Hearts of Iron IV

Hearts of Iron IV

British Overhaul
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Ben_D⚜  [developer] May 13, 2024 @ 12:14am
Acknowledgements & Disclamers
Acknowledgements:

I've utilised assets from these mods:

I will remove these assets if the authors wish for me to do so.

I've also implemented music composed from Company of Heroes 1 & 2 and Civilisation 5. Streamers can take note of the © ® ™ labels companies slap on everything :)

Disclaimers:

**THIS IS NOT ORIGINALLY MY MOD, ORIGINAL CREDIT GOES TO NATTō (a.k.a. Hiraeth)**

Seeing as Natto, the original and brilliant author, has become inactive in developing this mod, I've decided to try my hand at mod development in order to resolve my ambitions and frustration with the original project.

Many of the changes I've made are true to the original design, barring the things that Paradox added in DLC since 1.5. Most of the changes were done to balance the mod in a more sensible manner, such as adding conditions like World Tension and war status. That being said, Natto has still done about 50% of the work here (of the non-DLC content) (edit: it's now a fair amount lower than 50% at this point...). You can check the patch notes to get a gist of what I did. If you've followed this project for a little while now, you'll see that I've been gradually adding more content since I uploaded this. Naturally, Natto's original work is scaling accordingly to this project. I still greatly appreciate the work that was done there. I had a blast using it back in 1.5, and it's what got me into HoI4 modding in the first place. This wouldn't be possible without Natto's work, most importantly. I do believe that it's coming to a point that this mod is beginning to diverge enough from the original project to grant distinguished relevancy, however.


Here's the link to the original project, as you'll need to reference it for a few more details:
British Overhaul


I'm now aware that the original mod has been taken down, which is unfortunate.


It is currently only playable with certain DLC. I have intentions of eventually making it work without the DLC, but because much of the alt-history stuff is now locked behind DLC, my hands are tied if I want to make things work properly. I can develop the mod to work with historical foci while the DLC is not activated, but again, you know the story... This mod will break without the DLC for the time being.

I've updated the mod to be contemporary with the 1.14.* patch. The mod has the focus filters, as well as new ones that I put together. I've also re-sized Gibraltar (it's still way too big in vanilla), and I've also reshaped the states in Canada to look like the actual Provinces, because as a Canadian myself it was painful for me to look at.

The A.I. isn't optimized to be used with the mod. It uses the vanilla files, for the most part. It should still be somewhat passable though...

I'm no professional, so please keep that in mind when providing criticism.

You'll also see that I got many of the new pictures from Wikipedia, in case there was any wonder about that. I would also like know what you all think about what I've done in this this update. Maybe certain things would be considered too insignificant or drastic, or just plain bugged. I hope to hear from you about that.
Last edited by Ben_D⚜; May 13, 2024 @ 1:34am