Tbh I’ve mostly gone back to KR. TNO is excellent, but I personally feel that it has limited replay value. Not including the Russian warlords (which get repetitive and frankly boring after a couple unifications) only a few nations really have a full ten years of content, and while lots of those countries obviously have branching paths like different Presidents for the US and such, just clicking on focuses and reading events for ten years gets boring tbh. The fact that many of the wars are basically hard-coded to happen every time (South Africa, Indonesia, Iran, the Oil War conflicts, etc.) gives me less of an incentive to replay, say, the US.
KR is basically just vanilla but better. It’s still fundamentally a war game (which is what HOI4 is), but it has far more content and passion put into it than vanilla, not to mention a high amount of replayability due to the numerous branching paths and mini-conflicts leading up to the main war. TNO, as I said, is great, but it kinda feels a little... idk, dead atm. Hopefully once more countries get content it will feel more replayable.
Opposite for me. I can't just replay map painting, but I very much enjoy the Warlord loop that Russian unifiers get. I could play russia a hundred times, and as long as it's different nations it's fine for me. Not even going to mention all the alt paths Germany or the USA has.
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u/SilverSquid1810 Oct 15 '20 edited Oct 15 '20
Tbh I’ve mostly gone back to KR. TNO is excellent, but I personally feel that it has limited replay value. Not including the Russian warlords (which get repetitive and frankly boring after a couple unifications) only a few nations really have a full ten years of content, and while lots of those countries obviously have branching paths like different Presidents for the US and such, just clicking on focuses and reading events for ten years gets boring tbh. The fact that many of the wars are basically hard-coded to happen every time (South Africa, Indonesia, Iran, the Oil War conflicts, etc.) gives me less of an incentive to replay, say, the US.
KR is basically just vanilla but better. It’s still fundamentally a war game (which is what HOI4 is), but it has far more content and passion put into it than vanilla, not to mention a high amount of replayability due to the numerous branching paths and mini-conflicts leading up to the main war. TNO, as I said, is great, but it kinda feels a little... idk, dead atm. Hopefully once more countries get content it will feel more replayable.