EU4 - Development Diary - 19th of May 2020

[neondt]

Good morning! It’s time for the achievements dev diary. Typically we write this one the week before the patch notes dev diary (don’t worry, that’s coming soon too), but we’re uploading these achievements to the Steam backend very soon and we want to get ahead of that.

Without further ado, here are the achievements coming with the 1.30 update:

Mary of Lotharingia - Starting as Burgundy, form Lotharingia and have a female ruler named Marie.

On the Rhodes Again - Starting as The Knights, conquer and core Constantinople, Jerusalem and Antioch.

Spaghetti Western - Starting as Bologna, become Mexico or Texas.

Stern des Südens - Form Bavaria starting as München and have your Subject Bremen own Werder.
Shoutout to @mikesc for this one!

Stiff Upper Lippe - As Lippe, own all of the British Isles.

Czechs and Balances - Starting as Bohemia, grant at least two privileges to each estate while having at least 50% Crown Land.

Don’t be Cilli - Starting as Cilli, form another nation.

Holiest Roman Empire - As either the Papal States or the Emperor, have the Papal States as an Elector while the HRE is officially Catholic.

Inner Turmoil - Starting as The Isles, own 20 provinces by 1500, none of which are on Islands.

Kingdom of God - Starting as the Papal State, become the Kingdom of God.
Shoutout to our very own @Duplo who posed for this image. Certainly a dashing figure.

The following achievements are exclusive to owners of the Emperor DLC:

Everything's Coming Up Mulhouse - Starting as Mulhouse, become Emperor of the HRE and completely decentralize the Empire.

God Tier - Become a Tier 5 Defender of the Faith as a nation that is neither Catholic nor Sunni.

Napoleon’s Ambition - As Revolutionary France, spread the Revolution to 10 countries.

AEIOU - Complete the Austrian mission tree.

Global Hegemony - Reach 100% Strength as any type of Hegemon.

This brings our total number of achievements to a massive 310. As always we’ve tried to include a mix of difficulty levels and a variety of goals. Personally I think I’ll start with Kingdom of God to get the most out of the new Catholic features, and of course to see “Kingdom of God” printed across the map.

That’s all for today! Join me next week for the final content-focused dev diary that was promised last week. As I’m sure you’ve heard, the Emperor expansion and the free 1.30 update will release on June the 9th. You can pre-purchase Emperor on Steam, or even right here on Paradoxplaza.

 

[neondt]

Does this Marie has to be made by event or is naming just fine?

The name alone is fine. We originally had it as only the Marie you get from the Burgundian Inheritance, but we decided that this had an excessive RNG factor. This way there's no RNG except for being able to name a female ruler, and the challenge element is forming Lotharingia.

 

[neondt]

Do you need to lose your starting provinces for this?
Also, I very much like the new achievements.

You do indeed need to lose your starting provinces, since they are on islands.

 

[Pizzicato]

Wow... As someone living in Bremen I'm really offended by the subject thing... I demand compensation in a future Patch!

I feel you as a proud Northerner who supported Werder in my youth. But then I looked at the challenge and I'm keen to try it: playing the HRE as minor, exploring the Bavarian mission tree and then eventually expanding south to Africa while grooming your Bremen vassal.

AEIOU - Complete the Austrian mission tree.
Just like Kingdom of God there is nothing wrong with that. 10 / 10. Good name, also.

It is a hell of ride trying to complete this mission tree while gardening the HRE, fighting heretics, and blobbing. Definitely 10/10! All those PUs and dynasty requirements. A Habsburg on all five continents. Bitter lesson: avoid losing Habsburg dynasty because you had to save your emperorship by clicking the fancy new "introduce heir" button . (Fortunately there is a short MTTH event that gives you a new Habsburg heir)