Shells in the Night 2: A Kaiserreich Georgian Tale

[Cassidy]

FUCK THIS SHIT GAME-BREAKING BUGS ARE RUINING ALL MY LETS PLAY THREADS BROS





Damn it, another one bites the dust.

No matter what I do, every time I save the game, after loading it again the game crashes. That is a very fitting end for Liberal, indeed, but it sucks.

By my own loss of interest or through inane bugs, it's seem I'm fated to never, ever manage to finish a LP successfully. Worst of all is that I never had this bug playing with other countries, only with Georgia.

 

[anus_pounder]

So, whats next ?

 

[Kz3r0]

By my own loss of interest or through inane bugs, it's seem I'm fated to never, ever manage to finish a LP successfully. Worst of all is that I never had this bug playing with other countries, only with Georgia.

An omen, a sign from God, or FSB' sabotage?

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Actually, I think I know the cause here.

The French crowned an Orleanist king. You see, Jean III is a fatal bug for the game, and as far as I know unfixable without inner knowledge of Kaiserreich's workings. The only way to avoid is to set the AI chance of choosing Jean as king to 0 and the chances of choosing the Bonaparte pretender to 1 (100%). That way Jean can never ruin games.

 

[Cassidy]

Actually, I think I know the cause here.

The French crowned an Orleanist king. You see, Jean III is a fatal bug for the game, and as far as I know unfixable without inner knowledge of Kaiserreich's workings. The only way to avoid is to set the AI chance of choosing Jean as king to 0 and the chances of choosing the Bonaparte pretender to 1 (100%). That way Jean can never ruin games.

I changed that, but unfortunately it didn't work.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

It might be he's already been chosen as Head of State. If that happens, the crash will occur on load. When you're playing and he's elected king and haven't quit yet, the crash will occur if you click on National France.

 

[Cassidy]

To be more specific, I loaded from a previous, working save game, the one I made just before the latest update(right after Turkestan and Siberia were conquered), did some stuff, then saved again, and after loading it, the game crashed, so I'm sure it has nothing to do with the National France bugged events.

Although a certain crash related to Vietnam events ceased, this is it now:

I found the line, and it is the following:

...
save_date = { 
	7340 = 954 
	6552501 = 913
...

Yet removing or commenting the 7340 = 954 doesn't fix it, and I have no idea what it is supposed to mean either. Funny thing is that I saved the same game a several times in different close game dates for testing and this line is always added this way, and all of them crashed.

The other lines appearing on that error message are related to Rebel AI configuration lines in the save file. Commenting or removing them doesn't work either.

 

[anus_pounder]

The work of Djinns.

 

[MasterSmithFandango]

Andhaira has had his revenge...

 

[SerratedBiz]

Andhaira (PBUH) has had his revenge...

A pity, I was enjoying it quite a bit (to the point of being tempted to give HoI2 another go).

 

[DwarvenFood]

Very sad.

 

[Lumpy]

So are you insanely good at this game or is it just ridiculously easy? Is there any way to make it harder, MMU like?

 

[Cassidy]

So are you insanely good at this game or is it just ridiculously easy? Is there any way to make it harder, MMU like?

List of countries Georgia has beaten before the game crashed:

Azerbaijan: irrelevant shithole
Don-Kuban Union: another shithole, and was waging war against Russia to make it even easier.
Kazakhstan Alash Orda: weak and irrelevant
Siberia: Just splitted off from Russia, had most of its provinces with VPs bordering Georgia already and was already losing the war to Russia when Georgia began its invasion.
Turkestan: Another shithole
Armenia: Really, another shithole
Afghanistan: No comments needed.
Pakistan Delhi: It's a member of the Entente, so what? It was still a shithole and had no foreign presence of Entente in its territories, and its two VP provinces were very close to the border already to make things easier.

Nevertheless, I felt the AI in this newest Kaiserreich somewhat lacking, as it has been stupid enough to defend unnecessarily non VP provinces while letting a huge gap towards their Victory Points. I should try playing National France again to confirm it.

A pity about the bug ruining this LP. Things would get really fun once a direct land border with Germany was established.

BTW, one of the toughest ones to play is the Socialist Republic of Italy, because if Commune of France fucks up(and it will), you'll end alone with Germany and her allies at war. Playing National France and trying to defeat the commies using Carlist Spain as a staging area and as allies is also very challenging even with the Germans keeping them busy.

 

[Lumpy]

So are you insanely good at this game or is it just ridiculously easy? Is there any way to make it harder, MMU like?

List of countries Georgia has beaten before the game crashed:

Azerbaijan: irrelevant shithole
Don-Kuban Union: another shithole, and was waging war against Russia to make it even easier.
Kazakhstan Alash Orda: weak and irrelevant
Siberia: Just splitted off from Russia, had most of its provinces with VPs bordering Georgia already and was already losing the war to Russia when Georgia began its invasion.
Turkestan: Another shithole
Armenia: Really, another shithole
Afghanistan: No comments needed.
Pakistan Delhi: It's a member of the Entente, so what? It was still a shithole and had no foreign presence of Entente in its territories, and its two VP provinces were very close to the border already to make things easier.

Nevertheless, I felt the AI in this newest Kaiserreich somewhat lacking, as it has been stupid enough to defend unnecessarily non VP provinces while letting a huge gap towards their Victory Points. I should try playing National France again to confirm it.

Yes, but realistically, could Georgia possibly muster such manpower to orchestrate such large invasions? Also, wouldn't Russia be expected to step in and kick you while you're still small?

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Russia's a shithole as well in Kaiserreich (60 IC, shit tech teams), by far the weakest of the notable countries in the world. Not to mention they will almost without exception get a Civil War (which still needs some work, Siberia's construction AI and AI in general sucks, and the Reds have a way too shitty start to cause much damage in the long run).

Manpower isn't that big of a deal, quality over quantity has always been the name of the game in HoI, thankfully even moreso in HoI3. Not to mention that the enemies all had a same level of manpower as Georgia. And of course, keep in mind that every invasion boosted Cassidy's manpower gain considerably.

 

[Hellraiser]

The Capitalist swine have sabotaged this LP! THE PROLETARIAT WILL HAVE THEIR HEADS FOR THIS!

Your work towards building a true socialist future has been noted by history Comrade Cassidy, we shall always remember your great deeds