Bro, your work is amazing, but if I may ask, could you please make a mod for the original Stasi emblem? I love playing with socialist Germany, and if possible, also change the focus flag to ''the legacy of the Spartacist League'', a single red flag with a little star looks simply horrible, even more so with the GDR symbol being used on the Volkskomissariants

If it's not too much to ask, could you please change these two little things? I ask because your work is very well done

@Kuramitsu: Yes, it always has been.

Is this mod Achievement compatible?

based

will this work with rt56?

Is your collection compatible with Road to '57? I'm considering getting it, I'm just checking to see if these work with it.

Thanks.

Unlike the mod with all agency emblems to be modified, this one works well in conjunction with other mods.
The mod replacing all emblems does not feature the lettering, which I personally believe looks at lot more historical and immersive. Would you consider releasing a version without the lettering?
Thank you!

just based

@CSRZ thank you!

@gcontaldo
yes

Will this work on MP, when the other players don'#t have the mod?

I have RT56 installed, but as far as I can tell, it doesn't change the emblem. Besides that, no, nothing but a few graphical mods.

I tested it on vanilla game without any other mods and it works normally - update did nothing. Do you have any other mods that change agency emblems?

Well we just had an update for HoI4, so I need to check if anything was changed.

Austria-guy back at it again, this time to report a bug: The emblem is invisible, there's just nothing in the place of the Abwehr emblem. Doesn't seem to be an overwrite or the like.

I've been a long time fan of your historical work. Despite uninstalling and reinstalling and so on, this still shows the pink sign showing incompatibility. I am not sure what to do to assure it becomes compatible? Open to suggestions and thank you for the time and for your work.

There could've been a bug during the uploading then.
I've reuploaded the mod. Is the German emblem visible now?

jop
most mod´s not working...i have 26 of them.........and 4 are working!

Did you enable the mod in the Paradox Launcher?

there is only Vanilla....

I can fix it, but I need to know what to fix :)

What doesn't work? Is the mod not downloading or is there some kind of error? Is the emblem not properly showing?

not working....

How can it not work?

it was updated just this week for 1.10 :)

mod doesn't work anymore .... update pls!

'I still disagree with stuff being censored in historical games though.' same but old games didn't give a damn such as CoD2

nasismo de mais

SoYbOyS tRiGgErEd

"I still disagree with stuff being censored in historical games though"

Yeah it is silly as f.ck. Thanks for the good work!!!

@WarmongerPhoenix

You will need at least three separate files: interface file to set up .gfx files, agency logo .gfx file and edit the file called "00_intelligence_agencies.txt" in common\intelligence_agencies

You can look it up in the files. Here's a mod that does that correctly and is simple to learn:
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2008047359

I meant along the lines of adding new/replacing old emblems.

@WarmongerPhoenix
What do you mean? I edit all of the gfx files with paint.net

All of the graphical effects (like shading etc.) that emblems have were made either by the "color match" option or "clouds"/"fotography" set of options from that program.

Hey can you make a guide teaching how to do this, or can we message each other. I would like to learn.

new mod is up:

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2017272267

It adds all of the agency emblems I was able to find.

Ok. I've managed to make some custom emblems and I am now able to make unique intelligence agency emblems for every country in the game and for every ideology in the game.

I've even managed to force the AI to comply so if Germany is communist AI will choose Stasi emblem and if it's non-aligned it will choose Abteilung III b emblem etc. Thus I'm going to get rid of all the generic emblems.

The downside is - it's not going to be ironman compatible so I will release it as a separate mod.

Wait. That's not actually true because I've found one more emblem. This one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicherheitsdienst
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SDInsig.png

@Kraz Mazov
Vanilla was completely not historical. This is semi-historical. I didn't find any form of intelligence agency emblem other than Wermacht ones. At least not the ones from WWII era. Many agencies didn't have any logo or just used a country CoA as their working emblem.

@Argos900
No. They were to lazy to make four different versions for every major nation. They could do it (like in case of Spain which has one nationalist and one republican emblem).

I promise that I will add other emblems if I figure out how to add them in the files.

Why does this matter?

They probably did this so that the symbol works for all three possible german ideologies. If you play as the democratic or the neutral germany you don't want a swastika in your symbol.

@CSRZ another sad thing about Paradox is that they make shitty incomplete base game and then you have to buy the DLCs to make it playable. it's sad that a game without DLCs even called "unplayable"

wait... this isn't even an actual historical symbol for the abwehr? what is the point of adding a swastika to it?
like, the Nazi Flag right, that actually -had- a swastika on it, so adding it back would actually count as uncensoring... but this symbol isn't real????? you're just adding a swastika to a symbol that doesn't need it?

@Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
I don't blame Paradox for censorship. They just didn't want to deal with the backlash in the media which is reasonable for the company that needs to protect it's profits.

Intelligent people will just deal with it via mods. Paradox have never banned mods like these from Steam, so I'm thankful for that.

It's much worse on YouTube where history channels often get outright demonetised or banned for uploading any form of WWII content - even historical or just about the war in general. Because of this history channels became really niche and dependent on patrons. Compared to this Paradox Interactive are saints.

I blame Paradox only for the bugs in their game. A lots of bugs growing exponentially with every DLC they produce and that's not okay.

Paradox keeps on Censoring stuff and it's god damn annoying! like cmon, If I'm playing as Nazi Germany I won't suddenly become a full-on Nazi. god damn it Paradox.

Being a huge history buff I really appreciate mods like these as I see no point in trying to white-wash history. Frankly it's a huge mistake to do so, not to mention that it's hypocritical to remove one emblem while not touching others such as the hammer and sickle. An icon which was used by several extremely oppressive and genocidal dictatorships.

The governments of Soviet Russia, China, Cambodia, North Korea and others are responsible for even more death than the Nazi's yet using their symbol is fine? No... history is supposed to be un-biased and in my mind that includes games, movies, shows, books and so forth which touch on the subject.

Hence I thank the modder for their contribution.

I don't really get why people make a fuss about it. Nobody is suddenly a Nazi just because they have historically accurate emblem in their game.

thank you brother

I actually like Censored one better

Yes Durrrr cause lets censor history why dont we.