So basically, what used to be our beta became our alpha.” And we were about halfway through HoI when we really decided to raise our quality requirements on new games. “We were used to doing a whole game in one year, right? Before, all the games were developed pretty fast. “At the multiplayer event, I think we had already decided that we were probably going to delay it,” game director Dan Lind tells me. It turns out that quirks like this helped encourage a new development philosophy at Paradox. I duked it out with a bunch of other Panzer fans, and we noticed there were a few issues with systems like the AI battle planner. In fact, the launch was delayed by almost a whole year after a huge multiplayer event in Old Windsor, a pretty village in England and former seat of Saxon kings. That’s a bit more than three years ago, and it wasn’t exactly in top shape.
I first got to try Hearts of Iron IV in 2014. But despite a few setbacks, the team behind Hearts of Iron is still revving to make it bigger and better. And it hasn’t always been smooth terrain for its thousands of simulated tanks and half-tracks to cross. If it had released on the day the war started, we’d be deep into the Battle of Stalingrad by now. Paradox’s World War II grand strategy game, Hearts of Iron IV, turns three years old today.
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