It will be interesting to come back to HoI4 after a year or so of patches to see if improvements have been made, particularly since the unpredictable AI is currently also a real problem. Perhaps, in time, these issues will be solved. HoI4 also feels unfinished – playing as a major nation is enjoyable, but controlling a smaller country is spoiled by generic unit names and images.This might be laziness on the part of the developers, since it does not take long to research the information or, more cynically, it may have been deliberately been left out in order to be added as paid-for DLC in the future. It is telling that one of the most popular mods in the Steam Workshop since release gives the player total freedom to design their own divisions from scratch. On the positive side, the graphics are greatly improved and some of the micromanagement required in Hearts of Iron 3 has been removed, but ultimately Paradox Interactive has crossed a bridge too far in its bid to popularise the series.ĭiplomacy, intelligence, trading and government sections have been dumbed down and feel like minor distractions rather than key elements of the game, while the production system has been improved but is hamstrung by the division designer refusing to allow changes to templates unless ground combat experience is attained.This is very difficult to achieve unless a country is actually at war, meaning that the player is prevented from setting up their army the way they want in the early period of the conflict. Hearts of Iron 4 has the same second world war setting of its three exemplary predecessors but there the similarities end.

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