This mod is a visual novel with grand strategy elements. It's really not a usual HoI4 mod where you conquer a lot of shit (unless you are unifying Russia.)
The alternative history this mod presents is extremely detailed and full of great ideas, quite possibly being the single most comprehensive and realistic outlook on a Nazi WW2 victory. However, the overall mod is held back by the limits of the HoI4 game engine and a team of developers that's constantly ablaze with drama and which retcon cool shit all the time.
What really elevates this mod is genuinely of the best soundtracks ever. I'm not sure how they managed to pull together enough talented people to make a HoI4 mod have better music than a lot of games, but it's impressive.
Overall if this was turned into a standalone game it would do really well, albeit I think the drama queens who run the project would murder each other over which Nazi war criminal should lead the hyperborean argentine reichskommissariat or whatever.
The alternative history this mod presents is extremely detailed and full of great ideas, quite possibly being the single most comprehensive and realistic outlook on a Nazi WW2 victory. However, the overall mod is held back by the limits of the HoI4 game engine and a team of developers that's constantly ablaze with drama and which retcon cool shit all the time.
What really elevates this mod is genuinely of the best soundtracks ever. I'm not sure how they managed to pull together enough talented people to make a HoI4 mod have better music than a lot of games, but it's impressive.
Overall if this was turned into a standalone game it would do really well, albeit I think the drama queens who run the project would murder each other over which Nazi war criminal should lead the hyperborean argentine reichskommissariat or whatever.
Despite the gameplay issues, this mod is very good. It had me on the edge of my seat for many points in its story - specifically, the one for any of the Russian warlord states, and Germany.
>except for tomsk
>stupid tomsk
>except for tomsk
>stupid tomsk
Even though this is a mod for Hearts of Iron IV, Im logging it as a full ass game because it may as well be. TNO uses HOI4's game as infrastructure to tell horrifying, inspiring, hopeful, nihilistic, and optimistic stories about the human spirit through the usually tired "nazis win" althist. The autism (honorific) is on full display here, with a world that has no business being so incredibly polished, detailed, and realistic to the subject matter, while still being intriguing and entertaining. In TNO, you don't play HOI4 in the sense of building up a massive army and slogging it out in a great war against an opponent that is also trying to beat you. Instead, you play HOI4 with an emphasis on the focus tree and decision making to build paths that will cascade off the decisions and paths of other countries to end up on one of literally dozens of outcomes/endings. Each interaction feels natural and realistic, and nothing I saw ever conflicted. Its a miracle of storyboarding. You still fight wars in TNO, but they are much smaller scale, and mostly scripted, which is kinda fun in its own way.
The mod is on workshop. If you have HOI4, play it. If you don't have HOI4. Seriously consider if you are HOI4's demographic, and if you are, buy HOI4 and play TNO after the vanilla game.
The mod is on workshop. If you have HOI4, play it. If you don't have HOI4. Seriously consider if you are HOI4's demographic, and if you are, buy HOI4 and play TNO after the vanilla game.
A really good hoi4 mod. One of my favourites, although the updates can be slow.
my unhealthiest addiction the brain rot never ends
the first ever Grand strategy psychological horror game