Welcome to yet another edition of the Patch Show, now available on your favorite Public Access channel right after "The Great Tibetan Bake-Off" and "Cats Vs. Dinosaurs: Let there be Fur".

This episode contains all sorts of goodies, but overall focuses very heavily on tweaks and fixes. We've got some interesting new stuff in the generic tree thanks to Narzgel! Beyond that there's an absolute feast of fixes and smaller additions to really add flavor to your HOI experience. As always, please check the notes below for the full and uncensored details.

We've got some very large and exciting updates coming later on. Rumor has it that the Soviets and Austria might be getting some love, and maybe - gasp! - an achievement system? Also, it turns out that The Road to 56 is having a birthday soon. We'll be two years old on the 17th. There will be a party at my place, but admittedly you'd have to spot for a flight and byoc (bring your own cupcakes). If that's not your cup of tea, then please be sure to join us for a dance competition on our Discord[discord.gg] instead.

If you'd like to gift us a nice present for our upcoming shenanigans, please check out our Patreon[www.patreon.com]! As always, we are grateful and humbled by the support of our community and will keep doing our best to bring you meaty content updates.

With love and best wishes,

-Gxp


Updated Focus Trees

• Generic (by Narzgel)
  
• Quebec (Non political branches replaced with the Generic Tree)
  
• Denmark (Non political branches replaced with the Generic Tree)

Content

• Added decisions related to our Patreon[www.patreon.com] supporters! Thank you so much!
  
• Added decision to manually activate our Easter Egg mode
  
• Updated Greek & Siamese ship classes (hoangtan1998)
  
• Added flavor to German support companies (hoangtan1998)
  
• Added flavor to all of German and Soviet tanks (hoangtan1998)
  
• Added brand-new designer companies for Italy, Yugoslavia, Spain (hoangtan1998)
  
• Added new General personality trait "Military Governor" (grants resistance growth -25%)
  
• Added 4 new focuses to the Greece's royalist tree
  
• Added 3 new admirals to Greece: Dimitrios Oikonomou, Petros Voulgaris and Ioannis Toumbas
  
• Added 3 new political advisers to Greece
  
• Added 1 new General to Italy: Alessandro Pirzio Biroli
  
• Added more unique focus icons to Greece
  
• Added new flags for fascist and communist Greece
  
• Japan flavor event added if "Purge The Kodoha Faction" focus is selected before January 2, 1936
  
• New loading screen quotes added

Tweaks

• Reworked the Swiss militia decisions entirely
  
• The Greek AI has been improved and will go with the historical route when historical mode is enabled
  
• Diversified icons for Greece focus tree to make the focus less bland and more vibrant
  
• Changed the Greek focuses "Autarky" to "Abandon Democracy" since originally it didn't make sense for its effect
  
• All custom RT56 General personality traits have had their GFX updated
  
• There's now a super rare chance that a General can receive three personality traits
  
• Releasing or puppeting Quebec as Canada will now remove conscription crisis idea
  
• Iceland and Greenland start date names changed to be more historical
  
• Doing "Purge The Kodoha Faction" as Japan now changes the country flag to the Rising Sun version

Balance

• Buffed: Greek Industrial Innovations focus factory requirement reduced from 100 to 60
  
• Buffed: Tibet has had some focuses completion time reduced
  
• Nerfed: Estonia's Gender Equality idea stats reduced (25% -> 3% research reduction)
  
• Adjustment: Slightly increased the chance a new General get's a Personality trait
  
• Adjustment: Re-balanced the time required to do some Greek focuses
  
• Adjustment: Re-balanced a fair amount of Greek focuses

Fixes

• Ukraine has its cores back on states owned by the Soviet Union
  
• Fixed 1 base-factor bugs in Greek events
  
• Fixed Iceland focuses not being mutually exclusive with each other
  
• Fixed POL duplicate idea / duplicate text
  
• Fixed missing royal industry icon + ghost underscoring
  
• Fixed map / building errors
  
• Fixed some other errors by re-encoding various files
  
• Fixed issue with riots spawning all the time by changing root event to < 0.3
  
• Fixed the Swiss infinite manpower bug
  
• Fixed minor typos for Greece
  
• Fixed the Greek communist flag bug
  
• Fixed the Greek event spawning for other countries
  
• Fixed majority of invalid ship upgrades, but some may remain
  
• Fixed some focuses that lack localization
  
• Removed startup tpov_navaldesign.5 event

This is a small fix with nothing else to it. Also, it's one month until our 2nd Year Anniversary. Hooray?

-Gxp

Fixes

• Removed files that really really were not supposed to be there.

Hello!

It's that time again. No, not for checking to see if the Hellmouth has finally opened again - it's a new patch! The team has thrown together yet another collection of oddities for your personal amusement and confusion.

We've got a nice new situation with Greece, very classy. On top of that, the frequently ignored commoners of your realm may now very pointedly voice their displeasure with your (probably) benevolent guiding hand. Thankfully there are ways of dealing with that, and some of the options don't involve brutal repression. That's always nice.

In additon there's the usual array of fixes, tweaks, and eldritch horrors. (Apologies to Great Britain and its once mighty empire)


There's this whole Patreon[www.patreon.com] thing we've just launched. Basically, we'd love to spend more time modding - but we all have bills to pay and Abominable Ice Zombies to fight. If you feel like we should focus more on making mods and less on resisting the undead hordes, feel free to support us!

It's very important to note however that we are not accepting any bribes in exchange for content or certain features. Our mod consists of work from many people, and if there's a particular piece of content you like - we would very much like to direct you to the person that deserves your funds. So please let us know, and we'll point you in the right direction.

If you have questions regarding any of this, please let us know on our Discord[discord.gg] or PM one of our Leads. Also, if you happen to see the Patreon as a blight on humanity and an insult to the proper order of the galaxy, then go ahead and let me know. The rest of the team consists of very nice people, and I don't want them to be sad. :)

Our next beta will be on the 1st as usual, and then another patch on the 7th!

As always, best wishes.

-Gxp


New & Updated Focus Trees

• Greece (by sventhedanishcitizen and commanderchui)

Content

• Enabled peon uprisings for all countries not named Norway
  
• Added strengthen sliders to Danzig, Greenland, and Iceland
  
• Updated Romanian, Turkish, Venezuelan and Yugoslavian ship classes (thanks to hoangtan1998)
  
• New GFX added mainly for the upcoming Soviet update and the Swiss conscription law
  
• Added new loading screen quotes
  
• Added localization to Armenia focuses (Thanks to LegioThrasher)
  
• A puppet may now puppet Great Britain

Tweaks

• More planes can now be converted
  
• Updated country names for Greenland and Iceland following community feedback
  
• Added explanatory descriptions to the Swiss manpower related ideas and its unique conscription law
  
• Multiple post-1945 techs have had their research times slightly increased

Balance

• Nerf: Spain no longer gets its private industry idea (This one's for TommyKay)
  
• Nerf/Adjustment: Personality Trait 'Meticulous' no longer grants a recon bonus
  
• Buff/Adjustment: Personality Trait 'Decided Planner' no longer has a recon debuff but instead a max planning debuff
  
• Buff: Personality Trait 'Homeland Connoisseur' has had its stats buffed (%2->%5)
  
• Updated Swiss Neutrality idea to be even more neutral (We're lots of fun at parties. Really.)
  
• All National laws have been adjusted.

Fixes

• The UK and US should no longer declare war when Mexico does the PEMEX focus in historical mode
  
• Fixed decisions for HON/POL
  
• Fixed minor Indonesia Bugs
  
• Fixed Ireland bug were focus wasn't mutually exclusive with its partner
  
• Fixed Albania taking the Down with the King! focus in historical
  
• Fixed Albanian event not firing at the right time
  
• Fixed Japan having Indochina being transferred to the French State if they got the state through demands with original France
  
• Fixed some Portugal events that were firing multiple times
  
• Fixed the Finnish Import Fokkers focus not having a bypass
  
• Fixed the Ethiopian Return the Kingdom of Solomon focus event transferring the incorrect states (thanks to samipote)

New Focus Trees & Flavour

• Armenia (by Thinking Waffle)

Content

• Updated Colombian, Peruvian and Uruguayan ship classes (thanks to hoangtan1998)
  
• Added democratic leader for Montenegro
  
• Added new fascist leader for Colombia
  
• Added new portrait asset for Siam fascist leader
  
• Tons of additions and changes for nations interacting with Armenia and the Caucasus

Tweaks

• Albania should think a little bit more now before declaring wars
  
• Minor expansion to Bhutan's communist path
  
• Updated ace portraits
  
• Send Combat reports decisions can now only be done while at war since manufacturers have stated that reports on bar fights at the local American Legion hardly constituted a 'combat report'

Balance

• Nerfed several Communist Albanian ideas
  
• Nerfed PRC's Partisans idea (for real this time)
  
• Nerfed Enforced Patriarchy

Fixes

• Corrected spelling and grammar for some Belgian content
  
• Fixes to all Bhutan content
  
• Fixed Albania declaring war on other countries when Albania themselves don't exist
  
• Fixed Albania focuses that were not working
  
• Fixed Netherlands focus tree issues and quirks
  
• Fixed Netherlands event that will no longer set your stability to -20%
  
• Fixed Soviet focuses related to France not checking if France exists in the first place
  
• Fixed Leon Trotsky being assassinated when he is ruling the Soviet Union
  
• Fixed details in the Danzig focus tree
  
• Fixed the portrait for the Dutch queen
  
• Fixed Greek Focus in which it would take Istanbul without the Turks input on the matter
  
• Fixed Iceland event changing a leader portrait to the wrong dude
  
• Fixed Spain event that would fire more then once for Republican Spain post civil war

Nothing to see here. Move along, move along...

Just a quick hotfix for the terrible things we unleashed in the last patch. Let's pretend that these fixes were there the whole time.

Content

• Added Bulgarian Ship class names (Thanks to Hoangtan1998)

Fixes

• Danzig will now fold to a Human controlled Poland like a paper airplane
  
• Gave Germany back its research slot though a military research focus
  
• German AI will now be more likely to start a war before 1940/1941 (for real this time)
  
• AI Warlords can no longer enter a power struggle
  
• Various issues with Tibet and Brittany have been addressed
  
• Fixed crash related to Albanian bunkers

Tweaks

• Ireland no longer needs 50+ world tension to do the emergency powers focus when it's democratic (set to 15%)
  
• Some AI and number of value changes with Polish content
  
• Many small localization changes

Balance

• Adjustment: Greece's 'Fort Athens' and 'Fortify Coasts' have their focus times decreased to 35 days. 'Fort Athens' now grants level 8 land forts. Down from 10
  
• Nerf: Iceland Shieldmaidens idea population factor decreased from 30 to 15

Salutations and Salut!~

It's that time again. No, the Martians aren't invading. It's another patch from your favorite band of misfits and miscreants. As you might have noticed, the patch was delayed due to a Series of Unfortunate Events. (my laptop exploded and I was also fighting raccoons) Hopefully the wait wasn't too painful for everyone? Going forward you can expect us to return to the regular schedule of publishing a Beta on the 1st, and releasing on the 7th! (Unless the Martians really do show up, then perhaps it will be delayed a few days. Maybe.)

This is one of our largest updates and includes six new focus trees, somehow. I'm in charge of this craziness and even I'm feeling pretty amazed these days. We have fantastic contributors and a lot of dedicated modders, and really they deserve lots of free hugs and high fives. As usual there is also a whole raft of tweaks, bug fixes, and other assorted shenanigans.

In other news, the rebooted Infantry Tree is nearly done! It's been slow progress, but worth it. I'll be doing a post about that fairly soon, along with some comments on our just completed mega-survey. Thanks to everyone that participated. We received a lot of feedback which was equal parts helpful, enlightening, and bizarre. Finally, the dreaded and possibly apocalyptic moment of our Patreon will be happening this month. When that happens there will be a lot of information about what it is, what it is for, and most importantly - how much poetry I'll be writing for that $1 donation.

As always, it's been a pleasure. Thank you for the support, kindness, rage comments, and awkward memes. Life wouldn't be as exciting without you. Remember: If you feel down, as much as you might not think you can - keep trying anyway. You'll be fine. If nothing else, the Road to 56 team is here to give you another patch. :)

-Gxp

New Focus Trees & Flavour

• Albania (from Legacy of Skanderbeg Mod by Lucian)
  
• Iceland (from Winter Wars Mod by Elfangor567)
  
• Bhutan (by Thinking Waffle)
  
• The Netherlands (by Thinking Waffle)
  
• Poland (from Historical Poland: National Focus Tree & More by {sBc} Bane5, General Damian, Bartini_98 and BartoszpoprostuBartolo)
  
• Danzig (by Thinking Waffle)

Content

• Iceland is now displayed on the map as a Dominion to Denmark
  
• Greenland is now displayed on the map as a Integrated Puppet to Denmark
  
• Danzig is now displayed on the map as a "Free City" of Poland
  
• Germany: Added new focus to the German tree that may involve Iceland
  
• Germany: Added new start date idea, and focuses involving Enigma
  
• Lithuania: Added Generals (Hope this holds you Lit fans over while we work on a tree)
  
• Brazil: Added a 5th research slot unlockable through a new focus
  
• Added a new releaseable nation: Kurdistan (KUR)
  
• Added decisions to rally the Nationalist/Republican officers in the Spanish Civil War
  
• Added decision for American countries to remove U.S Influence
  
• Added "Arthur Potts" and "Eedson Burns" as new Canadian generals
  
• Added "Eugen Meindl" as a German general unlocked through a decision
  
• New portraits for several countries created by Abbus, Lyylikki, theHistoria94 and Thinking Waffle
  
• The Chinese made themselves some better cameras to take better pictures of their generals
  
• Some Latin American countries have new start date national ideas with new GFX to boot
  
• Gxp discovered that raccoons are cute in single units, but terrifying as a group
  
• New World News Event for the 1938 World Cup if the countries taking part have been good boys...
  
• A ton of new loading screen quotes (still 25% silly!)
  
• Added a new decision for a certain British Terror

Tweaks

• Tons of improvements and updates to Luxembourg (by Skipp)
  
• Adjustments to A LOT of various focuses times, and rewards with Germany
  
• Denmark will no longer handover Greenland and the Faroe Islands when UK and/or the USA are the baddies
  
• USA will now be informed that when they own Greenland now, and that there's no backies
  
• USA's communist 'path' removed to avoid further confusion...
  
• D'esperey now leads the French Cagoule and should die sometime around 1942
  
• Updated leaders and ideologies for several countries
  
• Updated focus tree icons for Spain
  
• Tried to summon a demon for the purposes of making rent. It was unexpectedly rude, and made fun of my fashion choices.
  
• Updated focus tree icons for war goals/friendships with the Nordic countries
  
• Updated Argentinian, Mexican, Scandinavian, Iberian and Irish naval classes (big thanks to hoangtan1998)

Balance

• Slight tweaks to National Characters following community feedback (again)
  
• Buffed: Brazil's starting stability, and some of their national focuses
  
• Gxp didn't survive the encounter. The person writing this is actually a very handsome ghost.
  
• Nerfed: PRC's Partisans behind enemy lines idea
  
• Nerfed: (KMT) China's Lure them in Focus
  
• Nerfed: Afghanistan's Graveyard of Empires idea, which also goes away now when you form the Persian Empire as Afghanistan
  
• Nerfed: Mexico's Agrarian army idea
  
• Nerfed: USA's Jet research focus rewards. As well as some research bonuses
  
• Nerfed: Soviet Union's starting National ideas de-buffs are larger and take longer to get rid of. (Purge unchanged)

Fixes

• Readded the portrait for Swiss communist leader Fritz Platten after removing it by mistake
  
• AI Germany will be much more likely to start a war before 1941 now
  
• AI Soviet Union will be less likely to go to war with Poland when the UK got's their back (This one's for you ISP...)
  
• Fixed Brazil's Revolution of 1930 idea not being removed from certain focuses
  
• Petitioned the International Ice Cream Consortium to add Thinking_Waffle as a flavor, but was denied. #boycotttheIICC
  
• Fixed some British no-icon bugs (thanks to hoangtan1998)
  
• Fixed and updated pieces of localization for Brazil and Iraq (thanks to MattLongCT for Iraq)
  
• Fixed VP problems in Cambodia and Brazil
  
• Spain should now be less likely to go Democratic

Greetings and happy patch day! This is our effort for the month of August, and hopefully you'll find something interesting and enjoyable. The team is doing its best to roll out as many new and fantastic things as possible, and overall there has been a tremendous amount of great work from everyone.

As you might have noticed we're now on Reddit, so if that's your sort of thing you can come and bother us there. The Reboot is ongoing but at a very slow pace. However, it's likely to pick up soon as we shift resources toward it. We're also still running a survey, so if you want to drop a line please do! So far the results have been very interesting, if somewhat worrying. (You overwhelmingly picked 'My Dear Mother' as your favorite modder )

We also ran a beta for one week, and all the feedback we got from there was invaluable. Since it went so well, we will likely run it again. Our next scheduled session is on September 1st, with the patch on the 7th. Going forward this will be the regular patch schedule for the future.

As always, thanks for your awesome support. Never forget that even when times are dark and someone's gone and taken the last slice of pizza - there's still Road to 56. We're here for you.

Always. <3

Content

• Updated and rebalanced Brazil - see respective section for details
  
• Reworked and rebalanced all the National Characters
  
• Added a new releaseable nation: Cyprus (CYP)
  
• Added new Canadian general "Christopher Vokes" and new British Paratroop General "Frederick Browning" which is unlocked through a decision
  
• Added new Austrian flavour ship classes (thanks to hoangtan1998)
  
• New main menu logo created by Abbus
  
• New portraits for several countries by Armando, Rokim21, theHistoria94 and Lyylikki
  
• New time machine enables advanced content from HOI 5.
  
• New GFX integrated into several countries courtesy of Indyclone77 and Rokim21

Brazil

• Updated the tree adding new focuses, decisions and pretty much everything you can ever imagine
  
• Reorganized the tree making it easier to navigate through and appear less "blocky"
  
• Reduced maximum research slots available to 4
  
• Reduced resources (a lot) gained through focuses. Slightly increased starting resources on map
  
• Reduced the remaining box of cookies to ruin. No prisoners were taken.
  
• Reduced amount of factories (quite a lot) gained through focuses. Added more penalties to tackle this also
  
• The country can no longer do multiple focuses and get factories and infrastructure in every state
  
• Tons of new icons for the focuses making the tree look just as vibrant as the Amazon rainforest
  
• The AI should now follow a somewhat historical path
  
• Due to the discovery of a colossal supply of large black gemstones, a number of Brazilians have been cured from porphyric hemophilia

Tweaks

• Further tweaks to Switzerland including overhauled flags, a new victory point, focus balances, neutrality changes and localization updates
  
• Made the Iran focus tree easier to navigate by giving it a bit more space
  
• Moved the Establish Reichskommissariats focus in the German focus tree to the Lebensraum branch
  
• Minor updates to Belgium
  
• Minor updates to aces
  
• Updated city and state names across Europe
  
• Updated my contacts list. I still have no friends
  
• Updated country names for Luxembourg
  
• Updated leaders and claims for Ukraine (thanks to MattLongCT)
  
• Removed everything for the people and replaced them with something called proletarian dictatorships
  
• USA will be less likely to do Pax-America when Historical AI is off, and there is a player playing certain Latin America countries
  
• Sarcasm is now part of all diplomacy checks

Fixes

• Fixed a major bug where Swiss leader Rolf Henne could take over major countries like Germany
  
• Fixed a bug where the Wilhelm Gustloff Assassination event for Switzerland would appear in the 39's start
  
• Fixed several portrait issues for Honduras
  
• Fixed localization for several of the Axis Minors
  
• Fixed details in the Balkans for Bosnia, Serbia and Slovenia
  
• Fixed the leak in dimension 47. There should now be slightly less in the way of invasions by ravenous blood beasts
  

This is a small update to address a reported CTD. There are a few other goodies as well. :)

Tweaks

• New colors for Democracy and Communism
  
• Added centrism as a democratic sub-ideology
  
• Tweaks to Switzerland including starting ideology and localization changes
  
• Updated democratic flags for Switzerland

Fixes

• Fixed a CTD where a Swiss communist event would appear when playing as the PRC
  
• Fixed Soong Mel-Ling (Nationalist China Political Advisor) not being available due to a leader name typo
  
• Fixed three ideology errors in the Mexican focus tree and events

Greetings!

It's time for the monthly update, and as usual it's a mixed bag of new content and fixes. This is also the first patch without any content from me, which is both strange and wonderful. I am grateful to the team for their efforts this month and covering for my slack. Be sure to let them know how awesome they are either here on Steam, or via the Discord!

General

• Adjustments to Canada, new content
  
• Adjustments for Germany, Japan, Luxemburg, and USSR
  
• Portions of the 'Eye of the Hurricane' mod by Elfangor567 added to Switzerland
  
• Improvements to Honduras' content
  
• Improvements to Aces
  
• Made some African states no longer impassable
  
• Additional releasables in Africa
  
• Bug fixes and some new flags for African Nations
  
• Mexico has been updated
  
• Various AI adjustments
  
• Updated Order of Battle for some nations
  
• Neutrals can now puppet
  
• Numerous new icons from Indyclone77, Thinking_Waffle, and Rokim21
  
• A balance pass on bonus national ideas based on MP feedback
  
• General stability improvements
  
• Many other changes not listed here