Europa Universalis IV - Development Diary 23rd of May 2023 - 1.35.3 known issues and the road to 1.35.4

[rorystephen]

Hello Sir/Ma'am,
Ref. the bugs especially Expand empire CB and to a lesser extent crown land.
It is disappointing to say the least after the time put in to the game playing Byzantium, after engineering the peace of Westphalia and converting as many nations to orthodox as possible to get IA to a slight positive, then joining the empire after being made emperor to enact the third reform to find this broken. It is 1631 on ironman and this now makes it unplayable. The issue is that due to other commitments i have limited time and by the time i come back another expansion will most likely be out. I have several questions please.
1. Will the future bug fix render the save games obsolete?
2. What happens if i use the expand empire fix in the workshop?
3. Can i make a backup save on ironman?
4. Can a hotfix not be implemented for at least this issue?
The rendering obsolete of saves and game breaking bugs is one reason i have stopped for the time being buying the DLC, as great as the games are. Thank you.

 

[Shtirlitz]

1. Will the future bug fix render the save games obsolete?

THIS. I sure hope that I will be able to pick up my game after this looooong wait for the Expand Empire CB fix...

 

[Hurricane0708]

Hello Sir/Ma'am,
Ref. the bugs especially Expand empire CB and to a lesser extent crown land.
It is disappointing to say the least after the time put in to the game playing Byzantium, after engineering the peace of Westphalia and converting as many nations to orthodox as possible to get IA to a slight positive, then joining the empire after being made emperor to enact the third reform to find this broken. It is 1631 on ironman and this now makes it unplayable. The issue is that due to other commitments i have limited time and by the time i come back another expansion will most likely be out. I have several questions please.
1. Will the future bug fix render the save games obsolete?
2. What happens if i use the expand empire fix in the workshop?
3. Can i make a backup save on ironman?
4. Can a hotfix not be implemented for at least this issue?
The rendering obsolete of saves and game breaking bugs is one reason i have stopped for the time being buying the DLC, as great as the games are. Thank you.

I am not a dev but I can answer at least 3 of your questions. If you use expand empire fix mod from the workshop, you won't be able to play your ironman game/not being eligible to play ironman anymore because the game will see that you have a mod modifying the content in game and not just flavors. Yes you can make a backup save on ironman, you go to C:/Documents/Paradox Interactive/Europa Universalis IV/Saves, you copy paste your campaign "XXX.eu4" on your desktop and that's it (you can rename it it won't damage the ironman thing normally). For the last question, they won't delay further more their fix on the Expand Empire CB that has been very much asked by the player base. Instead, you can choose to not do the update by going into Steam, Europa Universalis IV, Properties, Beta, and select the version you want your game to stay into. Don't do that now if you use the latest version but do it when the patch will come. However don't expect your problem to be solved for your campaign if you don't upgrade to the patch when it's live.

 

[holyvigil]

Siam is a good formable.
Malaya is a good formable.
Nusantara is really just a name change instead of a true tag-switch, but everyone in SE Asia can do it.
Australia is a good formable, but its progenitors are painful to play.
Hawaii as a formable isn't anything special...
But if you form Alaska you'll be a monster.
Not played as Zealandia yet, but it has promise.

Siam's ideas are horrible. Malaya is good for Navy and that's it. It's not really great for a general build. Nusantara is not good because it doesn't buff anything.

If you're going to Australia or further might as well go to the Yuan or Mughals. Not a good SEA formable though.

 

[rorystephen]

I am not a dev but I can answer at least 3 of your questions. If you use expand empire fix mod from the workshop, you won't be able to play your ironman game/not being eligible to play ironman anymore because the game will see that you have a mod modifying the content in game and not just flavors. Yes you can make a backup save on ironman, you go to C:/Documents/Paradox Interactive/Europa Universalis IV/Saves, you copy paste your campaign "XXX.eu4" on your desktop and that's it (you can rename it it won't damage the ironman thing normally). For the last question, they won't delay further more their fix on the Expand Empire CB that has been very much asked by the player base. Instead, you can choose to not do the update by going into Steam, Europa Universalis IV, Properties, Beta, and select the version you want your game to stay into. Don't do that now if you use the latest version but do it when the patch will come. However don't expect your problem to be solved for your campaign if you don't upgrade to the patch when it's live.

Thank you, much appreciated. Tested the backup save on another run and seems to work even with a name change.

 

[Eluriac]

Thank you for Domination DLC. it's the best out of all DLCs in my opinion.
1. I did play with France and noticed the missing CB after becoming the HRE Emreror and couldnt play any longer cuz at the reformation age cant do anything.
2. there is also another bug. when fighhting 2 or more wars, if you peace peace out one of them , sometimes your armies siegeing other wars become exiled.
3. and lastly please fix Hussite religion. if you become hussite and make everyone hussite in HRE, religious war doesnt start even though emperor loses authority. should i let 1 elector to become protestant.? it shouldnt be like that in my opinion. cuz it really sucks.

 

[levenntesen]

Folks, I think it's not time for them to make a small addition to change the surname (i.e. dynastic name) of our monarch?

 

[Rossarness]

Hello Sir/Ma'am,
Ref. the bugs especially Expand empire CB and to a lesser extent crown land.
It is disappointing to say the least after the time put in to the game playing Byzantium, after engineering the peace of Westphalia and converting as many nations to orthodox as possible to get IA to a slight positive, then joining the empire after being made emperor to enact the third reform to find this broken. It is 1631 on ironman and this now makes it unplayable. The issue is that due to other commitments i have limited time and by the time i come back another expansion will most likely be out. I have several questions please.
1. Will the future bug fix render the save games obsolete?
2. What happens if i use the expand empire fix in the workshop?
3. Can i make a backup save on ironman?
4. Can a hotfix not be implemented for at least this issue?
The rendering obsolete of saves and game breaking bugs is one reason i have stopped for the time being buying the DLC, as great as the games are. Thank you.

1. While we cannot guarantee it, it should be safe to continue on a new patch, I have a playthrough from 1.32 that I can still play with Ironman ( ofc it´s missing new stuff but works )
2. I assume it´s not Ironman compatible
3. It should do so automatically
4. Due to internal processes that follow every release we are not able to do so. Currently, we are in the process of testing the full big patch

Again, we are sorry it affects your gameplay and we do what we can to provide the fix at earliest possible window.

 

[Jacabon]

4. Due to internal processes that follow every release we are not able to do so. Currently, we are in the process of testing the full big patch

Again, we are sorry it affects your gameplay and we do what we can to provide the fix at earliest possible window.

Your internal process allows small updates post release, it has been done already this dlc release let alone pretty much every previous one. Someone has obviously made an arbitrary decision to not update in the usual multi release schedule and has decided that one big massive fix a month and a half after release despite massive game affecting bugs is the new policy. I hope you are providing feedback to your management that this is a weird arbitrary decision which downright sucks for people that have purchased the dlc and expect the usual prompt updates. Stellaris can do it, so arbitrary internal policies seems like a pretty weak excuse.

 

[ShinogiSatou]

well, what about 1.36 and middle eastern expansion?

 

[Korsjan Rīkis]

well, what about 1.36 and middle eastern expansion?

It could possibly be released this Autumn.

 

[Abnormalmind]

Siam's ideas are horrible.

Did they change? When I played them last, my Siam was the vassal overlord extraordinaire using national ideas and missions. Amazing vassal management and annexation ideas for a huge vassal empire and becoming EoC.

 

[Kaiser Antonio]

Did they change? When I played them last, my Siam was the vassal overlord extraordinaire using national ideas and missions. Amazing vassal management and annexation ideas for a huge vassal empire and becoming EoC.

Yeah, they pretty much nerfed them into the ground when compared to other formable nations in SEA. Iirc you can also only form Siam at admin tech 20 now

 

[Excruciator]

Hoping you can fix the Brandenburg mission, "reclaim neumark" -AS EMPEROR- not earning imperial authority, tested. Others have looked at the code and confirmed it's broken.

 

[Oporto]

Hoping you can fix the Brandenburg mission, "reclaim neumark" -AS EMPEROR- not earning imperial authority, tested. Others have looked at the code and confirmed it's broken.

You'd better post a bug report.

 

[ben_sandmann784]

Breaking canals seems like a big miss. I have to use the "canals" command and that just enables them all. It's not like this is small, canal functionality seems like a pretty obvious thing to test before launch. Looking forward to a fix.

 

[Gabarius]

Is there any release date for this “hot”fix? It kind of sucks paying $20 for a DLC that breaks the game for a month and a half post-launch.

 

[Metz]

@Rossarness

Any way to make it so Spain goes for the Caribbean and Portugal for Brazil and SW Africa? In most games, Portugal always get the Caribbean and Spain gets Brazil. Other colonizers also never get colonize Caribbean islands. Maybe some reward changes in the mission tree could correct this.

 

[Masyanya028]

Is there any release date for this “hot”fix? It kind of sucks paying $20 for a DLC that breaks the game for a month and a half post-launch.

Well, it's only "somewhere in June". They tend to release patches on Tuesdays, but it's not always the case for hotfixes. My bet is, that we could get patch on 20th of June (next Tuesday). But it can be any day, actually.

 

[BloodyEric]

Is there any release date for this “hot”fix? It kind of sucks paying $20 for a DLC that breaks the game for a month and a half post-launch.

I do totally understand that software development takes time, but the decision to not do a quick hotfix with the few most urgent issues and instead take more and more weeks to release a patch containing 100s of fixes was a really bad one.

I also feel that there is a lack of communication from the team here on why this decision was made and what the timeline for the next patch is. "Somewhen in June" is not accurat enough when players have to decide to continue their game with issues or maybe wait just a few days until the patch is there.