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HOI4 Dev Diary - Achievements

Hi everyone! Release of La Résistance is closing in and we are busy fixing, testing and polishing. Today its time to present all the new achievements we are adding, so that the achievement hunters among you can start planning :)

Without further ado, here is all 20 of them (I apologize in advance for all the young whippersnappers who wont get the movie and tv show references ;) ):

One King, Two Crowns
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As Bourbon Spain, hold all Spanish and French core states.

We will Rock you
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As Spain, own Gibraltar.

Well, I didn't vote for you
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Win the Spanish Civil War as the anarchists.

...our chief weapon is surprise

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As Spain, have at least 5 spies and stage 5 coups against other nations.

Die, Perfidious Albion!
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As Fascist France or Vichy France, occupy all of Great Britain.

Second Time’s the Charm
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As France, occupy Moscow while Napoleon VI is your country leader.

Tour de France
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ccupy all of mainland France while having at least 20 fully equipped Bicycle regiments.

Go ahead, Macau my day
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As Portugal, create a collaboration government in Macau and have it own all Chinese states.

BFFs
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As Portugal, join the same faction as Great Britain.

Warszawo, walcz!
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Stage the Warsaw uprising and succeed.

Play it, Sam
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Have a spy network of at least 50% strength in Casablanca.

Spies Trade
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As India, become the spymaster for the Allies.

You Will Never Kill Me Alive
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Have one of your spies take a Suicide Pill.

Why Die For Danzig
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As Germany, have France turn fascist while at war with Poland.

I SEE EVERYTHING
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Get over 90% intel in each category on a major without using code cracking

Shaken, not stirred
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Successfully stage a coup in any nation using a spy with the Seducer trait.

Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once
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Have a French and British spy work together on the same Operation

Man of a thousand faces, every one the same
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Have the same spies be captured twice (so needs to be successfully rescued)

Turing Complete

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Fully decrypt all nations in the axis

Don’t die for your country
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The challenge from PdxCon 2019 - As Germany in 1939, occupy all of Poland and France without taking more than 475 in casualties. No paradrops allowed!

See you all next week when we will be doing an AAR writeup of what its like playing as a spymaster of your faction. Also, don't miss out on our stream at 16:00CET today if you want to see LaR in action.
 
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Very funny achievements and also this time less world conquering stuff, very nice. With maybe the exception of "We will Rock you" where you need to own, instead of occupy Gibraltar.

Also interesting your stayed on 475 casualties.
@CameraGenie I kinda agree with you. It shows flaws of the game, where it would be great if they don't exist. But they do exist, like there will always exist flaws in a game. Personally I think it is less a celebration of the flaws, but more an acknowledgment that they exist and can be
The Gibraltar one can likely be done without a world conquest style game, just needs to be fast enough to take out the UK before the US joins in.
 
My jam, will be getting all of these new shinny badges for sure.

But this is odd, theres already an achievement named "Nobody expects..." in the game using the same art, what gives?

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I'm confused about "Macau my day", you mean releasing Macau as a puppet and giving them all the Chinese territory?
I though collaboration governments were a pre-invasion thing.
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Well, I'm a bit disappointed, but I guess "No Gods, no masters" is a bit overused.
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All the achievements sound fun and not too frustrating, expect the last PdxCon challenge...
That one seems to requires luck and a type of "exploity" mentality I don't usually enjoy, hopefully is not as frustrating as 30 mins of Hel...
 
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That is already an achievement so will it be replaced by the new one?
oh I think the art/name got mixed up. The intent is to have two different ones. I'll find out what went wrong ;D

Again, that this is possible shows deep flaws in the game, not something to be celebrated.
Agreed, which might mean that its impossible at some point in the future to pull that off. In which case we may change it up. We'll see...
 
Agreed, which might mean that its impossible at some point in the future to pull that off. In which case we may change it up. We'll see...
:)
Does France still start with 3 research slots? Historically, they were at or near the forefront of military technology during the 1930s up to June 1940, so it doesn't make sense to have them behind *Italy* for long periods of the game, especially as their extra research slots come quite late in the new tree.
 
Agreed, which might mean that its impossible at some point in the future to pull that off. In which case we may change it up. We'll see...

As long as you keep LaR version on steam I'm okay with that. I always try to do the achievement in the patch version they are released in
 
As Portugal, create a collaboration government in Macau and have it own all Chinese states.
So...we will need to kill Britain, France, Japan, China, Manchu, Communist China, All the warlord of China and hopefully none of our "helpful" ally or other random guys take a piece of China during peace conference.... Now....that's almost world conquer :confused:
 
Yeah 0 is definatly possible. Personally my best after PDXcon was 14 casualties, but shouldn't be to hard to optmize it to 0.

Podcats statements also means it is still very much possible to do in LaR. A bit sad, but kinda expected. AI changes are hard.

One thing that would already help enormesly.

For every 10 division a AI has, put 1 division on its capitals, and don't ever move it. Until there are 4 divsions. This should help against alot of shenanigans already, be it open Paris, Paradropping Lisbon, Kopenhagen and Warszaw or doing other stuff. Not only is the capital lots of Victory points, but also alot of Industry for the AI.
 
I think I saw someone do it with 0
During PDXCON we also had a time limit so you couldn't really wait and build up for as long as you wanted. But adding a time limit on a achievement.... Force shut down the game after 30 min? :p
 
So...we will need to kill Britain, France, Japan, China, Manchu, Communist China, All the warlord of China and hopefully none of our "helpful" ally or other random guys take a piece of China during peace conference.... Now....that's almost world conquer :confused:

Hopefully you don't have to get HK...
I still have PTSD from the old "Awake and Angry" and "Battlecry" achievements...