What's new in the September 2024 beta
We have no major gameplay changes since last month's beta as we close in on a final 1.3 release. Instead we have several new UI features to introduce.
First is rally points. There is a new button in the army/navy recruitment screen:
Clicking this button brings up a new screen in which you can select where the troops should rally once they've been recruited.
It's as simple as that! Hopefully this reduces some of the micromanagement associated with army reinforcement.
As mentioned in the screenshot, you cannot select a land rally point that requires traveling through an ally or vassal - only paths that lie fully within your own territory are legal (but do note that the presence of enemy troops along the path does not stop the army from attempting to reach its rally point). Naval rally points can be any sea zone or owned port, as long as there is a known path to the rally point.
The next new UI feature is a new notification. If you are currently the emperor but are in danger of losing the title, you'll see this:
That's your cue to go start bribing electors!
This alert was inspired by Steam user Gindisi's Additional Alerts mod for EU4.
Finally, we have a long awaited quality-of life improvement: all long tooltips and event descriptions are now fully scrollable! This is particularly helpful with complex country-formation decision triggers:
Making the change for tooltips was not too difficult, but event windows gave me enough trouble that I wrote about the process on the FTG engineering blog I've been keeping.
Scenario setup changes
mandead has truly done yeoman's work in this beta, filling in country descriptions for all playable countries in all scenarios!
He's also added some new countries that you might encounter in your games: in alphabetical order, Bima, Bali, Bastar, Chola Empire, Gupta Empire, Jaintia, Khemundi, Maurya Empire, Sikh Empire, Volga Bulgaria, and Wessex.
There's also the usual crop of tweaks and fine-tunings, as we aren't planning any major changes before 1.3 final.
Modding changes
We have a few new triggers to talk about in this beta. The two that are probably most interesting to modders are any_neighbor, which for the first time allows modders to check spatial characteristics of the political map without needing to check specific neighbors, and any_country, which allows global checks.
We also have a few others:
armysize = x.xx (counting 10 artillery as 1000 inf/cav)
navysize = x.xx
income_monthly
income_yearly (calculated as 12x monthly income + yearly census tax)
is_production_leader = <goods name>
And we have a new command. Or rather, not technically a new command, but an extension of an old one:
command = { type = setflag which = flagname value = <months> }
The new optional "value" parameter allows setting flags that decay over time. If set to a positive number, a flag will be decremented by 1 each month until reaching 0, at which point any trigger checking that flag will no longer succeed.
If the value is not present, the flag will remain until cleared, as before.
Full changelog
Download it here! As usual, extract it onto either a clean 1.2 installation or onto the previous beta patch.
Post feedback in this thread, or come talk to us on the FTG Discord server!
Special thanks also to @Polak, who has once again translated all the new UI text into French!
We have no major gameplay changes since last month's beta as we close in on a final 1.3 release. Instead we have several new UI features to introduce.
First is rally points. There is a new button in the army/navy recruitment screen:
Clicking this button brings up a new screen in which you can select where the troops should rally once they've been recruited.
It's as simple as that! Hopefully this reduces some of the micromanagement associated with army reinforcement.
As mentioned in the screenshot, you cannot select a land rally point that requires traveling through an ally or vassal - only paths that lie fully within your own territory are legal (but do note that the presence of enemy troops along the path does not stop the army from attempting to reach its rally point). Naval rally points can be any sea zone or owned port, as long as there is a known path to the rally point.
The next new UI feature is a new notification. If you are currently the emperor but are in danger of losing the title, you'll see this:
That's your cue to go start bribing electors!
This alert was inspired by Steam user Gindisi's Additional Alerts mod for EU4.
Finally, we have a long awaited quality-of life improvement: all long tooltips and event descriptions are now fully scrollable! This is particularly helpful with complex country-formation decision triggers:
Making the change for tooltips was not too difficult, but event windows gave me enough trouble that I wrote about the process on the FTG engineering blog I've been keeping.
Scenario setup changes
mandead has truly done yeoman's work in this beta, filling in country descriptions for all playable countries in all scenarios!
He's also added some new countries that you might encounter in your games: in alphabetical order, Bima, Bali, Bastar, Chola Empire, Gupta Empire, Jaintia, Khemundi, Maurya Empire, Sikh Empire, Volga Bulgaria, and Wessex.
There's also the usual crop of tweaks and fine-tunings, as we aren't planning any major changes before 1.3 final.
Modding changes
We have a few new triggers to talk about in this beta. The two that are probably most interesting to modders are any_neighbor, which for the first time allows modders to check spatial characteristics of the political map without needing to check specific neighbors, and any_country, which allows global checks.
We also have a few others:
armysize = x.xx (counting 10 artillery as 1000 inf/cav)
navysize = x.xx
income_monthly
income_yearly (calculated as 12x monthly income + yearly census tax)
is_production_leader = <goods name>
And we have a new command. Or rather, not technically a new command, but an extension of an old one:
command = { type = setflag which = flagname value = <months> }
The new optional "value" parameter allows setting flags that decay over time. If set to a positive number, a flag will be decremented by 1 each month until reaching 0, at which point any trigger checking that flag will no longer succeed.
If the value is not present, the flag will remain until cleared, as before.
Full changelog
Download it here! As usual, extract it onto either a clean 1.2 installation or onto the previous beta patch.
Post feedback in this thread, or come talk to us on the FTG Discord server!
Special thanks also to @Polak, who has once again translated all the new UI text into French!
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