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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 have just a few more dev diaries between then and now. We have covered the new features and mechanical changes in both Dharma and 1.26 Mughals update, but there are still some things to cover, namely the Content Pack and Achievements. This week we'll take a look at the former.

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Releasing alongside Dharma will be the Dharma Content Pack, containing new Indian Advisor portraits, unit models, including specific Elephants, and 12 minutes of spectacular thematic music.

Dharma itself contains a generic elephant model which will be used be all applicable nations. For owners of the Content Pack, you will have your own Subcontinental Pimp My Ride as you get your own elephant model based on you playing as a Muslim, Hindu or an Orissan Tribal nation. For contrast, here is the Muslim Elephant model contrast to the standard one:

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While I have admittedly gone elephant crazy, there are also new unit models for bipedal warriors. For the Muslims, we have made units for all tiers for Bahmanis, Gujarat, Jaunpur, Malwa and of course, the Mughals. For the Indians, we have Nepal Mewar Gondwana Orissa and the South Indian Minors getting love. Here are the renders for a them:

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5 years ago, when the game shipped, there was not nearly the level of diversity in 2D and 3D art across the world. We've come a long way from having them same Caucasian faces across the entire world. 42 Indian advisor portraits are added along with this Content Pack to further our commitment to adding depth and immersion worldwide.

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As for the music, the powers that be cannot let me embed the sweet tunes here in the forum, but to get an idea for them, one of the tracks is used in the background of our Player Profiles for the Dev Clash. Listen in and admire @omfgBlondie 's handiwork:


Remember that everything talked about today is content you will find in the Dharma Content Pack, which releases at a price of $7.99 alongside the Dharma expansion.

Next week we shall turn our attention to the Twenty Achievements added in the 1.26 Mughal Update. Just for fun, I'm going to spoil 3 of the achievement images, and I want you to tell me what the achievements are.

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See you next week!
 
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Will there be any new unit models for some of the Burmese nations?
 
The first one is either eat your greens ie Kale, or it involves Jain governers. Tea and crumpets involves either the British or controlling all the tea. The last one I don't know.
 
First achievement something like "Eat Your Greens" - own X amount of farmland provinces as Kale
Second one I haven't a clue
Third one something like "Sikh Moves" or "Sikh You Later" - Convert all of India to Sikhism.
 
I’m hoping for a recap of the government reform system, now that the values and art are (hopefully) finalized.
 
Releasing alongside Dharma will be the Dharma Content Pack, containing new Indian Advisor portraits, unit models, including specific Elephants, and 12 minutes of spectacular thematic music.
I can't see the content pack on the PI store.
Has it not been put for sale yet?
And more importantly will there be a bundle of content pack and expansion like usually?

I'm itching to preorder Dharma, but due to how there usually is a content pack expansion bundle I'm restraining myself as I'd feel like a fool to get them separately instead of the bundle, in case there is a bundle.




Go Kaiser Johan! For Dithmarschen!
 
Yay! That much closer to finding out what the next country pack/expansion will be!
 
Please, please, please, have some king of achievement related to the elephants (ideally with some reference to the Oliphaunts from LOTR)

I would also settle for a Dumbo or Babar reference. Hmm, Babur, Babar... I feel there's something here.
 
Those are nice but the tier 4 mughal feels a bit underwhelming. He's essentially the tier 3 with less stuff.
 
Will portraits for woman advisors be included into Content Pack? Right now there are portraits of woman advisors for each super-region.
 
Great unit models! The only thing I have to say is that Nepal's t1 unit should be wielding a Kukri, instead of a spear.

Also, Nepal's t4 unit shouldn't carry a bayonet on its musket, Gurkhas always preferred to use their Kukri's instead of bayonets for hand to hand combat.
 
So this confirms it then that there will be no changes to the regional religions then? sad.

Since we have the strange situation that you need other dlc's to have the unique flavour and mechanics for Hinduism and Buddhism I had hoped that they would do more with Sikhism, that is my only disappointment with this dlc. It's modifiers and Guru bonuses are great but I would like more interactions with the Gurus rather than just the events when a Guru dies and his successor takes over, and also adding things such as the Khalsa and various Sikh festivals would be nice . I would also like to see the Gurus and their bonuses represented with some nice art in the religion tab, similar to the Orthodox icons with Third Rome, rather than a small generic icon in the government tab.