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Official Release March 7th - 15:00 PM CET

Playtest Patch #1 (06-02-2020)

Fixes

- Fixed Ottoman Empire not white peacing with Bulgaria after the Third Balkan War ended if they didn’t joined The Balkan League faction;
- Fixed incorrect state in one of the Prepare for another Balkan War decisions for Bulgaria;
- Fixed the requirement to have the Effects of the Vienna Stock Market Crash National Spirit to do the Italian independence decision;
- The set peace deals for the different Austrian Uprisings will now also trigger after the uprisings have capitulated, to prevent the AI from puppeting them.

AI

- Increased the AI-chance that Georgia and Azerbaijan will accepted annexation by Transcaucasia.


Playtest Patch #2 (07-02-2020)

New

- Added new Coring Decision

General

- Now compatible with 1.8.2

Balance

- The Political Power decrease for the Coring Decisions will now take effect when you activate the decision rather than when the decision has been completed/removed

Fixes

- Fixed Kaiser Wilhelm II died event from not triggering properly


Playtest Patch #3 (09-02-2020)

General

- Added a level 3 Victory Point to the Gallipolli state.
- The Ottoman Empire can no longer go after Armenia and the Mashriqi Kingdom while fighting the Third Balkan War.

Balance

- Rebalanced the amount of steel in Italian states.

Fixes

- Fixed missing portrait for Benito Mussolini.


Playtest Patch #4 (09-02-2020)

Balance

- Several balance adjustments were made in the Romanian Focus Tree
- Increased the number of max influenced states required for the Second Revolution Focus for Transcaucasia from 3 to 4.

Fixes

- The Failed Revolution National Spirit will now be properly removed whenever the Second Russian Civil War starts
- The right part of the Italian Focus Tree is now symmetrical.

AI

- Improved Austro-Hungarian, German, Serbian and Bulgarian AI picking the economic focuses


Playtest Patch #5 (14-02-2020)

Fixes

- Several typos were fixed


Playtest Patch #6 (24-02-2020)

New

- Added more flavour to the Brest-Litovsk Payments:
Russia can now delay the payments for a limited time and the receivers can now completely stop the payments for themselves

General

- Reworked the Secure China Focus for Japan; the Focus will now give wargoals to Japan for the remaining Chinese Warlords;
- Improved the Develop Chinese Resources Focus for Japan; the Focus no longer requires both states and the focus now also adds infrastructure to the states;
- Changed the owner of the state Kars from Georgia to Armenia;
- Completely reworked the 'Crush Armenia' Focus for the Ottoman Empire; they now demand their former land through events, rather than attacking them. Either Russia or Transcaucasia can annex the rest of Armenia through a decision.
- Changed the Focus Positioning within the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Focus Trees;
- General localisation improvements.

Balance

- Reduced the number of max influenced states required for the Second Revolution Focus for Transcaucasia from 4 to 3;
- Rebalanced the Core Every State decision, to prevent Japan from getting too much Manpower:

• Added a less than 2 Million Manpower requirement;
  
• The cost of the decision now depends on the amount of Total Manpower.

- Nerfed the Victors of the Weltkrieg National Spirit for Bulgaria:

• Removed the Division Attack and Division Defense modifiers;
  
• Reduced the Divsion Organization, Recruitable Population and Recruitable Population Factor modifiers by ~20%.

Bulgaria is now slightly better during the Third Balkan War.

- The following changes were made to the Prepare for the Inevitable Balkan War decisions for Bulgaria:

• Increased the level of the Land Forts from 3 to 4; (the one in Adrianople remains the same)
  
• Reduced the days before the decisions are removed by 10 days;
  
• Reduced the cost of the decisions by 25 Political Power;
  
• Land Forts will now be added to the entire Romanian Border instead of just the border in Dobrudja;
  
• Changed the Civilian Factory in Use modifier with the Consumer Goods Factor modifier;
  
• Added an extra decision which gives defense bonuses to Bulgaria;
  
• If Romania is going or already is Communist, Bulgaria can not fortify the border with Romania through these decisions;

These changes will further buff Bulgaria during the Third Balkan War

- Significantly increased Stability for Communist Romania;
- Rebalanced the Brest-Litovsk Payments received National Spirits:

• Added a Political Power Cost modifier, which increases with 0.10 each time a new Payment is being received.
  
• Reduced the monthly increase of all the modifiers, besides the Consumer Goods Factories, for all the National Spirits from +1% to +0.5%;
  
• The Consumer Goods Factories modifier now has a maximum of -10% reduction;
  
• Reduced all the effects of January Brest-Litovsk Payments Received National Spirit from +5% to +3%;

The former Central Powers will no longer get such an high advantage during the Vienna Stock Market Crash

- Decreased the amount Political Power gained through the Support the National Center Branch of the Russian Focus Tree;
- Reduced the Recruitable Population gained by the Spiritual Mobilization National Spirit from 2.50% to 1.50%.
- Major balance improvements where made for the Ottoman Empire, to let them rebuild their empire a bit earlier:

• Increased the starting Research Slots from 2 to 3;
  
• Removed the 'Extra Research Slot' Focus since they now start with 3 instead of 2;
  
• Reduced the number of Corruption and Fallen Empire National Spirits by 1;
  
• Reduced the Completion Time of several focuses;
  
• Improved the requirements of the Foreign Affairs and Rebuild the Empire focuses;
  
• Reduced the Political Power Gain modifier during the Negotiate with the Bureaucracy and Improve Faith in the Sultan Decisions;
  
• Reduced the amount of days before the Negotiate with the Bureaucracy and Improve Faith in the Sultan Decisions could be done again and when they are removed;
  
• Reduced the cost of both the Form a New Government and Write a New Constitution Decisions with 50 Political Power and the Improve Faith in the Sultan Decision with 25 Political Power;

AI

- The Bulgarian and Italian AI's are now less aggressive;
- Improved AI for the 'Build up Communist Support' Decisions for Transcaucasia, so they actually start the Second Revolution;
- Improved AI Focus for Communist France and Democratic Austria-Hungary.