Really nice video, only constructive criticism is that for some of the more 'memey' / joke parts the audio peaks are little too high. Small gripe im aware but hey.
@@BasedPeter You must be deaf by now... Those audio spikes were EXTREME. Got to stop watching after 1:30 ... Take it as constructive criticism... or don't.
@@jurajzenhanakovic Do people really stop watching a video because of audio spikes? Genuine question, I've never had this thought. Regardless, yeah I toned it down in future videos.
@@BasedPeter Yep, I did for example... Shame, otherwise it looks like good video... Maybe you had some volume normalization software turned on so you didn't hear such a difference between loud and quiet parts, I dunno.
To be perfectly honest? Leviathan was the final straw for me. I really like how No Step Back looks, really tempted, but I am still so blindingly pissed over how EU4's team handled that entire fiasco and the HOI4 team actually having the audacity to jump in and add their unsolicited opinion that every time I have started to buy it I find an excuse not to. I am free.
Commenting so that this gets a boost bb. If I have any constructive criticism it's that you're a lot more charismatic in person, and i think if you can capture that natural energy you have while reading a script then it'll elevate your stuff to the next level.
IMO, no matter what game you play, after 1k + hours it will become a love-hate relationship. It's just inevitable, the more you play the more waisted potential you notice, the more frustrated you become that the devs are being slowpokes and making weird decisions. It's not like RDR2 (which I like, but has objectively shallow gameplay) where you finish it once, maybe twice and just move on, forget about it.
I never really thought of it like that, I suppose it's true. Cause even my fav. games I don't have a 1000 hours in. That's an interesting observation and unfortunately I think you may be correct.
I ironically bought this game for Fallout and MLP mod, a decent decision I must say considering that base game isn't that much interesting when you taste the mods. Besides No Step Back, this shit is actually really good
This game just kills. I had not one game. Not ONE that want just a little bit like i wanted it to go. Everytime even with the silliest little goals i had everything went to shit I hate this game, i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it. Nothing works as it should. There is always either some bug, some glitch, or some incredibly stupid mechanic that doesnt even make sense that destroys everything.
Small correction, unless I got a free pack or something you can lend lease in the base game and the ai can too, you can’t request to be lend leased though
1:46 biggest lie ever told. as soon as i got this game i played singleplayer and had no idea what i was doing so i played the tutorial and IT IS SO CONFUSING CLICKING EVERY BUTTON AND THEY ALL DO NOTHING
I am honestly a massive noob at this game, even with 100 hours, mostly watching other countries fight, I simply don’t even know how to build factories, maintain frontlines, manage units or make new researched equipment, not to mention I don’t know how to make divisions. I can only make spearheads and and try but fail to get used to the various mechanics.
In fairness sometimes Spain or Italy will naval invade uk. I think Spain prepares invasion and just waits indefinitely tell naval balance shifts for even a sec.
Thanks. To each his own I suppose, I like managing things on a bigger scale, because that determines what allies you'll have, the logistics, what tech, armor, guns, artillery and other stuff you'll be using and it's pretty realistic that the biggest deciding factor of a war is the preparation before it even starts.
@@BasedPeter "pretty realistic that the biggest deciding factor of a war is the preparation before it even starts" absolutely, I just find managing the fighting more enjoyable than the preparation.
ive played eu4 and managed to enjoy maybe 2 runs in a few hundred hours I have yet to be able to do anything in hoi4 I cant convert my brainrot it genuinely fucks with me
In my first real game, I played for 18 hours straight without sleep, and I didn't even realize how immersed I was until I checked the time. No other game has done that to me in years. That being said, I'm beginning to hate it just as much as I fucking love it. It's gripped me so hard.
I also hate historic multiplayer games. LIke if i play as germany, i HAVE to invade poland by 1939 and france by 1940, it's like shut the fuck up. It's called a strategy game for a reason. I want to not go to war against the allies so i invade everything early. Or even better, invading the uk in 1937.
I just stumbled upon this video, and channel, and would love to watch this video without all the noisy cut-in clips. You seem to have some interesting stuff to say, but there no way I can through a video with that stuff constantly interrupting the flow with EXTREMELY LOUD EAR PIERCING audio.
The think about this game I hate the most is that paradox made it more comically then it have to be, this amount of complexity will scare potentially new players, this game and other paradox games are utter garbage
Honestly you're kind of right. It's complex only on the very surface and nothing below it. As in reality, the combat is RNG and you can't rely on your allies, like ever.
got I hate this game The game has so little to help you. I started 2 wars after intensive researching on how I start a war and after the war I got completely owned even though I have 65 more troops then they do. my troops keep on complaining about supply's even though I have 50 supply planes doing nothing but the game doesn't seem to let me use them. then the game pops up with notifications that has no explanation, its just the name so I don't what the fuck they mean. my army's seem to have a mind of there own and sometimes doesn't want to do what I want them to do. sometimes I accidently order them but I cant delete the order because of some odd reason. And navy seems retarded and I couldn't care less about it. this game needs to help the player more and btw this was after I watch a 4 hour long tutorial (So um currently I have 1,200 hours in this game. I have played every single major and explored every single feature. I have done a aircraft only game, tank only game, and navy only game. and I'm gonna be honest with you. Dam this game is good. though I would never recommend this game as a roleplay game. Its strictly numbers, logistics, and strategy. When you play this game your not a story teller telling a story but a leader or commander. Leading you country into victory with precision 10/10 would play 1,000 hours more)
Spanish Civil War is like the main event before WW2 begins so yes it's always gonna be a big part of any playthrough and other civil wars are also integrated if the conditions are met.
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Yeah no it seems like a really fun mod, my main gripe is it fills in a lot of gaps in the lore with original creations, which isn’t in itself bad I just don’t Like that aspect of it
I'll give them credit for reworking the map, but it's not 2012 anymore. Bronies are the catalyst that started the cringe-avalnche we are living in today
For me this game is just incredably boring and the time period is kinda lame for a map game. I liked CK3 cause you could play as a weak nation and make them strong, but in hoi4 it’s germany, russia and america or you die. Also the game is waaay to dlc reliant. The default hoi4 is literally complete trash. Imagine having to pay hundreds of dollars just to make the game you already payed for just a little less boring. Fuck this game
You say that, but CK3 and 2 are even more DLC reliant. Also, the minor nations are really fun to play in HoI4, even moreso than the UK and America. I like Hearts of Iron the most because the games are quick, compared to EU4, CK3 and Imperator's massive campaigns which you get killed by a major power anyway.
@@BasedPeter for me any paradox game is quick because I’m mostly just goofing off. Just for me personally CK3 was a lot easier to learn and I enjoyed being able to play as estonia WITHOUT any DLC and still create a relatively strong kingdom. In HOi4 you need mods or DLC to play as estonia and have any fun at all. I honestly didn’t even know CK3 HAD dlc so I would disagree with you that CK3 and Hoi4 have the same level of dlc dependancy. Hoi 4 with no dlc is way worse than ck3 with no dlc.
Finally, someone who shares my pain. It's like a toxic relationship.
Despite everything, we still come back after getting beaten
@@sergentsnugglemuffin1543 It's so true. It hurts so good daddy Pdx. Please, empty my wallet more!
The only reason I play this game is because I can't refund it once I had reached rhe moment where the game starts fucking mr over
Every paradox game is like cock and ball torture. It hurts but you keep coming back for more
Stellaris
wait a minute
we got tek knight here huh
Really nice video, only constructive criticism is that for some of the more 'memey' / joke parts the audio peaks are little too high. Small gripe im aware but hey.
Yup, the first 1 busted my ears
@@MrTrippy2k8 Believe me the original cut's audio was 200% louder because it made me laugh.
@@BasedPeter You must be deaf by now... Those audio spikes were EXTREME. Got to stop watching after 1:30 ... Take it as constructive criticism... or don't.
@@jurajzenhanakovic Do people really stop watching a video because of audio spikes? Genuine question, I've never had this thought. Regardless, yeah I toned it down in future videos.
@@BasedPeter Yep, I did for example... Shame, otherwise it looks like good video... Maybe you had some volume normalization software turned on so you didn't hear such a difference between loud and quiet parts, I dunno.
10/10 more Bulgaria shitposting
To be perfectly honest? Leviathan was the final straw for me. I really like how No Step Back looks, really tempted, but I am still so blindingly pissed over how EU4's team handled that entire fiasco and the HOI4 team actually having the audacity to jump in and add their unsolicited opinion that every time I have started to buy it I find an excuse not to. I am free.
Thanks for ending my eardrums
You're welcome buddy
this is dangerously underestimated
This is really cathartic.
Now I just need to replace my laptop I destroyed during my 900th failed Poland run
This is why I have a 15mm bulletproof glass pane in front of my monitor in case I rage too hard and try to break it.
I have to return to this video every once in a while so I don't go completely insane
NEW DLC OUT LET'S GO DO CRACK AGAIN
why everytime I play a country I always lose but when the bot plays it, it kicks ass, what is the damn secret of this game what am I doing wrong
Green air
Quality > quantity
Commenting so that this gets a boost bb. If I have any constructive criticism it's that you're a lot more charismatic in person, and i think if you can capture that natural energy you have while reading a script then it'll elevate your stuff to the next level.
Ayy thanks buddy :)
Run while you still can, before the paradox dlc consumes you
You know it’s not even funny I bought all of the except the La Resistance one
IMO, no matter what game you play, after 1k + hours it will become a love-hate relationship. It's just inevitable, the more you play the more waisted potential you notice, the more frustrated you become that the devs are being slowpokes and making weird decisions. It's not like RDR2 (which I like, but has objectively shallow gameplay) where you finish it once, maybe twice and just move on, forget about it.
I never really thought of it like that, I suppose it's true. Cause even my fav. games I don't have a 1000 hours in. That's an interesting observation and unfortunately I think you may be correct.
I can appreciate the macedonia joke
love theway u puthis together friend very entertaining ty
Ayy as a Bulgarian I got surprised by the intro :D
Верно лиииии?
Because of your recruitment part i subbed immediately 🤣 you rock. Need more people like you
I ironically bought this game for Fallout and MLP mod, a decent decision I must say considering that base game isn't that much interesting when you taste the mods.
Besides No Step Back, this shit is actually really good
Lmao yeah.
This game just kills. I had not one game. Not ONE that want just a little bit like i wanted it to go. Everytime even with the silliest little goals i had everything went to shit
I hate this game, i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it. Nothing works as it should. There is always either some bug, some glitch, or some incredibly stupid mechanic that doesnt even make sense that destroys everything.
To be fair, if you want to have good, if boring game you can always turn Historical AI on
Good video but the audio spikes are annoying lol
Yeah tone down the loud memes, I'm watching this at night and I have neighbours
Jesus, is it *that* bad lol?
Small correction, unless I got a free pack or something you can lend lease in the base game and the ai can too, you can’t request to be lend leased though
True, which makes it even more stupid they didn't just add that one button for free then.
Wait what dlc adds request for lend lease ? I've got all except man the guns and together for victory
@@Adumbshiba I think it’s prob man the guns since USA and britian did a lot of lend leasing in WW2
@@peknive8331 Well no I bought together for victory yesterday and it actually has it. But thanks for replying anyways
1:46 biggest lie ever told. as soon as i got this game i played singleplayer and had no idea what i was doing so i played the tutorial and IT IS SO CONFUSING CLICKING EVERY BUTTON AND THEY ALL DO NOTHING
Had a family member purchase a code for me as a Christmas gift and I feel bad that I'm probably never gonna play it because of how confusing it is
Haha well I don't blame you, especially with them adding a new confusing system every DLC
Ahh yes, here I am watching the best BasedPeter™ review yet again.
Now watch the Kiwami 2 review ;)
I got cancer from watching this.
Keep up the great work man!
Hope the treatment's going well
@@BasedPeter Thank you man it’s rough for sure 🥲
dude overall great video but ffs could you keep the sound level the same through out the whole video that would help out a lot.
Yeah, I've been working on bettering that in my later videos.
Might have been an ok video, but unbearable with headphones.
anyone who has over 1000 hours in it hates it
I've only played as Afghanistan and everyone ignored me lol
Yeah countries without focus trees will usually just get ignored, unless you take the initiate and change your politics to communist or fascist
It's either that or they get their whole fucking army destroyed for literally no benefit... You know... like in the real world :P
Well, just pirate the game
Awlays happy to subscribe to great content makers.
7:08 my fav part
I am honestly a massive noob at this game, even with 100 hours, mostly watching other countries fight, I simply don’t even know how to build factories, maintain frontlines, manage units or make new researched equipment, not to mention I don’t know how to make divisions. I can only make spearheads and and try but fail to get used to the various mechanics.
I about died seeing DSP in the beginning of the video lol
Unfortunately I couldn't include his other famous clip ;)
The TNO bit was a nice touch.
Lots of work and editing put into this production, thumbs up from me!
aayy thanks fam
12:34 TICK TOCK FUNNY CLOCK MAN ALEXEI LIVES
its true we are allergic to money
In fairness sometimes Spain or Italy will naval invade uk. I think Spain prepares invasion and just waits indefinitely tell naval balance shifts for even a sec.
A 1600+ hours later, I saw Germany naval invade the UK
I like strategy games that focus purely on the battlefield and combat, this civilization-style management I find pretty boring.
Nice video by the way.
Thanks. To each his own I suppose, I like managing things on a bigger scale, because that determines what allies you'll have, the logistics, what tech, armor, guns, artillery and other stuff you'll be using and it's pretty realistic that the biggest deciding factor of a war is the preparation before it even starts.
@@BasedPeter "pretty realistic that the biggest deciding factor of a war is the preparation before it even starts" absolutely, I just find managing the fighting more enjoyable than the preparation.
@@sithman1 Oh for sure, but I think a little bit of both is best. Sort of like XCOM if you've ever played it
@@BasedPeter Yes I have, a lovely game XCOM.
That's it, i'm done with this game, I uninstalled it on steam and hid it to keep myself from even being tempted to reinstall it.
I fucking hate hoi4, not because its a bad game, but because i suck at it, EVERY SINGLE PLAYTROUGH I CHEAT FFS I CANT DO IT ANYMORE
Great video king 👑
Thank you weird amorphous blob on my screen
4:58 So nonsubscribers go in the torture chamber?
The TommyK chamber
@@BasedPeter there is no difference tho-
ive played eu4 and managed to enjoy maybe 2 runs in a few hundred hours I have yet to be able to do anything in hoi4 I cant convert my brainrot it genuinely fucks with me
Funnily enough I started with EU4, but one mistake fucking up a 10 hour run got to me quite early on. Maybe I'll return to it.
In my first real game, I played for 18 hours straight without sleep, and I didn't even realize how immersed I was until I checked the time. No other game has done that to me in years.
That being said, I'm beginning to hate it just as much as I fucking love it. It's gripped me so hard.
COngartulations, You a real one
I hate this game from the bottom of my heart I swear to fufking god
Every game of any paradox game makes me depressed and wanna die. Average paradox experience
I also hate historic multiplayer games. LIke if i play as germany, i HAVE to invade poland by 1939 and france by 1940, it's like shut the fuck up. It's called a strategy game for a reason. I want to not go to war against the allies so i invade everything early. Or even better, invading the uk in 1937.
I’ll stick with axis and allies
Maybe people won't sub since the review contains more memes and loud noises than game footage and voice over
finally a reviewer who isn't payed of by paradox
That German accent was awesome, very funny :)
First person who appreciates it. Vielen dank, genosse :)
Ha ha loud sound funny, this trend will never get old.
After 3 years with HoI4 and EU4, yeah pretty much this.
You forgot that game starts to freeze after 1939-1940 by the way :)
For me only Kaiserreich starts lagging hard after 1940, base game usually takes about '44-'45
@@BasedPeter Well my setup is a laptop. Maybe that's why :)
gotta love clipping audio .-.
Hate the vanilla like the mods forced to buy dlc
The subscription service is pretty reasonably priced I think
This came out before the subscription service was announced
the christmas ceasefire mod is so interesting im buying the game for it. big boss style.
finally, an accurate review of hoi4
And see that is how I feel I get pissed then do you know what would be cool if THE KAISERREICH SHALL RISE AGAIN
2:35 What about South Africa?
ugh, what could have been
If I had a nickel for every stupid little icon and window that I don’t know how to use I’d have broke even on this fucking game
A Paradox...But hey, its just a theory
There is only one way to play HOI4 and it's by cheesing everything. To put this game in the same family as HOI3 is just an insult to everyone.
You are very underrated
Thank you gamer cat
I just stumbled upon this video, and channel, and would love to watch this video without all the noisy cut-in clips. You seem to have some interesting stuff to say, but there no way I can through a video with that stuff constantly interrupting the flow with EXTREMELY LOUD EAR PIERCING audio.
Yeah I've toned down the *VIOLENT, EAR SPLITTING EJACULATIONS OF NOISE* since this vid.
I found this video looking to see how the game is in 2022 because I was feeling a urge to try it again. after watching this Im reminded why I stopped
I mean I still play it from time to time, but I just save myself the trouble and don't go for the long achievements anymore
Maybe just one more game..
loud = funny
Yes.
The think about this game I hate the most is that paradox made it more comically then it have to be, this amount of complexity will scare potentially new players, this game and other paradox games are utter garbage
Honestly you're kind of right. It's complex only on the very surface and nothing below it. As in reality, the combat is RNG and you can't rely on your allies, like ever.
8:57 for anyone wondering how to ask for mercy in greek it is: είμαι φαλακρός και δεν μπορώ να νικήσω τιν Ελλάδα .
got I hate this game
The game has so little to help you. I started 2 wars after intensive researching on how I start a war and after the war I got completely owned even though I have 65 more troops then they do. my troops keep on complaining about supply's even though I have 50 supply planes doing nothing but the game doesn't seem to let me use them. then the game pops up with notifications that has no explanation, its just the name so I don't what the fuck they mean. my army's seem to have a mind of there own and sometimes doesn't want to do what I want them to do. sometimes I accidently order them but I cant delete the order because of some odd reason. And navy seems retarded and I couldn't care less about it. this game needs to help the player more and btw this was after I watch a 4 hour long tutorial
(So um currently I have 1,200 hours in this game. I have played every single major and explored every single feature. I have done a aircraft only game, tank only game, and navy only game. and I'm gonna be honest with you. Dam this game is good. though I would never recommend this game as a roleplay game. Its strictly numbers, logistics, and strategy. When you play this game your not a story teller telling a story but a leader or commander. Leading you country into victory with precision 10/10 would play 1,000 hours more)
Yeah...gonna pass im playing alpha centauri instead or ck3
Does this game have Civil Wars mods by any chance? Like 30's Spain or Russian Civil War.
Spanish Civil War is like the main event before WW2 begins so yes it's always gonna be a big part of any playthrough and other civil wars are also integrated if the conditions are met.
@@BasedPeter Thank you! Good to hear.
I subscribed because you were Gestapo-polite about it. Have that like and enjoy the algorhythm traction.
Haha dunno what you mena by that but I'll take it
I hate HOI4 with my pure heart. I'd prefer to play mods instead
Give this man a reward for spitting out facts.
P.S.
0:30 Does put a smile on my face.
One of the greatest game reviews I have ever seen !!
u forgot the pain of mulitplayer
What’s the song in the beginning?
I didn't understand shit in this video
uss liberty. I like the cut of your jib
you know i agree with you.
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Started the video on smoke 😅
on CRACKe
Bulgaria on three seas... yeah that's only gonna happen in video games lol
True
@@BasedPeter inb4 Berserk OST copyright claim 🤜🤛🤘
I hate HOI4, HOI4 hates me
But I love it
Any game like hoi4?
The one that’s most similar that I know is Age of History II
I liked paying owb I can't handle big numbers and fighting over the ruined world with a destroyed everything is funny
Yeah no it seems like a really fun mod, my main gripe is it fills in a lot of gaps in the lore with original creations, which isn’t in itself bad I just don’t
Like that aspect of it
What is that song in the beginning
Gotcha buddy: ruclips.net/video/5wgADXfadKI/видео.html
Worst game ever (I had 3000 hours)
ill just stick to hoi3
I hate this game it's awesome
Bro I can navel invade as germany, but not italy
Technically it's possible with both it's just more annoying when you don't have a direct route to Scotland.
WHRERE IS EQUASTRIA AT WAR
I'll give them credit for reworking the map, but it's not 2012 anymore. Bronies are the catalyst that started the cringe-avalnche we are living in today
@@BasedPeter they did modified they created 2 continents every conutry every leaders have own story
Literally anything is better than this crap
For me this game is just incredably boring and the time period is kinda lame for a map game. I liked CK3 cause you could play as a weak nation and make them strong, but in hoi4 it’s germany, russia and america or you die. Also the game is waaay to dlc reliant. The default hoi4 is literally complete trash. Imagine having to pay hundreds of dollars just to make the game you already payed for just a little less boring. Fuck this game
You say that, but CK3 and 2 are even more DLC reliant. Also, the minor nations are really fun to play in HoI4, even moreso than the UK and America. I like Hearts of Iron the most because the games are quick, compared to EU4, CK3 and Imperator's massive campaigns which you get killed by a major power anyway.
@@BasedPeter for me any paradox game is quick
because I’m mostly just goofing off. Just for me personally CK3 was a lot easier to learn and I enjoyed being able to play as estonia WITHOUT any DLC and still create a relatively strong kingdom. In HOi4 you need mods or DLC to play as estonia and have any fun at all. I honestly didn’t even know CK3 HAD dlc so I would disagree with you that CK3 and Hoi4 have the same level of dlc dependancy. Hoi 4 with no dlc is way worse than ck3 with no dlc.
@@BasedPeter oh and I never played ck2. Only 3 when I had the xbox gamepass for a dollar.
that sad
lol