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HOI4 Dev Diary - Exiled Governments

Welcome to another dev diary for Man the Guns. The expansion has 2 main themes: Naval and Democracies, and so far we have had dev diaries for USA and UK and today its time to continue the second theme by talking about how you can host governments in exile and turn them against their conquerors...

EU4 - Development Diary - 18th of September 2018

Hello! We have a lot to get through today as I’ll be unveiling the majority of the new content coming in the free 1.27 ‘Poland’ update. Let’s get to it:

As the name implies, much of the new content in the Poland update is focused on Poland itself.

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We’ve given the map a facelift...

CK2 Dev Diary #100 – Come Fight Me

Greetings!

Dev Diary #100, and we have a bunch of fun things to talk about!

DUELS
As we have mentioned before, duels have been reworked during this development cycle, along with some other systems that tie into it. First off, Personal Combat Ratings now more commonly range between...

Stellaris Dev Diary #125 - The Galactic Market

Hello everyone and welcome to another Stellaris development diary. Today we're going to continue talking about the 2.2 'Le Guin' update, on the topic of the Galactic Market. As said before, we're not yet ready to reveal anything about when Le Guin is coming out, only that it's a long time away...

HOI4 Dev Diary - Naval Production, Repair and Damage

Hi everyone! Sorry about the late diary. We had to hunt down some gremlins in the machinery before stuff could be screenshotted. Today we are going to talk about quite a lot of big changes to naval production and repair as well as the new critical hits system for ships.

Ship Production...

EU4 - Development Diary - 11th of September 2018

Good morning and welcome to the first Post-Dharma dev diary. Dharma was released last week and by most measures was an extremely successful release for us. That said, we have a tradition of post release support for our games and expansions, that's what I'm here to talk about today.

Firstly...

CK2 Dev Diary #99 - Do you like me yet?


Greetings.

Today we will be focusing on a couple of new actions made available by Holy Fury: Sway and Antagonize.

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This feature will allow players to have a more personal relation with other characters within diplomatic reach, giving them the chance to choose one person to...

Stellaris Dev Diary #124 - Planetary Rework (part 4 of 4)

Hello everyone and welcome to another Stellaris development diary. Today we're going to continue on the topic that we started on in Dev Diary #121: The Planetary Rework coming in the 2.2 'Le Guin' update. As this is a massive topic that affects many areas of the game, we've split it into...

HOI4 Dev Diary - Modding and Traits

Hi everyone! Todays dev diary will be a 3 meal course. First we are going to be talking about the new admiral traits in Man the Guns, then we will be showing off some new modding toys, and finally there will be an extra dessert in the form of more modding stuff posted here in the modding...

EU4 - Development Diary - 4th of September 2018

Happy Tuesday all. This is an exciting week for all: Dharma will release on Thursday. Much as we enjoy teasing you all with the sweet releases that we have coming for you, the real joy is in releasing the finished product and hearing everything people have to say when playing the games...

CK2 Dev Diary #98 - Catholicism what? Constantinople where? Charlemagne who?

Greetings!

Today I’d like to cover one of the largest features of Holy Fury - a feature we’ve internally dubbed the ‘Alternate Start’ system!

This system consists of two separate sub-features, the Shattered World system and the Random World system. Each of these two systems are aimed towards...

Stellaris Dev Diary #123 - Planetary Rework (part 3 of 4)

Hello everyone and welcome to another Stellaris development diary. Today we're going to continue on the topic that we started on in Dev Diary #121: The Planetary Rework coming in the 2.2 'Le Guin' update. As this is a massive topic that affects many areas of the game, we've split it into...

HoI 4 - Dev Diary: America Rework

Hello, and welcome back to another dev diary! Today we are going to talk about Freedom. Freedom from Fear. Freedom from Want. Freedom from having to vote for a presidential candidate every four years.


The vanilla US focus tree offered some interesting alternate-history scenarios, but if you...

EU4 - Development Diary - 28th of August 2018

Good day and welcome to the penultimate Dharma Development Diary. Today we shall be going over the main mechanical changes in Dharma, a Cliff Notes if you will, of the large additions and changes to the game. If you have been keeping a hawk eye on the development diaries throughout Dharma, I...

Dev Diary #97: Pagan Pals - Warrior Lodges

Greetings!

This week we want to show you the work we have been doing on the new society type: Warrior Lodges!

(This is where you scroll down to play the sound clip found in this dev diary, for an insight into the background ambiance of the societies, and how the dev team...

Stellaris Dev Diary #122 - Planetary Rework (part 2 of 4)

Hello everyone and welcome to another Stellaris development diary. Today we're going to continue on the topic that we started on in last week's dev diary: The Planetary Rework coming in the 2.2 'Le Guin' update. As this is a massive topic that affects many areas of the game, we've split it...

HOI4 Dev Diary - Mines and Minesweeping

Welcome to another glorious Wednesday! Today we are going to be talking about mines and mine sweeping. Historically hundreds of thousands of mines were laid during WW2 and with Man the Guns you too will be able to do so in Hearts of Iron.

From a gameplay perspective mines do a lot of...

EU4 - Development Diary - 21st of August 2018

Good day all and welcome to this week's EUIV Dev Diary. Dharma is a hair over 2 weeks away and we are as excited if not more so than you for its release. Today We'll be looking at the twenty Achievements that will be part of the update.

First though, I have a couple more render shots to...

Dev Diary #96: Maybe I *should* diet…

Greetings.

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Well, well, well, looks like this is where the fat chin meme comes to die.

Today I will be talking about one of the free several patch additions coming...

Stellaris Dev Diary #121 - Planetary Rework (part 1 of 4)

Hello everyone and welcome to another Stellaris development diary. Today, we're going to start talking about the Planetary Rework coming in the 2.2 'Le Guin' update - the complete redesign of the planetary management system and replacement of planetary tiles. This is going to be a really big...

HOI4 Dev Diary - Naval Access

Diary time! Today, in the 7th diary, we continue showing off features in Man the Guns, but don’t worry - there are loads more coming! The topics for today both concern access.

Sea zone access
With MTG it will now be possible for players to mark sea zones as either Avoid or Banned. A zone...

EU4 - Development Diary - 14th of August 2018

Good day all, and welcome to another Dharma Dev Diary. If we somehow did not reach you with this announcement yesterday, then let it be known that we have a release date for Dharma, and your mastery of a subcontinent can be made a reality on Thursday September 6th

Which means we...

CK2 Dev Diary #95: Amending Africa

Greetings!

We’ve shown you plenty of map changes already, including updates to Russia, Scandinavia, and most recently Italy and the Alps. But surely, we couldn’t do all of these wonderful updates without looking at the continent that deserves it the most, right?

So let’s have a look at Africa...

Stellaris Dev Diary #120 - New Economy System

Hello and welcome back to the Stellaris dev diaries! Today we're going to start talking about the next major update, which we have dubbed 2.2 'Le Guin' after Ursula K. Le Guin. Right now we're not ready to reveal anything about the precise nature of the update or whether it is accompanied by any...

HOI4 Dev Diary - MTG - Bag of Tricks

Hope you are all having a nice day. It's Wednesday, so that means it's time to roll out another dev diary. Today’s is going to be a bag of tricks diary covering several smaller features from Man the Guns and the 1.6 Ironclad free update. The large changes to naval things are occupying much of...