@Rei really happy to hear how much effort you put into these. I often try and fix some missing portraits myself in my free time (just for myself, until an update comes out) And oh boy, is it difficult if you don't want to be sloppy like I am. I really appreciate the work you do, especially since this isn't the only Anime Mod from you. And I can understand the Stress and boredom from TNO and KR/KX there just isn't really anything new anymore... I pray that TNO2 will be better and actually come out soon. (Soon being around 1-2 years) Once again, thank you for what you're doing!

@AidenNimitz: Compatibility will happen with the next patch, just requires editing a line in a single file. Hopefully happening soon since I'm home again now, just have a backlog of some other things to deal with. I'll try and update both in tandem as they update themselves. Only hurdle is that I'm pretty much done with TNO as a whole at the moment. Just isn't as fun as it used to be but that's just a personal thing.

@simons.panzer: Glad you find it fun, if I can make you laugh and smile I did my job right. The reason why names aren't changed is that it'd require me to change around game files in a way that might break events and more. If a graphic file goes broke that's just a normal portrait that'll appear instead but if a localization or character file has the wrong info it could hurt your experience in a more significant way. I understand where you're coming from but hopefully that makes sense at least. I want the mod to be unintrusive and not have any risks to cause issues with the actual game experience.

With 2WRW transitioning into TNO: Requiem and going its own separate way, will this prioritize compatibility with Requiem or with the original TNO mod in the future?

This mod is absurdly stupid, but that's what makes it so awesome. I've never laughed so much (in a positive way) at a mod as I have with this one.

The only thing is that the names have remained the same; they could have been changed, but whatever. An absurdly stupid but awesome mod. I like it.

Hey just a heads up. On vacation now but I'll try and update the mod this weekend including fixing the dependencies that recently changed for our supported mods due to renames and whatnot.

@CaesarNate: No, it's not dead. I just lost interest in TNO for a while because the updates weren't my cup of tea for the longest time and on top of that I was busy working on other projects. I hope to update the mod sooner rather than later since those are wrapping up and the recent Omsk update's finally given me some Russian content to get into again.

Sorry for the slow pace lately, it's just been hard to get hyped for skeletons and tags with very limited conventional gameplay. It's just not very fun for me to work with, I apologize for the inconvenience, but hopefully this is at least a reasonable explanation.

Just because a mod hasn't updated in a few months does not mean it's dead.

is this mod dead?

@Rei I can understand the frustrations, I came back after a year to check things out and the mod-front looks quite bleak.
I probably won't do more than 1 KR and one TNO run, then peace out for a long while again.

Hopefully Paradox will stop milking this and give us some new games, or the big ol' mod teams will continue to deteriorate.

But still Big thank you for your and others work, I wouldn't boot this up again, if it wasn't for you guys and gals.

P.S. yeah overworking might've not been the right word, more like chip away at your mental state with menial/repetitive tasks. I mean most people would procrastinate those.
It amazes me that KR still is stuck doing these nonsense renamings...

@Khazar: Well, I'm hardly overworking these days. In fact, I'm behind on updates. Interest just dwindled. KR mostly just does file name changes and other pedantry, TNO just barely puts out anything playable any more. It is what it is. Gotten back to updating literally today though starting with MR since that one was lagging behind more. I just kinda wish both would go back to being as exciting as they were in the past.

Hope you're doing well too and thank you for the kind and considerate words.

@Rei One year later and you're still overworking yourself alone here, KR changed their folders again... same old same old huh?
Hope you're doing good and are healthy!

Absolute Peak

Update?

can you guys pls add a download link to older versions of this mod?
I liked the portraits from the first version more than the new ones.
Thanks in advance btw love the mod and keep up the good work

Great mod - Only I have to give in feedback would be more Inf. Kit graphical changes like what happened with the German [And many Einheitspakt] tech trees.

@wilhelm: I was gone over the weekend because I had to help my family so I barely had time to wrap things up on the update before now. Also, I wish the updates had more interesting people to work with again like in the old days but that's neither here nor there.

new update this weekend?

ok!

@1778951653: Sometime next week probably!

please update!

@Postal Dude: Sorry for the late reply, I've been extremely busy with getting Omsk playable. I guess I'll update sometime after the new TNO update drops. Sure look forward to that mini game collection.

@Sigma: Sorry for the even more delayed response, I think that's either because the mod was renamed and relocated and I just missed it. My bad. I'll try to rectify it in the next update, it's possible that I was kept out of the loop on their updates because of this. These things happen, hard to keep track of all submods sometimes.

when will be the new update js asking

In patch note i readd goring submod is compatible but its not some issues or a problem of me?

@luca.alvino: Yes.

is there anime tabby

URAAAAAAAA

Thank you Rei, you are the best modder maker in my mind

@MusicallySmug: They're getting added too in the next patch.

Mexican generals still have vanilla portraits, that intentional?

@Grândola: I've cataloged all tags with missing stuff, it's a bunch of ODF content for the most part. Just wanted to get the update out over the weekend to coincide with the KR one. The rest will come in the next patch. I'm back on the job again after my hiatus so it won't take as long this time around.

MOD UPDATED URAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

thank you a lot for the update, but some portraits of PAK, SIK, IND, CAM and Antarctica are still missing

Mod updated with like a billion fixes and new things. Sorry for taking a hiatus, just needed to focus on different things for a while.
Patch notes above.
Also looking for helpers on a new mod, please check our Discord.

thank you, i am finally able to pass the video auditor

@Bruin: A belated happy lunar new year to you as well, sorry for not replying sooner, missed the ping. All repairs are finally done, it's just been a boring slog to get through it all and most of my free time goes towards the 2WRW mod and helping them go standalone. All that's left is adding in some new stuff in MR and TMO, then hopefully I can update both. I know it's taken longer than I expected, and I apologize for that. I just didn't expect KR and TNO to throw as many proverbial curve balls as they did.

Once all of this is done I hope to be able to finally work on a TFR submod. I want something to work on that's fun again. It doesn't mean that I'll abandon this mod or MR, but the biggest hurdle has been that both of those mods mostly revolve around content cuts and maintenance work these days. I miss the days when you had lots of fun creative challenges to make every tag's theme fit like a perfect puzzle instead of feeling like an office job, if that makes sense.

happy lunar new year comrade, hope this mod update soon

Good people will have a good life.Thank you,hero.

@grsfdgdfgdsfajaj: Just got another thousand or so files to move over and check if they work. Shouldn't take much longer. The only real issue is that it's mind-numbingly boring.

rip mod

thanks for your work

Good work Rei

@Diamondhero253: Every portrait's likely busted atm since they changed all files to .png (performance downgrade/space saving, ymmv on the value). In the process of repairing it right now in a way that maintains compatibility with all our supported submods. It's a tedious process but all the assets have been accounted for. Just gotta go through all the folders to make sure that there are no irregularities and using the opportunity to audit away any old and unused stuff. Thank you for your patience!

cant wait for update, several leaders have default portraits still, including kennedy, speer, and a few others such as moskowien's leader.

@AidenNimitz: Script worked, just want to get out the Moereich update first. I legit can't tell which one's the most unfun to work on these days, most updates just reduce content when you go through everything with a fine comb.

That sucks. Good to hear this will be updated soon though.

Just an update. TNO decided to change all its files to use a .png file format, which means that all overlaying is currently broken. This is something that KR did a few years back as well. This can be remedied using a mass file conversion script like we did with KR, so it should hopefully not be an issue. It does mean that in the short term the mod isn't functional.

It's a bit silly as to why they did this, really. .png is better for space conservation, but it also means that everything takes longer to load in which harms performance, hence why most people do not use it including Paradox.

Happy new year everyone!
Just a quick update on the progress of things. Been very busy working on getting 2WRW into a playable state but it should all be good soon. After that it's updating Moereich and then TMO. Sorry about things taking a bit longer than expected, the 2WRW stuff really had to take priority so that things wouldn't get bottlenecked over the holidays.

Hope you all have a good and fortunate year!

Thank you very much for the effort, take your time and enjoy the holidays.

Will be working on the update when I'm home after spending Christmas with my family, and will try to update it in a way that ensures dual compatibility with 2WRW in light of their announcement to fork off from TNO. Sorry I haven't been very active, it's just been a bit dispiriting when most updates remove more portraits than they add.