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HoI4 Dev Diary - Achievements

Hello, and welcome back to another Dev Diary from the snow-stricken city of Stockholm. Today we will be talking about that quintessential feature completionists like myself simply crave whenever a new DLC is released: achievements. :D

This batch consists of 21 new achievements, most of which relate to the new countries and mechanics, though one is dedicated to the 2018 PDXCon HoI4 Challenge (30 Minutes of Hel), and another was a brilliant suggestion by a viewer of Daniel and myself's playthrough of the new British focus tree (Britzkrieg).

In addition to adding these new ones, I've made some adjustments to the more 'grindy' achievements that were added to Waking the Tiger. Having myself completed every single achievement in the game, none annoyed me even nearly as much as Battlecry and Awake and Angry. To make these less of a 'conquer the whole world three times over' pain to get, I've added exclusions for the European enclaves to the requirements of these achievements. It now will no longer be necessary to reclaim Guangzhouwan, Macau, and Hong Kong to get them :)

Now, on to the new achievements:

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Team America
As the U.S.A., drop a nuclear bomb on Paris.

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History Repeated Itself
As the U.S.A., win against the Confederate States. Again.

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Georgia On My Mind
As the U.S.A., own and fully control all three Georgias.

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To Arms in Dixie!
As the U.S.A., start a new civil war as the South.

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Arsenal of Democracy
As the U.S.A., have more than 300 military factories.

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Underpaid, Undersexed, and Under Eisenhower
As the U.S.A., assume faction leadership of the Allies, and have over 50 expeditionary divisions from the United Kingdom.

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Last for a Thousand Years
As the United Kingdom, accomplish the federation of the entire British Empire.

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Britzkrieg
As the United Kingdom, put Edward VIII in power, ally Germany, and fully control Paris.

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Nothing Wrong with our Bloody Ships
As the United Kingdom, have at least 9 battlecruisers.

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William Wallis
As the United Kingdom, put Edward VIII in power, enforce an American monarchy, and have both it and Scotland as subjects.

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Crush the Dream
As a Communist United Kingdom, crush the American Dream by puppeting the U.S.A.

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Treading the Narrow Path
As the Netherlands, do not cave to the Germans, continue the Zuiderzee works, and do not lose control of any of your continental European states until 1945.

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Putting the Raid on the Medway to Shame
As the Netherlands, ensure the United Kingdom has no capital ships (carriers, battleships, battlecruisers, or heavy cruisers).

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Bevrijding
As the Netherlands, liberate the continental Netherlands after relocating the government to the East Indies.

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Mi Casa es tu Casa
As Mexico, host a government-in-exile.

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The New Home of the Revolution
As Mexico, put Trotsky in power and puppet the Soviet Union.

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Assuming Direct Control
Starting as a minor power, assume faction leadership of the Allies, the Axis, or the Comintern.

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Vive la Jeune Ecole
As France, have at least 150 Destroyers and research the maximum torpedo launcher technology, before 1945.

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30 Minutes of Hel
Try to beat the record set at the 2018 PDXCON HOI4 challenge by inflicting over 1,800,000 casualties to Germany in the 1939 “Blitzkrieg” scenario start, as Poland. Extra bragging rights if you do it in 30 minutes or less!

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Pride and Extreme Prejudice
Sink the British Pride of the Fleet.

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Do You Mined?
Lay at least 1,000 mines on the coastline of an enemy nation.


That was it for today (though not for this week ;) )! We hope you'll be enjoying hunting for them. Let us know which you're most excited about, and don't forget to watch Daniel leak more stuff in today's stream at 4PM CET!
 
Is there any chance that they will fix achievements as well as giving us more that cannot be attained. In a game that takes multiple hours to complete it is ridiculous that dropping connection for a few seconds will invalidate the game for achievements. If you cant make it so they are viable please do not waste time making new achievements.
 
hm if they make a stream tomorrow to announce release date they are gonna release tomorrow or next week. Maybe just a play-through tomorrow.
 
Nothing Wrong with our Bloody Ships
As the United Kingdom, have at least 9 battlecruisers.
..so you are saying battleships and battlecruisers still exist as separated classes?
 
I have saw that on stream but it has really been confirmed or it's not sure?
Thanks for any reply about this.
Cordially.
well tomorrow is gonna be something, nobody knows what. But given PDX policy they never announce DLC release dates much in advance, sometimes just with a day ahead. So if they announce tomorrow I don't see them releasing by the end of the month.
 
A dev diary based on Achievements xD
Do the devs really work?
The Developers have always released an achievements DD for both Europa and HOI4 so this is the way it has always been.
 
Do EU4/Stellaris/CK2's devs take 1 year to release a dlc?
EU4's latest DLC is going to take approximately a year to release and I'm sure there are more.
 
You missed a great idea to win the second american civil war as the confederates and the name For South And Dixie.
They don't care about the CSA - it's just there as a device for the US civil war. They're not getting a focus tree or any unique artwork, and they're obviously not supposed to be playable.

The whole 2nd ACW thing is very odd and makes no sense the way it's been tied to fascism, and I can't understand why it's been made a focal point of the new US content and yet isn't intended to itself be playable. Very odd.
 
They don't care about the CSA - it's just there as a device for the US civil war. They're not getting a focus tree or any unique artwork, and they're obviously not supposed to be playable.

The whole 2nd ACW thing is very odd and makes no sense the way it's been tied to fascism, and I can't understand why it's been made a focal point of the new US content and yet isn't intended to itself be playable. Very odd.
You can become the CSA as fascist USA or you have to fight the CSA as Socialist USA.