Game length?

[baconster]

I'm looking into the Hearts of Iron series for the first time and I'm just curious about how long a playthrough of a single country takes in real time? I ask cause I play Europa Universalis IV quite a bit and those go on for hours because you play as a country over a few centuries where as World War II era is just under a decade. Does time play out differently in this game? Do you go by hours/days in this game instead of months/years in Europa Universalis IV?

[Rommel459]

each "tick" of gametime is an hour, there are multiple gamespeeds though, so a day (ingame) can take as little as a half second(estimatedfrom memory for HoI 3), and as long as you want since you can pause.

[baconster]

Originally posted by Rommel459:

each "tick" of gametime is an hour, there are multiple gamespeeds though, so a day (ingame) can take as little as a half second(estimatedfrom memory for HoI 3), and as long as you want since you can pause.

So how long does a single playthrough take usually? Is it as long as a Europa Universalis IV game (if you play that series)?

[ha]

I doubt if anyone can answer it yet.
First,game is not released and there is no real indication of gameplay time besides devs gameplays and it is hard to extrapolate anything out of those videos.

Second - it depends on player. You can let AI make all the decisions besides few arrows on the map and it will be pretty fast, faster then EU. Or you can control everything ,on the division level,and it will take long time - longer then average EU4 playthrough.

[baconster]

Originally posted by ha:

I doubt if anyone can answer it yet.
First,game is not released and there is no real indication of gameplay time besides devs gameplays and it is hard to extrapolate anything out of those videos.

Second - it depends on player. You can let AI make all the decisions besides few arrows on the map and it will be pretty fast, faster then EU. Or you can control everything ,on the division level,and it will take long time - longer then average EU4 playthrough.

Ok, thanks for the help everyone.

[Mitzku]

The devs said that you can continue past the end date so there should be no worry.

[Bridger]

If you play at constant speed 2 or 3 without pausing it will be close to 11 hours to get to 1945, so let's say about 15 hours to "finish" a game to 1948.

Source: World War Wednesday multiplayer live stream.

Of course, if you're pausing or going down to speed 1, that could be longer.

[LasagnaMan12]

From my understanding it goes my Hours/Days its traditional time mechanics in the HoI series unless it changed to days :P

[crixy2312]

Depends, A single match can take anywhere between 10-40 hours. And then the mods come in and they will extend it to a further 10.

As for the how much time you can expect out of HoI 4? Hard to say, I have played HoI 3 for 600 hours and still havent managed to get all of it. On an average I would say this game can keep you occupied for about 200 hours+.

[Engellus]

Originally posted by danielholmes098:

From my understanding it goes my Hours/Days its traditional time mechanics in the HoI series unless it changed to days :P

You are correct. It runs by 1 tick=1 hour, just like HoI3.

Originally posted by UNICORN!:

The devs said that you can continue past the end date so there should be no worry.

You are correct. There is the 'end date' from what I understand, but it is a soft date. Beyond that you may continue as long as you'd like. Characters will NOT die of old age, so it doesn't make perfect sense but if you really wanted to play for 1000 years, you're welcome to it. No characters dying in battle either.

Originally posted by crixy2312:

As for the how much time you can expect out of HoI 4? Hard to say, I have played HoI 3 for 600 hours and still havent managed to get all of it. On an average I would say this game can keep you occupied for about 200 hours+.

Each playthrough will be variable, so a viable estimate isn't really possible. Your are right, the game is deep and will provide a lot of play for people. Especially since they've opened up the option to make the playthrough your own. i.e. player factions, changing government type, historical drive or not (for AI) etc.

The limits to the amount of play will really come to the player and their willingness to try different things. How many times do you want to re-enact the exact same thing? Or are you open to playing as random nations and doing completely different things each time? That's going to be the defining factor of how much each player gets out of this game.