Patch Notes June 2024

Highlights

• Redesigned and expanded the Irgun path for Israel.
• Monarchist path for Mexico.
• Most nations have had their starting civilian factories rebalanced to fit their historical industrial capacities.

Additions

• Added Decisions to allow Prince Gustaf's Coup Path Sweden to Re-Establish the Livonian Protectorate along with a series of Decisions to expand it.
• Added some communist advisors for Bulgaria.
• Added an option to disable the AI Coordination Decisions showcase.
• Added a new character for Manchuria.
• Added a few focuses to Qing and pro-Japanese Manchurian branches.
• Added elections to democratic Germany.
• Added historical content, characters and GFX for the following nations: Yugoslavia, Belgium, Albania, Pakistan, Oman and Iran (as well as other nations).
• Added a more historical 'Little Entente', replacing the mutual guarantees from CZE, ROM and YUG.
• Added additional characters for Liechtenstein and San Marino.
• Iraq's tree and content has seen a minor overhaul in terms of effects, GFX etc.
• More straight-forward Loya Jirga for Afghanistan as well as more decisions for the Tribal BoP, other content included.
• Syria's independence war is now a bit more fleshed out if someone wishes to play as them.

Adjustments

• Mandate of Palestine collapse war is now set as a civil war, meaning that once one side capitulates they will be instantly annexed instead of triggering a peace deal.
• Player controlled peace no longer applies when having 0 warscore or being on the losing side.
• The Venezuela focus tree layout has been adjusted to be more compact.
• Going Greater Italy now grants a free wargoal on Switzerland.
• Intermarium and a Baltic Alliance are no longer indirectly mutually exclusive for Poland.
• Redesigned Prince Gustaf's Coup Coring Decisions and expanded upon them.
• Kashubia have had their claim on Hinterpommern replaced with a claim on Poznan.
• Improved tooltips and added helpful indicators for decisions regarding the support of puppet governments.
• Increased Chinese minimum capitulation threshold from 0% to 3%.
• Persian liberation of Arabia now features a dynamic wargoal.
• "Mechanized Marine Commandos" now provides extra +10% hard attack instead of inactive armour upgrade.
• Decolonized SEA countries will not receive samples of free native commanders.
• Set R56 Norway tree as default and added shared council branch for AAT owners.
• Manchuria can't focus on warlords until they have dealt a solid strike to KMT/PRC.
• Added a missing general role for one of the Guatemalan commanders.
• Various adjustments to communist Germany.
• Player side of the 3-sided German civil war will now keep focus completion.
• Further resource adjustments. Most notably Greece and for Tungsten.
• [non-BftB] Added a clarifying tooltip about army reform to a Greek r56 focus tree.
• [MtG] UK can now evacuate colonial assets while being capitulated.
• [BftB] Less political power spent in Bulgarian communist branch and for communist revolutionary.
• [BftB] Integrating, destroying or Zveno-ying faction now hides effects on their loyalty in Bulgaria.
• [BftB] Improved an event about a new communist Bulgaria leadership.
• [BftB] Turkey will now be able to change ideology if party support is very high.
• [NSB] Increased requirements to achieve the Third Rome legacy.
• [BBA] Italy will lose the status of atomic innovator like in vanilla game.
• [MtG] Disunited Soviet Union now has a focus to gain claims on lost land instead of starting with them, this makes them less of an immediate threat when playing one of the released countries.

Bugfixes

• Fixed gaps in cores of the Macedonian Empire, Greater Italy and Roman Empire formable decisions, Bosporan Kingdom gets puppeted when released.
• Reverted performance tweak of increasing event checking interval as it broke some events.
• Removed crossing ability between France and the Channel Islands introduced last update, as it confused the AI and allowed convoy-less trade between France and UK.
• Fixed a bug where Batista's influence would not be removed from Cuba upon turning communist.
• Fixed Hormuz strait allowing ships to pass.
• Bessarabia should no longer be demanded from countries at war with the USSR.
• Romania can no longer steal Bulgaria when it is already a puppet, instead the subjugation event is sent to Bulgaria's overlord when applicable.
• Various fixes regarding newly added trees such as Tibet, Philippines and Saudi Arabia. Most notably, the event for Tibet will now display the correct effect.
• Made the Texas achievement actually possible.
• [MtG] NKVD units inherited by some countries after dissolving the USSR by gamerule will now have their template unlocked.
• [NSB] Added a sanity check for willingly becoming a Japanese Russia.
• [ToA] Fixed a high command for Paraguay having no trait.
• [ToA] Nerfed Paraguayan "French Volunteers" from 350k manpower (why, Paradox?) to 32k.
• [BtfB] Fixed Turkish democracy events not firing which made going Democrat Parti almost impossible.

AI

• Soviets should be now more prepared to war with Finland if Karelia issue was not resolved.
• Democratic AI will prioritise "Limited Autonomy" occupation law more often as long as resistance target is kept low enough.
• PRC will be more reluctant to attack neighbouring warlords while being at war with one of their neighbours.

Localization

• Portugal's fascist name has been switched from 'Nacista Portugal' to 'Portuguese Empire'.
• Fixed missing localization on some Danish ideas related to the North Sea pact.

Credits

• Please check out our 'Credits.txt' links and order of battles for more information about the people, mods and resources that helped develop this project, as well as for opportunities to learn about the related history.