Generals! For the next several days youll be able to test some things and give us all your feedback in this thread. You can play around, test and give feedback on anything you like, but our focus will be on these points:

• Equipment Designer - Weve added functionality to save your designs across game sessions. Save a tank/ship/plane design in one playthrough, and load it up in another.
• Also added is the ability to share designs with friends using the import/export feature.

• Saadabad Pact Branch - Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey are getting a shared branch that allows them to cooperate more with one another.
• Iran is getting some extra characters and focuses, including scientists and generals.
• Afghanistan is also getting some extra characters in the form of a communist country leader and some new advisors.
• Iraqs Kurdistan branch is being expanded upon

Open Beta Patch 1.16.5

Shareable Equipment Designs

Balance

Gameplay

Modding

Bugfix

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Generals! We are back with our latest War Effort patch of the year, which contains a bunch of bugfixes, some balance changes, and tweaks to the game. But before we get to that, we have some words from @Wrongwraith Hi everyone, Im Thomas, the Design Lead on Hearts of Iron. Its time for another War Effort, and its a big one. Our primary focus for this War effort has been bug fixing weve addressed a wide range of issues across the game to improve stability and polish. However, were not just fixing bugs; were also delivering balance tweaks, gameplay adjustments, and other enhancements. This time around, from a balancing point of view, weve mainly looked at Armored Cars and Tanks. The reasoning behind this is that we felt that, as many of you have pointed out, it was usually better to make a cheap light tank than to use Armored Cars. While this is not entirely wrong from a historical point of view, it was a bit too much. So we adjusted a few things with armored cars to make them slightly more viable. They now benefit from improved techs for Artillery, anti-tank, and anti-air. We also upped their starting Organization and Strength. Then, we also had what we felt were too cheap tanks (especially light tanks) when using the tank designer. So, in accordance with that, we have modified the costs a bit for tank chassis and some of the modules. Hopefully, this combined will make armored cars a bit more viable and make Tank Designer-designed tanks somewhat more similar to other tanks. Weve also made some other tweaks, like adding sub detection to a few ship hulls (and other things :) ), as you can see when you look through the list. Anyways, I hope you like this War Effort and all the changes it contains. /Thomas Operation Shoulder, [strike]Patch 1.16.3 Checksum a433[/strike]

After the Hotfix, It is Patch 1.16.4 Checksum 639e

Balance

Armored Car Balance Changes

• Armored Car Battalion Organization increased from 10 to 20
• Armored Car Battalion Strength increased from 2 to 5
• Artillery Equipment Technologies now provide bonus to the Armored Car Battalions; +10% Soft Attack from Artillery, +10% Hard Attack from Anti-Air Artillery, and +10% Piercing from Anti-Tank Artillery
• Inter-War Armored Car Production Cost Reduced from 4 IC to 3.5 IC
• Basic Armored Car Production Cost Reduced from 6 IC to 5.5. IC
• Improved Armored Car Production Cost Reduced from 8 IC to 7.5 IC
• Anti-Tank Armored Car Production Cost Reduced from 9 IC to 8.5 IC

Tanks and Tank Modules Balance Changes

• Inter-War Light Tank Chassis Production Cost Increased from 1 IC to 2 IC
• Basic Light Tank Chassis Production Cost Increased from 1.25 IC to 2.35 IC
• Improved Light Tank Chassis Production Cost Increased from 1.6 IC to 2.7 IC
• Advanced Light Tank Chassis Production Cost Increased from 2 IC to 3 IC
• Light One-Man Turret Production Cost Increased from 0.5 IC to 1 IC
• Light Two-Man Turret Production Cost Increased from 0.75 IC to 1.25 IC
• Light Three-Man Turret Production Cost Increased from 1 IC to 1.5 IC
• Light Superfixed Structure Production Cost Increased from 0.75 IC to 1 IC
• Inter-War Medium Tank Chassis Production Cost Increased from 2.5 IC to 3.5 IC
• Basic Medium Tank Chassis Production Cost Increased from 2.5 IC to 3.75 IC
• Improved Medium Tank Chassis Production Cost Increased from 3.2 IC to 4 IC
• Advanced Medium Tank Chassis Production Cost Increased from 4 IC to 4.25 IC
• Medium One-Man Turret Production Cost Increased from 1 IC to 1.25 IC
• Medium One-Man Turret Soft Attack and Hard Attack Penalty reduced from -10% to -5%
• Medium Two-Man Turret Production Cost Increased from 1.5 IC to 1.75 IC
• Medium Three-Man Turret Production Cost Increased from 2 IC to 2.25 IC
• Inter-War Heavy Tank Chassis Production Cost decreased from 10 IC to 9 IC
• Improved Heavy Tank Chassis Production Cost increased from 10 IC to 11 IC
• Self-Propelled Anti-Air Artillery now benefits from Anti-Air Upgrade Technology, providing +15%/+10%/+5% Air Attack per perspective technology

Ship Hull Balance Changes

• Light Hull 1 - Submarine Detection increased from 1 to 2.5
• Light Hull 2 - Submarine Detection increased from 1 to 3
• Light Hull 3 - Submarine Detection increased from 1 to 3.5
• Light Hull 4 - Submarine Detection increased from 1 to 4
• Cruiser Hull 2 - Submarine Detection increased from 1 to 1.5
• Cruiser Hull 3 - Submarine Detection increased from 1 to 2
• Cruiser Hull 4 - Submarine Detection increased from 1 to 2.5

Doctrines

• Mobile Infantry Doctrine now also provides +10% Max Speed for the Armored Car Recon Company
• Mobile Infantry Doctrine now also provides +10% Max Speed for the Motorized Recon Company
• Mobile Infantry Doctrine now also provides +15% Max Speed for the Cavalry Recon Company
• Breakthrough Priority Doctrine now also provides +5% Breakthrough to Mounted Infantry

Other

• The Spirits of the Army "Bayonet Strength" and "Overwhelming Firepower" now also affect the cost of Bicycle Battalions
• Added leader traits to Estonian alternate-ideology country leaders, and fixed the name of Johannes Kbin
• Decreased the chance that Sweden refuses request for resource rights from Germany
• Nerfed princely subjugation, it removes compliance faster than before and gives less boost to resources and factories
• MIO Tank Manufacturer - Standardized Production Trait Production Cost Reduction Increased from -3% to -5%
• Added policies to the Submarine and Assault Gun MIOs
• Added the Assembly Line Optimisers Policy to most materiel MIOs
• Britain's starting Tank, Plane and Ship production now has MIO designers assigned
• Reichskomissariat subject type now reduces Resistance Target by 10%
• Congo is now actually able to gain compliance when having Pierre Ryckmans as their leader, provided that they use civilian oversight

Gameplay

• Italy now gets an event warning them in advance when getting closer to their leaders deposition in the Balance of Power
• The Chilean focus "Protect Easter Island" now only targets independent nations
• The Netherlands now inherits the puppets of Belgium and Luxembourg if annexed through the Benelux Unification decision
• Countries at war only with Government in Exile countries can no longer call to arms, or be joined in war
• Carlist Spain can now select the Habsburg pretender as their king if playing with Gtterdmmerung enabled
• Reworked the "Greater Indonesia" formable nation
• Reworked the Arabia formable
• Added Supersonic Jets, Motherships and Intercontinental Bombers to MIOs
• Infrastructure level 0 now gives -25% movement speed penalty instead of -95% movement speed penalty
• Electrification of Ethiopia decisions for Italy can now be taken in parallel.

UI

• Added text icons for airborne light armor, jungle pioneer supports, long range patrol support and winter logistic support
• Many more Formable Nation categories now have unique pictures and descriptions
• Fixed tooltip for the achievement Woman in the High Castle
• Adjusted several focus icons to show the right flags and country borders
• Added country flags to player names in the in-game chat in multiplayer
• Fix certain UI elements in the country selection menu being off-screen on high resolutions
• Added information of how the number of allowed Air Wings are calculated to the Send Air Volunteers tooltip

AI

• Add tiebreaker for peace conference contests between AI countries
• AI Portugal no longer gets into a civil war when going down their Monarchist path
• AI countries will now start researching Super Heavies somewhat later
• The Danish AI will now switch government earlier when going down their Monarchist strategy plan
• German AI will create a few divisions with flame tanks if you have No Step Back and Assault engineers if you have Gtterdmmerung
• Germany no longer gets stuck with von Mackensen as their leader when set to go Monarchist

Modding

• Add a check to detect duplicate province building blocks overriding each other in state history files
• Add front_role_override for division templates which lets you customize which type of front it gets assigned to
• The load_focus_tree effect can now copy completed focus from an existing country with the copy_completed_from parameter
• Fixed the index when removing added resistance targets

Graphics

• Uruguay and Paraguay now have their own unique Army, Navy and Airforce National Spirits
• Fixed problem with missing 3D models on DirectX9

Bugfix

• Multiplayer: Fixed CTD when trying to Join Game through Steam
• Multiplayer: Fix the Ready button being unclickable after loading a save file (forcing you to switch back and forth to another country)
• Multiplayer: Fixed an issue where players would be unable to send chat messages in the lobby if their DLC configuration differed from the host
• Fixed an issue where merging airwings could cause XP to be lost
• Fixed issue where reaching end game screen in multiple games in a row would cause a CTD
• Fixed an issue where resuming into a deleted Ironman save game would cause a non-functional Back button in the load game window
• Fixed calculations for unit leaders cost regarding spirit Academy Scholarships
• Added bypasses for multiple German focuses in case France does not exist
• Fixed CTD when loading a game for a country that does not exist in current game
• Fixed portrait for field marshal disappearing for volunteer forces
• Greek focus "Realign with the Central Powers" is now properly blocked when GTD is not active
• Fixed issue with equipment temporarily losing stats when a game was loaded
• Fixed decreased air accident chance modifier not being applied correctly
• Germany can now select a Local Collaborator for Reichskommissariat Grobritannien
• Fixed a bug where troops could be withdrawn over frontline
• Fixed specialization and trait icons being offset on experimental facility card
• Fixed an issue where dismissing certain Special Project notifications could prevent future notifications of the same type from appearing
• Fixed a flickering issue when starting a new Ironman game
• Fixed privacy page not being displayed on Linux
• Fixed issue where division commander would change portrait if sent as volunteer
• Legacy of the Naval Arms Race gets removed if other participants do not exist
• Removed Esc as the keyboard shortcut for Details in the Focus Completed pop-up
• EU leaders now have to be faction leaders to propose federalization or invite to faction via the "Development of the European Union" system
• Hungary can now take "Partial Mobilization" if it has either taken the focus "Secret Rearmament" or removed the "Treaty of Trianon", even when AAT is disabled
• Fixed broken localization string in requirements for Bulgarian advisor Georgi Ivanov Kyoseivanov
• The British decision "The Macdonald Proposal" can no longer be taken repeatedly
• National Spirit "Colonial Returns" is now removed from Belgium if Congo is no longer their puppet
• Removed misleading tooltip in "Gain Schutzbund Support" when taken as a democratic nation
• Licensed equipment can no longer be assigned MIOs
• Fixed a typo in the UK focus "Expand the Secret Intelligence Service"
• Removed reference to Jim Corbett from the British Raj focus "Rally The Indian Left" (he is actually unlocked by the focus "Lobby Parliament")
• Denmark will no longer get any generic Election Event, with the one exception of "Wartime Exception" which can now trigger the ordinary Danish election event
• Fixed an issue where the Soviet army focus "Military Political Advisors" was broken when playing as Monarchist or Fascist Russia
• Fixed German advisor Franz Seldte's name in the Japanese version
• When Democratic Germany is in a faction and takes the focus "Shared RnD Programs", the research bonus immediately increases based on the number of faction members, and Germany won't lose any research bonus until the total amount of faction members are below 10
• Germany will now start with Westwallen constructed with level 2 forts in the 1939 Scenario, and forts have also been removed from a province in the Westwallen decision, since that province does not border another country
• Fixed multiple instances where the EU decision system could become locked
• Removes an errant "c" in the MIO trait Anti-Vehicle Landmines
• Congo can now bypass the focuses to seek German and Soviet support if none of the countries exist
• Fixes broken logic in Argentina's "Arma Maravillosa" which prevented effects from firing
• The Additional decisions unlocked for East Africa no longer disappear when Latin Africa has been formed first
• Gdynia is included in "Integrate Poland" decision for monarchist Russia
• The Italian focus "Italian Irredentism" now correctly targets the state Var instead of Asir-Makkah
• Added the missing South Sudetenland to the effects of the non-Gtterdmmerrung focus Restore Austria-Hungary for Hungary
• Added some missing states to the effect of the event from "Rekindle Imperial Sentiment" when Austria-Hungary is reformed through it
• Request Austrian Occupation now gives fascist Switzerland control over south-eastern Austria
• Bulgaria can now access the Treaty of Craiova focus through the new Second Vienna Award event
• The Japanese focus "Exchange the Exiles" now properly displays what will happen if Manchukuo accepts the trade
• Belgian decision to Boost Factory Worker's Unions now give proper production modifiers, also fixed a minor typo in decision name
• The Congolese Evolue events will now also happen if it was Belgium that completed the focus "Chefs Coutumiers"
• Diversify Elite Forces decision now works correctly when Trial of Allegiance or Gtterdmmerung are disabled
• Fixed CTD that could occur due to invalid division template
• Added missing localization on Guided Missiles and Nuclear Missiles
• Himmler will now complete the Inner Circle Focus Strengthen the Waffen-SS in the 140 days as stated in the Focus
• Naval Arms Race achievement now only triggers when being Germany or in faction with Germany
• It will no longer be possible for Germany to have both "Economy of Conquest" and "Recovering Economy" National Spirits at the same time
• Rocket Propelled Bombs module now properly adds 12 weight instead of 2 for Port Strikes
• Sweden's decision to blow up the mines now has a visible trigger that targets the correct states
• Added missing victory points to Western Indian States, Qandahar and Maymanah
• The German focus "First Vienna Award" can now be bypassed if Hungary is either Democratic or Communist
• Fixed a false start up error by changing the order for raid database loading
• Fixed incorrect Soviet Tree offset when NSB is turned off
• The Congolese Independence War now works as intended if Congo has switched ideology before declaring it
• Helicopter MIO traits Tandem and Single Rotor are now in the right columns
• The German leader trait "The Supreme Leader" will no longer reduce your own autonomy, but instead reduce your puppets'
• Fixed portrait for Belgian advisor Leon Degrelle to fit in his frames
• Removed non-functional Production Efficiency Gain modifier from one of the traits for the Finnish Crichton-Vulcan Naval MIO
• Fixed several instances where the German Navy's name wouldn't change despite the nation's ideology having done so
• The German focus "Effective Operations" now modifies the National Spirit "Intelligence Wing" without La Resistance
• Fixed CTD that could occur when attempting to spawn railway guns
• Removed the Gradual War Escalation mission for Italy when BBA is disabled, since the effect is only intended to work when the DLC is enabled
• Spanish Field Marshal Mt Zalka now uses the correct portrait
• Norway can no longer invite countries' subjects to their faction, and can no longer join factions through focuses while being a puppet of another nation
• Peacefully annexing Poland as Germany will no longer trigger sabotage events
• Fixed an issue where the focus "The Steel Lions" would give a tank template with tanks that didn't have any main armament
• AI Italy can no longer go down two land doctrines at the same time
• Fixed a typo in the German Politburo national spirit
• Germany's "The Blitz" AI strategies will now activate as intended
• Fixed an issue where Slovakia would not get their tank template in the Fate of Czechoslovakia event
• Expand Regional Control decisions in Ethiopia are now available if Ethiopia's host isn't in a faction
• Fixed an issue where the German focus "Embrace Democratic Institutions" was not granting the correct effect
• Fixes missing ship silhouettes for Modern Battleship and Modern Carrier
• Super Heavy Battleship Armor now is properly highlighted in the Ship Designer View
• Added missing focus description to the Swiss focus "Fly over the Mountains"
• Removes a redundant "the" in the Canadian focus "Spirit of the True Revolution"
• Added missing states to the formable nation decision "Unite the Turks"
• Removed Ethiopia flavoured event if you're not playing Ethiopia
• Fixed an issue were the Yugoslav national spirit "Armed Neutrality" didn't have a functioning icon
• The Romanian focus "Force Abdication" no longer tries to remove a National Spirit if it isn't present
• Fixed an issue where a few character names and surnames did not start with a capital letter
• Removed a duplicated trigger in the "Will Abort if:" section of the British mission "Trade Unions Demand Minister Appointment"
• Fixed an issue where a paratroop invasion could draw a map arrow around the globe
• Italy will no longer Balkanize themselves after their civil war
• Fixed Bogdan Filov's name being "Bogdar" in Russian localization
• Salvador Abascal can now be chosen in the 1940 election for Mexico
• The events from the Polish focus "Enforce Baltic Socialism" are now sent to all Baltic states, instead of just one
• Fixed an erroneous tooltip in the Turkish Chester Concession event chain
• Fixes focuses in the Baltic states to avoid factions being created or joined while the Baltics are subject states
• Iceland no longer gets a wargoal against themselves if their claim to Greenland is rejected
• Fixed a typo in the New Zealander focus "Rule Them All"
• Fix unlocalized string for Bomber Command focus doctrine bonus
• Changed localization in Swiss focus to work for country selection screen
• The Danish focus "Side with the Unions" no longer has a doubled effect if Denmark is communist
• The tooltip for the Swedish advisor Birger Furugrd is not duplicated anymore
• Fixes duplicated localization in Russian focus "Capital of the Tsars"
• Balancing Act focus and decisions will no longer mention subsidies with AAT disabled
• Fixed several instances where countries with focus trees from Gtterdmmerung could join or create factions while being subjects
• Lindolfo Collor can't be both a country leader and advisor at the same time
• The Shared Chinese focus "Experimental Mechanised Unit" now only gives a subsidy towards the supporting nation, and not both the Soviets and the Germans
• Translated the names for Polish Monarchist Parties to Polish to better conform to the rest of the party names
• Greek Staunch Monarchist trait description improved
• Removed empty space in the Political Instability National Focus displayed on Nation Selection Screen for Greece
• Mexico's Triumph of Synarchism now sends an event which lets the recipient choose to accept or counteract the influence
• Assault Aviation Theorists now reduce cost of Naval Strike Torpedo Tactics
• Fixed multiple instances where incorrect models and icons would be selected for Generic and German airplane designs
• Fixed an issue where a newly added construction item could not be dragged in the construction queue
• Tooltip for creating a Military Advisor updated to specify you can have one and not multiple traits
• Abebe Aregai has correct trait when not running La Resistance
• Focus "Specialized Military Equipment" now gives the correct equipment with No Step Back enabled
• Added missing module and highlight for the Anechoic Tiles in the Ship Designer Window
• Fixed an issue where War Reparations from peace conferences could be lost on reloading a save
• Fixed a bug with some MIO windows showing connection lines for non-existent traits
• Removed duplicate AI rules for India, and hid Together for Victory ones if you have GoE enabled
• Fixed an instance where if the UK decolonized at the same time as the Mughals broke away they would instantly white peace with the other RAJ
• The event "The East Coast joins the Rebellion" now moves the capital to Richmond
• Fixed some typos in Army spirits
• Fixed incorrect mention of "armies" in Commander traits, where it should be "divisions"

Hotfix Manoeuvre Chiro

• You can now once again retreat to friendly controlled provinces even if they are not owned by friends

Dear fans, Today's Patch for Operation Knee marks the second release in a series of updates that we are doing to improve the game. Next week we aim to release the War Effort patch, which as Arheo said previously will be more substantial than usual. I also want to take this opportunity to circle back to a few topics that Arheo brought up last week, as well as start providing a few glimpses into the short- and long-term future.

Conclusion of the Expansion Pass

Dev Corners Return

• March 6 - Graveyard of Empires Follow up
• March 10 - Update from the Developers
• March 12 - Patch Notes | Operation HEAD (1.16.1)
• March 20 - Patch Notes | Operation KNEE (1.16.2)

Operation KNEE Patch Notes 1.16.2

Checksum 225a

Balance

• Added a port to Rangoon, Aqaba and Latakia
• Added infrastructure and two civilian factories to states in Burma
• Added infrastructure to some states in Afghanistan
• India: "Urge Violence against the British"-decisions now cost 13pp (down from 20pp), reduces compliance by -10%, and increases resistance by 50% (from 35%)
• India: You now only need >25% more pressure than Pakistan/Bangladesh to win a princely state
• Iran: The focuses "People's Revolutionary Airforce" and "People's Revolutionary Navy" are no longer mutually exclusive
• Tweaked Musamdam's population and lowered it to a more realistic figure

Gameplay

• Updated how air volunteers work. They now will always add the bonus from the modifier, making the intended behaviour of "Legion Condor" work as expected
• Country leaders for new subject nations added in Graveyard of Empires, such as Palestine, Kuwait, Jordan, etc., now display their unique portraits even if Graveyard of Empires is disabled
• India: Gaining a princely state now gives a core on that state
• India: Princely states can now be cored in the communist path
• India: The focus "Royal Indian Navy Mutiny" now requires >50% communist support, rather than full independence
• India: The focus "Threaten the Princes" now gives 10% communist support

AI

• India: the AI will now take the decision to become independent when it is available, if it is going down the communist path

Modding

• Added bypass_effect block to national focuses that runs when a focus is manually or automatically bypassed

Germany

• States added in Graveyard of Empires now get included in the formation of the appropriate German Reichskommissariats

India

• Added a bypass for the focus "Annex Goa"
• Added a bypass for the focus "Crush The Anathema"
• Decisions to claim Pakistan as Akhand Bharat can no longer be used to claim Bangladesh during the famine
• Divisions located in Burma will no longer be permanently exiled after the white peace triggers for the Mughal Uprising
• Fixed a bug causing some nuclear raids to not delete military factories correcty with "Bathe in Hellfire" completed
• Fixed a bug where the national spirit "Neutral Foreign Policy" was not properly removed from Pakistan and Bangladesh
• Fixed an exploit where the East India Company could buy the world without paying
• Fixed an incorrect tooltip in the partition mission
• Fixed an instance where a fascist UK would automatically flip India to fascist
• Fixed an instance where Freeman Freeman-Thomas would not lose his negative trait when Britain left India
• Fixed an instance where the civil war started by the focus "Give Me Blood And I Will Grant You Freedom" would not end correctly
• Fixed an issue where a princely state could be automatically annexed while at war with it
• Fixed grammar issues and a typo in the tooltip and description of the focus "Funnel investments into Princely States"
• Fixed missing and incorrect focus filters
• Fixed some instances where focuses would allow joining factions while being a subject
• Fixed the "Agrarian Society" national spirit sometimes not having an effect for India when the Princely Breakaway State or East India Company was created
• Negative versions of the "Marginalized Muslim Community" national spirit is no longer retained by India after the split with Pakistan
• Removed cores from certain states when Graveyard of Empires is disabled
• The achievement "That's Sikh!" is now obtainable
• The correct country name will now be used if "India Fragmentation Status" is set to "British Raj Fragmented" in game settings
• The focus "Expand the Silk Road" no longer builds a railway through the Soviet Union
• The focus "Gurkhas" no longer rewards an unusable Special Forces branch specialism when AAT is disabled
• The focus "Headhunt Army Personnel" now properly allows sending volunteers
• The focus "Institutional Money Laundering" no longer grants a research bonus with no name
• The focus "Jaguar" no longer allows two experimental facilities to exist in the same state
• The focus "Join the Shadow Scheme" can no longer build factories in core states not owned by India
• The focus "Punjab Autonomy" no longer breaks when puppets control the states
• The focus "Special Operations Executive" no longer rewards an unusable cost reduction for paratroopers doctrine when AAT is disabled
• The national spirit "Aggression towards Princely States" now grants -100% generate wargoal tension limit
• The national spirit "War Taxes" can no longer be lowered when not at war, now resets after a war ends, and can no longer be exploited to go above the limit
• The tooltips for the event options in the events "Widespread protests" and "Religious Violence" now display the correct compliance values

Iran

• Added several missing focus filters
• Added missing states to the decision system "Recreate the Persian Empire"
• Completing the focuses "The Memphis Initiative" and "Glory of Cyrus the Great" will now allow Iran to get cores on all of the Middle East, Egypt and Afghanistan
• Fixed a bug that could give Iran decisions to core Turkey twice
• Fixed a bug where avoiding the civil war in the democratic path could result in being stuck with no elections
• Fixed an exploit where the Immortal Legion template could be used to generate free equipment
• Fixed an instance where the "Election Season"-event would sometimes list a leader as retiring before being made leader again
• Fixed some instances where focuses would allow joining or creating factions while being a subject
• The decisions from "War Profiteering" are no longer displayed after your oil has been sold
• The event chain from the focus "A Foothold in the Indus" now grants a war goal instead of automatically declaring war if India rejects the demands
• The focus "Request Trains from Germany" now correctly adds German trains to stockpile
• The focuses "Establish the Airforce" and "Construct Air Bases" no longer grant building slots along with air bases

Iraq

• Added several missing focus filters
• Fixed a typo in the description of the focus "Increase Anglo-Iraqi Economic Ties"
• The focus "Project Babylon" no longer allows two experimental facilities to exist in the same state
• The focus "Regional Military Integration" no longer tries to build factories meant for Jordan in Iraq
• The focuses "Form OPEC" and "Join the Axis" can no longer be taken if Iraq is a subject
• The national spirit "Anglo-Iraqi Mutual Defense Agreement" is now removed if you go to war with Britain

Turkey

• The focus "Unite the Azeri Diaspora" now correctly rewards a core on East Azerbaijan

Overall

• Fixed a bug that would cause the first variant of equipment to always be called "Mk0" regardless of country-specific naming scheme
• Fixed an issue where buying dreadnaughts from Germany would not spawn them correctly

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Hello everyone! As we mentioned not too long ago, well be bringing you several patches over the coming weeks and months. Here is our first batch of patch notes. Operation HEAD, 1.16.1, Checksum 48b7

Balance

India -Train Robberies now reduce railway/hub/infra by 2% (was 3%) for each railway focus completed -Train Robberies now reduce weekly stability by 0.1% (was 0.3%)

• Iran: The Immortal Legion now has a much larger starting template
• India: The national spirit Anti-Imperialist Zeal now gives 8% defense bonus against the USA (up from 0.8%)

Gameplay

• Added an event chain for Syria and Lebanon that allows them to side with Vichy/Free France or declare independence when Paris falls
• Added additional animation variants for elephantry
• Generic elephantry now uses the generic infantry model
• Iraq: More models can be selected for artillery and anti-tank battalions in the division designer
• India: Added better tooltip to train robberies
• India: Famine now only requires you to lose a starting Indian State (excluding Aden) with 30 days to retake it
• India: Improved Famine description
• India: The focus Threaten the Princes now gives 10% communist support

Modding

• Added "count" functionality for all any_object triggers. It will evaluate true if at least "count" items fulfill the child triggers. The count field will support scoped variables

Bugfixes

• India: The Mughal Influence state modifier will now be removed if no longer owned by the Mughal Empire or India
• India: The Mughal Uprising now changes the name of political parties rather than keeping the Indian ones
• India: The British Raj no longer loses certain spirits after separating from the East India Company or Princely Breakaway States
• India: "Parkash Singh"s trait "Brave" is no longer missing a title and description
• India: The "Conquer Afghanistan" focus no longer attempts to give a special forces doctrine discount when you do not have AAT
• India: The "Frontier Corps" focus no longer gives a special forces doctrine reward if you are missing AAT
• India: The "Nothing Personal" focus will now bypass if unavailable
• India: Forward Bloc now removes the occupation law No Garrison until independence is achieved through the focus Give Me Blood And I Will Grant You Freedom
• India: The game rule to make India go down the historical path will no longer block achievements
• India: Independence unrest events no longer continue to appear after declaring independence in India's fascist path
• India: East India Railways will no longer bypass automatically when GoE is missing
• India: The Ahadi Division template given by The Mughal Uprising can now be edited
• India: Famine should now longer trigger if a country spawns in the affected area
• India: The ruling party of the Mughal Empire and British Raj are no longer flipped (Mughals getting GB and RAJ getting Mughal Court) after starting the civil war
• India: Aden no longer gets returned to the Raj after the Mughal Uprising if it was previously handed over to the United Kingdom
• India: Fixed a bug where a blank EIC focus was appearing in the focus tree upon formation
• India: Numerous national focuses have been updated with filter tags
• India: The focus Royal Indian Navy Mutiny no longer requires independence
• India: Fixed a broken bypass condition for the focus Pledge for the Allies
• Iraq: Nuri As Said no longer has a placeholder portrait when missing GOE
• Iraq: The event from Propose Syrian Unification no longer gives the wrong war goal
• Iraq: Restoration of Hejaz focus now grants cores on the targeted states, instead of claims
• Iran/Soviet Union: Fixed a bug in which the Soviets could not puppet Iran if they chose to justify without the focus
• Iran: Join allies focuses can now be appropriately bypassed
• Iran: Changed the Memphis Initiative to include any state in the Middle East
• Iran: Fixed a bug where Iran started with Treaty of Saadabad in 1939, where it should not have
• Iran: Fixed a bug where Opposition to the Shah decisions still appeared after a peaceful takeover
• Iran: Allowed Organize Protests or Establish Local Opposition Groups to be bypassed if any of the focuses starting a civil war are taken
• Iran: Jafar Kavian and Ghulam Yahya Daneshian are now gated behind the Communist focus branch
• Iran: Fixed a bug where the Islamic Revolution leader would not become country leader if a civil war was started in the "Strengthen Iranian Parliament" focus
• Iran: Fixed issue with two national spirits disappearing when communist civil war starts
• Afghanistan: The "Graveyard of Empires" focus now works correctly if you have the Quami national spirit
• United Kingdom: Puppets breaking away from the UK when it goes fascist/communist should now function correctly
• Arabia: Can no longer be formed by Kurdistan
• Arabia: Now correctly gains cores on new states

Localization Bugfixes

• Issues with technical text being displayed in Russian localization should now be resolved
• The East India Company Investment Schemes window is now functional when playing with Russian localization
• Typo: Masshad -> Mashhad
• India: Fixed a typo in the description of the Risk of Famine national spirit, where "loses" is misspelled as "looses"
• India: The Sideline the Conflict focus tooltip no longer displays a bugged name
• India: Several technology bonuses now have a name

Art Bugfixes

• Fixed minor issue with Elephant animations
• Various 2D Icons updated
• Missing elephantry icons added
• Changed animation_blend_time to zero between the animation stages for Elephantry

Technical Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where production was not recalculated when taking decisions. This fixes instances of bugs such as MEFO bills failing to update when they should
• Fixed a OOS due to portrait generation when host and client have different DLC configurations
• Fix a Windows CTD on startup when some specific utf-8 characters are in the installation path
• Fixed buffer overflow when rendering 2D elements

And lastly, heres an updated roadmap

[ 2025-03-12 14:03:08 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greetings all, At the risk of stating the obvious, the release of Graveyard of Empires has not gone the way we wanted. Today, I want to post a mini-retrospective that explains some of what happened leading up to the release, and how we plan on acting on the results of that and on subsequent feedback and reception moving forwards. One of the most important parts of the pre-release process we perform in Studio Gold is the Go/No-Go meeting. This is where each discipline; QA, Tech, Design, Marketing, Business et al, present their perspective on the state of the game and expectations on the likely reception thereof. We do this so were all on the same page, and so we can jointly arrive at a consensus on whether to launch or not. In GoEs case, while we identified some areas of uncertainty mostly relating to dev diary feedback, we agreed that there was nothing out of the ordinary here, and that a release at this stage was acceptable. I dont want to diminish my role here or throw anyone under the bus: as Game Director I can overrule in either direction, and I did not - I did not see what I should have seen. Collectively, and personally, we were quite clearly wrong. As an organization we were unaware of the issues present in this release, and this represents a serious need for some inward thinking on how we arrived at this decision, and how we reorganize ourselves to prevent it occurring again. I have few answers for you right now as were focusing on the short-term goals for putting Graveyard of Empires right, but we have no intention of sweeping this under the rug. From a long term perspective, this is now the second release of a Country pack which has performed worse than expected. Review score is actually a surprisingly difficult metric to evaluate. It is better to think of it as a snapshot that, on balance, gives us an idea of how much of the community considers everything surrounding a release to be a net positive or negative. This can include price, quality, scope, overall opinion of a company, and many other things. What we tend to do is aggregate the key sentiments of negative and positive reviews and work out, on balance, where the main points for and against are. The two main negatives on Trial of Allegiance were, in first place the regional price adjustments in two specific markets, followed by scope. Its a bit early to say for Graveyard of Empires, but first impressions are content direction & quality (as weve acknowledged), followed by scope. Both regional pricing and content quality are things that I would hope are relevant only to the individual releases here. Theyre localized. Scope, on the other hand, represents a clearer area where we need to offer more on a fundamental level. Scope in this context, is the nature of what were offering: focus trees, mechanics, 3d models; the whole package. Content-only releases are popular with some HoI fans, but on balance are not enough to resonate with the majority of the community. Once again, I dont have an answer yet here, but were aware of it, and will be evaluating how to make these releases more exciting to more people. And finally, in the short term, I want to address our plans for Graveyard of Empires. Beginning this week, we have a series of patches and updates planned for GoE as well as for the base game in order to both fix and improve content that you found lacking. I sincerely appreciate all those who have reached out with constructive suggestions. We have all hands on this endeavour right now. /Arheo Timeline:

• 12th March - Patch (Operation HEAD)
• 20th March - Patch (Operation KNEE)
• Late March - War Effort (Operation SHOULDER)
• April - Updates & Changes to GoE content

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Hi everyone, with a mere one day to go before the release of Graveyard of Empires, it is tradition that we provide you with the Release Notes. The usual disclaimer applies; this list is comprehensive, but not necessarily complete. Any items we add will be placed in a separate spoiler underneath the main list. (Checksum isnt final yet and will be added before Release.)

Graveyard of empires

• Added focus tree for Iran
• Added focus tree for Iraq
• Added focus tree for Afghanistan
• Expanded focus tree for the British Raj
• Added numerous 3D models for Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and the Raj
• Added 8 new music tracks
• Added Voiceovers for Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and the Raj

Gameplay

• British Burma now exists from game start as a British subject
• Mandatory Palestine now exists from game start as a British subject
• Jordan now exists from game start as a British subject
• Kuwait now exists from game start as a British subject
• Lebanon now exists from game start as a French subject
• Syria now exists from game start as a French subject
• Added new tactics and modifiers for city combat
• Added Burma namelist and oob
• Removed Prince Henry as leader for Palestine

Balance

• Siam now joins the Co-Prosperity sphere on historical
• Added a port in Phuket
• Added a supply hub in Hat Yai
• Siam starts with army of Siam spirit
• Extra shared slots don't get removed when flipping state owners anymore
• Added railway line to Archangelsk
• Added some resources in Pakistan area (Peshawar 3 Steel, Baluchistan States 3 Oil)
• Updated Siams AI to produce more units and streamline production
• Increased Siams building slots

UI

• Reliability and Torpedo upgrades no longer overlap for Torpedo Cruisers

Modding

• has_artillery_ratio, has_cavalry_ratio and has_unit_type triggers now also consider support units

Bugfixes

• Fixed a Crash To Desktop (CTD) when loading games with prepared raids
• Daily Army, Air and Naval XP gain can no longer be negative
• Prevent a rare Out Of Sync (OOS) related to operative mission names when using different languages
• Swedish national spirit "Hungerskld" is no longer removed too early
• The Netherlands can once again Placate the Germans through their Gateway of Europe Decision
• Without Gtterdammerung, there can be only one Fascist Advisor in Belgium
• Fixed an issue where Germany's Operation Panzerfaust would result in Hungary getting puppeted and having their war reset, resulting in teleported divisions
• Dutch East Indies no longer starts with only 10% democratic support
• "Expansion Pass 1: Supporter Pack" is no longer included in save game compatibility checks
• Fixed a rare random OOS in AI truck production
• Fixed rare Out of Sync in character name generation
• Fixed UI Crash when reordering items in lists

Performance

• AI is now more performant when upgrading equipment
• Weather updates are now more efficiently parallelized
• AI plans naval invasion in parallel (drastically reduced spikes on multi-core CPUs)
• Refactored a number of decision systems to improve performance
• Optimized AI diplomacy calculations
• Optimized how reinforcements are computed
• AI is now more performant when selecting which doctrines to upgrade
• MIO attributes are now computed faster across the board
• Naval supremacy is now better parallelized

Hello and welcome to the art Dev Diary for Graveyard of Empires! Im marblemadness, one of the artists responsible for bringing you the art content that will be present in the expansion and unless specified the speaker in this dev diary. There was a lot of positive reception for Gtterdmmerung, so following up on that is a challenge. But weve greased our elbows and dug deep into the sand to excavate the best art we could find, so I really hope you enjoy what we have to show!

Focuses

Portraits

Loading Screen

3D Models

Achievements

Generals! Its Synth here, good to see you again! I hope youre ready for our latest report in Graveyard of Empires! Last time we explored the historical events that took place in Iran during World War 2, as well as the potential alt history that lay within a strong Iranian Empire. This time, we take a look at what the opposition had to say in regards to the Pahlavi Dynasty. Buckle up soldiers, were going to be exploring the Democratic, Communist and Fascist paths and see what kind of alternate history awaits us. From what we saw in history, Iran maintained its monarchy all the way through to the 1970s, but as with all nations, it was never a cut and dry case. In the 20th century, ideology took a forefront in modern politics, and Iran was no stranger to concepts such as communism and fascism. Today, we are going to explore a few what if scenarios, in which the Shah was faced with a strong enough opposition to change the trajectory of Iran on the world stage. Without further ado, lets hop right in! (A disclaimer: there may be some placeholder art for the time being)
Is being a King of Kings not your cup of tea? Well, we have a wide selection of ideology for you!
Taking power is not so simple. You must build your opposition first. Before we dive into any specific branch, you must first establish your national front. Doing so will unlock a decision in which you can decide where to place your headquarters should a civil war break out (And let me be real with you folks, it probably will). This will make that state your capital when you decide to go to war with the Shah, giving you a good foothold for your new government. This will allow you to then take some more decisions through the next focuses, which will help you to lower support for the Shah and establish opposition groups in various states that will join you on the onset of a civil war. From this point, you must then decide which ideology you want to use to spearhead Iran into the future.

Rallying behind Mosaddegh

The Rise of the Tudeh

Under New Leadership

Welcome to the Graveyard of Empires

Greetings all, Before we venture into the country content today, I want to take a brief moment to discuss the reactions to last weeks development diary. For those who didnt follow the situation, it would be fair to say that some of the material we presented elicited strong negative reactions from parts of the community. This is not unusual, in fact Id go so far as to say that its one of the reasons we have dev diaries in the first place. Well intentioned feedback is a good thing. We wont always agree on what the best directions are for a game, but I think weve repeatedly shown that airing content early in dev diaries can be a source of positive change for the content within. However. It would also be fair to say that for the last couple of releases, dev diaries have happened much later in the development process than they used to. This makes it harder for us to make certain, more significant changes based on the feedback we get. I am not happy with this. We will make changes. With all of the above said we do still use dev diaries as a medium for change, and weve taken on board the communitys thoughts around the Silk Road Empire path, and will be altering this to fit a more historically inspired vision. You can find details of this below the text for the upcoming Afghanistan content, and then well continue with the upcoming Iraq content. As a final note however, there is an unpleasant undercurrent to some of the reactions weve received this week. A minority of players have resorted to threats, harassment, and organized personal attacks far outside what I would consider appropriate or acceptable online behaviour, in order to compel us to make changes to the game. As a rule, we do not respond to demands that are accompanied by harassment or threats. Instead, as displayed above, it is constructive feedback that is most likely to result in changes. Arheo --- Hi there! Here are two of our new focus trees arriving in Graveyard of Empires. Explore historical and alternative paths as your nation grapples with unstable politics, external pressures, and a rugged landscape. Or perhaps you prefer to shape the fate of the Hashemite monarchy, navigate military conspiracies, and determine whether Iraq will bow to foreign interests or carve out its own destiny.

Afghanistan

King Zahir Path: A Balancing Act

Modernization and Industry

Red Revolution The Communist Path

The Return of Amanullah Khan The Fascist Path

Military Traditions: Levy vs. Professional Army

Afghanistan Conclusion

Some Raj changes

Iraq

The Hashemite Gamble: A Crown in Exchange for Chains?

The Coup of Bakr Sidqi

The Golden Square Coup: A Pan-Arab Uprising

Black Gold and Industry: The Future of Iraq

Relations with Britain: A Delicate Dance

Final Thoughts

Toot
And Welcome, this week we'll be taking a looking at the Alt History paths for the RAJ, so without further ado..

Forward Bloc

Hindutva

Netaji

Reds in the Shadow

The East India Company

The Mughal Empire

Namaste, As-Salamu-Alaykum, Subh bakhair and Sat Sri Akal. Today we will look at the historical and shared military branches for the British Raj. I will use India and the Raj interchangeably to denote the subcontinent, and as always everything is under development and might change. Also a special thanks to avebee and pdx_lily which has provided invaluable help during the development of the Raj.

Historical Context

Princely States

Burma

Independence Branch

Two Nation Theory or India United

After Independence

Army Shared Branches

The Bengal Famine

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India

Iran

Iraq

Afghanistan

Art & Achievements

Expansion Pass - A Reminder

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Generals! Command has issued fresh orders to the front, alongside the this next patch for our War Effort 1.15.4. Below, Check out the patch notes below for tonnes of bugfixes, balance tweaks, an interesting addition to a certain blueprint operation and more! ################################################################ ######## Patch 1.15.4 - Checksum 3889 ######### ################################################################ ################################## # Balance ################################## - Reworked the Infantry Tank MIO to now apply modifiers to all tank classes rather than on a per-class basis. This means that each tank class now has more than 4-5 relevant nodes. - Added and tweaked the amount of war support and stability gained through focuses through the alt-history branches for Germany. Also modified Wilhelm II's country leader trait - It is now possible to seize Turkey's Gold Reserves as Germany, and a country can now capitulate to a German faction member (so not just Germany or one of its subjects) for Germany to be able to seize the Gold reserve of the territory they're holding of said nation. - AI should be more interested in constructing Land Cruisers, if they have the chance. - Tweaking the German AI to behave more historically by wanting and producing more submarines and strengthening it overall by making it focus its pp on upgrade conscription laws and such. - Fleet Submarines Special Project now require 1940 Submarine / 1940 Submarine Hull to be researched instead of their 1936 Variant. - AIP Engine Unique Reward - Option A, now provides -5% Visibility instead of -10%. - The Return of the Kaiser focus now checks if the controller of Friesland is at war with Germany as a requirement, instead of checking if the Dutch specifically is at war with Germany. If Germany or one of its puppets control the state, Wilhelm II will automatically get reinstated as the Kaiser. - Tweaked values for Land Cruisers. - Specialized Helicopter Support Companies can not be combined with Helicopter Brigade (Generalist Helicopter Brigade). ################################## # Gameplay ################################## - Added random chance to gain breakthrough progress on steal blueprint mission. - Added Henschel traits, and made it an Infantry Tank MIO using the reworked archetype. - Added a decision for the Siberian formable to integrate Manchuria. ################################## # AI ################################## - Tweak UK's AI weights for air chief and plane+tank technology so they start producing equipment closer to historical dates. - AI will now more reliably assign MIOs to new equipment designs. - Tweaking USA AI templates and tech/production progress. - The Soviet AI will now be more keen to assign a new Chief of Army if they purge their primary choice of Chief of Army. ################################## # Graphics ################################## - Fixed DX9 renderer not working when selected in launcher. ################################## # Bugfix ################################## - Fixed CTD when selecting a sea tile for raid. - Fixed saved event target localization. - Fixed issue where scientist would not produce breakthrough after finishing a project. - Fixed issue that a special project could be completed but never finishing. - Fixed exploit of stacking same support brigades. - Fixed unlocked equipment from special project if country had active license. - Fixed offset tutorial glow. - Fix issues with planes getting assigned incorrect models. - Added and tweaked available and bypass triggers for focuses in the Democratic/Non-aligned branch. - Added an AI weight in an event for when Austria is asked to join Germany's faction. - BEL: Spanish Intervention now allows Belgium to join the war directly as well as creating a faction with the Spanish Republicans. - Fixed the Yukon territory having an incorrect population total. - Fixed an issue where Congo could send an event to Germany or the Soviets for support despite them not existing. - Fixed an issue where Germany could be the only country to gain 3 Special Forces Branch Specialisms. - German Volksmarine ships should no longer use the SMS prefix. - German "Deutschland Class" ships now use the Historical Panzerschiffs namelist. - Fixes error in transferring Polish states in the event that Poland is a puppet when Austria demands their annexation. - Fix strategic bombing targets priority. - Fixed multiple issues with Tank Designer icons and models and fixed their sorting in Soviet Union, USA, UK, France, Germany, Italy and British Dominions. - BEL: Fixed Belgium not being able to add bicycle battalions. - fixes unlocalized cancellation trigger in decisions. - Edits and removes redundant/non-functioning modifiers. - When completing the focus Autarky Achieved, remove any potential Factory and dockyard output penalties, as well as Expected Consumer Goods. - Remove the Price Controls Measures decisions when completing the focus Autarky Achieved. - It is now possible to complete the Focus Supreme Leader after Germany capitulates 3 major countries. - The Baltics should now refuse Soviet's attempts to annex them through events if Germany has completed the necessary focuses and guaranteed the countries. - Fixed the name of a Hungarian industrial concern.. - Fixed an issue where a debug-string would display in i Hungarian focus for setting up the Slovakian OOB. - Fixed MIO efficiency bonus not applied after loading a save when converting equipment. - Fixed a spelling error in the name for the Austrian Armoured Train model. - Fixed two issues regarding the Swedish "Reichsprotectorate Nordland" cosmetic tag. They now also gain claims on Nordic territory when completing the focus. - Fixed an issue where the Italian bonuses from the focus Befriend Japan would only apply if they were in a faction. - Fixed the fall of Calcutta, Delhi and Singapore events not happening unless the cities were directly owned by the UK. - Fixed a Danish advisor having an unlocalized available requirement. - Fixed old content for Oppose Hitler to work with the new focus Rally the Wehrmacht too. - Fixed inverted variant names for improved and advanced carrier airframes. - The Greek focus Realign ourselves with the central powers will now check the correct focuses based on if Gtterdmmerung is enabled or not. - Fixed an issue where Khakassia and Evenkia couldn't access the Siberian follow-up decisions. - Fixed tooltips referring to nuclear production rate. - If Britain accepts and joins the Anglo-Germanic Cooperation Program, the German National Spirit Redirecting Naval Production changes as per the focus tooltip. - The focus Anglo-Germanic Cooperation Program now cancels if Germany and Britain is at war with each other and if Britain no longer exists. - The Emperor's new Clothes; reinstating Wilhelm II will no longer remove the new monarchist infantry model. - Fixed an issue where the Congolese fascist monarch couldn't access the fourth research slot focus. - Fix battalions not being available if game was loaded while having active expeditionary forces of the same type. - Swedish national spirit "Hungerskld" is now successfully removed if you build 14 civilian factories or have 45 civilian factories including trade. ################################## # Modding ################################## - Fixed so that saved event target localizations are now evaluated before Gtterdmmerungs extended context localization. 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Important Information

• The Gtterdmmerung expansion (Nov 14th 2024) - $24.99/21.99/24.99
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Greetings all, With a mere one day to go before the launch of Gtterdmmmerung, it is tradition that we leave you with the change log to pore over. The usual disclaimer applies; this list should be comprehensive but omissions may have occurred. Any items we add retroactively will be placed in a separate spoiler underneath the main list. ################################## # Expansion ################################## - Added new German ahistorical focus tree paths - Added full Austrian focus tree - Added full Belgian focus tree - Added full Congo focus tree - Added new Hungarian focus tree - Added over 180 new 3D models, including cool experimental equipment, unit models, cool experimental equipment and landmarks. - Added 11 new music tracks - Added 28 new Special Projects - Added Air, Paratrooper Raids, and targeted missile raids - Added VO for Austria and Belgium - Added Helicopter Brigade - Added Helicopter Logistics - Added Helicopter Medevac - Added Armoured Maintenance Company - Added Armoured Engineer Company - Added Assault Engineer Company - Added Super-Heavy Artillery Companies - Added Land Cruiser Support Company - Added Super-Heavy railway gun ################################## # Feature ################################## - Research Tab was enriched with Scientists, Experimental Facilities and Special Projects. - Added 15 new Special Projects - Added 2 Special Projects to the No Step Back expansion - Added new historical German focus tree paths "- Reworked Land and Coastal Forts - their maximum buildable level is now capped by the province terrain type. Those caps can be increased primarily by researching new Fortification Technologies " - Added numerous new technologies associated with or unlocked by Special Projects - Added a variety of horse colours for cavalry units - Added focus shortcut system showcased in the German national focus tree - added raids system for launching nuclear bombs ################################## # Balance ################################## "- Rebalanced Norwegian advisor traits - Added Rolf Jrgen Fuglesang, Eivind Blehr, Eivind Heiberg, Christopher Hornsrud and Kirsten Hansteen as new advisors for Norway." - Updated a few Czechoslovak focuses to be a bit better or faster. Also added more flavour to many of the names of the Czechoslovak focuses. - A few faction-joining focuses in the Spanish and Portuguese trees have now been made into 35 days focuses. - Updated the French focus and national spirit "Fortification Focus" to additionally grant +1 max level for land and coastal forts. - Updated the Czech "Fortification Studies" and "Sudetenland Fortifications" focuses to grant additional max fort levels, to accommodate for the new fort system. - The Turkish AI shouldn't start WW3 with historical focuses on "- Fixed an issue with the French decisions to reorganize the various Air Force MIOs so that they no longer get the same name duplicated. Also rebalanced the decisions to be more worth taking. - Added the Socit Franaise Radio-lectrique asa new electronics concern for France. - The French focuses Latin Entente and Towards a New Europe now dont only change the country leader, but also change the name of the leading political party to match the leader you gain. - The French Focus Bring Home Quebec now also gives claims on all Quebec cores. - Fixed an issue where the French focus Grow the Empire didnt account for the new Congolese states added in BBA. - The French focuses Reach Out To Spain and Invite Portugal have been made into 35 day focuses. - The French focus The Natural Borders of France now also gives claims on the target states. - The French focuses Celebrate the Commune and Legal Equality have been made into 35 day focuses. - The French National Spirit Agricultural Collectivization now additionally grants -10% consumer goods factories factor. - The French focus Proclaim the Third Empire now creates a faction called The Continental System, that is renamed to Confdration du Rhin when taking the focus Disunite Germany. - The French national spirit Le Dluge now additionally grants 10% war support. - The French focus Utilize the Leagues now grants an additional 75 political power and -3% stability. - Adjusted a few consumer goods factories values in the Soviet industrial Branch that still held values and tooltips from before the factories to factories factor change. " - The British focus "Home Defense" now unlocks a decision category that can use to aid in the defense of the British Isles. - The American focuses "Tank Destroyer Doctrine" and "Main Battle Tanks" are now 35 day focuses. - Croatia is now more likely to be created when yugoslavia ends up at war with germany - South Africa now has access to a few of the British MIOs, and the focus "South African Railways" now can unlock the basic train tech for free, as well as adds 15 British trains to the stockpile. - Added a new focus for the United Kingdom with La Resistance to expand the MI6, and gain an intel agency, operative slot and some other intel bonuses. - Updated the Polish air-focuses to work better with the BBA techs. Also made the focuses "Expand Air Bases" into a 35 day focus. - Added the ability for Ethiopia to prospect for a small amount of extra resources within it's core territory. - The Estonian focus "Join the Axis" now takes 35 days instead of 70. - Italy can now gain an Air Facility north of Rome in the focus "Citt dell'Aria". - The Soviet focuses "Modernize Aircraft Facilities" and "Soviet Atomic Bomb Project" can now give them a facility of the corresponding type. - Sonar Modules Submarine Detection increased from 6/10 to 8/12 - Depth Charges Modules Anti-Submarine Attack Values increased from 8/12/16/20 to 8/13/17/22 - Submarine Torpedo Modules Attack Values reduced from 14/18/22/28 to 13/17/20/25 - Submarine Engine Modules Visibility Reductions changed from 0%/-5%/-10%/-15% to 0%/0%/-5%/-10% - Some Chilean democratic focuses are no longer blocked from each other. Some effects in the branch have been adjusted to accommodate for this. - Players can now reject handing pre-planned expansion states over to Bulgaria. - Cavalry now gets +5% Breakthrough in Infantry Offensive Doctrine (Grand Battleplan Infilitration Path) and Cavalry Recon bonus from Infiltration Assault (Grand Battleplan Infilitration Path) now also extends to mounted infantry -Prioritize Naval Aircraft Construction Decision for Japan now provides -10% cost reduction to Carrier Naval Bombers and Carrier Air Support, to reduce their double-dipping effect from -40% to -30% -Admiral Trait Concealment Expert Visibility Reduction was reduced from -20% to -15% -Giving Refuge to Italian and German Scientists now also provides +2% Special Project Research Speed - Fuel Silos cost is now cheaper based on the amount of already existing Fuel Silo in the state. ################################## # Gameplay ################################## - Added names for Polish Cavalry Brigade Commanders - Added the Czechoslovak State Railways as a new industrial concern (railway company) for Czechoslovakia. "- Added admiral roles to Dimitrios Oikonomou and Epameinondas Kavvadias - Added Stylianos Gonatas as a military high command and general for the Greek republicans - The Greek industrial focus Fiscal Responsibility now hires Emmanouil Tsouderos for free if possible - The targeting for construction in the Greek focus Making Use of our Islands has been switched from owned to controlled states, and can also target Cyprus if they are a puppet of Greece. It can also integrate Cyprus if that is the case. - The MIOs gained from the Greek focuses Rapprochement with the Italians and Appeal to the Soviet Union now gain 2 sizes immediately - The Hellenic Air Force Academy national spirit now grants an additional 5% air exp gain factor - The Greek focus A Legacy of War also grants 3% organization - The Greek focus The Backbone of the Army now grants half a percent of recruitable population, from the previous a fifth of a percent - Added a new focus to the Greek industrial branch to utilize the Macedonian Farmlands in order to gain supply bonuses and a tiny reduction to consumer goods factor - Many Greek focuses regarding switching ideologies, factions or wars, are no longer available to them if they are a subject of another nation - Added a new focus to the Greek monarchist branch, allowing for the Reorganization of the Royal Guard, leading to some manpower and two free divisions - Modified the event The Monarchists in Greece Request our aid so that the British are much more likely to say yes and send equipment - Added a new focus in the Greek monarchist branch allowing for the further utilization of British capital, allowing for more infrastructure and building slots in Greece " - Added the Antillean Confederation as a new formable for nations in the Caribbean. Also fixed an issue where Belize couldn't access the decision to Form Central America. - Added New South Wales Railway Company as an industrial concern for Australia. - Added New Zealand Railways as an industrial concern for New Zealand. - Various old focuses connected to the Soviet Union, Finland, Sweden and Portugal now grant dams as buildings that give states additional positive state modifiers. - Added Fanny Schoonheyt as a General for the communist Netherlands. - The French advisor Charles Maurras can now also be unlocked by the focus "Orleanist Restoration". - Added Vasily Flug and Boris Shtefion of the Russian Protection Corps as characters that can become available through various means for Germany, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. - Added a focus for Fascist/Tsarist Russia to gain a wargoal to reclaim Uryankhay Krai. Also changed the focus "Vengeance for the Yoke" to a 35 day focus. - Tsarist/Fascist Russia can now release nations after taking the focus "Reconvene the Zemsky Sobor". - Updated and improved the Post-Yalta events between Poland and the Soviet Union. - Added a focus for the United Kingdom to expand Vickers Experimental Facilities in Foxwarren. - The British national spirits "Wartime Industry" and "Prepare for the Inevitable" can combine, thus enabling less clutter in the UKs country screen. - Luxembourg now starts with ARBED as an available Industrial Concern. - Ethiopian High Command Feodor Konovalov can now join the Russian White Forces when the Second Russian Civil War starts. - Added a crossing in the Philippines between Mindanao and Sulu. - The British AI will now protect their main island better - Mutapa can now be formed when a subject of another nation, and has seen its borders expanded slightly. - Added Georges Valois as an advisor for France. - If the conditions are right, Georgia may find an unexpected visitor on their doorsteps. - Added Marcel Dat as an advisor for France. -Degaussing Effects are now standardized. For MTG players, Degaussing Technology now gives +10% Submarine Detection to the Destroyers and Cruisers - and the unique spirits that awarded them are no longer granted. For non-MTG players those national spirits still provide the effect for those select countries - Added new unit categories in order to clean up some of the less 'readable' technologies and doctrines (Hello, Mobile Infantry!). - Cavalry now benefits from Anti-Tank Weapon Technology with the same ratio as Support Weapons. (2/5 - so +10% Hard Attack and +40% Piercing) - Supremacy of the Battlefleet Japanese National Focus now awards a National Spirit granting +10% Capital Ship Armor and +100% Super Heavy Battleship Special Project Completion Speed - Area defense orders now start with no pre-selected parameters, reducing overall interaction required in most circumstances ################################## # UI ################################## - Fix of bug where factory conversion button had no glow when selected. From now all building construction buttons will glow at once only if player not uses all of the available factories. - Country-specific train icons are now shown properly in the production menu ################################## # AI ################################## - Fascist countries now also respect negative declare_war AI strategy values - implemented a new system for AI political-power spending - Invasion importance score is affected by 'invade' strategy, and tweaks to the US Operation Torch strategies ################################## # Modding ################################## - Fix trigger all_enemy_country trigger to evaluate all countries and not just any - Added variable divisional_commander_xp to set divisional officer experience on unit creation - Allow using MIO category equipment group as equipment bonus type - Add state_resources__factor state modifier - Add a equipment_production_min_factories_archetype AI strategy which only affects equipment of a specific archetype - Fixed bugs and revamped how the AI designs division templates. Removed a bunch of properties from division templates that either didn't make sense or were simply not useful. - AI division templates now get their AI role assigned on creation based on their target template, rather than being dynamically matched to a role based on match_to_count. - Add MIN_SHIPS_FOR_HIGHER_SHIP_RATIO_PENALTY define which can be used to make penalties from having a higher ship ratio not apply to small fleets - Added support for specifying division name list for AI templates - Implement a trigger parameter to get all the states in a given continent - A new trigger for naval invasion: has_naval_invasion_against_state - Implemented a console command to show/hide all hidden techs - Implement a new console command sp_prototype_reward - Add AI strategy force_concentration_target_weight to affect which targets are being used by AI Force Concentration - Add AI strategy force_concentration_factor to control to what extent the AI uses AI Force Concentration - Add force_concentration_front_factor AI strategy - Added support for disabling grow animations on buildings ################################## # Graphics ################################## - 3D buildings on map will now have fire/smoke pillars if they are damaged enough - 3D cities on map will now have fire/smoke pillars if corresponding civilian structures are damaged enough - Fixed DX11 trying to switch modes when Alt+Enter is pressed - Selecting display monitor now works in DX11 - Selecting display monitor now works in both windowed and borderless mode - It is now possible to override display settings from command line - Free France flag should now use the proper historical blue/red hues rather than the post 1976 ones - Updated the Czechoslovak focuses to improve the variation and spread of their focus icons. ################################## # Bugfix ################################## - Fixed a rare CTD for ai garrison order - Now correctly display battalion modifiers when the factor is additive - Spirits are now shown in the Modify Officer Corps alert - Checkboxes in the strategic air view details graph and the fuel stockpile graph are now clickable - Fixed an issue where previously-capitulated Lithuania would be released controlling Wilno state due to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. - No longer possible to justify war goal on impassable states - Fixed an issue where the incorrect modifiers were applied to the Crusade Against Democracy ideas, leading to the effect not applying correctly. - Fixed an issue where the the democratic party of Norway wasn't Hyre after taking the focus to get their leader as the new country leader. - Fixed a bug that caused incorrect unit distribution when frontline is split - Fixed an oversight where a few Turkish admirals were using the army versions of the traits "Career Officer" and "Media Personality". - No longer possible to delete division templates used by divisions escaping into exile (which could cause crashes) - Fixed broken texts in French news event for Claiming the French Throne. - The Mexican decision Support the Spanish Right now also works with Non-Aligned Francoist Spain. - Replaced Terrain Penalty Reduction modifier which was not working in National Spirits by the modifier Terrain Traits XP Gain. - Fix the bug with the UI where daily power is clamped to 0 despite it being negative - Soviet Union: Purge-Related National Spirits will now be transferred to the Stalinist side in the Soviet Civil War, and the relevant decisions to remove them will be available for the Stalinist side during the civil war. - Soviet Union: Dissolve Aircraft Design Bureau purges will now properly work with MIOs when Arms Against Tyranny DLC is active. These purges will no longer trigger twice for an already dissolved bureau. - Soviet Union: The decision tooltip to Reinstate Aircraft Design Bureau will now display the days that have passed since the Bureau was dissolved (as the decision is unavailable until a year has passed since the dissolution). - Changed the post war names for Italy and Romania to better match the historical names - num_battle_plans now also counts the field marshal's own battle plan - Fixed an issue where Japan couldn't have integrated puppets despite no longer being fascist or non-aligned. - Fixed an issue where Argentina could core states that it had already cored. - Fixed an issue where the warlord focus Ideological Education required you to be and not be a subject at the same time. - Fixed an issue where the Dutch focus "Expand the Artillerieinrichtningen" said it unlocked and gave bonuses to the MIO Siderius when it was meant to give it to A.I. Hembrug. - adds conditions to effects that construct forts and coastal forts, as well as availables and improved bypasses in the British focus tree - Fixed various instances of unlocalized strings throughout content. - Fixed issues in the Italian events and decisions to invite Turkey or Greece to your faction in exchange for the Dodecanese, where they would previously target the wrong countries. - Building slots are no longer reduced by 50% due to non_core_controller. This should be purely handled by resistance & collaboration - Fixed an issue where the Blackshirt March on the Isle of Man would count as one having been done in the Highlands due to an incorrect flag being set. - Fixed an issue where the Lithuanian general Kazys Skuas used his large portrait where he should have used his small icon. - Fixed a small LOC issue in the Polish decision "Sideline the Right". - Fixed an issue where Romanian puppets wouldn't be peaced out with their enemies when Romania switched sides using their decisions. - Fixed and updated the requirements to take and bypass some of the Turkish faction joining focuses. - Fixed a minor typo in the description of the Argentinian national spirit "The Roca-Runciman Treaty". - Fixed an issue where Swedish advisor Frans Severin was hidden prior to being unlocked. - Fixed ?s showing up instead of unknown characters in the Vietnamese namelist - minor fix to Swiss focus Preempt Anschluss to bypass if Austria doesn't exist, or is a subject of someone else In addition to todays change log, we are also including a link to a mod update and migration guide compiled by a series of mod authors that have been given early access to Gtterdmmerung in order to begin the process of updating their mods early. 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Hello! And welcome to the last Dev Diary for the DLC Gtterdmmerung! Im CreamGene and I hope you have had a good time reading previous Diaries and are as excited as we are for the release. Since Im here, I would like to share with you some of the art we on HOI have loved to see the most as well as show off some behind-the-scenes or WIPs of how some of the features took shape and came to be as well as a passion project from me that Im very excited to finally unleash!

Features

Special Projects

Raids

Focuses

Portraits

Loading Screen

Horse Coat Colour Project

• Liver chestnut: Dark red body, main and tail
• Flaxen chestnut: Any shade of chestnut but with a significantly lighter mane and tail

• Dark bay: Can look almost black
• Blood bay: Bright red coat with black points
• Seal brown: Can look almost black but the soft parts, such as the muzzle, around eyes, inner ears, and underbelly will be a light tan colour.

• Steel grey: Looks steel grey in tone but with age turns white. More usual on a black horse than a bay.
• Dapple grey: Looks like the body has rings of grey hair mimicking dappled sunlight if you will. Will eventually fade to white or fleabitten grey with age.
• Fleabitten grey: Fully white coat with either brown or dark grey dots throughout the body.

3D Models

Air-Based Projects

Land-Based Projects

Sea Based Projects

Achievements

Hello everyone, it's again the time to give you a glimpse into the fun stuff we've been doing from the tech side. You know, in addition to implementing the new features. This time around, I (PDXen) got the honour to write the Dev Diary. I'm gonna start off with some outdated news from the past: Did you know that we did a performance pass on Trial of Allegiance? I honestly hope that you didn't. Being a country pack, we never intended to improve the performance but we did make improvements to counter the influx of data that happens when we add more content. But I know you don't want to listen to ramblings about the past. So let's get started on what we've done this time. While we've taken time to look at the performance and improve parts of it, we've also added some new generic features that we hope our modders will like.

Performance

Focuses

Dynamic memory and paralelism

Hidden AAT Inefficiencies

Modding

Localization, localization and localization

|`. Some of the formatters also take some parameters (such as the `INDENT` in the example above). The benefit of using these over new tooltip overrides for effects or triggers is that the localization formatters are usable in every place a bound localization is usable (some might require that its localized with some context but that should be documented). One of the main drawbacks with the new things we add, is that you can in general only use it in specific places that is pointed out from source code. Unfortunately, this still holds for the new stuff but the goal was for fewer requests for tooltips so we made some effort to make it a bit more usable. For example, you can use this in the very much (ab)used `custom_effect_tooltip` effect, `custom_trigger_tooltip` trigger as well as in some of the new places (see for example, the building database). But the main thing is that we added support for this in GUI files. All our GUItypes now support the new tooltip `bound_tooltip` construct. If you use this, then you'll be able to use the bound localization. And maybe more interesting is the `context_aware_tooltip` construct that is a bound localization but it will be localized with a context so you can use contextual localization. Unfortunately, this requires us to provide the context from the source so mostly new places support this (and we try to document it in the GUI files, when and where it is supported). Note that this is recursive so if a parent object is localized with a context, then all children objects will be localized with the same context. We'll come back to this in a short while when digging into the tech behind the new inner circle GUI in the focus tree.

Naming is Hard

Imagine that you have a province or state that, depending on who you ask, has a different name. For techs, equipment and a lot of other things weve had the support to add country specific names (we call it cosmetic tags) by simply adding the countries tag before the name of it. Now weve added the same support to province and state names as well. We can take Turku as an example, this Finish area has both a Finish and a Swedish name (Turku being the name in Finish and bo is the name in Swedish). Before we had quite some script to change the name of the state depending on its owner but now we simply have to prefix the name with the correct country tag in the localization file: STATE_926: "Turku" # Default name SWE_STATE_926: "bo" # Cosmetic name for when Sweden owns the state
The state of Turku (i.e. Finland owns the state).
The state of bo (i.e. Sweden owns the state).

Focus Navigation

More national focus means more fun, right? But at some point it just becomes hard to navigate the focus tree. Fear not, weve added an option to add navigation shortcuts to focus trees. The new German tree has 6 different navigation icons (as of me writing this).
The focus navigation tabs for the new German tree. If we click for example the Economy navigation tab, then well be moved to the economy section of the tree with a nice zoom level for it. Naturally, this is completely scriptable so you can modify the focus trees to your liking for your mods.

Focus Inlay Windows

You've probably seen the Inner Circle GUI in another Dev Diary by now, but did you know that the whole GUI is written in script, and it doesnt contain a single scripted GUI window? The inner circle is the first usage of what we call focus inlay window. A focus inlay window is, similar to the continuous focus window, a GUI object that is drawn inside the focus tree view.. Lets go through an example: We want to display all the potential members of the Nordic Defence Council and if they have joined. For some reason its also very critical for us that we show the leaders of the countries. Something like the following:
A focus inlay window to show the potential members of The Nordic Defense Council with access to the joint focus tree. When defining a new inlay window, there's three main components that you need to implement: The inlay window definition; the GUI definition; and add it to the focus tree(s) it should be shown. Let's start with the completely new construct, the inlay window definition. As for most components in HoI4 different databases have different folders and so has this. The inlay windows are located in the `game/common/focus_inlay_windows/` and we can throw up the first definition of the inlay window as follows: nordic_alliance_inlay_window = { window_name = nordic_alliance_ui_window } This is actually a minimum working example for a focus inlay window definition. We've now a new inlay window with ID `nordic_alliance_inlay_window` that points to a container window named `nordic_alliance_ui_window`. Let's continue with adding more stuff to this later on and continue with the GUI itself. guiTypes = { containerWindowType = { name = nordic_alliance_ui_window orientation = lower_left size = {width = 400 height = 450 } clipping = no # Never clip in focus inlay windows due to some legacy bugs background = { name = background quadTextureSprite = "GFX_tiled_window_1b_border" alwaystransparent = yes } instantTextBoxType = { name ="faction_name" orientation = upper_left position = { x = 0 y = 20 } font = "hoi_36header" context_aware_text = [Country.GetFactionName] format = center maxWidth = 400 } iconType = { name = "sweden_frame" spriteType = "GFX_ascended_advisors_unappointed_frame" orientation = upper_left position = { x=55 y=107 } centerPosition = yes scale = 0.4 } iconType = { name = "Sweden" spriteType = GFX_blank_leader_portrait orientation = upper_left position = { x = 40 y = 90} context_aware_tooltip = [SWE.GetLeader] scale = 0.2 } instantTextBoxType = { name = "sweden_text" orientation = upper_left position = {x = 100 y = 105 } context_aware_text = { localization_key = NORDIC_COUNCIL_MEMBER IN_FACTION = [SWE.NordicCouncilMemberInFaction] COUNTRY = [SWE.GetNameWithFlag] } } # Below are copies for the Sweden entries adapted for the rest of the Nordic countries. [...] The GUI components aren't anything new, but I've thrown in some of the new localization capabilities to give you an example. Since all focus inlay windows are localised with the focus tree country as the context, we're free to use all the new fancy stuff when writing the localization. We have one `context_aware_text` that uses the contextual localization to grab the faction name. Another that uses bound localization to localise `NORDIC_COUNCIL_MEMBER` with the parameters `IN_FACTION` and `COUNTRY` with the result from localising `[SWE.NordicCouncilMemberInFaction]` and `[SWE.GetNameWithFlag]`, respectively. Ive also thrown in a `context_aware_tooltip` to get the name of the leader when hovering over the portrait. While we're at it, we can complete the localization by adding the following scripted localization to the game (in `game/common/scripted_localisation`): defined_text = { name = NordicCouncilMemberInFaction text = { trigger = { is_in_faction_with = ROOT } localization_key = TRIGGER_FULLFILLED_PREFIX } text = { trigger = { always = yes } localization_key = TRIGGER_UNFULLFILLED_PREFIX } } And add the localization key `NORDIC_COUNCIL_MEMBER` to a loc file: NORDIC_COUNCIL_MEMBER: "$IN_FACTION$ $COUNTRY|Y$ has joined" With the localization done we only need to fix the portraits of the country leaders. Defining dynamic images for focus inlay windows is done in the focus inlay window definition: nordic_alliance_inlay_window = { window_name = nordic_alliance_ui_window scripted_images = { Sweden = { GFX_portrait_SWE_per_albin_hansson = { SWE = { has_country_leader = { ruling_only = yes character = SWE_per_albin_hansson } } } GFX_blank_leader_portrait = yes } # Insert definitions for the rest of the nordic countries below [...] The `scripted_images` entry contains a list of image definitions that will be used in the focus inlay window. In this case, the icon named `Sweden` will have its image replaced with `GFX_portrait_SWE_per_albin_hansson` if Swedens current country leader is `SWE_per_albin_hansson`. If this doesnt hold, then the next entry in `Sweden` will be checked and so on until something that evaluates to true is encountered. The last entry in this example (`GFX_blank_leader_portrait`) always evaluates to true and is therefore the default image if no other is true. Now theres only some final touches to be made. Firstly, well restrict the inlay window to only be shown if the country has formed (or joined) a Nordic joint alliance (i.e. has completed the `NORDIC_form_joint_alliance`. Secondly, well set the window to only be visible to the country owning the focus tree (so no other player can view it). nordic_alliance_inlay_window = { window_name = nordic_alliance_ui_window internal = yes visible = { has_completed_focus = NORDIC_form_joint_alliance } [...] } Thats it, really. Weve now completely defined a focus inlay window. All that remains to do is to add it to the relevant focus trees: focus_tree = { id = sweden_focus [...] inlay_window = { id = nordic_alliance_inlay_window position = { x = 6500 y = 1000 } } [...] } I really look forward to seeing all the cool stuff you can come up with the focus inlay windows. And I hope you all enjoy the new modding constructs. Happy modding! 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Hallo, wie geht es dir? [previewyoutube=61pzJKTLt_Y;full]video here[/previewyoutube] Stay tuned for tomorrow, Thursday November 26th, that there will be a Dev Q&A over on Reddit! Paradox_Danne here one last time to guide you through the final German Dev Diary before Gtterdmmerung drops and you can experience all of this first hand. Buckle up, because today were diving into German alt-history! Before we get started though, lets have one last look at the old German Focus Tree and then compare it with the new one.
The Old German Focus Tree has served us well over the years
But its time to let a new German Tree sprout As you can see, the new German Focus Tree is something of a behemoth and by far the largest Tree in the game. If youve read the previous two Dev Diaries about the Historical branches and the German systems (if not, stop reading this and head over there immediately!) most of you will recognize a lot of this, but theres uncharted territory here as well. Hoist your proverbial sails and lets see where the current takes us as we explore Germanys alt-history. But a word of warning before we cast off; all you are about to see is very much a work in progress, which means things might and will change.
Germanys democrats and monarchists have received more to do and are now even accompanied by the communists As you might be able to tell, the alt-historical branch has been greatly expanded upon and offers a wide range of different playstyles for Germany. One thing that remains the same though is the actual Civil War. We decided very early on not to expand this bit or alter it all that much; we reasoned that if you want to play alt-history you want the Civil War to begin and end as soon as possible. So its very much straight to the point still (with maybe one or two new minor surprises). Before moving on to the various political paths, lets talk about the few Civil War-centric focuses there are.
After starting the Civil War you have a few focuses to help you through these dark times With the Civil War tearing Germany apart, you can Rally the Nation to bring down the Nazis faster and Rebuild the Nation to help your industries recover faster, which then can be expedited with Revitalize the Nation. All of this should bolster Germany and help it recover quickly to move on to other things, such as tending to the future and deciding what kind of politics you want to pursue.

Democracy or Monarchism

Democracy

Monarchism

Weltpolitik

Realpolitik

Mitteleuropa

See to the Eastern Front

Restore the Brest-Litovsk Borders

Reject the Locarno Treaty

The Proletarian Revolution

Spark the Flame of Revolution

Root Out Imperialism

Legacy of the Spartacus League

Volkskommissariats

Proletarian Dictatorship

Country Leaders

Advisors

The Various Shapes and Colours of Germany

Units

Hello! My name is MordredViking (Gareth), and Im joined in this Dev Diary by D3vil (Jonathan). We previously talked about Belgium and now its time to talk about Congo! Ill start talking about a specific part of the focus tree which relies on close Belgian cooperation, then Jonathan will take over and cover the rest of the branches. [previewyoutube=5AI2_-7s6bQ;full][/previewyoutube] Why Congo though? I know there was some surprise at their inclusion in this expansion, but there is a good reason for it. Namely, they contributed a lot more to the Second World War than you likely realize, plus they were of course intrinsically linked together with Belgium. It was their gold and diamonds which kept the Belgian Government in Exile solvent, meaning that they did not need any donations or loans from the other Allied nations. Congolese soldiers fought in the Force Publique together with other Allied troops against the Italians in Ethiopia. Congolese rubber production was expanded following the fall of South East Asia to Japan, and other raw materials were heavily developed for the war effort, particularly copper and cobalt. Plus, of course Congos Uranium was vital to the Manhattan Project, as Congo had at the time the largest known Uranium deposit in the world. Now, I am well aware of the elephant in the room. Belgiums relationship with Congo has not always been benign, and there was a period where horrible atrocities occurred, particularly under King Leopold II (King Leopold IIIs grandfather). While the situation in Congo during the Second World War had significantly improved from those dark days, things were by no means perfect. I would remind you however, that this is a war game, focusing on the war and as such we are most interested in Congos contribution to the conflict at large. Now, with that said, lets get stuck in!
Behold! The Congo Focus Tree in all its glory! And now for some reason, Im going to show you a part of the Belgian Focus Tree.
The fog has been lifted, and you can finally see some of those focuses look a little different.

Colonial Branch

Colonial Mini Branches

The Unique Branches

Were going to be talking about a nation that was invaded in both World Wars, and were present and fighting until the end in both, despite being either partly, or wholly occupied for the majority of those conflicts. Their people were very much on the front lines, and the landscape remains scarred by the wars even to this day. [previewyoutube=kJsFqK0MBCM;full][/previewyoutube] Hello! My name is Mordred Viking, though some of you may know me as Gareth. I am a Content Designer on Hearts of Iron IV, and I very much wanted to see this nation given more content in the game because they contributed so much, but are often so little known. As such, Id like to present the real story of the plucky underdog: Belgium.
Behold! The Belgian Focus Tree! Plus a weird blurry bit in the middle. I wonder what that could be? I had a couple of goals starting out with the design of Belgium. Firstly, I wanted to give them a chance to actually hold out. Secondly, if this failed, I wanted them to be fun to play in exile. Thirdly, I wanted to showcase the close relationship between Belgium and Congo. As is always the case in these diaries, please bear in mind that all you are about to see is a work in progress.

Overview

Military and Industry

Political Introduction

Historical Branch

The King Surrenders

Fascist Branches

• The Rexists are the Fascist Nationalist path - Build up Belgium itself
• The VNV are the Fascist Expansionist path - Make a bigger Belgium
• The middle shared path - Things both sides can do

The Constitutional Crisis Branch - Turtle Belgium

Socialist/Communist Belgium

Advisors, Commanders and other Bits and Bobs

Music

Final Notes

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[previewyoutube=BuYwiCCEmes;full][/previewyoutube] Hi, Thomas here talking about game mechanics again. I work as Design Manager and Design Lead on Hearts of Iron. Today we are looking at another of the new features that comes with Gtterdmmerung, namely Raids. The normal caveats apply, everything you see here is subject to change, especially visual details as some are awaiting final art touches at the time of writing, and other things, such as balancing and tweaking are ongoing. But you probably know the drill by now. The Raids feature allows you to plan and execute targeted strikes on enemy installations, or perform unique missions of various kinds. Whereas strategic bombing targets enemy industry and infrastructure in a general way, Raids are pinpoint strikes against very specific targets that usually require months of preparation. Targets can vary, but the general goal of a raid is to inflict strategic damage to your opponent that will hamper their war machine for an extended period of time. Perhaps one of the most important functions of the Raids is that you can use them to target enemy experimental facilities in order to disrupt their special projects. Once you know the location of a facility, you can start planning a raid to damage it, and inflict a setback to the ongoing project there. A successful strike not only damages the facility, slowing research down until repaired, but can also damage equipment etc. and set the progress back by weeks or even months. The feature also allows you to replicate things such as Operation Chastise, more commonly known as the Dambusters Raid. You can develop the Barnes Wallis' bouncing bomb, and then target an enemy dam with one of your raids. A successful strike not only knocks the hydroelectric power plant out, it also floods the region, hindering enemy troop movement. Or, if you want to take that concept even further, you can try to blow up the canal locks in the Panama Canal, to stop enemy ships crossing from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean. But you will probably need a very long range bomber for that - unless you start in Central America of course Let's take a look at how to work with the Raids:

Setting up a raid

Assembling and preparing

Launching and Success

Cost

Filtering

Types of raids

Custom Raids

Willkommen zurck to another German Dev Diary! [previewyoutube=8yeitFWiN0A;full][/previewyoutube] Last time we talked about the Common Branches and the Historical Branch of Germany. Now, I, Paradox_Danne, ManoDeZombi, D3vil and Nattmaran (please insert joke about how many content designers it takes to make a Germany) will at least try to explain the various new systems for Germany. As we alluded to and hinted at in the last German Dev Diary, Germany has a whole swath of new mechanics wed like to go through with you. Keep in mind that all of this is still very much a work in progress, which means things may change. So without further ado, lets press on!

The MEFO Bills

Seizing Gold Reserves

The Inner Circle

The Monroe Doctrine

The Reichskommissariats

Closing Words

Hey everyone! I'm Plankie, one of the game programmers on hoi4, and one of my favourite parts of developing a game is to work on the game AI. So when I was asked, almost a year ago, whether I wanted to take charge of a small AI feature, I was delighted! The goal of this feature was to make the AI better at concentrating their hardest and meanest divisions instead of spreading them out along an entire front line. This is something we've wanted to do for a long time and with the Germany-focused Gtterdmmerung expansion, we had the perfect opportunity. We call this feature AI Force Concentration, or AIFC for short (an acronym which has caused many football-related jokes in the team).

AI Force Concentration

So WHY did we want to focus on this?

Cool! How does it actually work then?

More new things

New Technologies

Command Power Cap

Dams

Landmarks

State and Province UI - minor QoL changes

Area Defense QoL

Horsies with different colours

Theres always more

Guten Tag oder guten Abend depending on when youre reading this! Me, Paradox_Danne and ManoDeZombi will guide you through the big boi; the myth, the legend, the one and only - the German Focus Tree. Yes, you read that right (and probably expected as much), Germany is getting a (much-needed) facelift. But what does this mean? It means that most of the old base Focus Tree is getting yeeted out, and replaced with a reworked version. Now, before we go any further, please remember and keep in mind that this is very much a WORK IN PROGRESS, which means, but is not limited to, missing icons, placeholder texts, and weird modifiers. Things might and will change, so feedback is very much appreciated so we can make the best possible German content possible. We know youre eager to delve into this, so lets get moving!

Quick Historical Recap

The Common Branches

The Army

The Airforce

The Navy

Wunderwaffen

Industry

Political Branches

Advisors, Designers and Concerns

MIO's

Conclusion

J napot kvnok! [previewyoutube=2gx7dft5q5w;full][/previewyoutube] Jonathan here to bring you another Dev Diary for the upcoming DLC Gtterdmmerung! I will be (re)introducing you all to Hungary. Originally we had planned to do a minor update to accommodate the Austria rework, but quite early on in the project we decided to give it a proper overhaul as we were going to rework it anyhow and felt it could do with one. Well, since its been a long time since the last Hungarian dev diary (7 years to be more precise), lets start off with a bit of historical context! Oh, and as usual, please do keep in mind that everything youre about to see is still WIP so things might change before release and you may see some placeholder art and WIP values. The team thanks you for your understanding!
The new country select screen for Hungary, with a TL:DR for the historical context
A zoomed out overview of the Hungarian Focus Trees general layout

From Austria-Hungary to World War 2

Common Branches

Historical Branch

Fascist Branch

Monarchist Branches

Republican Branches

Conclusion

Hi, I am Thomas, the Design Manager and Design Lead on the Hearts of Iron Expansion Team. Today I am here together with Manuel, also known as Mano de Zombi to introduce one of the new features of the upcoming Gtterdmmerung expansion: Special Projects. As always, please note that everything here might change before release The UI in particular is receiving final touches at the moment, so it can most certainly look different on release day, but also any values, texts, etc you see in screenshots might change. But you know this already, right? In Gtterdmmerung, we have added a new way of acquiring super weapons and other experimental technological advancements that can give you an edge over your opponent. You can now construct secret experimental facilities, assign lead scientists and start up Special Projects there - trying to beat your enemy to getting those long range rockets, the atomic bomb, or the land cruiser mega tank. With this new feature, Special Projects, you invest time and resources into specific fields, in order to produce those new super weapons, or similar things that can hopefully affect the outcome of the war, or at least will look cool and impress neighbouring countries :)

Experimental Facilities and Specializations

• Advanced Physics Facility (mainly nuclear related projects)
• Naval Engineering Facility (Naval, both Surface and Submarine projects)
• Aerodynamics and Avionics Facility (Air and Rocket projects)
• Land Warfare Facility (mainly Tank and Artillery related projects)

Unlocking and Breakthroughs

Prototyping

Completing a Special Project

Capturing Experimental Facilities

Scientists

The Projects Themselves

Changes to Old Content

A Word About Rockets

Guten Tag! [previewyoutube=pUMqmW8LQDk;full][/previewyoutube] Nattmaran here to kick off the Dev Diaries for Gtterdmmerung! This will be the first Dev Diary I write, and you can bet that I am excited to finally show you what I have been working on! We are going to start out with a country that many of you have been requesting, Austria! Lets get right into it with a little bit of context shall we?
The country select screen for Austria, a TL:DR for the historical context
A zoomed out overview of the Austrian Focus Tree

Interwar Austria

"Historical" Branch

Anschluss

Monarchism

Democratic

The Danubian Federation

Communism

Military & Industry

Conclusion

Greetings all! [previewyoutube=vfpjRVIo9X8;full][previewyoutube=X35yPqws-vk;full]YOUTUBE VIDEO ANNOUNCEMENT GOES HERE[/previewyoutube][/previewyoutube] https://store.steampowered.com/app/3152780/Expansion__Hearts_of_Iron_IV_Gtterdmmerung/ Aaand there we have it, with the release of this video there can be no more subterfuge: our expansion Gtterdmmerung drops November 14th. Of course, weve kept this one under wraps for a bit longer despite some subtle hints, so now is our opportunity to explain a little about what Gtterdmmerung heralds, and what else is coming for Hearts of Iron in the near future. With the above said, Id like to draw attention to the fact that Dev Diaries and related events will be arriving with high frequency over the next six weeks - two or three items per week up until launch. This means today we wont be diving into extreme detail on each of the headline items, but you wont have long to wait to see more.

Special Projects

Military Raids

Germany

Austria

Revised Hungarian Focus Tree

Belgian Focus Tree

Expansion Pass

• Instant unlock of three new 3d tank models and a music track
• The Gtterdmmerung expansion (Nov 14th 2024)
• The Graveyard of Empires country pack (Q1 2025)
• Prototype Vehicles unit pack (Q3 2025)

Generals! The latest War Effort update is here and with it arrives more bugfixes and balance changes, with a few changes to France, the Warlords in the east and some changes to certain spirits! Check out all the changes below and let us know what you think, and what other changes you'd like to see~ ################################################################ ######## Patch 1.14.8 "Bolivar" ######### ################################################################ ################################## # Balance ################################## - Brazil: focus "Potenji River Conference" changed so that instead of having Brazil declare war on American major enemies, they now instead join the American war, thus not applying the Defensive War bonus on the Axis and Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere in the late-game. - Brazil: now even more extra hyper-unlikely to reject unification with Portugal if their ideologies match - Czechoslovakia: focus "United Population" now grants 10% stability and war support as well as 150 political power if the "Divided Nation" national spirit has already been removed by the focus "Czech Socialism". - France: Fixed an issue where SOMUA S35 was previously called SOUMUA S35. - France: focus ""Begin Rearmament"" will no longer be cancelled if you drop below the required war support. - France: wargoals for the French focus ""Secure the Crown"" target all Spains. - France: the Orleanist focuses Slum Clearing and Counter-Action are both now 35 days focuses, and added an extra building slot to the Slum Clearing focus. - France: focus ""Diplomatic Freedom"" now takes 35 days and give 50 political power. - France: fixed an issue with offsets in the tree when taking the focus ""Revive the National Bloc"". - France: focus ""Defensive Focus"" now gives 30 command power. - France: focuses ""Invite Yugoslavia"" and ""Invite Romania"" now are 35 day focuses. - France: Trimmed down the decision tooltips in the focus "Reorganize Aviation Industry" and added 2 Military factories as an instant completion reward in the focus. - United Kingdom: Fixed an issue with a duplicated available trigger in the British focus Commonwealth Ties. Also changed the focus to include British Malaya in its targets, as well as give the targeted nations 50 political power each. Also made it into a 35 day focus. - Warlords: focus Industrial Investments now gives 2 civilian factories instead of one. - Warlords: now start with the national spirit Warlord State which can be upgraded through 3 different new focuses, and which is removed upon becoming any other type of state. - Warlords: national spirit Long Term Economic Planning now also gives a 10% construction bonus to Supply Hubs. - China: national spirit Public Works now also gives a 5% construction bonus to Railways. - Warlords: focus Personal Leadership now takes 35 days and additionally grants 30 command power. - China: national spirit Rapid Mobilization now also gives a 10% bonus to mobilization speed. - Warlords: focus Opposition now also grants 5% war support. - Warlords: focus Cooperation with the Nationalists now also grants 5% stability. - Warlords: focus Cooperation with the Communists now also grants 50 political power. - Warlords: focus Cult of Personality now also grants 5% war support. - Warlords: focus Local Arms Production now gives 2 military factories instead of one. - Spirits: Professional Officer Corps now grants 15% division experience gain and 30 max command power in place of 5% land XP, -5% doctrine cost and 0.20 daily command power - Spirits: Elevated Engineering Corps no longer grants a 25% engineer trait xp gain factor. Railway gun bombardment bonus is now 25%, from 20% - Spirits: Proper Heritage no longer grants 5% cavalry attack, and instead grants 10% Leader Experience Gain - Spirits: State Serves the Military now grants 10% offensive war stability, from 10% political power gain - Spirits: Logistical Focus spirit now grants -10% fuel consumption instead of -5% - Cavalry Recon now gains a 15% speed bonus from the Mass Assault doctrine "Pocket Defence". - Horseback Infantry now have several early benefits in military doctrines. We would still like to see them phased out in favor of motorized infantry, but for countries with no real options in the early game they should lose their shine a little later then currently. - The Dutch MIOs Fokker and DAF are now both available from game start, and instead of being unlocked, are granted 2 extra levels when taking each MIOs respective focus. - Increased the spirit of the naval acadamy spirits chance to gain +skills on level up from 40% to 50% to be in line with the army spirits - the AI will be significantly less likely to leave countries alive on tiny islands during peace conferences ################################## # Gameplay ################################## - Added decisions for Wales and Y Wladfa to core each-others states if they control them. - The Free French focus Refus Absurde can now also be completed if at peace to remove the Defeatism spirit, and the focus Form the Provisional Government now also removes the spirit in case it hasnt been removed earlier. - Finland no longer cedes Petsamo to the Soviets when losing the Winter War. ################################## # UI ################################## - Added simple allow_branch and offset effects to the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian focus trees. ################################## # Modding ################################## - Can no longer unlock a severely broken form of intelligence agency without LaR; this will error appropriately to help you track down the issue. ################################## # Bugfix ################################## - Bulgaria: Players with BftB should no longer encounter Fatherland Front when going to war with the Soviet Union while wrong ideology - The Request Expeditionaries feature works with size 0 armies once again - corrected railways around lille and dunkirk - All single category MIOs (naval, air, land) should now use the correct XP type - Fixed a bug when if you had a spirit of the army (leftmost army spirits) would cause any spirit from spirit of the naval academy (leftmost navy spirit) to not work properly - Fixed a wrong tooltip where the % chance to gain +attack/defense/manouver+coordination in the spirit of the naval academy would say you a way lower % chance to get the benefit that what it really was (it said 20% but it was in fact 40%) - Fixed a number of Soviet CCP icons that were not appearing correctly when the pack is enabled. - Fixed an issue where Argentina could core only Guatemala and no other central-american nations using their South-American unity decisions, as well as making them able to core Easter Island. - Fixed an issue where the 30 day cooldown for the damage dealt by Paratroopers after taking the "Combat Insertion"doctrine wasn't working and could be done an infinite number of times in the same state. - Fixed an issue where a Warlord state that had inherited Nationalist China's focus tree couldn't remove their version of the Ineffective Bureaucracy spirit through the Examination Yuan focus. - Fixed an error where the British Plan R-4 couldn't be successfully completed. - Land Doctrine: People's Army now correctly applies cavalry suppression buff to Military Police; buff reduced to 0.35 Suppression Per Honse from 0.5 - Unit supply consumption now correctly uses 2 decimal places in tooltips and UI (functionality remains unchanged) - Fixed an issue where the "Blockade Venezuela" decision would still be visible when Venezuela didn't exist. - Fixed an issue where the leader trait Unbreakable wasnt properly granting attack and defense modifiers. - Fixed an issue where the Spanish national spirit The Anti-Fascist Crusade wasnt properly granting the attack it said it was. - Fixed an issue where the Nordic national spirit The Nordic March wasnt properly granting the attack it said it was. - Fixed an issue where the Nordic national spirit To Arms Against Tyranny wasnt properly granting the defense it said it was. - Fixed an issue where the Latvian national spirit Dievturba wasnt properly granting attack and defense modifiers. - Fixed an issue where the various Italian Papal national spirits weren't properly granting attack and defense modifiers. - Fixed an issue where the Spanish national spirit Embrace the Spanish Destiny wasnt properly granting the attack it said it was. - Fixed an issue where the Spanish Crusade Against Democracy national spirits werent properly granting the attack and they said they were. - Gdynia is now also included among the states that Poland can return to a democratic Germany if they are close to capitulation. - Fixed various issues with the requirements and effects of the Norwegian decisions to convert convoys into destroyers. - Fixed an issue where Chile couldn't bypass the focus "Demand the Guyanas" when already controlling all three target states. - Fixed an issue where the Portuguese focus "Portuguese Artillery" didn't grant funds to the correct MIO. - Fixed an issue where the Brazilian focus "Bribe the Military" wouldn't grant a dockyard due to incorrect checks in the focus. - Fixed various issues where the Japanese Zaibatsu national spirits could join the wrong side of a civil war. - Fixed an issue where the Latvian focus "Renew the Constitution of Latvia" wouldn't correctly swap the trait of the political advisor Alberts Kvesis as it said it did. - Fixed an issue where the French focus and decisions for "Arms Purchases in the US" could be completed despite the requirements not being properly fulfilled. - Entrenchment Chief no longer refuses to follow naming consistency rules (Thanks Reddit, we hated it too)

Hello there! Your Community Manager, Katten, here. Let's get right into it; we haven't talked about our upcoming expansion since all the way back in June. Let's change that and dive right in! The Hearts of Iron Development team has been hard at work since the end of last year on this upcoming expansion. But Im here to give you a rundown of what we have planned and when to expect it! We begin releasing Developer Diaries October 3rd, so mark the date! But dont worrywell give you plenty of reminders as it approaches. This time around, were trying something different. Compared to last year, our upcoming campaign will be shorter, but we've planned it to be highly intense, with something happening almost every single day. We currently plan to have two developer diaries per week, a weekly feature video, a biweekly stream and Q&A, and, of course, plenty of YouTube Shorts and other fun social media content related to the expansion.
Before I go, I want to thank you for being so patient with us. On Friday, well be sharing details about the upcoming Open Beta for the next War Effort update! Until later! Katten

Generals! The end of Summer is fast approaching, and with it arrives additional sales! The Quartermasters have come around for another batch of Discounts to make sure that you all can grab what you need for your collection, a friend or whatever else you need~ Check out the Discounts below, and have a great week!

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Generals! It is time yet again for Steam's Summer sale, with deals up to 70% off, this is the perfect time to finish up your collection, or even branch into new titles with our Wealth and War Bundle to grab a great deal on Victoria 3 while you're at it! Check below for all of the deals;

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Generals! We're rolling out a quick hotfix to address a few minor issues cropping up with some scripts and implementation of the Content Creator Pack. ################################## # Bugfix ################################## - Fixed ship creation script from autoincluding version numbering inconsistently, leading to a few instances of invalid script - Non-Designer equipment will no longer show version naming by default* - A few CCP icons were being shown in unintended locations, this is no longer the case

Hello there! Katten here. Today marks the final day of our Anniversary Week. It's been one thrilling ride, kicking off with our teaser for the upcoming expansion, followed by a giveaway that saw over 10,000 participants! Then came our secondary announcement: our first Content Creator Pack - Soviet Union 2D Art. Sunday brought the sweat with our broadcast of the grande finale for this year's Community Cup, where the Red Baron team claimed first place! And now, today, we're excited to release the War Effort Update 1.14.6: Operation Badger, alongside the Content Creator Pack. This post below will contain two key sections. First, we'll delve into the details of our War Effort update, followed by our second and final Dev Diary for the Content Creator Pack. But without further ado, I'll hand over the mic to Game Director, Arheo. Wait, I almost forgot! Before that, we are also running a sale on the PDX Store with up to 70% off! Check it out HERE.

War Effort Update

World Ablaze CCP Developer Diary | Creative Process

Hello there! My name is Katten, and I'm your Community Manager for Hearts of Iron IV. Today, we are excited to announce our first-ever Content Creator Pack (or CCP for short) for Hearts of Iron IV which releases on the 10th of June. This is something we have previously done for Cities: Skylines and Crusader Kings. The pack is created by modders and published by us. [previewyoutube=b_ZBastfots;full][/previewyoutube] Before I hand it over to Ethan Mayer, one of the two creators of this pack, I wanted to address two frequently asked questions, as I'm sure they will come up. Did you just take a free mod and make it paid?

• No, we collaborated with modders to create completely new content!

• Modders get paid based on the number of copies sold.

World Ablaze CCP Developer Diary | What is this & Who are we?

Generals, Katten here. Today marks the day before our 8th anniversary of Hearts of Iron IV. Eight long years on the frontlines, millions of provinces painted in strange colours, thousands of wild encirclements, and countless amazing mods have been created. This year, we also hit a significant milestone: 1.5 million monthly active users! Important Note: If you are unfamiliar with MAU, it is a behind-the-scenes metric that tracks the number of unique individuals who play the game each month. To celebrate, we have something special planned. Last year, we teased an upcoming expansion, but I think we can do even better! This year, we are celebrating what we call Anniversary Week! Five days packed with activities, from something you've been eagerly waiting for to something you've been asking for. How long have I worked here? Never mind that. Let's get to our Anniversary Roadmap!
The Roadmap is our way of showcasing what each fun day contains during the Anniversary Celebration.

• We are starting tomorrow, June 6th, with a Top Secret Reveal that we have uncovered through an enigma cipher.
• On June 7th, we celebrate our Discord server hitting 100,000 Generals by giving away 500 copies of Hearts of Iron IV! More info below.
• On the 8th, we have a smaller secondary announcement with something you might not have been expecting.
• On the 9th, we are ending our giveaway and sending out the keys. But that's not all! For the fourth year in a row, we are hosting the Community Cup, this year organized by Dankus Memecus. We'll grab our popcorn and soda and watch which team takes the grand prize of 2,500. But there is still another day!
• On the 10th, our secondary announcement has something more to show you. After a long wait, our next War Effort Update will go live with some much-requested fixes and changes!

Generals!

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Hello there! It's your friendly neighborhood Community Manager, Katten, here. The first War Effort update of the year has finally been released! It mainly focuses on bug fixes and some balance changes, including adjustments to the USA MIOs, which Content Designer Gareth will discuss below. Remember to please send in any bug reports when you discover them HERE, so that we can fix them as soon as possible!

USA Mios

Patch Notes

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UI

Graphics

Bugfix

Generals! The War Effort continues with Operation Grouse, so to prepare you for the battlefield, we've gone ahead and grabbed some intel from Command on the upcoming changes coming in patch 1.14.5 and are releasing them on an Open Beta. To join the open beta, right click HOI4 in your Steam Library and go to Properties. Once there, you can go to 'Betas' and at the top right select " open_beta " Prepare for some Balance changes, some minor graphics and UI changes, and a whole LOT of bug fixes! ##################################

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Hello there! It's your friendly neighborhood community manager, Katten, here. It's been some time, but starting right now until the 9th of April, the game is Free to Play! This is also accompanied by a Massive sale that is larger than any we have had previously, both of these starting at 19:00 CET https://store.steampowered.com/app/394360/Hearts_of_Iron_IV/ If you are a new player or a veteran looking for people to play with, tips for your games, or just want to chat about the game, then join our Discord below. If we hit 100K members this weekend, we will be giving away 500 copies of the Base Game next week!
Click the above image to join the Discord, or click here instead! Now, what is all of this new art and logos you see everywhere? Well, from player feedback and ourselves looking over the game, we thought it would be a good time for a brand refresh, as we call it. So, Hearts of Iron IV now has a new lovely key art with an additional gentleman in the back (let me know if you know who he is!), a new logo, and a little new icon that represents the game on Steam! This is also accompanied by "Waking the Tiger," "Death or Dishonor," and "Together for Victory" now being part of the base game in all senses. If you want to see a cool new trailer, check below! [previewyoutube=F-uGP2DkZKE;full][/previewyoutube]

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War Effort

Hello, Community Manager Katten here. I want to begin by thanking you all for the feedback we have received on our two latest news posts regarding the DLC Integration and Trial of Allegiance Reception & Thoughts. We are reading all your comments and are working on responding to as many as possible.

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Greetings all! Today marks the first dev diary since the release of Trial of Allegiance, so well be looking back over how things went, and community reactions in a little more detail than usual. While I would have loved to have some data on player choices and interactions for todays diary, our analytics engine is busy chugging away. So, well have to hold off on that until the machine spirit has assessed the incoming preponderance of data.

The Elephant in the Room

• Shared branches were one of those things that made sense at the time, but in hindsight we should have avoided.
• People love map changes more than I thought humanly possible.
• Power creep is real, and we should have a balance reckoning sooner rather than later
• We can do more with units, tech, and non-focus content without being explicitly mechanical in nature. This was sort of on our radar already, but player feedback confirms that.

Generals! Trial of Allegiance is now Live, and with it comes the Fury of Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay! Join the fight to turn the tides of war, or to give South America a new path through History! With it comes bug fixes, balance changes and even more content in the free "BOLIVAR" update
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2695150/Hearts_of_Iron_IV_Trial_of_Allegiance/ For Version Rollback, see this post. For known issues with the "BOLIVAR" patch, click here.

Hello there generals, it's your friendly neighbourhood Community Manager, Katten, here to talk about, Trial of Allegiance patch notes! But before that, I want to remind you that the DLC releases tomorrow at 17:00 CET! So if you want to secure the exclusive track 'Carnaval Do Brasil', pre-purchase now! And if you missed what this DLC is all about, watch our release trailer below; [previewyoutube=-oOM9cfxovc;full][/previewyoutube] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2695150/Hearts_of_Iron_IV_Trial_of_Allegiance/ ################################################################ ######## Update 1.14.1 "Bolivar" ######### ################################################################ ################################## # Trial of Allegiance ################################## - Added Brazilian focus tree - Added Argentina focus tree - Added Chile focus tree - Added minor focus tree for Paraguay - Added minor focus tree for Uruguay - Added Voiceovers in Brazilian Portuguese, Argentinian Spanish and Chilean Spanish. - Added numerous new (awesome!) 3D models for the new nations - Added 6 new music tracks ################################## # Gameplay ################################## - Admiral Trait Tree has been reshuffled, ordered now by fleet role and with some rebalancing - The Monroe Doctrine has been reworked from the old USA guarantees to something more flexible to go with the ToA launch - More sensible AI weights for interventionists USA going Monroe Doctrine. Will now only DOW if enough tension is generated by that country - Tweaked Ethiopia to be more aggressive initially in the war against Italy - Added Embargo Decision against Venezuela - Changed handsoff tag to Haiti - Added Quebec as releasable at game start - Added an event to Mexican focus "Bolivarian Alliance" to ensure that players can refuse the ticking communism national spirit if they wish. - Fix that ensures a certain shadowy German gentleman can be 100 percent obtainable if Germany capitulates and a certain focus in the Argentina fascist branch is taken - Reworked the Amazon to have Impassable Terrain areas to model the deep jungle ################################## # Balance ################################## - reduced the number of super heavy tank destroyers needed for support battalion to 20 - reduced IC cost of jet engines considerably - German focus 'Treaty with the USSR' now grants 1x200% research speed bonus for tank hulls, from 2x100% - Medium tank created by german focus now starts with an MIO if AAT is installed - Railway Company now gives 15% armor to armored trains instead of reliability - Several mission specific air advisor modifiers that were non functional have been replaced with mission efficiency bonuses - Airborn advisors now give bonuses to paratrooper defence and org rather than plane states - Escort Efficiency now reduce disruption from enemy attacks - Fixed broken turret for Italian SH tank Hand of God - CAS leaders/doctrine now also give ground attack bonuses on top of mission efficiency to boost impact - Added the Union Pacific Railroad as a new Industrial Company for the USA - Added a variety of new Spies for Germany, Japan and the United States. ################################## # UI ################################## - Equipment designer name is now shown in the production list - You can no longer accidentally click on units while in construction mapmode - naval battle reports are now properly hidden on reading when parts of stacks - Fixed list positioning in Military Industrial Organisation Roster ################################## # AI ################################## - Fixed bugs in how AI selects research - A bunch of bugfixes and improvements to how AI calculates research weights - AI will now pick more appropriate military spirits. AI now cares more about getting early equipment design techs in order to unblock them from iterating on tank equipment - German AI will prefer picking silent workhorse before other advisors - German AI will no longer value Heinz Guderian more than every other advisor combined :'( - German AI will prefer to take army chief advisor before air chief - Unit controller will now properly handle impassable neighbour adjacencies during an attack - Discourage AI from changing production lines too quickly and too often and waste efficiency - Allies of Britain will now share invasion strategies around Norway and be more hesitant - make sure UK AI doesnt hold out on guaranteeing poland when it's time critical, just to save up for laws - fixed a scope issue for italian AI strategies - USA AI now more likely to lend-lease UK and Soviet - UK AI should switch from interwar tanks quicker - Various strategy tweaks for naval invasion behaviour around the mediterranean ################################## # Modding ################################## - Added AI strategy research_weight_factor - Added variable values for deployed_army_manpower_k, deployed_navy_manpower_k, deployed_airforce_manpower_k, and deployed_army_manpower_k - it is now possible to define colours on sub ideologies which will then be used over ideology group colour - Added optional 'is_frame' argument to equipment definitions to let modders define fully designed equipment without the game thinking it's a frame. - Added longest_war_length and war_length_with triggers to allow checking how long a nation has been at war - Fix AI for assigning MIO to production line when Task Capacity is activated in mod - From now on_leave_faction will fire every time someone leaves a faction. - From now on_become_faction_member will fire every time someone joins a faction. - From now on_send_volunteers will NOT fire when volunteers are sent back to their origin country - AI strategy EQUIPMENT_PRODUCTION_UPGRADE_DESIRE_OFFSET now handles positive numbers as well ################################## # Graphics ################################## - Fixed some bugs in train gfx spawning which could cause almost all trains to pick high-traffic ports as target locations - fixes and tweaks for mud look - Several visual updates to make mud look nicer - Mud never shown on impassable terrain areas as it makes them harder to see and you cant walk there anyways - Fixed an issue with german army insignias ################################## # Bugfix ################################## - Fixed issue where submarine task forces attempting to pass through a strait would check the rule for navies instead of the one for submarines. - Fix for a problem where white peace does not give back all owned territories, because neutral countries owned it. - Fixed an issue where the price of equipment in a purchase contract could change. - Newly created Spains (after SCW starts) now update their trade influence correctly, so volunteers sent to them will now reinforce correctly straight away - Air deploy interface filters will properly work when land and CV planes are both in stockpile - Slovenia, Palestine and Israel now start with the correct capitals - Soviet Union: National Spirits for Anti-Soviet Military Thinking can now be removed via decision even when Beriya takes power before the Right Opposition Coup. - Fixed bug where National Spirits from Scandinavian Joint Focus tree didn't always have an icon - Fixed showing negative night penalty as a positive - Sweden: Ebba no longer gets her construction speed bonus removed when upgrading her - Sweden: Pull the Trigger decision for communist Sweden now makes Communist NOR/DEN very likely to want to form an alliance with Sweden, and reduces the want of wanting to join the comintern or other factions - Fixed an issue that caused communist Sweden AI path to not work properly - Fixed the names of Zimbabwe characters - Fixed the names of Zambian characters - Fix the diplomatic action Justify Wargoal disappearing when the target state is not controlled by the target country anymore - Added namelists that were missing for LAO, VIN, CAM, TRA, KOS, PAL, ISR. Also fixed the capitals for Qatar and UAE being incorrect. - Airwings attached to armies should no longer forget their missions when they lack coverage of target areas - Italy no longer calls its allies to join the war against Ethiopia. Italy no longer joins war against Poland. Ethiopia in exile cannot join their overlord's wars until they have completed the "Formal Request" decision. - Made Light Aircraft MIO now upgrade CAS as well as fighters. - Blocked province buildings from being constructed in impassable provinces - block construction fully in impassable areas - Fixed a bug where no effect would come from the British focus "Gibraltar for Spanish Support" if having LaR enabled. - updated the claims gained in the Portuguese focuses "Recover the East Indies", "Recover Brazil" and "Latin America". - Norway's Modernise Armed Forces Decision available during wartime and can be selected after 3 months of war if the appropriate focuses have been completed - CV NAV and CAS now have proper bonuses from Admiral traits (Dive Bomber and Torpedo Bomber) - Fixed the bug where the airplane designer did not choose the proper 2d icon by default. - Fixed an issue where navies could not be ordered to move out of blocked sea regions. - Fix issue with Convoy raiding efficiency modifier from leaders not applying correctly - Fixed issues in SCW hidden event handling the opposition side of the CW working on controlling garrisons against the player ################################## # Stability & Performance ################################## - Maximum number of players in a MP game can now be configured by the host in settings.txt. Bumped the default value to 64. - Prevent CTD in International Market AI that could happen for sea routes - Fixed a CTD in international market when sorting on linux and mac - Fix CTD when a mod removes unit leader traits from DB

Extra! Extra! In todays news, we bring you new footage of the ongoing struggle on the South American continent. We will give you exclusive shots of the political and military development in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. It is yet unclear how the political landscape will evolve during this tumultuous time, though we have seen some prominent persons appearing in both the political and military landscape. Here are some of the most influential people weve identified:
Significant Figures from Argentina
Significant Figures from Brazil
Significant Figures from Chile On the broader spectrum, our office analysts have looked into all the data we have collected and recognized a multitude of potential developments within the countries. No one can predict exactly how a country will develop in the future, but theyve drawn a general image of some focuses that the nations might orient towards:
A selection of focus icons from Argentina (Left Column), Brazil (Center column) and Chile (Right Column) From our reporter on ground we have an exciting story on the military groups involved in the conflict in the South American region. Without further ado, we bring you this exciting interview. marblemadness: So, Slurpen_Paradox, can you tell us more about what is happening behind the scenes? Slurpen_Paradox: Yes! These are the most prominent armed forces that have been involved in the area.
marblemadness: Jolly gee! Is that an armed civilian? These people look very dangerous. Are there any other forces involved in the region as well? Slurpen_Paradox: Im glad you asked! Other than the armed civilian there have also been groups driven by various political ideologies. Here are the ones I managed to capture on camera:
Slurpen_Paradox: Its not only ground troops that are fighting these battles. With the latest technological advancements weve seen in recent years all the primary countries involved in this conflict have acquired various planes, tanks, and armored vehicles to supplement their forces. They seem to have a bunch of repainted ones as well as some that I haven't seen on the battlefield before!





marblemadness: All those vehicles looked dangerous. But hang on just a moment! This one does not look dangerous at all! Finally, some decent, upstanding
marblemadness: oh. I see. It belongs to the Liga Patritica Argentina. Is there any other footage you would like to share? Slurpen_Paradox: Yes. During my time in the deepest parts of the Amazons Ive brought with me some dramatic photographs from the battlefields.


marblemadness: Oh, that looks absolutely brutal! Thank you for bringing this exclusive look on what is happening on the South American continent. As a final section in our newspaper, especially in these worrying times, we try to keep our chins up by ending on a positive note. Now it is time for our final section; a series of comic strips developed by our inhouse art team. AMERICA DECOLONIZED
As Mapuche Chile, Liberate all Native people in North and South America AND THE SNAKE SMOKED
As Brazil, in the allies, capitulate Germany while controlling Berlin CHILEAN EMPIRE
Control all of the mainland states that border the pacific in South America, North America and Asia CISPLATINE WAR 2, ELECTRIC BOOGALOO
As Either Brazil or Argentina, be in a faction with Uruguay while at war with Brazil / Argentina HISPANICS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!
As Chile, form the Hispanic Alliance and have at least 8 "Hispanic" nations in your faction I'M HOME!
As Brazil occupy every core state of Portugal ISLAS MALVINAS
As Argentina, hold the Falkland Islands and South Georgia for 73 days consecutively KING OF WHAT?
Have Jaque Bernard as King of Chile and control Paris LAMENTO BOLIVIANO
As Argentina, own all of Latin America except Bolivia A LAND ON FIRE
As any country, drop a nuke on Tierra del Fuego THE MERRY BAND
As communist Brazil, have Lampio as country leader and occupy Nottingham PROACTIVE DEFENSE
As any communist South American country, occupy washington D.C. RECONQUISTADORS
As Argentina or Chile, have a Conquistadors National Spirit active whil holding all Spanish cores RED HOT CHILE PEPPERS
As Communist Chile, control California REVENGE FOR THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE
As Paraguay, declare war on Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay within the same Month RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE
Own all Amazon core states as any South American nation SOMEHOW HE HAS RETURNED
As Argentina, have Seor Hitler become country Leader THE TRUE CONDOR LEGION
As CHL, BOL, PRU, ECU, VEN, COL - send volunteers to Germany URSAL
Be communist and own all of South America BAD ENDING - THE WHOLE WORLD IS NOW BRAZIL
Control every State in the World as Brazil Thank you so much for reading todays issue of News from the Front Lines. And just as always, remember. We bring news, you make the story!
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Hello there! AveeBee here again to discuss alternate history Brazil this week. If you havent already, I highly recommend reading the historical dev diary where we also covered the industrial and military branches for Brazil as this week we will be just looking at the political branches. Its worth keeping in mind that due to covering multiple branches this week, Im going to try and keep the overview to the highlights as there will simply be too much to cram into a single dev diary and I imagine most of you are still digesting last week's big bag of goodies! To get started, heres some less obscured views of the full Brazilian tree and the political branches

Integralist Path

Domination of South America

Monarchist Path

Democratic Path

Good Neighbour Path

Communist Path

Art

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Hello there, Aveebee here to introduce this week's chunky Dev Diary covering a variety of topics. Well be covering everything free going into the upcoming patch that will release alongside Trial of Allegiance, an overview of some major map changes in South America, as well as some content pack specific updates. So without further ado, lets get started! First up, we have Jonathan!

Bolivar Patch

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Canada War Effort

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Hola a todos! Jonathan here to bring you a brand new Hearts of Iron 4 Dev Diary for the upcoming DLC Trial of Allegiance! I will be introducing you all to Chile, a country mostly known as South Americas Prussia. And as such, its time for a country almost no one knows about (nor is probably all too invested in), its time for Chile! And breaking from how we have done it ever since No Step Back, this Dev Diary will tell you about all of the Chilean content, as was done in the Argentinian Dev Diary. As usual, please do keep in mind that everything youre about to see is still WIP so things might change before release and you will see some placeholder art and WIP values. The team thanks for your understanding! Now then, on to the actual stuff!
So seeing as most if not practically all people know little-to nothing about Chile, I will start with some historical context, to get everyone on track, and catch you up (hopefully also slightly increasing interest in the country). I didn't know anything about the country prior to being assigned to work on it either, so you can imagine my surprise when I got to know what to work on, but after reading about it, despite having had no interest in the continent whatsoever, I can actually say that I now find it a whole lot more fascinating than I ever did before! The few things that are more widely known are Salvador Allende's socialist rule during the Cold War, and General Augusto Pinochets CIA-sponsored coup detat in 1973. But those are much later, so lets turn back the clock a bit. In the beginning there was nothing, but somewhere around 3000 BC the first people seem to have moved in. Jumping forward, by the 16th century, Spanish conquistadors began to colonize the region of present-day Chile, and the territory was a colony between 1540 and 1818, when it gained independence from Spain. In Chilean history, the earliest period of the nation is referred to as the Patria Vieja, and the Patria Nueva (the old and new fatherland respectively), where Bernardo O'Higgins led the country to victory against the Spanish Empire during the Latin American wars of independence. From 1826 to 1932, Chile underwent many government changes and the people got quite used to coup detats and political instability. The Great Depression that began in 1929 was felt strongly in Chile starting from 1930, and was felt all the way into our current game-time. Chile was the country struck the hardest by the USA closing down their borders, as a vast majority of the Chilean economy revolved around exports of Nitrate and Copper to the United States. This all led to the coup that established the Chilean Socialist Republic briefly in 1932, and which led to a former president, Arturo Alessandri, being recalled to counter-coup the coup makers. Once the Republic of Chile was back on track, he began working to restore the country, and that is where we find ourselves at the start of the game. Chile also took part in a few wars during this period, even winning conflicts in which they were outmatched. Examples of wars they took part in are the War of the Pacific against Peru and Bolivia from 1879 to 1884, and the Occupation of Araucana against the Mapuche and the Kingdom of Araucana and Patagonia that took place from 1861 to 1883. Its all very interesting, have a read up on it sometime! TLDR for the last two paragraphs: Chile is and was very unstable, but also pretty tough Thats that for historical context however, sorry for geeking out Now its time for the actual things you all came for, the in-game content, as Im sure you didnt all come here for a history lesson!
Arturo Alessandri is a very important figure in Chilean history, and now, as is tradition with almost all countries that get unique content, he starts with a trait. Be aware however, that despite staying democratic, he will not be around forever, as the elections roll around and new presidents need to be elected! By 1936, Chile has grown quite a bit since independence, having conquered the south from the Mapuche, as well as Antofagasta, Arica and Tacna from Bolivia and Peru, though having sold Tacna back to Peru in the treaty of Lima (1929) to secure more funds to recover from the economic troubles.
And here you can observe the fact that Chile just doesnt really function at game start




And then the other two spirits are the Legacy of the Naval Arms Race and the Monroe Doctrine, both of which have been discussed in the previous two Dev Diaries. As you can also see, the Chilean order of battle has been adjusted to better represent the army at the start of the game.
Chile also has quite a few new cool 3d models!


Chile also has quite a few new generals coming with the DLC, so here you can see some of the ones you start with (keep in mind that their art isnt fully in yet):

Chile also starts with a vast plethora of political advisors now, and though it may be many, are invisible from the start, or will go invisible once you start going down paths where the respective characters will no longer be available! So here are the ones visible from the start.

And here are the various Industrial Concerns the nations starts with:
But now finally, on to the thing you have all been waiting for, the glorious Chilean focus tree!
As you can see, the focus tree is divided into the classic political, industrial and military branches respectively. The industrial tree is mainly divided into three parts, the public works, the mineral extraction, and the post-peso devaluation part.
The rightmost part gives bonuses to construction and infrastructure.
While the leftmost part gives bonuses to resource extraction and trade.
Then, when you want to move down to the stronger focuses below, you need to devalue the peso, in order for the economy to be on track so that you can properly undertake these big projects. Note that these stronger focuses require the devaluation of the peso to have run its time before they can be taken.

As you all might have, or might not have, seen in the Historical Brazil Dev Diary, the countries of the pack share the general layout and effects of this military branch, but as stated previously, they all have their own unique quirks and bonuses, as can be seen here.


Now then, on to the political, historical, democratic branch of the Chilean focus tree.
To start of with, in the early stages of the game, Chile has to try and deal with the upcoming attempted coup d'etat by the fascist party Movimiento Nacional-Socialista, or as they were more colloquially known as, the Nacistas.
There are various ways to deal with them, such as suppressing them, for the most part ignoring them, perhaps to your own detriment, or attempting to use them, unfortunately however subsequently increasing their power when the fated coup detat occurs.
As some of you eagle-eyed readers might have noticed, the first democratic focuses have to do with Arturo Alessandri being the president, and after that comes the 1938 Presidential Election focus. That is because, while you are locked out of the late-game focuses of the democratic tree until the election has happened and you have chosen a direction to take your country, but until then, you have Arturo Alessandris own policies to enact.
And as the founder of the Banco Central de Chile, a democratic Chile led by Arturo Alessandri can focus on upgrading this industrial concern, gaining hefty advantages to economy management.
And when the presidential election at the end of 1938 rolls around, it is time to say goodbye to Alessandri, and welcome a new president, where you need to decide, a left-wing president, or a right-wing one?
And throughout the game, the 1942 and 1946 elections will also occur, prompting you to select a new (or sometimes keep an old) country leader. These ones however will not lock you out of parts of the focus tree, at least in a sense
You see, there are focuses in the democratic tree that can only be taken while having a left and right-leaning president respectively. As seen previously, you can change your president at certain intervals, allowing you to, in theory, go for practically all focuses, seeing as Chile during this time went from being ruled by the Liberals, then Social-Democrats, then the same, and the Conservatives who placed bans on all form of communism, and then back and forth, on and on.
There are of course also those within the military who dislike the political changes going through the country. For example, general Ariosto Herrera could try something.

There are also multiple important choices to take throughout the mid-to-late game for a democratic Chile, such as how to deal with the democratic processes, and in what way to prioritize the industry. This part is important for one of the alternative history branches, so remember this.
And finally, as historically happened, you can go to war with the fascists by declaring war on Japan, or perhaps someone else if the world has taken a different turn.
There are also a few other big things that happened to Chile throughout this time, such as the great 1939 Chilln earthquake:
And the sinking of the SS Tolten.
And if you want to, you can do things that didnt really happen until quite a bit after the war.

And here are some of the potential country leaders you can get:








Chile also has their own operative, the actress Rosita Serrano, of course provided you own La Resistance!
Now then, remember the focus: Increase Presidential Powers? Well, if you have a communist president in charge when you take the focus, your country will become communist. This begins the Communist sub-branch, as can be seen on the left-hand side of the democratic tree.
Here you will be able to either align yourself with the Russians and take the aggressive approach, eventually attempting to achieve Hispanic Unity.
Or go it your own, and attempt to expand your influence through diplomacy and the support of communist revolutions in Latin American countries.
And now we continue away from the democratic branches, and ponder for ourselves, what if the Nacistsas had actually succeeded with their coup detat? Well, thats what we will figure out in the fascist branch, starting off with you securing support for the coup, minimizing your loss of stability and war support once it commences, until you can finally take full control of the country.

Once securing your rule, you will have to shape the country to be better fit for your future ambitions.
After that comes an important choice for the party. Pick a side in the global conflict, siding with the Germans, or choosing to stay out of global affairs, though not counting out the possibilities for your own expansion and faction.
Both versions will have access to the small Revision of our Borders sub-branch, allowing for attempted territorial expansion gated by army size.
Both branches have their own focuses that they can do.
And in the end you will have two different choices of formable nations, choosing to either restore the old kingdoms borders, or going even further and uniting Hispanic America.
And finally, we move on to the alt-history branches that may indeed have the chance to bring every hoi fans beloved monarchy, and perhaps also something different. These two branches start off by looking back to tradition to solve the issues the country is facing, and having the ex-president and general Carlos Ibez del Campo perform a coup detat to take matters into his own hands.
First, we will take a look at the leftmost branch, that being staying with general Ibez, and accidentally finding yourself in a civil war with a combined force of the fascists and communist on the opposing side.
During this civil war, the outnumbered president Ibez will be approached by a mysterious Frenchman who promises aid in exchange for the Chilean crown. His name is Jaques Antoine Bernard, and will be crowned the new king of the Kingdom of Araucania and Patagonia.

After having established your new french kingdom at the bottom of the americas, it is time to not only reclaim your namesake, that being Patagonia, but also going even further, becoming the Napoleon Bonaapate of South America.
And now for the final branch, we move onto a group that has lived in Chile long before the first conquistadors arrived. Its time for the Mapuche and Anti-Imperialist Crusade branch.
The branch starts up with you molding the rising Mapuche-nationalist movement to fit your future goals, and finally rising up against the current Chilean government.
Once the war against Chile is over and you have secured the state, it is time to first reclaim the old Mapuche territory of Puelmapu, and then move on to liberate the Amerindian peoples from imperialist oppression.
And there is a lot of work to be done once the crusade has started.
In the end, America can be free from modern states, and the governments of the region can be reorganized to the desire of the leaders of the new Mapcuhe state.


Also for the end, here are some other advisors and leaders you might have interest in, such as the Mapuche advisors:
And Antoine III of the Kingdom of Araucana and Patagonia.
And one of the possible fascist leaders, the starting leader for the ideology.
And thats been all from me this time. Tune in next week for a look at a bag of treats that will hopefully satiate all the hungry mouths out there! Adis! Make sure to check out Trial of Allegiance here https://store.steampowered.com/app/2695150/Hearts_of_Iron_IV_Trial_of_Allegiance/

Hola amigos! My name is Eilidh, and this just so happens to be my first time writing a Dev Diary for you guys! Im very excited to introduce to you the work I have been doing on Argentina, one of the nations youll be able to lead in Trial of Allegiance. Whilst Argentina didnt get directly involved in the war until late in the game, the country went through massive changes and had an absolutely fascinating history during the 1930s through to the 1940s. So lets take a look at this Infamous Decade and allow me to give you a brief context overview of where the country is at the start of the game, before taking you on a tour around the various political branches you can take in the Argentinian focus tree. Without further ado, lets get stuck in!

Context Pre-1936

Historical Branch

Democratic Branch

Industrial Branch

Fascist Branch

Communist Branch

Military Branch

Conclusion

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Hello there generals, it's your friendly neighbourhood Community Manager, Katten, here to talk about, Trial of Allegiance, the first-ever country pack for South America. Our aim was to craft a thrilling experience, allowing you to feel the power of constructing a regional superpower to confront emerging international threats or to use its power to expand your empire abroad. Last year, we announced the formation of a new team dedicated to content creation. The Trial of Allegiance Country pack is the result of their efforts, showcasing three major focus trees for Brazil, Argentina, and Chile. Furthermore, it introduces additional content for both old and new tags in South America. If you haven't seen our announcement trailer, be sure to watch it below! [previewyoutube=4iBXgrDqvn0;full][/previewyoutube] Before I pass the mic to our Content Designer leading the development for Brazil, I also want to let you know that as part of our push for more HOI content, the team is also working on another big and exciting project that will be dropping later this year. So stay tuned, and as always happy map painting!

Intro

Context Pre-1936

1936-1938

Vargas Era

Industrial Branch

World War II

Military Branch

Conclusion

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Greetings! With the release of the Stella Polaris Patch (1.13.6) last Tuesday it's time to wrap things up for the year. 2023 has been a busy year. The team has been hard at work since the very start of the year, and the first War Effort patch was released during the very first weeks of 2023. Before the onset of Summer holidays we managed to release 5 of those. Together with the follow up patches after the release of AAT, and the December patch, we clocked in at 9 patches, plus a few hotfixes, over the year. So expect to see more of them next year, with the same mix of tweaks and bug fixes, and occasionally minor additions. Of course, the main story of 2023, for us, from a fan point of view, was Arms Against Tyranny and the Stella Polaris free update. The lions share of it was done during 2023. We started talking about the release in May in a series of Dev Corners and we made the official announcement on June 7th. What goes into a year? you ask. Something like 4 million code and script changes I think. Or if you prefer to look at file changes, some 10000 files were touched in one way or another :O

Arms Against Tyranny Stats

• Finnish Neutrality - 48%
• Right-Wing Policies - 40%
• Soumalainen Sosialismi - 12%

• The Old Enemy Stirs - 70%
• Continue the Second Industrial Revolution - 30%

• The Stumbling Storting - 62%
• A Resurgent Labor Movement - 22%
• Continue Nygaardsvolds Government - 9%
• Vote of No Confidence - 7%

• Unify the Right - 80%
• Political Unity - 20%

• Not our King - 90%
• Kingdom of Iceland - 10%

• Germany - 22%
• Soviet - 12%
• China - 6%
• PRC - 6%
• Italy - 4%
• USA - 4%
• Japan - 4%
• France - 3%
• England - 2%
• Turkey - 2%

The Future

Generals! Patch 1.13.6 has now been released. Some things you can expect to see are quality of life changes, some tweaks to the MIO's, balance changes as well as many many bugfixes for multiple nations including Iceland, Norway and more! You can read the patch notes below;

Balance

Gameplay

Stability & Performance

UI

Modding

Bugfix

Generals! The dev team has been hard at work on the next patch that will be releasing soon, as we didn't want to break any of your saves with a smaller one. But first, there will be an Open Beta to make sure everything is working, and some things you can expect to see are quality of life changes, some tweaks to the MIO's, balance changes as well as many many bugfixes for multiple nations including Iceland, Norway and more! We're planning on releasing the patch next week, so here are the planned changes below; ################################## # Balance ################################## - reduced airframe weight curve for small airframes, with a higher effect at higher tiers - increased air attack of lmg and hmg plane modules by 50% - Finland: Tweaked AI weights for the Finnish decisions to surrender to Soviets or switch sides in the Continuation War so that Finland actually puts up a fight. - Fixed several issues with the Karelian Uprising triggered by Finland during the Soviet Civil War, the non-Stalinist side of the civil war receiving both the Karelian Uprising and National Uprising events about Karelia, Finland not always properly joining the war against the Soviet tags, and the non-Stalinist side of the Soviet civil war not being able to decide whether to declare war on Karelia (and Finland when appropriate) or be friendly to them. ################################## # Gameplay ################################## - Germany: Removed starting import trade from Sweden - Can now press enter to accept a resource trade ################################## # Stability & Performance ################################## - Fixed potential CTD encountered when removing all production lines ################################## # UI ################################## - Fixed visual bug when selecting ship refit production lines - Added description to supply tooltip that increasing the infrastructure level increases base supply - Replacing or upgrading MIO in Equipment Designer now updates the variant name - From now in international market the equipment cost will be rounded to 2 decimals . - Stats in Equipment Designer will now update when unlocking new MIO traits depending on whether the Upgrade MIO button was pressed - MIO effect preview now works in legacy (non-modular) equipment designer - Legacy equipment designer will generate a new name for equipment if MIO upgrade is possible ################################## # Modding ################################## - Add better debug info about AI research (in imgui ai_strategy window) ################################## # Bugfix ################################## - Log error and prevent CTD when trying to display 3D model of a non-existent entity in the division designer view - Fix of bug where sometimes wrong 3d models of divisions were shown on map. - The decisions to form a Nordic Formable Nation are now mutually exclusive with each other - Fixed errors in MIOs and production lines in the Japanese and Soviet OOBs when No Step Back dlc is not active. - Implemented missing tank generic tank icons for Germany, Soviet Union and Italy in the tank designer. - Norway: Implemented Norwegian-themed custom counters. - Fixed issue with the naming of the achievement icon No One Crosses the Finnish Line. - Sweden: Fixed a faulty trigger for Hungershield not canceling correctly unless you removed your construction queue. Now needs to build > 14 civs from game start - Norway: Vidkun Quisling is no longer available as advisor without Arms Against Tyranny. - The controller of Greenland now also gets the last remaining, inaccessible province of that state - Denmark will not have a Balance of Power during a Civil War - USA will no longer hand over Greenland as soon as Denmark becomes free, but rather when they have no more wars - Denmark gets lowered fascism/communism support when completing "Expand the Resistance" if the Overlord id fascist/communist - Tweaking Danish ai weights for Occupation BoP Decisions - Fixed AI having access to BoP decisions without having the BoP active - Norway: Fixed Army Chiefs withincorrect Political Power costs - Fix bug where annexing country, did not removed expeditionary forces provided by it. - Fix bug where leaving faction removed all expeditionary forces even those from puppets. - Fix of bug where freeing puppet did not give back the expeditionary forces automatically. - Fixed the position of Porajrvi VP on the map. Fixed ships advancing deep into the Icelandic mountains when going into Reykjavik's port. - Finland: Focus Seek German Protection now requires Germany to be either Fascist or Non-Aligned. - Finland: Aksel Airo will no longer run and hide during the Fascist Civil War. if the decision Secure the Militayr is taken, he will be available to Fascist Finland both as general and as advsior. If the decision is not taken, he will be moved to the other side of the Civil War. - Fix of bug where sometimes on start of war enemy divisions which had military access were not teleported out from country. - MIO: Fixed British dominions sometimes lacking or having extra MIOs of certain categories. - Iceland: Fixed bypass trigger for focus Reclaiming the Empire, which could make it impossible to either complete or bypass the focus in certain conditions. - Iceland: Fixed wrong tooltip indentation in focus Keflavik Airbase. - Sweden: The king can no longer conscript most of the population of the earth - Iceland: Fixed political advisor lafur Thors having no trait icon on his sheet. - Iceland: focus Keflavik Airbase now requires the first Anti-Air technology. - Iceland: Improved tooltip in focus Break with the Crown focus to properly communicate potential effects coming from other focuses, as well as the removal of the National Spirit Christian X (in any of its versions). - Iceland: The focus effects of Rally the Workers of Reykjavik and Prepare for the Revolution will now be properly applied even if they are completed after the focus Break with the Crown. - Norway: Fixed issue where country name, color and flag wouldn't change for the Alternative Democratic path - Norway: When changing ideologies after content-scripted instances, the name, color and flag of the coutnry will change accordingly. - Norway: Trotsky now has the correct General portrait. - Norway: Focuses 'Secure Swedish Ore' and 'Secure Denmark' now have the correct bypasses. - Norway: Decision 'Modernize Armed Forces' now unlocks with 'Reform the Army' as intended. - Nordic Shared Tree: Fixed missing Filter Tag for focus 'Nordic Development Fund' - Norway: Focuses 'Ask for Foreign Support' and 'The Secret Army' will no longer be available if fascist. - Norway: Focuses 'Ask for Foreign Support' and Nasjonal Samling' will now show the correct target if Germany is at Civil War or doesn't exist. - Tweaked the probability of Danish overlord accepting Denmark's declaration of independence - Removed the Danish overlord plenipotentiary if Denmark declares independence and the overlord accepts - Achievement Two Arms Against Tyranny now actually requires Finland to be in faction with only one Nordic country when capitulating the Soviets - Norway: Use XU now gives a National Spirit if you don't have La Resistance. - Norway: Decisions 'Foment Resistance in Norway' and 'Support Rebellion in Norway' now unlock through focuses 'Use XU' and 'Preparing a Return to Norway' repectively. - Norway: Peder Anker Wedel-Jarlsberg now has a more appropriate Generic Portrait when AAT is not active. - Fix of bug where strategic redeploment by player sometimes could cause out of sync in multiplayer. - Switzerland: Fixed issue where 1939 start wouldn't have Marcel Pilet-Golaz as councillor. - Fixed the decisions to form the HRE and the European Union, the French focus Disunite Germany and the achievement It has my name on it to properly include the new state of Schleswig. - Achievements:Fixed Brexit achievement tooltip missing "Northern Ireland" as a required target in which to start an uprising in order to get the achievement. - Mexico: Fixed issue with focus One World Government being available when Soviet Union was led by Stalin. - MIO: Fixed typo in trait name Low Drag Wings - Can't create designed equipment variants with negative stats. - Fixed a divide by zero in AI market equipment evaluation - Fixed scrollbar for navy loss view - Medium bomb bay now gives bonus to naval attack, rather than ground attack - Soviet Union: Fix conscription bonus for The People's Revolution idea - Fixed give and add state control where declining would re-apply the request - Fixed pathing for exfiltration of marine commandos - Fixed issue where air wings were assigned incorrect regions due to them being banana shaped (the regions, not the air wings) - Finland: If Finland is a puppet, the decision to Demand Peace to the Soviet Union will now also make the Finnish overlord to sign peace with the Soviets, as well as any overlord's allies or subjects. - Tank Designer: Medium and heavy turrets can now be converted into fixed superstructures. - Finland: Fixed requirements of the focus Soviet Threat targeting the UK instead of the USSR. - Fixed potential issues with achievement Not Much Fun in Stalingrad. - Finland: Focus Preserve Spmi now requires at least one Sami core to not be cored by Finland and to not be controlled by a Finnish enemy. This should fix instances in which completing the focus grants no reward. - Soviet Union: Soviets will no longer send an ultimatum to Finland demanding Karjala if they are already at war with them. The focus will only provide a Soviet claim in the state in that case. - Norway: Quisling's Regime path will only require not being in a civil war if there aren't any other Norways around. - Norway: Fixed small typo in focus Lurk in the Shadows. - Norway: Fixed missing admiral portraits. - Norway: Initial production now has MIOs assigned. - Norway: Fixed General Trotsky's portrait. - Norway: Fixed missing icon for trait in the Akers MIO. - Norway: Focus 'Ask for Foreign Support' can now lower the Political Power cost on top of the time reduction. - Switzerland: Fixed issue where completing 'The Alpine Protectorate' wouldn't disable the Absolute Neutrality System. - Switzerland: Adjusted some National Spirits' Consumer Goods modifiers so they conform to the new scale of value for it. - Switzerland: Focus 'The Alpine Protectorate' now cancels if it's not valid. - Switzerland: Event 'David Frankfurter's Trial' now applies the correct Opinion Modifiers - Denmark: Fixed the issue of broken text in the Occupation Branch if Denmark becomes a puppet of Sweden through the Swedish focus "Danish Alignment" - Germany: Focuses that give air technologies now give bonuses to the correct category when By Blood Alone is active. - Fixed bug where sometimes Bulgaria could declare war even if it was puppet of other country. - Updated the Consumer Goods bonus from Italian National Spirits International Day and Peace Keepers of Europe to be in line with the latest Consumer Goods changes. - Fixed a broken tooltip for Screen Efficiency in the Danish focus "Baltic Sea Domination" - Norway: Rikstanken now appears in the right Tech when No Step Back is disabled. - Fixed Greater Denmark flags not showing up. - Fixed an issue with a number of flags from formable nations and cosmetic tags that were not showing up in Linux. - Norway: Elias Corneliussen and Henry Diesen now have their correct portraits. - Switzerland: Added missing tooltip for focus 'Switzerland on the Offense' - Switzerland: Achievement 'You Shall Not Pass' will no longer be obtained with a non-defensive war. - Fixed MIO effect preview in Equipment Designer causing the current MIO bonus to upgrade - Switzerland: Adjusted the Air Volunteer Cap value for the National Spirit 'Volunteer Forces'. - Soviet Union: Fixed issue preventing the Left Opposition to get some of the weapons that provided by countries via the focus Funds for the Cause. - Soviet Union: Fixed an issue where the national spirit Anti-Soviet Military Thinking Banned would persists after a peaceful right opposition coup. Now it can be removed with the decision while Beriya is in charge, and will be removed automatically upon completion of the focus Coup d'Etat which establishes a Right Opposition government. - Division designer can now be moved in front of equipment designers. - Fixed one issue with overhaul mods crashing - Republican Spain: Enrique Lster will now properly receive the trait Stalinist, preventing him to join the Anarchist side in the Civil War. - Special Forces: Fixed unintuitive tooltip in Special Forces doctrine bonuses in Finland, Denmark and Sweden so that they use a more intuitive category that specifies "Doctrine" instead of "Tech". - Finland: Finnish focus Marine Jaeger Divisions has been fixed so that the SF doctrine bonus only shows up if AAT is enabled. A tech bonus for marine and transport tech has been added regardless of DLC. - Italy: The focuses Cruiser Submarines and Midget Submarines now have a different small bonus each to the Regia Marina national spirit when Man the Guns is not active. - MIO: Fixed an issue preventing Italian Ship MIO CRDA to be assigned properly to the starting production lines of Caio Duilio battleships when Man the Guns was not active. - Soviet Union: Mine Warfare focus now grant mines-related content only when MtG is active. Without MtG, the focus provides a Research bonus and a Doctrine Cost Reduction. - Denmark can no longer get the achievement "Everything is Awesome" if they get puppeted by Sweden through the focus "Danish Alignment" - Italy: Focus Intensify Torpedo Manufacturing will grant Research Speed for Torpedoes only when the DLC Man the Guns is active. When it is not active, the focus will grant a doctrine cost reduction bonus instead. - Changed num_of_factories trigger to not include factories gained from trade or lend-lease. - Re-open division and equipment design view on peace conference ended - Ethiopia: Fixed multiple issues with Ethiopian character portraits, which in turn fixes previous issues with missing portraits for promoted generals with BBA, and missing portraits for generated generic characters and alt-hist country leaders without BBA. - Italia: The description of the focus Moschettieri del Duce will now change based on the government, just like the focus name does. - Finland: The text of the event "The White Death Embraces Us!" will now talk about "weeks" of combat instead of "months", since it is unlikely that the event will trigger more than a month after the previous event in the chain. - Latvia: Focus Expand the Women's Aizsargi will no longer attempt to activate the decision Women in the Workforce since most of the time the decision will not be available or even visible, causing errors and resulting in the effect being invalid. - The Swedish AI on historical mode should no longer guarantee other nations, and be less likely to join other nations - Prince Frederik will now be called Frederik IX if he becomes king - Influencing other countries as Denmark is now repeatable - Tweaked ai weights for certain decisions - Tweaked ai weights making countries more likely to accept Danish Influence actions - Certain Focuses won't automatically cancel if you lose a puppet or World Tensions dips below a certain limit - Remove country flag to make "Sway the Public" decision repeatable - Fixed a number of scripted ship variants that were invalid or triggered errors: Italian DD Alessandro Poerio Class. Italian Coastal Defense Ship Eritrea Class. - Fixed scripted Italian Super Heavy Tank variant The Hand of God that became invalid. - Diplomatic actions: Fixed typo causing missing loc in a diplomatic game rule. - Fixed typo in the Italian spelling of Repubblica Sociale Italiana. - If co-op is disabled, random country will not select a country already selected by another player - Fixed issue with adding more convoys to a sell contract - Removed negative stat as a positive from design check That should be it from us, you all have a great day, and a wonderful rest of your week!

Generals. 7 years. It has been 7 glorious years of strategy and conquest, of encirclements and outwitting your opponents. The amount of generals continues to rise as well, hitting a record amount this year here on Steam! So far in 2023, weve released Arms Against Tyranny, revamping the Nordics and adding so many cool new features like the international market and the special forces doctrines. Before that, we continued our war effort initiative to try and update older content to bring it up to par, fix old bugs that slipped through the cracks, and add so much more to keep the experience fresh.
While your tournaments thrived, we came up with a way to give them even more exposure and rewards by releasing FRONTLINES, our tournament organiser to make sure more people can participate, can watch and can enjoy the action, and to give back to your hard work!
And the War Academy that ended yesterday, bringing a more personal touch from us to it and trying to get into a cool event for those attending and those watching from home alike by live streaming from a CASTLE. (How cool is that?!)
Weve continued to expand on our socials to make sure you get the latest HOI News wherever you can, by continuing to grow on Instagram and Facebook, posting more on Twitter (OR its X now huh) and having our discord reach over 90 THOUSAND members, which is amazing and is thanks to you. All in All, none of this would be possible without you all, and we appreciate you immensely. Many games plateau or lose their player base, but youve all stuck with us for so many years, it's difficult not to admire your dedication and not be humbled by your continued support. Heres to this year, and to the future. -The HOI Team

Generals! The Steam Autumn Sale is in full swing, and now is the time to grab the content you're missing or need, or perhaps a gift for a friend as well! And at the same time, the Grandest Lan is taking place, streaming to YouTube and Steam, with some highlights over on Instagram as well, make sure to check them out here below
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Generals! Command has sent through the patch for 1.13.5 and with it comes loads of bug fixes, many balance changes to Sweden alongside some to Norway and Germany, plenty of bugfixes and gameplay tweaks! Read below for the full patch notes! ################################## # Balance ################################## - MIOs assigned to research can now be changed in the middle of research. - Added manpower bonus for RK Nordland focus. - All MIOs that have participated in a research now get a proportional amount of funds when the research is complete. - Sweden: Alva and Gunnar Myrdal is now available for all ideologies when completing Stadsbarn. - Sweden: Hungershield crisis is now active if less than 68% stability (from 65%). - Sweden: Removing hungershield now gives 120pp as a reward. - Sweden: Increased Hungershield requirement for removal to 45 (from 40) including trade, or you can remove it by having 25 civilian factories (excluding trade) in your territories, whichever comes first. - Sweden: Hungershield crisis reduces political power gain by 25% (from -15%). - Sweden: Vrnplikt conscription increased from 0.5% to 1%. - Sweden: Reduced G p Blitz tactics and rapid defense force speed slightly. - Sweden: Totalfrsvar (Total Defense) now requires > 75% DEM support. - Sweden: The Counter revolution now gives 120pp and neutrality/fascism popularity, depending on what you took before. - Sweden: Extending the time of preparedness now gives flat 26000 manpower. - Sweden: Focuses that modify Folkhemmet now Swaps mils/civs bonuses by only 10% (from 16%). War support and stability is still swapped by 16%. - Sweden: Reduced the bonus speed of Lynx armored cars support companies drastically (no more VolvoVrooms). - Sweden: Slightly reduced the chance of other Nordics accepting the pressure from Monarchist/Fascist Sweden. - Sweden: Reduced starting Folkhemmet bonus/malus to +20%/-20% civ/mil speed (from 25%). - Germany is now slightly happy when Sweden joins the anti soviet pact. - MIOs: Improved the funds to level up calculation to have a curve and be lower for early levels. - Sweden: Spheres of influence lasts 2 years instead of 1.5 years. - Sweden: Increased manpower gained from Nordic volunteers from 2000 per subject to 5000. - Sweden: Reduced Ebbas law cost factor to 25% (from 33%) and advisor cost to 15% (from 20%). - Sweden: Swedish volunteer force spirit now reduces required volunteer divisions required by 50% and removes existing neutrality idea. - Sweden: Deep mining complexes now gives a 1y ahead reduction, reduced from 2y. - Improved the AI tempates for ENG planes to be better. - Increased base heavy airframe ranges. - Reduced agility impact of fighter weapons, reduced weight of large airframe armor. - Norway: Made Monarchist Demonstrations cost Political Power on top of Manpower. - Norway: Adjusted Victory points so the south has a bigger impact in capitulation. - Norway: Adjusted the balance for the Monarchist Demonstration decisions. - Sweden: Getting the 5th late game research slot now requires 50 controlled factories instead of 35 civs. - Norway: Focus Expand Hren now unlocks Winter Logistic Battalions so Norwegian troops can now ski their way to victory. - Sweden: Sweden is now more likely to switch to free trade after 1941-06-01. - Norway: Increased the cost of Historical Preparation decisions. - Added Winter Attrition Reduction to New Hren National Spirit. - Sweden: Nordic Defence Council puppet now has 0.35% CIC to overlord (from 5%) and 65% MIC to overlord (from 100%). - Sweden: Reduced requirements for going down the Nordic Defence Council path. - Sweden: Increased base stability by 4%. - Sweden: Defense act now gives 3% stability. - Sweden: Weapons contract now gives 3% War support. - Sweden: Reduced required mils to complete Standardize equipment from 17 mils to 10 mils. - Sweden: Fifth research slot now only requires 80 factories (including trade) instead of several late game focuses. - Sweden: Reduced time for some focuses. - Sweden: Old enemy stirs requires 8% WS, from 10%. - Improved agility from jets, jets now cost chromium instead of tungsten, fighter weapons weight balance pass. - Airframes increase in weight as they get more advanced. - Slight improvement for germany air fighter presets. - Norway: Added Army Chief role to Jonas Lie. - Norway: Added Military high Command role to Henry Diesen. - Norway: Added Chief of Army and High Command roles to Vidkun Quisling. ################################## # Gameplay ################################## - The new order now has a cosmetic tag. - Sweden: Added a new late game Swedish formable and King Gustaf can now get the eternal trait. - Sweden: Added strings notifying what variables affect the outcome of Monarchists/Fascists takeovers of the Nordics. - Sweden: Now starts with heavy ship hull unlocked at game start. - Sweden: Added conscription trait to Nordic Defense council. - Sweden: Christian Gunter is now available at game start again. - Sweden: Beneath sticks and stones no longer requires having the Ranger trait. - Sweden: Added the king as a high cost advisor if he is not a country leader. - Sweden: NDC Can now create faction if needed. - Luxembourg: Germany will now attack the Soviets if Luxembourg manages to survive until the end of time. - Norway can now get some of the generic political events after a certain point. ################################## # Stability & Performance ################################## - Added missing on map buildings, including a missing port in Stralsund that would crash the game if built. - Fixed a rare crash occurring when a player lagging behind the host in MP tries to interact with a dead Air Wing or Air Group. - Fixed a CTD on macOS related to large maps (multithreaded pathfinder running out of stack space). - Sped up hourly move order revalidation by using all work threads. ################################## # UI ################################## - Equipment tooltip in the buyer's view of the International Market now also shows which country originally created the equipment (if different from the seller). - Fix Military equipment production lines with MIO and collapsed making them draggable again. - Support brigade 3D models now show up in the Division Designer. - Background of the MIO detail window now changes depending on the MIO type. - Fixed mission icons for planes being hidden when using filters. - Equipment stats in legacy designers are now shown the same way as in the new designers. - Upgrade button in the MIO History tab is now disabled if the latest bonus has already been applied. - Added more information in the delayed tooltip in the MIO Details screen. ################################## # AI ################################## - Changing UK's armor division target templates to fix bugs and generally improve it. - Adding info about AI target template replace_with chain to ai_templates debug IMGUI. - Fixed bugs in how the AI selects best templates to produce and design. - Soviet will no longer try sending every convoy it has to deliver supplies to Vladivostok. - Task forces will engage faster and AI will cover slightly more naval regions per task force. - Added better logic for AI buying and selling convoys (now based on ratio of total owned convoys instead of absolute number). - Fixed bug where AI was so concentrated on constructing buildings in territory they didn't control that they forgot to build other things. (looking at you, democratic Germany). - Fixed a bug that caused Germany to research airplane modules when they actually wanted to research radar. - AI strategy 'research_tech' can now take technology name as argument instead of only technology index (which was bug-prone). ################################## # Modding ################################## - Fixed the auto unassignment of MIOs on production line when over task capacity. - The game will now warn you on startup if you forget to setup a port building in the nudger for a coastal province. - Added optional 'mark_older_equipment_obsolete' argument to add_equipment_variant effect. - Added debug IMGUI for seeing music player information. - Added documentation.info file to ai_templates folder. ################################## # Bugfix ################################## - Fixed description of the focus Keepers of the North to emphasize the "Nordic" aspect of it. - Fixed the typos in tooltips related to International Market content. - Added an event to proclaim Greater Denmark as well as events for Denmark to join democratic or imperial Germany. - Sweden is no longer known as Sweden when doing RK Nordland and The New Order. - Fix a bug where resources from overseas colonies do not need convoys to be transported. - Fixed Steal Industrial Blueprints operations that were giving twice the tech bonuses. - Fixed missing land policies for some tank MIO's. - Fixed issue that made Polish Foreign MIOs disappear after completing the focus Adaptive Designs. - Fix of bug where exiled templates and units were not transferred to host after the exile government ceased to exist. - Implemented Norwegian tank and plane icons into the tank and plane designers. - Fixed Rikstanken icon when creating the equipment variant. - Added a version of the Danish 'Declaration of Neutrality' National Spirit for when 'By Blood Alone' is not activated. Also fixed the focus 'Securing Swedish Steel' so that Denmark doesn't puppet Sweden without sending the appropriate event. - Fix crash on Mac & Linux when adding Traits to MIO queue. - Fixed a tooltip showing the wrong number for overlord drift in all languages. - Showing obsolete branches will no longer overlap each other and the appropriate focuses are no longer available if you are a subject. - Fixed several issues with description texts for events and focuses for Denmark. - Added a decision to request the return of Greenland from the USA, as well as tweaked the decision to request the return of the Faroes from the UK. - Sweden: Made Rickard Sandler remove neutrality spirit, and simplified his requirements. - Sweden: Swedish volunteer corps no longer gives equipment to Finland if at war with Finland. - Sweden: Fixed an issue where Germany would not blow up Swedish factories if Sweden picked Allow Landsverk to operate independently, also added a less confusing string. - Fixed a rare crash when an army group is deleted due to losing the last units in its armies. - Fix Divisions reinforcement, now they will be reinforced with equipment with better MIO bonuses. - Finland: Join Comintern Focus name is now more dynamic. - Fix for the magic school bus counting days badly. - Finland: Join Allies Focus name is now more dynamic. - Finland: Join Axis Focus name is now more dynamic. - Fix of exploit where players in coop could get back more equipment from the market stockpile than stored there. - Finland: Minor tooltip improvements for Foreign Armor and Foreign Aircraft focuses. - Finland: The tooltip of the focus Approach the Soviets will no longer mention the Finnish civil war if it has already happened. - Finland: Finnish AI will no longer accept the Soviet territorial demands in the Soviet Ultimatum when historical focus is on, unless they are a Soviet ally or puppet. - Norway: Fixed issue where Historical Quisling would start reviving Norgesveldet. - Added several new state and province names if Denmark (or another "viking" nation") controls certain states. - Baltics: Estonian and Latvian AIs should no longer cave in to the Soviets on historical setting, ensuring now that they will be totally integrated by the Soviet AI on historical. - Fixed the bug where showing subsidy tooltip could cause an out of sync. - Fixed bug where the mechanized infantry battalion wasn't unlocked after researching the technology. - Finland: Focus Mineral Wealth Development will no longer require Finland to be in a faction, but to control (or have a puppet controlling) any Nordic state producing steel, chromium, tungsten or aluminum. - Finland: Fixed scope issues in the event chain triggered by Mineral Wealth Development, where it looked like Finland would receive Finnish aid and that Finland would grant resource rights to Finland on a state in exchange. Now the appropriate faction leader should be displayed in the events, and the events would only be triggered if Finland is in a faction but is not the faction leader. - MIO: Soviet naval MIOs will no longer have both Man the Guns and NO-Man-the-Guns versions of Plant 370 and Mariupol Plant traits when Man the Guns is not active. - Finland: Fix typo in tooltip in the focus A Cry for Help. - MIO: Soviet MIO traits can no longer be taken more than once by different MIOs. Each trait can now be completed once by a single MIO. - Heavy gantry crane policy now targets the correct aircraft and MIOs. - Norway: Norsk Hydro now has the Industry filter tag. - Norway: Removed Political Filter tag from 'Expand Military Industry'. - Balanced the AI weights for countries to accept a Danish event to join factions. - Fixed crash when canceling a production line while MIO Roster screen is opened. - Jan Mayen rises to its rightful place on the world stage! - Norway: Custom decision costs now have the icons in the right position. - Sweden: Fixed several issues with the Narvik solution. - Sweden: Fixed an issue where severe lack of ammunition would not give the proper maluses. - Sweden: Swedish volunteer corps can no longer be taken while at war with Finland. - Sweden: Scania Vabis Armored Car MIO is now LaR DLC locked. - Greece: Stratagems no longer show for all countries. - Norway: Fixed various missing capitalizations in focuses. - Norway: Power to the Royal Guard now gives proper bonuses to Special Forces. - Norway: Doctrine tooltips now provide the name for Offensive Doctrines national focus bonuses. - Norway: Doctrine tooltips now provide name for Rikstaken national focus bonuses. - If Denmark becomes a puppet through their National Spirit "Declaration of Neutrality" they will not be able to join a faction until the right criteria are met.. - Installing a plenipotentiary in puppet Denmark will no longer switch out the overlord's country leader. - Tweaked AI weights for some Occupation Balance of Power Decisions for Denmark. - Sweden: Added localization improvements for Rationing decisions and fixed a bug where Gengas would repeat its timeout mission. - Sweden: Fixed several lowercase errors that should have been uppercase. - Denmark no longer switches ideologies before installing overlord's plenipotentiary. - Adjusted some incorrect Special Forces Cap modifiers in Norway, Switzerland and the Joint Focus Tree. - Norway: Fixed issue where Quisling coup branch wouldn't hide when going monarchist. - Norway: Fixed issue where Trotsky would go to the Democratic side when the Communist civil war starts. - Production Output bonus now works correctly. - Fixed a bug where Preemptive Invasion of Iran focus of Soviet Union caused Finland to be attacked by Allies. - Sweden: Fixed the wrong icon being used for Swedish Trucks in the production line. - Sweden: Liquidate the Monarchy will now liquidate the Monarchy by removing the king advisor as it is supposed to. - Sweden: Random AI now disallows achievement #SwedishBiasCorrected. - Sweden: Joining the Anti Soviet pact targets all Soviets countries they have the big Soviet Kerfuffle. - Sweden: Fixed some spirit issues with the 39 start bookmark. - Norway: Added a way to remove Christian Laake as the Norwegian Fascists. - Changed music player shuffle algorithm to weighted random (but avoiding recently played songs). - Denmark: Field Marshal William Wain Prior's name is now visible. - Denmark: Tweaked AI weights to make the AI more likely to do certain occupation decisions and event options. - Forming either the North Sea or the Baltic Sea Empires now only requires that you control the Mainland of Denmark and only gives you cores on Mainland Denmark. - Added a custom truck production icon for Denmark. - Added "Will lead to war" warnings several Danish focuses. - Fixed tooltip saying player could naval transfer to shoreline province without naval base. - Fixed use-after-free that could lead to CTD on end of peace conference. - Fixed CTD on resync when international market is open. - Fixed stat issue with tank designer comparison. - Fixed repair tooltips estimated time of completion. - Allow factory conversion map icon during construction view. - Norway: Trotsky finally goes to the correct side of the Communist civil War. - Fixed production penalty modifier signedness. Can't be penalized from modifier without having penalty. - Add mutually exclusive icons only if the trait is visible. - Fixed CTD on steam callback during session change. - Fixed issue with disabling music track enable button. - Norway: Alt Democratic preparations decisions now take time to complete as intended. - MIO: Fixed the research category of the Submarine MIO so that it can be assigned to research of Submarine tech and related modules only. - Sweden: NDC no longer transfers its puppets armies to Sweden but creates 5 elite divisions for every NDC member joined, to avoid teleporting armies. - Sweden: Made it easier to invite members to the Scandinavian defense union. - Sweden: Fixed a bug where subjects would get the generic focus tree if puppeted. - Norway: Fixed issue where Fascist Branch would disappear if focus 'Arrest Quisling' was bypassed. - Fixed the American handover of Greenland back to Denmark and the disappearing Greenland Patrol National Spirit. - The Occupation Law National Spirit for Denmark will be removed when Denmark no longer is a subject no matter the circumstances. - The Butter Front National Spirit will no longer disappear if the overlord controls mainland Denmark. - Made the Telegram Crisis Event more likely to happen. - Norway: Country-wide preparation decisions in preparation decisions for the Alt-democratic path will still be available during war, as long as there's Country Preparedness. - Norway: Made it less likely the Soviet Union will reject events sent from the Stalinist branch of the Focus Tree. - Fix of bug where applying effect set_garrison_strength on state without resistance caused CTD. - Fixed bug which led to players unlock mutually exclusive doctrines. - Finland: If Arms Against Tyranny dlc is active, when Estonia causes the fascist civil war in Finland, the fascist side will get the Finnish focus tree if they win the civil war. - Denmark will now be able to join factions, drop their occupation name, and get their original Balance of Power through peace conferences if being released as independent during the right circumstances. - World tension modifiers for subjects now apply in both directions. - Sweden: Fixed an issue where wargoal against the Baltics would expire. - Denmark's Focus Tree will now show all branches, including the Occupation Branch, if the setting to show obsolete branches are enabled and Denmark is a puppet. - Grumman smooth finish trait now affects CV light aircraft and naval bombers. - Finland: Keepers of the North focus will now include Karelia if it exists, and states transferred to Finland via event will also get the compliance bonus promised in the focus. - Norway - Fixed issue where Quisling has a generic portrait without Arms Against Tyranny DLC. - Germany - Fixed issue where form Reichskommissariat Norwegen decision would require a Swedish State. - Fixed issue where 'Operation Gunnerside' would not work with Arms Against Tyranny enabled. - Denmark white peacing every nation its overlord is at war with when it becomes a puppet won't trigger the "You Shall Not Pass" achievement. - Norway: Fixed issue in Monarchist Decisions where you should use National Interventions while demonstrating in states if more than one was active and any of them was completed earlier. - Norway: Fixed missing icon for 'Investing in Norway' National Spirit. - Nordic Shared Focus Tree: Fixed missing icon for 'Economic Cooperation' National Spirit. - Sweden: Fixed issue where supporting communist civil war in Norway causes the communist side to have a generic leader. - Norway: Quisling will no longer trigger his coup if the country is in a civil war already, regardless of origin. - Removed World Tension limit to Rally the Nation for fascist Denmark. - Norway: Changed the Nasjonale Regjerings color so it's not so close to Soviet Union's red. - Norway: Focus 'Reawaken the Permanent Revolution' now creates either the Norintern or the Joint Faction depending on conditions. - Divisions can no longer get citation by performing paratroop order on own territory. - Fixed marine commandos so they can retreat from coastal areas. Can click on province with naval port to move troops from a naval port. Marine commandos can now path to fallback lines. That's all for us today, we appreciate all the bug reports and input on changes that continue to help make the game great! You all have a lovely continued week, and an even better day!

Generals! We have been hard at work to squash all of Arms Against Tyranny's pesky bugs, but we've also taken the liberty to do a small balance pass as well as add a small surprise feature for your MIO's, so make sure to read below for all of the info! ################################################################ ######## Hotfix 1.13.4 "Stella Polaris" ######### ################################################################ ################################## # Surprise Feature ################################## - Military Industrial Organizations now have a queue function, allowing you to pre-select which traits to unlock and in which order. As the MIO then gains points over the game, traits from the queue will automatically unlock. Nb: Policies still require manual intervention. ################################## # Balance ################################## - Nordic defense council puppets can now remove the Centralized Nordic Army command once Sweden completes the Nordic Defense Complex focus. - Sweden: Fika with the king unleashes his true warrior potential, removing his negative PP gain. - Sweden: Can no longer have Birger Furugrd in both leading role and advisor role, increased recruitable pop from 5% to 10%. - Sweden: Reduced bonus from hygienic housing from 12% to 10%. - Sweden: Jgartrupper focus for Sweden now give at max 4 generals Ranger trait, instead of all. - Norway: Reduced the amount of military factories awarded in Focus 'Expand Military Industry'. - Norway: Made it more likely for the Soviet Union to accept Norway into the Comintern when the 'Join the Comintern' Focus is completed and when Trotsky is sent to the Soviet Union. - Norway: Made it so the focus 'A New Norway' requires the 'Independent Norway' National Spirit, and completing said focus now improves it. - Norway will regain the National Spirit 'Independent Norway' if it stops being a subject. - Returned air wing deployment to 2 days due to unintended interactions. - Norway: Reduced War Support requirement for Focus 'Shield of the North' and changed its War Support reward to Stability. - Norway: Changed the decision 'Request Reinstatement' to require not being Capitulated plus controlling Oslofjord, instead of requiring controlling all states. - Norway: focus 'Revive the Pomor Trade' now requires Troms and Finnmark. - Fixed wrong values for agility on agility MIOs. ################################## # Gameplay ################################## - Added text describing ways to increase the acceptance rate of the Nordic Defence Council. - Sweden guaranteeing a country now increases the chance of them accepting an invitation to the Nordic Defence Council. - Flipping fascist as Sweden now spawns some Militias. - Nordic defense council focus now gives funds instead of PP. - Improved and redid some text to be more appropriate for the Nordic Defense Council Branch. - Nordic Defence Council puppets now become automatically set as a NDC puppet if puppeted by Sweden while it is going down the Nordic Defence Council Route. - The 'Quisling's Coup' focus branch in Norway will now be hidden if the focus 'Arrest Quisling' is completed. - Added flavor rank names for Finnish Division Commanders. ################################## # Stability & Performance ################################## - Improved the performance of evaluating several costly state decisions. ################################## # UI ################################## - Removed erroneous use of The for country name in a window. - Fixed localization error on Soviet decision. - Added sub unit trait modifiers to effect description. - Removed map icon adjustment. Fixed overlapping issue. - Added creator flag to equipment entries in buyer's view of the International Market (if seller is different from creator). - Make consistent the decimal numbers for the international market equipment costs. - Avoid overlapping texts in the equipment designer stats grid. - Avoid unnecessary long tooltips detailing all possible equipments when attaching a policy to an MIO. - When building forts in construction, we now ignore clicks on naval and air bases. No more construction roulette (maybe?). ################################## # AI ################################## - Tweaked AI division production to reduce the time they aren't recruiting any divisions while the war is still ramping up. - Prevent summed diplomatic AI strategy values (e.g. contain, befriend, etc.) from being negative before using them in a bunch of places where negative values didn't make sense. - The Soviet Union will no longer try sending every convoy it has to deliver supplies to Vladivostok. ################################## # Modding ################################## - Fixed CTD on hot-reloading AI strategy plans. - Target_state triggers can now be restricted to owned states, controlled states, and continents to lessen their impact on performance. - Fixed a bug where reloading focuses by console command or changing the focus scripts led to a crash on a new game in the same session. - If the Defines setting for the cost of assigning MIO is 0 then the cost is always 0. - Added hot-reload functionality to ai_template script files. ################################## # Bugfix ################################## - Norway: Fixed issue where Historical Quisling would start reviving Norgesveldet. - Fixed a bug where showing subsidy tooltips could cause out of sync. - Fixed bug where the mechanized infantry battalion wasn't unlocked after researching the technology. - Fixed a bug in the previous open beta build where the on map factory conversion button wouldn't work. - We added a new logic so variants get made obsolete when designing new ones with the same role. - When you get a new chassis the old ones are made obsolete. - Removed generic duplicated illusive gentlemen for Sweden. - The King in council now says "Royalists" becomes ruling party instead of Hgern. - Karelian Uprising can now also include Karjala and Salla states, if appropriate. - Fixed issues with Karelian Uprising during the Soviet Civil War. Karelia will now start the uprising at war with Stalin's side in the civil war, and the other side will decide if they want to declare war on Karelia too or not, just like with other nationalist uprisings. - Fixed issue where tech categories for some Tank and Motorized MIOs were targeting Armored Cars when they shouldn't. - Fixed double "League" in League of Nations Arms Resolution. - Vilho Annala's Personal Agenda tooltip now clearly specifies that "Strong Nation" requires 300k+ Manpower in the field. - Added localization for Militia tech. - Fixed an issue with Militias not working as intended for Sweden. - Fixed an issue where the Nordic Defense army complex would not set a country to have extensive conscription. - Improved the tooltip for Finnish Influence in the Baltic focus, to name the appropriate Finnish faction, if any. - It is no longer possible to kick capitulated countries from a faction. - Sweden will no longer steal every unit leader from Nordic Defense Council puppets since certain unit leaders can also be country leaders (Looking at you Mannerheim) but rather a subset of generals. - Nordic Defense Council puppets no longer need to have their focus set to generic. - From now on, the planning factor dynamic modifier tooltip will support scripted localization. - Renamed the modifier for changing production cost at production line level to avoid confusion with the one at equipment variant level - Added missing foreign MIOs for Ethiopia: Fairey Aviation, Avia, Bofors, Volvo and Landsverk. - Decisions to invite MIOs have been improved and some issues fixed so that now they show the flag of the country owning the original MIO, and the majority of their requirements have been standardized for all MIOs and all countries. - The German AI is now less super-angry at Sweden if they go fascist or monarchist. - Fixed missing bracket in the Bofors MIO. - Improvements to Urbanization decisions trigger performance. - Germany going to war with Sweden now cancels all resource rights in Vsterbotten. - Fixed British MIO Fairchild Aircraft requiring the wrong focus. - Fixed the Portuguese focus Portuguese Artillery showing the wrong MIO in the tooltip, instead of Portuguese FMA. - Fixed issue with the three unique traits of Italian MIO Officine Meccaniche. Now they have the intended requirements, are granted the desired MIO research bonus (+5% per trait) and their name shows the equipment they target. The tooltip of the focus that auto-completes these traits, New Ricostruzione Industriale, should also be clearer now. - Limited the number of countries that can puppet Denmark through its Declaration of Neutrality National Spirit; a country now must be stronger and nearby Denmark for the Danish to immediately surrender. - Offer military access now also gives an opinion bonus, the same as Request Military Access. - If Denmark was puppetted through the peace conference or other circumstances other than the Declaration of Neutrality-spirit they can now be called into wars and will be more cooperative with their overlord. - Added clearer text that Denmark will lose off-map Civs if the Trade Deal is canceled. - Fixed focus tooltip in Keepers of the North and Keepers of the Baltic Countries, now mentioning that Nordic/Baltic independent allies will also receive the annexation event. - Fixed certain events triggered by Keepers of the North mentioning Baltic instead of Nordic. - Fixed a couple of tooltips in the Keepers of the North and Keepers of the Baltic event chain to better display the actual potential event option's outcome. - Fixed the correct pronouns in 2 events. - Oslo can no longer be prepared in the Rouse the Proletariat Decisions. - Made the Norwegian prepare state and deploy preparations in state more efficiently. - Fixed missing capitalization in some Norwegian militia division names. - Norma Projektilfabrik now gives +1 mil factory if completed while democratic Norway has a civil war, whereas it previously targeted fascist Norway. - The Defend Finland-decision can now only be taken if Finland has a defensive war to avoid continuation wars shenanigans. - The opposing side in the fascists civil war for Sweden will no longer use fascists Militia. - Made the Communist Sweden AI path never accidentally pick the old enemy stirs. - Made it so Joint Focus 'Fighter command' can require either Small Fighters or Heavy Fighters. - Norwegian Advisor Peder Anker Wedel-Jarlsberg will no longer be available if the Royal Family is sent to Denmark. - Sending Trotsky to the Soviet Union from Norway now awards the correct Opinion Modifier in the Soviet Union. - Fixed pathfinding and movement options for exiled divisions. - Fixed issue where changing the division template could delete the unit. - Fixed issue where loading a game didn't reset the observer country for the tech tree. - Fixed CTD on resync due to OoS when IM was opened. - If master has totally cancelled the production, and progress has been made, leave at least 1 level on the subject side, so they don't loose the progress in case they did lots of contribution. When Master decide to build the same thing there again, we will link back to that existing production line. - Made the BoP Decision "Speak out in Favor of Rearmament" available after completing the "Unify the Right" focus. Made the tooltips for "Seek Industrial Investments" and "Seek Military Investments" more clear. Removed the mutual exclusivity between "Agricultural Reinvestments" and "Industrial Reinvestments", and "Invest in Research and Development" and "Increase Industrial Production". Also balanced the National Spirits "Danish Produce" and "Improved Logistics". - Privacy policy will now be displayed in the in-game language. - Fixed an issue where the USSR could snatch the Baltics from another country that was occupying it. - Assigned the correct equipment icon for early and basic Norwegian fighters. - Fixed issue where deploying militias in state in Democratic Historical Norway would block from using any other deployment decisions in that state. - Fixed issue where Norwegian Decision 'Integrate Militias' would add convoys instead of subtracting. - Fixed wrong template counters for militias and integrated militias. - Fixed overlap with the Joint Branch in Norwegian Focus Tree. Norway - Focus 'Invite Soviet Designers now requires a Communist faction leader to exist - When using auto-upgrade for modules and chassis in equipment designer, new variants will keep the MIO assigned when it generates a new variant - Fixed Baltic countries starting the game in the 1939 bookmark with No Step Back national spirits when No Step Back is not active. - Made the Return of the King-civil war harder to cheese. - Fixed wrong focus check in the subsidies effects of Chinese focus Purchase Tanks. - Fixed some characters that should not be available to communist Finland being available if Finland turned communist via other methods than focus tree. - Akseli Anttila will no longer be available to the social democrats as a general. - Erkki Raappana and Emil Vaateri will no longer be promoted to a corgi. - Fix for Support Norwegian communist bypassing when it's not supposed to. - Fixed an error where Volvo TLV-141 would have a wrong icon. - Changed Norwegian Exiled decisions to require being In Exile rather than Capitulated. - Norway: Fixed issue where Exile preparations event triggers when returning to Norway instead of when it goes into exile. - Stop Youtube videos when closing the in-game browser. - Fixed issue where Norwegian focus 'Co-opt Secret Army' didn't give the units shown in the effect. - Fixed issue where Norwegian focus 'Fascist Invasion of Norway' wouldn't autocomplete if focus 'Arrest Quisling' was completed. - Finland should no longer join war against the Allies when joining the Germans in Barbarossa for the Continuation War, they will only declare war on the Soviet faction. - Germany should no longer join the Italo-Ethiopian War before World War 2. - Removed check for embargoes between Finland and Sweden in the Finnish focus Foreign Armor, now the check is the embargo is checked between any potential equipment provider and Finland after completing the focus and only when BBA dlc is active. - Fixing issue where Norwegian focus 'Revive Pomor Trade' gave rewards regardless of who controlled the mentioned states. - Fixes to the Fascist and Communist Finnish AI plans to enable Finnish AI to properly prepare for the civil war and have an easier time winning it. - Fixed old script issue that prevented every country's AI from hiring a fascist demagogue unless the country had completed the focus America First. - Fix political screen to show MIOs in MP for clients that do not possess Arms Against Tyranny - Fixed planes, infantry weapons and artillery icons for Norway. - Fixed rare CTD when trying to access non-existing trade influence data. - The dynamic tag in the Finnish communist and fascist civil wars will now properly receive a copy of the Finnish MIOs at their current size when the civil war starts, and will get back the Finnish focus tree in case they win the civil war. - 1939 Bookmark now will apply +4 size levels to every MIO in a major country, and +3 size levels to every MIO in minor countries. This is additional to any extra funds/levels/traits possibly coming from focus completion. - Support divisions with multiplicative battalion modifiers will no longer be further multiplied by the number of division types of the target type in the template. - Added musical scores to appropriate Danish events and adjusted their probability - MIO assigned to a research doesn't get removed anymore if that research is replaced - Fixed bug where the game crashes when France is about to be capitulated while being the last major in the faction and Vichy France events trigger. - If equipment bonus description is the only description. Remove first newline addition. - Made it less likely for the USA to take Greenland if the Danish overlord isn't fascist or communist and not a major power. - Removed extra comma from timed idea effect. - Fixed tooltip in intel ledger for navy count. - Fixed tooltip when paradropping into impassable terrain. - Fixed modifiers being removed when switching view in country army view. - Fixed issue where canceling war goal justification would not update world threat correctly. - Fixed missing MIOs in Belgium. - Added initial industrial manufacturers for Danish equipment. - Norway: Demoted several Norwegian Heads of Navy to Admirals instead. - Added missing roles for the Norwegian Royal Family. - Trotsky now acknowledges Mexico as the place he arrives at after leaving the farm. - Tooltip for Norwegian Focus 'King's No' will not show decimals anymore. - Added convoy icons to decision and made them block the other option when active. - Fixed requirements (have a buildable light/medium tank) and adds a tooltip to inform the player that recon will be added if that tech is researched. - Fixed missing loc for the research bonuses Germany gets from the Italian-German research pact. - Fixed the one word description of the popup tooltip for aircraft research. - Fixed a small typo in the event where the owner of Palestine hands it over to the Papal State. - Added scripted loc to the focus "The Fight Against Stalinism" so that it changes depending on the ideology (and leader in the case of communism) of the Soviet Union. - Fixed missing loc in tooltip of "Invoke the Alliance of 1373". - Fixed missing word in the event "The Swiss Confederation seeks secret pact". - Adds scripted loc to have different texts for the event "The Fall of London" for the USSR/Russia dependent on ideology and leader. - Updated the tutorial hint for MIO about PP cost on production lines, which have been cut. - Changed the Back button to a Apply button on Custom Game rules, because Back is ambiguous on if the changes are applied or not. - Fixed some wheels looking weird on a few tanks when the move animation is playing. - Adjusted the width and location of the text in Swedish decision Train the Sheltered. That's it from us, we appreciate the feedback, and as always if you have more suggestions make sure to leave some over on the Forums for the Developers to see :) Have a great day!

Hello there! I hope you are all enjoying the new expansion. we've identified two issues that need a quick fix. Rest assured, this hotfix won't impact your 1.13.2 save games! The update will be available on the Microsoft Store at the earliest opportunity.

Bugfixes

Hello there! I hope you are all enjoying the new expansion. we've identified two issues that need a quick fix. Rest assured, this hotfix won't impact your saved games! The update will be available on the Microsoft Store at the earliest opportunity.

Bugfixes

Generals! Arms Against Tyranny is here and now playable, so make sure to update your games and get working on those Nordic playthroughs- but before you do, let's take a look at the Release Trailer~ [previewyoutube=UO_ZBLd_wgw;full][/previewyoutube] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2183930/Expansion__Hearts_of_Iron_IV_Arms_Against_Tyranny/ With the release of this expansion, we've seen performance improvements and quite a few changes as well towards balance, bugfixing and so much more, to review the Changelog check here! There are some known issues detailed in This Post as well, and we are working diligently to resolve them as soon as possible :) The Rollback Version for 1.12 will also be available later today as we work on the rollout! Good Luck to you all in your playthroughs of Arms Against Tyranny, everyone, and if you want to talk all things AAT or play some Multiplayer with others as it's the best its ever been with some of your favourite mods already updated on release, make sure to check out the Discord below!

Generals! The day is soon upon us, with Arms Against Tyranny and the Stella Polaris update sealed up and ready to ship. The development process for AAT has been a pleasure to be part of, and the team have acquitted themselves admirably throughout - were all keen to see what you think of our efforts, and hope you enjoy what we have to offer. The coming weeks also mark a period of post-release support for us. We prefer to remain reactive to the communitys needs here: creating an immediate post-release roadmap actually makes it harder for us to do that. So instead, Im here to explain that well be here maintaining an active presence, and will react quickly as needed and as time and resources allow. In time-honored fashion, were releasing the patch notes to you early, so you can theorycraft, eagerly anticipate, or commiserate the fixing of your favorite exploits a day or two early. As usual, missing notes can happen, and if we find these they will be added to a spoiler at the end of this post as time goes on. The 1.13.0 Update & 1.13.1 will be released at the same time. Note that Localisation for the Changed Log will be added later in the day, and if you missed the Dev Diary that went along with this, you can check it out here! ################################################################ ######## Hotfix 1.13.1 "Stella Polaris" ######### ################################################################ ################################## # Balance ################################## - Improved light airframe MIO bonuses to air attack and air defence - Removed speed buff from agility fighter initial trait - Reduced air attack bonuses for agility MIO - Reduced starting civ for SWE by 1 in Vsterbotten - national_socialist_veterinarian and Ardent Conservative now give flat conscription instead of conscription_factor and military conscription speed construction factor ################################## # Gameplay ################################## - Added design companies to some pre-designed equipment for Germany, France, Britain, and the Soviet Union - Folkhemmet is no longer removed when going fascists or monarchist ################################## # UI ################################## - Fix of the bug where dynamic modifiers from Nordic Joint focus tree showed wrong text in other parts of UI. - Fix of bug where plane designer did not update the sprites on auto design. - From now the country leader traits in diplomacy screen support scripted localization. - Hardness change in the equipment designer is now displayed as percentage - Display the correct inter war chassis in research window - Fixed several text boxes that were too small for non-english localization ################################## # Modding ################################## - Added shorthand alias "roic" for console command research_on_icon_click ################################## # Performance & Stability ################################## - Fixed a rare crash triggered when a unit is standing on a province involved in a border war without being a participant -Fixed map overhaul mods crashing on Mac when they went over a certain amount of province/borders. This should address the issue of most major total conversion mods failing to start on Mac. ################################## # AI ################################## - Soviet AI sells less rifles and slightly increases armor production - Non-aggression pact also positively affects acceptance score when purchasing equipment, not only market access - AI groups equipment by archetype when deciding whether to sell it, instead of per individual equipment variant - AI will now also buy convoys if needed - AI should no longer use division templates that are marked as obsolete for suppression, plus added an extra cavalry battalion to the generic suppression target template ################################## # Bugfix ################################## - Do not show unactive MIOs when filtering for MIOs that can spend trait points - NOR: Enabled several post-capitulation focuses. - Disallow changing the attached policy if a MIO is not available - Swiss MIO Hispano-Suiza will now require Switzerland to be at peace with Spain, like every other foreign MIO. - Replaced national spirit Finnish Army by Repurposed Small Industries in the 1939 bookmark window. - Fixed wrong BoP value for Finland in the 1939 bookmark. - Fixed rare CTD when opening MIO History tab - Fixed manpower laws being available when it was not supposed to be available - Added Danish tank icons for when NSB is disabled - Fix crash when opening Air Theaters after a civil war - Fixed wrong icon name for Rikstanken tech icon - Soviet Union will now lose any claims in Finland after being forced to peace out, and Soviet AI should no longer want to justify on Finland right after it. - Fix of rare crash caused by border wars. - Fixed Petsamo not being transferred to Soviet Union after they force Finland to peace out, even though the event tooltip said Petsamo would be transferred. - Decisions to Fight Alongside our Comrades should no longer become available right after activating them and having the country intervening in the civil war. - Prevented Finland from taking both decisions to "Request an Armistice with Moscow" and "Offer to Switch Sides in Return for Peace" simultaneously. Now one decision will hide while the other one is ongoing, and the hidden decision will come back if peace was not achieved. - Fix role icons for planes and ships presets - Added Danish air plane icons to the air plane designer for Denmark and added the Danish motorized infantry icon to the production line - Added missing icons for Joint Alliance National Spirits - Fixed issue with Norwegian Focus Lynrytter's Subsidy - Adding missing Focus Filters to Joint Focus Tree - Fixing missing icon for Joint Amphibious Effort National Spirit - Few MIO traits with no parents and no prerequisites have been moved to the top row of an MIO tree. - Added the correct starting National Spirits in the Bookmarks for the 1936 and 1939 starts respectively - Added a missing tooltip claryfing that the Focus "Unify the Right" unlocks a Balance of Power Decision - In Joint Focus trees, a country cannot start anymore a focus that has is mutually-exclusive with another focus that was already started - Removed the Danish Balance of Power mechanic without "Arms Against Tyranny" - More Finnish focuses will now require Finland to be independent. - Countries with Joint Focuses in their tree but not part of the Joint Focus Alliance should not see the progress of the Alliance - Added subsidies to the international market for various nations - Fixed issues with Norwegian Territorial Claims focuses sending ultimatums to the wrong country. - Removed the option to make Trotsky available from the first event of his chain if the player is going Stalinist - NOR: Tweaked post-capitulation focuses for Norway. Added several offmap dockyards to the tree to allow for in-exile convoy production. - Fixed issue with Arrest Quisling requiring the wrong focus to bypass - Fixed missing names in Icelandic tech and doctrine bonuses from focus tree. - Tweaked the Danish AI to be more prone to engage with the Balance of Power when under Occupation - Added requirement for Germany to exist and be fascist for Norwegian focus 'Invite Fascist Engineers' - Fixed issue where Norwegian Focus 'Proactive Defense' would add funds to unavailable MIOs - Added missing script variable for national focus equipment modifier - added a bunch of subject bypasses - Birger Furugrd can no longer be leader and advisor - Fixed Finland not able to complete Lone Wolf and strike a pact for Continuation War in time when starting from the 1939 bookmark. - Fixed Soviet production lines MIOs at game start. - Added Portuguese MIOs to initial production lines - Bulgarian MIOs now are unlocked with extra size to compensate for them being unlocked later. - Bonuses from Nordic Alliance will now properly be removed if the faction is disbanded ################################################################ ######## Update 1.13.0 "Stella Polaris" ######### ################################################################ ################################## # Arms Against Tyranny ################################## - Added ahistorical Finnish focus tree paths - Added full Norwegian focus tree - Added full Swedish focus tree - Added full Danish focus tree - Added a full ... other focus tree - Replaced equipment design company ideas with Military Industrial Organizations (MIOs). MIOs can be attached to research and production, gaining funds and unlocking increased benefits upon your production and equipment. - Diplomacy tab replaced by the International Market. Equipment can be bought and sold for civilian factory output, giving countries a way of arming themselves with advanced equipment, or war-profiteering for their own gain. Diplomacy menu can be accessed via a button at the bottom of the international market - Added Special Forces doctrine page, with branches including unique gameplay utility for Mountaineers, Marines, and Paratroopers, and 3 new support battalions - Added numerous new 3D models including snowmobiles, cold-weather infantry, and a reindeer for some reason - Added many new music tracks for Nordic countries, as well as several main game themes ################################## # Feature ################################## - Land trade routes are now shown on the map. Trade Embargo action now prevents land-based trade from passing through a country if they are embargoing the final recipient. - Land Doctrines now contain a variety of bonuses to specific support battalions which enchance the capabilities of other battalion categories in their division - Added support for historical tank templates in the tank designer, accessed from tank chassis blueprints - Added a new focus for Germany that gives Germany resource rights for Vsterbotten, and Industry for Sweden - Added modding and script support for 'joint' national focuses, allowing several countries to progress in the same shared focus branch - Added Finnish historical focus tree paths ################################## # Balance ################################## - Reduced Germanys steel - increased Swedens steel and tungsten from 220 Steel, 67 tungsten, 42 chromium to 260 steel, 123 tungsten and 63 chromium (closed trade respectively) - Added seperate divison design groups for combat support battalions - adjusted acclimatization tolerances across the board, it should now be gained in a more realistic range of temperatures - added lend lease threshold modifiers to automomy and economy levels - added lend lease threshold modifiers to ideologies - Super Heavy tanks are now support companies. Super Heavy tanks are no longer line battalions - Support company research times now have a curve with a shorter starting time (approx 120 days, from 200). Subsequent support techs have a gradually increasing research time. - Cavalry supply usage returned to the same level as infantry - Engineer support upgrade techologies now yield 33% entrenchment per level - Added a new adjuster type: Snow. This kicks in if a province is considered to have the snow ground condition. - Several nations now have the ability to unlock a second special forces branch specialism in their focus trees. Nations that reach major status can also unlock a second branch specialism after 1940. - Most tank chassis' now grant 10-20% more armor - Super heavy tanks now cost more overall, but require 20 per support company - The winter war should now start according to historical timetable - Tip of the Spear military spirit now grants flat special forces cap instead of naval invasion capacity. Commando trait now adds flat special forces cap instead of SF defence. This should make it possible to run a modest elite force irresepective of the size of your military. - added 5% for local resources from compliance gain (from 0.6 to 0.65) - People's Army focus now grants a battalion modifier from military police to horseback cavalry suppression value - slightly reduced air accident rates - reduced the factor on accident chance for air excercising - New airwing deployment now takes 30 days, from basically nothing - increased the max effect of intel on enemy mines - Field Hospitals now grant 15% experience loss prevention from 10% - Maintenance Company Research 3 now provides 1% Equipment Capture per armor battalion in a division, from 5% flat - starting french Char B1 variant is now a basic heavy chassis - ENG & USA start with 200 more convoys - reduced the base damage of mines for both strength and org - reduced mine accident chance, reduced mine impact on speed - mines are now much less potent in deep ocean and shallow sea's, hit chance reduced for mine in these areas - maratime patrol bombers wing size is now 10 - AA tank anti-air modules have between 10-20% more air attack - Super Heavy AA, TD, and SPART are now support battalions, not line battalions - When a puppet controls a province that's part of a strait, the overlord's policy is now considered, preventing the puppet from letting through the overlord's enemies or their puppets. - increased hardness penalty for wheeled and half track suspension for tank designer - USA now starts with tank engine 1 tech - slight balance changes to welded and cast armour to fit reality better - tank speed & armour upgrades are now added stats not multiplicative - tank base speed, armour & reliability rebalanced for changes to above upgrades - Excess thrust will now increase agility instead of max speed - airframes now how base max speeds to better representairframe size speed effects - added damage reduction to piecing thresholds for naval combat - convoy hitprofile reduced from 120 to 85 bringing it inline with new hitprofile calulations - torpedoes accuracy increased to bring them back inline with new hitprofile calculations 145 > 100 - slightly decreased AA disruption from ship AA - reduced terrain combat widths slightly, change support widths also - major air rebalance pass for airframes and modules - increased tech date for survival studies to 1939 - Improved aircraft turrets, slight decrease in agility hit for large bomb bays - rebalanced, ship engines, removed visibility impacts from medium guns, rebalanced IC costs to reflect engine changes - super heavy armour now part of normal heavy armors, rebalanced armors, added cruiser armour to carriers - Armor skirts provide 1 more armor - doubled the effect of agiltiy on naval anti air fire - removed visibility effects of suepr heavy bb armor - small airframe can only take single terret modules, adjusted turret stats so they are less powerful for fighters but better for bombers - rebalanced thrust and weights of modules and airframes, added new modules - Added new techs for blame designer - Agility and speed increase effect on air combat - updated combat width defines - implemented type 2 combat widths - rebalanced dismantle and conversion costs for BB eninges - adjusted damage reduction thresholds for ships ################################## # Gameplay ################################## - Adjusted Swiss focuses so they pause instead of cancel when conditions are not met ################################## # Stability & Performance ################################## - Fixed rare out of sync triggered by player observing armies intercepted at sea - Improved game performance by up to 30% based on hardware. Machines with higher spec will notice a greater difference. - Improved perceived performance and responsiveness during high processor load ################################## # UI ################################## - In the division designer you can now shift-click on a battalion to remove it from the template - Fixed various issues with some tech folders in the tech tree on non-standard resolutions - Fixed issue where some notifications were visible in front of windows and the loading screen. - Now right clicking on railway gun repair line will pan camera to the unit and left clicking repair line will select the unit. - Fix priority buttons for all production line types - Now, if you hover mouse over a invasion arrow, the whole path will be visible even if it is overlapped by another one. - Fix bug where the army leader traits overlapped the preferred tactics icon. - Add equipment upgrades to have increment/decrement with 5 and 10 - Victory point map icons now have independent visibility thresholds based on their own VP value. Several new defines added to control this behaviour - Doctrines with unfulfilled allow conditions now correctly display as unselectable, and list conditions. - Show Active setting on generals subwindow is now respected the first time you open it ################################## # AI ################################## - AI now evaluates motorization per-supply-node, resulting in reduced truck usage, and more sensible overall priorities. - Further improved AI behaviour for germany as regards Africa and suicide-invasions - British AI will no longer be denied access to the baltic unless Germany is war mongering in europe (meaning trade can once again flow between UK and the Nordic states) - AI should no longer embargo countries who are helping them with lendlease or volunteers (looking at you, Spain) - AI more likely to upgrade divisions in the field even with equipment deficits - added generic AI upgraded infantry template for late game infantry - added ENG and USA upgraded infantry templates for AI and imrpoved their infantry templates in general - reduced the maximum targeted sea regions per strike force fleet for AI - improved air tech priorities - ENG will build more Mil factories and ease up on fighters after it has enough, and will generaly build a few more bombers - USA will build more maritime patrol bombers - USA and ENG will try build more dockyards pre war - USA will now do liberty ships national focus in 41 - added albania and sardinia ai areas - eng will resist the urge to invade useless italian land to early - Italy will once again join the anti-comintern pact - ai build slightly more cas and bombers - AI will now recreate Austro-Hungary by decision if they own the correct cores - improved AI templates for planes - SOV should now be more inclinded to defend Leningrad during the Winter war - ai is less interested in railway gun research - eng fighter templates are now upgraded with a higher prio - improved the UK's invasion & defense strategies for historical accuracy - Germany will now go to war with the USSR if the a Norweigan, Danish or Dutch controller is a player, for the Dutch both Belgium and France must have fallen - Improved fascist AI peace conference logic resulting in less bordergore, but fewer puppets - Switched default Peace Score options to roll in puppets to faction leaders - Partially improved AI ability to use non-standard equipment types and templates. This will be further iterated on. - AI for some majors will now unlock and construct additional Marines templates, along with unlocking the new SF doctrines - AI for some majors will now unlock and deploy paratroopers as part of their line forces. By design, they will not perform paradrops. ################################## # Modding ################################## - Now the resource values will be localised. - Make sure triggers are re-evaluted when reloading events and scripted loc - effect give_resource_rights now accepts a variable or a keyword for receiver parameter - From now on, tooltip for add_dynamic_modifier effect will show the variable values in dynamic modifiers - Fix add_resource so that give_resource_rights can be executed right after without having to wait for an hour to pass - Added ai_wanted_divisions_factor ai strategy, which acts as a % modifier - Fixed the use of scripted loc in name and description of dynamic modifiers - Add the heavy_fighter category for medium plane with fighter weapons - fix is_subject tooltip when used within multiple targets triggers like any_country - Ocean, the default naval region terrain type, is now handled as any other sea terrain type; tooltips will show modifiers as expected, and map colors and modifiers should be applied properly. - Tech folders will now correctly hide their name field if disabled. Follow the naming pattern in countrydoctrinetreeview.gui to achieve this result. - for has_resources_rights, if input state has no resource, the trigger will return false instead of crashing ################################## # Graphics ################################## - Use DX11 flip mode and allow tearing when supported by driver. Make sure FSAA pass isn't done on UI. ################################## # Bugfix ################################## - AI strategies that abort will no longer purge all values related to the strategy type they affected - Fixed issue where exiting the intelligence window did not lead to swapping back the map mod to previous one. - Now the recruiting of colonial division is capped in same way as recruting other divisions. - Fixed the bug where long messages in the lobby message input field sometimes appeared in two lines. - Super Heavy Battleship armor now reduces Torpedo critical chance instead of increasing it - Fixed disappearing icons in division designer when NATO symbols are used - Fixed issues with misplaced focus branches in UK and USA focus trees when Hide Obsolete Branches custom rule was set as "Show". - Conscription factor modifiers under 0.1% are now respected [precision error] - Now the deployment target state tooltip will contain the proper state name. - Don't allow export (lend-lease etc) of chassis/hull/airframe equipment - Fix serialization of 64 bit integers - Various Military focuses now give the right completion effects, such as Night Penalty, or land doctrines, and research bonuses - Fixed issue where some icons persisted on screen during peace conference. - Fixed the bug, which made it impossible to play singleplayer after leaving a multiplayer lobby which loaded multiplayer save file. - Fixed issue where certain regions did display the weather on the 3D map. - Fix a CTD when loading an older save - Units are now properly ejected from border wars - AI should no longer attempt to design strategic bombers too heavy to fly - fixed loc for prefered tactics modifeirs in army spirits - recalcuate the cached trade influence - Fixed Hungary being able to spam Sweden for support if they are democratic - You can now paradrop in peacetime in your own territory, and paradropping should no longer cause airwings to get stuck - Prevent CTD and log error if script invalidated a war relation while it is still being added - German Ai should now use correct Tank icons and models where possible - AI tank templates (and new historical templates) now work properly for templates that have out-of-order module requirements (big gun+ fixed superstructure ie) - Japanese AI template for Heavy TD II is no longer too slow to move - Axis AI and Historical tank templates now (probably) use the correct sprites and models - incorrect count of military factories given to other countries - player could request more licenses than available factories - Fixed bugs in ReleaseFactories in trade - Exiled templates should now be removed after peace conference even if the hosting country is not among the losers - fixed incorect can convert for light tank super structure - Paradrop missions can no longer get stuck when trying to target a region they are not allowed coverage in. Regions without coverage can no longer be targeted by paradrop mission selection. - AI should keep using their factories even if all their equipment needs are fulfilled - Turkish AI will no longer randomly decide to pick a military junta to succeed Ataturk on historical - SOV should now try to be more aggressive at Karjala - Fixed hardlock after getting kicked from a server - Fuel Usage modifier will now appear with the right color: red when positive, green when negative - fixed ship armour penetration calculation, proportional system can now work in parralel to stepped system - old armor penetration value for ships set to 0 - fixed missing agility values for bomb bays - fixed damage reduction happening before stat initialisation, fixed +1 to threashhold values - Romanian and Hungarian focuses that created a tech sharing group for military doctrines now grant doctrine cost reduction instead - Industrial Destruction modifier tooltip is now present - Industry Liasons no longer provides double bonus to airframes - Free French 'intervention in' focuses can no longer target countries in a faction with Free France - Counter-decision 'Disarm Monarchist Militants' for targets of polish monarchism now correctly removes monarchy support - Added missing flag localisation to Ethiopia's Build Resistance Force decisions. - Democratic Hungary can no longer spam Sweden to join their war endlessly - Changed Ethiopia missing localisation "GetName" to "Ethiopia" as opinion does not allow for dynamic names. - POL : Made Develop Gdask Shipbuilding and Integrate Gdask Industries actually require Gdask. - POL : The National Commonwealth can now be completed if Lithuania is a subject - ETH : Hindenburg Wall now does not build in provinces not occupied by Ethiopia - POL : Changed Integrate Gdansk Industries to require Coastal rather than Gdansk province, otherwise Naval tree is blocked. - Soviet national spirit Transformation of Nature now grants a flat +1 Building slot. - TUR : Join Axis focus will now check to see if Germany still exists and if they are the faction leader. Turkish Join Axis event trigger was also tweaked to give it a timer for more consistent with CD guidelines. - British AI will no longer only use biplane images for every type of plane - Fixed Penal Battalions being available outside of the locked template for Soviet Union. - The German's no longer become upset at Lithuania for banning Naziism if they themselves don't accept the ideology - The Soviet's can no longer resolve their Border issues with Japan by giving them North Sakhalin if either they don't control it, or Japan doesn't control South Sakhalin - Some cities that should have been renamed after a white victory in the second Russian civil war were not included. They are now safe from Stalin. - The Soviet focus "Claims on Bessarabia" can now lead to correct wargoals if denied by countries other than Romania, and will now bypass if the Soviets are already at war with the owner. - Modifying a variant but retaining the same number of modules no longer fails to register any changes to the saved variant (in rare cases) - Japan will once again surrender to Manchuko in an independence war, if the war was bloody enough - Fix issue where the AI wouldn't design any planes if it didn't have any plane designs to produce. - Fixes missing requirement in GER focus Expand Dockyard Facilities - African countries with generic alll weather experts will correctly use a defined portrait - Developing the Eregli steelworks decision is no longer visible to non-turkish nations - Planning spirit awarded to czechoslovakia anbd faction members no longer disappears - CZE will no longer be able to give away sudetenland while at war with Germany - Switzerland tooltip fix - Turkey will no longer be able to join the Axis if there is no Axis - Opinon modifier is correctly removed from Spain if Balearic islands are transferred - Tooltip for french advisor is more specific now - Hungarian Re-armament events use the correct name def if hungary has changed cosmetic tag - Hungarian FIghter Competition now provides the correct number of fighters (from 0) - OTO Naval Guns now grants navy experience if MtG is not owned, as opposed to an unusuable research bonus - Novus Ordo Italian state modifier now correctly has an icon - Mohammad Yayyo no longer has a blank portrait if BBA is disabled - Railway Guns are less likely to stay put - El Salvador no longer has access to ancient Lost Technology when BBA is enabled - El Salvador has replaced their ancient Lost Technology with the ability to produce basic infantry weapons - Fixed Italian focus Flotta d'evasione being always unavailable with MTG

Bonjour nouveau, friends! I dont know if the third time makes it a tradition but I appear once more before release to give some updates from HoIs tech team. If you havent seen much of me since last year, its because Ive partly been busy with **REDACTED**, **REDACTED** and also with **REDACTED**, but my attention has fully returned to HoI for the last couple months. So, whats new with HoIs tech in 1.13 Stella Polaris?

Mines, or the greatest urban legend

V-Sync, G-Sync, Free-Sync, NSync

General performance improvements

HOI4: You Can(not) Multithread

Hello, and welcome back to the last Developer Diary for Arms Against Tyranny! Im CreamGene, HOI4s 2D artist and since I am here, you guessed it, it's time to talk about art! I once again get an opportunity to talk about what happens on the Art Front during a HOI4 production and Im excited to share with you some of the things that have been in the works. Both challenging tasks as well as funny ones, of course. I know I usually showcase the how-to when I do loading screens when I get these opportunities, but I think you can find the two latest descriptions from earlier Dev Diarys to be adequate if you need to know the how-to-think. But Ill show some small step-by-step just because I can. Loading screen It started with our Game Designer Bradley, or as you know him as well, Corax, who already had a vision for what he wanted. He wanted two different ones. One of the Finnish Winter War, with Finnish soldiers watching Soviet troops, make their way through the frozen marshlands. And one with the sinking of the Blcher. And I got to choose which one to do. Of course, I chose explosions because [strike]I hate myself[/strike] that's pretty cool. I drew explosions before, but never like this so I thought it could be a nice challenge if I could pull it off. I was provided with reference images of the ship and the place as well as a video clip of the event from the movie The King's Choice. Even if its a reenacting of the sinking of Blcher it still is a pretty cool scene to draw inspiration from. So let's speedrun this demonstration!

3D elements put together! Renders made by our 3D artist @Slurpen_Paradox (because if I can avoid hard surfaces, I will).
Here, the paint-over progress has started. trust the process.
After a loop of feedback and paint-overs, it finally starts to look like something more interesting than just a dark blob where it started. Just some more tweaking and adding texture as well as some action and itll be done.
And here we are! I hope youll enjoy the new loading screen for Arms Against Tyranny! Here is also the winter-themed one (tho I cant take credit for it) made for AAT.
[Art made by @the_real_timor]

The Joint Focus Tree

Portraits

Focus icons

3D art

Achievements

Generals! We've released another Arms Against Tyranny tutorial! Get ahead of your enemies and discover the ins and outs of MIOs with this quick primer from Dijondillan Watch it here [previewyoutube=5YDe93TOjfU;full][/previewyoutube]

Generals! With the release of Arms Against Tyranny, there will be plenty of saved games and mods that will be broken as we move into the Stella Polaris patch, so if you haven't already make sure to finish up those games or backdate your versions! However, we have been hard at work with the Modding community to make sure some of your favourite mods are up to date alongside the release of AAT! So here is your comprehensive list of mods that will be updated on the same day as the new patch;

WATCH THE REVEAL HERE

Road to 56

Kaiserreich

Equestria At War

Millenium Dawn

The New Order: Last Days of Europe

Cold War Iron Curtain

Kaisserredux: A Kaiserreich Expansion

Old World Blues

BlackICE Historical Immersion Mod

Expert AI

Pax Britannica: An Imperial Timeline

Lord of the Rings Mod

End of a New Beginning

World Ablaze

Hello there it's me C0RAX. It's time for another feature dev diary and this week we are going to look at the International market. So previously we showed this feature off in the international market dev corner and some things since then have changed. Weve on top of this loaded the feature with brand new functionality to improve the flow and usability as well as refine the information we provide you throughout the feature. So remind ourselves let's go over what intents and goals we started with in that original dev corner. Feature Intent & goals Introducing a place for nations to buy and sell equipment benefiting both nations with a reward. Creating a new way for countries to contribute specialist equipment to other nations Be able to source equipment from other nations as needed For majors to set the global standard for common place equipment leveraging their superior economic might. The international market acts as a one stop shop for all your equipment needs from other countries. It's an international store front, with multiple sellers being able to sell the same thing from the same store front. This means that provided you have the appropriate market access, you can go into the international market and buy tanks from the USA and planes from germany in one interface (but not 1 purchase). The feature So first of all, how do we get to the international market? Well, it's pretty easy. We have replaced the diplomacy button with the international market. This will take you to the home screen of the international market

You Can still access the diplomacy menu from this button at the bottom of the international market.
Now let's go buy something. The first thing we need to do is to get market access to another country. This will allow us to see what they are selling on the market. By default we have access to all of our subjects and they have access to our market.
The market access is by default automatically sent and accepted so any AI that will accept will be added to your market and you will get access to them as well meaning that you don't need to worry about missing out of a market you could have access too. You can also toggle auto accept purchase requests which will always accept other countries asking to buy your equipment on the market.
To manually get market access we simply go to the diplomacy screen for a given country and use the diplomatic action negotiate market access.
So now we have our market access set up and it's time to buy something. First we need to go into the buying mode of the international market. We do this by clicking the buy equipment button.

Now we can see the USA is selling some trains and convoys on the market right now so let's buy some. To start a purchase draft all we have to do is click on a piece of equipment we want to buy.
Here we can set up our contract to purchase some equipment. From here you choose how many pieces of equipment you wish to buy of each type. Each equipment entry will show how much the equipment of that type will cost in economic capacity(EC) (this is the output of civilian factories). There is also a handy purchase button if that is what you wish and you can use keybinds to change the steps of the plus and minus buttons just like in other parts of the game.

At the bottom of the draft we have the draft totals, here we can see the total EC cost, total convoys needed and then finally we have our payment settings. We can choose to assign up to 15 factories to pay for the equipment. These factories will work towards paying off the total EC cost of the equipment you selected. The more you pay every 30 days, the more equipment will be delivered per delivery. So here we can see that with 5 factories paying for our equipment we will receive all of our equipment in 4 deliveries:120 days.
Now we have sent off our draft to the USA and we just have to wait for them to respond and accept.
And here we have our accepted and now ongoing contract, we can see all of the important information on our contracts from here. Active contracts are shown in the default international market screen. We can see our factories are assigned and paying off the contract and all 4 convoys are available. If anything is causing deliveries to fall behind the expected amount be that lack of factories, convoys or even if your convoys are being intercepted and the equipment lost to the depth of the ocean, the contract efficiency will reflect this.
As your contracts progress you can see the bars fill up and the deliveries tick down. Now let's sell something on the market.
To sell we click the sell equipment button right now we can see we are not selling anything so now let's add something to our market. We do this by clicking on the add equipment to market button.
Here we will get all of the surplus equipment we have in the right hand window and everything we are adding to the market on the left. From here we have the same controls for equipment numbers as with buying. You can select all, or choose any number in-between.


Additionally from the screen we can set the price levels of equipment, this can be done for the whole set or individually for each equipment. You can set the price to be 25% higher or lower than the normal price, this is done in order to not overcomplicate the economic gameplay here. Fully Variable prices would be very complex to understand as a player and be at odds with the economic detail of the rest of the game. This inconsistency would make the pricing very troublesome to understand, keep stable and to keep free from exploits. Generally this would detract from the core gameplay of HoI in a negative way, taking time and concentration away from the warfighting for something less useful. The final total EC value is shown at the bottom of the window if you want to see the effects of your pricing choices.
Now we can see all of our equipment has been added to our market for sale.
We have now received our first purchase requests and you can see our equipment has been taken from our market listing as it is reserved while the requests are pending. Let take a look at one of these requests
Here we can see Sweden is looking to buy the 35 light tanks we put up on the market. In the request we can see all of the necessary contract details to make an informed decision. Of course if we had auto accepted purchase requests this would have already been automatically accepted and the contract would be ongoing already.
And now we can see our purchase of american equipment and our sales of equipment to portugal and sweden all in one menu allowing you to easily keep contract of you ongoing contracts and if there are any issues with deliveries. We can also filter this list to just buying or selling if you have lots of contracts all at the same time, and we cancel contracts from here if you need to do so. Going back to the buy menu lets take a look at some of the sorting and filtering options that help in the later game when there is significantly more equipment on the market. First lets look at the sorting options. First we can sort by the amount on the market.
And we can sort by the EC cost
Now onto filters; we can sort by country and by equipment type

Finally we get to subsidies. Subsidies are a way of getting a better deal with purchasing contracts, you can get them from national focus and decisions or any other bit of content. An example of this can be found in the danish focus tree where you can get subsidies for buying aircraft if you choose to seek external sources. As mentioned subsidies target specific equipment types such as fighters and can be limited to contracts with specific countries as well. They work by having an EC value and when applied to a contract they will match the EC generated by your factories until the EC value of the subsidy is drained. So if 1 civ produces 5 EC/day then the subsidy will also provide 5 EC per day for each civ allocated to the contract.


With the general flow we will look at the detailed mechanics of how payment works. We are paid for contracts in EC generated by factories assigned by the buyer. Instead of receiving those factories directly to use, you are given the EC output of those factories to boost your own civilian factories. We opted for this solution in order to improve the granularity of bilateral trade, as well as to give the seller a new kind of incentive to take part in trade.
Here we can see our EC income from all of our current contracts, any collected EC is stored in our EC surplus here in the market window.
Here we can see the EC surplus being applied to your construction queue to boost it above the normal maximum rate. The amount you can boost a construction is based on your trade law. Here we are on export focus which gives us a 10% boost on top of the base 25%. This can also be affected by other construction boosts. The important thing to understand is you do not receive temporary foreign factories, you receive their EC output which boosts your own civilian constructions. As an addendum to the addition of the international market we have adjusted lend lease in order to better fit to the new world market. So let's talk about the changes there. Firstly, subjects can no longer always use lend lease and are subject to the same limits as other countries. Now subject levels have modifiers to the required world tension in order to use lend lease.
In addition to this ideology and laws impact the tension requirements for lend lease, fascists and communists will find it harder to give equipment for free to there allies compared to before as will countries who operate on tighter trade laws
Countries on closed economy and special cases such as the USA can also block access to certain markets or totally block all market access so be careful before taking foci like the neutrality act.
That's all for this week, as always please do ask if you have any questions about the feature and Ill do my best to answer you. Next week we will be looking at the final art DD, you will get to see more 3D models, 2D art (including the new loading screen art) and the coveted achievements coming with Arms against tyranny, I hope to see you there. C0RAX Out.

Generals! The fourth and final Feature Breakdown video for Arms Against Tyranny is out NOW over on our YouTube channel! This one spotlights the new Military Industrial Organizations feature, as well as the upcoming changes to Support Companies! Make sure to check out the video! [previewyoutube=Kx7X-hDaiNc;full][/previewyoutube]

Hello there it's me C0RAX. It's time for another feature dev diary and this week we are going to look at military industrial organisations (MIOs). Now we talked about the concepts of the MIOs in the Dev corner in may but since then we have done a lot of work taking onboard internal and community feedback and from that work we have changed lots of things. This means that some of the things we talked about previously in the dev corner won't be true anymore. That's enough prefacing so let's get into it, let's see what the finished MIOs look like. So to reiterate what we went over in the last dev corner here is what we identified and how we wanted to improve it. Firstly we have the current model of companies in HOI. Currently we have to provide static modifiers and sometimes change them via scripted decisions or focus rewards, this makes them very un-interactive and mostly something you click once and then forget about, it's just another modifier on your country. By creating a more organic system to upgrade your design companies you the player can now decide what these upgrades are and tailor them to fit your playstyle. Additionally we can now reward the player for using a design company as opposed to simply having you save up a resource and click a button, rewarding you for putting effort into them. From this we had an intent and goals established.

Intent

• Create a sense of a living organisation the player can interact with rather than a static bonus as with current design companies.

Goals

• Allow the player to define their designer direction.
• Integrate design companies into production
• Provide a framework for national specialisms that can be used on the world stage

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