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Complete Advanced Guide to playing HOI with Götterdämmerung
Generals! Now that you've conquered the Beginner's Guide, its time to take on your next challenge with Götterdämmerung and our Complete Advanced Guide to Hearts of Iron. Join Hammotimee as they bring you up to speed on…
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Last Chance to grab your very own Kaiser of Plusshia!
Generals! It is soon time for the Ruler of Plusshia to return to his campaign of conquest, but fear not! Makeship has been kind enough to delay his stay until the 27th of November so those of you who have not yet gotten…
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Götterdämmerung AVAILABLE NOW!
Götterdämmerung Available NOW! And finally the time is upon us. If you’re reading this, what are you doing? You could be playing G ötterdämmerung this very moment! It’s been a long road, but in your hands is the power o…
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Götterdämmerung | Patch Notes
Greetings all, With a mere one day to go before the launch of Götterdämmmerung, it is tradition that we leave you with the change log to pore over. The usual disclaimer applies; this list should be comprehensive but omi…
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Developer Diary | Art & Achievements
Hello! And welcome to the last Dev Diary for the DLC Götterdämmerung! I’m CreamGene and I hope you have had a good time reading previous Diaries and are as excited as we are for the release. Since I’m here, I would like…
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Developer Diary | Performance and Modding
Hello everyone, it's again the time to give you a glimpse into the fun stuff we've been doing from the tech side. You know, in addition to implementing the new features. This time around, I (PDXen) got the honour to wri…
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Developer Diary | Alt-History Germany
Hallo, wie geht es dir? Stay tuned for tomorrow, Thursday November 7th, that there will be a Dev AMA over on Reddit! Paradox_Danne here one last time to guide you through the final German Dev Diary before Götterdämmerun…
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Developer Diary | Congo
Hello! My name is MordredViking (Gareth), and I’m joined in this Dev Diary by D3vil (Jonathan). We previously talked about Belgium and now it’s time to talk about Congo! I’ll start talking about a specific part of the f…
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Developer Diary | Belgium
We’re going to be talking about a nation that was invaded in both World Wars, and were present and fighting until the end in both, despite being either partly, or wholly occupied for the majority of those conflicts. The…
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Get your LIMITED EDITION Hearts of Iron plushie today!
Generals! Need more Plushies in your life? Surely you must! Other Plushies lack a certain flair or Discipline, whereas THIS Duck-Kaiser-billed platypus has all the authority and gravitas befitting the Ruler of PLUSSIA!…
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Developer Diary | Raids
Hi, Thomas here talking about game mechanics again. I work as Design Manager and Design Lead on Hearts of Iron. Today we are looking at another of the new features that comes with Götterdämmerung, namely Raids. The norm…
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Developer Diary | German Systems
Willkommen zurück to another German Dev Diary! Last time we talked about the Common Branches and the Historical Branch of Germany. Now, I, Paradox_Danne, ManoDeZombi, D3vil and Nattmaran (please insert joke about how ma…
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Developer Diary | Small Features
Hey everyone! I'm Plankie, one of the game programmers on hoi4, and one of my favourite parts of developing a game is to work on the game AI. So when I was asked, almost a year ago, whether I wanted to take charge of a…
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Developer Diary | Historical Germany
Guten Tag oder guten Abend depending on when you’re reading this! Me, Paradox_Danne and ManoDeZombi will guide you through the big boi; the myth, the legend, the one and only - the German Focus Tree. Yes, you read that…
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Developer Diary | Hungary
Jó napot kívánok! Jonathan here to bring you another Dev Diary for the upcoming DLC Götterdämmerung! I will be (re)introducing you all to Hungary. Originally we had planned to do a minor update to accommodate the Austri…
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Developer Diary | Special Projects
Hi, I am Thomas, the Design Manager and Design Lead on the Hearts of Iron Expansion Team. Today I am here together with Manuel, also known as Mano de Zombi to introduce one of the new features of the upcoming Götterdämm…
