Playing Dies Irae with HoI3 Complete

[Whiskey Medic]

I recently picked up HoI3 Complete but can't figure out how to play with/activate the extra Dies Irae content. When I hit play the game just loads vanilla FtM. Any suggestions? What about the Stars and Stripes version? Any help would be appreciated.

[Peter Schluss mit Lustig]

Im not sure,but i think the problem is that dies irea is incompatible with FtM

[Whiskey Medic]

The regular german Dies Irae says Semper Fi, which came with HoI3 Complete. So I know I have that but how can I start just that without FtM? But the Stars & Stripes DLC specifically says it requires For the Motherland but I can't find a way to use it.

[Giles]

Hey there,

MagiXX is correct I'm afraid. Vanilla Dies Irae: Götterdämmerung is incompatiable with For the Motherland.

As stated on the report thread, it requires versions 2.04d-f to work, which of course are Semper Fi patches hugely outdated by For the Motherland (Version 3.05).

Luckily there is an extremely unstable betapatch available for FTM and DiG, which works with version 3.05. This can be found here:

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?536069-Dies-Irae-G%F6tterd%E4mmerung-Report-thread&p=12374618&viewfull=1#post12374618

Installing that you enable you to play DiG, but please note that full technical support for the two 'Dies Irae' DLCs is unavailable and a stable patch for FTM is unlikely to come out soon.

The reason for this is that the two DLCs are solely the work of Devildread and Danevang. (Whom are, honestly, simply great contributers to the modding community whom Paradox has paid generously for the right to publish their mods for profit).

Of course this means that responsibility for Di:G and Di:SS falls back to these two characters, whom are understandably relatively unwilling to maintain compatiability with the ever changing versions of HoI when it would require hours and hours of work. They have quite openly stated that they are far more willing to make new DLCs then to rework old ones.

For example Stars and Stripes was always designed with FTM in mind, therefore it is compatiable, but please consider that 'Their Finest Hour' is being released on the 26th September so if you DO buy Di:SS then the DLC is not going to be compatiable with TFH and it will be a very long time, if ever, that a patch for the DLC and latest expansion comes out.

Ultimately this is a shame for us who have bought the DLCs, but we just have to live with it...

I hope that sheds some light on the issue,
Thanks
MrGiles

[Whiskey Medic]

First - Thank you for your help, both to MagiXX and MrGiles. One can hope compatability will come eventually and the DLCs are brought current with the expansions.

Second - I've found a work-around for anyone encountering this problem with Stars and Stripes. HoI3 Complete loads with its own icon from Steam, not the regular Paradox Launcher, which allows one to select different Mods to run, one of which is Stars & Stripes.

To get to this launcher (this is the route for me, may be different for some) go into OS (C) -> Program Files (x86) -> Steam -> steamapps -> common -> HoI3. There you will find two launchers, the light grayish brown one for steam, and the black one with white Paradox icon. Load the Paradox one, select the mod, and play. Give the Paradox icon a desktop shortcut to make it easy in the future... Cheers all

[DemonicSquid]

According to the PDOX devs, TFH will use the same DLC mechanic as the lastest PDOX games such as CK2, this means the DLC/Expansion occupies it's own folder, so you are able to still play FTM compatible mods such as DI:G/SS as before.


If you want to create a launcher to launch a mod directly, make a shortcut to hoi3game.exe on your desktop, then in the target box add "-mod Dies_irae_Gotterdammerung" for example, you can do this multiple times for each mod in your mod folder.

Also bear in mind that there is no DRM, so you can copy the whole game folder somewhere else and mess around with it as much as you like (and launch the game from there) while leaving your original Steam folder untouched.

[Whiskey Medic]

You're right, about the DLC policy. I was very happy when PI announced the new method for integrating expansions - a great company making great products and constantly improving, can't ask for much more.

Also, thank you for the advice, I usually don't like messing with the contents of my steam folder, too afraid it'll set off some alarm which would freeze my account - any modding for personal use I save for games from GG. In fact that's usually why I don't buy PI games from Steam. So the advice on DRM will be very helpful, thank you Chemicalade. - Cheers all, enjoy TFH!

[Nurn]

For me, it shows up under the "mods" section in the small launcher screen.

[Nats]

Does seem a bit flaming stupid when Dies Irae: Gotterdammerung comes with the Collection when it isnt compatible with For The Motherland which is also in the Collection. Yet the US Infantry pack doesnt come with the Collection and I would have rather got that one instead of DI:G.

But yes to confirm DI:G appears in the mods section of the game loader, before you actually run the game itself.

[oberkommando]

is the mod DIG still incompatible with TFH. It is 2016 and i have being unnable to launch it..