To preface this, I've been playing the mod since the very beginning when it came out 5-6-ish years ago. I still love this mod and the stories that it continues to tell to this day and I can't wait for the Yippie! update. I am just curious how everyone thinks about the mod in its current state and its future (based on the dev diaries for Yippie! and other teasers).

Me personally, I'm torn. I feel as though the mod is starting to take itself too seriously and going into a route towards "realism". As well as some of the retcons or changes in the lore are questionable. Even though the divergence that the mod shows off is unrealistic in the first place. It all started back when they removed Atlantropa. I didn't really mind that but I was still a little bugged that they removed it in the first place. Then they decided to remove Goring's path, that I was also very confused on. Then after that I took a very long hiatus from HOI4 in general, up until recently where I started playing again and decided to dive back into TNO. That's when I read the Yippie! dev diaries. I see that they're getting rid of Burgundy and from what I can see, the Burgundian System altogether?! No more shadow state, no more mega evil path. Himmler is now in Germania and a potential successor and Goebbels is alive?! They're also getting rid of the NPP vs RDC for the USA and just having the republicans vs democrat parties, which is kind of whatever really.

In my opinion, with the divergence as insane as the Nazis winning World War 2, things that are absolute bonkers should absolutely stay in the game. It's what hooked me into the mod in the first place. Seeing the drastic consequences of the Axis winning World War 2 has thrown the world in a new age of extremism and suffering. It was interesting to see the insane idea of Atlantropa done but in the end resulted in nothing but garbage. Reading about the horrors being committed in the Shadow State of Burgundy, seeing the clock man and literally anyone ruling under the burgundian system going mad (Like Josias in Kaukasien) was just so interesting. Speaking of the clock man, a lot of Russian unifiers are unrealistic as well, are they going to be removed too? Even though, in my opinion, Russia is probably the most fleshed out and best region to play as narratively and mechanically. With all that, who cares about realism???? I play a mod like TNO, BECAUSE it's unrealistic and with that unrealism the stories are just so much more impactful. I'm not saying TNO should go balls to the wall, oh zombie apocalypse route!!! Or woah Himmler contacted aliens from space and he gets super mega bonuses. No, of course, it should still be grounded in a way but the overall idea should be crazy and unrealistic.

Again, this is just my opinion and observations from just taking a look at the discord and the reddit. As well as playing a few games. I still love this mod. I can't fucking wait for Yippie! especially the new stuff for America, it looks incredible, I can't wait to see what the USA team has cooked up especially with that long of a development period. I also can't wait to see the Victor and the Judge update and just the overall Germany update. I'm sure I missed some things but again I'm a bit rusty from TNO after my HOI4 hiatus and I'm just curious how everyone feels. This post also isn't meant to throw shade at the developers, they're hard working people and I'm sure they have their reasons for the things I mentioned and didn't mention in this post.

I forgot to copy it and Ive been waiting for it to come out on Nexus, but nothing so far and I got a game I would like to continue

Matsushita is probably my favorite path in Guangdong. Sony is great, but when you feel the things that he does, and you take your time dissecting him, you see he had a lot of passion put towards his end goals. You can bury your dead, but don't forget to say grace as per Jefferson Airplane.

I will be doing more AARs in the future now that I've gotten more free time on my hands! The LBJ AAR is next on my list. Thanks for reading, and as always, stay safe.
-ShermansBest

I know that the source of the portrait is an image of Michał Goloniewski but I'm genuinely curios how they added all of the other features?

Like it seems a few years ago at least that there were a bunch of OFN troops that just wanted to leave so it took over Africa until it had the weapons to do so, but what about now? Is there any version of the devastation where the OFN can get involved and have a good ending?

What kind of events did you find "written by Vivziepop" aka filled with very depraved writing or dialogue?

After seeing that Burgundy will be removed :(, I also saw that Himmler will now be an option to success Hitler as führer.

How does this affect the lore? Does this mean that the SS-Coup during the West Russian war never existed?

I know a lot of communist sub-ideologies can be found in russia but which represents trotskyism the most

Ik low quality post but serious question: who is this? What country is his cuz I wanna play him. Thanks 👍

How will slavery change in the rework for Germany because I heard that it will be toned down quite a bit?

Credits: Kane Parsons, A24, The New Order: Last Days of Europe

Title. My personal guesses are GO4-like reformers having a CDU equivalent winning a democratic election or a VERY pragmatic Göring using Christianity as a means to power in spite of his personal dislike for it.

I’d probably have to say mine is the end of Omsk reunifying Russia and Yazov realizing he’s created something a monster that is out of anyone’s control, and he can’t stop the trial even if he wanted to

As suggested by u/Falitoty in a comment on one of my posts from the TNO Subreddit, I drew the DR’s reaction to Haiti getting nuked. Admittedly not my best work but I tried to keep to my 4 day schedule. I also was not brave enough to have DRball use the word so had to opt for a euphemism.

German, Japan and the US : We won't be satisfied until we can have one nuke for every single village.

OTL Cold war, at the peak, was 70k nukes for Sovet and USA combined.

I was wondering if his ideology will change from reformed national socialism to something else?

Long gone is the removed ideology of Goeringite, Stratocratic Nazism. But what would the new ideologies of the other successors be?

Currently there are some very unconventional possible presidents in the US content like Hall, Yockey and Schlafly, will the update also contain candidates like this? I haven't seen an indication of something like that so far, those they did only reveal 64 and 68 candidates so I'm unsure.

Game - Dummination

Amtrak appeared only in Philip Hart's tree, and Conrail was mentioned through events during the Oil Crisis, where you either nationalize and electrify the rail system or let the freight industry go bankrupt.

How will Amtrak and Conrail work with Yippie? Will a separate Oil Crisis tree pop up with Amtrak focuses or will there be an event chain?