Hey Everyone!

Last month was huge! The team won a beauty contest in Germany and someone gave us flowers! We also had an awesome Halloween party planned, but it was spoiled by Iran showing up early. Oh, and we announced that our team is working on [something].

What's next? We turn 3 next month! To celebrate we will probably be renting cabins in Moosonee, right along the majestic Moose River. If those are booked, then we'll go to the lodge on nearby scenic Moose Factory Island. It'll be long days of budget oriented thrills and even longer nights of staring into our drinks and asking what the meaning of is is.

While we understand most of you aren't likely to join us in northern Canada anytime soon, we'll still have some cool things planned and probably even more loot boxes. You like those, right? YOU DO.

With love and respect,

-Gxp

p.s. Read the full patch notes here, as well as help with your lottery.


500K Milestone

• Removed Milestone Cake and loot box decisions.

Additions

• Focus Tree: Iran (Properly introduced, this time.)
  
• Focus Tree: Saudi Arabia (Economy and Political paths) by BlueFoxy.
  
• Focus Tree: Northern Ireland (Army, Air, Industrial and Naval paths) by Thinking_Waffle.
  
• Focus Tree: China (Democratic and Non-Aligned paths have been rearranged) and have had their rewards redone.
  
• Map: Added 1 new state in Albania.
  
• Map: Added 5 new states in Malaysia.
  
• General: Added Steel manufacturers mostly for majors boosting steel mill construction and naval armor/guns (the naval bonus only works with Man the Guns.)
  
• General: Added Kurdish "generals" based on soldiers who helped the Brits during World War II.
  
• Art: New focus icons for multiple countries.
  
• Misc: More loading screen quotes added.

Tweaks

• General: Adjusted generic tree. Overall buffed.
  
• General: Adjusted the focus tree layouts for Bulgaria, Honduras, Indonesia, Nicaragua, Portugal and South Africa.
  
• General: Number of National Characters have been adjusted. Gender category no longer deals with consumer good stat, but instead factory output %.
  
• Equipment: Changed the variants of land and air equipment. Most significant change: upgrading reliability increase the cost of the weapons.
  
• Resources: Increased the base aluminium production of Aluminium mills from 2 to 4.
  
• Decisions: Naval combat reports now boosts some Man the Guns naval techs.
  
• Afghanistan: Nerfed Graveyard of Empires idea.
  
• Bhutan: Changed the bonuses of the fascist focuses of Bhutan to make the regime change take a bit longer.
  
• Bulgaria: Added a tiny bit of steel.
  
• Canada: Added winter clothing boost to one focus.
  
• Croatia: Changed a focus granting a military factory to an offmap one if they control no states to avoid granting no rewards.
  
• Danzig: The fascist leader now really loves Germany.
  
• Free France: Improved the quality of generals granted later during the war to make them useful.
  
• Germany: Changed Germany's name under non-fascist ideologies to their English counterpart.
  
• Germany: Changed the states controlled by both sides in case of an anti-fascist civil war.
  
• Iceland: Changed fascist flag and fixed the colors for the flags of all ideologies.
  
• Italy: Now has concessions over the Albanian resources.
  
• Japan: Added summer or winter clothing boost depending on which Strike Doctrines you choose.
  
• Japan: The Army Expansion focus now allow you to fill your high command more easily rather than unlocking a not very interesting advisor.
  
• Japan: The democratic civil war will now oppose the civilian government and the army lead by Tojo rather than Hirohito. The Balance will also tip in favor in the army for the Rebels.
  
• Japan: Added a small opinion boost regarding the USSR due to the North Sakhalin oil deliveries.
  
• Manchukuo: The "Contact Qing Restorationists" branch now has actual national spirits and buffs.
  
• PRC: If the player accepts to cooperate with the Kuomintang, Zhang Xueliang will now always accept the proposal.
  
• PRC: "Government Reshuffle" and "Boost the Morale" are now mutually exclusive.
  
• Soviet: The focuses unlocked after taking the "Counter Coup" focus in the Soviet Tree are now part of that same tree rather than part of a separate tree.
  
• Soviet: The advisors required to unlock the "Counter Coup" focus are now indicated in the focus prerequisites.

AI

• General: Made the AI pick a doctrine specific advisor only after they researched the first level of that doctrine, they will no longer recruit theorists of the wrong doctrine.
  
• General: Reduced the chances of puppets with the generic tree to choose a different ideology path.
  
• General: The AI should do more extraction decisions.
  
• Japan: Should modernise its' naval bombers and fighters more.
  
• Norway: Reorganized the historical focus order.
  
• PRC: If the player accepts to collaborate with the Kuomintang when contacting Zhang Xueliang, he will always accept.
  
• Portugal: asking and getting Ceylon won't give you a core on it.
  
• Romania: Changed the chance that Romania pick an ideological advisor to 0 so that they won't have weird regime changes.
  
• Siam: Should be more inclined to join Japan's faction and not Germany's faction when Fascist.
  
• Soviet: Should build more tanks and planes, modernise infantry equipment earlier and not research paratroopers that it can't use anyway.
  
• Soviet: Should be less likely to go to war with Allies and or Japan when they are at war with a communist country that doesn't border the Soviets and is an AI. Preventing WWIII from happening less often while WWII is still going on.
  
• UK: Will no longer do the McDonald proposal if they are at war with Ireland of if Eire doesn't exist, avoiding the famous "reverse Ireland" bug.
  
• UK: Should modernise its tanks and planes more.
  
• USA: Should be more reactive against Japan and produce more ships (Man the Guns only), modernise its' tanks and planes more.
  
• USA: Fixed a Man the Guns bug where the AI would focus on convoys, not knowing what ships to build.

Fixes

• General: Fixed/re-added party names for multiple countries.
  
• Techs: Fixed a bug where mechanized would gain hardness through variants rather than armour, leading to units with over 100% hardness.
  
• Techs: Fixed missing text for a tech category.
  
• China: Fixed "End the People's Tutelage" not requiring to take the "National Reform" focus first.

As always feel free to contact us via Discord[discord.gg] and Reddit!
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Fixes

• Possible fix for autosave CTD.
  
• Numerous other small fixes.

Fixes

• Fixed CTD caused by non-aligned exile governments.

As always feel free to contact us via Discord[discord.gg] and Reddit!

If you'd like to read a little something about how the mod was made and in celebration of our 500k milestone, head over and read the full patch notes here.

Yours forever and always,

-Gxp


500k Milestone

• Added optional Milestone Cake. Will be removed in the November Patch. Enjoy they delicious benefits while they last!
  
• Added microtransactions and bribe-to-win.

Additions

• New Country: Crimea.
  
• Focus Tree: Spain by BlueFoxy.
  
• Focus Tree: Army, Air, Industrial and Naval paths for Scotland by Thinking_Waffle.
  
• Focus Tree: Mexico's Man the Guns tree is now turned on by default if Man the Guns is enabled.
  
• Game Rules: Focus Tree selection options for Mexico.
  
• Game Rules: Added Mexican AI Behavior options.
  
• Game Rules: Added Strengthen sliders for a majority of releasable nations. More to come!
  
• Governments In Exile: Are now available. Hooray!
  
• GFX: Tons of new focus icons, portraits, ideas and more by our talented artists.
  
• Resources: Added tons of new prospecting decisions for several countries. Several late game decisions are invisible until Construction IV is unlocked.
  
• Argentina: New VPs.
  
• Azerbaijan: Added a bunch of historical advisors/leaders.
  
• Bolivia: New VPs.
  
• British Somaliland: New VP.
  
• Cameroon: Added rubber.
  
• China: Added several new advisors.
  
• Dominican Republic: Added new communist leader.
  
• Egypt: Added new leaders.
  
• France: Added new Popular Front Victory event.
  
• Germany: Repurposed unused air commanders of the base game as generic land portraits.
  
• Guatemala: Added two new generals.
  
• Latvia: Added new focus called 'Militarize The Aizsargi' along with one new general.
  
• Scotland: Added two new leaders.
  
• Soviet: Added a decision to prospect the Volga-Ural basin if Azerbaijan is lost.
  
• Tadjikstan: Added a bunch of historical advisors/leaders.
  
• Turkmenistan: Added a bunch of historical advisors/leaders.
  
• Ukraine: Added a decision to be sure that its claim on Western are transformed into cores.
  
• USA: Added five new 'Act' decisions.
  
• USA: Added some more admirals.
  
• USA: Repurposed unused air commanders of the base game as generic land portraits.
  
• USSR, Ukraine: Added naval manufacturers for the Crimean peninsula.
  
• Uzbekistan: Added a bunch of historical advisors/leaders.

Tweaks

• Game Rules: Galicia is now released when Spain is fragmented.
  
• Game Rules: Crimea is now released when the USSR is fragmented.
  
• Techs: Increased the importance of acclimatization in uniform techs.
  
• Resources: Rebalanced resource distribution across the map to be closer to historical values.
  
• Bulgaria: Can now only join Axis through focus if at peace.
  
• Byzantium: Locked coring as originally intended.
  
• China: If China is puppeted by neutral Japan, they will still get Wang as a leader.
  
• Egypt: Changed Muhammad Naguib to Farouk I and updated the portrait and sub-ideology.
  
• France: Most war declaration focuses now give warnings to the justified nations.
  
• Germany: Göring now leads the civil war against the Monarchists.
  
• Germany: Buffed Germany's democratic national spirits.
  
• Guatemala: Updated name, portrait, trait and sub-ideology for Jorge Ubico Castañeda.
  
• Scotland: Added missing core on Shetland.
  
• Spain: Republican Spain is now Democratic instead of Communist.
  
• Spain: Manuel Portela Valladares is now the starting leader.
  
• Slovakia: Added refining tech bonus to the focus about the oil refinery.
  
• Norway: Britain should be democratic and a faction leader before they can ask to join their faction.

AI

• Overall: Several countries have higher chance of picking alternate paths.
  
• Brazil: Should now utilize the political paths a little bit more.
  
• Bulgaria: Will no longer join Axis through focus until 1941.
  
• French Indochina: Fixed Vietnam popping up in historical games.
  
• Germany: Should now utilize the political paths a little bit more.
  
• Hungary: Will no longer join Axis through its focus until 1941.
  
• Hungary: Fixed some problems in historical mode.
  
• Nicaragua: No longer prioritizes every other focus except political focuses.
  
• Portugal: Now takes the correct path in historical mode.
  
• South Africa: No longer prioritizes political focuses over everything else.
  
• USA: Is now more proactive when FRA/UK go down ahistorical paths and it stays Democratic.

Fixes

• Decisions: Updated targeted decisions to greatly improve performance!
  
• Argentina: Fixed the country lacking its navy.
  
• Belgian Congo: Fixed white background on one of the national spirits.
  
• Bulgaria: Fixed losing its puppet status when joining the Axis.
  
• Botswana: Fixed faceless leader.
  
• France: Fixed a tiny detail regarding the Fourth International decision.
  
• Germany: Fixed 'Reassert Eastern Claims' focus blocking progression under certain conditions.
  
• Germany: Fixed not being able to go to war with the Soviet Union under certain conditions.
  
• Germany: Fixed declaring war on Poland blocking progression under certain conditions.
  
• Germany: France will now get a warning message when Germany does the 'War with France' focus.
  
• Germany: Fixed ressurecting Hungary by giving them Southern Slovakia when dismantling Czechoslovakia.
  
• Greece: Fixed a majority of the navy starting with barely anything in 1936.
  
• Greece: Fixed demanding Constantinople working every time.
  
• Italy: Fixed Italy's bypass about factions.
  
• Malaysia: Fixed several civil war issues.
  
• Norway: Fixed a few portraits.
  
• Poland: Fixed some details for the Stocznia Gdańska naval manufacturer.
  
• Poland: Ensure how Vilnius is ceded to the USSR with the rest of Eastern Poland.
  
• Spain: Fixed a vanilla bug that allowed to prevent the Spanish Civil War.
  
• UK: Fixed a civil war bug involving Cocos and Christmas Islands.
  
• UK: Fixed broken focus tree icons.
  
• UK: Updated focus tree with various vanilla bug fixes and sanity checks.
  
• USA: Fixed an admiral having the land career officer trait rather than the naval one.
  
• Many other minor fixes not mentioned.

Hola!

We've come around to that fabled period yet again - patch day! The 56 Team has arranged an amazing platter of content, tweaks, and tiny sandwiches for your enjoyment.

Unfortunately the mood around the Team 56 Office has been grim lately. We've all been looking on in horror as our subscriber count creeps closer to 500,000 and a single question looms ever larger in our minds:

Which one of us is the most handsome?

This led to small debate, that then led to a pitched battle using office chairs and several old CRT monitors, and then someone tried to launch themselves out of a cannon to prove a point. It wasn't until Thinking_Waffle told us about his fatal pastry allergy that we all made peace and realized that nothing in life makes any sense.

That being the case, we're glad that you're along for the ride. Thanks for being wonderful and spending your chill evenings with us - making the world a better place one mod at a time.

As always feel free to contact us via Discord[discord.gg] and Reddit if you've got some feels to share. See you there!

With much love and respect,

-Gxp


Additions

• Focus Tree: Malaya by Skip
  
• Focus Tree: Nicaragua by Jrburton001
  
• Focus Tree: Guatemala by Sven
  
• Focus Tree: Partial revamp of Greece
  
• Focus Tree: Updated France by BlueFoxy
  
• Focus Tree: Updated Poland by Darkneon312
  
• Focus Tree: Updated Norway by Darkneon312
  
• Game Rules: Added new alternate AI behavior paths for France and Italy
  
• GFX: Tons of countries have new GFX by Scarecroww, FacundoSim and Jrburton001
  
• GFX: New portraits for Ernst Toller, Stanley Baldwin and De Oliveira Salazar by Jrburton001, theHistoria94 and Abbus
  
• 3D Models: Added for Iranian, Egyptian and Iraqi infantry by McNaughton
  
• Resources: Added shale oil in Scotland and Australia
  
• Decisions: Added more prospecting decisions
  
• Ideas: Reorganized and added some manufacturers in Britain, Canada, Luxembourg and Quebec
  
• Ideas: Historical advisers for Puerto Rico
  
• Map: Added Kashgar and Khotan as victory points, made the Taklamakan desert impassable
  
• Bangladesh: Added new leaders
  
• Pakistan: Added new leaders
  
• Paraguay: Added correct starting leader to Paraguay and the event where he is deposed
  
• China: Added a decision for China to get rid of its army incompetence instead of through events
  
• Misc: Numerous countries have received unique leaders and portraits for their alternate ideologies

Balance & Tweaks

• Game Rules: Updated several French AI behavior paths to work with the new focus tree.
  
• Resources: South Sakhalin oil moved to Soviet territory with Japanese resource rights, added oil fields in the North of Honshu.
  
• Resources: Removed Chinese oil at the Tibetan border due to the absence of historical sources confirming its existence.
  
• Resources: Increased the amount of oil produced in Burma.
  
• Decisions: Prospecting decisions now come in two versions depending on whether you have Waking the Tiger.
  
• Decisions: Enabled throwing of mistletoe at smug bastards. There might be consequences.
  
• Decisions: Prospecting decisions are now more evenly spread through the game and partially gated by technology
  
• Map: Reduced some infrastructure in China and Indochina.
  
• Belgium: Taking half of the country and puppeting the rest will result in a puppet Flanders or Wallonia.
  
• Belgium: Redid multiple Belgian national spirits icons.
  
• Britain: Burma is now freed if Britain decolonizes.
  
• Britain: Established depots for those fleeing west from the Great Winter.
  
• Croatia: Added an additional starting research slot.
  
• Estonia and Latvia: Unifying the Baltic countries will grant a core on Vilnius.
  
• Indochina: Now dismantled if the Asian Decolonization game rule is used, split Rubber through different regions.
  
• Vietnam: Added an idea to prevent them from joining a faction like the Comintern while fighting their independence war.
  
• Italy: Minorly changed historical AI path.
  
• Italy: Tweaked the AI's priorities in the focus tree.
  
• Manchukuo: Removed the war requirement for the "An Alternative" focus.
  
• Slovenia: Changed some advisers.
  
• China: Lowered the debuffs for China's incompetent industry and incompetent army.
  
• Mexico: Redid Mexico's companies icons.
  
• Spain: Added José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones as leader for Spain if Nationalist Spain becomes democratic.
  
• Austria: Austria will now refuse the Anschluss if in a faction with Italy.
  
• Misc: Redid nearly all Czech national spirit icons.
  
• Misc: Saw two wolves eating the sun and moon, all while the stars vanished and the world fell into a great darkness.
  
• Misc: Multiple focus icons have been redone for the Netherlands and Indonesia

Fixes

• Game Rules: Removed a lot of options that didn't do anything.
  
• Portraits: Fixed generic Asian portraits appearing in Europe.
  
• Indonesia: Fixed a bug where an event supposed to free the country didn't, fixed bad idea paths.
  
• Italy: Fixed several issues with the historical AI.
  
• Italy: The Stresa Front events should trigger sooner.
  
• Italy: "Cooperation with Germany" is now bypassed if the latter is already in a faction with Germany.
  
• South Africa: Fixed a few decisions.
  
• Yggdrasil: Put up a small warning sign near the roots regarding the eternal soul-devouring dragon.
  
• Spain: Applied a Paradox fix in the OOB of the Spanish Civil War.
  
• Serbia: Readded focus tree.
  
• Austria: Fixed "Undermine" Mussolini being unavailable if guaranteed by Italy.
  
• United States: Removed the bad portrait for Alf Landon, readded the Vanilla one.
  
• Misc: Added missing Patreon portrait to the USA.
  
• Misc: Challenged Garm at the gate and fought the beast for 27 days. Didn't win, but I did get this cool t-shirt.
  
• Misc: Tons of unlisted bugs and other minor issues fixed.

Fixes

• MtG crash has been smashed.

Hello!

...and goodbye.

(bet you weren't expecting that, were you?)

-Gxp


Additions

• Focus Tree: Italy (Bluefoxy)
  
• Focus Tree: South Africa (Thinking_Waffle And Sven The Danish Citizen)
  
• Focus Tree: Vietnam (Bluefoxy)
  
• Focus Tree: Serbia (Sven The Danish Citizen)
  
• Focus Tree: Partial Cuba (Bluefoxy)
  
• Focus Tree: New Iraq Path (Thinking_Waffle)
  
• Focus Tree: Partial Lithuania (Sven The Danish Citizen)
  
• Focus Tree: Expanded and Reworked parts of Bulgaria (Sven The Danish Citizen)
  
• GFX: Finland received a custom icon for the focus "Communism"
  
• GFX: Romania received a custom icon for the focus "Appoint Pro-Allied Government"
  
• 3D: Complete rework of 3D tank models to allow dlc owners to see the relevant assets for other countries (will vary depending on active dlcs)
  
• 3D: Pakistan uses Raj infantry models
  
• 3D: Serbia uses DoD yugoslav models (DoD only)
  
• 3D: Nepal, Bangladesh, Burma and Malaya use Indonesian models with British weapons (MtG only)
  
• 3D: Added Mexican artillery (MtG only)
  
• 3D: Vietnam uses generic asian model but with French weapons
  
• 3D: Integrated some African and Middle Eastern from Mcnaughton's 3d models
  
• Historical: Leaders and advisors for Moldova
  
• Historical: Leaders for Peru (and made the starting leader non-aligned)
  
• Historical: Naval commanders ("admirals") in Paraguay, Turkey, Venezuela
  
• Historical: Alternative weapons manufacturer for Sweden (DoD owners only)
  
• Map: Gave a region of Peru conquered during the 1941 war to Ecuador
  
• Decision: Decision to incite violence in order to lower stability even faster
  
• Decision: Decisions to exploit oil in Barhain and Qatar (same state), Kuwait, Bolivia, southern France
  
• Decision: Added two decisions to rename Fort-Lamy->N'Djamena and vice versa
  
• Decision: Enabled WTT Byzantium decision but with less starting cores (the rest require more decisions)
  
• Game Rule: Fragmented Denmark
  
• Text: Renamed N'Djamena to its French colonial name of Fort-Lamy

Balance & Tweaks

• Balance: Complete rebalancing of ETAX techtree. Navy and Air focus, The Means and The Ends branches are no longer mutually exclusive eachother, only their child branches. Since you can research one branch from all focus, overal buffs are changed
  
• Balance: Made the extra techs of the X section locked behind specific years, nerfed some of those techs
  
• Balance: Edited some Croatian focuses to be balanced with the Serbian tree
  
• Balance: Debuffed some focuses in Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and RT56 fascist Britain
  
• Balance: Thinking_Waffle was nerfed, all other historians have increased power
  
• Balance: Reduced the cost of the decision to change ideology through a civil war
  
• Balance: Reduced the effect of some RT56 extended techs
  
• Balance: Improved the AI focus selection process in the generic tree, forbade puppets from picking other ideology paths
  
• Balance: Added one oil in Alsace and one in Napoli
  
• Balance: The formation of the Celtic Union now grants a core on Cornwall
  
• Balance: Slightly improved the Irish Focus tree
  
• Balance: A dolphin with a spinning plate on its nose
  
• Balance: Finnish military focuses have been slightly rebalanced and now focuses on Jaeger special forces
  
• Balance: Most special force focuses now give bonuses to one or multiple categories of special forces
  
• Balance: Added desert special forces bonuses for Saudi Arabia
  
• Balance: Denmark enforces direct rule on Greenland again (see the gamerule addition)
  
• Tweak: Latvia now has a fully developed bookmark description
  
• Tweak: Lin Biao will be promoted to field marshal if he becomes the leader of Communist China
  
• Tweak: Moved Spicy Alfredo's mug slightly to the left
  
• Tweak: The AI should now be better at handling the generic tree
  
• Tweak: The German foreign policy tree has been rearranged to be less messy, and the Lebensraum tree has been removed.
  
• Tweak: Many focus icons have been altered or added for Portugal, Finland, Hungary, Mexico, Carpatho-Ukraine, Belgium, Norway, Denmark and Turkey.

Fixes

• Fix: British fascist demagogue not being available at all times
  
• Fix: Made Iranian political boosts temporary
  
• Fix: Hid Mexican MtG decisions
  
• Fix: 2 national spirits not showing up properly
  
• Fix: Extra generic communist revolutionaries appearing in advisor list (Canada and Romania)
  
• Fix: Added bypass to the German focus the fate of Yugoslavia so it won't annex Yugoslavia if it is a puppet of another country
  
• Fix: Mexican portraits have been fixed, and thus shouldn't become a leaderless country anymore
  
• Fix: Latvian focuses won't lose factories to free slots
  
• Fix: Added missing localisation in a couple of Czech events
  
• Fix: Repaired bad pathing of Indonesian advisor icons
  
• Fix: Events about the transfer of generals between China and Communist China now work correctly instead of creating generals with level 1 stats
  
• Fix: Zhang Xueliang now has a portrait and proper stats
  
• Fix: Sealed the portal to the nether hells for all eternity, and saved humanity. Not that anyone cares
  
• Fix: Chiang Kai Shek should no more declare a civil war against Chiang Kai Shek (Probably!)
  
• Fix: If a civil war between fascist Horthy and non-aligned Horthy occurs in Hungary, the fascist one will be replaced by Szalazi
  
• Fix: If a civil war between fascist Hirohito and non-aligned Hirohito occurs in Japan, the fascist one will be replaced by Hideki Tojo
  
• Fix: Removed icons too large for the event interface
  
• Fix: Portrait of Nikolai Yezhov
  
• Fix: Portrait of a Spanish General
  
• Fix: Portrait of Wilhelm III if he succeeds to Wilhelm II
  
• Fix: Portraits of Indonesian advisors
  
• Fix: Portrait of Alan Turing
  
• Fix: Leaders of Guinea
  
• Fix: Increased the number of mustache options for alternate history leaders
  
• Fix: Replaced the name of Stalin by [the current Soviet leader] in multiple USSR related events
  
• Fix: Mavag logo not appearing for non DoD owners, replaced with generic
  
• Fix: Generic Asian politican portrait
  
• Map: China and the Communist China have cores on Tibet
  
• Map: China have cores on Tannu Tuva and Mongolia
  
• Map: Brazil states and victory points localization are now fixed
  
• Map: Added a place in the Amazon to refuel your tanks and get pancakes
  
• Map: Fixed Mexican ideas being invisible

As always, feel free to send us your commentary and handwritten love notes via Discord[discord.gg] and Steam and Reddit! See you there!

Greetings citizen!

It was 90 degrees in Alaska recently. Do you know what that means?

It means that America is still using the Imperial system, as god almighty and our lizard overlords intended. Also, my original plan of selling ice to Alaska doesn't seem quite so terrible after all, does it? ...and that's well before Atlantis thaws and hordes of mind-controlled zombie Glyptodons ride forth across Canada - causing sales to double! One merely has to think positively about these things.

Oh yes, and we have a patch. Apparently everything is in it. There are new and expanded trees, tons of bug fixes, and a whole list of amazing additions from the whole team. Particular mentions go to Blue Foxy, Sven, and Thinking_Something-or-Other. It's all listed below in a suspiciously well organized manner.

As always, send us your commentary and handwritten epic sagas via Discord[discord.gg] and Steam and Reddit! See you there!

With warmest regards,

-Gxp


Additions

• Focus Tree: French Indochina by BlueFoxy
  
• Focus Tree: Political paths for Latvia by Sven the Danish Citizen & Thinking_Waffle
  
• Focus Tree: Political paths for Uruguay by BlueFoxy
  
• Focus Tree: Reworked Bulgaria by Sven the Danish Citizen & Thinking_Waffle
  
• Focus Tree: South Africa is now available for TfV DLC users.
  
• Game Rules: Focus Tree selection options for South Africa.
  
• Game Rules: AI behavior options for France, Germany, Italy and Siam.
  
• Game Rules: Strengthen sliders for Belgian Congo and French Indochina.
  
• Game Rules: New German fragmentation options.
  
• Game Rules: Improved and expanded Soviet fragmentation.
  
• All Nations: Heavy AA deployment decisions.
  
• Map: Added a port to escape an isolated island in the Philippines.
  
• Manufacturers: New ones for Germany and the Soviet Union.
  
• Portraits: Generals for Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, and Nationalist China.
  
• Icons: Glider manufacturers.
  
• Local: Weapons tech names for Basque Country and Catalonia.
  
• Misc: Ferenc Szálasi will arrive if Hungary is puppeted by a fascist power.
  
• Misc: Traits for Miklos Horthy.
  
• Misc: Traits for Tito.
  
• Misc: Better advisers for Scotland.
  
• Misc: A certain general from 1941 may now appear in the Soviet Union.

Balance & Tweaks

• Austria: Removed Welcome message event that was not meant to be there.
  
• Estonia: Changed the focus creating the Baltic Entente to avoid the creation of two Baltic factions at the same time if Latvia has the same idea.
  
• Germany: Simplified First Vienna Award with a few tooltips.
  
• Germany: Significant focus layout changes for the expansionist/diplomatic paths.
  
• Guangxi Clique: Rebalanced a general.
  
• Italy: Removed Joint Research focus.
  
• Italy: Picchiatello focus now requires Germany to accept or refuse.
  
• Italy: Updated several requirements for misc. focuses.
  
• Italy: ARMIR special forces multiplier increased from +0.7% to +2%.
  
• Italy: Minor focus layout changes.
  
• Philippines: Added a bit of naval XP to avoid the "empty ship" problem and changed some focus icons, uses US infantry models.
  
• Map: French Indochina is now released on the map as an Integrated Puppet to France.
  
• AI: Massively improved historical AI for Germany and Italy. Important events should now happen closely to the right time. Probably.
  
• Portraits: Updated portraits for FRA, GER, ITA, JAP, SOV and SPR leaders.
  
• 3D Models: Lots of minor countries now use other tank models taken from the most relevant major, Soviet releasable countries now use Red army uniforms.

Fixes

• Belgium: Fixed German/Soviet pact events not working properly.
  
• Belgium/Belgian Congo: Fixed Katanga Uranium.
  
• Canada: Fixed portraits of generals not appearing properly.
  
• Carpatho Ukraine: Added missing localization for some decisions.
  
• Greece: Made the events to end the civil wars automatically fire at the end of those wars.
  
• Iraq: Fixed capitalization on the country's name.
  
• Italy: Hitler visits Rome focus will now cancel/bypass if Hitler is dead/no longer in charge or if Germany does not exist.
  
• Italy: Fixed Switzerland innocently being involved in a war goal.
  
• Italy: Tons of focus localization fixes.
  
• Netherlands: Fixed problems with the Gateway to Europe decisions (MtG focus tree).
  
• Poland: Fixed a truck icon not showing up in the production menu.
  
• PRC: Bugged debuff that was boosting research is now a debuff again, rebalanced it too.
  
• Soviet Union: Fixed Yezhov advisor portrait not appearing properly.
  
• Tibet: Fixed invalid requirement and some stability bugs.
  
• Turkey: Removed send Ataturk to the army decision as he starts in the army.
  
• UK: Fixed the AI going fascist a bit too much.
  
• USA, Japan: Removed CV naval bombers units level 1 that were not supposed be in the mod.
  
• Misc: Put the continuous focus tree frame in more visible places for some trees.
  
• Misc: Accidentally insulted Bob Bobsson, of House Bob.
  
• Misc: Removed old naval content that was made obsolete by Man the Guns.
  
• Misc: Fixing game rules allowing the "debug country you are not supposed to see" to appear if you started in 1939.
  
• Misc: Fixed several 1.7 errors left over from the June Update.
  
• Misc: Fixed all remaining launch and '36 scenario startup errors.
  
• Misc: Other minor fixes not noted.

Hello everyone! Welcome to the monthly update! In Local News:

Thinking Waffle finally managed to outsmart the pirates that were holding his favorite book hostage, SpicyAlfredo is reportedly still unable to animate flesh with electricity alone, and Plutozz? No one knows. He mumbled something about alcohol and Germany, and then was never heard from again. The rest of the team is fine, probably. Unless Judge Alfred has gained access to the Necronomicon. Then things are definitely not fine.

As to the patch? It's a small update, mostly focused on technical matters with 1.7 compatibility. Pordy is working on slowly integrating our Reboot technologies and UI into the mod but it will take a fair amount of time. There are rumors of even greater things on the horizon, and no it's not just the Yeti that's been digging through the garbage bins. Besides, that's right outside - nowhere near the horizon. That's like the nearlowerizon? In any case, it's an officially sanctioned Danger Land.

Beware the Danger Land.

You can send your requests, constructive criticisms and destructive long-form smash poetry to us directly via Discord[discord.gg] and Steam and Reddit! Please do. Especially if you bring the bribes[www.patreon.com].

With love and respect,

-Gxp

Additions

• Compatibility for game version 1.7 Hydra.
  
• Applied Vanilla Performance Improvements changes.
  
• Added a brand new focus for Sweden.
  
• Added a decision to recruit historical aviatrixes as aces. (limited to some countries)
  
• Added glider manufacturers to major countries, supporting paratrooping operations.
  
• Added a Belgian infantry manufacturer. (DoD DLC owners only)
  
• Added a couple of manufacturers in Scotland and Wales.
  
• Added a secure bananaphone to Stalin's desk.
  
• Added Scotland and Wales use of British style portraits.
  
• Added three new generals for Scotland.

Tweaks

• Slight buffs to Iceland to make a Iceland playthrough a little less boring.
  
• Albania will now act more historical when historical AI is turn on.
  
• Adjusted italian focuses rewards and prerequisitions.
  
• Number adjustments to Industial Soviet ideas and Trotsky path. (overall buff to Soviets)
  
• Gifted myself rent money, mostly via selling my body to Science.
  
• Gifted the AI 40 widths template at start date so they don't spend the Army XP building it themselves.
  
• Gifted the AI a unique tech to slightly improve it's performance in offensive wars. (About a %1 bonus to various stats)
  
• Updated bookmarks. A true game changer!

Fixes

• Switzerland should no longer be able to call the Militia up while dead.
  
• Fixed some formatting bugs, and some bugs with Czechoslovakia.
  
• Fixed some focus icons that were not showing up.
  
• Fixed a bug in the Iraq tree possibly causing some rare crashes.
  
• Fixed land traits being attributed to naval leaders.
  
• Fixed the gaping hole in my heart that Science left behind. You bastard.
  
• Fixed Austrian generals who went to battle in civilian suits.
  
• Fixed a mistake in a British manufacturer granting the wrong bonus.
  
• Fixed Rocket Artillery 3 now gives your rocket artillery equipment 3.
  
• Fixed Scotland not having an extra research slot.
  
• Fixed Soviets not wanting to eat Estonia after doing the Baltic Security focus.
  
• Fixed Soviet ideas not showing up.
  
• Various portrait fixes.
  
• Other minor fixes not noted.
  
• Sent a probe into the Danger Lands. You don't want to know what it found.

It's May! That means the horror of Summer is now approaching some regions of the planet . Also, the Elder God Yomagn'tho is now 0.00034% more likely to penetrate the barrier between reality and the out realms, after which it will overrun the Earth with its Reptilian minions - but hey, at least there's a new patch and horoscope!*

It's a big one in the fixes department, and there's a some new content here and there. A number of trees got updated, some generals decided to show up after slacking off, we messed with the research balance (just for the fun of it, as always), and smashed a couple of long-standing issues with the AI.

Come find us at Reddit or Discord[discord.gg]. We've also got a Patreon, if that's your jam:Patreon[www.patreon.com]?

-Gxp


General

• New Siamese focus tree (By BlueFoxy).
  
• Brand new fascist branch for the Italian tree.
  
• Improved the RT56 British fascist tree.
  
• Added some improvements to Norway: more historical advisors, a new focus, 2 new manufacturers.
  
• Made the Ruthenian tree playable if you release them as a fascist or communist country.
  
• Added Generals in the Dominican Republic.
  
• Added decisions to reform the Ethiopian army and removed their bad traits.
  
• Added a decision to form Turkestan, the union of the central asian countries.
  
• Added 2 Generic African portraits based on the military portraits.
  
• Added Kenyan leaders.
  
• Added 2 Czechoslovak generals.
  
• Added an Australian Artillery manufacturer and an Admiral.
  
• Added a port to North-East Somaliland.
  
• Added a new default menu music: Beethoven - Egmont Overture.

Tweaks

• Improved and Buffed certain Armenian focuses.
  
• Nerfed the Austrian armament focuses.
  
• Gave Catalonia naval techs and a decision to deploy a navy if you begin with the game rule "15th century Aragon".
  
• Made two paths of the PRC tree mutually exclusive to avoid changing ideology and ending the game with 9 research
  slots.
  
• Added research slots in the R56 South African focus tree.
  
• Ethiopian decision granting steel now grants steel instead of more rubber.
  
• Removed Trench Warfare for Ethiopia.
  
• Increased the speed of plane relocation that was mistakenly reduced by 10.
  
• Added names of fascist Erithrean and Somalian leaders (leaders of native auxilliary troops).
  
• +1 research slot for every country. Might be reversed if the pitchforks come out. :)
  
• Lowered the spotting chance of army transport convoys.
  
• Tought the AI to research in the etax techtree as a doctrine.
  
• Etax army focus no longer gives you Armor organization.
  
• Added Marno's ENG focus icons.
  
• Altered some defines for a better game experience.
  
• Disbanded encircled units now only return 10% manpower and equipment.
  
• Disbanding a division in the home territory will return 100% manpower
  
• Lowered base tech cost from 85 to 80 / day.
  
• Increased the year ahead penalty from 2 to 6.
  
• Increased the savable days on research to 50 from 30.
  
• Slower mission efficiency gain for bombers.
  
• Lowered the air supply mission command point cost.
  
• Default occupation policy set to gentlest.
  
• Lowered naval mines naval supremacy impact to 0.75 from 1.0.
  
• Slightly lowered naval mines damage.
  
• Changed some automatic acceptance into factions by events to ask to join it.

Fixes

• The Russian Tsar now has the correct portrait.
  
• Fixed some Soviet focus icons that kept disappearing.
  
• Removed bad advisors in Africa.
  
• Put the game rules in the correct order.
  
• Fixed some USA decisions.
  
• Made the reloading the Congolese focus tree automatic.
  
• Gave control of the Congolese public force to the Congo.
  
• Fixed the Turkish air force not appearing on the map at the start of the game.
  
• Fixed the "Long Lance" - among other details for Japan.
  
• Added stats to some Admirals who lacked them.
  
• Fixed a crash if some attachés were hired by Latvia.
  
• Moved the continuous focuses frame up in the Irish tree.
  
• Fixed British carriers having no deck space at the start of the game.
  
• Fixed the name of Democratic Chile to avoid the famous "Chile declares war on Chile".
  
• Fixed the African claims of the German Empire to fit their 1914 colonial possessions.
  
• Fixed the decision to form Transcaucasia as a foreign country.
  
• Fixed Polish Moscicky portrait.
  
• Fix on Soviet Baltic claims branch bypass issues.
  
• Fixed a lot of icons not appearing.
  
• Fixed missing portraits in Czechoslovakia.

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