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!


Hello! My name is Gareth (AKA MordredViking). I’ve grown to really like the MIO system we have in the game, and wanted to expand the unique variants (ie, the special nodes which certain MIOs get). First up, the USA.
For the tanks, I wanted to add more differentiation between Chrysler (quality), Army Ordnance (balanced) and Detroit Arsenal (quantity), so I have tweaked their initial traits and added some new unique nodes to represent this.

For example, this node for the Detroit Arsenal reflects its position as the first, purpose built tank production factory.
Next up, let’s take a look at the navy.
Here, I was rather more rigorous in changing the archetype to reflect their historical output. Norfolk had a significant role in the production of destroyers and liberty ships. Electric Boat Company was a pretty dedicated submarine producer, Brooklyn was the originator of many of Americas battleships, while Newport News had some of the largest drydocks, and was capable of maintaining the carrier fleet.

For example, to reflect Newport’s ability towards carriers, they were granted more carrier production output from their initial trait (vs Task Force Ship Builders which just adds HPs).
Next up, Aircraft.
I wanted to highlight some of the similarities between the design philosophies between North American Aviation and Lockheed, their initial trait and unique nodes now reflect a specialization towards Light or Medium aircraft while both give bonuses to range. Once again, more unique nodes were added to each MIO to give the USA some more flavour.

Unfortunately I didn’t have time to do more for the Small Arms / Artillery / Motorized MIOs, but I hope to be able to spend more time on these (and other nations) in the future.


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- USA MIO: Changed description of North American Aviation and Lockheed to better describe their roles.
- USA MIO: Added new variants to Douglas, Detroit Arsenal, Brooklyn Naval Yard and Norfolk Naval Yard
- USA MIO: Switched Norfolk Naval Yard to Escort and Brooklyn Naval Yard to Taskforce
- USA MIO: Changed Electric Boat Company from Raiding Fleet to Submarine Designer
- Updated Paraguay and Uruguay with more accurate victory points
- The Chilean decision to release the Inuit now grants them cores on Attu Island and the Chuckchi Peninsula, as well as ownership of them if they are controlled by Chile or one of their subjects.
- Fixed multiple issues with the Canadian focus "The Newfoundland Act". The focus now has a clearer available tooltip. It should also be able to be taken in the patriation path, as the "demanded patriation" opinion modifier is now set to last for three years, instead of indefinitely.
- Fixed various issues with the final focuses in the shared Chinese focus tree, adding is_subject = no as well as a check for Japan not being a subject in the "Dominate Japan" focus.
- Fixed and updated targeting and bypasses for the Estonian focuses "Unite Karelia" and "Unite the Sami".
- Fixed an issue in the Romanian focus tree where the focus "Appoint Pro-Axis Government" would say it unlocked a decision to join the allies, despite instead unlocking one for the Axis, and made the effects of the three focuses "Appoint Pro-Axis Government", "Appoint Pro-Allied Government" and "Appoint Pro-Soviet Government" more readable.
- The "Caliphate of Cordoba" formable nations decisions no longer require you to control impassable desert states, as their controller can be more than finicky at times.
- Fixed incorrect grammar in the Norwegian Infanteridivisjon and Binærdivisjon unit templates.
- Mengkukuo no longer has MIOs only accessible through the shared Chinese focus tree, and has also received a generic plane MIO.
- Fixed a long-standing issue where the weekly negative change in the Italian Balance of Power wasn't removed upon them regaining control of their core states.
- Fixed an issue where the focus "British Guns" would only show two out of the three unlocked decisions, and added subsidies to the artillery decision to make it match the anti-air and anti-tank decisions.
- Added Luxembourg to the list of targets in the French focus "Natural Borders of France", as it is west of the Rhine.
- Poland now gets a puppet wargoal against Czechoslovakia if they are a puppet of another nation in their focus "King of Bohemia", instead of simply stealing said puppet.
- Added the option for a non-aligned Lithuania to adopt Mstislav Dobuzhinsky's flag design through a decision.

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- Fix the speed of some scrollbar when using mouse wheel
- State mapmode now shows modifiers at state level

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- Fixed Sinkiangs flag to use Cheng-Chi-Tsai's second flag, as the old one was their pre-1934 version.

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- ICE: King Knud now gains proper skills when made an admiral.
- Fixed issue with Soviet Union not being able to generate a wargoal after a country rejected an ultimatum.
- Added decisions and events for Denmark's overlord to request the Faroes and Greenland back after these have been occupied by the UK and USA respectively.
- Denmark will now automatically declare war on one or several nations when completing the conquest focuses in the Occupation Branch.
- Enabled Danish Medals
- Added the is_subject = no available clause to multiple Turkish focuses regarding factions, wars and changing ideology. Also added a clause to the Turkish focus "Renew the non-agression pact with the Soviets", to disallow taking it when at war with them.
- Chile: Fixed an inverted tooltip for Encourage Bond purchases
- URG: Fixed an issue where Tour to italy wouldn't give you the tanks that you were supposed to get
- The Ottoman Empires decision to core the Khedivate of Egypt now includes the state of Cairo.
- China and Communist China now have the shared focus "Incite Foreign Investors" already completed in the 1939 start date, so that they no longer have completed focuses beneath them without having done their prerequisite focus.
- Prince Paul should now get the Collaborator King trait as intended when going down the fascist branch.
- Fixed the Romanian focus "Invite German Advisors" granting them access to Germany, and not the other way around as intended.
- Fixed an issue with the claims gained from the French "Congress of Paris" event chain which would not grant claims on the new African states added in BBA.
- Prevent exploit where already produced equipment could be modified by hiding it in the market stockpile
- Fix the Alaska Chromium prospecting bug
- Fixed an error where the names of one Argentinian and two Bolivian generals weren't showing up correctly.
- Fixed the illegal unit templates in the Romanian focuses "The Armored Division" and "Royal Guards Divison", the Spanish focus "The Army of Africa", the Lithuanian focus "Establish Royal Guards", and the Polish focus "The King's Guard".
- Fixed an issue where the "country is not Argentina" would show up on the Hold a national referendum decision no matter which country you were playing.
- Fixed an issue where the image wouldn't show for the Ethiopian event "Communist guerrillas in southern Ethiopia".
- The Soviet focus "Claim Bessarabia" now requires the owner of Bessarabia to also control the state, preventing some previous strange behaviours.
- Removed a TODO tooltip from the Ethiopian focus "A Libyan Revolt".
- Fixed the focus for Manchukuo "Claim the Mandate of Heaven", which was still using the old system for changing the name and portrait of a "character", so that it now actually interacts with the character of Puyi, thus letting him keep any traits he has gained.
- Fixed an issue where Iceland could still create communist uprisings in the UK against them even if they were communist themselves.
- Fixed an issue where choosing to go against the Soviet breakaway states in the Russian civil war would only put them at war with you, and not with Stalin as well.
- Paraguay: Fixed an instance where a general would get manouver bonus instead of planning
- Fixed invisible spirit for Legacy of the arms race if MtG was disabled
- Fixed various issues surrounding autonomy status and Indonesian civil war on_actions etc for Australia.
- Fixed a grammar mistake and a misspelling in Finnish "White Death" events.
- Fixed an issue where the Swedish focus "Reclaiming the Rus" would exclude giving a claim on Sao Tome instead of Crimea.
- Swapped out the train reliability effect in Soviet advisor Lazar Kaganovich's trait, as it is not applicable to trains.
- Fixed an issue where the British focus "Global Defense" would check if Malaya owned the state Malta, instead of checking for said aforementioned nation.
- Fixed an issue where the Chilean fascist advisors gained from the focus "Utilize National-Populism" would get transferred to the opposing side in the civil war when going down the Araucanian branch of the focus tree.
- Fixed two typos regarding the Treaty of Brussels decision and event.
- Fixed multiple occasions where Australia could build radar and air bases in the Central Australian impassable area.
- Fixed an issue where the lend_lease_tension_with_overlord modifier in the autonomy "Satellite" was broken and had no effect.
- added text to an event option that was missing
- Adds a requirement for Germany to control at least one coastal state for the focus "Expand Dockyard Facilities" to be available, adds loc to describe effects if the focus is not avail to avoid the standard "has no effect" string
- Fixes typo "Mathilda" -> "Matilda" for starting production of tanks in UK start in 1939
- Adds requirement for Spain to be fully independent before taking the focus "Support French Communists" to prevent strange behavior with French Communist Civil War
- Localizes the operative names Robert Ivanov, Nadiya Morozova and Julieta Soria from the focuses "Form the EICI" and "Sway the Neighbors"
- The Polish Międzymorze branch now requires the recipient country to be fully independent. Switches from is_puppet = no to is_subject = no to avoid edge cases
- Fixed various issues with cores and requirements for formable nations, notably Turan, Macedonia, Turkestan, Majapahit and Persia.
- Fixed unlocalized plane module category (Defense Turrets x2)
- Fixed an issue where the Italian focus "Corpo di truppe Voluntaire" would be bypassed automatically if reached before the Spanish Civil War had begun.
- The Anarchist economy law "Collectivized Society" now has its base expectation of 15% consumer goods back, having been accidental made into a 30% factories factor modifier.
- Fixed an error that caused you to be able to invite your faction members and puppets into MERCOSUL as Brazil.
- Fixed issue with German focus "Puppet Turkey" being unavailable when Greece was a German ally or fully occupied by Germany or German allies.
- Fixed the Free French focus "Intervention in Madagascar" to have the "is not in faction with Free France" available trigger, to match the other intervention focuses.
- When completing German focus Puppet Turkey, Soviets will now receive Turkish states as long as Turkey previously controlled them, and the state Van is now also transferred to Soviets.
- Fixed issues with some of the Communist Chinese focuses when having gotten the focus tree as a Communist Warlord through the focus "Proclaim Rival Government".
- Fixed issue for the music players' weighted shuffle where half the songs were not eligible
- Fixed an issue where Yugoslav military high command Borivoje Mirkovic's Portrait was replaced by a generic one.
- Fixed various unit and vp/building locations in the northern Amazon where they would previously show up outside of the specified province.
- Fix hotjoin ctd when division designer was opened
- Fixed additional incorrect and missing cores and requirements for the formable nations Al Andalus, Arabia and the Empire of Zion, as well as made Regnum Bospori become a Roman puppet upon their release.
- Fix to !11630 ( Fixed an issue with the British focus "Global Defense"), making the Malta stuff target Malta and Malaysia stuff target Malaysia.
- Soviet National Spirits Curtailment of the Collective Farms and The People's Revolution should now have the intended Recruitable Population modifier, with proper impact on the available manpower.
- Fixed issue in which the Synthetic Refineries granted by the focus Tire Factory at Nokia were not appearing if the DLC Arms Against Tyranny was not active.
- Fixes to make sure events only sends to overlord and not puppet, only allows for the compromise option of the target joining the faction if ITA is the faction leader
- Clean-up of some duplicated and messed GFX, aiming to fix some issues with a few DLC portraits and tech icons.
- Fixed a typo in Italian communist leader Antonio Gramsci's trait Cultural Hegemony Theorist.
- Fixed an issue where Brazil could take the focus Potenj River Conference despite being a puppet. Also changed the focus filter for the focus "Establish Royal College of Rio de Janeiro" from political to research.
- Soviet Union: Fixed an issue with decisions to remove Junior Army/Navy Officers Purged national spirits not showing up after assassinating Stalin. These decisions should now show up after swapping country leader in either of the opposition branches or after assassinating Stalin in the Right Opposition branch.
- Soviet Union: The Right Opposition focus "Coup d'etat" will properly remove any Anti-Soviet Military Thinking national spirit (previously it would remove only the Army one, now it will check for and remove the Navy and Airforce ones too).
- Improved triggers in all the national spirits related to the purges to ensure they will be transferred to the Stalinist side in case of a civil war, even when Stalin is dead.
- Fixed a rare CTD in peace conferences



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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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- USA MIO: Changed description of North American Aviation and Lockheed to better describe their roles.
- USA MIO: Added new variants to Douglas, Detroit Arsenal, Brooklyn Naval Yard and Norfolk Naval Yard
- USA MIO: Switched Norfolk Naval Yard to Escort and Brooklyn Naval Yard to Taskforce
- USA MIO: Changed Electric Boat Company from Raiding Fleet to Submarine Designer
- Updated Paraguay and Uruguay with more accurate victory points
- The Chilean decision to release the Inuit now grants them cores on Attu Island and the Chuckchi Peninsula, as well as ownership of them if they are controlled by Chile or one of their subjects.
- Fixed multiple issues with the Canadian focus "The Newfoundland Act". The focus now has a clearer available tooltip. It should also be able to be taken in the patriation path, as the "demanded patriation" opinion modifier is now set to last for three years, instead of indefinitely.
- Fixed various issues with the final focuses in the shared Chinese focus tree, adding is_subject = no as well as a check for Japan not being a subject in the "Dominate Japan" focus.
- Fixed and updated targeting and bypasses for the Estonian focuses "Unite Karelia" and "Unite the Sami".
- Fixed an issue in the Romanian focus tree where the focus "Appoint Pro-Axis Government" would say it unlocked a decision to join the allies, despite instead unlocking one for the Axis, and made the effects of the three focuses "Appoint Pro-Axis Government", "Appoint Pro-Allied Government" and "Appoint Pro-Soviet Government" more readable.
- The "Caliphate of Cordoba" formable nations decisions no longer require you to control impassable desert states, as their controller can be more than finicky at times.
- Fixed incorrect grammar in the Norwegian Infanteridivisjon and Binærdivisjon unit templates.
- Mengkukuo no longer has MIOs only accessible through the shared Chinese focus tree, and has also received a generic plane MIO.
- Fixed a long-standing issue where the weekly negative change in the Italian Balance of Power wasn't removed upon them regaining control of their core states.
- Fixed an issue where the focus "British Guns" would only show two out of the three unlocked decisions, and added subsidies to the artillery decision to make it match the anti-air and anti-tank decisions.
- Added Luxembourg to the list of targets in the French focus "Natural Borders of France", as it is west of the Rhine.
- Poland now gets a puppet wargoal against Czechoslovakia if they are a puppet of another nation in their focus "King of Bohemia", instead of simply stealing said puppet.
- Added the option for a non-aligned Lithuania to adopt Mstislav Dobuzhinsky's flag design through a decision.

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- Fix the speed of some scrollbar when using mouse wheel
- State mapmode now shows modifiers at state level

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- Fixed Sinkiangs flag to use Cheng-Chi-Tsai's second flag, as the old one was their pre-1934 version.

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- ICE: King Knud now gains proper skills when made an admiral.
- Fixed issue with Soviet Union not being able to generate a wargoal after a country rejected an ultimatum.
- Added decisions and events for Denmark's overlord to request the Faroes and Greenland back after these have been occupied by the UK and USA respectively.
- Denmark will now automatically declare war on one or several nations when completing the conquest focuses in the Occupation Branch.
- Enabled Danish Medals
- Added the is_subject = no available clause to multiple Turkish focuses regarding factions, wars and changing ideology. Also added a clause to the Turkish focus "Renew the non-agression pact with the Soviets", to disallow taking it when at war with them.
- Chile: Fixed an inverted tooltip for Encourage Bond purchases
- URG: Fixed an issue where Tour to italy wouldn't give you the tanks that you were supposed to get
- The Ottoman Empires decision to core the Khedivate of Egypt now includes the state of Cairo.
- China and Communist China now have the shared focus "Incite Foreign Investors" already completed in the 1939 start date, so that they no longer have completed focuses beneath them without having done their prerequisite focus.
- Prince Paul should now get the Collaborator King trait as intended when going down the fascist branch.
- Fixed the Romanian focus "Invite German Advisors" granting them access to Germany, and not the other way around as intended.
- Fixed an issue with the claims gained from the French "Congress of Paris" event chain which would not grant claims on the new African states added in BBA.
- Prevent exploit where already produced equipment could be modified by hiding it in the market stockpile
- Fix the Alaska Chromium prospecting bug
- Fixed an error where the names of one Argentinian and two Bolivian generals weren't showing up correctly.
- Fixed the illegal unit templates in the Romanian focuses "The Armored Division" and "Royal Guards Divison", the Spanish focus "The Army of Africa", the Lithuanian focus "Establish Royal Guards", and the Polish focus "The King's Guard".
- Fixed an issue where the "country is not Argentina" would show up on the Hold a national referendum decision no matter which country you were playing.
- Fixed an issue where the image wouldn't show for the Ethiopian event "Communist guerrillas in southern Ethiopia".
- The Soviet focus "Claim Bessarabia" now requires the owner of Bessarabia to also control the state, preventing some previous strange behaviours.
- Removed a TODO tooltip from the Ethiopian focus "A Libyan Revolt".
- Fixed the focus for Manchukuo "Claim the Mandate of Heaven", which was still using the old system for changing the name and portrait of a "character", so that it now actually interacts with the character of Puyi, thus letting him keep any traits he has gained.
- Fixed an issue where Iceland could still create communist uprisings in the UK against them even if they were communist themselves.
- Fixed an issue where choosing to go against the Soviet breakaway states in the Russian civil war would only put them at war with you, and not with Stalin as well.
- Paraguay: Fixed an instance where a general would get manouver bonus instead of planning
- Fixed invisible spirit for Legacy of the arms race if MtG was disabled
- Fixed various issues surrounding autonomy status and Indonesian civil war on_actions etc for Australia.
- Fixed a grammar mistake and a misspelling in Finnish "White Death" events.
- Fixed an issue where the Swedish focus "Reclaiming the Rus" would exclude giving a claim on Sao Tome instead of Crimea.
- Swapped out the train reliability effect in Soviet advisor Lazar Kaganovich's trait, as it is not applicable to trains.
- Fixed an issue where the British focus "Global Defense" would check if Malaya owned the state Malta, instead of checking for said aforementioned nation.
- Fixed an issue where the Chilean fascist advisors gained from the focus "Utilize National-Populism" would get transferred to the opposing side in the civil war when going down the Araucanian branch of the focus tree.
- Fixed two typos regarding the Treaty of Brussels decision and event.
- Fixed multiple occasions where Australia could build radar and air bases in the Central Australian impassable area.
- Fixed an issue where the lend_lease_tension_with_overlord modifier in the autonomy "Satellite" was broken and had no effect.
- added text to an event option that was missing
- Adds a requirement for Germany to control at least one coastal state for the focus "Expand Dockyard Facilities" to be available, adds loc to describe effects if the focus is not avail to avoid the standard "has no effect" string
- Fixes typo "Mathilda" -> "Matilda" for starting production of tanks in UK start in 1939
- Adds requirement for Spain to be fully independent before taking the focus "Support French Communists" to prevent strange behavior with French Communist Civil War
- Localizes the operative names Robert Ivanov, Nadiya Morozova and Julieta Soria from the focuses "Form the EICI" and "Sway the Neighbors"
- The Polish Międzymorze branch now requires the recipient country to be fully independent. Switches from is_puppet = no to is_subject = no to avoid edge cases
- Fixed various issues with cores and requirements for formable nations, notably Turan, Macedonia, Turkestan, Majapahit and Persia.
- Fixed unlocalized plane module category (Defense Turrets x2)
- Fixed an issue where the Italian focus "Corpo di truppe Voluntaire" would be bypassed automatically if reached before the Spanish Civil War had begun.
- The Anarchist economy law "Collectivized Society" now has its base expectation of 15% consumer goods back, having been accidental made into a 30% factories factor modifier.
- Fixed an error that caused you to be able to invite your faction members and puppets into MERCOSUL as Brazil.
- Fixed issue with German focus "Puppet Turkey" being unavailable when Greece was a German ally or fully occupied by Germany or German allies.
- Fixed the Free French focus "Intervention in Madagascar" to have the "is not in faction with Free France" available trigger, to match the other intervention focuses.
- When completing German focus Puppet Turkey, Soviets will now receive Turkish states as long as Turkey previously controlled them, and the state Van is now also transferred to Soviets.
- Fixed issues with some of the Communist Chinese focuses when having gotten the focus tree as a Communist Warlord through the focus "Proclaim Rival Government".
- Fixed issue for the music players' weighted shuffle where half the songs were not eligible
- Fixed an issue where Yugoslav military high command Borivoje Mirkovic's Portrait was replaced by a generic one.
- Fixed various unit and vp/building locations in the northern Amazon where they would previously show up outside of the specified province.
- Fix hotjoin ctd when division designer was opened
- Fixed additional incorrect and missing cores and requirements for the formable nations Al Andalus, Arabia and the Empire of Zion, as well as made Regnum Bospori become a Roman puppet upon their release.
- Fix to !11630 ( Fixed an issue with the British focus "Global Defense"), making the Malta stuff target Malta and Malaysia stuff target Malaysia.
- Soviet National Spirits Curtailment of the Collective Farms and The People's Revolution should now have the intended Recruitable Population modifier, with proper impact on the available manpower.
- Fixed issue in which the Synthetic Refineries granted by the focus Tire Factory at Nokia were not appearing if the DLC Arms Against Tyranny was not active.
- Fixes to make sure events only sends to overlord and not puppet, only allows for the compromise option of the target joining the faction if ITA is the faction leader
- Clean-up of some duplicated and messed GFX, aiming to fix some issues with a few DLC portraits and tech icons.
- Fixed a typo in Italian communist leader Antonio Gramsci's trait Cultural Hegemony Theorist.
- Fixed an issue where Brazil could take the focus Potenj River Conference despite being a puppet. Also changed the focus filter for the focus "Establish Royal College of Rio de Janeiro" from political to research.
- Soviet Union: Fixed an issue with decisions to remove Junior Army/Navy Officers Purged national spirits not showing up after assassinating Stalin. These decisions should now show up after swapping country leader in either of the opposition branches or after assassinating Stalin in the Right Opposition branch.
- Soviet Union: The Right Opposition focus "Coup d'etat" will properly remove any Anti-Soviet Military Thinking national spirit (previously it would remove only the Army one, now it will check for and remove the Navy and Airforce ones too).
- Improved triggers in all the national spirits related to the purges to ensure they will be transferred to the Stalinist side in case of a civil war, even when Stalin is dead.
- Fixed a rare CTD in peace conferences



Let us know what you think down below, and have yourselves a great day!

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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 8th 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!
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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!

• Hearts of Iron IV 80% off

• Hearts of Iron IV: Arms Against Tyranny 20% off
  
• Hearts of Iron IV: By Blood Alone 30% off
  
• Hearts of Iron IV: No Step Back 40% off
  
• Hearts of Iron IV: La Résistance 50% off
  
• Hearts of Iron IV: Man the Guns 60% off

• Hearts of Iron IV: Battle for the Bosporus 60% off

• Hearts of Iron IV: Songs of the Eastern Front 50% off
  
• Hearts of Iron IV: Eastern Front Planes 50% off
  
• Hearts of Iron IV: Allied Speeches Pack 60% off
  
• Hearts of Iron IV: Radio Pack 50% off
  
• Hearts of Iron IV: Sabaton Soundtrack 50% off
  
• Hearts of Iron IV: Sabaton Soundtrack Vol. 2 50% off
  
• Hearts of Iron IV: Allied Armor 60% off
  
• Hearts of Iron IV: Axis Armor 50% off

I know it's been quite some time since our last War Effort patch, but we're restarting very soon with the "War Effort Roadmap"! The content will vary from patch to patch, but the size of the updates will be similar to last year's. They will also arrive monthly, with quite a few planned before the upcoming expansion about [REDACTED], which is arriving later this year.

Now for a recap of what War Effort is for those of you that might have forgotten or for any new faces that are present!

What is War Effort? It's what's in the middle of a maintenance patch and a major update. They tend to include bug fixes, small quality-of-life tweaks and changes, gameplay balance adjustments, but most excitingly, they include new gameplay perspectives and focuses for some countries with older content. Now, what that means is that we revisit older released content and give it a more modern look.

That all sounds awesome, right? But it's important to know that this does not involve large changes to major systems, feature-level implementations, or non-fix changes to key calculations (combat, production, etc.). This is partly to ensure that mod support during these small updates remains manageable. We will receive larger changes for major updates that come alongside DLCs.

Now, what you've all been waiting for. Below, you can see the new and improved Roadmap! And trust me, there's more lurking beyond the shadows.

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.


Since our update last week, which added "Country Pack" to the beginning of the names for Battle for the Bosporus and Trial of Allegiance, we have received more feedback about the unclear naming of our DLCs. Of particular concern is the Subscription, referred to as the "Expansion Subscription," which may suggest to some that it only includes expansions when it actually encompasses all DLCs for the game. As a result, we have made the following changes to provide better transparency:

• Hearts of Iron IV: Eastern Front Planes Pack > Unit Pack - Hearts of Iron IV: Eastern Front Planes
  
• Hearts of Iron IV: Eastern Front Music Pack > Music - Hearts of Iron IV: Songs of the Eastern Front
  
• Hearts of Iron IV: Axis Armor Pack > Unit Pack - Hearts of Iron IV: Axis Armor
  
• Hearts of Iron IV: Radio Pack > Music - Hearts of Iron IV: Radio Pack
  
• Hearts of Iron IV: Allied Armor Pack > Unit Pack - Hearts of Iron IV: Allied Armor
  
• Hearts of Iron IV: Allied Speeches Music Pack > Music - Hearts of Iron IV: Allied Speeches Pack
  
• Hearts of Iron IV - Expansion Subscription > Hearts of Iron IV - DLC Subscription

Additionally, at 18:00 CET today, Waking the Tiger, Together for Victory and Death or Dishonor will have their store pages removed, as they will then be included in the base game purchase of Hearts of Iron IV for $49.99. However, the DLCs will not be fully integrated at this time, so you will still be able to toggle them on and off in your game launcher. Full integration is scheduled for a later time; we'll provide updates on this shortly The Anniversary Pack will also have its Steam page removed as it is already included in the base game of Hearts of Iron IV. We do not see a reason to have its own store page, as it currently only serves to confuse some of our new players.


Now at 15:00 CET, our 1.14.3 Patch is live! With plenty of new balance changes and bug fixes.

Feel free to leave your feedback in this thread or in the bug report forum[forum.paradoxplaza.com] as usual, especially if you encounter new issues not present in 1.14.3, or if something marked as fixed in the below changelog still occurs for you.

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- South America Shared: Reduced Maximum Command Power Increase from Joint Operations Command (from 30% to 15%)
- South America Shared: Reduced the org and core defense gain of strength of the common solider to 4% (from 5%). Also reduced the infantry bonus gained
- South America Shared: Reduced attack modifier for Spearhead tanks specialization from 10% to 3.5%
- South America Shared: Reduced specializing in heavy guns attack for artillery from 10% to 3.5%
- South America Shared: Reduced specializing in heavy guns AA production reduction cost from 20% to 6%
- South America Shared: Reduced specializing in heavy guns AT production reduction cost from 25% to 15%
- South America Shared: Removed Recruitable pop factor from Increase Conscription focus
- Reduced division defense from increased army professionalism from 10% to 5%. attack and org from 5% to 4%. Reduced traning time from +25% penalty to +15% penalty
- Argentina: Reduced Women in the industry and state unions max efficiency factor bonus from 15% and 10% (25% total) to 7.5% (15% max)
- Argentina: Reduced regulated salaries efficiency cap from 15% to 7.5%
- Argentina: Reduced daily xp gain from US army training to 0.1xp/d (from 0.2xp/d)
- Argentina: Reduced maintain neutrality spirit stability (from 10% to 5%) and efficiency cap (from 10% to 5%)
- Argentina: Reduced our own path spirit recruitable pop factor from 30% to 15%
- Argentina: Reduced spirit of the conquistadors attack (from 20% to 6%)
- Argentina: Reduced Argentine Nationalism conscription factor (from 15% to 7%) and Civilian construction speed (from 10% to 6%)
- Argentina: increased war division temp manpower gain from 50 weekly to 250 weekly
- Chile: Replaced mapuche social classes weekly stability with a flat stability factor
- Chile: Elena Caffarena gives a flat stability factor instead of a weekly stability
- Chile: Reduced Embrace Indigenous Corporatism Factory output (from 10% to 5%)
- Chile: Expand the agricultural field gives 1 additional build slot (from 3 to 4)
- Old Guard for Army now gives 0.2 army XP daily (from 0.3) due to costing only 50pp
- Chile: Gabriela Mistral - Reduced PP gain (from 20% to 15%)
- Chile: Transport Minister no longer gives civ construction speed. Increase railway and hub construction speed (from 10% to 15%)
- Chile: Minister of Trade development - Reduced Trade law cost factor (from -30% to -15%) and consumer goods factor (from -10% to -5%)
- Chile: Father of Industrialization - Reduced Construction bonus (From 15% to 7%)
- Chile: Minister of Defense - Reduced MIL construction speed (from 15% to 10%). Reduced Defense on core territory (from 10% to 6%)
- TOA Shared Minister of Defense - Reduced mil construction speed (from 10% to 7.5%)
- Chile: Reduced merchant marine manufacturer discount on convoy production (from -50% to -20%) and reduced their reliability gained (from +30% to +10%)
- Chile: Unified in spirit - Reduced Org gain (from 10% to 5%)
- Chile: Reduced Army attack of Patagonian Giants to 5% (from 10%), defense to 8% (from 10%) and breakthrough to 8% (from 10%)
- Chile: Reduced the miners representative building speed (from 10% to 6%) and its max efficiency factor (from 10% to 5%)
- Chile: Reduced conservative businessman civilian speed (from 15% to 10%) and its max efficiency factor (from 10% to 5%)
- TOA Shared: Reduced the minister of lands and colonizaition non-core-manpower to 4% (from 10%) and 6% (from 15%) from version 2. Increased global building slots gained (from 5% to 15%, and 25% for version 2)
- Chile: Reduced Minister of Economy and commerce trade laws cost (from -50% to -25%)
- Chile: Reduced defender of araucanian soverighnty factory output (8% from 15%)
- Chile: Reduced president of the central bank consumer goods reduction (to -5% from -10%)
- TOA: Reduced social economist consumer goods factor reduction (from -15% to -7%)
- Chile: Apostlic prefect of Araucania reduced factory output bonus (from 10% to 6%)
- Chile: Reduced Emperor Of France and the Americas attack core factor (from 15% to 5%) and core defense (from 20% to 10%), war support (from 15% to 10%), and stability (from 15% to 10%)
- Chile: Reduced Carabineros de Chile army core attack (from 10% to 5%) and core defense (from 15% to 7%)
- Chile: Reduced Christian Democrat pp gain (from 15% to 10%)
- Chile: Reduced Laizzes faire civ construction speed (from 20% to 10%). Reduces law cost reduction (from -50% to -25%)
- Chile: Reduced High Quality Nitrate bonus (from 10% attack to 5% attack)
- Chile: Utilize Famae Mil reduced by 1
- Chile: Reduced Carabineros de Chile Core attack (from 10% to 5%) and core defense (from 15% to 10%)
- Chile: Reduced factory output from opressed working class (from 20% to 10%) and consumer goods (from -15% to -10%).
- Chile: Reduced Francoist Model Defense (from 10% to 5%) and factory output (from 10% to 5%)
- Chile: Reduced Max attack bonus gain from Pan historic rhetoric (from 10% to 6%) and defense (from 10% to 6%)
- Chile: Reduced Max attack bonus gain from Pan historic rhetoric (from 10% to 6%) and defense (from 10% to 6%)
- Reduced max attack bonus gain from the francoist model (from max 10% attack to max 5% attack) and defense (from max 10% to max 5%)
- Shared focus tree: Reduced arty attack gained from heavy Guns industries (from 10% to 5%) and defense (from 15% to 10%). Gives 1 research boost instead of 2
- Chile: Spirit of the conquistadors now gives 6% breakthrough instead of 10% attack
- Chile: Fascist Theologian gives 8% pp instead of 15%. Other stats unchanged
- Chile: Reduced the true enemy factory output gain (from 10% to 5%)
- Paraguay: Reduced Flourishing Economy (from 20% output to 15%)

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# Gameplay
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- Brazil now has updated infantry equipment names and icons.
- Added an extra flag for US of Brazil
- Added some extra flags for forming the United Kingdom/Empires of Brazil/Portugal and altered an event so that Brazil can now annex Portugal rather than puppet them to form the United Kingdoms.
- Changed some icons for Uruguay & Paraguay

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# AI
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- AI no longer overwrites other countries' supply node motorization settings

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# Modding
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- Fix bug where on_ruling_party_changed sometimes didn't get the correct old_ideology_token
- Adding on_ruling_party_change_immediate on-action as a deprecated and unsafe backwards-compatibility for mods that rely on that behavior

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# Bugfix
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- Added missing text for America Decolonized achivement
- Fixed a typo for the DEF name for Nordic Defence council
- Fixed a rare crash caused by government in exile eating resources without freeing them
- Fixed an issue where the Chilean communist focus "Propose Closer Cooperation" wouldn't properly be able to target your subjects, thus preventing you from annexing the way you were meant to be able to.
- Fixed an issue causing the Swedish AI to enable all strategy plans
- "Brazil/Argentina makes aggressive moves on Uruguay" event no longer triggers when TOA is disabled
- Fixed bugs where research agreements would kick out members for both Argentina and the Soviets
- Fixed a bug for the fascist demagogue causing "Fascism on the rise" decisions to appear
- Fixed a bug where Argentina would retain wargoal on UK after taking the Falkland and South Georgia islands
- Fixed a bunch of local_resources modifiers in state scope that should have been state_resources
- An attempt to maintain our neutrality bypasses if you are communist
- Added missing flags for America do Sul formable (Brazil focus tree)
- Brazil - 'Anuae!' national focus now gives a locked template to prevent an exploit.
- Brazil - 'The International Crisis' national focus now sets the game rule 'can send volunteers' for Brazil.
- Uruguay: Removed ghost focus in Uruguay
- Paraguay: Fixed being able to take Mass Drafts before adopt minority languages
- Fixed an issue where Paraguay could join cominterm despite not being allowed to
- Generic "join" faction events can no longer be used to bypass "can_join_faction = no" rules
- Brazil - AI Brazil will join Allies on historical instead of sometimes ending up in the Comintern.
- Removed a character for Argentina which was causing problems with the fascist path.
- Removed slot in Nigers impassable terrain. Niger proper now is rural

Happy Map Painting!

As the flowers bloom and the world awakens anew, the Hearts of Iron IV team is thrilled to announce a Spring Sale celebration. Everyone knows that long military expeditions should start in the spring, so with campaign season upon us, we are excited to share not one, not two, but THREE DLCs for absolutely free: Death or Dishonor, Together for Victory, and Waking the Tiger.

It is clear that the Hearts of Iron IV: Starter Edition has become the go-to choice for newcomers, and is recommended by the veterans of our community for its comprehensive introduction to the vast and intricate world of Hearts of Iron IV. In our quest to continuously improve the gameplay experience for new recruits and seasoned generals alike, we've decided to integrate the above-mentioned three DLCs into the base game, ensuring every player enjoys a richer, more complete Hearts of Iron IV journey.

Our view is that while the experiences they contain add a great deal to Hearts of Iron IV, parts of the content within Together for Victory, Death or Dishonor and Waking the Tiger no longer match the scope and direction that has developed in the game over the last several years. In addition, there are numerous core mechanics that we would like to rely on in future content that are difficult to work with due to ownership limitations. By rolling these expansions into the core game, we open up new opportunities for utilizing the features they contain, and create new avenues for developing content our players are repeatedly asking for.

As we incorporate these DLCs into the base game by the end of the Spring Sale (21st March), failure to update your game could lead to disruptions, such as save game incompatibilities. Redeem your free DLCs now to ensure your conquests and campaigns continue smoothly without a hitch.

To claim your free DLCs, simply log into your Steam account during the Spring Sale 14th - 21st of March and visit the Hearts of Iron IV store page. From there, navigate to the DLC section where you'll find Death or Dishonor, Together for Victory, and Waking the Tiger ready for redemption.



Question: Will I receive a refund for the DLCs that are now free?
Answer: No, if you have recently purchased any of them, here is the Steam refund policy: DLC bought from the Steam store can be refunded within fourteen days of purchase, provided that the underlying title has been played for less than two hours since purchasing the DLC.

Question: Does this mean that Hearts of Iron IV development has stopped?
Answer: On the contrary, this will help future development as we can assume that all players now own the first 3 DLC.

Question: What happens to my saved data when the DLCs integrate into the base game?
Answer: If you didn't possess the DLCs when creating your save file, it will become corrupted and unusable once they are integrated on March 21st.

Question: Why is Starter Edition still available when the DLCs included in it are free?
Answer: Once the Spring Sale has concluded on 21 March, we will be converting the Starter Edition to the current base game. For now, the Starter Edition remains a convenient way to access the base and three free DLCs. So that new players don’t have to redeem the DLCs one by one. The Starter Edition is also currently available with a price reduction to match the base game price.


Base Game

• Hearts of Iron IV 70% off
  
• Hearts of Iron IV: Starter Edition 76% off

Expansions

• Hearts of Iron IV: By Blood Alone 30% off
  
• Hearts of Iron IV: No Step Back 30% off
  
• Hearts of Iron IV: La Résistance 50% off
  
• Hearts of Iron IV: Man the Guns 50% off

Country Pack

• Hearts of Iron IV: Battle for the Bosporus 50% off

Music & Model Packs

• Hearts of Iron IV: Eastern Front Music Pack 50% off
  
• Hearts of Iron IV: Eastern Front Planes Pack 50% off
  
• Hearts of Iron IV: Allied Speeches Music Pack 50% off
  
• Hearts of Iron IV: Radio Pack 50% off
  
• Hearts of Iron IV: Sabaton Soundtrack 50% off
  
• Hearts of Iron IV: Sabaton Soundtrack Vol. 2 50% off
  
• Hearts of Iron IV: Allied Armor Pack 50% off
  
• Hearts of Iron IV: Axis Armor Pack 50% off

Hello, Community Manager Katten here, I have some updates regarding the Steam Store. We've taken your feedback to heart regarding the clarity of Trial of Allegiance as a Country Pack. As a result, we've decided to rename both Trial of Allegiance and Battle for the Bosporus to include "Country Pack" at the beginning of their names. Please see the changes below:

• Hearts of Iron IV: Trial of Allegiance > Country Pack - Hearts of Iron IV: Trial of Allegiance
  
• Expansion - Hearts of Iron IV: Battle for the Bosporus > Country Pack - Hearts of Iron IV: Battle for the Bosporus

Greetings all!

Today marks the first dev diary since the release of Trial of Allegiance, so we’ll 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 today’s diary, our analytics engine is busy chugging away. So, we’ll have to hold off on that until the machine spirit has assessed the incoming preponderance of data.

The Elephant in the Room

It would be hard to talk about Trial of Allegiance without first mentioning that we’re acutely aware of its critical reception from fans. I see no reason not to be transparent about this, and I’m going to use today as an opportunity to talk about what it means to us and how we analyze reactions, so let’s dive into some of the facts:

Everything’s on Fire!

Well, actually no. Trial of Allegiance has thus far been one of our most stable releases in terms of bugs and player-encountered issues. This doesn’t mean there aren’t bugs: stuff always creeps through, but as you may have noticed by now, we’ve had an Open Beta running with a patch scheduled sometime today. The patch notes will be attached to the end of this document. Furthermore, we have another patch scheduled in next week to give us a chance to tackle more complex problems.

Due to the low incidence of bugs in the ToA content, we’re spending a bit more time on general improvements and things folks thought were lacking.

Developer’s Perspective: bugs are defects in the game - errors or unforeseen complexities that render part of the experience to not work as intended. We don’t usually consider design choices or outdated content as bugs unless they cause the first statement to apply, since that evaluation is often subjective.

Circles Within Circles

Our steam review score has taken a fairly heavy beating on Trial of Allegiance. Reviews on DLCs are notoriously hard to draw accurate conclusions from, as very few people tend to leave reviews compared to the overall number of people who bought a DLC. Trial of Allegiance is particularly notable in that regard, as there are fewer reviews overall than we would normally expect. It’s absolutely possible to theorize behind why that is, but that’s all those are: theories.

That said, we read every review. Aaand it’s quite hard, tbh. Being a venerable ancient of the internet, I could wax lyrical on toxicity, vocabulary, and dissociation, but at the end of the day folks leave reviews for a reason. The language they use isn’t as important as the sentiment they’re trying to convey, even if they don’t always know the right way to do it.

What we try and do, therefore, is to try and don our armor of not-taking-things-too-personally, and group negative reviews by common themes or sentiments.

For Trial of Allegiance, we assessed clear ‘meta’ groupings in order of weight*:

- Unhappiness about recent regional currency price adjustments
- Unhappiness about the price of the country pack
> Compared to other HOI4 expansions
> Other
- Bought it but wanted something different
> New mechanics, or
> A european expansion
- Unhappy with the quality of the release
> In relation to specific issues;
> In relation to mods
> Unclear/Unintelligible
> Unclear/Horrendously offensive

*This requires looking at global reviews, not english-language only: something we take quite seriously.

The exact weighting here changes a lot over time, but suffice it to say that the top grouping is significantly larger than any of the others, and the last grouping vice-versa.

But hang on, does this just mean we’re being review bombed by angry interest groups? Well, that would be a nice easy assumption that allows us to feel good about ourselves and go home for supper, but there doesn’t seem to be any coordinated effort here as far as we can tell.

What we can tell here is that folks commonly leave reviews for reasons unrelated to the content we made.

So, these are the findings. So far these have been presented as factual; now we take a more subjective view when it comes to reacting to the findings.

Regional Pricing

This one was a little unexpected, though in hindsight it shouldn’t have been. Looking back over recent reviews on our other expansions, we see the same trend.

In January, Paradox made efforts to normalize pricing across various currency regions according to (as I understand it) a standard used by Valve. On HoI, we saw this as a mostly administrative change, and did not, I think, ask enough questions about the effect it might have on our game-specific player base.

I am not promising any sweeping changes here for decisions that have already been made. What I can say however, is that we will not be treating any such changes as administrative in the future. We will be doing our due diligence.

General Pricing

A little more expected, perhaps, but with some important notes. The vast majority of complaints about the pricing of this release came with comparisons or in relation to other content we’ve released in the past.

While it overlaps a little with the next topic, I feel like we could have been clearer with setting expectations about what a country pack is.

Another observation here is that our fanbase seems to attach more importance to the consistency of expansion prices than we tend to. A lot of the comparisons we’re seeing are equating content made many years ago or at a completely different scale to Trial of Allegiance.

Wanted Something Different

This one is a real games-industry conundrum. Traditionally, if you bring something to market that doesn’t interest everyone, the uninterested ones avoid it. Not so here.

We knew that South America would be a divisive topic amongst the fanbase: some regard it as important, some do not. We calculated that this would make these nations perfect for a country-pack release instead of a full expansion - including mechanics in something that may not interest everyone would put fans in the situation of having to purchase something they did not want.

And, uh, that backfired a bit. Overwhelmingly, reviews in this category are asking where the mechanics are, or why we’re spending time on X instead of Y.

Importantly though, we aren’t gonna change that. We will sometimes have country pack releases, and they will not contain mechanics, though perhaps there’s some middle ground for tech/unit/other additions.

This all comes with a big but: the Juno team who created Trial of Allegiance are not the only ones working on HOI4. Creating content packs is not being done at the expense of other things. We aren’t ready to talk about exactly what’s coming yet, but simply put: we have mechanical expansions in the pipeline that are being built at this very moment. Outside of expansions, we have even more big stuff happening for HoI in the very near future. Watch this space.

Developer’s Perspective: Even if we wanted to, making two mechanical expansions in parallel would be a significant technical challenge. Some games are built to make that easy! HOI is not one of them.

Quality of Release

This is predominantly the stuff that reviews traditionally focus on. Was the delivered content good/bad/neutral? The nature of this is subjective, and these reviews are really where we can act by making changes and fixes. Below you’ll find the patch notes for our first iteration on ToA’s content, with more to come soon.

Overall what we’re seeing from players that stated an active interest in South America is a trending positive reaction. There are some key problems raised to us from highly invested players, which we’ll do our best to address. There are learnings we want to take into future country packs or war effort patches, including but not limited to:

• 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.

As I mentioned above, this has been a very bug-light release, but if an issue is plaguing you then please let us know through the usual channels, and we’ll spend any time left over on making other improvements to ToA’s content.

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Stuff That Doesn’t Really Help

Reviews that are empty/irrelevant/insulting/contain mysterious dwarven chanting are not going to be useful to us. When I say that we read all reviews, I’m not kidding - but if there’s no actionable text, we can’t do anything with it. Of course, it is your right to maintain a practice of critical ambiguity, I’m just saying it won’t produce results.

Reviews and comments that set up a strawman and try to assign a motive to the decisions we make serves only to create a rift between developers and community. We love this game as much as you do, and while it would be naive of me to assume that every discussion can be equally polite and constructive, I do believe that it is better if we let people represent themselves.

Of course, the vast majority of you understand this.

In Conclusion

From my perspective, team Juno had a cracking debut release, and I’m beyond proud of what they accomplished. The strategic side of things is where we’ve fallen short, and that is my cross to bear.

Finally, the reason I’m saying any of this stuff is to give you folks some context. This is hopefully an insight into the thought process that collectively happens behind the scenes at HoI HQ.

I’ll be around to try and answer any questions!

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Below, you’ll find the patch notes for the update coming sometime today:


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######## Patch 1.14.2 "Bolivar" #########
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# Bugfix & Gameplay Additions
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- Presets in the equipment designer should not be blocked because of so-called negative stats
- Blockade runner now requires fighting with at least one >37 knot ship
- Added a decision for fascist Chile after completing the focus "Forge a New Chilean Identity" to change the national flag to the Patria Vieja based one, due to popular demand.
- Added Felipe Molas López as advisor for Paraguay
- Valentino Riroko Tuki's trait has been buffed, and RAP now gains slightly more things when released and chosen to be played as a part of the Araucanian-Chilean civil war.
- Blockade runner is now actually obtainable
- Flourishing economy for Paraguay no longer expires
- Revenge for the Triple Alliance and Rekindle old gripes now gives wargoals against both actors in a civil war if BRA or ARG is in a civil war
- Fixed an issue where two designer companies for Chile wouldn't have icons with AAT disabled.
- Fixed a bug where Bartolome Blanche would go to the revolting side in the Araucanian civil war despite the non-aligned side still meeting all the requirements to keep him.
- Fixed an issue where taking any of the Promote Spanish Immigration decisions as Chile would permanently block the player from taking any further immigration decisions.
- Support the Spanish republicans no longer spams the error folder
- Historical AI behavior setting for Uruguay no longer disallows achievements
- Fixed an issue where Paraguay could take a focus before taking the prerequisite focus
- You no longer require French Somaliland for the Chilean empire achivement
- USA should no longer guarantee Monroe countries in addition to having the Monroe spirit if Trial of Allegiance is on, unless Tension is > 90%
- Replaced some Uruguayan spirit icons with nicer ones
- Italy now joins the war when France proper is being invaded by Axis troops, or on the historical date
- Reshuffled priorities for building slots for URG/PAR to make it less likely that the capital hits the 25 slot limit
- Paraguay river navy gets properly removed upon capitulation
- Fixed Oscar Escudero Otárola having his name backwards
- 'Reach out to Soviets' in the Argentina tree now checks if the Soviet Union is communist.
- Election event will now only fire if Brazil has completed 'Repeal the National Security Laws'
- Made the requirements to get Senor Hilter slightly easier.
- Added the correct Mechanized tech icons for Brazil
- Fixed an issue where Argentina and Chile could not use their modern small aircraft icon for carrier aircraft.
- Added a fix so you can now see that Prestes will become country leader with the 'Align with Moscow' trait.
- Added a check to Argentina's 'Support the Spanish Republicans' focus so it can only be taken if the Spanish Republic exists.
- some more portrait tweaks for minvervino, valentino and dartnell
- Added a check to the Juan Peron focus to make sure he is still recruited. Also added tooltip to event to make it more apparent he will not be available.
- Argentina can now peace out all UK allies when taking the Falklands
- Modified requirements for 'Revise Treaty of Roca-Runciman' in Argentina focus tree. Now accessible to communists after civil war.
- New Edelman portrait added and minor tweaks to previously existing portraits
- Fix for the Cisplatine war achievement not working.
- Fixed snake smoked achievement file names.
- Nerfed some of the recruitable population and supply in Communist Argentina
- Merged two instances of a duplicated Brazilian admiral/advisor
- Added fix to prevent elections from firing if Vargas is still country leader
- Eugenio Gomez portrait updated to show the right person
- Neglected state and Cangaco state modifiers will now be removed when another country owns the state.
- Fixed an issue that was preventing players from inviting countries to the Org of American states faction and made it easier to see how to integrate countries into US of South America.
- Updated some focuses that were not adding cores to new states.
- Added a fix to make sure that Support the Spanish Nationalists isn't available if they win the civil war
- Added chief of army for those without ToA for Argentina
- Removed "Fascism on the rise" decisions for Argentina
- Made Fascist demagogue advisors available from game start in Argentina
- Brazil and Argentina now have full access to their respective intel agency icons
- Improved tooltip for Align with Moscow focus
- Beneath the shadow of the Triple Alliance and Rekindle old gripes no longer instantly white peace PAR/URG, giving them the option of continuing the war without being teleported back
- Fixed confusing Tooltip for blockade runner
- Peru can no longer go to war with Ecuador if subject
- Chile can no longer create their own faction is subject
- Mexico can no longer invite Peru to their faction if they are at war with Ecuador
- Normandy is now part of Chile's decisions to core France
- Manuel A. Rodriguez no longer has a duplicated localization key and is recruited when ToA is disabled.
- Added fix that prevents players from taking "Demand Compensation From Spain" if Spain does not own Equatorial Guinea
- Fixed an issue with Argentina's starting plane having the wrong icon.
- Fixed a bug where "TAG makes aggressive moves on Uruguay" event fires twice
- URSAL focus now grants cores to Brazil
- Fixed a bug which required reloading the game to show hidden Senor Hilter focuses


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- AI now motorizes supply hubs if needed, even if they are controlled by allies or puppets
- The ai should no longer be as willing to send volunteers to the Kingdom of Araucania and Patagonia for all of eternity.
- Limiting some italy ai strategies for only when in faction with germany


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# Modding
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- Removed the check on negative stats that disabled create_equipment_variant and AI equipment creation


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# Stability & Performance
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- Improve performance in resource computation.
- Various minor optimisations across the game (infrastructure etc)

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.[forum.paradoxplaza.com]

[discord.gg]

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;

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2695150/Hearts_of_Iron_IV_Trial_of_Allegiance/



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# Trial of Allegiance
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- 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

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# Gameplay
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- 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

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# Balance
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- 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.

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# UI
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- 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

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# AI
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- 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 doesn’t 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

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# Modding
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- 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

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# Graphics
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- 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

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# Bugfix
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- 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

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# Stability & Performance
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- 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


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Extra! Extra! In today’s 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 we’ve 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 they’ve 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: I’m 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: It’s not only ground troops that are fighting these battles. With the latest technological advancements we’ve 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 Patriótica Argentina. Is there any other footage you would like to share?

Slurpen_Paradox: Yes. During my time in the deepest parts of the Amazons I’ve 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 Lampião 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 Señor 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 today’s issue of “News from the Front Lines”. And just as always, remember. We bring news, you make the story!


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