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Generals!

For the next several days you’ll be able to test some things and give us all your feedback.

Please report issues in Bug Reports!

You can play around, test and give feedback on anything you like, but our focus will be on these points:
  • Equipment Designer - We’ve added functionality to save your designs across game sessions. Save a tank/ship/plane design in one playthrough, and load it up in another.
  • Also added is the ability to share designs with friends using the import/export feature.
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  • Saadabad Pact Branch - Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey are getting a shared branch that allows them to cooperate more with one another.
  • Iran is getting some extra characters and focuses, including scientists and generals.
  • Afghanistan is also getting some extra characters in the form of a communist country leader and some new advisors.
  • Iraq’s Kurdistan branch is being expanded upon

We’re working hard on polishing Graveyard of Empires content on multiple fronts with the addition of new focuses, characters and events. We’ll continue to work on fixes, content and balancing as the beta progresses, and we may want to update the beta content during this time to make sure you have the opportunity to give us specific feedback relevant to the state of the game at that time.

The equipment designer persistence feature is something we might want to extend in the future towards other parts of the game as well, so please give us feedback on that! (The import/export feature is available in the equipment designer that comes with MTG, NSB or BBA)

- @PDX_Gorion and @AveeBee

Open Beta Patch 1.16.5

How to install the Open Beta client

Simply follow the instructions here

Shareable Equipment Designs
  • Tank, Plane and Ship designs can now be saved between playthroughs
  • Tank, Plane and Ship designs can now be exported to and imported from clipboard
Balance
  • Germany
    • Reduced chance of AI Lithuania and Poland giving up territory to Germany in the Brest-Litovsk Path
    • Added more places in the alt-history branches to lower the Consumer Goods Factory Factors if they have either the MEFO Bills or Economy of Conquest
  • Iran
    • Added historical Generals Haj Ali Razmara and Assadollah Hosseinpoor
    • Added political advisors Abdolsamad Kambakhsh, Rokneddin Mokhtari and Karim Buzarjomehri
    • Focus "Clash of The Titans" is now visible from game start, and is available even if Greece hasn't formed Byzantium yet, but doing so while Greek Byzantine exists will offer a healthy attack bonus
    • Added two new focuses to give democratic Iran the chance to get scientists, facilities and breakthrough progress
    • Adjusted 24 focuses from 70 to 35 days, with minor tweaks to some of them as a result of the time being lowered
    • Added an extra event as part of the Fight For Iran branch where allies of the faction leader will peace out if the leader chooses to accept the peace negotiations
  • India
    • "Rally the Indian Left" now takes 35 days (down from 70)
    • "Reds in the Shadow" now takes 35 days (down from 70)
    • "League Against Gandhism" now adds 30 Political Power
    • Removed War Support modifier, reduced Party Popularity and added 60 Political Power to the focus "All Indian Kishan Sabha"
  • Fixed a bug where more equipment got recovered than you lost
  • Lowered the chances of the more obscure paths being taken by GoE countries if the game rules are set to non-historical or the country is set to random
  • Soviet AI will now make use of Heavy Tanks
Gameplay
  • Afghanistan
    • Added a country leader to the communist path, as well as a Field Marshal and German General to the fascist path
    • Added a new focus for the Afghan Democratic branch to gain more democratic support as well as unlock two new advisors
    • Added a focus to gain the support of former Basmachi Movement members in the fascist branch, enabling for easier conquest of Soviet Central Asia
    • Reworked the tooltip for the focus "Retire the Uncles" to be more readable
  • Iran
    • Added new focuses to the Communist Path to make the Soviet & Iranian Socialism branches stand out
  • Iraq
    • Added Ma'ruf al-Rusafi as an advisor
    • Added four focuses to the Kurdistan path for Iraq, allowing Kurdistan to go communist and join the comintern
  • India
    • Reworked how to flip communist as India. Now unlocks infiltration decisions to undermine the independence movement and the British, which reduces threshold to flip communist and boost communist support, instead of using the Autonomy system
    • Renamed Train Robberies to the Peoples Railways, it no longer gives Train Robberies spirit, instead adds an optional decision and alters the railway focuses
    • Subhas Chandra Bose can now become an advisor for Communist India if he is swayed
    • The Princely Breakaway State can now get more territorial concessions during the Mughal uprising, subdivided into Southern, Eastern, Northern, Central and Western India. Controlling all states in an area will let the Mughal side keep them at the end, instantly coring them
  • Added more resource variety in GoE nations, such as Chromium, Steel, etc.
  • Added bypass to Revolt of the Princes if you already control all of India. Bypass gives the manpower and War Support you would normally get
  • Added a way to core the princely states with the Akhand Bharat decisions
  • Added the United Maghreb as a new formable nation
  • Added custom agency icons for British Raj, Pakistan and Bangladesh
  • The Turkmen and Tajik states in Afghanistan are now cores of their respective tags
  • Added formable "Mesopotamia" for Kurdistan, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt, to allow for the restoration of the Cradle of Civilization
  • Added a joint focus tree between Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan to represent the Saadabad Pact, updated some content for Turkey to account for the new joint focus tree
Modding
  • Fixed CTDs when attempting to scope to non-existing states
  • Fixed dynamic scopes parsing for the fighting_army_strength_ratio trigger
Bugfixes
  • Afghanistan
    • Bonuses from Mohammad Hashim Khan, Abdul Hai Habibi, and other historical characters will now be displayed correctly with the character name in tooltips
    • Bonuses from the generic advisor Sher Ali Sherkhanzai (fascist writer) and other non-historical characters will now be displayed correctly with the character name in tooltips
    • Reform Quami - Support companies will now be added to template if the technology is researched after the focus is taken
    • Afghanistan and the Soviet Union now join a tech-sharing group when 'Soviet Research Cooperation' focus is taken
    • Chak Dam focus for Afghanistan now builds in a different state
    • No longer tries to join the Axis from focus "Into the Plains of the British Raj" if they are already part of the Axis
    • The focus "Linchpin of Global Defense" now correctly modifies the Quami national spirit
    • Fixed Dams built via the Focus Tree not showing up on the map with their 3D models
    • Decisions in "The Kabul Conference" now can be taken even decision is cancelled
  • Ethiopia
    • Focuses targeting Yemen now also correctly target the Province of Aden
  • India
    • Removed advisor Jim Corbett from the Rally the Indian Left focus, as he is actually unlocked by Lobby Parliament
    • Fixed an erroneous tooltip that stated you had 1 year to finish the Mughal uprising, when in fact it was 255 days- If Germany chooses to setup Bourbon France after capitulating France, Free France will now get its Focus Tree with the DLC La Résistance
    • Focus "Lobby for Increased Polling Responsibilities" no longer gives a non functioning bonus to militia attack- Iran: Updated the available triggers for the "Promoting Resistance in <state>" to be more clear
    • When GoE is disabled, the focus Institute of Fundamental Research will grant one scientist level to nuclear scientist Homi J. Bhabha
    • Fixed Princely Breakaway State using the wrong small flag on unit counters
    • India no longer remains a colony after Britain decolonizes
    • Princely Breakaway State will now show the appropriate country flag
    • Added advisors to the East India Company focus "Lobby Parliament" effect and tooltip
    • Fixed a minor typo in the description of focus "The Mughal Uprising"
  • India / Madras
    • Fixed Chithira Thirunal Balarma Varma not showing up with his unique portraits as Country Leader, Political Advisor and Army Leader
  • Iran
    • Clarifies that only Main Instigator gets resource rights if Iran does "Push for Negotiations", but adds extra effects for other attackers and makes sure all attackers can peace out, added new flavor event for all parties
    • Fixes branches not hiding when they should in the Iranian focus tree
    • Making sure the non-aligned party actually take over if the Islamic Revolution happens
    • Added a capitulation progress requirement to 'Swear Fealty to the Invaders' to ensure the AI doesn't surrender when it is winning the war
    • Added tooltip explaining what Generals are unlocked from the focus "United Progressive Parties"
    • Added more restrictions to when certain Iranian characters can be hired based on for example ideology or focuses completed
    • Added small portraits for Jafar Kavian and Fazlollah Zahedi
    • Resource rights are now reclaimed upon entering war with a country that bought resource rights to Khuzestan Oil
    • The focus "Soviet Alignment" now has an effect even if the Soviet Union isn't in a faction
    • Removes state modifier "Promoting Resistance Here" applied by Iran in states that can be ceded to them if Iran gains control of the state
    • Fixes a tooltip to avoid "Iraq declares war on Iraq"
    • Fixes mutually exclusive branches under "Dig and Defend" and "Force Them Back" not collapsing
    • Fixes focus branches collapsing no whether the rule was set to hide or not hide obsolete branches
    • Ensured that 'Expand the Imperial Guard' is not available when not non-aligned or if the monarchy is not in power
  • Iraq
    • Planes created with Iraqi focus "Purchase Alternative Aircraft" no longer give you non-functional fighters
    • Fixed missing focus filters
    • The "Anglo-Iraqi Treaty" is now removed if Iraq and the United Kingdom are at war with each other
    • Removes controlling Maltya from the requirements of "United Kurdistan", adds Deir-Az-Zur as requirements instead
    • The "House of Kurds" achievement now works if Kurdistan is formed from a focus tree
  • United Kingdom
    • Expand the Secret Intelligence Service typo fix (it's no longer the Greta War)
  • Uruguay
    • Fixed spelling issue for focus "Pay Off All External Debts"
  • Fixed rare CTD when removing advisors
  • Fixed a bug where spy network modifier was applied to countries, even if they are not at war with the country
  • Added missing states to the formable nations the Macedonian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Turan, the Aksumite Empire, Al-Andalus, the Persian Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Roman Empire and the Holy Roman Empire
  • Fixed an OOS related to using random in Rajs history file
  • Fixed Purchase Dreadnoughts decision tooltip always stating payment to the United States, even when ships were bought from a different country
  • Adds Lebanon and Kuwait to the Mesopotamia formable

Our recent, and still incoming, updates
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Can't wait to see people sharing their favourite equipment designs!
 
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Great patch!
May I suggest an option to core the Andaman Islands with India? I know it can core them with the fascist path, but I think the democratic path should have also the option to core it. They became part of the India in 1947.
 
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This seems like a really great start to make GOE more fun and playable. I hope you take another look at some of the civil wars that are required from this DLC - a lot of them are super obnoxious, but particularly the Afghan ones are incredibly tedious. Not every ideology flip path should require a civil war.
 
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Great to have an open beta (and some time to play an hand) :)
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Shareable Equipment Designs
  • Tank, Plane and Ship designs can now be saved between playthroughs
  • Tank, Plane and Ship designs can now be exported to and imported from clipboard
:cool: A neat comfort function - thanks for adding!
  • Iran
    • Added historical Generals Haj Ali Razmara and Assadollah Hosseinpoor
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    • Adjusted 24 focuses from 70 to 35 days, with minor tweaks to some of them as a result of the time being lowered
The reduced focus time is very welcome and more generals are always, too. Just please don't forget some additional portraits for the division commanders as well.

  • Fixed a bug where more equipment got recovered than you lost
Finally...thank you...that ranked pretty high on my buglist! :)

  • Soviet AI will now make use of Heavy Tanks
Another :cool: one - just one question: Will we see this for germany any time soon as well? They get a design with the Expand Kummersdorf focus, but AI never makes any use of it.

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  • Added a capitulation progress requirement to 'Swear Fealty to the Invaders' to ensure the AI doesn't surrender when it is winning the war
That one isn't to be underestimated, as it had potential to ruin playtroughs.

Overall, I really like the effort made here!
 
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I havent had the time to play through it yet but based on how the kurdistan path currently looks it seems that there is no way to get deir-az-zur from syria and thus cant do the greater kurdistan focus. As you start off as a democracy you cant justify on anyone so maybe you could add a focus to ask syria for the state? Also could you add a non-alligned and fascist supporter so kurdistan can play as those ideologies as well. Really happy with the equipment designer tho it makes building the same things so much easier now that you dont have to remember every single piece that goes into a design
 
Can you improve the auto-fill in the designer too? If I set something as a heavy tank or pick the SPA gun, I want to just click the button and have it make a good version of it, but it always seems to either not work, be greyed out, or give back something that doesn't work for the role.
 
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Any chance on fixing the false error when trying to retire a character in a advisors on_remove block?

If you do retire_character = character_name you get an error but it works fine.
If you do this:
character_name = {
retire = yes
}
there is no error but the game crashes.
 
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Not related, but Turkey could use the same treatment and have a few 70 day focuses reduced to 35 days, especially in the Ottoman path as you can barely get anything done by the time the war breaks out.
 
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Not related, but Turkey could use the same treatment and have a few 70 day focuses reduced to 35 days, especially in the Ottoman path as you can barely get anything done by the time the war breaks out.

Maybe in a future war effort patch. Its easy to change them to 35 days, but we typically want to rebalance them as well which is a bit more effort.
 
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Excellent work, i appreciate the effort to make the content better. One question, Will You add some foraegin policy to communist India and Irán focus tree because right now i fell that they need some more to make the gameplay more interesting
 
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Saving desings is a huge QoL, but there's one thing that I wish to see implemented as well, MIO's are annoying to setup every game, personally I always choose the exact same route, so being able to save the setup to use whenever I start a new game would be game changer!
 
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