Europa Universalis IV - Development Diary 25th of April 2023 - 1.35 Post-Release Support

[Rossarness]

Is there a possibility that the save files on 1.35.1 gets corrupted after the upcoming patch? Because I can see you are working on a lot of things.

Shouldn´t, we tried and have no issues, but backup your saves just in case

4/25!

Should be on Thursday, as we have tight release window today

Any plans in the future to add naval professionalism like there is for the army?

Maybe also create a notification of estates (yellow scroll similar to the green scroll).

Advisors could also have more interactions, maybe have a way to see what combination of advisors give you special events. An interesting idea would be to have them have a sort of experience bar that gives you a clickable bonus when it fills up to 100%, with the experience rate being based on the advisor level. Like after X amount of time a diplomat would let you remove AE from neighboring countries using its ability or an engineer would give you 10% extra garrison while he/she remains an advisor. The stability advisor would let you get a discount on stability while they are still there. This would allow for more advisor commitment and it would make weaker advisors more desirable. The new court ideas could help with the advisor experience gain rate. Can also add assassinate another country's advisor (not sure if it exists) as a covert mission for your spies.

Also, Portugal colonizes the Caribbean and Mexico too much while Spain colonizes Brazil. Any way to have this be the opposite more often? Maybe make Portugal have more of a focus on coastal Africa and give it a coastal Brazil freebie.

There was a plan but it turned to be quite complex and we instead focused on supporting new content that our CD´s prepared. We might revisit it in the future, no promises tho!

 

[Rossarness]

In addition, I just found out that if I trade favors for trust, the game crashes. With all the bugs I'm encountering, this game is becoming more painful than fun.

1) Pasha system doesn't work in the state tab, and thus can't assign them or hire janissaries.
2) Pasha system as every country I play, preventing me from utilizing other abilities in the state tab.
3) Can't access the saved games tab.
4) and now... trading favors for trust crashes the game.
5) Imperial decisions for China can't be taken, preventing me from accessing these abilities.
6) Probably forgetting another problem, or I'll discover another one.

We did not see such an issue internally, if you confirm you don´t have mods please make an issue in bug reports, or send us a crash report, we do look over them.

At what times does the updates or dev diaries come out? Usually I have to wait until almost midnight my time to get a new dev diary or bug fix update, so what is the usual time to wait your time (So I can convert the time to my time using the standard time of "yours")?

Usually between 14 - 16 CEST, it really depends on the internal schedule and not fully on the studio.

 

[Rossarness]

So we can expect bug fixing patch around this time tomorrow?

Asking as I am waiting to start a new company, it will be dissapointing to start today and probably get ironman save ruined by the patch tomorrow.

Yep, it should be in this period unless we encounter some unforeseen issues

 

[Pavía]

Will there be a dev diary today?

We will talk next week about how are we doing with bug fixing after 1.35.2/1.35.3.