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Europa Universalis IV - Development Diary 4th of April 2023 - Achievements

Hello everybody! Welcome to today’s Developer Diary!

My name is Arnau, I am an Internal QA Tester working at Tinto. And I'm here with @Pintu to bring you this week's Dev Diary where we will focus on one of our favorite topics, the new Achievements that will accompany 1.35.

The idea we have about achievements is to try to give a new inspiration or goal to our beloved players. Some of them are to provide additional depth and difficulty of the campaign and others are paths that will diverge from your normal gameplay experience. We have tried to give a little bit of everything in these new achievements and we hope you will enjoy them.
With the focus of Domination being on some of the major powers of the time it was a bit more difficult than usual to find suitable Achievements, since a lot of these nations are already covered with a fair share of Achievements.
So here is the list of the achievements we at Tinto came up with for the 1.35 Patch.

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From Frankfurt to the Andes
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Starting as Frankfurt, form Jerusalem, and then form the Inca while owning Mallorca.

Let’s start with a small history Lesson for this one. There once was a small group of people in the Imperial City of Frankfurt. After being kicked out of the City because of rebellious behavior they did find asylum on the Balearic Islands where they quickly established themselves as Pirates to live in true freedom. This newfound Freedom brough to a variety of new shores, but one place inspired them more than anything, the Holy City of Jerusalem. From there they spread their beliefs to the New World, where they gave refuge to expelled People from all over the world. With these people, and some inspiration found while looking into the wisdom of the Sun, they swiftly drafted a new plan to ensure their everlasting legacy. And so the Inti State of Jerusalem was born.
What? That sounds like a fantasy story to you? You better brush up on your history lessons then!
Jokes aside, this Achievement was born out of the Grandest LAN last year and the participants from our Studio might have joined a Cult in the process and this is the payment that is expected from us now.

Mehmet's Ambition
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Starting as The Ottomans, own or have Core Eyalets own all the provinces required to form the Roman Empire before 1500.

Do you want to prove to everyone who is the true Successor of the Roman Empire? Make the Conqueror proud by establishing yourself as the true Roman Emperor Sultan.

Triple the Rome
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As Russia, be the Emperor of China and the HRE.

You might ask yourself what there is to aim for as a mighty emperor. Obviously a second emperor title! Or two…

No Country for Old Tercios
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As Spain have Reformed Tercios, 33 Tercio Units, and control 3 Great Power capitals at the same time.

Gonzalo, get the pike! It’s time to show them how to manage this. I think a third of the World should be ours.

All Blue
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As Portugal, all Europe is owned by you or blue European countries that exist in 1444.

All the good things in life are blue. The sky, the sea and even Portugal. Live out your dream to find the All Blue! On your Journey you will find people who share the same Dream.

Stardust Crusaders
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As Japan have the Land of the Christian Sun reform while Palestine and Cairo are Christian.

"Oh, you're approaching me? Instead of running away, you're coming straight to me?”

Copium Wars
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Starting and playing as Ming, own the Britain region.

Don’t worry, they are just here to teach you about Tea.

Brentry
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Starting as England, form the Angevin Kingdom and enact all the Acts of Crown parliamentary issues.

Guess who's back. And now with an even fresher color, new ideas and the desire to take it all around. Assert your claim to the french throne and guide Europe to your Dream of a true union.

The Reapers
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Starting as Aragon, be a Peasant Republic and have Madrid and Paris owned by any Peasant Republic.

We are peaceful people who want to bring you freedom. What, you don't want to embrace our system? Well, we have other tools to make you see reason.

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So, that’s all for today! Since we are close to release this Dev Diary is a rather short one, since there is not much left to cover for this Updates Cycle.
In next week's Dev Diary we will talk about the Changelog for the coming 1.35 Update. We hope you are as excited as we are for the Release of the 1.35 Patch and Domination in just two weeks from now.​

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Dont worry achievement hunters we still <3 you
 
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's post that the jojo achievement should have been based on the sites where the show takes place

Well I think Palestine is included because Japan being catholic crusades Holy Land etc. But I agree with a need in this achievment to have more places which were shown and the map I posted should have enough of them
 
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As Portugal, all Europe is owned by you or blue European countries that exist in 1444.

All the good things in life are blue. The sky, the sea and even Portugal. Live out your dream to find the All Blue! On your Journey you will find people who share the same Dream.​
The most saddening part about this one is that it will not allow everyones almost-prussian-blue favorite buddy!
 
I don't mind meme or anime achievements, but that Frankfurt one is just nope unless you change it so you can flip to pagan religions normally.
 
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Any chance that the all blue achievement could be “as any blue nation … “
It gives more freedom and thats kinda the whole point of one piece!
Great achievements
 
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I have to be honest: I'm really looking forward to this DLC, but as someone who mostly plays to get achievements these are mostly pretty disappointing. Too many random memes. I was hoping for a few more along the lines of Golden Century, AEIOU, Anglophile, Mewar Never Changes. Maybe like Magnificence (complete the Ottomans mission tree); The Rising Sun (complete the Japan mission tree); Hermit Kingdom (complete the Korea mission tree); Here Comes the Sun King (complete the France mission tree).

Another idea:
Estado da India (as Portugal, fully own India and Indonesia and divert the majority of their trade to the Cape of Good Hope trade node)
 
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I think we got "do your missions" achi in Brentry already so the quota is filled.

I do think there needs to be more achi involving using the new mechanics. British EIC? Special ships? Tributtons? Ottoman disaster? Something that's not conquest.
 
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Don't you think Roman Empire borders in 1500 is a bit hardcore? True heir of Timur at least demands 1550. 1500 was for to this point to much more easy tasks, like conquering west afica, or Burman group - things that don't give you coalision for all of Europe.
 
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Hello everybody! Welcome to today’s Developer Diary!

My name is Arnau, I am an Internal QA Tester working at Tinto. And I'm here with @Pintu to bring you this week's Dev Diary where we will focus on one of our favorite topics, the new Achievements that will accompany 1.35.

The idea we have about achievements is to try to give a new inspiration or goal to our beloved players. Some of them are to provide additional depth and difficulty of the campaign and others are paths that will diverge from your normal gameplay experience. We have tried to give a little bit of everything in these new achievements and we hope you will enjoy them.
With the focus of Domination being on some of the major powers of the time it was a bit more difficult than usual to find suitable Achievements, since a lot of these nations are already covered with a fair share of Achievements.
So here is the list of the achievements we at Tinto came up with for the 1.35 Patch.

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From Frankfurt to the Andes
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Starting as Frankfurt, form Jerusalem, and then form the Inca while owning Mallorca.

Let’s start with a small history Lesson for this one. There once was a small group of people in the Imperial City of Frankfurt. After being kicked out of the City because of rebellious behavior they did find asylum on the Balearic Islands where they quickly established themselves as Pirates to live in true freedom. This newfound Freedom brough to a variety of new shores, but one place inspired them more than anything, the Holy City of Jerusalem. From there they spread their beliefs to the New World, where they gave refuge to expelled People from all over the world. With these people, and some inspiration found while looking into the wisdom of the Sun, they swiftly drafted a new plan to ensure their everlasting legacy. And so the Inti State of Jerusalem was born.
What? That sounds like a fantasy story to you? You better brush up on your history lessons then!
Jokes aside, this Achievement was born out of the Grandest LAN last year and the participants from our Studio might have joined a Cult in the process and this is the payment that is expected from us now.

Mehmet's Ambition
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Starting as The Ottomans, own or have Core Eyalets own all the provinces required to form the Roman Empire before 1500.

Do you want to prove to everyone who is the true Successor of the Roman Empire? Make the Conqueror proud by establishing yourself as the true Roman Emperor Sultan.

Triple the Rome
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As Russia, be the Emperor of China and the HRE.

You might ask yourself what there is to aim for as a mighty emperor. Obviously a second emperor title! Or two…

No Country for Old Tercios
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As Spain have Reformed Tercios, 33 Tercio Units, and control 3 Great Power capitals at the same time.

Gonzalo, get the pike! It’s time to show them how to manage this. I think a third of the World should be ours.

All Blue
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As Portugal, all Europe is owned by you or blue European countries that exist in 1444.

All the good things in life are blue. The sky, the sea and even Portugal. Live out your dream to find the All Blue! On your Journey you will find people who share the same Dream.

Stardust Crusaders
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As Japan have the Land of the Christian Sun reform while Palestine and Cairo are Christian.

"Oh, you're approaching me? Instead of running away, you're coming straight to me?”

Copium Wars
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Starting and playing as Ming, own the Britain region.

Don’t worry, they are just here to teach you about Tea.

Brentry
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Starting as England, form the Angevin Kingdom and enact all the Acts of Crown parliamentary issues.

Guess who's back. And now with an even fresher color, new ideas and the desire to take it all around. Assert your claim to the french throne and guide Europe to your Dream of a true union.

The Reapers
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Starting as Aragon, be a Peasant Republic and have Madrid and Paris owned by any Peasant Republic.

We are peaceful people who want to bring you freedom. What, you don't want to embrace our system? Well, we have other tools to make you see reason.

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So, that’s all for today! Since we are close to release this Dev Diary is a rather short one, since there is not much left to cover for this Updates Cycle.
In next week's Dev Diary we will talk about the Changelog for the coming 1.35 Update. We hope you are as excited as we are for the Release of the 1.35 Patch and Domination in just two weeks from now.​

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Dont worry achievement hunters we still <3 you
Copoim Wars, I am dying rn xddddddddddd
 
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I think we got "do your missions" achi in Brentry already so the quota is filled.

I do think there needs to be more achi involving using the new mechanics. British EIC? Special ships? Tributtons? Ottoman disaster? Something that's not conquest.
Never even thought about the EIC, that would've made a great achievement for sure. And the Ottoman Janissary disaster.

A real shame about these. Only 9 and most of them are super weird.
 
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I don't mind meme or anime achievements, but that Frankfurt one is just nope unless you change it so you can flip to pagan religions normally.
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- Pagan religious rebels can now force convert you to their religion if the majority of your country has this religion. Nahuatl, Mayan and Incan are excluded from it due to their "primitive" status in the game.
You can then get The Oracle of Pachacamac if it's still there, or get force-converted. In theory you can probably also go for A Question of Faith with advisors or intentionally tanking legitimacy to get desired religion pretenders and then raising it after, though that's way more of a headache than just forcing a dude to force convert you. Protecting the oracle in a dedicated vassal doesn't seem awful, but that does involve getting to the new world in a timely manner as Frankfurt. It was pointed out lower down that Inca actually only requires pagan, so this is even less of an issue than I thought. Shows how much I play in the New World.
 
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Probably the most disappointing dev diary of 1.35 / Domination :confused:

The number of new achievements (9) is both very low and very odd. Probably the lowest number of new achievements ever added?

I am honestly quite the achievement hunter myself (currently 336 of 345), but in this case I am only looking forward to play Portugal and maybe England, but most of these seem like a waste of time.
 
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