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Update: 18 Feb, 2022 @ 10:47pm

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-Added localization for Poland for their stacking debuff for holding in the main land
-Poland Stands Alone core debuff can now scale to 90%
-Irish shared Commonwealth tree moved closer to the other focuses so you don't have to scroll
-Share commonwealth focus can now be started after capitulating
-Commonwealth Delegated Command Idea command power debuff decreased 50 -> 25
-Soviet Morozov Design company restored with trait that gives -10% IC cost, 5% hard attack, and 10% reliability for medium chassis/ -10% IC cost, 10% hard attack and 10% reliability for Light Tank chassis/ -10% IC cost and 10% reliability for Light SPAA
-Soviet OKMO design company restored with trait that gives the heavy tank chassis -5% IC cost, 5% armor and 5% reliability
-Soviet Kirov design company restored with trait that gives 5% Speed, Hard Attack, and Soft Attack to Medium Tanks/ 5% Piercing and 10% Hard Attack to Medium TD's

Update: 16 Feb, 2022 @ 10:49pm

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Changes:
-Nagasaki is now an Urban tile
-Polish Focus "Prepare for the Inevitable" now requires 80% Surrender progress to do
-German SS Divisions now all start as Regulars instead of a higher veterancy level
-Additional Polish localization
-Non Heavy Chassis are once again allowed to be used as Amphibious tanks
-Bulgaria now no longer loses 2 generals when they join the axis through their focus
-Vichy France will now have their focus to End the Occupation cancelled if the axis don't control the states on the French coast line
-Heavy AA 2 and 3 will grant 10% damage to your Static Anti Air once again
-French Command Power Malice reduced from 50% to 10% because it was additive not multiplicative, meaning France wasn't gaining any CP and thus couldn't send attaches or get advisors
-Wasteland Nation now removed, as Paradox has fixed the crashing issue
-USA Tank Tree M18 and M24 Light tanks no longer lose a module slot
-Tactical Bombing Trait now grants Air XP
-AI Japan should no longer annex a player Siam
-Japan Pacific Strategy focus time increased from 14 to 35 days
-Fortified City and In-Depth Island Defenses supply bonus only applies to whoever owns it.
-Fixed USA Typo for elections
-Transport planes now require fuel
-Regular AT can no longer be paradropped
-Mountain Guns (Pack arty 3 from India and Romania) Soft Attack nerfed 26 -> 24
-Mountain Guns (Pack arty 3 from India and Romania) Hard Attack nerfed 6 -> 2
-Heavy AA1 Piercing reduced 40 -> 30
-Heavy AA2 Piercing reduced 50 -> 45



Tank Changes:

-UK Matilda II Tank armor decreased 65 -> 60
-UK Valentine tank armor increased 60 -> 70
-USA M4 Chassis armor decreased 80 -> 65
-USA M26 Chassis armor decreased 105 -> 100
-USA M6 Chassis armor increased 70 -> 80

-New Medium Cannon 3 added
-New Medium Cannon 4 added
-New Medium HV Cannon 3 added
-Tank Medium Cannon 2 Soft Attack increased 32 -> 36
-Tank Medium Cannon 2 Hard Attack decreased 30 -> 28
-Tank Medium Cannon 2 Piercing decreased 60 -> 50

-Artillery 2 now grants access to the Medium Tank Cannon 2
-Anti-Tank 2 now grants access to the Medum High Velocity Cannon 1 instead of the Medium Tank Cannon 2
-Artillery 3 now grants access to a new Medium Tank Cannon 3
-Anti-Tank 3 now grants access to the Medium High Velocity Cannon 2 instead of the Medium High Velocity Cannon 1
-Artillery 4 now grants access to a new Medium Tank Cannon 4
-Anti-Tank 4 now grants access to a new Medium Heavy Velocity Cannon 3 instead of Medium Velocity Tank Cannon 2

Update: 11 Feb, 2022 @ 12:11am

Checksum: d03b

Full Patch Notes listed here: https://pastebin.com/ZRCvkzsP

Highlights:
-Expanded USA Focus tree, including new elections
-Buffs to the soviet union, giving them an additional research slot and added consumer goods, as well as improving their aircraft focuses
-New fortified city modifiier for Soviet cities
-New Shared commonwealth tree
-Slight tweaks to focus trees for Canada, SAF, and NZL
-Cape Cope now gratns 10% speed


Doctrine, Advisors and XP
-Doctrine cost bonuses from focuses and ideas reduced across the board.
-All doctrines that had a cost reduction of 25 now have a cost reduction of 10
-All doctrines that had a cost reduction of 50 now have a cost reduction of 25
-All doctrines that had a cost reduction of 75 now have a cost reduction of 40
-All doctrines that had initially had a speed boost of 100% or above now have a cost reduction of 50
-When converting from NSB, Military Advisors (High command and chief of staffs) did not appropriately have their costs converted, with many characters costing only 50PP when they should have cost more
-All Specialists remain at 50PP
-All Experts now cost 100PP
-All Geniuses now cost 150PP
-All of the above should make players make more careful choices with the XP they are spending and prevent nations from having doctrines fully completed before war begins, as smaller bonuses and less ticking daily XP should slow things down

Poland:
-New expanded Poland in Exile tree
-Poland now gains a stacking debuff the longer they hold, capping at -30% core offense and defense
-Poland now gains a spirit that reduced their ability to build forts

Recommended Rules for Poland (ones planned to be used by BOBG on start):
1) Can't take troops out of Poland - Poland is not yet lost!
2) Can't delete stockpiles
3) Can't lend lease before capitulating
4) Can't join a faction until war is declared on them


Other:
-Supplies given by rivers treated as a level 1 railway, down from level 2
-VP's to supply base increased from .35 to .7
-Special Forces equipment now grants 4 breakthrough, up from 2
-Marine and Mountaineer breakthrough reduced from .5 to .25
-Paratroopers breakthrough reduced from .25 to .125
-Paratrooper air supremacy needed is now 90%
-AT can now be paradropped
-Crimea now has 10 local supply
-ship_hull_super_heavy_1 had a slot changed, and IC cost increased from 5500 to 7000
-recon now requires 40 infantry equipment, up from 20
-Armored Car recon now has 40 max org, up from 20
-Waffen SS Mechanized now has 1 hard attack, down from 1.625
-Waffen SS Mechanized now has 1.2 breakthrough, down from 2.05
-Waffen SS Tank Destroyer and SPAA brigades now require 20 chassis, up from 14
-Abu Dhabi now has 800 oil, up from 200
-Small Islands supply debuff reduced from 30% to 10%
-Tiny Islands supply debuff reduced from 40% to 10%
-The Rock no longer reduces supply flow and increased truck attrition

Tank Changes:
-New Special Module, 'Sloped Armor' grants 10% armor and increased cost by 5%
-Vichy France now uses the French Tank Tree
-1 New French light tank added, the x13
-2 new French medium tanks added, the s52 and x4
-Hungarian Medium Tank 1 (40m) now can use medium turret 2
-UK Medium Tank 4 now grants access to sloped armor
-German P5 now grants access to sloped armor
-Soviet T34 now grants access to sloped armor
-USA Medium tank 3 now grants access to sloped armor
-German Neub tanks now require light turrets instead of mediums
-French FB1 tanks now require light turrets instead of mediums
-SOV t28 and t35 tanks now require light turrets instead of mediums
-Soviet T70 now allows alternate light turret types
-USA M18 now allows all light turret types
-USA M3 Chassis now can use Tier 1 and tier 2 armaments
-Starting Japanese Type 98 tanks now use small guns instead of medium guns
-Starting Japanese Type 95 tanks now use auto cannons instead of small guns
-Starting Soviet T28 uses a small gun and light turret, instead of medium gun and medium turret
-Starting Soviet T25 uses a small gun and light turret, instead of medium gun and medium turret
-Speed debuff that applies to most turrets and guns was reduced between 2.5-10% depending on the tier and weapon
-All modules should now no longer allow you to put 2 of the same module on a tank
-T34 Armor reduced from 70 to 60

Update: 4 Feb, 2022 @ 9:46am

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-Fix for Yugo Generals not appearing
-Expanded Italian Support the Old Guard branch of focus tree

Update: 3 Feb, 2022 @ 10:21pm

Checksum: f1aa

-Soviet Spawn ins now appropriately check for all Axis nations as well as the Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere Nations
-UK 'Develop the Commonwealth' decisions all have the correct localization for the autonomy taken away
-UK now starts with Greece guaranteed
-UK M-Class submarine taken behind the shed
-Baltic Focus Trees removed
-Lots of equipment localization fixes
-Soviet Localization for the 'Secure the new conquests' folder is added back in
-Singleplayer Country Select now has all nations with focus trees displayed in it
-'Guerilla Tactics' and 'Tactical Withdrawal' Tactics can no longer be triggered while defending if the enemy has shore bombardment (there is no modifier to prevent it from naval invasions, so shore bombardment is the closest thing.)
-Infantry Charge Tactic Attack stat increased from 10% to 15%
-Infantry Charge Tactic Defense debuff increased from 5% to 10%
-Static Warfare command spirit entrenchment speed nerfed from 100% to 50%
-Trench Warfare (first tech of Grand Battle Plan) no longer gives 50% entrenchment speed debuff
-Attritional Containment (Second to last tech Right Side Grand Battle Plan) now enables the Elastic Defense tactic
-Brazilian Air Chief changed from Ground Support 2 to Naval Strike 2, since there is already a Ground Support 3 in the High Command section
-South Africa now has 2 new Resource Prospecting Decisions, adding 250 tungsten and 150 steel in Zambia and Rhodesia respectfully
-South African 'Emergency Workers' Spirit now grants 10% bonus build speed to all refiners, and their factory and infrastructure build speed is increased from 7% to 10%
-South African Infrastructure effort now also adds 3 Civilian Factories
-South African Steel focus now grants 30 tungsten per Steel Refinery
-South African Heavy Engineering focus now grants 4 civilian factories instead of 2
-For admiral to get officer corp role anti-sub expert they must have hunterkiller trait
-For admiral to get officer corp role submarine expert they must have seawolf trait


UK Decisions to Purchase equipment standardized:
-90 days up from 75
-8 factories up from 5
-All now cost 100 Political Power
-Infantry Equipment increased from 4000 to 5000
-Squad Equipment increased from 800 to 1000
-Artillery Equipment increased from 250 to 360
-Anti Tank equipment increased from 250 to 360 (also fixed)
-Support Equipment increased from 250 to 500
-Radio Equipment increased from 0 to 250

Tank Changes:
-All Tank chassis researched from 1941 and beyond have received 1 more special module
-Jumbo armor tech fixed
-Commonwealth Covenanter Medium tank removed
-Light MkVI and Matilda 1 tanks now unlock armor and engine, and the Matilda 1 now comes with medium turrets to prevent needing to research the medium tank to use the light of heavy tanks
-Commonwealth Medium Turret 4 moved from the Comet to the Cromwell
-German access to the Medium 3 turret moved from the Panzer 4(1936) to the Panzer 3/4 upgrade (1940)
-Localization updated to separate out light medium and heavy casemate
-UK Cruiser Mk IV Armor increased 25 -> 35
-UK Crusader Armor increased 35 -> 45
-UK Cromwell Armor increased 65 -> 75
-UK Cromwell Breakthrough increased 55 -> 60
-UK Centurion Breakthrough increased 65 -> 70
-UK RAM Armor increased 60 -> 65
-UK RAM Breakthrough increased 45 -> 50
-UK Sentinel Breakthrough increased 45 -> 50
-UK Thunderbolt Breakthrough increased 50 -> 55
-Medium Turret 3 moved from Thunderbolt to Sentinel for Australia
-Medium Turret 3 moved from an upgrade of the Ram to the Tank Tech itself

Update: 29 Jan, 2022 @ 10:45pm

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-Spanish Expanded Conscription Focus removed
-If Spain goes to war with Portugal, the Portuguese states gain the ‘Autonomous State’ modifier, granting reduced factories, build speed, manpower, and resources.
-Soviet NKVD spy catching nerfed again
-Mongolian Infantry models are no longer quite as chad
-Soviets now have a focus granting a bonus to nuclear technology, as well as a operation to piggy back off other majors research.
-Soviet Propaganda that increased metal resources temporarily now gives the correct tooltip of 10 each per state instead of 1 each per state
-Soviets start off with enough convoys to supply their army (350 up from 50)
-Italy army reforms spirit gives -40% command power gain instead of -0.4 daily command power gain
-Italy Libyan Railroads focus now spawns in railways for Libya, but spawns less infrastructure

Update: 28 Jan, 2022 @ 9:36am

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Note: HOI4 recently updated to 1.11.5 and your game must have it to use this patch. Read the 1.11.5 patch notes for more bug fixes and changes that have been made to the game

Various Changes:
-Anti Partisan Sweeps tactic will only trigger if the generals skill is 5 or higher, and they have a skill advantage of 2 or greater
-Anti Partisan Sweeps tactic Attack Bonus changed from 5% to 10%
-Finland gains new decisions allowing them to reverse engineer Russian tanks if they capture 25 of them during the war
-Japanese Propaganda mission 'Tank Propaganda' now correctly reduced resource penalty factor by 20% instead of increasing it by 20%
-Some Hungarian Idea icons changed
-Bulgarian Irredentism no longer grants reduced wargoal justification time or reduced wargoal tension
-France can no longer declare war on Spain during the Spanish Civil War
-Neutral Spain now will remove the autonomous state modifiers when they maintain neutrality
-Many characters have received updated portraits from 1.11.5
-Soviets have a new focus that unlocks after August 1941 granting them 10% additional mill construction speed to encourage 1941 barbs
-New Zeeland Bob Semple spirit org increased 2 -> 5
-New Zeeland Bob Semple core defense increased 5 -> 10
-2nd Vienna award now lets hungary get all of Translyvania if they have given up dbrojua
-English, American, and Japanese Coastal Defense Companies removed
-England no longer can do tank purchases as part of their emergency equipment decisions.

Leader Trait Changes:
-compassionate_gentleman - Added resistance_damage_to_garrison = -0.15
-backroom_backstabber - Removed political_power_factor = 0.05
-backroom_backstabber - Added subversive_activites_upkeep = -0.25
-backroom_backstabber - Changed drift_defence_factor = .15 -> .25
-smooth_talking_charmer - Added improve_relations_maintain_cost_factor = -0.5
-ideological_crusader - Added party_popularity_stability_factor = 0.1
-armaments_organizer - Added production_speed_supply_node_factor = 0.1
-Soviet NKVD heads no longer get bonuses to capturing spies (5% Yagoda, 10% Yezhov and 15% Beryia)
-Skilled Staffer now requires you to have 25 units in an army in order to gain XP, up from 21
-Skilled Staffer can also be farmed on field marshals, requiring 75 units to gain XP

Tank Changes:
-Armored Car Recon values fixed
-Armored Car turret 2 changed from armored car 2 to armored car 3
-Open Armored Car turret removed from armored car 3
-USA Tank Destroyer Board Design Company nerfed from 25% hard attack to 10% hard attack
-Heavy Canon 1 changed from tier 5 to tier 6
-Tank Destroyers and Self Propelled Artillery now require double the chassis, but remain 1 width
-Medium tanks now cost 10 chromium, up from 5
-Medium tanks now cost 10 tungsten
-Heavy tanks now cost 20 chromium, up from 10
-Heavy tanks now cost 20 tungsten
-Heavy tanks may no longer stack extra ammo storage or hull flamethrowers
-English Crusader upgrade now unlocks armored skirts
-English a33 tank now unlocks armored skirts
-English a41 tank now unlocks armored skirts, and correctly allows the modern turret
-English A22 now allows the heavy superstructure instead of the a43
-New English A45 tank, the FV201 which is a late game 1945 heavy tank
-Soviet T44 now correctly can use the modern turret
-USA M26 can now correctly use the modern turret
-Tank artillery gun 1 Soft Attack 30, from 24
-Tank artillery gun 2 Soft Attack 36, from 28
-Tank artillery gun 3 Soft Attack 42, from 32
-Tank Heavy artillery gun 1 Soft Attack 42, from 36
-Tank Heavy artillery gun 1 Soft Attack 48, from 42

Artillery Changes:
-Artillery 1 soft attack 18, up from 14
-Artillery 2 soft attack 22, up from 18
-Artillery 3 soft attack 26, up from 14, and made a 1941 tech from 1942
-Artillery 4 made a 1943 tech from 1944
-Dual Purpose Artillery hard attack 8, up from 6, and made a 1940 tech
-Pack Artillery removed as a separate tech, now incorporated with the Great War Artillery
-Pack AT added, must use Squeezebore AT for it
-Pack Artillery soft attack 16, up from 15
-Pack Artillery IC 6, down from 8
-Pack Artillery 2 IC 7, down from 10
-Mountain Artillery Gun IC 10, down from 11

AA Changes:
-Heavy AA Hard attack 12, down from 16
-Heavy AA2 Hard Attack 16, down from 20
-Heavy AA3 Hard Attack 20, down from 24
-Heavy AA3 piercing 60, down from 74
-Heavy AA3 made a 1942 tech, from 1943
-Small Caliber Guns 1 (research on the left side of arty tree) now enables small cannon 2
-Small Caliber Guns 2 (research on the left side of arty tree) now enables small cannon 3

AT Changes:
-AT moved from left and middle columns, to having pack AT on the left and regular AT in the middle
-AT5 removed
-AT1 hard attack 14, down from 15
-AT2 made 1939 tech, up from 1938
-AT3 made 1941 tech, up from 1940
-AT3 soft attack 4 from 8, hard attack 22 from 18
-AT4 made 1943 tech, up from 1942
-AT4 hard attack 26, up from 22
-Squeezebore 1 made 1939 tech, down from 1941
-Squeezebore 1 Hard attack 16, down from 20
-Squeezebore 1 IC 6, down from 8.5
-Squeezebore 1 Piercing 50, down from 90
-Squeezebore 2 Hard attack 20, down from 24
-Squeezebore 2 IC 12.5, down from 8
-Squeezebore 2 Piercing 75, down from 110
-Heavy AT1 Defense 8, up from 4
-Heavy AT1 Soft Attack 10, up from 4
-Heavy AT1 Hard Attack 28, up from 26
-Heavy AT2 Hard Attack 34, up from 30
-Heavy AT2 Soft Attack 12, up from 4
-Raketenwerfer piercing 100, up from 95

Update: 21 Jan, 2022 @ 10:50pm

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Miscellaneous:
-Japanese Light Tank Terrain Buff fixed
-Mobile Warfare Army Spirit Fuel Capacity modifier nerfed 2 -> 1
-Amsterdam changed from Metropolis to Urban
-Italian Propaganda Localization fixed
-German High Command Lutjens changed from Anti-Submarine Specialist to Capital Ship Specialist

Artillery Tab Changes:
-AT 1 Hard Attack nerfed 18 -> 15
-AT 2 Hard Attack buffed 16 -> 18
-AT 3 IC nerfed 8 -> 10
-AT 4 is now a 1941 instead of 1940 tech, but no longer requires you to research Dual-Purpose Artillery
-AT 5 is now a 1943 instead of 1942 tech
-Squeezebore 1 Hard Attack buffed 12 -> 20
-Squeezebore 2 Hard Attack buffed 18 -> 24

Tank Chassis Changes:
-2 New French Heavy Tanks chassis added, ARL 44 and ACL-2
-New Crusader Branch Variants for NZL, AST, and CAN
-Australia and New Zeeland gain 3 Medium Tank options, the Sentinel, Thunderbolt, and AC4 Cruiser
-Canada gains 2 Medium Tank option, the Ram and Ram II
-Commonwealth Nations other than Australia and New Zeeland gain 1 Medium Tank option, the Excelsior
-English Cromwell now grants access to Medium Turret 3
-English now leads to the Excelsior
-English Crusader research cost increased .5 to 1
-English Cromwell research cost decreased 1.5 to 1
-French B1 Chassis max speed reduced 5 -> 4.5
-English A15 Chassis max speed increased 6.25 -> 6.5
-English A22 Chassis IC cost decreased 32 -> 28
-English A22 Chassis armor value decreased 85 -> 80
-German 35(t) and 38(t) tank now has a tooltip that informs you it can't be researched and is unlocked by the Fate of Czechs focus
-All Assult Guns lose their 20% breakthrough bonus
-All Tank Destroyers Defense nerfed .5 -> .2

Tank Module Changes:
-Cast Armor IC cost buffed 0.2 -> 0.1
-Cast Armor Reliability added 0.0 -> 0.1
-Light Open Superstructure IC cost reduction nerfed .15 -> .1
-Light Open Superstructure breakthrough penalty increased .1 -> .2
-Light Open Superstructure speed bonus decreased .25 -> .15
-Light Open Superstructure hardness penalty increased .3 -> .35
-Light Open Superstructure air attack penalty added .0 -> .2
-Medium Open Superstructure IC cost reduction nerfed .3 -> .1
-Medium Open Superstructure breakthrough penalty increased .1 -> .25
-Medium Open Superstructure speed bonus decreased .25 -> .15
-Medium Open Superstructure hardness penalty increased .25 -> .3
-Medium Open Superstructure air attack penalty added .0 -> .2
-Tank super heavy turrets hardness added 0 -> 0.025
-Modern Tank turrets hardness added 0 -> 0.075
-Open Super Structures are no longer capable of being Assult Guns
-Open Superstructures are no longer allowed for Amphibious tanks
-Heavy Caliber guns are no longer allowed on Amphibious tanks
-Medium Tank Turret ic cost changed -.1 -> -.05
-5% Light Tank Destroyer Hard Attack moved from Artillery 3 to Artillery 5
-10% Medium Tank Destroyer Hard Attack removed from Artillery 3
-10% Heavy Tank Destroyer Hard Attack added to Artillery 5
-15% Medium Tank Destroyer Soft Attack added to Artillery 5
-15% light Tank Destroyer Soft Attack added to Artillery 5
-15% Heavy Tank Destroyer Soft Attack added to Artillery 5

Update: 20 Jan, 2022 @ 10:14pm

Checksum: 2e12 (not on beta patch)

-Vichy Colors returned back to orange
-Spanish 'Support the War Industry' Focus now also unlocks at 80% World Tension
-Vichy's 'end the occupation' focus will give Germany a warning that they are going to take land
-Spain now will lose all of its garrisons that spawned from the civil war when it ends
-German e50 and p6b tanks now both require turrets to be a legal template
-Germany will now lose Mefo if they join a war their allies have started
-Finland now has the decisions to peace out even if they didn't do the winter war focus
-Soviet Off Map factories have been returned to their Gulag and Coordinated Industry focuses
-Save the Alcazar mission will no longer trigger the Caudillo of Spain focus if it has already been completed
-Additional updates to the Baltics to help lock them to their historical route
-Finnish Continuation War focus will now also declare on Mongolia to prevent issues with their war with the Paradox bug around not being able to call in allies to some wars
-Indian and Romanian Special Pack Artillery returned
-Operation Countenance time for the invasion of Iran increased from 30 days to 60 days
-Localization added for Italian, Indian, and Soviet focuses
-Japanese Mountain and Jungle Tank Tech re-implemented


Light Tank Chassis Breakthrough nerfed:
-English mk6 30 -> 15
-English mk7 35 -> 20
-English mk8 45 -> 35
-German pz1 30 -> 15
-German pz2 35 -> 20
-German p35 30 -> 15
-German p38 40 -> 25
-German hetzer 45 -> 40
-German luchs 45 -> 35
-French rft 30 -> 10
-French h35 40 -> 15
-French r35 35 -> 20
-French s35 (Medium) 20 -> 10
-Italian l6t 30 -> 20
-Hungarian 38m 40 -> 25
-Japanese t95 30 -> 10
-Generic lt1 Light tank breakthrough nerfed 35 -> 15
-Generic lt2 Light tank breakthrough nerfed 40 -> 25
-Generic lt3 Light tank breakthrough nerfed 45 -> 35

Tank Module Changes:
https://i.imgur.com/8S4KSwI.png

Artillery/AA/AT Changes:
https://i.imgur.com/uJH8PnT.png

Update: 15 Jan, 2022 @ 5:27pm

Hotfix for the Beta patch, removing Soviet offmap factories and replacing them with ones in the urals