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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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I do hope one of the new achievements will be "Peccavi" -- own Sindh as Great Britain. An even better one would be "Habeo Anglia" -- own Great Britain as Sindh.
 
Thank you for setting it a September date, can't wait for the spicy mem.. I mean campaigns :)
 
First achievement guess, Eat your Kale: Own 99 grain producing provinces, while not owning any livestock provinces (because you know, vegetarian).
Last achievement guess, Bringing Tea to Britain: Own all of Great Britain as an Indian nation.

On another note: While I like this patch overall, I am staying on 1.25 for now, because of two changes that break the game in my opinion:
  1. No conversion of territories: Playing rebel whack-a-mole is already not fun, and this will make it a lot worse, and railroads the player into choosing Humanism. I want my lands to be of one religion in general, and this just adds a lot of micromanagement for no benefit.
  2. Corruption for "too many territories": This is just a silly change to the game, adds nothing in terms of mechanics, and forces the player into keeping vassals/marches, whether he wants to or not.
I do not believe Paradox is taking the user feedback on these issues seriously at this point, and I am disappointed at the lack of reply. I would suggest putting up a poll to see whether the community at large supports these.
 
Achievement 2: Continental Breakfast.
 
I hope that someone from paradox will answer our questions, especially for the models of units for delhi and Burma countries, will there be refreshed models of units for the Tibetan and will the Sikhs get a unique look of individual models?
 
Elephants and advisor portraits and music, yesssssssssss.

Is the content pack already listed at Steam?
 
I'm surprised by that last Nepali picture. I had no idea that the style of pants (with belts, even!) existed that far back.
 
An extra content pack alongside the 20$ DLC I already pre ordered ... thought paradox wanted to abolish this DLC + Content Pack policy and wanted to release all in one, as it was said in an earlier announcement (around the time third rome was released)
Very disappointed...gonna refund the DLC, as Paradox don't hold their promises.
Faith in paradox lost
 
thought paradox wanted to abolish this DLC + Content Pack policy and wanted to release all in one, as it was said in an earlier announcement (around the time third rome was released)

What???? They have never said anything remotely close to that. Quite the opposite. They are very happy with thier highly profitable DLC policy and have no intention of removing it.