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HoI4 Dev Diary: A.E.I.O.U

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Greetings commanders!

As you’ll be aware, it has been a while since our last dev diary, and I’m super thrilled to finally release what we’ve been working on since No Step Back.

We take great pride in our attention to gameplay telemetry that we receive from keen HOI4 players from across the globe, and our data wizards regularly furnish us with relevant information with which to steer development of features. After NSB, we were informed of a clear and scientific trend in the data:

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That’s right folks, it turns out that 99.5%* of you exclusively play monarchies. It was quite clear to us that we had a mandate to finally concede to public demand, and add the long-awaited Habsburg branch to the Generic focus tree!

*These results were verified by independent election officials.

Now, regardless of which nation you hold dear, you too can find and install a local member of the Habsburg dynasty, taking part in the restoration of everyone’s favorite neighborhood hegemony.

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After discovering a stray member of the Habsburg dynasty, steer your nation to glory by choosing an appropriate spouse or accidentally inheriting some countries you weren’t aware existed.

No Habsburg tree would be complete without an edifying array of royal marriage candidates, so we’ve included plenty of historically accurate examples:

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Once you have secured the bloodline, you can, naturally, expand your sights to join your relatives in other countries in vying for the ultimate prize:

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As you might expect, every nation can now join and restore the Holy Roman Empire regardless of where they start.

In addition to the usual focus tree content, we’ll be expanding our ambitions somewhat! We’ll be including three new realistic continuous focuses to the Habsburg branch:

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Ultimately we feel that this adds a great deal to the generic focus tree experience, importantly providing a thoughtful, plausible and historically inspired approach that you can enjoy with nations as far afield as you like.

A.E.I.O.U, folks!

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I cant stop laughing

I completely forgot about all of the modding / character bugs still unfixed from NSB, great! How about a survey for how few mods are updated by now and analysing why that might be?
 
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Greetings commanders!

As you’ll be aware, it has been a while since our last dev diary, and I’m super thrilled to finally release what we’ve been working on since No Step Back.

We take great pride in our attention to gameplay telemetry that we receive from keen HOI4 players from across the globe, and our data wizards regularly furnish us with relevant information with which to steer development of features. After NSB, we were informed of a clear and scientific trend in the data:

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That’s right folks, it turns out that 99.5%* of you exclusively play monarchies. It was quite clear to us that we had a mandate to finally concede to public demand, and add the long-awaited Habsburg branch to the Generic focus tree!

*These results were verified by independent election officials.

Now, regardless of which nation you hold dear, you too can find and install a local member of the Habsburg dynasty, taking part in the restoration of everyone’s favorite neighborhood hegemony.

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After discovering a stray member of the Habsburg dynasty, steer your nation to glory by choosing an appropriate spouse or accidentally inheriting some countries you weren’t aware existed.

No Habsburg tree would be complete without an edifying array of royal marriage candidates, so we’ve included plenty of historically accurate examples:

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Once you have secured the bloodline, you can, naturally, expand your sights to join your relatives in other countries in vying for the ultimate prize:

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As you might expect, every nation can now join and restore the Holy Roman Empire regardless of where they start.

In addition to the usual focus tree content, we’ll be expanding our ambitions somewhat! We’ll be including three new realistic continuous focuses to the Habsburg branch:

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Ultimately we feel that this adds a great deal to the generic focus tree experience, importantly providing a thoughtful, plausible and historically inspired approach that you can enjoy with nations as far afield as you like.

A.E.I.O.U, folks!

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Gott Erhalte (insert your Habsburg) den Keiser!!
 
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FINALLY, HOI4 DEVTEAM MADE STH ABSOLUTELY B A S E D
 
FINALLY, HOI4 DEVTEAM MADE STH ABSOLUTELY B A S E D
 
FINALLY, HOI4 DEVTEAM MADE STH ABSOLUTELY B A S E D
 
Dear HoI Team, while we appreciate your attempt to participate in the April fools fun, let me offer you some critique.
An aprils fools joke should be funny (you've achieved that) while simultaneously absurd (you failed there).

Considering the off the chart alt history stuff you've put into the game over the time a hapsburg focus tree for Austria is among the more sane and pausible Ideas you had
 
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Dear HoI Team, while we appreciate your attempt to participate in the April fools fun, let me offer you some critique.
An aprils fools joke should be funny (you've achieved that) while simultaneously absurd (you failed there).
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Sense of humor, along with the interpretation of other people's humor, is subjective. If you don't like the joke, it's ok to say so, or to say nothing. Passing it off as a failure judged by an established (and imaginary) April Fool's metric, doesn't hold much water.
 
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As hilarious of a joke as this is...this really should happen

Maybe an easter egg in the game rules so you have to manually turn it on

But it would be glorious
 
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Hahahahaha, brilliant Arheo, love your work :cool:

For a naval themed pic, here's the cruiser Kaiserin Maria Theresia :) I very much hope that this new development includes ship namelists for Habsburg monarchs/relatives/hangers on for all countries should they succeed in attaining full Habsurgness!

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