#Hearts of iron 4 division update#
#Hearts of iron 4 division full#

#Hearts of iron 4 division full#

Previously, thisВ simply meant you did half normal damageВ if the armour value was higher than your attackвЂ™s piercing value, and full damage if not вЂ“ meaning you only needed one more point of piercing, compared to your opponentвЂ™s armour, to make their armour totally irrelevant. In the armour piercing department, Paradox is adding more of a sliding scale of damage to reflect different levels of armour, versus armour piercing. Previously, 40-width divisions with concentrated damage were disproportionately powerful in the gameвЂ™s combat arithmetic вЂ“ but the post says this is now being balanced out вЂ“ on the one hand, by having these larger divisions receive a larger share ofВ all incoming damage, and, on the other, by spreading out their damage outputВ more broadly across enemy units. The classic вЂ40-width armourвЂ™ division is also getting a nerf, as part of efforts to encourage a wider variety of division layouts. This, too, would be an additional measure to ensure players donвЂ™t simply use the same division templates over and over, it says. The post also reveals the developers are вЂњlooking at reducing the overstacking penaltyвЂќ applied to armies that have too many fighting divisions for the width of the province theyвЂ™re in. Plains provinces get a new combat width of 90. ProvincesвЂ™ width stats will now range from 75 (mountains) up to 96 (urban). Now, the post says, in a bid to вЂњshake up the 40/20 width metaвЂќ, many terrain types are having their maximum combat width tweaked away from multiples of ten, to encourage different shapes and sizes of divisions to be used.

#Hearts of iron 4 division update#

There is still no announced release date for either the Barbarossa update or the accompanying, unnamed DLC.ДЇor most of the gameвЂ™s lifetime, combat width (how many troops can effectively fight across the border between one in-game province and another, at the same time) has remained at 80 for almost all terrain types, meaning players were at a heavy disadvantage if they designed their army divisions to have any combat width other than 20 or 40.

Hearts of Iron 4вЂ™s forthcoming 1.11 вЂBarbarossaвЂ™ update will make some pretty meaningful alterations to the gameвЂ™s critical combat width mechanic, the way armour-piercing attacks work, and the reliability stat for divisions, according to the latest dev diary, posted on developer ParadoxвЂ™s Forum on Wednesday.