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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've already pre-ordered Dharma and now you say a content pack is also coming, does this mean there will be a pack with both and will I need to contact support if I want to get that instead or is it just going to be the same price as if you buy both individually?
 
Nice models! But how come we never see any shields anymore, like for the Lan Xang units? It’s especially weird when you see units stabbing at each other with Spears using only one hand as if they’re holding shields, but don’t have any, like in the Cradel of Civilization pack
 
Will portraits for woman advisors be included into Content Pack? Right now there are portraits of woman advisors for each super-region.
Since Jake mentions 42 new advisor portraits I think it's safe to assume that Indian females also have new portraits. If I remember correctly North American natives, added with Conquest of Paradise, are the only ones now left without female portraits.
 
I am sure the music in this content pack will be amazing but I will still probably just play this with the Bhangra Bangers Spotify playlist that one of the devs posted on twitter.
 
What about the non-mughal formables like Hindustan and Bharat? Will they be using any of the new units?
 
When are you gonna get the dev diary summarizing all the new features if there is only the achievments and the patch notes left to go? @DDRJake
Paired with patch notes, bonus DD or release day.
Personally I’d like to know why we haven’t and when we will get to see the rest of the unit models :/
 
But can I appoint an elephant as an adviser?
 
Cheers for the DD DDRJake, and great work to the artists and audio wizards :D. Happy to say it's looking good, am looking forward to getting my subcontinent on in September :cool:.