Hello everyone, this is going to be a very short diary because the team is knee deep with work on the Sunflower patch today. Patch is coming along and bugs have been squashed this week, but there are no major new features to talk about this week. The funniest bug found was probably the one where German AI, presumably due to its strong sense of honor, refused to attack units it massively outnumbered (say 40 divisions of medium tanks vs 2 infantry divisions sitting on Copenhagen). We are also looking at integrating the Enhanced Peace Conference AI mod into the patch, because frankly it works well and its creator is a nice guy who gave us permission :) Oh yeah, also our artist added more neat icons (now 14 in total) for your Armies so it's easier to keep them apart:
Now for something totally different! As you know our games collect stats and metrics and who doesn't love stats?

• 12% of players use Nato counters (this jumped a whole percentage when Black ICE and August Storm mods released)
• 12% play multiplayer
• 20% play ironman
• The most popular major nations are Germany at ~40% of games, Soviet (15%) and USA (12%). France is least popular at 6%.
• 35% are played as a minor nation
• Mods are super popular! Around half of daily active games use mods of some kind. We are really excited by this, because we spent a lot of time making sure HOI was easy to mod and easy to get mods for in the workshop.

Among mods the most popular ones are cosmetic. Here are the top 3:

• Colored Buttons
• More Division Icons
• Flavor Names extended

When it comes to daily active players I can't quote exact numbers, but compared to other games and how its historically looked the numbers for HOI4 are strong which looks great for the future :) I know everybody was hoping for a patch this week (including us!), but we also want to make sure things are as good as they can be when we release, and especially since we are still dealing with a lot of illness among team members we need to push it a little longer. You will know it when I do when the patch is ready :) See you all next week, in another life where we are all cats (cats playing 1.2 Sunflower) Read the original post [quote]Useful links Official Website Hearts of Iron IV Wiki Hearts of Iron IV Development Diary Archive

[ 2016-09-09 15:36:26 CET ] [ Original post ]