle when compared to the glaringly obvious losses of war casualties or the huge sudden influx of manpower gained when going up a conscription law or when gaining new core territories. Adding more mechanics in game that give the player the ability to unlock a slow trickle of increasing manpower through various mechanics like compliance, weekly increases, immigration, population growth, etc. would be a great addition to HOI4 because it avoids power creep while forcing the player to act in accordance to long term strategic interests of slowly gaining manpower while skillfully avoiding losses due to casualties. This is fundamentally way better game design than pressing a button and gaining millions of manpower due to the power creep of DLC focus trees giving the player the ability to core entire continents.
@Elongated_Muskrat
6 ай бұрын
Paradox inventing “Brazilian Spanish” must be the real problem.
@ericposey-vt5ej
6 ай бұрын
Wait seriously? I don’t have hoi4 installed to check.
@DiogoSalazar
6 ай бұрын
Brazilian here. Where do we have Brazilians speaking Spanish? The soldiers speak with a Carioca accent that gives me the nerves but that is still Portuguese
@monarchistrun
6 ай бұрын
@@DiogoSalazarsotaque carioca realmente é a pior coisa que a paradox poderia adicionar
@klemklemius5091
6 ай бұрын
Lmao😂
@charmyzard
6 ай бұрын
Please explain.. How bad did things get?
@TobyTopF
6 ай бұрын
For those wondering, the country with the banditry problems is Manchukuo
@nicholasv1023
6 ай бұрын
It really feels like the trees were all just kind of made independent of each other instead of them being together. For example the focus that just let's Brazil invade Uruguay is nonsensical in real life Argentina would not let that happen. Instead of there being balance in the region one tree (the player) becomes super overpowered and just rolls over the other nations. Idk how many times I have to say this but look to kaisereich. The Devs of kaisereich balanced south America and made it interesting with various events that make it feel like the nation is reacting to your actions as a leader
@jsloa1
6 ай бұрын
They also went further and changed how some nations worked, ala, the USA. Before you could avoid the ACW via an event chain, but it will fail no matter what as you get Couped by MacArthur. The removed it because it would locked out or remove a number of event for Latin and South America.
@Shayrin2
6 ай бұрын
Exactly this. It feels like some random new modders teams were each assigned a country and told to do whatever they want with it. It’s nonsensical.
@lokenontherange
6 ай бұрын
Kaiserreich sucks tho.
@ShakyBakey
6 ай бұрын
@@lokenontherange Best rated mod for hoi4. Most people disagree.
@lokenontherange
6 ай бұрын
@@ShakyBakey Most people liking something isn't evidence of quality.
@franciscomerino5150
6 ай бұрын
I think the neglected state thingy is there so you don't build anything there, thus neglecting the state. It pushes you to neglect them as was historically. Neglect.
@crit-c4637
6 ай бұрын
Except the focus tree and the buff you get from completing all the focuses to remove the neglect is counter to that. You are clearly not supposed to neglect them, it's just the way it's done is through the focus tree rather than something else, like decisions that have a cost, or building a little in that region with the penalty, to remove the penalty for future building. There are many better ways they could've done it.
@Zack_Wester
6 ай бұрын
@@crit-c4637 I think thats a massive problem of in HOI4 you got one recourse.... yes we also got civilian industry consumer product but thats just so backwards. what I mean is that when you on Civilian industry (civilian should use some of that factories to make roads and railways over time, pre war trucks and you know civilian industry stuff... I mean the capatalism are not just making toaster they are also at this point in time building factories and so on. Political power and you spend like 150 points on hiring one person or you spend X to do project Y and the output off them all are so over the place. think the game need two additional reseroces/point Civilian Capital this is found the civilian industry would use that is not controlled by the military. then Military Resorces/point same deal here.
@gaguiar
6 ай бұрын
It's so obvious that it hurts when he doesn't get it
@LinkFelton
6 ай бұрын
If the DLC was more like $10, I think it would have gotten a lot better reviews. It's ONLY focuses. It's not one of the normal $20 DLCs with focuses, mechanics, rebalances and the likes. The issue is 100% the price. I like the Focus trees so far and think they are a great fit, just not at the price point it's at.
@ThomasTHEONEANDONLY
6 ай бұрын
The Mostly Negative Reviews it’s been given on Steam reminds me of By Blood Alone.
@haukionkannel
6 ай бұрын
It problems goes away soon when they release new big dlc for $40 to $50… so $15 will be cheap! 😂
@fehyth3400
6 ай бұрын
"américa do sul is in spanish" no my man, this is portuguese
@SaintRubicon
6 ай бұрын
womp womp, maybe be more relevant as a language and people wont mistake it
@braziliantsar
5 ай бұрын
@@SaintRubiconPoor ragebait
@meliwest
2 ай бұрын
„Uhm guyz its akshually not spanish its (basicly the same language) 🤓☝️!”
@VkrauRJ
Ай бұрын
@@meliwest Very different language.
@meliwest
Ай бұрын
@@VkrauRJ exact same language
@BlazingFlame69
6 ай бұрын
Being a dlc about south america yet not even having any shit for the northern half of the continent with that pricing is crazy
@maurovega6649
6 ай бұрын
It truly is, when you have a mod like En Union y Libertad that not only reaches the north of south america, with a custom focus tree for most of them, not with a copy/paste military tree with each country having a solid buff for X for free, compared to this lackluster DLC, it just show's modder's love compared to "want money"
@KAPTAINmORGANnWo4eva
6 ай бұрын
6:37 - This is the problem with all historical strategy games really. The game will naturally launch with the most content for history's heaviest hitters, so as expansions come out more and more marginal countries end up benefiting from the refinement that development goes through. Think about another game series for this too: Civilization. Civilization will presumably always launch with Persia, Rome, China, America, England, etc. as countries from day 1, so they get tethered to vanilla game features and sensibilities. Then when later expansions come along adding way less globally impactful countries like Canada those are the ones that get new mechanics or funky bonuses that make them more fun to play than history's greatest empires. The problem for this with HOI is that the games will always _need_ the main 8 countries of WW2 (China, Japan, Italy, Germany, France, UK, USA, USSR) to launch with content. And so the USSR or Italy can sit around for 5-6 years waiting for updates while the Chinese Warlords or Netherlands get gimmicks more novel than anything they can do. Since they're now directly integrating older expansions into the base game, I imagine that means we'll get _another_ paid set of expansions for the Commonwealth states, Central Europe, and/or the Chinese theater later this year.
@cirokistermann7834
6 ай бұрын
Bad example, the Netherlands is garbage, it's not even terrible, but it forces you not to play alone in your own faction.
@james2529
6 ай бұрын
It's fairly simply. People wanted a Germany rework with an austrian and Belgian tree attached. We got a whole region no one cares about for way too much money with very little content.
@andresdiazgarrido3940
6 ай бұрын
Have more respect for Latin America, you know who cares? To Latinos, every region deserves to be represented so measure your words
@aaronsherman91
6 ай бұрын
@@andresdiazgarrido3940ok, except this is a game about world war 2, not a “make everyone in every country feel good” simulator. And Germany, the country that is basically the “main character” of the game hasn’t been updated in years, and the Latin American countries played virtually no role of significance in the entire conflict.
@mikkel066h
6 ай бұрын
@@aaronsherman91Brazil send some soldiers to italy.
@andresdiazgarrido3940
6 ай бұрын
@@aaronsherman91 It is not the fault of the Latins that they have made a DLC like this, go complain to paradox, do not belittle a region that is not to blame for anything
@aaronsherman91
6 ай бұрын
@@mikkel066h I know, but you basically just proved my point, if that the first defense you have for this whole thing. We’re talking about the largest war in human history, and you’re talking about one country, who sent a fairly small amount of troops, to a third rate power on the other side. Nothing you just described can’t be replicated in the game by the Brazil player click “send volunteers” to America. Look, if South America as a whole didn’t exist, it wouldn’t have very little impact on the entirety of the war, that’s a fact. I get it if you’re from there, you’re excited your country gets some focuses, but that’s not what 99% of the player base wants, or what even makes sense from a game design perspective. There are mods that do what paradox did better and for free.
@Acksn
6 ай бұрын
Selling focus trees when the workshop is free
@TheRadPlayer
6 ай бұрын
And the free mods are generally higher quality than the crud Paradox pumps out.
@haukionkannel
6 ай бұрын
Workshop things are done for fun… Dlc are done for salary. Big difference!
@Eldesmentidordecreepypastas
6 ай бұрын
@@haukionkannel A salary for a mediocre work? No thanks, that doesn't deserve my money.
@themrsaltysplatoon7100
6 ай бұрын
Cutting trees to sell in the workshop - paradox
@benlewis4241
6 ай бұрын
Then don't buy it man- nobody is forcing you to support the game.
@niku4154
6 ай бұрын
> Chile can core France within their focus tree before 1940 > Everybody can become a Superpower not by Player Strategy but by being force-fed Wargoals and Cores > "Ejercito xyz" "the xyz Army" Bonusses that break the game entirely, sure, a little +2,5% here can't hurt, but then late game you get to a point where you don't even need to think anymore, your Army is insanely buffed, and the carefully crafted Doctrines and Warfare/ Combat System with all the math that makes this game special is just not needed anymore. Overall I'm thoroughly disappointed in PDX, Countries like Germany still have bugged events like Molotov-Ribbentrop, not coring some states as some formables like south-western France/ Basque Country as the EU, or Cairo/ Yemes, etc. as Arabia, and so many other Bugs that ruin the game. The game itself needs a THOROUGH redirection toward Balance, sensible Focus Trees/ Formables and Fixing Bugs. We don't need or want a country that has done almost nothing in WW2 to be able to nonsensically core what is practically the entire world.
@benlewis4241
6 ай бұрын
While I agree with some of your points (Particularly about OP focuses) I wholeheartedly disagree with others. Do you really want paid for patches? How otherwise do you propose funding the teams?
@MetnePoKa
6 ай бұрын
Well how should I say this. I'm Brazilian, I've been waiting for some kind of DLC or content for Brazil for a long time, and honestly when they announced it with the trailer, I cried with joy because the fuck there's finally going to be some attention for Brazil. In return what did I receive? a tree that politically doesn't make any sense if you look at the history of Brazil, some industrial businesses that don't make sense to exist, in addition to not correcting the issues of natural resources present in Brazil (remembering that Brazil is extremely rich in natural resources), and the military development tree is relatively decent, but the focus timing is really bad and you don't feel strong enough to beat Argentina, which received a focus in the same update, because if you play, you won't even be able to beat Uruguay. if you put the issue of military bonuses side by side. And that's because I haven't yet talked about the MIO or government advisors, many of whom should have requirements based on ideology and don't, and those of the war council simply haven't changed, so there are still mistakes like the former president from Brazil Floriano Peixoto as a possible advisor to the navy alive in 1936 and he died in 1895. Furthermore, many of the military and armed forces themselves had an ACTIVE life within Brazilian politics after the fall of the monarchy, and this is not represented IN NO ASPECT of the tree, much less with the generals who could have traces of factions like many other generals have in other nations, because as a Brazilian it is completely ridiculous for me to follow a monarchist path and still have access to Marshal Candido Rondôm, who was a firm republican, in addition to being an indigenist (which is another thing that is not portrayed), honestly the dlc is not worth its value or even its content.
@maurovega6649
6 ай бұрын
Fr, as an argentinian i was also hyped for the DLC, since there was quite a bit of political turmoil in the country, and any political party movement ended up in the army taking up arms, but the fact that, if you know how to play, you can avoid every civil war by not doing the focus of the war, getting the national referendum, and skipping maybe a year's worth of focus without loosing the bonus, ngl, better stick to En Union y Libertad
@leongremista95
6 ай бұрын
being rich in natural resources doesn't mean brazil was able to access them in 1936. perhaps you would need a LOT of resource development decisions tied to excavation and construction technologies to make that accurate
@Gabriel-sdf
6 ай бұрын
Comunist Lampião... When you go down the monarchist path and conquer south america, the flag goes back to the republican one, and the name changes to just "South America" But this nothing new to the bloody game, remember "No Step Back"? the Russian alternate focus tree iss also nuts, Non Aligned Russia still has the old Naval st Andrew cross flag, the name is changed to "R U S S I A" instead of something like, Russian Empire or Tsardom of Russia, There are still advisors and other characters for a democratic path (Like Alexander Kerensky) but there's no Democratic path was ever implemented! And don't get me started on the whole Third Rome nonsense, Its just retarded.... but it pales in comparison to the new Mapuche/ Decolonization focuses, these are just Red Flood Level of mental retardation. Paradox's just lazy mate, you know what? the players DESERVE what they get, all they do is complain but they still fucken buying their incomplete, overpriced, POS DLC's and products.
@notmjmjcj6815
6 ай бұрын
1. Price 2. Lack of content 3. No one wanted it 4. Mods do a better job 5. Not very interesting focus trees
@johnnicholas1657
6 ай бұрын
I'm glad you mentioned the lack of consistency with localisation. Would be nice if there was a toggle for it. The focus trees lack of consistency makes the recent ones seem like a mod, where one modder has used localisation for their tree and another one hasn't. It kinda suggests the dev team aren't properly discussing it
@jeffreystout1140
6 ай бұрын
8:25 that would be Manchukuo
@gildedphoenix
6 ай бұрын
Turkey as well
@Carlo_von_Habsburg
6 ай бұрын
@@gildedphoenixturkey doesn’t have bandits it has Kurdish rebels
@gildedphoenix
6 ай бұрын
@@Carlo_von_Habsburg same mechanic though
@Carlo_von_Habsburg
6 ай бұрын
@@gildedphoenix similar
@joshuanuciola8070
4 күн бұрын
@@gildedphoenix if i recall the kurds actually free themselves if not delt with the bandits dont
@erwinrommel2972
6 ай бұрын
We wanted Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia. They gave us Brazil, Argentina, Chile
@tuff9486
6 ай бұрын
unironically much better
@Wustenfuchs109
6 ай бұрын
You know, a company that actually cares about their player base would include focus trees like this as a part of a patch. Or put a symbolic price of $0.99 at the worst. To actually charge the full price of an expansion that adds several new features to the game... for a few focus trees for the least played countries in the game... they deserve all the flak they get from this. When your game is getting more substantial content for FREE from modders, including a whole conversion mods with crapton of content, publishing a DLC which is just very basic content and pricing it $15 is just a huge dick move. What they need to do is issue an apology for the mistake, refund the $ and make the focus trees a part of a patch. But they won't do that in a million years - it is Paradox. Outside those AAA developers with microtransactions and gaming-as-a-service etc. Paradox has the worst DLC monetization policy in the industry at the moment.
@melfice999
6 ай бұрын
Issues with the DLC are South America > Does not include all of South America. Price Tag. Region that is very very Hit and Miss in most if not all games. Weird and Odd design choices, such as no cores in Portugal for Brazil if they go monarchist.
@terribleplayer2526
6 ай бұрын
It's a good addition to the game, it's just not the one the game needed, the stupid priorities Paradox has and the pricing annoys me. Where is the Japanese rework? The focus trees are actually really good and paths like Democratic paraguay are honestly some of the most fun I had playing in vanilla it's just absurd that we didn't get Gran colombia path for example.
@aleksaradojicic8114
6 ай бұрын
Paradox was actually really clear on there priority. They can make 1 major DLC every year, while in betwen they can realise this smaller packs for less popular regions. As such, Germany/Japan rework will most likely come in major DLC.
@lisaruhm6681
6 ай бұрын
The issue with a Japan or Germany rework was, that they already had one in a dlc, which are now to be integrated into the main game, so they can get a proper rework.
@terribleplayer2526
6 ай бұрын
Well we pray it comes the next dlc because Japan and Germany and China really need to be looked at again
@lokenontherange
6 ай бұрын
@lisaruhm6681 The old reworks were done poorly so they'll sell you another product.
@lisaruhm6681
6 ай бұрын
@@lokenontherange Id say more like they are in some of the oldest dlcs of the game. They were done in 2017 and 2018, so 6 and 7 years ago...
@aodhanfitzgerald1491
6 ай бұрын
I think in terms of focus trees this pack was actually better then AAT but I understand peoples frustration by the price- tag i feel sorry for the devs because hoi being such a sandbox game means that the community is full of people who play for very different reasons some love role play some are statistic addicts I guess a focus tree only dlc was never gonna make everyone happy
@CubeInspector
6 ай бұрын
Certainly not when they charge so much
@dulguunjargal1199
6 ай бұрын
Kaiserriech, Kaiserredux, TNO and EaW devs give as much Content as every Vanilla DLC Combined FOR FREE. The Paradox Devs should review the Games Monetisation and Community because most people probably prefer to have 200 Hours worth of Content in EaW for free than only 60 Hours in any DLC that costs more than 10 Dollars
@attackmaster519
6 ай бұрын
It has almost nothing to do with "pleasing everyone", and almost everything to do with Paradox's insane pricing scheme. Hearts of Iron IV is $39.99. Trial of Allegiance is $14.99 This DLC is 37.5% of the base game's price, almost 2/5. Does the DLC provide anywhere near 2/5 of the value as the base game? Even someone who really enjoys country packs like this is going to have a hard time justifying that. Especially when passionate fans in the community provide this exact type of content, free of charge. I can't say what the exact price should have been, as I imagine there would be a lot of debate over that. But for me personally, a DLC that provides this much content would start being "overpriced" in my eyes past 5 dollars. People are just outraged at Paradox because they keep doing this, for all of their games, and it has only been getting worse.
@Chibitactico
6 ай бұрын
I'm chilean and i played a lot with Chile on this DLC and i really think they made the country too strong. Strong enough to make it boring to play after conquering Argentina and Brasil. I think that the dev team needs to buff South American AI as when conquering said countries they don't even have enough divisions to fill the frontline. Chile, with it's very limited manpower can conquer the entire world with almost no micro and no encirclements. So reducing country buffs and buffing the SA AI and adding some mechanic to SA countries to form alliances or/and receive volunteers could make it more challenging.
@jjquinn295
6 ай бұрын
Or make the America intervention decisions avaliable from the start and have the AI take them after you declare a second war or something like that. Make it much more interesting if you have to fight the US and Brazil after you take Argentina for example
@fabianeweil192
6 ай бұрын
Yeah, more Challenger equals more fun
@Kurondrion
6 ай бұрын
I just did a commie chile play through and yeah was able to conquer neighbors is easy. But god damn did the USA rock my shit once I had instiaged wars in most places. I almost lost and germany almost collapsed. Would have lost without collabs / germany there.
@AllegranoVioletMelody
6 ай бұрын
Maybe like an intervention when you push so far you can get your claim states or resources right but you got a truce with the country if you deny it and keep going then you get a hit to your stability and resources like you get blockades and can only get rid of it if you have a massive sub fleet or blockade runners or do something with the USA. Also a massive debuff in the regions since each country has a theme of what type of terrian you have to fight in and have a series to decisions to get a support company to deal with it works because it would take time and that the counties can't fight well in any hard terrian so they have to take decisions to learn how to do it or research support companies to deal with them. Since South America has terrian that is hard to get around and maybe use that to help balance things.
@nildzrecastellanos
6 ай бұрын
Not only is this DLC overpriced for what it offers, but it's also a bundle of powercreep.
@TheMaztercom
6 ай бұрын
I remember when hoi4 was a ww2 experience, now is a cluster of clown paths
@Thatonepersonyouheard
6 ай бұрын
That died with Death or Dishonor. When Austria-Hungary became the 'default' tree for Hungary, it created a race to the bottom for the craziest nonsensically and overpowered focus trees
@leonardooliveira4627
6 ай бұрын
HoI4 never was a good WW2 experience. Glad they went full on ahistorical because the game is just lacking way too much to remotely simulate the real war. Even HoI3 is better in this aspect.
@picollojr9009
6 ай бұрын
@@leonardooliveira4627 i remember when people stopped complainig and went into modding... That used to be nice, nowdays it is jusr "UGH YU DIDI NOT GET WHAT AIII WANT"
@CMitchell808
6 ай бұрын
It hasn’t been about WW2 in a long time.
@TheMaztercom
6 ай бұрын
@@picollojr9009 you paying for what the game is advertising, a ww2 simulator, still, paradox fans are so brainless, they believe mods are a core feature of the game, no dude, the community doesnt need to fix the useless state the game is
@TricaGamer
6 ай бұрын
7:15, its portuguese :c
@jogado2713
6 ай бұрын
Sim 😂😂😂😂😂
@0926001
6 ай бұрын
to say spanish on the brazilian focus is a disgrace, we deserve another video playing brazil for that 🤣
@MrEdioss
6 ай бұрын
It's fiber optic cable
@eclipse_434
6 ай бұрын
After some time to think about the DLC and evaluate it, Paradox should've done full focus trees for all of South America, and we should have gotten a major mechanical release or rework. In particular, a rework of the political and trade system would have been perfect to release alongside South America since the continent largely takes a supporting role of the WWII great powers both in actual history and in game. The continent is a perfect early game sandbox for both players and the great powers to influence political relations and ideologies as South American states scramble in the mid game to support various powers, blocs, and factions that align with their interests before WWII erupts and entangles South America in the late game. The in game mechanics and systems for ideologies, civil wars, insurrections, diplomacy, relations, factions, puppets, allies, trade, resources, etc. are frustratingly rigid and outdated as they leave the player very little choice to freely and flexibly manipulate international relations or wage war without having a major faction of great powers (especially the Allies) jump right up their ass. Both in historic and in ahistoric modes, it is super frustrating to constantly tip toe around guarantees, world tension, and factions with very little in the way of counterplay. A good example of this would be a major rework of liberal democracies. Playing as democratic countries is one of the most unenjoyable experiences in the game, and there is little to no ability to do anything except sit around and wait for a war to jump into. There is also no way to slowly change your ideology or politics as a democracy in the mid/late game to become more militaristic, nationalist, expansionist, jingoist, revanchist, irredentist, or hawkish which could partially remedy how fucking awful democracies are in HOI4. By giving players the ability in the early/mid game (without locking themselves into focus trees) to slowly and peacefully change their governments (especially democracies) into something more hawkish, imperialistic, illiberal, and colonialist, the player can pursue a late/end game build where they can both participate in WWII as a democratic member of the Allies just to betray and dominate the post WWII balance of power. Also, the addition of other ideologies or ideological umbrellas would be a fun thing. Why is the non-aligned ideology so mechanically crude, lackluster, and mediocre? Why don't unaligned countries get significant bonuses to diplomacy with the other three major ideological blocs of liberalism, communism, and fascism? What about creating additional sub-ideologies like theocracy, isolationism, traditionalism, monarchism, illiberalism, social democracy, conservatism, militarism, etc. and sticking them under the four ideological umbrellas of non-aligned, communism (really Marxism), liberalism, and fascism? I know HOI4 is supposed to be a war game where you inevitably get sucked into a world war, but it's very annoying as a player to experience lack of freedom over your own ability to navigate and influence politics, diplomacy, and trade. Trials of Allegiance was marketed as a South American sandbox where the player gets entangled into regional South American conflicts tied to WWII, but in reality, it's just a continuation of the same annoying, tired, cliched political dynamics of the Allied powers declaring war on anyone that upsets their global hegemony just because there have been no serious efforts to rework the diplomatic, political, and trade mechanics of HOI4. I'm having fun with the expansion, but it's still a shallow, disappointing waste of potential for Paradox to squander the opportunity to mechanically rework the game and add respectable focus trees to all South American states.
@haukionkannel
6 ай бұрын
Do you want full south america dlc for $30 or two south america DLCs for $15… what is better? This way they did take less risk by seing if this sell enough to make the other dlc or not!
@eclipse_434
6 ай бұрын
@haukionkannel Quit making excuses for corporations that rip us off by selling low quality products. Paradox has the resources and could have easily have produced focus trees for all nine countries in South America. Modders do this shit for free and often do it better. Gamers are such uncritical, servile consumers that they feel the need to rationalize and justify the exploitative practices of corporations.
@Eldesmentidordecreepypastas
6 ай бұрын
@@eclipse_434 The worst thing is this is not even a South America sandbox; but is a half South America sandbox. Peru and Ecuador had literally a war in the middle of WW2 and Bolivia still has aspirations to retake their coast. But no; for PDX are more important Chile and Argentina who didn't do nothing in this context or even Paraguay and Uruguay which are the most unknown countries of South America (besides the Guianas) and again they did nothing. You can see in the teaser trailer, inside the title box, a map which shows the north of South America; and realizing that from this region only Brazil is in the DLC looks even like a scam and a false advertising And also, based comment.
@tkc1129
6 ай бұрын
I feel like if you want to bring back a native empire, there needs to be some in-game way to make that happen. If I'm not mistaken, a lot of South American countries don't (or at least didn't) think much of native societies. So what would be cool is doing a focus to make an Army division with a unique Commmander, an admiral, and/or maybe Ace Pilot who are Native American. Then, if that army division's Commander is promoted to all the way to Field Marshall, there is a unique upgrade to the Field Marshall that allows them to become a political advisor. As a political advisor, all of your Army divisions gain like 20% of what he had as a Field Marshall, it unlocks a part of the focus tree to idolize native societies. That way, you have to decide whether to keep him as a Field Marshall for a long time to get as many universal bonuses as possible, or promote him to a Political Advisor as quickly as possible to start on the new focuses. The same could be done with the Admiral, but I'm not sure what you could do with the Ace Pilot... maybe you just have to keep generating Ace Pilots until you can form a Native Pilot Council by losing 3 Native Ace Pilots...? Anyway, in the formerly-locked Native part of the Focus Tree, you can do stuff like gain compliance faster in more rural states, gain a recruitable pop factor bonus in more rural states, core former Incan states once their compliance is high enough, and make Integrated Puppets of Aztec, Mayan, Cherokee, or Apache nations (maybe for displaced tribes, you have to control both their original territory and their new territory, connect both territories with trains, lose a certain number of trucks, trains, and civilian factories for a time, but you can form these Integrated Puppets even during wartime).
@TheMetalfreak360
6 ай бұрын
Well for my part is that I am played HOI4 so much that I am burnt out for a while, so I am gonna avoid it until me and my friends gets the itch back and then we probably gonna get it.
@goji3908
6 ай бұрын
Manchukuo is the nation with banditry
@kajetan9906
6 ай бұрын
Someone at Paradox must be a fan of South America. Within a few months both Victoria 3 and HOI4 got South America DLCs
@Zerum69
6 ай бұрын
The main reason Argentina wants those islands is national prestige and security for their coast (as you know the UK and US are both known to solve issues by simply blockading nations until they're too weak to refuse any and all terms) having islands like that all over your coast allows them to force unfair trade treaties for fear of one of those blockades, something Argentina, Japan, Venezuela, China, etc etc etc all had to experience in at some point, Argentina's roca-truman treaty is one of those one sided unfair treaties, yes it gives Argentina a lot of bonuses and helped them develop faster than their neighbors, but historically it also made them way to dependent on the UK and once the UK stopped investing and trading, Argentina immediately collapsed into the mess it is today So to me having those islands should give you another boost to the treaty as you're no longer cornered and you can trade internationally with more ease Alternatively, those islands are sitting in a MASSIVE underwater oil reserve that the UK is not allowed to tap into (since the Islands are disputed territory), so another bonus it could give you is simply have the ability to dig for a bit more oil in them after you core them and solve the dispute
@benlewis4241
6 ай бұрын
Deepwater Oil Drilling was not really a thing in the WW2 era (shallow water was done though). I personally doubt seizing some islands would gain a trade advantage (particularly compared to the far more low hanging Tierra del Fuego) although the prestige of defeating the UK at sea would be considerable. Personally, I think there should be more ways to snatch the islands if the UK is capped/has a revolution.
@hauknjastad78
6 ай бұрын
honestly if they had added focus trees of the same (not the best) quality to all of south america I would be fine with it and I wouldn't mind the price. You pay 15 bucks one time and you have QA tested content for the whole region and you don't have to worry about crashes etc. Just feels like their stretching out the amount of expansions that hoi4 really warrants.
@Corristo1994
6 ай бұрын
battle of the bosporus is 5 bucks cheaper and that was already to pricy
@Kubulin24
6 ай бұрын
10 dolars is super cheap, considering some other game companies. Or do you believe that devs dont deserve to get payed for their work?
@Corristo1994
6 ай бұрын
@@Kubulin24the devs can be paid with no prob, but shareholders dont need even more profit
@napster72
6 ай бұрын
Bandits in manchuko is what you were thinking off. Added all the way back in WTT
@spitfire7482
6 ай бұрын
7:14 *what did you just said*
@jogado2713
6 ай бұрын
💀💀💀💀💀
@Corristo1994
6 ай бұрын
average streamer not reading properly
@ДмитрийОсипов-м9д
3 ай бұрын
@@Corristo1994 most linguistically aware native English speaker
@leonardooliveira4627
6 ай бұрын
Also, it has not been playtested at all. For example, Monarchist Portugal can shut down half of Brazil focus tree if they take the path. No one can get wargoal focus on the Non-Aligned nations(which are most of the continent) and so many other issues
@diegoderiverabyrne6557
6 ай бұрын
As a peruvian, my only complain is Chile having an option to reform the Inca empire over other nations, having them little to do with the Incas besides the fact that the northern part of modern Chile was a really minor part of their empire for a short period of time, and the rest of Chile, under the Mapuche, was a Inca rival. Perú, Bolivia and even Ecuador have more weight in reforming the Incas than Chile have. On the other hand the Mapuche branch was quite interesting to be honest. But well, Ive enjoyed ToA this far.
@MrSkink-ks1ve
6 ай бұрын
I think adding a core feature behind a flavor dlc is something that I think most people don't want. Most people would only want to pay for the major dlc's that have core features in them, and adding such features in flavor/minor dlc's would make the price of getting every significant dlc be increased by a large amount. I really don't see a problem with this dlc overall, just don't buy it really if you think modders can do better.
@owangejewice
6 ай бұрын
I'm telling yall right now, you don't want paradox to update Germany. It will be the most miserable goddamned exercise in trying to have fun with hoi4 while getting massive guilt trip events that add "flavor". Will be the game killer if they do it I think.
@xXxAngryBird101xXx
6 ай бұрын
My biggest problem, funnily enough, is that these focus trees are so massive that by the time you finally get to the stuff you want, the war is either over, or it would simply be overkill.
@geekers8644
6 ай бұрын
I think with minor nations focus trees, they should be focused on strengthening their historical 'national spirits' as well as strengthening their unique terrain and industrial features. It is up to the player to build their nation around these bonus's which may be only applicable for certain units or terrains. With Brazil brown water experts it basically ensures that the Amazon would be impassible for any invading armies and its the duty of the player to find a strategy to go bypass Brazils strengths. Brown water would also give good bonus for Marines on river tiles. if you're fighting against brazil with these bonus's it would be your prerogative to think a little harder on ways to counter these bonus's and use your nation's unique build to counter it. (don't fight mountaineers in mountains, marines on rivers, tanks in plains, etc.) Overall since the majority of HOI4 are single player and multiplayer games are governed by rule sets; I don't think that strengthening nations a bit more than what may be historically plausible isn't an issue. As if you're playing historical then Brazil for example wouldn't effect gameplay as they didn't fully commit their military. If you're playing without historical focus's then I think South America adds another depth of flavor rather than fighting a soulless AI country.
@ningunoningunos3044
6 ай бұрын
I recommend the mod EN UNION Y LIBERTAD if you want a bigger expansion (Argentina used to be more fun in the mod tho, nowadays DLC feels better)
@Kalbot84
6 ай бұрын
There probably is a way to look at state debuffs all at once but we'll find it seven years from now, three menus deep, in a sub basement behind a door marked beware of the tiger.
@TheRewasder97
5 ай бұрын
I enjoyed the battle for the bosohorus dlc because I had an interest on the area and forming bizantium. My main problem with this one is that it's an area that doesn't interest me, it is way too far from the actual conflict of the time, it feels only slightly more fun than neutral New Zealand . Then again, if you live there you'd probably love it, which is fair.
@AmonGus-hw6sp
6 ай бұрын
>Make DLC about the place nobody wants to fight in >Shocked nobody wants the dlc
@temirjj
6 ай бұрын
As I am Brazilian and a long-time fan of HOI, this DLC was disappointing. Firstly, the Focus Tree is pretty average to bad. Secondly, it maintained problems that we already had before, such as: Brazilian provinces continue to be wrong and divided incorrectly. Thirdly, the PT-BR translation is still bad, even though it receives a DLC from the country itself. Even the Brazilian mod TS's Brazil (which remakes the whole Brazil) is much better than this DLC and it's free.
@drdeadred851
6 ай бұрын
"What went wrong", making a DLC for the most uninvolved and untouched continent in a ww2 era game. Would be like making a DLC dedicated to sub-Saharan African releasable nations, Liberia focus tree up next no doubt. Even people from these countries are more often going to be playing in literally any other continent.
@sandrothenecromancer6810
6 ай бұрын
From the brazillian view here are the problems: >AID (Integralism) is not there and it is still a "fascist route" >Monarchy should require a civil war against the estabilishment (the military and Vargas were anti-monarchists). >Monarchy should be a democratic path. >Cangaço as a communist is such a bad joke (Lampiao was a common bandit payed by the big land lords). >Everyone can unify into a southamerican empire which is frankly stupid be they luso or hispanics (even amongst hispanics is non-sensical). >One of the reasons Brazil was forced into ww2 came from the sinking of a civilian ship supposedly by the germans rather than "contribute to america".
@datman5518
6 ай бұрын
What do you mean by the last point?
@SebiKurac
6 ай бұрын
I can’t believe i paid 15€ for a dlc that i usually wouldn’t even download if it was a free mod because there are so many better South American mods
@TheHylianJuggalo
6 ай бұрын
Belgium ,Austria, and Luxembourg literally being PRIMARY TARGETS but not getting trees yet.
@germanyballwork5301
6 ай бұрын
Luxembourg I can understand. But the fact that austria and belgium dont have custom focus trees is really surprising
@adamconner9302
6 ай бұрын
INFO ABOUT ARGENTINE 4TH REICH: So I was completely unaware that Hitler could come to Argentina. First Argentina playthrough I randomly decided to try the facist path in a non-historical game. I honestly can't remember 100%, but i'd either completed Work With Nationalists or perhaps Cut Ties With Britain when the German civil war ended. I immediately got the pop-up for not-Hitler becoming leader which after laughing out the initial shock I accepted. There are hidden requirements for Guardia Nacional/Union Nacional Fascista apparently as you are unable to complete them if Hitler joins you before you have completed them, however you can bypass them. My takeaway there is that so long as Argentina has completed Work With Nationalists Hitler is eligible to apply for Argentine leadership. I don't know if there's a chance roll involved or if it happens every time, but for what it's worth from my anecdotal experience it triggered the first time. I hated missing out on that juicy Spirit of the Conquistadors buff, perma 20% attack buff is stupid broken, but I had such a glut of PP I'd done everything and I mean everything you can do with PP by 1939 up to and including regional integration and press censorship. It in some way offset missing out on Spirit of the Conquistadors but this is something to be mindful of if you are planning a playthrough around that spirit(literally that spirit was the reason i'd chosen the fascist path so I was a bit miffed I had to bypass the focus) Oh also, when you bring on not-Hitler you get a small hidden branch added to the focus tree that is actually extremely powerful to only be 4 focuses, particularly the focus that gives claims on all non-fascist South American nations. Oh and coring South America is not as easy as Dave says, he's thinking of the Brazilian tree where you can core for 20. The Argentine coring decisions cost 75 PP each, which considering the sheer volume of cores is a massive ballbusting quantity of PP.... that is unless you play a game like I did and get not-Hitler right after you picked up the silent workhorse and trade diplomat that gives 10% PP and 50% trade opinion. Then you will struggle to get new coring decisions quicker than you can core them lol.
@adamconner9302
6 ай бұрын
Update: Now it is undoubtably niche, but if you like starting out as really small nations and clawing your way up Uruguay is straight up the king of vanilla now with this update. You have a very strong, yet somewhat streamlined focus tree that is reasonably comparable in terms of power to the politics and economy trees of the Larger reworked nations with that same exceedingly OP military path minus a few bits at the top that you won't miss. I really like the challenge of the small start and being able to get through the focus tree a little quicker, and man can you build tall with the focus tree you get. You can easily have your building slots maxed coming into 1940 which is going be in the neighborhood of 40 factories, not shabby for what used to be a single state stepping stone of a nation. Oh, and by far the most important thing about the focus tree... It retains the capacity to core South America so you can very feasibly turn into a US-devouring monster by late game if you so choose.
@Nilboggen
6 ай бұрын
I will say that I felt the same way as you about the neglected states in Brazil at first. But it's really not that bad. Once you have fixed them they will have a +20% bonus to construction speed. So even though you do as you said in the last Brazil video continue to neglect them in the beginning at least when you do start building in them it is with a pretty large bonus to construction.
@fireironthesecond2909
6 ай бұрын
I think Paradox forgets that it’s relevance is very quickly getting replaced by mods such as Kaiserreich and RT56 and the last thing it needs is giving us 3 focus trees for £15
@Einsym
6 ай бұрын
HoI4 players when Europe/USA doesn't get its billionth update in a new DLC
@TurnipDaBeet
5 ай бұрын
I always felt like the DLC added a feature and changed a few nations focus trees to show off the new feature fully. I think in this DLC the idea may have been "border wars", I recall that being in the Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay trees (take and hold this province and you can keep it and white peace). Maybe it wasn't possible to add this idea on a large scale within the game due to backend, so the DLC got scaled back. I feel like the idea of this border war stuff was mentioned or teased by paradox a while back.
@NickKrige
6 ай бұрын
paradox on a mission to prove they have a couple of chapters to add to the Blizzard/Creative Assembly Opus on how to destroy your relationship with a loyal customer base.
@benhurkuchler8761
6 ай бұрын
The biggest problem with it isn't the price or lack of content, but that the focus trees aren't well made, there is some interesting and very plausible alt-history that are either poorly made or simply aren't there, and the worst of all, historical inaccuracies. Examples: Peron path was forgotten and only made later on development (???), no Vargas path for supporting the axis but there is a integralist Vargas one (???????), communist cangaço (??????????????????), and even more...
@blexy2969
6 ай бұрын
Feedback: ...was developed by a little guy in his bedroom. Road to 56 developers: I made it in my COMPUTER ROOM! Yes, there is a bed in my computer room, but... but... but fuck you Feedback! ... and I am not small.
@MiamiDiver33033
6 ай бұрын
The price may have been a bit high, but Brazil was one of my first countries I played for HOI4 and I had a lot of fun with it, along with other SA countries. That said, I have been constantly playing this and am enjoying it a lot. I like the trees and what they have done, but this DLC is more for a niche market: Either you love it or probably will never play it.
@Bizmarckus
2 ай бұрын
Why not Peru? Colombia? Ecuador? Venezula??! It's really unfortunate that Paradox decided to ignore Northern South America.
@Eldesmentidordecreepypastas
24 күн бұрын
Agree. Specially when Peru and Ecuador have literally a war in 1941
@hanneswiggenhorn2023
6 ай бұрын
I feel like the problem is that south america is pretty isolated. Other DLCs like battle for the bosporus were similar, but at least with that it added a bit of flavor for other nations because other nations actually interact with them. Like for example when playing Germany, sooner or later you will interact with Greece, one way or another. But that's just not the case for south america
@eternalmarksman88
6 ай бұрын
I think a nicer solution than just limiting to two problems at most per tree. Maybe there should be ways to solve the problems quickly but at greater risk or less reliable outcomes. For instance maybe two or three of these modifies could be removed or lessened completely with a change of government that increases tensions with the US but requires working with the cartels to improve the local situation at a smaller cost than the previous malice, this could open up completely different decisions. Or a focus path policy that takes probably 140 days for laissez-faire economy. Where the modifiers dont go away or get reduced a little but instead more natural insturial growth occurs, giving a random factory per 3 months or random infrastructure per month that offset the malice. This could even have events connected to them such as poor construction methods just gives you a factory but needs repair, or "increase foreign investment" that gives an additional infrastructure or a radar station or better yet a refinery, or even using cp to encourage mil growth or to prevent scandals with populace and government. Or maybe some lend lease quests that give you cetian bonus once youve leased enough equipment to a certain nation. This could give outcomes such as france gifting you French Guiana or japan gifting you long lance torpedoes or Germany gifting you refinery tech or russians sending you a thank you letter. Just some thoughts
@juvandy
6 ай бұрын
Your point about oil in Venezuela I think highlights the most important part of this DLC, and that is adding resources to South America- especially rubber in Brazil. This makes South America a bigger player and also gives all nations an additional source of rubber to trade for, which has always been crippling late game for axis or allies depending on who occupies Indonesia and Malaysia. IMO, Paradox needs to do the same thing in Africa as part of a DLC- add some resources down there. For the European colonizing powers it would make sense to transfer some of their resources down there if they weren't simply added in. Again, Rubber is a big one- the Congo should have tons of it. Adding resources down there would make the rest of the game a bit more relevant, and help explain, for example, why Italy wants so much of Africa in peace conferences, etc. Right now, the only resources Africa is particularly rich in are steel in Algeria, Rubber in Nigeria (sort of), and chromium in South Africa- which is still underutilized in the game mechanics even with the upgrades to tank armor.
@linushammarkyro4075
6 ай бұрын
coring once costs 75 whole pp for argentina, i thinks its insane. and i tested if taking the falklands would work if the uk called its allies, and it worked(if the rest of the allies would still naval invade you 1000 times every tick). dont take my word for it
@flaggy185
6 ай бұрын
This dlc made Paradox had to change the dlc to Expansions and Country Packs A welcome adition if you dont care about focus trees And made 3 DLC free, which i still dont know if it is good or painful
@rarescevei8268
6 ай бұрын
Those 3 dlc are being integrated into base game.
@spanishball1939
6 ай бұрын
7:19 América do Sul is in portuguese, América del sur is in Spanish
@santerilaakeristo7305
6 ай бұрын
Like people have said the cost is the thing what’s wrong with this DLC. A moder in his parents basement could make a focus tree for a nation in a day or two. For Paradox to make DLC like this, even with new team, it should take something like 50 work hours. They could put more hours into it if they would do better historical research, do all new art, etc etc. Still that should be like 100 wh. To make a new mechanic, like fuel system; write the new code, make sure it’s balanced and works for every nation, teach the AI to use it properly; that takes hundreds of work hours. Average consumer probably doesn’t understand or consider the numbers as detailed manner, but they will still subconsciously make some calculations. Why and how does something that for Paradox takes 50 wh costs 15€ and other that takes (just throwing a number) 300 wh costs 20€. They are right to see something is wrong. The real thing is, for a programing company like paradox, the cost to make DLC like products is negligible. They sell 200 copies of ToA or 1000 of BBA and they have covered all the costs of making those products. And they are in market of hundreds of thousands or even millions potential customers. A company like Paradox thinks “ok, in next 6 months we want to make x amount of profit, how will we achieve that? We’ll sell DLC, this many people will probably buy it so this is the cost for it.” Now the question is: because the cost for making DLC is negligent and they want to achieve that profit goal, why doesn’t Paradox put 200 work hours into DLC to justify it 15€ price?
@Carlo_von_Habsburg
6 ай бұрын
I would rephrase it to „A SKILLED modder in his parents basement“ Speaking from experience as a new and inexperienced modder, I took about three weeks of on and off work to make a medium sized focus tree.
@HOI4notsoproplayer
6 ай бұрын
"America do sul, in spanish" Brazillians: 💀 Portuguese: 💀 Argentines: 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Americans:🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐 Germans: country to flee??
@ner31k37
6 ай бұрын
THAT RIGHT THERE! What you can do with the Faulkland Island white peace, is how ALL war goals should work. One of the most painful experiences as a minor player is the ludicrous focuses set by Paradox for minors. It's always like Rebuild the rail roads > An army of our own > Capitulate the UK..... This is something I want to see a complete overhaul of, so you can realistically complete your goal, or take a nation by small chunks if so. Its like halfway there with the weird war goal thing paradox has set up when you justify on a province, but then has no bearing after that. It should be, justify on the desired province > War > hold the land for X amount of time > White peace and take that land. Why is this so difficult for Paradox to do.
@lordshaxx4693
5 ай бұрын
DLC was made by the only guy in Santiago with a PC
@bradpitt5355
5 ай бұрын
Trial of Allegiance name says it all, its trial if we let rob ourselves by bad game content, seeing Fallout mode free along those payed DLCs its just shamefull display.
@Artosk
6 ай бұрын
It seems like the expansion isn't necessarily bad, its just extremely missable
@cirokistermann7834
6 ай бұрын
The problem is that there is no resource like food in the game, if so, air defense, the devastation of war zones, naval play, etc., would have more importance, since for example, the Axis would want food from Argentina (Grain, meat too, but it is only around because it does not survive the trip, although for game reasons transport could be possible), that would make the attack on Ukraine much more useful, Denmark instead of giving it some modifiers no sense giving food in large quantities, Central Asia would have some value apart from a province next to Xinjiang, etc. To add, we Argentines want the Malvinas for national pride, but also for the limit of maritime exploitation, since that would enlarge it a lot, in addition to the fact that the British base their entire claim for their piece of Antarctica on those 3 Islands, which are overlap with the Argentine and Chilean claims. Finally, the Argentine Facist tree is Broken, 20% attack is very good, but if you go through Argentina first the approach below gives you 30% recruitable population, then you don't need the South American cores for your manpower. And as a last fact, I managed to have Hitler capitulate to Germany myself much later (the Axis was my final boss in the game, and I fought them all over the world before arriving in Europe because I thought it was fun, since his United States, to Africa, then to China, then to India, then to what was left of the Middle East, and then all the way from Siberia to Spain), when I capitulated to Germany a week later Hitler came with me, but I had done the Fascist Union approach, so I understand the only approach you need is German Investments.
@Chalseu___
5 ай бұрын
8:10 the bandits thing is also present in Manchukuo and Bulgaria
@jamesfelstead4096
6 ай бұрын
You'd have thought Paradox would have taken heed of Pharaohs example....
@raf.nogueira
6 ай бұрын
We need hearts of iron 5 with ww1 and 2 or other periods it’s about the time
@arno_grnfld455
6 ай бұрын
Nerfing the shit out of lend leasing is quite a bad idea, id rather play 1.13.4 for order 66 and lend leasing for civil war
@cookie_jar706
6 ай бұрын
Bro sounds like he's half-asleep, hates his job, and just doesn't wanna be here. Where's the enthusiasm?
@BA13REDYoutuber
3 ай бұрын
I'm actually working on a mod that does that, giving focus trees without overhauling a bunch of other stuff. I want to maybe optimize one or two things that makes the game work really slow and maybe fix the peacetime AI a little bit, but I don't want to introduce anything too terribly grandiose. It is in very early development, Aka, I'm currently starting with overhauling the generic focus tree, but after that, I'm working on a few groups of countries at a time, starting with the Germanic ones.
@theturnc0at
6 ай бұрын
literally just a 2016 mod packaged as a dlc
@miguelrodriguezcimino1674
6 ай бұрын
"Argentina, why do you want these islands so badly?" You know what Dave... the same question could be asked to the UK. Anyways, I think the main issue with the DLC is the amount of content is not proportional to the price tag. We already got mods for south america, I've yet to try "En Union y Libertad" but I heard is pretty good. My main concern with mods is not so much stability (I don't think just adding focuses would crash the game) but balance, sometimes the mod focuses are too OP and break the game. Playing a small country with a mod should not make it easy to achieve world conquest, it only has to give it flavor to any territorial gains (small or big) the country can do. I think the DLC it's a missed opportunity to add some small but significant mechanic changes, like IDK, foodstuffs as a resource. HoI4 is a war game and armies march on their stomachs. Brazil and Argentina were the main foodstuff producers, like the Turkish chromium it was something all sides vied for.
@JurzGarz
6 ай бұрын
I mean, the people living on the islands are British. I think most countries want to protect their people.
@0rbital870
6 ай бұрын
If you like playing south america, En Union y Libertad is a MUST play.
@johnclay2716
6 ай бұрын
@@JurzGarz >living on the other side of the planet away from your country
@JurzGarz
6 ай бұрын
@@johnclay2716 Nothing wrong with that. Also, they aren't on the other side of the planet from their country, because the Falklands is part of their country.
@nuxx_1383
6 ай бұрын
The thing with available mods for many nations that ar REALLY indepth is that paradox DLCs NEED to have something interesting and unique like railways and the air/tank-designer added to make the game interesting for revisiting players, but when players open the store and see a 15$ pack with 5 non important Focus Trees included that they can get by installing a free mod. Its not worth it. Also i am FURIOUS that damn Argentina has a better Germany Path than DAWN F***ing GERMANY itself!!!
@amendoim_zinho6308
6 ай бұрын
América do Sul is in PORTUGUESE not spanish (cries in brazilian)
@Alex_FRD
6 ай бұрын
Swedish game devs overprice and underdeliver. In other news, water is liquid.
@SaintRubicon
6 ай бұрын
1:45 Those arent an emoji that was changed, Steam just has a default profanity filter that takes a little working around to turn off, probably not worth it for a content creator who is showing their screen, but im pretty sure we all know the 4 letter word being said there.
@c0ree
6 ай бұрын
you made a good point about insignificant minors becoming too OP, there's also the fact that the OP buffs on focuses on new DLCs make them more powerful than the focuses in old DLCs that aren't as strong
@ronanwaring3408
6 ай бұрын
Even the UK and US focus trees fell a little basic now to be honest when compared to newer ones
@jimfromdiscord.8904
6 ай бұрын
What went wrong was the fact that Paradox expected people to pay full price for focus trees. Not full-on updates like Arms Against Tyranny or By Blood Alone or No Step Back which shifted how the game was played, but just for _focus trees_ .
@Vulcanus3231
6 ай бұрын
The fact that Paraguay got content is enough for me. I’ve heard all I need to about this DLC. The Baltic nations went a bit far but at least they can some participation in the war….
@blitzkrieg8776
6 ай бұрын
And now they are making the first 3 DLC as a part of the base game and not giving those who had purchased them anything. I'm not buying another Paradox product ever again.
@Chuck12312
5 ай бұрын
It only appealed to people in South America or players in South America but the average hoi4 player doesn’t play there and the pricing was too high and there was no improved mechanics . Just give us a Belgium focus tree and Germany and Japan reworked tree
@sean4929
6 ай бұрын
One really basic thing paradox could do to beef up the game as part of a broader DLC would be to add more advisors to countries. This would be great since there are a lot of countries that have horrible political advisors or just very bog standard ones, e.g. Japan doesn't have a civ construction advisor. Literally just a small picture and very easy to add in.
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