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41.9 hrs last two weeks / 2,934.8 hrs on record (1,171.7 hrs at review time)
Posted: 29 Feb, 2020 @ 9:07am
Updated: 11 Oct, 2023 @ 6:43am

This game has been with me through thick and thin, and honestly. it sounds like the developers are getting much closer to the community. thus, I shall revert my previous review, and state that the game (despite it's steep price tag) is slowly getting better.

But, in the name of humor, I shall keep my story of the polish resistance alive.

"The first game, I played as Germany, and the game went at a snail's pace compared to usual. At this point, I looked up and thought "Huh, my manpower is pretty low. I guess I should raise my conscription laws". Needless to say, It didn’t help in the slightest. I then proceeded on with the game until I cut my losses, and left it out of sheer boredom. The second time, I had a new gameplan in mind. So, I picked Germany, and the game proceeds as usual. Not much to write home about, other than the fact that the UI now looks beautiful. (Which is the only thing I will give the developers, the UI is spectacular, and a wonderful job with the focus tree overhaul). But, as I progress on, I go to war with Italy, and it drags on. And on. And on. I realize that I have lost 2 million men to the italian front. How? ♥♥♥♥ if I know, they must have been putting some pretty strong stuff into mussolini’s pizza pie.

I eventually ran out of manpower, and so, I stopped training my divisions, giving me a nice roomy 700k manpower. For a moment, there was hope. For a moment, I saw the green flares in the distance and knew things would be alright. And then, I look to Poland, and I see a sea of “Factory sabotaged” across the map. My jaw dropped through the floor, and into the depths of hell as suddenly, I went from 700,000 Men to 0. 700,000 𝕸𝕰𝕹. I did some research, The battle of warsaw cost the germans around 50,000 soldiers in total. In less than a day, Germany had lost 14 times the amount of troops than in the entirety of the warsaw uprising.

I guess Warsaw called, and boy did the free nations reply to said call. Needless to say I let the poles go out of sheer anger, and terror.

A few minutes later I said “♥♥♥♥ it” and commenced an experiment. I knew the Italians would take Churchill's words to heart and never surrender, so I saved the game, deleted all my troops, and looked to my newly conquered land in latvia. Imagine my shock as I went from a roomy 700,000 Manpower to 650k, then 600k… I was astounded, and It just continued going down further!"
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13 Comments
Charlotte 5 Oct, 2024 @ 7:15pm 
Wow,your review is on point! So much info and thought put into it. I'm seriously impressed. Keep it up! 💖👏
Damnation 1 Jul, 2023 @ 5:57pm 
Where is the funny at?
French 14 Mar, 2020 @ 12:53pm 
yeah well i dont really like the new mechanics so much from la résistance. i like the fact you can spy on people and so on but, the new resistance mechanic is horrible. You can never get the resistance down and placing troops doesnt work anymore. I agree with you, PDX have messed this up and they should absolutely balance it out.. Well also regarding the mods, devs of big mods havent had time to update their mods.. Thats why you should try reverting to 1.8.2!
UncleYar 13 Mar, 2020 @ 9:36pm 
Would be worth unsubbing from all mods, uninstalling, deleting game folder AND settings folder, and reinstalling. Then verify that your checksum is correct and test. Paradox games tend to mess up their files on updates, happened to me with CK2.
Zockopa 12 Mar, 2020 @ 3:09pm 
In my experience gameplay i f`ed for a while after a new DLC is released. But this time
around its realy worse than,say back in the day when Man the Guns was released,because in addition a big patch + a beta patch for the patch (!!!) was released.
Of course its bad. Gameplay is broken to some extent,it always was,but this new patched patch + the new DLC made is way worse than ever before.


Mijero 9 Mar, 2020 @ 1:34am 
The Romanian people were genocided by a bunch of resistance bulgarians. 10/10 would commit hitler again.
Devious Dash 7 Mar, 2020 @ 10:08pm 
I had triple checked to make sure the mods I had enabled were up-to-date. But the music mods would still cause issues within the UI, so I am unsure on what the problem was, or how music mods would fuck with the game itself. Had the mods just not shown up, or gave an error message on startup, I would have understood what the problem was, and not included it
grisaia 7 Mar, 2020 @ 8:32pm 
version*
grisaia 7 Mar, 2020 @ 8:32pm 
The mod problems are most likely due to the new update, just wait for the mod devs to fix it or play on an earlier date.
TheMate0 7 Mar, 2020 @ 12:32pm 
I agree, I LOVED this game, but now my game wont start....