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Advanced Water = the oceans can be toggled to be represented as a simple "blue" color, or a more complex (advanced?) graphical representation. Perhaps since the world's surface is mostly water, the solid blue color helps rendering and thus reduces lagging. Great feature BTW. Anything that allows user customization is a big welcome. Downside, the ocean areas text is harder to read when the water is blue.
Map Distortion / Inconsistencies = I did find some issues with city placements and even boundaries. There were some issues with boundaries along the U.S./ Canadian border, but then again, I'm sure this is one are where 99.99% of the time you will not be looking at for anything... I find it disturbing for some people to try to find these little issues with a game not yet released when some other games are so attrociusly wrong with their maps, OOB's and gameplay (and that's trying to only simulate 1939-45 Europe). A game engine like HOI3 which goes waaaaay beyond that has done a really good job IMHO. I don't understand all the bashing... the OP only stated if you'd be buying it or not, but as always it turns into a discussion of gameplay and which is better, mine or yours. When the answer is neither. Each game provides each player a different level of immersson and satisfaction. As JudgeDredd stated somewhere above, I'd rather play a WW2 "era" game where I "can" change the course of history, not just replay the same damn war, which you should already know by now how it ended. Duh.
HOI 3 engine = It's a newer engine and nothing like the HOI 1 or 2 series. Sorry Termy. I must disagree with you here. Flame away if you need to. Though I will say that with so many provinces they might have gone to hexes (maybe HOI 4). Still as a fan of board games, I do seem to ALSO like areas instead of hexes. It's the reason RISK was always a highly played game... and still is. I played a second time last night and noticed a few more things. For one, you really have to use "tactics" to defeat the enemy. I played only until Sept. 28 as Germany but was able to reach Warsaw on three sides, destroy large portions of Polish army or encircle much of them. In France, the AI seems over aggressive. The French had and did take opportunity in the real war to attack Germany, but only to try to get Germany back to the bargaining table to stop the Polish aggression. In HOI3 the French army acts more like the German, very aggressive. Though they seem to attack in the same southern most provinces. Knowing this I sent large reinforcements Day 1, and lost 2 provinces but the French lost a lot of men. Interesting.
Patches Needed = As noted above the French AI is too aggressive IMO. There is a bit of lagging. The smooth map scroll can be slowed down in Options if it's too fast for you. With so many provinces, and the way the map zooms in and changes view might distort it and cause Paradox to places cities lsightly out of whack. But overall this is not a deal killer for me. I imagine that Paradox (like Matrix or any other game company) must meet deadlines and deliver games, and stay solvent. For all we know they may already have the patches done that we are all discussing here fruitlessly.
In conclusion to answer the OP, HELL YES I'm buying the game. It's the only WW2 era game that covers the entire WAR and beyond!!!  It's the only war game of its kind with the amount of detail it has.
Bashing the game really is disspointing to see here in the forums, especially by so many notable people. I understand that you don't like HOI 3, it's not your cup of tea, or whatever, but a simple not buying would suffice.
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