Hearts of Iron IV

⚖️ Balance Changes

• img src="{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/9948323/c217458082913b0145453b6cec0088deeb79ff4d.png"][/img]You start activating the Khana Ratsadon. This is the entrypoint of the tree, separated into two main parts, one that is generally pro-civilian clique and one that is generally pro-military. Some of these focuses
• If one clique gets too angry it might be wise to take some actions to make them a bit happier.
• /p][h3][b]Historical (Fascism)[/b][/h3][p]The historical path follows Siams descent into fascism, modelled after the Italian state. After some scandals, Phraya Phahon (the current Siamese starting leader) resigned, and Phibun stepped into the power vacuum. After which the civilian wing got drastical

✨ New Features

• For those unfamiliar, a quick recap: There are ten stages of escalation, which slowly increase over-time. Both sides can take actions that either increase or decrease the escalation. For example, launching a skirmish in an enemy-controlled state is going to escalate the conflict, but settling a peac
• The main difference with Indonesia’s escalation system is that the two countries are not at war at first. However, once escalation gets high enough, the Netherlands can launch a full war. The higher the escalation tier is, the easier it will be for the Netherlands to declare war as there will be les
• In order to help manage the flow of the conflict, we decided to add a small joint focus tree which is separate from the one found in the Loyalist path. Unlike other JFT’s, this one is focused on sabotaging each other rather than cooperating. Some focuses will give bonuses to the originator and penal
• Historically, the Indonesian government at the time was quite hectic and a lot of infighting occurred. This is represented in-game via events that will fire periodically and as a result of escalation increasing. These events will have varying effects, which can be good or bad (usually both). Example

⚖️ Balance Changes

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• If you decide to continue with hybrid politics, Sukarno will be permanently locked as an advisor, giving you stability penalties. However, this also gives you access to some of the focuses in the unaligned path.
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🔧 Bug Fixes

• Despite this, when playing as the Indies you might still want the Netherlands to take some investment focuses, as they do significantly boost your economy. But this brings up an old issue with joint trees; It’s no fun waiting for the AI to complete a joint focus with no indication as to when or if t

✨ New Features

• The biggest decision of the Industry branch is whether to work with western companies to sell off resources at cheap prices while building up a local industry, or to establish new deals within the Asian market, including Japan, which might make the Netherlands angry.
• Historically, the Volksraad (People’s Council) was a semi-legislative council. It wasn’t exactly democratic, but it was the most democratic body of the Indies government. We’ve added a decision system to represent this, which can be used to attempt to pass laws to increase autonomy and boost the Soe

⚖️ Balance Changes

• The Netherlands will always be able to take a few focuses to invest in their colonies without falling behind on their own focus tree, but investing heavily in the Indies to build an economic powerhouse will of course come at a cost.
• Occupation
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🔧 Bug Fixes

• We recently posted a survey as a way to check the community pulse, and it has given us interesting data. When looking at the data and the responses on social media, the majority of you believe that ironman should not be required for getting achievements, however playing with mods should suppress get
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• *] Crash that can occur when a SAM mission is set to a naval region
• *] Crash that can occur on Mac in peace conferences
• *] Fixed bug where emergency convoy demand would scale infinitely

⚖️ Balance Changes

• I just want to also say that the feedback has been invaluable on this open beta, and has pointed us towards all the right directions. I hope you feel that with these updates the naval AI is in a good place again, and that we continue to improve the game for everyone. Thank you 🙏
• /[i][b]Niels[/b][/i], [i][b]Batya[/b][/i]
• How to Join this open beta:

✨ New Features

• It’s time once again to talk, even if I consider myself a man of action. In this dev diary we’ll go over these new Thunder at Our Gates Features: Ship Captains, and our Division Designer rework, which includes Regimental Support Companies.
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• We’ve also updated the design of the ship details window and made a more detailed history log. It will show things like what combats it has participated in, sunk ships, assists, and some other stuff.
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• Also, when you have updates in the history log, a small notification appears next to the ship icon. Similarly if you have the opportunity to grant the ship a medal.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• i][b]Batya[/b][/i] here with another patch.
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• *] Fixed a crash that can occur when a rocket silo's 'Surface-to-Air' mission is set to a naval region.
• *] Fixed a crash that can occur on Mac during peace conferences.
• *] Radola Gajda now has a Militarist trait.

✨ New Features

• As a final note, the team added a little secret and wanted to provide a little hint so here is my (maybe not so) cryptic hint: A.E.I.B.U.
• Happy hunting and see you on the Sudeten front!
• b][h2]Patch Notes[/h2][/b]

⚖️ Balance Changes

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• *] When Czechoslovakia uses the Austria-Hungary reformation decision, they now get a unique cosmetic tag called Great Moravia.
• *] Changed the flag for the Bohemian Kingdom so it still includes Slovakia.

✨ New Features

• Fascist sentiments in Australia during the later 1930s was no common matter, or at the very least, it wasn’t a mobilized one. By backtracking only to 1933, however, we reach the year when the Centre Party was founded. Springing out of the paramilitary movement the New Guard, the Party adopted ideas
• Even if the New Guard and the Centre Party were impactful fascist actors right before the war years, we’ve chosen another, at first glance, smaller, actor to represent Australian World War II fascism: the Australia First Movement.
• So, applying this all to Hearts of Iron, the choice of playing with Stephensen as fascist leader will lead Australia in a direction that supports his views. With Australia First represented by him, players can rally for immediate independence and the right to refuse British wars, while signing a pac
• All of this unfolds against the backdrop of former New Guard members, who have become increasingly alarmed, and increasingly aggressive, towards the rising Communist movement. Push them too far, and they will plunge the country into civil war.
• Once both The Dalfram Dispute and All for One, One for All have been completed, the latter half of the branch opens up. At this point, the focus shifts away from worker-led reforms towards a more hardline, centralised Communist state, introducing widespread nationalisation of industry and institutio

⚖️ Balance Changes

• So what provides the spark that changes history? The Dalfram Dispute. Historically, this was a strike called in response to increased iron ore exports to an increasingly belligerent Japan. In our scenario, the strike, combined with mounting economic discontent, spreads rapidly, ultimately leading to
• h3]Communist At Last![/h3]
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🔧 Bug Fixes

• /p][p]As you were![/p][p][i](And try to leave this place in one piece while we're out!)[/i][/p][p]

⚖️ Balance Changes

• /p][p]This beta client is [b]Case Green v1.18.1.0.9197 (01c8)[/b][/p][p]
• /p][p]To install Open Beta client, follow the instruction below:[/p][olist][*][p]Right-click the game in your library[/p][/*][*][p]Select Properties from the drop-down menu[/p][/*][*][p]Select Game Versions & Betas[/p][/*][*][p]Select the beta branch called open_beta[/p][/*][/olist][p]
• /p][p]If you are already on the Open Beta client, you should get an update automatically.[/p][p]

✨ New Features

• We’re very happy to have the Northern Territory Recon Unit and the Torres Strait Battalion represented here. If it weren’t for your Dev Corner engagement, they wouldn’t be.
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• Moving on to the industrial side, we’ve done something a little different this time. Democratic and Fascist branches share one industrial branch, while the Communist side has their own. For today, we’re just going to be covering the former. To find out about the latter… well, you’ll just have to wai
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• All ideologies will need to contend with the Great Depression, with reductions to the imposed penalties scattered throughout the centre of the branch, and the effects being removed entirely with the “Recovery” focus.

⚖️ Balance Changes

• The United Australia Party, representing conservative liberals, values British overlordship and will in government unlock actions that strengthens British cooperation. The Australian Labor Party on the other hand, representing the social democrats, seeks self-sufficiency, and will in government unlo
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• As an effect of this, elections will hold importance despite them not leading to a switch of ideology. To represent the elections’ importance and current status, Australia’s focus tree will contain a ‘Democratic Elections’ window. Besides displaying the ‘Expected Winner’ of the next election, and wh

✨ New Features

• Pack your raincoats and shorts because we are going to the jungles of Southeast Asia and the arid plains of Australia. Dark clouds gather and a rumbling can be heard in the distance; Thunder is coming. Today we announce the release date of our new and upcoming Theater Pack, Thunder at our Gates.
• b]Extensive focus trees and unique new content[/b]
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• *] Army Headquarters
• *] Ship captains

🔧 Bug Fixes

• /p][p]Early next week we will be back with more news on [i][b]Thunder at our Gates[/b][/i].
• /p][p][u][b]NAVAL AI[/b][/u][/p][p]We’ve been looking at some of the key pain points behind the naval AI’s underperformance. One of the reasons was the way that the AI decided to use its strikeforces, and another was how it decided where to prioritize its navy.
• /p][p]Previous patches significantly improved naval AI compared to the NCNS launch version, but it still struggled to react quickly to changing situations. Here are some of the problems we’ve seen and how they have been addressed.[/p][p][/p][p][b]AI wasn’t making good use of new naval technology[/b]
• /p][p]That said, we’ve had a look at some of the problem areas and improved them. This is an area where we will continue to improve things in further updates to the game. The fix is around a combination of focusing on naval research and updating the ai_equipment targets.[/p][p][/p][p][b]AI wasn’t re
• /p][p][b]AI repairs were too passive[/b][/p][p]The AI fully relied on the automated repairing system and this was clearly not efficient. The AI will now manage repairs more similar to before, where it can decide to repair its fleet at a local dockyard, or retreat to a bigger dockyard further away. T

✨ New Features

• /p][p]Strike forces will not join combats ‘on route’ to their intended strike target[/p][p]It was a common way to stunlock a strikeforce, as they would get pulled into combat by submarines doing convoy raiding on convoys. This then caused the strikeforce to be late to reinforce or even worse, entire
• /p][p]While there’s still more work to do on naval AI, these changes should significantly improve naval responsiveness and fleet behavior overall. Naval engagements should happen more frequently, and the AI will be much more committed to defending its waters.
• /p][p]Please share your experiences of playing with the open beta in the thread, or make new threads with write ups. I am not promising updates to this open beta, but we do read almost all feedback and take that with us.
• /p][p]Thank you, and have a great weekend![/p][p]
• /p][p]/Zwirbaum, Gorion and Batya[/p][p]

⚖️ Balance Changes

• /p][p][b]Modding[/b][/p][list][*][p]Introduced naval_invasion_support_priority to direct the naval AI more[/p][/*][/list][p]

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• *These bundles are Dynamic, which means that the price will adjust depending on which titles/DLC you already own**

🔧 Bug Fixes

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• *] Fixed a bug where "End the Oppression of the Hungarian workers" required the wrong state (León, Spain instead of South Transdanubia, Hungary)
• *] Fixed an issue where the Skoda tank MIO would by default be assigned to your Armored Car when creating a variant and producing it
• *] Fixed several typos in names and descriptions
• *] Fixed an issue where the Protektorat Bohmen-Mahren could reach 7 research slots in the 1939 bookmark

✨ New Features

• *] Added a new focus to the Czech tree - "Wielding the Hammer" which gives a new idea
• *] Added a new focus to the Czech tree - "Emergency Measures" which gives a new idea
• *] Added a new focus to the Czech tree - "Demand the Czech Corridor" which allows Czechoslovakia to demand land from Austria

⚖️ Balance Changes

• *] The event to demand Katowice from Poland now uses the correct option text
• *] Corrected the localization for a Japanese MIO to use correct special text characters
• *] Corrected the localization for the "Tatíček Masaryk" focus and "Ceské Slezsko" state name

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Now that you’ve watched your entertainment; the first order of business:[url=https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/394360/view/523121915115602709?l=] The 1.18 Patch Notes that we posted yesterday,[/url] read them. Want to roll back a version? You’ll find those instructions there as well.
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• *] The event sent by fascist Germany’s focus to integrate Czechoslovakia will no longer annex Czechoslovakia, even if they refused it.
• *] If the USSR cedes Western Poland to Germany when Molotov-Ribbentrop has been signed, they can no longer cede a Slovakia owned by their faction member.
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✨ New Features

• b]New Czechoslovakia Focus tree[/b]:
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• *] Destroy Forts with ease with a new Special Project and related technology
• *] Take up the mantle of Vodca with new generals, country leaders, and a 3D unit model for Slovakia
• *] Integrate Czechoslovakia Equipment Designers into the Reich’s war machine with a new National Focus for Germany

⚖️ Balance Changes

• *] Communist path: Choose between the factions of Köhler, Gottwald and Zapotocky and either pursue Stalinism and align with the Soviet Union or pursue an independent course, while also forming and then expanding a Czechoslovak Union
• *] Monarchist and fascist paths: Establish an authoritarian government to lead the country, either under a king or the military and enlarge Czechoslovakia with former Bohemian lands in Austria, the Balkans, Silesia and Poland, or cooperate with Germany, establishing a smaller sphere of influence und
• *] Shared paths: Strengthen the 1935 Czechoslovak-Soviet pact or intervene in the 2nd Soviet civil war if it happens, form the Little Entente with new cooperation options and countries to ally with. Continue a focus on fortifications and moving the arms industry away from the border, or abandon thes