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Not Recommended
33.8 hrs last two weeks / 1,368.0 hrs on record (1,250.9 hrs at review time)
Posted: 19 Jan, 2020 @ 1:10pm
Updated: 8 Oct, 2024 @ 1:24pm

I feel like i have to update this review yet again on why its negative.

1. AIThe AI ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cheats a lot, like I get it that the developers don't know (?) how to improve it, I guess, but the AI has 0 supply issues (30 divisions on 2 tile Yucatan Place with only port hub, no air superiority). I don't know how others feel about this, but it ♥♥♥**** sucks fighting against an unfair enemy, that´s my opinion. The new supply system is good, but AI completely ignores it and never plays by its rules.
Which isn´t the only issue with the AI but currently the biggest one.

2. BalanceThe balance is terrible, the air is op, extremely op beyond making no sense. Again,  I get it; this is not a real life, but if you build air in this game and have a lot of it, then it doesn´t matter what kind of division template you have; the air will do the job for you and give you huge buffs, even if you have few planes. Anti-air seems to be doing absolutely nothing in this regard, which means that minor nations are having a very hard time against majors or just bigger nations with air. Sure, you can build static anti-air, but you are pretty much unable to attack until you make extremely strong divisions or an airforce yourself; the latter one is very hard to do as a minor. So you will be sitting there for 2-3 years before you can do anything, and after that, a pain-staking micromanagement is waiting for you. Yeah, that´s "fun". And I pretty much talked only about the planes; the tanks are no better, and the division designer is... boring. It could be much better, but yet again, its a "gamey" designer, that doesn´t cater to reality but more to the stats. The stats are everything, and even then, they sometimes again make no sense.

3. DLC policy
The new DLCs are terrible, straight up terrible. I don't know what paradox is doing, and I have no idea why paradox fanboys keep buying them, but they are just... horrible in every aspect. The focus trees are stupid and unhistorical (with the historical paths, which is ironic), and the alt-historical paths are dumb beyond disbelief. I don't know who is helping paradox with the focus trees in this game, but he is doing a terrible job. Every new DLC makes the game slower, dumber, more bug-infested, and doesn´t help the balance.

Wanna play as Tsarist Russia? Fight this extremely hard civil war (which you have to cheese, if you want to have a functioning nation that c

an fight Germany), which makes sense, yeah, but then expect to be extremely weak without any chance of beating Germany because you had to do countless focuses that led to the civil war. Focuses, that made no sense, but let´s make something, sure, so the fanboys can pay for it.

Oh ♥♥♥♥! I am playing fascist USA; I got the 70% support of fascism in my country; let´s fight the civil war; most of the nation will back me up, right? Wait a minute... why are most of my divisions gone? Why did most of the USA join the Democrats?

Oh? There is an unhistorical game mode? That´s awesome! Wait... why are half the alt-paths in the game locked behind non-ironman mode? 

And the price? Pay up, my man; the price is a solid indie game, which is more fun

4. Political system
What is up with the political system? It´s so simple, and again, makes no sense. Why can I declare a war as a non-alligned nation needing a 50% world threat? Why can´t I do a collaboration government as a democratic nation even though there were ones in history? Why can democracies declare war only on nations that increase world threat? So many questions, no answers, game balance, I guess, but extremely lazy job of balancing the game.

And I am not going to talk about why the game goes for only 4 ideologies (fascism, communism, democracy, non-alligned).

5. Bugs
This game is full of game-breaking bugs, dating back to 2017. They are still not fixed, the developers don´t care, and the players don´t either, since I can´t see anyone complaining about this. 

And there is so much more to it, but I give up. I still play the game with friends since that´s the only part of fun with this game, but that´s all.

Oh, and I can´t wait for paradox fanboys to tell me in the comments that I am doing this all wrong and that I need to convert all of my divisions to one battalion anti-air so that I can "historically" beat the communists as provisional government, "fun".
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