People meme on Huey Long showing up in the Alt History mods, but he was a huge political figure for the time. If it wasn't for his assassination he may have actually dethroned FDR. He directly influenced a lot of FDR's later policies and I have no doubt that PDX would absolutely butcher that memory because Long could not be easily pigeonholed.
The US tree desperately needs updates but modern PDX are absolutely incapable of doing it.
I mean who even gives a shit about vanilla focus tree at this point, I haven't touched vanilla in years now, I don't think I know anyone who still plays hoi4 who doesn't spend most of their time playing with overhaul mods.
the only reason to get dlc for most of the veteran fanbase (save for the retards that play competitive multiplayer) is for new features/ game mechanics. Which is why dlcs that contain no new features like graveyard of empires always do so poorly.
Of the mods I play, Kaiserredux, Age of Imperialism and Equestria at War etc all get more frequent focus tree updates than base game with content that is more polished and fun (unfortunately doesn't apply to red flood). Even some of the oldest trees in kaiserredux (like the Austrian Empire's focus tree) have better content than some of the newer dlc trees.
so this new 'theatre pack' nonsense only exists so they can find an excuse to include some game mechanics in what is otherwise a completely lackluster focus tree pack. I can now give my ships medals which give them a 5% bonus to ONE stat and I can finally use the HQ feature that was already present in hoi3.
The only genuinely fun feature to have stemmed from this DLC is the ability to capture enemy commanders which is going ot be entertaining for a grand total of 5 minutes. Which btw, is an issue that plagues pretty much ever dlc mechanic now. Most people just stick with the same designs for their plane, tank and ship designers nowadays, most special projects are ass and these features barely get touched if at all after release, and there's very little reason to try out most components. There are, of cource, plenty of mods that expand upon this but they may not be compatible with whatever overhaul mod you play + not only is paradox letting the modding community fix the shitty focus trees of vanilla they're doing it for the dlc features as well.
I ofc bought it as paradox fans are right beneath bethesda fans on the gamer cuck scale, as soon has hoi4 has a genuine, moddable competitor with a decent playerbase I"m ditching paradox.
The biggest reason paradox can get away with so much shit is because of the lack of genuine competitors and the decades old modding community that's be built around it that cannot migrate easily. Here's hoping that Gilded Age will kill victoria 3 for good, cause victoria 3 is horrible. And maybe we can have a hoi alternative before hoi5 comes out which will hopefully either end in paradox realizing they actually have to try and produce products worth purchasing (which is unlikely) or just them becoming another generic AAA studios that only middle age dads with 5 hours a month of free time buy from.
apart from hoi4 there's not a single current gen game that's better than the last. CK2 was fun and had passion. I used to have so much fun as a kid just listening to all the unique death sounds in the game. Given the states of Victoria 3 and EU5, if paradox stoops any lower they may actually enter bathesda tier
