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RE: HOI3
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 10:59 am
by MajFrankBurns
ORIGINAL: RyanCrierie
HOI3 Patch 1.04
Road To War 1936 Scenario
1920x1080 60 Hz
Core 2 Quad Q6600; 8 GB RAM, Geforce 8800 GTS
It takes about 4-5 seconds for each day in January 1936. By that average, it takes 150 seconds (2.5 minutes) for a 30-day month to pass. That comes out to 1800 seconds (30 minutes) for a year to pass.
1936-1939 is three years. That's 1.5 hours of doing nothing but staring at the screen as the US waiting for war to break out.
HOI3 is utterly unplayable, period. While waiting 30 minutes for a year to pass may be acceptable to some younger masochoists who have a lot of time, I'm no longer the person I was in 2002; I'm older now, and I don't want to spend time twiddling my thumbs.
For this reason, I just can't play Silent Hunter 3 and 4 anymore -- even a simple war patrol in SH4 with a S-Boat out of the phillipines takes several hours, due to the absolutely horrid time compression.
I take it yu don''t play WitP much do yah? Cause that game takes a lot longer than HOI to play
Also you'll spend the first two hours of WitP just thinking of what you want to do and change that 100 times before doing something.
RE: HOI3
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 1:00 pm
by Chad Harrison
Just to report on my attempt. It actually worked with running it as an admin. No crashes so far.
RE: HOI3
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 2:09 pm
by 06 Maestro
ORIGINAL: Chad Harrison
Just to report on my attempt. It actually worked with running it as an admin. No crashes so far.
Congratulations. Now you can begin your great experiment.
There are still some oddities with the game, such as allied forces appearing in areas to help out where it just not would have been very likely.
. (this s a side effect of improving allied cooperation-which needed some help)
Check out the mods for some improved game play. DiDay's is a good place to start.
RE: HOI3
Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 10:03 pm
by hgilmer3
What's up with all the "sprites" that sell for $1.59 or so? I was thinking about getting the game, but not if I need a bunch of add-on graphics that will nickel and dime me to death.
RE: HOI3
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 12:00 pm
by uncc
You don't need the sprites. They're just extra eye candy for those who want it...
RE: HOI3
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 12:16 pm
by htuna
I'd get Arsenal of Democracy instead... HOI III is a flop
RE: HOI3
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 1:08 pm
by MajFrankBurns
ORIGINAL: cmurphy625
I'd get Arsenal of Democracy instead... HOI III is a flop
Well you know after the expansion Semper-Fi and some patches for that then a sale of the HOI III Gold version then another expansion after that then the sale of HOI III Platinum version then a bunch of DLC and then the final HOI III Complete version then it won't be a flop anymore and you'll be able to get it for $4.99 haha
RE: HOI3
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 10:46 pm
by bairdlander2
ORIGINAL: cmurphy625
I'd get Arsenal of Democracy instead... HOI III is a flop
Arsenal of Democracy is basically a mod.Yes i agree HOI3 was shit at first,but with the patches and the upcoming exspansion(which i refuse to purchase,it more or less is a patch they want to charge for) it should be alright.But its a lot like WitPAE,lots of micro managment and detail.Feels more like work than a game.
RE: HOI3
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 10:49 pm
by hgilmer3
The reason I even got interested is because I recently bought Victoria Complete and I like it a lot. And now I was a little interested in the other games in that series. I bought EU3 complete for $11 and being able to export files from the end of one game to the next is intriguing to me.