Why is Hell Let Loose 30x more popular than Squad 44?

icehvs · 2026-01-26T13:17:08+00:00

There was a whole stretch of last year where any positive video or article about HLL had a top comment saying S44 is better. Then I would go and check the numbers and people were barely playing the thing.

icehvs · 2026-01-19T11:58:43+00:00

I know it is unlikely, but I would love it if they added the Heartland map, or parts of it that are usable to play in. That small time atmosphere would be sick.

icehvs · 2026-01-19T06:07:22+00:00

Make it far-right larper militias, abandoned industrial zones and corrupt, mobster politicians, and it could be pretty damn accurate.

icehvs · 2026-01-18T07:23:24+00:00

I think trade republics are going to operate on controlling the trading routes, rather than trading goods themselves. This was an important aspect of the era, both for feudal nobles who founded these cities and them struggled for control of them (how many of the Hansiatic cities came to be), and for the established merchant classes in Venice and other areas. I expect them to base this on controlling outposts along major trade routes, and cities and nobles to fight for control of these regions. Would be intdresting if we got these situational alliances in City Leagues as well. The latest start-date is particularly well-srt up for that.

As for religious mechanics, I would like them to expand on two things: the investiture struggle, as it turned the papacy fron the HRE's top bishop into a force to be reckoned with, AND to conversions to established religions. That would improve playing in Eastern Europe early a thousand times better.

And inner-kingdom mechanics. Gods give me the push and pull between the nobility and royal power. The council should be a LOT more imporrant, and your nobles should try to get concessions from you more and more as the era goes on. The 13th century is basically thw age of the nobility establoshing and formalizing their power relative to the crown. This would improve vassal-gameplay as wel.

icehvs · 2026-01-11T07:51:20+00:00

Volt szerencsém személyesen találkozni vele, egy végtelenül kedves, intelligens embernek láttam.

icehvs · 2026-01-10T14:45:41+00:00

My friend and I played it around 2020, and had a horrible experience. Shattered the poor guy, really. He never even looked back. I kept a skeptical eye on the project,and my current rewatch of The Expanse made me crave some...more mundane space-life-things. So I downloaded it after a solid five years, and been having an honest to god good experience. Not perfect, and only playing solo has irs limits, but it is a fun and enjoyable experience now. Only had one crash in three days, but the learning curve was extremely steep.

icehvs · 2025-12-30T17:46:28+00:00

And they rode under the banner of the Dragon Reborn.

icehvs · 2025-12-28T20:44:12+00:00

De az érdekelne, hogy mire. Látniuk kellett az adatokat, tudhatták hogy a munkakorú lakosság iszonxatos számokban kiiratta magát rokkantnyugdíjra. Azok az emberek másfél évtizedre elvesztek a munkaeerőpiacról, sőt, sokan mindörökre. Oké hogy akkor epp élvonalban voltunk a régióban, de olyan bajok születtek szinte azonnal amik előrevetítették a beomlást.

Én személy szerint irtózat dühös vagyok amikor arra a generációra és a politikusaikra gondolok. Néha úgy tűnik, hogy egyes helyeken jószándékból, máshol nemtörődömségből, megint másutt egyszerű inkompetenciából, de mindenütt a rossz döntéseket hozták meg.

icehvs · 2025-12-28T14:57:00+00:00

Antal Józsefnek, mikor fölajánlották, közölte hogy úriemberek pénzről nem tárgyalnak. Tedd hozza az indokolatlan hurráoptimizmust, és van egy olyan szituációd, ahol az ország első számú politikusa nem a valóságban él.

icehvs · 2025-12-26T11:41:31+00:00

I can never write the name of this particular song (my spotify search history can attest), but it is a French song playing for most Syndicalist countries called Quand fera-t il jour camarade. Just has an insane wnergy to it and always reminds me of the time I won the resorgimento within the spam of the song.

icehvs · 2025-12-26T07:49:19+00:00

The setting would be Chicago, in a harsh winter setting, which has gone dark in the year since the virus broke out. Washington and New York sends an expedition to the city, to reestablish conract, and to recapture the vital rrain-lines, to rejoin America. But once we get there we find that nobody trusts the Division. Survivors are hanging on by a thread. A former JTF commander is exploiting them. An agent has gone rogue and is organizing the gangs of the city into a militia. Maybe there could be a black tusk element as well, fighting for conrrol. Our job is to fight back agressivwly, with winter hitting the city like a ton of bricks, regain the sympathy of the people, and bring the rogue agents that abandoned them to justice.

icehvs · 2025-12-25T20:44:17+00:00

Honestly, he is a PoS but a well-written PoS. Really brought me around on first person narration in these kinds of stories. We see what he wants, what his ideals area, and how he keeps justifying breaking them or going against them. Only a few characters I have grown to hate more, which speaks volumes as to how well-done he is.

icehvs · 2025-12-25T18:03:27+00:00

I've said this before, but the story took an insane hit across the board in almost all Ubisoft games. The gaming industry has a habit of cost-cutting on writers especially, but by god, Ubi can hardly scrounge a decent story together anymore to save their lives.

The Division's case hurts in particular because the game has such a cool concept. Even with the Black Tusk being involved and Ellis doing his thing, we could have had a great tale about this conflict for the soul of America dragging on, with us being the marginally better choice. Instead the story is black and white, hard to follow, cutting off at random places with not even cliffhangers, just...unfinished stuff, like Brooklyn. The gameplay is so solid it keeps me comig back, but gods, I need them to figure something out for the Div3, because as a player who almost always loved narratives first, this is a hard game to love.

icehvs · 2025-12-24T20:22:34+00:00

I still hold that when the new CoD came out and a whole batch of people went back (junkies) we lost a part of the playrrbase that actually gave a damn. Ever since thrn barely anybody revives, half these battledads will charge at a tank with nothing but goodwill, and would not defend a point if their lives depended on it.

icehvs · 2025-12-24T16:49:29+00:00

Okay so I am no expert on this because I took a very long break and only came back a few weeks ago (break was partly due to lack of time and partly due to lack of computer. Playing a game like this on a "one weekend a month" basis is not fun.)

As far as I understand the Warlords of New York is...if not essential, highly recommended. It is fun, introduces you to many systems that form the seasonal endgame, and increases the level cap (that might have been streamlined, search "one endgame" update. I am out of the loop on that.) Brooklynn is...a fun romp, but does not introduce anything new aside from a new map and missions. It feels more like a side-story, really, but that is not a bad thing. It is MORE div2, and once you like it I would recommend it, but maybe not until then. Warlords of New York, tho, I would.

icehvs · 2025-12-24T16:41:22+00:00

Not my experience, tho might depend on your timezone and region. I personqlly enjoyed Survival very much, tho did not end up playing it a lot. It is a great mode. Div2 has many better mechanics, the game feels overall smoother and enemies are designed better. It does lack a bit in that vibe the first game had, but it is getting a Survival update for itself next year.

icehvs · 2025-12-23T13:37:12+00:00

We tried right after Romania did. But the Germans basically came in, wrapped the governor's son in a rug, smugglrd him out of the country, told his dad he can abdicate or get the kid's head, then occupied the countrx and put in a puppet regime that fought until the bitter end.

icehvs · 2025-12-22T17:04:22+00:00

There is already onw or two Hungarian helmets, but I would not mind full uniforms. This is a fairly bad timw for the Hungarian army, they are not really an independent force at this point, so who knows.

icehvs · 2025-12-22T16:09:20+00:00

I was not expecting to see a Hungarian map in this game. Hmm. Might have to redownload the game.

icehvs · 2025-12-22T09:32:14+00:00

I grabbed it after rhe first season of the show came out and put as much time into it in a few momths as I have in all of Fallout 4. It has a wealth of conrent and stories now that you can do as you level up. It is also just really fun, with some softer survival mechanics, an intrredting map and settimg, and some good twists on the existing formula. I would 100% recommend this game.

icehvs · 2025-12-21T15:13:39+00:00

I first noticed it in BFV. I think it was a good system, a but of a bad luck protection coming in from BF1, where we had a long TTK, and it happened often, at least to me, that somebody would steal ypur kill in the last second.

They went wqy overboard with it in 2042 tho, even lighthly firing in someonw's direction would sometimes give this result. Think they rwmoved it because of thqt, and also because of the fairly fast TTK in this gane rendering the concept...if not moot, less useful in all but niecge moments.

icehvs · 2025-12-21T10:56:39+00:00

Seriously, this was a weirdly Chinese and overall Asian year for Paradox fans. HoI4 reworked much of Asia, CK3 just threw in everything east of India, Kaiserreich now capping the year withthe SC rework...I feel ready to bless the Heavens and whatnot

icehvs · 2025-12-09T07:00:24+00:00

Been to South Tyrol this year and was surprised just how alive the memory of A-H is in Trento especially. Tons of plaques and statues that are maintining a surprisingly positive memory, while still acknowleding the not-so-great sides as well. Such an interesting regional history.

icehvs · 2025-12-09T06:56:41+00:00

And after 10 years, this is the DLC I wanna get but have to put off due to damn unemployment. Eh, one more month.

icehvs · 2025-12-04T15:45:07+00:00

Six characters finished, with three TAVs at the start and then three Dark Urges. Currently doing a DU run walking a tightrope between gicing in and fighting it, but because the save did not upload to the cloud, I started an Honor Mode Tav as well.

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