HOI4 Norway Is STILL Broken in 2024 After 4 MONTHS!

[@stakuyi]

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[@death-istic9586]

Love your videos!💚

[@skullly9074]

ny gaards vold is how you say the word you didnt want to say btw

[@tsamoka6496]

Hi Stakuyi! If you think it'd be worth it, I think a playthrough of the Youjo Senki Redux mod would be fun to see. Please? It would really make my day. =^x^=

[@mr.radovic702]

Play TNO with Sablin, bring the wholesomeness

[@WeserBlitzEU]

I'm Norwegian (born in Tønsberg), and gave you a like. I don't even play the game, but I really enjoyed the video. Stumbeled upon it because I'm Norwegian, and we all are very self consious, thus clicking on anything related to our beloved Norway... And we finally managed to conquer Sweden and Denmark (again) through you

[@Daniel-en1on]

The Norwegian tree is also able to just ask Ireland to give up all of Leinster including Dublin (Dyflin) so that Cork becomes the capital of Ireland.

[@Daniel-en1on]

For those unaware many Corkonians claim the city to be the real capital of Ireland.

[@LiamMaher4955]

Your from Cork aren't you

[@NapoleanBlown-aparte]

Hell nah i aint going to the hellhole known as cork💀

[@theninjabird9510]

Hell on earth

[@JoboGamezzz]

Petition to change to capital to cove/ queens town home of many immigrants and used as a stop over port for ships since the 1800s

[@Anders_Lund]

What the heck? Maybe this is how we can tell that Paradox is Swedish; by giving Norway such a broken (not in the fun way) focus tree

[@alkazarjkdghjd]

It's probably the reason, seeing as how Sweden is one of the most OP nation in the game and even Danmark is quite decently powerfull in all it's different path..

[@thecommander9137]

Then Denmark would be the weakest nation in the game, But Sweden is awful to fight against as Denmark.

[@Rareknightking]

Monarchist Norway was a viable tree till they removed the political power you get from completing the decisions. Now Norway is no fun to play at all.

[@ChrMuslimThor]

I was so disappointed that I did not buy the DLC.

[@pannik_lucas]

With South American DLC I got the same dissapointment. "Spirit of the Conquerors" as if Chile and Argentina were the same to Spain. Specially for a fascist path, which are the most "patrotic".

[@TheArklyte]

That tells us 1)how many... how few people play Norway; 2)AI doesn't know about their own features. And considering AI was designed for vanilla, mechanics of which are mostly extinct, it's a miracle it still functions at all. Though it not interacting with supply depots and railways may be a sign that it has growth trouble😅

[@twoplatinum]

I would guess that Paradox tried to update them for the new supply system, but the AI just kept doing stupid things. I could imagine that the AI would spam useless railroads and supply hubs everywhere instead of building factories. The supply system is fairly well designed to be able to ignore it, you could play the game just fine and never build or upgrade a railway or mess with the supply hubs. It was probably a choice between leaving the AI alone, having it be stupid, or a complete ground up redesign of the AI (not going to happen for a 7 year old game, that would take way too much time and money).

[@Tottte]

AI is the reason I dont play this game. Last time I played as siam, the british decided to move all its army to british raj and as a result it got annexed by germany. I feelt like I wasted several hours for nothing.

[@whitehawk4099]

The AI does build railroads to supply hubs if they are unconnected. I don't know if they upgrade railroads though.

[@rdeviking3903]

Bro the real vikings is in denmark not norway

[@GoobieSnoobertt]

I miss Volvo vrooms 😔

[@lokvik4755]

Thank you! I have been struggling with this path for so long now. I have waited for this expansion pack for Norway for almost 10 years and I have played all the paths. I really like the communist paths, and the democtratic ones are HARD. I am still struggling to even unite Scandinavia. Some things I picked up: -Hire the manpower advisor as soon as you have the pp. I mean right at the beginning. Since u are going "democratic" anyway he will not disappear, and you will enjoy 15000-30000+ extra manpower after 2-4 years. When it comes to garrisoning sweden before coring this is huge. -In all other paths you get to remove "obsolete forces" quite early through decisions or revolutions, but in this path it seems that you can only do the army focus and it takes way to much time. It doesnt make any sense since the very gig of the alt demo path is armed preparedness and strength, yet the army is obsolete for years of war until you can finally do the focus. Alot more of them should be 35 days or the preparedness / development / revolution decisions should be heavily reworked or just changed to a very simple and rewarding balance of power system like in literally every other content nation.

[@Jo-Heike]

They fixed it, the decision now refers to preparedness and has an alternative, much easier to fulfill condition, being at war for at least 3 months (a reasonable time to acquire real army experience). Not sure when they did it. Hope you found out on your own, if not now you know.

[@Piratewaffle43]

I think someone accidentally knocked into the Norwegian flag and made it crooked.

[@spencernicolls8112]

Monarchist Norway is OP. You can unify the Nordics by early 38’, take over and core UK fairly quick depending on circumstances, and build multiple armies of ultra buffed mountaineers

[@lokvik4755]

Yes but it is still hard for new players

[@ZZactionwow]

I played Finland, it was op, the rest of the scandinavian countries seem just as, if not more op

[@Oscarboskar]

Fr, if you know how to play norway, it is fun

[@norwegianpatr]

1:47 yeah, that almost translates to “new garden violence” By the way, it would’ve been safe because double A is the same as Å (which is pronounced like “oh” but you cut it off halfway through) 26:18 the supply consumption, one is kind of funny. It translates to participation metal

[@DeathEggz]

Makes Sense that you would know what it means

[@martsvend]

Nei, nå er det noen som ikke kan gammel stavemåte. Johan Nygaardsvold vokste opp på en husmannsplass som het Nygårdsvollen i Malvik kommune. Gård er ikke en hage og Vold/Voll er en gressgrodd slette. No, someone does not know the old ways of spelling. Johan Nygaardsvold grew opp on a rented farmstead called Nygårdsvollen i Malvik County. Gård/Gaard does not mean Garden (but farm/farmstead) and Vold/Voll means a grasscovered field. (The more correct translation of the name is Johan from the New Farmstead on the/with the Grassgrown Field)

[@LastGoatKnight]

The only word I know in Norwegian is the curse word 'Faen' (I don't know how it is typed and doesn't mean to hurt your or anybody's feeling saying this). It ain't much but I'll maybe use it instead of 'Scheisse' I'm used to say when I want to curse but doesn't want to say it in my native/first language (it's Hungarian) if there's a reason, like children are near😅

[@The-KS]

@@LastGoatKnightfaen is basically fuck (can’t be used in a sexual manner)

[@martsvend]

@@LastGoatKnight You have typed it correctly and 'Faen' is a curseword, somewhere between 'Damn' and 'Fuck' in severity. It is the short version of the word 'Fanden', which in Christian times was used for the Devil, but in pre-Christian times was used for an enemy. The word is related to the english word 'Fiend'. (same root word in Indo-European)

[@MarkGFL]

Norway certainly got stiffed in this DLC when you compare it to all the wonderful things in Sweden's and Finland's focus trees.

[@Jo-Heike]

In what way? All the Nordics have their problems, with Norway and Finland being at the end of centuries of outsider rule, and between the two of them Norway hasn't been on the frontline of all of Sweden's and Russia's many wars and doesn't have a strong martial tradition. That and the hard thirties were hard I heard. If you're talking about the focus tree, then the Norwegian one is nice with multiple paths for Democratic, Communist and Fascist runs.

[@MarkGFL]

@@Jo-Heike The option to remove the massive army debuff isn't available once you go to war, so if you don't complete the focus and political options before then you're stuck with until the end of the game. It makes no sense to work like that.

[@Jo-Heike]

@@MarkGFL They fixed that. You don't have to get 15 preparedness to Modernize your army, you can take the decision after having been at war for 3 months. Getting to 15 preparedness during peace is still an option, but not the only way anymore.

[@MarkGFL]

@@Jo-Heike Thats good to hear.

[@Jo-Heike]

@@MarkGFL Does that make Norway less stiffed?

[@Jo-Heike]

They fixed it. You can now modernize the army if you have been at war for 3 months, as well as if you have the patience to gather 15 preparedness.

[@overjee]

Does the preparing go away still, stopping you from developing further? Or can you actually go up to the 15 preparedness even towards the end finally?

[@Jo-Heike]

@@overjee No Preparing for WAR still mostly go away once you have gone to War. You still have the option to use your preparedness for Economic Relief Measures, as well as deploying your preparedness while your actually at war for production bonuses, training time reductions, defense or offense bonuses. What changed is that you don't have to get 15 preparedness to modernize the army anymore, it's an option but you can also just spend 3 months at war, and then modernize the army without having 15 preparedness, you just need 200 convoys, and 60 cp, so you can take the decision twice and then it's gone for ever. So either you prepare, and go into conflict with a modern army, or you can get into some early war(s) (for example with Denmark and Sweden) where you Modernize the army during said war(s).

[@TheArklyte]

It may sound weird, but if your plan is to snake to VPs with cavalry, you have a huge front and you outnumber the enemy divisions, then I'd suggest putting your cavalry on cautious to prevent them attacking enemy divisions and then just giving them a garrison order on enemy territory with focus on VPs. Instrad of giving them manual order to move. Micro is always better, but you can't do it all the time.

[@LeprinhaGul]

The fact that Paradox is realeasing a new DLC before fixing this is just absurd.

[@WuCSquad]

And yet; also completely expected.

[@JudgeAnnibal]

@@WuCSquadI mean that's what they've been doing ever since the 2nd? 3rd? DLC, Waking the Tiger was horribly broken for a long time (and still probably is)

[@Elyseon]

They have always done that.

[@hermangrinden1283]

Yay! Norway content!

[@XponentX]

NNNNNOOOOOORRRRRRRWWWWAAAAAYYYYYY

[@Taluien]

Looking at it from the end of the video, it seems to be more a case of Norway discontent.

[@SerfinBird]

Nor Way he's playing Norway

[@xavierwright719]

I'd like to mention that from Squash Dissent you get a *political advisor* who gives you the equivalent army experience of an expert army chief. You can stack that XP gain, which is kind of wild.

[@Jo-Heike]

I think you misunderstand, Jonas Lie is both a political adviser and a Chief of Army option, but he only grants army experience when employed as the Chief of the Army (only possible as fascist), so it's not possible to stack the army exp.

[@overjee]

Really hope the devs see this. Or someone within pdx that can forward the message of what is broken

[@ChrMuslimThor]

It's been debated to death in the forums. Unfortunately, there is no firm promise to fix it soon by paradox.

[@Elyseon]

They don't care. They already have your money.

[@SinfullyHera]

Nothing is broken

[@Jo-Heike]

It's fixed in the current version, you can now do the decision after having been at war for at least 3 months.

[@robertnett9793]

I think... the nono word you fear is actually spoken like 'Nygoshvol' with the double a being a sound between a / o and with the 'y' like in 'typical'

[@TheRroganShow]

exactly

[@acertab3730]

Why does stakuyi look like someone tried to draw Leonardo Di Caprio from memory while his mind was on DarkViperAU ???

[@DanielA-no9xv]

This is both cursed and hilarious at the same time

[@LT_Silver]

There's a very good path as the Yale Rectorate in Equestria at War. It's about resurrecting one of the most important figures in Griffonian History. It's in my opinion one of the best paths in the mod! Go down the supremacust tree and do Project Auferstehung and you shall see a very important figure from Griffonian history! By the way whether The Griffonian Empire goes with a certain fellow by the name of Dawnclaw or not decides how the focus tree ends and who controls the nation. So whichever way you want it to end, you should decide if the Empire should go with him or not in the game rules. If you want one, more than the other! I wish you good luck in reconquering the whole continent as it should have been many centuries ago!

[@blackrose3653]

Was literally looking for something to do and this popped up

[@victorhenden6909]

Keep up with the amazing work, love from Norway

[@braedenperrie8847]

Ya know Stak, I would live to see you do a video about Norway’s history from its independence from Sweden to its current state.

[@MattMcLeod]

For what it's worth, the (non-Soviet) communist path seems to be broken too: once you switch you have no access to an army chief of staff, so you can't generate army XP.

[@Jo-Heike]

You can always use the Professional Officer Corps Spirt of the Army, and/or grind some experience the old fashion way (by sending volunteers, etc). You are also able to level Jacob Hviden Haug to skill level 4 and promote him to a field marshal so that you can give him an officer corps role.

[@CheefCoach]

You shouldn't use preparedness until you reform the army.

[@vegasundead]

A very simple change would all it take for paradox to fix this decision, one idea being that as norway if you win a war and you are at peace you simple bypass the 15 developent and only have to pay the 100 convoys. another idea is if you are still alive by say 1940 making it so that if your in a eternal war your not stuck with shit units for the whole game.

[@Jo-Heike]

They did something slightly better, you just have to have been at war for 3 months to take the decision.

[@CronoTime]

I get why it can be frustrating..but it also kinda makes sense..after going to war..you are prepared you no longer need to prepare..so it makes sense why it's looked out..dumb but makes sense

[@widget3154]

new video, new request for a blind Old World Blues NCR Playthrough 🙏

[@QuartetGhost]

Is it wrong for me to point out the ground news segment pointed at a video that was 5 months old as new

[@Kyle_Lome]

Bad Boy Blues Suggesting Evil Karma Arroyo (Day 2)

[@Aspect43216]

Hello Stak last stream I was asking you about Noway. Apparently you made a video a few days before that about it lol!

[@animegandalf8690]

As Norwegian Ive played Norway a lot, and honestly If you want my advice on it. Just focus heavily on internal development first and formost as Norway even as alternative democratic path. Than join the allies and than attack Denmark and Sweden. But generaly most powerful paths for Norway militarily is the monarchist path (which gives you nice buffs for army and population) or industry in case of the historical democratic democratic path. Of course historical path means less actual expansion but its very fun to play as a challenge when the nazis attacks you

[@mohsen3901]

Chechnya has a new focus tree in millenium dawn and even has a war tree that offers the ability to white peace or even spark a rebellion in dagestan and continue. It has multiple paths and I think now it's doable and would be a nice video. Day 1

[@ragingpsychiatrist5375]

8:40 the EaW is bleeding through

[@MrCreation0099]

Video idea- a game that you yourself would have a blast playing no rules requirements or headache especially with the new updates I’m sure you’ve found many new ways to play in your own way much love!!

[@robertnett9793]

Oh - one fun fact: The act that lead to Norways independence was incredible. Because it basically went like the two stoic bearded guys meme. "Hey - Sweden... would you mind if we became independent?" - "No. Go ahead." No war, no unrest, just a few letters and some official act.

[@GwainSagaFanChannel]

So basically the same way it went for Canadian independence the UK just agreed to let Canada become independent

[@Thule21]

I like the 'Tre raske menn' version better. Unionsoppløsningen! I 1905 er Norge nå lei av Sverige og utfordrer til kamp; Nor: stein, saks, hurraaaaaa! Swe: HELVETE!

[@robertnett9793]

@@GwainSagaFanChannel I guess.

[@walnzell9328]

How much power did the Swedish monarchy really have in 1905?

[@WeserBlitzEU]

It was a bit more complicated than that, and in fact military forces were deployed quietly on both sides of the border. However, due to the massive public support for independence, Sweden conceded in fear of being ousted by the international community. This is worth a read: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_union_between_Norway_and_Sweden#Karlstad_negotiations

[@bruh5912]

Love the Norway content.

[@tsamoka6496]

Hi Stakuyi! If you think it'd be worth it, I think a playthrough of the Youjo Senki Redux mod would be fun to see. Please? It would really make my day. =^x^=

[@KodyCQYep]

Something similar happens with the monarchy path as well.

[@ekvictory007]

Good call on skipping the pronunciation there in the beginning. Don't want to summon the excess baggies of hardware Sweden hides away from Ikea. :D

[@benzelmer8111]

They could easily fix this if they just: A-Restore the development buttons after war; B-Add an Or: has united scandanavia.

[@propeltheprototoaster8151]

Just a reminder stak that you don't need to use your excited voice. Maybe I've just gotten acclimatized to you normal deeper voice but it sounds like you are using that excited voice, which isn't a bad thing. Just reminding you that we love what you do, and that you shouldnt feel the need to fake your voice for us

[@palehunter6711]

Well when the Monarchy path came out I did it and ended up with 0 wars support because of its the monarchies own version of develop the country

[@fidoruh]

Ice pick lomobotomy? That's my 5th favorite cannibal corpse song

[@trapical]

Stacked Cookies with another great video

[@FredFish99]

video two of asking you to play comoros in millennium dawn yes they do have a focus tree

[@Itachi_PT]

Take a shot challenge...everytime you hear "Broken" ...

[@taylorjones965]

New Fall out Old world blues 5.0 video when!?

[@michaelchristy506]

the reason you cant do any more prepardness after going to war with, sweden, per say, is more or less as a punishment/nerf by the devs, as put this into perspective: you are a democratic nation openly invading multiple nations under the justification that something bad will happen in the future. at least to my knowledge thats the only nation in the game that is like that. even the devs know thats a stupidly bad alt history, and have to keep at least something realistic my favorite way that i play that branch of the focus tree is instead just focusing on prepardness, fixing the military, and building up the economy, while not taking any of the war goal focuses and arguabley not even taking the focus to join the allies

[@davidthielen3146]

for any one wants to skip the sponsor go to 4:41

[@northernshield5414]

So thats why... Norway is just shit to play. This really does hurt my pride as a Norwegian

[@nevinbochman4981]

There is Norway the devs still have fixed this!!

[@nevinbochman4981]

Idek what this comment was trying say

[@LetMeInvade]

Nobody is going to talk about what happened to the flag half way into the video.

[@666xenus666]

am i missing something 50(days)/7x1 is less than 60(days)/7x1 so youre GAINING stability, not much but you get something like +1-2, aand it still costs the political power and convoy ofc

[@zintum220]

Stakuyiii your forklift certified!!!!! Also Beese churger

[@NordicTobz]

I was dissapointed with how broken it was as I was very excited. My family was involved in the war is several ways (though probably not in any signifigant way) and hoped to see some history like milorg, the norwegian fleet and the children of nazi soldiers. Tbf, im not good at the game which made it even more difficult at some points too.

[@gojiraguy4223]

Norway gaming

[@Nr-Hedgehog]

Nygaardsvold is pronounced nee-gords-vold btw for future reference ;)

[@Nr-Hedgehog]

Also it means "new-farms-violence" or something...

[@thecommander9137]

I notice that Norway has far more medals than Denmark or Germany.

[@ahyes2]

Why did Norway’s flag tilt at 19:38

[@Jo-Heike]

Norwegian War Cabinet, it's a rebranding from the Consolidate Power focus tree.

[@timgabel2210]

i mean maybe the tree doesnt want you to invade anyone before fixing your contry but why give the option then and why not tell the player anywhere that it works like that...

[@andresdominguez4914]

Video 68 of requesting stakuyi to play Magna Europa

[@donzapatero4808]

Yeah paradox needs to fix this

[@JackSeaEagle]

I hope this will get fixed soon

[@koragg3399]

we have to remember the game was made by sweedish paople aka will allways do everyting to f Norway. yes historcly the situation was baaaad. but paradox made it just a little bit more. feel free to contact me. id be more then happy to help you whit the Norwegian words haha

[@MattMcLeod]

I wonder if this behavior could be fixed in a mod while we wait for PDX to fix it?

[@randomicelander5307]

do love the dlc its fun new mechanics but. norway was less fun then iceland in alot of playthroughs and honestly would think their focuses and history in this time would be more fun. (big brother meme and all that)

[@robloxptr2]

you should rename your channel to stacked cookies

[@kestrels-in-the-sky]

Episode 2 of asking for you to do the uk new empire tree in millennium dawn

[@Barnie-pi7mk]

Keep up the great work stak

[@aaronreynolds1717]

Who’s excited for the new South America DLC

[@GenuineGuitar56]

Please do the new order kamchatka with its own submod

[@Rob-jk6nf]

So I have a question, what was the difference in tank combat between both pacific and European theaters?

[@Jo-Heike]

Japan was not known for their great tanks back then, although they did have them, and used them in small numbers (as far as I remember). Americans had their iconic tanks, but again amphibious landings are not best suited to tanks. Germany, France, UK and USSR were all known for their tanks, although Germany and USSR had the most notable tank battles of the war. I am sure if you google correctly, or search on youtube you'll find some answers. There's several KZbinrs that talk a lot about armored warfare.

[@jbz4788]

Yeah Japanese tanks were small low armour and lightly armed. Perfectly fine for fighting in China (because they severely lacked AT weapons) But the moment they faced any other tank…. Well they died

[@hakonaae9636]

nygård is pronounced exactly how you think, to be clear

[@DAK_12]

Play Cold War iron curtain

[@Schmats1]

Never been this fast to a video before

[@FrogiMen13]

regular paradox behavior

[@CyberiaChild]

MAN FROM ACROSS THE SEA SCARED OF RED NUMBERS!! (i understand tho)

[@oskarnilsson0712]

I love playing sweden because you can just go fascist or monarch and ask denmark finland and norway if they want to become a puppet and if you just have diplomatic pressure and improv relations they just say yes and then you can just integrate them so you could form "det stornordiska riket" or "nordic unity" so it is pretty easy to integrate them as sweden🙂

[@XZelectro]

Day 6 (Video 6)of asking stakuyi to play Bosnia in Millenium Dawn

[@SuperElmster]

Do zombie pony and conquer the world

[@Diamond_Brony]

... Play Barrad Magocracy in EaW.

[@butchcalvert34]

Next idea Only BOAT

[@freddykalas7054]

can u play any off the nordic countrys and form scandinavia/nordic union in Millennium Dawn

[@djobert2402]

impossible to get rid of the Hard Thirties with the fascist or monarchist path, and it blocks the "industry tree". it sucks

[@Gabberag]

Hail the Alfather!

[@StormSage13]

I wonder if there's a mod that fixes this. I'm not really a HOI4 player, just a big fan of your playthroughs, so I'm not super familiar with the game's community

[@jimos4ever322]

Paradox releases and charges for broken content that they're content to leave broken. It's one of the reasons I don't play base game anymore.

[@hajustuggmun858]

Hey look guys denmark has eurovision this year they took malmo

[@CrilTump]

Hello stak

[@tendousatori5]

So sad to see the effects of certain words can do this much of inconvenience to other words that may similarly sounds which have nothing to do with it or what soever 😢

[@Senseiseak]

Day 10 of commenting on a different video of your archive and asking for LoTR mod playthrough. My Hoi4 constantly crashes and I would prefer a much better player recreate Middle Earth in their image.

[@samueltrusik3251]

Why? This is a really fun path, why is this here? It would be so easy to fix, WHY?

[@ericmyrs]

Nygaardsvoll isn't pronounced anywhere near what you think it is :)

[@timon6759]

I think it's still broken because nobody plays the path.

[@Jimbob10q]

Little bit late, but day 2 of asking stakuyi to play Canada with any mod

[@thomwg7452]

Remember Narvik

[@Verinxz]

You should play this with me, i will show you how to make Norway rediculusly strong, it is super easy ;)

[@amirulxdlol]

PewDiePie will be proud of Paradox😂

[@PXRESXUL3067]

try and unite Scandanavia with Norway lol

[@spyderpig8846]

Me crying inside when you try to say norwegian names