Genre: Real Time Strategy (RTS), Simulator, Strategy
Hearts of Iron IV
Developer Diary | The Future of Hearts of Iron
Hello there everyone, I’m sure you can guess who it is, it's me, C0RAX.
So let me clue you in, I know it's been a while since our last update but this one will be worth it, I promise!! We have been working tirelessly to bring you the greatest leap in the history of the hearts of iron franchise(Bit of trivia,it’s over a decade old). We’ve wanted to go above and beyond what the fans expected for a long time so we have a long running project we've kept very close to our chest, the one we’re here to announce.
Ok, without further ado and before you can make all the blocks fall into place on your own, here it is, the future of the franchise:
Spring Sale & HOMELAND Bundle! - [Sale ended March 23rd]
Sale ended March 23rd
Generals!
Info from the front lines shows that the Steam Spring Sale is operating massive discounts up to 75% on everything Hearts of Iron!
Discounts on top of discounts for you to get the DLCs you want, from the 16th - 23rd! Like the new Homeland Bundle that brings the frontlines to your doorsteps with Battle for the Bosporus and La Résistance at an even larger discount!
Bundles
Hearts of Iron IV: Homeland Bundle Additional 20% off
Hearts of Iron IV: Ultimate Bundle Additional 10% off
Base Game
Hearts of Iron IV: Cadet Edition 75% off
Hearts of Iron IV: Starter Edition 75% off
Expansions
Hearts of Iron IV: No Step Back 20% off
Hearts of Iron IV: Battle for the Bosporus 50% off
Hearts of Iron IV: Death or Dishonor 50% off
Hearts of Iron IV: Together For Victory 50% off
Hearts of Iron IV: Waking the Tiger 50% off
Hearts of Iron IV: La Résistance 50% off
Hearts of Iron IV: Man the Guns 50% off
Music & Model Packs
Hearts of Iron IV: Eastern Front Music Pack 30% off
Hearts of Iron IV: Eastern Front Planes Pack 30% off
Hearts of Iron IV: Allied Speeches Music Pack 50% off
Hearts of Iron IV: Radio Pack 50% off
Hearts of Iron IV: Sabaton Soundtrack 50% off
Hearts of Iron IV: Sabaton Soundtrack Vol. 2 50% off
Hearts of Iron IV: Allied Armor Pack 50% off
Hearts of Iron IV: Axis Armor Pack 50% off
Spring Sale & HOMELAND Bundle!
Generals!
Info from the front lines shows that the Steam Spring Sale is operating massive discounts up to 75% on everything Hearts of Iron!
Discounts on top of discounts for you to get the DLCs you want, from the 16th - 23rd! Like the new Homeland Bundle that brings the frontlines to your doorsteps with Battle for the Bosporus and La Résistance at an even larger discount!
Bundles
Hearts of Iron IV: Homeland Bundle Additional 20% off
Hearts of Iron IV: Ultimate Bundle Additional 10% off
Base Game
Hearts of Iron IV: Cadet Edition 75% off
Hearts of Iron IV: Starter Edition 75% off
Expansions
Hearts of Iron IV: No Step Back 20% off
Hearts of Iron IV: Battle for the Bosporus 50% off
Hearts of Iron IV: Death or Dishonor 50% off
Hearts of Iron IV: Together For Victory 50% off
Hearts of Iron IV: Waking the Tiger 50% off
Hearts of Iron IV: La Résistance 50% off
Hearts of Iron IV: Man the Guns 50% off
Music & Model Packs
Hearts of Iron IV: Eastern Front Music Pack 30% off
Hearts of Iron IV: Eastern Front Planes Pack 30% off
Hearts of Iron IV: Allied Speeches Music Pack 50% off
Hearts of Iron IV: Radio Pack 50% off
Hearts of Iron IV: Sabaton Soundtrack 50% off
Hearts of Iron IV: Sabaton Soundtrack Vol. 2 50% off
Hearts of Iron IV: Allied Armor Pack 50% off
Hearts of Iron IV: Axis Armor Pack 50% off
War Effort - Operation Pike Patch 1.12.11 [Checksum 92f5]
Generals!
Operation Pike is rolling out with plenty of new bug fixes, Modding Support, Balance Tweaks and changes for our Canadian comrades in the North!
The patch will be live on Steam today, but the Microsoft patch is unfortunately delayed until March 14th, sorry about that!
Feature
- German, Japanese and British trees will now hide obsolete branches if the related game rule is turned on. - French and USA focus trees will now hide obsolete branches if the related game rule is turned on. - Added a new alt-history branch to Canada's Communist path, allowing further reduction of the Great Depression, wargoals on the United States, and various other benefits, at the cost of being unable to join or create factions
Balance
- Germany now begin with 80 transport planes, from 4
Gameplay
- Tweaked Ethiopian Balance of Power, to decrease risk of country collapse - Made coring decision for Italo-Ethiopian empire available when controlling, rather than owning, states - Made it possible to move capital to Jerusalem after Axum for Ethiopia - Made it possible for Ethiopia to collaborate with Italy as Monarchy as well as Fascist - Improved Regional Supply depots National Spirit for Ethiopia - Made multiple investments at the same time possible for Ethiopia - Added camelry to Sultanate of Aussa
UI
- Now the disabling of construction of railway lines on the map will remove them from construction UI. - Delete-building button should now be visible/usable on UI-scaled clients - Now, if you hover mouse over an invasion arrow, the whole path will be visible even if it is overlapped by another one. - Visual improvement of the create faction window. - Now the army theater groups will show the reinforcement priority.
Modding
- Removed deprecated trigger pc_is_state_outside_influence_for - State level production speed modifiers now have the correct loc keys
Bugfixes
- Changed the "repair_speed_infrastructure_factor" modifier description to accurately reflect its actual effect - Fixed creation of unbuildable plane variants by create_equipment_variant effect. - Focus tree screen will now properly refresh when something changes the display - like when the player chooses a branch and it hides the other ones. - Fixed the exploit of ignoring the special forces cap when changing army templates. - Game rule "Show Obsolete Branches in Focus Tree" no longer requires any DLC. - Motorized rocket artillery fuel usage increased from 0.12 to 1.2 to be in line with Trucks - Fixed the missing description for all none-Italian countries receiving the end News Event for the Fate of Mussolini Event chain - USA no longer hires both communist and fascist advisors without DLCs - Events and focuses which invite all un-faction-ed countries of a specific ideology to a faction will no longer target subjects (this affects Spain and the Soviet Union currently) - Fixed issue in which Italian Aircraft Designer CRDA-CANT would require the wrong Naval Designer to be active. It now requires CRDA Naval Designer as intended. - Octavian Goga will now correctly become country leader on completion of the National Christian Party focus. - The name of peace conferences will appear in the correct language after language changes during peace conferences. - Fixed issue so that now Italian partisan general Ada Gobetti is properly cautious. - Obsolete Soviet AI plan "Alternate" has now been purged. - Build Cost equipment stat modifiers now display the correct color for a bonus (green for negative, red for positive) - Fixed extra word in Alpine Supremacy description - Fixed typo in Bulgarian Re-integration Campaign - Fixed issue with Costanzo Ciano Light Cruiser Class granted by Italian focus Flotta d'Evasione when Man the Guns DLC was not active. - Fixes to Canada's communist's path focuses
As always, we appreciate all the feedback you provide us, and if you encounter any issues with the game, please fill out a Bug Report so we can look into it!
And if you haven't already, let us know what you think of By Blood Alone here on Steam or over on the Forums!
As always, you all have a great weekend and enjoy your day!
War Effort - Operation Pike Open Beta [1.12.11] Checksum 66ce
Generals!
With the beginnings of March comes a new open beta from our glorious factory! With this patch comes quite a few bugfixes, some gameplay tweaks, added features, and a special addition for our Canadian Comrades!
Listed below are all of the changes (which is subject to change where necessary) that are now live on an open beta branch. Feel free to give us feedback on these planned changes in this thread, or in our Discord!
Feature
- German, Japanese and British trees will now hide obsolete branches if the related game rule is turned on. - French and USA focus trees will now hide obsolete branches if the related game rule is turned on. - Added a new alt-history branch to Canada's Communist path, allowing further reduction of the Great Depression, wargoals on the United States, and various other benefits, at the cost of being unable to join or create factions
Balance
- Germany now begin with 80 transport planes, from 4
Gameplay
- tweaked Ethiopian Balance of Power, to decrease risk of country collapse - Made coring decision for Italo-Ethiopian empire available when controlling, rather than owning, states - Made it possible to move capital to Jerusalem after Axum for Ethiopia - Made it possible for Ethiopia to collaborate with Italy as Monarchy as well as Fascist - Improved Regional Supply depots National Spirit for Ethiopia - Made multiple investments at the same time possible for Ethiopia - Added camelry to Sultanate of Aussa
UI
- Now the disabling of construction of railway lines on the map will remove them from construction UI. - Delete-building button should now be visible/usable on UI-scaled clients - Now, if you hover mouse over an invasion arrow, the whole path will be visible even if it is overlapped by another one. - Visual improvement of the create faction window. - Now the army theater groups will show the reinforcement priority.
Modding
- Removed deprecated trigger pc_is_state_outside_influence_for - State level production speed modifiers now have the correct loc keys
Bugfix
- Changed the "repair_speed_infrastructure_factor" modifier description to accurately reflect its actual effect - When adding a production line, initial efficiency is now only set for slots that have an active factory. - Fixed creation of unbuildable plane variants by create_equipment_variant effect. - Focus tree screen will now properly refresh when something changes the display - like when the player chooses a branch and it hides the other ones. - Fixed the exploit of ignoring the special forces cap when changing army templates. - Game rule "Show Obsolete Branches in Focus Tree" no longer requires any DLC. - Motorized rocket artillery fuel usage increased from 0.12 to 1.2 to be in line with Trucks - Fixed the missing description for all none-Italian countries receiving the end News Event for the Fate of Mussolini Event chain - USA no longer hires both communist and fascist advisors without DLCs - Events and focuses which invite all un-faction-ed countries of a specific ideology to a faction will no longer target subjects (this affects Spain and the Soviet Union currently) - Fixed issue in which Italian Aircraft Designer CRDA-CANT would require the wrong Naval Designer to be active. It now requires CRDA Naval Designer as intended. - Octavian Goga will now correctly become country leader on completion of the National Christian Party focus. - The name of peace conferences will appear in the correct language after language changes during peace conferences. - Fixed issue so that now Italian partisan general Ada Gobetti is properly cautious. - Obsolete Soviet AI plan "Alternate" has now been purged. - Build Cost equipment stat modifiers now display the correct color for a bonus (green for negative, red for positive) - Fixed extra word in Alpine Supremacy description - Fixed typo in Bulgarian Re-integration Campaign - Fixed issue with Costanzo Ciano Light Cruiser Class granted by Italian focus Flotta d'Evasione when Man the Guns DLC was not active.
As always, we appreciate your continued feedback, if you have more suggestions make sure to suggest it over on the Forums, where you can also fill out Bug reports for issues you come across.
That should be it from us today, make sure to have a great weekend everyone!
Operation Sabre Patch 1.12.10 [Checksum - 0f26]
Generals!
With Operation Sabre comes plenty of new bugfixes, some attention towards Bulgaria and Romania, and the portions to your Career Profiles we outlined in our Previous Developer Diary
Listed below are all the changes, (Unchanged from the Open Beta) we appreciate all of your feedback and look forward the future!
Feature
- For easy and very easy difficulties, AI countries will transfer a part of their Peace Score to the human player(s) - Puppets will transfer a part of their Peace Score to their Overlord (can be disabled with custom game rules) - Faction members will transfer a part of their Peace Score to their Faction Leader (can be disabled with custom game rules) - Countries with a low war participation score will transfer all their Peace Score to other countries (can be disabled with custom game rules) - Make peace score redistribution game rules disabled by default
Balance
- Prussia of the Balkans rebalanced slightly, and more of the modifiers now scale as the spirit is upgraded - Bulgaria now begins with the Mountaineers tech unlocked - Bulgaria: National Railway Lines now take 35 days, from 70. Added two mutually exclusive focuses after this, choosing between exploiting aluminium resources (16 Aluminium) or natural gold deposits (stability + civ) - Integrated designers navy spirit no longer gives double bonus and only gives research bonus for ship modules now - Romania: several new focuses added which enable the possibility to manipulate which country leader will run the fascist party - all countries will now build carrier aircraft if they have carriers, countries with low military factories are less likely to spend too much on fighters - increased carrier aircraft wanted buffer for countries with carriers to 1.5x total deck space
UI
- Fixed various issues with tech tree on different resolutions - Bulgaria's default UI colour (used for allegiance/country unit banners) is now the same as their starting country colour - Main menu Social Media buttons update
AI
- Added some scripted AI desires for land doctrines - Fixed bug in how AI prioritises its construction queue - Stop AI from queueing up more naval bases and railways if they are already waiting to be upgraded - Italy will now be much less active on the French front for the first months of the war, unless France are losing badly, or Germany is under threat - AI will check if it should afford the monthly cost of Improve Relations before attempting it - USA colorado class battleships now obsolete in 1936
Modding
- add is_hired_as_advisor = yes/no trigger - Make has_resources_in_country accept extracted and buildings parameters - Add get_supply_vehicles and get_supply_vehicles_temp effects and triggers to check the number of trucks and trains - Make the following triggers neutral - meaning they won't impact the outcome of the trigger block they are in : log, set_temp_variable, print_variables, round_temp_variable, clamp_temp_variable, subtract_from_temp_variable, multiply_temp_variable, divide_temp_variable, clear_temp_array, add_to_temp_array, remove_from_temp_array, resize_temp_array, find_highest_in_array, find_lowest_in_array
Bugfixes
- Improved requirement tooltips for Mare Nostrum decision. - Random country selection disabled when loading ironman saves - Fixed incorrect dates for 1938 engine and armour techs - Bulgaria's unit names now use the spelling 'Diviziya', from 'Divizija' - Fixed issue in which Germany would get twice the amount of research bonuses via the focus "Treaty with the USSR" - early cruiser hull no longer unlocks cruiser armour - Aircraft Bomb tech now unlocks torpedoes - Fixed incorrect role settings for amphibious drive module - Fixing typo in Adopting Rumantsch country flag in Switzerland - fixed incorrect templates for RO.57 aircraft - Fix the capture and subsequent consequences for operatives when they get spotted on offensive missions - Small fixes to Romanian focus tree additions
That should be it for us today! If you encounter any issues with Today's patch, make sure to leave a Bug Report and we appreciate you all enjoying the game :)
Also make sure to check out the updated roadmap!
Operation Sabre Patch 1.12.10 Checksum 0f26
Generals!
With Operation Sabre comes plenty of new bugfixes, some attention towards Bulgaria and Romania, and the portions to your Career Profiles we outlined in our Previous Developer Diary
Listed below are all the changes, (Unchanged from the Open Beta) we appreciate all of your feedback and look forward the future!
Feature
- For easy and very easy difficulties, AI countries will transfer a part of their Peace Score to the human player(s)
- Puppets will transfer a part of their Peace Score to their Overlord (can be disabled with custom game rules)
- Faction members will transfer a part of their Peace Score to their Faction Leader (can be disabled with custom game rules)
- Countries with a low war participation score will transfer all their Peace Score to other countries (can be disabled with custom game rules)
- Make peace score redistribution game rules disabled by default
Balance
- Prussia of the Balkans rebalanced slightly, and more of the modifiers now scale as the spirit is upgraded
- Bulgaria now begins with the Mountaineers tech unlocked
- Bulgaria: National Railway Lines now take 35 days, from 70. Added two mutually exclusive focuses after this, choosing between exploiting aluminium resources (16 Aluminium) or natural gold deposits (stability + civ)
- Integrated designers navy spirit no longer gives double bonus and only gives research bonus for ship modules now
- Romania: several new focuses added which enable the possibility to manipulate which country leader will run the fascist party
- all countries will now build carrier aircraft if they have carriers, countries with low military factories are less likely to spend too much on fighters
- increased carrier aircraft wanted buffer for countries with carriers to 1.5x total deck space
UI
- Fixed various issues with tech tree on different resolutions
- Bulgaria's default UI colour (used for allegiance/country unit banners) is now the same as their starting country colour
- Main menu Social Media buttons update
AI
- Added some scripted AI desires for land doctrines
- Fixed bug in how AI prioritises its construction queue
- Stop AI from queueing up more naval bases and railways if they are already waiting to be upgraded
- Italy will now be much less active on the French front for the first months of the war, unless France are losing badly, or Germany is under threat
- AI will check if it should afford the monthly cost of Improve Relations before attempting it
- USA colorado class battleships now obsolete in 1936
Modding
- add is_hired_as_advisor = yes/no trigger
- Make has_resources_in_country accept extracted and buildings parameters
- Add get_supply_vehicles and get_supply_vehicles_temp effects and triggers to check the number of trucks and trains
- Make the following triggers neutral - meaning they won't impact the outcome of the trigger block they are in : log, set_temp_variable, print_variables, round_temp_variable, clamp_temp_variable, subtract_from_temp_variable, multiply_temp_variable, divide_temp_variable, clear_temp_array, add_to_temp_array, remove_from_temp_array, resize_temp_array, find_highest_in_array, find_lowest_in_array
Bugfixes
- Improved requirement tooltips for Mare Nostrum decision.
- Random country selection disabled when loading ironman saves
- Fixed incorrect dates for 1938 engine and armour techs
- Bulgaria's unit names now use the spelling 'Diviziya', from 'Divizija'
- Fixed issue in which Germany would get twice the amount of research bonuses via the focus "Treaty with the USSR"
- early cruiser hull no longer unlocks cruiser armour
- Aircraft Bomb tech now unlocks torpedoes
- Fixed incorrect role settings for amphibious drive module
- Fixing typo in Adopting Rumantsch country flag in Switzerland
- fixed incorrect templates for RO.57 aircraft
- Fix the capture and subsequent consequences for operatives when they get spotted on offensive missions
- Small fixes to Romanian focus tree additions
That should be it for us today! If you encounter any issues with Today's patch, make sure to leave a Bug Report and we appreciate you all enjoying the game :)
Also make sure to check out the updated roadmap!
War Effort - Open Beta & Developer Diary! [1.12.10]
Hello, Ingevar is here with news about Career Profile, if you're just looking for patch notes, scroll down to find them at the bottom, but let's get into things!
More stats and Awards
We were happy to see that a lot of players welcomed new awards and got gold medals including the trickiest ones, so we felt we should expand the list of medals and ribbons a bit. Previously we focused on warfare mostly, but this time we added some that cover economy, production and recruitment aspects of the game.
My personal favorite is the new ribbon "Orchestra of Boom": first of all the name! But then also it will require you to design and deploy a division with anti-tank, anti-air, artillery and rocket artillery with a support signal company. Not that hard to do, but very fun to use this division in battle!
Some of the New Medals will deliver a serious challenge even for more experienced players, like "Quality Over Quantity" , which requires you to have several times less casualties than the enemy after inflicting at least 1 million casualties.
We are also adding more statistics to your Career Profile, which can tell a bit more about each player's playstyle.
Awards Display
You can display your awards now! Be a proud general with a couple of the best medals, or go full Brezhnev-mode showcasing every bit you have! We also plan to add more medal shapes and icons so that it's easier to tell on medal apart from another.
Stats in Multiplayer
We will also collect Statistics in Multiplayer now! Awards are still Single Player only, but now you'll be able to see how the player is coping against other humans.
Backgrounds
We wanted to add a bit more customization to your Career Profile, so now you will unlock backgrounds for career points that you earn with Awards. The combination of your nickname, profile picture and the background will form the Badge, which will be visible to other players.
The Badge in Multiplayer Lobby and Chat
One of the Biggest changes we bring is the possibility to view the Career Profiles of other players in the Multiplayer Lobby and chat. Just click on their badge and see their stats and awards! If you don't want to share this valuable intel with others you can always set the visibility of your own profile to "Friends Only" or "Private".
Stats Comparison
When Viewing profiles of other Players you will be able to compare numbers to your own directly.
We are very excited to hear your thoughts and see more gold in your Career Profiles
Stay tuned and see you later!
PATCH NOTES
Feature
- For easy and very easy difficulties, AI countries will transfer a part of their Peace Score to the human player(s) - Puppets will transfer a part of their Peace Score to their Overlord (can be disabled with custom game rules) - Faction members will transfer a part of their Peace Score to their Faction Leader (can be disabled with custom game rules) - Countries with a low war participation score will transfer all their Peace Score to other countries (can be disabled with custom game rules) - Make peace score redistribution game rules disabled by default
Balance
- Prussia of the Balkans rebalanced slightly, and more of the modifiers now scale as the spirit is upgraded - Bulgaria now begins with the Mountaineers tech unlocked - Bulgaria: National Railway Lines now take 35 days, from 70. Added two mutually exclusive focuses after this, choosing between exploiting aluminium resources (16 Aluminium) or natural gold deposits (stability + civ) - Integrated designers navy spirit no longer gives double bonus and only gives research bonus for ship modules now - Romania: several new focuses added which enable the possibility to manipulate which country leader will run the fascist party - all countries will now build carrier aircraft if they have carriers, countries with low military factories are less likely to spend too much on fighters - increased carrier aircraft wanted buffer for countries with carriers to 1.5x total deck space
UI
- Fixed various issues with tech tree on different resolutions - Bulgaria's default UI colour (used for allegiance/country unit banners) is now the same as their starting country colour - Main menu Social Media buttons update
AI
- Added some scripted AI desires for land doctrines - Fixed bug in how AI prioritises its construction queue - Stop AI from queueing up more naval bases and railways if they are already waiting to be upgraded - Italy will now be much less active on the French front for the first months of the war, unless France are losing badly, or Germany is under threat - AI will check if it should afford the monthly cost of Improve Relations before attempting it - USA colorado class battleships now obsolete in 1936
Modding
- add is_hired_as_advisor = yes/no trigger - Make has_resources_in_country accept extracted and buildings parameters - Add get_supply_vehicles and get_supply_vehicles_temp effects and triggers to check the number of trucks and trains - Make the following triggers neutral - meaning they won't impact the outcome of the trigger block they are in : log, set_temp_variable, print_variables, round_temp_variable, clamp_temp_variable, subtract_from_temp_variable, multiply_temp_variable, divide_temp_variable, clear_temp_array, add_to_temp_array, remove_from_temp_array, resize_temp_array, find_highest_in_array, find_lowest_in_array
Bugfix
- Improved requirement tooltips for Mare Nostrum decision. - Random country selection disabled when loading ironman saves - Fixed incorrect dates for 1938 engine and armour techs - Bulgaria's unit names now use the spelling 'Diviziya', from 'Divizija' - Fixed issue in which Germany would get twice the amount of research bonuses via the focus "Treaty with the USSR" - early cruiser hull no longer unlocks cruiser armour - Aircraft Bomb tech now unlocks torpedoes - Fixed incorrect role settings for amphibious drive module - Fixing typo in Adopting Rumantsch country flag in Switzerland - fixed incorrect templates for RO.57 aircraft - Fix the capture and subsequent consequences for operatives when they get spotted on offensive missions
For more input, make sure to leave a comment on the Forum, and as always, thank you to everyone for being apart of this Community - we appreciate you all and the enormous help that your suggestions and bug reports bring! So let's continue with this war effort to improve the game together!
- In unit history file, if a mod tries to create a ship for a country that does not have the required tech, do not create the ship
Hotfix Information
We have seen a spike in crashes when playing with certain mods since the January patch 1.12.8. This hotfix addresses the issue in code.
However, the root cause is found in script, and some less severe errors will still result from it. Modders will need to update their scripting to fully resolve the issue.
In 1.12.8 the default behavior of the effect create_equipment_variant changed. By default, when the effect executes, if the equipment type specified in the effect has not yet been unlocked/researched, the variant will not be created. Instead creation is delayed and will occur first when the tech is acquired.
When researching a hull, chassis or airframe you get a variant representing the naked hull, chassis or airframe. This variant needs to be the first one created of its type. Otherwise it will cause errors later on. This is why we changed the default behavior of create_equipment_variant.
Unfortunately, this means that you cannot depend on create_equipment_variant to always create the variant (by default). For example, if you create a jet fighter variant, and then refer to that variant when executing add_to_stockpile, you might be in trouble. You likely want to add a precondition to only do this if the country has the required tech.
Additionally, when using create_equipment_variant in your history files to set up the initial game state, you want to make sure that you unlock techs before creating variants. You should see any issues in the error log when starting a new game.
Alternatively, you can add allow_without_tech=yes in create_equipment_variant to have the effect behave as it did before 1.12.8. This should be ok to do for non-modular equipment types, e.g. ships if MTG is deactivated (or NSB for tanks, or BBA for planes), since these types don’t have any hull, chassis or airframe variant.
Let us know in this thread if you have any questions in regards to this hotfix patch!
/Katten
War Effort - Operation Capital [1.12.8 - Checksum 9d51]
Greetings Generals and Happy New Year!
To continue with the War Effort here are the latest patch notes for Operation Capital, including QoL updates, balance changes and bug fixes. As has been much requested, we've also made changes to the Stalin paranoia system - no need to look over your shoulder about it anymore!
Below you can find the patch notes (unchanged from the Open Beta version);
Patch 1.12.8 Operation Capital Checksum 9d51
Balance
- Equipment variants created through focuses etc. will be created first when the technology they are based on is researched, if it's missing. - Tank Design: Radio modules curve slightly changed, overall efficacy of radios reduced slightly - Tank Design: Close Support Gun now has 10 piercing, from 12. - Tank Design: Heavy Machine Gun now has 8 soft attack from 5, and 6 piercing from 10 - Tank Design: Secondary Cannon and HMG now have fewer drawbacks but higher production cost. HMG soft attack now 4, from 3, but hard attack removed - Tank Design: Additional Machine guns soft attack reduced to 1, from 2 - Tank Design: Easy Maintenance module now reduces total build cost by 5%, but requires 30 XP, from 10 - Tank Design: Expanded Fuel Tanks now cost 1 IC, from 2 - Tank Design: Sloped Armor now increases armor by 25%, from 20 - Tank Design: Medium One-Man Turret now has 8 breakthrough, from 10, and reduces soft and hard attack by 10%, from 25% - Tank Design: Three-Man Turret now has 24 breakthrough, from 20 - Tank Design: Torsion Bar now grants 15% reliability, from 10% - Tank Design: Interleaved Road Wheels no longer reduces reliability, but has doubled production cost - Tank Design: Welded armor reduced to 30% armor, from 40% - Plane Design: Torpedo Mountings now have 14 naval strike attack from 12, -12 agility from -15, and 6 targeting from 5 - Plane Design: Reduced the lower end of plane engine IC costs; earlier planes should be a little cheaper on the whole - Dive brakes no longer valid for naval bombers, increased naval targeting from dive brakes from 4 to 6 - Dive brakes no longer valid with naval bomber weapons (torpedoes and guided missiles) - Carrier Naval strike multiplier increased, reduced naval strike detection chance from 0.7 to 0.5, reduced carrier disruption factor from 0.8 to 0.6 - Basic Medium chassis now 1938 tech, amphibious tank now unlocked only by 1936 light, tank armour tech dates are now 36,38,41,44, amphibious tank no longer gets medium turrets
UI
- New variants received from auto-upgrades, focuses, events etc. are now highlighted in the production tab like variants received from research. - In research screen for modular equipment (tank, ship, plane), stop showing a diff in stats when there is no design company attached - Improved Tank tech tree layout
AI
- Soviet Union no longer desires to be best buddies with Romania despite being instructed to ignore them for a while - AI weights on hiring advisors now makes more sense. You should see a better split between political advisors & research bureaus, and the AI no longer saves all PP for hiring chiefs at the exclusion of all else. [This has a pretty radical effect on early AI build-up, thus there may be some imbalance in the early game in this open beta - feedback especially welcome] - AI have a higher weight on Captain of Industry advisors pre-1939 - AI military spirit selection is less deterministic
Modding
- Added property allow_without_tech to create_equipment_variant which will create the variant even if the technology it's based on is missing. - Fix the way character variables in script are stored - From now on, any trigger or effect, strictly requiring a country scope, but used in a character scope, will not work anymore - From now on, any trigger or effect, strictly requiring a country scope, but used in all_character, any_character, random_character, every_character, party_leader, characters_list_tooltip, will not work anymore - Correctly retrieve variables stored in character scope for text - Fixed tooltip function of trigger can_be_country_leader when used in country scope or all_character/any_character - Fix add_ideas and activate_advisor effects. When applied to a slot that is already filled, dismiss the currently appointed advisor before hiring the new one. Will fix crash when opening Officer corps after. - In script, interpret correctly when a character token is used in input - Make has_character and can_be_country_leader work with variables and keyword, and not just with a character token - Make is_character work with variables and keyword, and not just with a character token - Align can_be_country_leader on other character trigger and always return false if the character is retired - Fix crash in remove_advisor_role if the character had no matching advisor role - When using a character token as input for a scope, search for the closest encapsuling country scope in order to interpret it correctly - Fix crash when using add_advisor_role on a character with already a role in the same slot. Add a log error if trying to put triggers and on_action in the advisor role in add_advisor_role, those can only work if in database. - Make set_temp_variable accept character token as input - Removed check on unit leader type for add_unit_leader_trait. This check is only relevant for random traits. - Make sure that advisor roles in characters duplicated during civil war keep the same idea_token - Remove check on scope for hidden_effect and effect_tooltip - Added country dynamic variables : country_leader, theorist, army_chief, navy_chief, air_chief, political_advisor, high_command - Make sure all political parties are cleaned up when a character with multiple country leader roles retires - Fix the tooltip for triggers inside a character scope, now the name of the character will correctly prefix the trigger tooltip - Add can_be_fired boolean flag in advisor role block in database. If at 'no', then the advisor can't be fired once hired. Warning modders : completely replaces removal_cost = -1 ! - Add trigger advisor_can_be_fired checking new flag can_be_fired in advisor role block - Add effect set_can_be_fired_in_advisor_role, setting new flag can_be_fired in advisor role block - Fix dynamic variables when using a unit leader scope - Add trigger pc_is_state_claimed - Renamed trigger pc_is_state_outside_influence_for to pc_is_state_outside_influence_for_winner - AI now correctly evaluates the weight of the traits that an advisor has, as well as the advisor entry weights
Art
- Added portraits for political advisors in Spain and Portugal
Bugfix
- Fix all events related to Soviet Paranoia (value was always 0) - Fixed issue where researching a new hull, chassis or airframe would not create the default variant if any variant of that type already existed. - Fixed issue where variants created through focuses etc. would get unexpected modules and upgrades as a result of there being no default variant. - Fixed typo in tooltip for Soviet Merge Plants focuses - Fixed the manpower exploit by repeated splitting & merging of airwings. - Italian Fiat 3000 and Fiat 3000B inter-war tanks will no longer be just hulls in the stockpile and will now show proper inter-war tank 2D icon. - Italian AI should no longer release puppets in Balkans on historical via decisions. - Decaying opinion modifers (for instance from improve relation diplomatic action) will not disappear after loading a save anymore - Fixes to how AI selects target templates for upgrading - Combat log tooltip now shows correct naming for losses breakdown - Admirals can no longer erroneously gain the politically_connected general trait - Fix bug with usage of pc_is_state_outside_influence_for trigger in ai desires - Fixed issue where 'No Councilor' mission would complete right away. - Fixed issue where Democratic Unrest National Spirit in Switzerland wouldn't be removed when declaring the Alpine Protectorate. - AI no longer forgets top-most production line when reducing excessive factories - Fixed Thrust/Weight issues in some plane designs after latest air rebalance - Fixed not considering manpower casualties in the air combat. - Unite Polynesia decision category now shows the appropriate decision category picture. - Stalinist AI should now be more inclined to kill Trotsky. - Cruiser Submarine icon will now be properly shown on the researched technology pop-up. - Fixed Chinese general showing up with blank portrait when Nationalist China integrates Guanxi Clique army.
