Hearts of Iron IV

Hearts of Iron IV

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Update: 27 Nov, 2023 @ 9:41am
by awxe

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Update: 27 Nov, 2023 @ 9:05am
by awxe

v0.1.9.6.6 [C053] - Sølvrev - AAT

★ Call of War and AAT are now "going steady".

● Highlights

- Updated to latest version.
- Adopted new combat widths of 1.13.
- Monarchist path rework for Germany.
- Reworked air designer and tech tree.
- Main menu music has been changed.(Norwegian Resistance)
- Balance of power and additional focuses for monarchist Germany.
- Complete revamp of the Israeli tree, with a revamped independence war and 10 different possible leaders.
- Fully redone army, navy, and air force paths for RT56 Turkey, with new decisions and national spirits to go with.

● Additions

- Some new achievements
- Added the port of Viipuri.
- Added some MIOs for Israel.
- New achievement for Germany.
- Two new achievements for Denmark.
- Added a new achievement for Israel.
- More unique focuses for Tannu Tuva.
- New Slovak commander Stefan Jurech.
- [NSB] Expanded light tank technology.
- Added the Sultanate of Darfur to the map.
- Branch hiding partially implemented for UK.
- Some unique focuses and characters for the Sámis.
- Two new MIOs for Germany - Erma Werke and Hanomag.
- Additional industrial companies for Liechtenstein.
- Reshuffle and expansion of the democratic Denmark tree.
- Additional focuses and political advisors for Liechtenstein.
- Added small focus tree for Arab nations during the Arab-Israeli war.
- German Kingdoms now have permeant cores, with a shared military tree.
- German voice lines for the German Kingdoms, alongside East and West Germany.
- East and West Germany now have generic advisors. West Germany has it's own MIOs.
- Added the mayor of Cayenne and head of the pro Free France committee as a historical democratic leader for Guyana.
- Converted the decision system of the Polish Sanation rivalry into a BoP, alongside some other bugfixes and tweaks to Poland.

● Adjustments and Balance

- Made reductions in focus times in all focus trees.
- [BBA] Italy starts with the Heavy Machine Gun technology.
- Germany started with more airfields in historical locations.
- The Italian divisions are overall better equipped at the start.
- Disabled silly "overlord adjective" "country name" puppet names.
- Made it slightly easier for Hatzohar to form a coalition in the Israeli elections.
- The German Air Force is strengthened with ~2000 planes, compared to the vanilla 916.
- The Italian Air Force is strengthened with ~1400 planes, compared to the vanilla 700.
- The steel cost of Infantry Equipment '45 reduced to 5 to align it more closely with other levels.
- Saudi coring decisions now core the new Jordan states but they all demand a minimal level of compliance.
- German civil war democratic side made to have slightly more divisions, this should make them win more often.
- R56 Germany now has a focus to improve enigma again and a focus to increase synthetic rubber output, aside from some restructuring.
- Some of the German commanders adjusted, with Brauchitsch and Fritsch taking actual command. Model and Kluge were demoted to the rank of General.

● AI

- Italy will be more aggressive in the Ethiopian theater.
- Germany would deploy more troops to the Russian frontline.
- The minimum required number of supply trucks for AI has been slightly increased.
- Soviet Union concentrating too many troops in the Far East during a European war has been resolved.
- AI would stop wasting command points on "Reserve Transfer" and "Extra Fuel Reserves" during peacetime battle plan.
- Historical Italy AI is fine-tuned™, focus order is revisited and able to putting up a fierce fight in North and East Africa.
- Poland no longer signs a mutual defence pact with Lithuania in 1938, as a result of the historical AI working properly since the previous update.

● Localisation

- Rewrite localization for Convoy Supply technologies.
- Some descriptions for Liechtenstein focuses and decisions.
- Added party names and changed names for East and West Germany.
- Fixed some typos in the German 'Establish Reichskommissariats' decision category.

● GFX/UI

- Theater alerts are now in color.
- New icons for CAS 0 and CV CAS 0.
- [LaR] Added Kaiserreich operatives.
- The menu has been completely changed.
- Incorporated new vanilla Finnish 3D unit models.
- Additional fixes and improvements for generic portraits.
- Several new portraits for monarchist figures within Germany.
- Planes for the Samis, Québec, Iceland. New Biplane for China.
- The button that shows pausing and continuing the game has been changed.
- The color of technologies discovered in the technology tree became purple.
- [Non-BBA] The Italian Naval Bomber I "SM.79 Sparviero", was replaced by the "Caproni Ca.335".
- New Chilean portraits have been added for Anton Pulanich, Olegario Reyes del Río and Emilio Daroch Soto.
- New Slovak portraits have been added for Ariosto Herrera, Franz Karmasin, Jan Ursiny, Janko Jesensky, Gustav Husak, Jan Golian, Jozef Nemsila and Rudolf Viest.

Update: 7 Sep, 2023 @ 11:09am

v0.1.9.6.5 [ca8c] - Sun and Origin

● Added new combat tactics.
● Reworked the Uruguayan focus tree.
● Focus tree for Québec, which for now is only accessible when releasing it.
● Added CAS '30 , CV CAS '30 , Naval Bomber '30 and CV Naval Bomber '30 for non-BBA interwar counterparts.

- Local names for Hazaristan.
- Improved aircraft templates.
- Expansion to the Liechtenstein focus tree.
- Netherlands-specific Benelux coring decisions.
- Portrait for Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, leader of Hazaristan.
- Added a new general and army chief to Carpathian Ukraine.
- Added a decision for warlords to join the United Front against Japan.
- Venezuelan 'Constitute women's rights' now changes the legal status of women to full equality.
- Added Carlist and Anarchist operation names. The Carlist names are inspired by Spanish galleons from its golden century while the anarchist names are mostly written in Esperanto.
- Historical air orders of battle have been implemented in Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, United Kingdom and France for both BBA and non-BBA players.

Update: 7 Aug, 2023 @ 2:51pm

v0.1.9.6.4 [8af6] - Sun and Origin

● Focus tree for Japan and Costa Rica
● Additional focuses for Egypt and Liechtenstein.
● Completely redesigned post-independence Palestine tree to address gameplay complaints and make it more unique to play (same for Israel is coming soon!).

- Added Delaware to the map.
- Revamped ideologies icons.
- [BBA] Revamped airframe icons.
- Added some more flavour to Israel.
- The AI would invest less in air equipment.
- New portrait for Abbas II of Egypt and Albania.
- Buffed Belgium starting air strength significantly.
- Added Better Mechanics: Camera (cr: Arcane Master)
- Added the Strait of Tiran between Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Israel.
- Nerfed Antonio de Oliveira Salazar's 'Conservative Nationalist' trait
- [NSB] Updated "Field Test New Tanks" for Czechoslovakia with NSB rewards.
- Template improved from 9/3 to 9/2, reducing strains on artillery production.
- In the focus of Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri, manpower has been increased from 125000 to 500000.
- Changed the effects of Concentrated and Dispersed industries in the industry section of the tech tree.
- Made the Iranian "Restore Constitutionalism" localisation dynamic, since it's recycled in the Saudi tree.
- [MtG] The German historical AI will not focus on capital ships anymore due to a condition misplacement.
- Changed the color of Chile, Ecuador, Norway, Iceland, Turkiye, Panama, Venezuela, Netherlands and Indonesia.
- The new equipment icons from Lamp's Eqpt Icons for British armour have been integrated with the previously-overlooked tank icons.
- Structural and balance changes to Road to 56 Germany, to make paratroopers/marine focuses more attainable and impactful among other things.

➤ EGYPT

- Added AI strategy plans for Egypt.
- Alternate history AI game rules for Egypt.

➤ LIECHTENSTEIN

- Localization fixes for Liechtenstein.
- A few new political advisor portraits for Liechtenstein.

Update: 14 Jul, 2023 @ 8:17am

v0.1.9.6.3.1 [611a] - Sun and Origin

- Hotfix
- The correspondence has been corrected and brought back.

➤ IRAQ

- Decreased the duration of 5 focus.

Update: 11 Jul, 2023 @ 11:44am

v0.1.9.6.3 [3262] - Sun and Origin

● New Democratic Japan Path.
● Manchurian Investment Tree Overhauled.
● Revamped Israeli war tree and tweaked effects for some focuses.
● New focus for Czechoslovakia and Poland for Liechtenstein-owned properties.
● Additional focuses and decisions for Liechtenstein, including their own gold trade!
● For historical flavor, the Soviets will now attack Poland as in real life, with associated content for Poland, their faction leader and Germany.
● National ideas (GP NI GUI) have been completely changed. It's now parting ways, its traits have been changed and its PP has been adjusted.

- China's color turned blue.
- Added Kazakh characters.
- Replaced some focus icons.
- Added a new way to kill Hitler.
- Replaced some Ukrainian portraits.
- [BBA] Turkey will have Jet 2d icons.
- The loading screens have changed.
- [LaR] Added anarchist commanders.
- Added more unique capitulation pictures.
- Revamed Levantine Union democratic tree.
- AI Majors should not be obesssed with planes.
- Added Gyorgy Lukacs for communist Hungary.
- Country GDP screen has been added. (cr: Saha)
- Added small versions of Central Asian portraits.
- Light Tank Recon can no longer get 300 soft attack.
- [MtG] Added a news event if Trotsky takes control of Mexico.
- The icon of Germany's National Socialism ideology has changed.
- Changed Poland's monarchy from despotism to absolute monarchy.
- [LaR] Reshuffled Portugal democratic path to make it more appealing.
- New decisions and state modifier for partisans in occupied German land.
- Made it so Hungary's 'Liechtenstein Treaty' actually include Liechtenstein.
- [DoD] Romania getting German licenses will also come with a free military factory.
- New Union Stabilization mechanic to improve Levantine Union gameplay. other details.
- Added communist focuses and some other improvements for the Norwegian focus tree.
- Told the AI to use the added R56 technologies they were ignoring since the release of NSB.
- Enver Hoxha for communist Albania now has a trait, making him more viable in the leader choice event.
- [Not NSB] Anna Anderson - Anastasia Romanov will not appear as a man in multiplayer for those without NSB.
- Improved communist canada slightly and changed incorrect traits of some of their chiefs of the Navy and other details.
- The technologies increasing the range and building speed of supply hubs can now be identified under the name: "Supply Node Technologies" in some focus trees.

Update: 18 Jun, 2023 @ 11:26am

v0.1.9.6.2 [0acf] - Viva I'Italia!

● Army tree for Burma.
● Political tree for Nigeria.
● UI, GFX and sound update.
● United Kingdom focus tree renewed.
● Minor content improvements and focus reshuffles for Israel.
● Additional focuses and reshuffling for Liechtenstein, along with new flavour events.
● Slightly adjusted pre-independence tree and added peaceful dissolution path for Mandate of Palestine.
● [NSB] Added small post unification trees for Idel-Ural, Transcaucasia and the Mountain Republic

- Focus icon rework for Iran.
- Main menu music changed.
- Several new portraits for Burma.
- The loading screens have changed.
- Some ideology icons have changed.
- Main menu UI and background changed.
- AI will be more willing to pick national characters.
- The picture of the 36' scenario has been changed.
- [LaR] Some minor improvements to Anarchist Spain.
- [BBA] Improved the 2D/3D use of the plane designer.
- Ideology, election and building texts are now colored.
- Memel/Klaipeda is now demanded with better historical timings.
- New portrait for Josef Hoop, democratic leader of Liechtenstein.
- The Philippines now starts as a protectorate rather than a puppet.
- Mapmode buttons and topbar army/air/navy icons has been changed.
- Changed some overused national spirit icons in Australia and New Zealand.
- Made the mod compatible with the Eastern Front Plane pack cosmetic DLC.
- [NSB] Fixed the order of the recommended tank icons in the tank designers.
- Added AI preferences game rules for Mandate of Palestine and it's splinters.
- [BBA] Made some effects better suited to the new structure of the air research tree.
- Added several unique advisors for Burma and Liechtenstein so they are no longer generics.
- Slightly changed Anschluss requirements to match both (Road to 56 and Vanilla) focus trees.
- [LaR] Replaced generic end of mission warning with unique one for (almost) each spy mission.
- Finnish AI will be less likely to accept demands for Karelia if USSR has little army (on the border to them).
- Researches/doctrines that cannot be retrieved in the technology and doctrine tree are now more specific.
- Made some underresearched techs more likely to be picked by the AI with actual tips on when to choose them.
- The portraits of Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, Ferdinand Schorner, Reza Shah Pahlavi, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi has been changed.
- All menu sounds and war sounds (airplane bomb, artillery, armored car fires, infantry, mechanized units) have been changed.
- Italo Balbo's friendly fire death now only happens if Libya has recently been target of strategic bombing instead of in any war with a major.
- The AI should dig for resources more if it has lots of military factories, this should help the US which tends to suffer from large resource deficits in the late game.

- Democratic Cayenne flag changed.
- Non-Aligned/Neutrality Czechoslovakia, Kingdom of France and France Third Empire flag changed.
- Left/Communist Angola, Cayenne and Czechoslovakia, Peru and Poland flag changed.
- Nationalist/Fascist Angola, Peru, Botswana, Bavaria, Belarus, Cayenne, Dalmatia, Indonesia and Turkey flag changed.

➤ GERMANY

- 69 focus icons changed in Germany focus tree.
- German AI will be more inclined to ignore their Eupen-Malmedy claim.
- Severely decreased chance to obtain Sudetenland by peace as Germany.
- New national spirit for Germany featuring the struggle against Soviet state on the Eastern Front.

➤ UNITED KINGDOM

- The royalist path has been divided into 2 and new focuses have been added.

➤ ITALY

- Expand Libyan Manufactures focus icon changed.
- Added some historical leaders to Italian releasable states.

➤ USA

- 15 focus icons changed in USA focus tree.

➤ JAPAN

- Custom picture of Japan allies Britain.
- 6 focus icons changed in Japan focus tree.

➤ FRANCE

- Reduced the duration of Tools Modernisation focus.

➤ TURKEY

- 93 focus icons changed in Turkey focus tree.
- The portraits of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and Adnan Menderes were changed.

➤ ARGENTINA

- Reduced the duration of Infrasturecture Development, Military Youth and Claim Uruguay focus.

➤ CANADA
- Changed the trait of some Canadian characters to make them more interesting choices.
- Improved some rt56 Canadian focuses by shortening them or adapting the effect to recent DLCs. (NSB and BBA)

Update: 9 Jun, 2023 @ 11:58pm

- Hotfix

Update: 5 Jun, 2023 @ 5:19pm

v0.1.9.6.1 [61f0] DUE TO LETTER LIMIT, PART OF UPDATE IS ON STEAM PAGE

➤ USA

- Added a new focus to fascist USA to collaborate with the Mafia.
- Balance adjustments to the USA focus tree targeted at meta-gaming strategies.

➤ UNITED KINGDOM

- Unique focus icon for Britain's Special Operations Executive.
- Updated some of Britain's focus names to make them slightly less generic.
- New focus for historical Britain to establish their wartime cabinet committee, granting minor buffs.
- Minor rebalancing for some of Britain's army and industrial tree, to make them slightly more accurate.
- Added a decision for monarchist Britain to restore their old royal house name if they try to/do ally with Germany.

➤ SOVIET

- The Soviet Union now starts with a Caspian Sea navy.
- Rearranged the Soviet Union's defensive branch to make it a bit more sensible.
- [NSB] Democratic Russia can now join factions and send volunteers after the provisional government is solidified.
- Explained a bit better to the Ai that fighting Stalin's paranoia was important if their plot had to have any chances of success.
- [MtG & NSB] The secession events will allow you to change sides to the CSA and the secessionist states of the Russian civil war.
- Soviet ultimatums to Baltics are now issued as a single event to better represent the historical Soviet desire for temperate water ports.

➤ GERMANY

- Added descriptions for some German focuses.
- Additional army focuses for the RT56 German tree.
- Germany loves Hungary a bit less, Horthy is less Hitlerite.
- New portrait for German Busch, the non-German Bolivian.
- R56 German Army tree rebalanced to account for new content.
- New portrait for Charles Edward, the Germano-British nazi prince.
- New focuses for democratic RT56 Germany to renegotiate Versailles in exchange for some powerful modifiers.
- R56 German communist branch has slightly less mutual exclusivity, with some focuses shortened and extra effects. (e.g. Rebalanced tension)

➤ JAPAN

- One extra air focus for Japan.
- The durations in the focus tree have been restored.
- Japanese AI will not be very keen to attack China after losing a war.
- Additional focuses for Japan to develop Mengjiang and research nuclear power.

➤ ITALY

- Added a couple of boosts/bonuses for the Italian East Africa.
- Italian AI is now slightly less reluctant to deny the Alps Defence Pact on historical settings.
- Made an Italian medal more valuable (it's not DLC exclusives as you can give medals to units under some conditions).
- Historical and Rome Protocol Italy AI plans now properly cancel when their desired alliance partners become "unavailable".

➤ TURKEY

- [BftB] Few extra focuses for the Turkish Ottoman path.
- [BftB] Fixed a misspelled etatism check for "socialism" decision.
- [BftB] Made it so the correct Turkish ideas display on the start screen instead of the non-BftB ones.
- [BftB] Turkish national spirit "Disorganized Armed Forces" was reorganized and now provides coherent bonuses throughout the tree.

➤ SWEDEN

- Disabled form the Kalmar Union for Sweden.
- Disabled form the Nordic Council for Sweden.
- [BBA] Swiss DLC tree reshuffled and heavily adjusted.
- Added new focus sub-branch for Northern Lights Sweden.
- Added decisions for Fascist Sweden to form Greater Sweden.
- Added decisions for Imperialist Sweden to integrate old territories into an empire.
- Sweden's starting Navy has been adjusted along with the opening production queue.
- "Swedish Hunter-Killers" focus now gives a set of Submarines for the country's production queue.

➤ AFGHANISTAN

- Additional states for Afghanistan.
- New portrait of Afghanistan's Mohammad Zahir Shah.
- Afghanistan's tribal militias have been swapped to irregulars.
- Added a balance of power mechanic for Afghanistan, between tribal mercenaries and professional forces.

➤ IRAN

- Changes/additions to Iran's division names.
- Iran has had a full revision of terrain, cities, and victory points.
- All-new ship name lists for Iran. The name lists include Provinces, Cities, Mountains, Animals, and more.
- New portraits for more Iranian Generals: Amanullah Jahanbani, Ahmad Amir-Ahmadi, Mahmoud Afshartous.

➤ ALBANIA

- New focus icons for Albania.
- Additional focuses for Egypt-Albania on Egypt's side.

➤ BULGARIA

- [BftB] Bulgaria should prioritize the fight against Fatherland Front.
- [BftB] Communist Bulgaria will no longer try and rebel against itself.
- [BftB] Bulgarian AI should now correctly prioritize the destruction of Zveno if latter become a threat.

➤ COLOMBIA

- Colombian Meteor Jet.
- Removed some overpowered unique Colombian technologies.
- Colombia will no longer recruit fairy tale personalities for their jungle warfare facilities.

➤ YUGOSLAVIA

- Historical Yugoslavia should no longer do random stuff.
- [DoD] The devolution path of Yugoslavia will now be easier to play.

➤ HUNGARY

- [DoD] Improved communist Hungary.
- [DoD] More air experience for a Hungarian focus.

AND MORE

Update: 17 May, 2023 @ 1:00pm

v0.1.9.6.0 [1ae5]

● Peru focus tree has been renewed.
● Added a new focus tree to Yemen.
● [WtT] Manchuria industrial branches and obedience path rework.
● Added industrial and army trees for India, as well as a liberal branch for the democratic path.
● [Non-NSB] Restored late-game tank expansion discarded long ago in the No Step Back conversion process.

- Balance of Power system for India.
- Changed a few focus gfxs in the German focus tree.
- Aircraft carrier can now have a recon plane catapult.
- Lithuanian and some North Korea monarchist generals nerfed.
- Ship names list updated with various errors in there being fixed.
- Added TNO Map. Now the map has a darker look and is simpler.
- [NSB] Static Warfare spirit won't be available if you research mobile warfare.
- Some of the commander traits for Canada, Italy, Mexico now apply correctly.
- New historical characters and parties for African and Middle Eastern countries.
- Added a focus to prevent communist Siam from causing a rebellion in its French ally.
- Canals now link Leningrad and the White sea, they are too shallow for military ships though.
- Mannerheim will no longer serve a communist Finland due to his bourgeois reactionary mindset.
- New portraits for leaders Mohammad Mosaddegh, Mohammad Ali Foroughi and Fevzi Cakmak
- Various Middle Eastern monarchies now have a trait with their respective titles, providing a small buff to cater to their personality/rule.
- Many additional victory points throughout the Middle East, Africa, Soviet Union, China and Vietnam for all your nice-looking map needs.
- A script will convert AI armored cars into trucks every month because the current AI can't tell the difference between the two and needs trucks.
- Implemented some new historical Iraqi events. Iraq can now see the rise and fall of the Golden Square and subsequent invasion by the British, as well as occupation.
- Transport planes were drastically reduced in cost and capacity to match BBAs changes, fixing it being overly costly to use paratroopers. reducing air supply's effectiveness and increasing its relative CP cost.
- More than 570 bugs fixed.

➤ SOVIET
- Some anti-Stalin missions will remain hidden if Stalin is dead.
- Soviet spies now have a correct chance to receive Udmurtian nationality. A land of possibilities it truly is.
- New Soviet generals for Left Opposition (4 total) + less ahistorical character purged from some Centre branch focuses. In-game Stalin's paranoia now correlates more with it's historical version.

➤ USA
- Various balance adjustments to USA. (Overall buff)
- New USA focuses and corresponding Decisions “War Plan Blue.” Centered around homeland defense.

➤ BRAZIL
- There may be some problems in Brazilian states. It will be resolved in the future.
- Brazil will form the Defensul slightly later as the faction appeared a bit too early.