Patch Notes | Operation HEAD Checksum 48b7

[JustAnIdiotIAm]

I’ll miss overpowered elephants. They’re basically useless now, I have to actually do such silly things as “tanks”.

 

[watermi]

We meant next-next patch, so now it's next patch, and soon it'll be just "patch"

thanks for your reply! I noticed that event GOE_RAJ.30 is still not working properly. Hope u guys can check it!

 

[Vril266]

For the upcoming operation, I think it would be a good idea to add some quality-of-life options.


Here are 2 btw. 3 ideas:

• Queueing research and MIO upgrades, so that as a major nation, you can already set some priorities for your MIO if you want to—without constantly having to interrupt gameplay. This would reduce the number of clicks and improve convenience.
• An optional pop-up reminder when espionage activities are completed—there is a mod for this, but having it as a built-in option would be great.

 

[Selenter]

For the upcoming operation, I think it would be a good idea to add some quality-of-life options.


Here are 2 btw. 3 ideas:

• Queueing research and MIO upgrades, so that as a major nation, you can already set some priorities for your MIO if you want to—without constantly having to interrupt gameplay. This would reduce the number of clicks and improve convenience.
• An optional pop-up reminder when espionage activities are completed—there is a mod for this, but having it as a built-in option would be great.

Why add any queues if you can just add automatic improvements like in Stellaris? It's much simpler both technically and more convenient for players

 

[gurufabbes]

For the upcoming operation, I think it would be a good idea to add some quality-of-life options.


Here are 2 btw. 3 ideas:

• Queueing research and MIO upgrades, so that as a major nation, you can already set some priorities for your MIO if you want to—without constantly having to interrupt gameplay. This would reduce the number of clicks and improve convenience.
• An optional pop-up reminder when espionage activities are completed—there is a mod for this, but having it as a built-in option would be great.

Strongly agree with this. The second at least as an alternative to hopefully eventually one day having the option of automated espionage.

 

[herculeanus]

Please remember these bugs I reported months ago. You deleted the posts, but the bugs were never fixed.

Germany Ai cannot become monarchist.

Summary Germany Ai cannot become monarchist. Platform Steam Operating System Windows 10 Game Version Countenance v1.16.1.962c(48b7)(S) Enabled DLC All of the above Do you have mods enabled? No Description Germany Ai cannot become monarchist...

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Germany Ai cannot become communist.

Summary Germany Ai cannot become communist. Platform Steam Operating System Windows 10 Game Version Countenance v1.16.1.962c(48b7)(S) Enabled DLC All of the above Do you have mods enabled? No Description The German AI cannot become...

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[ZeDoctor1918]

This seems more like stuff that should have been a Day 1 hotfix as opposed to a week later patch. Also can we please stop the trend of making a blatantly OP unit and then nerfing it to the ground afterwards? It just further adds credence to the idea the developers don't actually play the game.

 

[Vril266]

Strongly agree with this. The second at least as an alternative to hopefully eventually one day having the option of automated espionage.

Absolutely, I think the reminder would be the least labor-intensive step, which is why I mentioned it first. Improving the automation of certain espionage processes would naturally be the next logical step.

Given the large number of DLCs, I think it would make sense to improve overall comfort in this area—not just for MIOs, research, or espionage, but perhaps also for the ship upgrade process or pre-selecting ministers who are automatically appointed once you have the PP. However, I don’t want to suggest too much at once, so I’m focusing on the most important things that require relatively little effort. ^.^

 

[Kosaki MacTavish]

I’ll miss overpowered elephants. They’re basically useless now, I have to actually do such silly things as “tanks”.

Good. Should've been a logistic company with bonus movement buff for jungles, forests, hills, and mountains anyway.

 

[MrMcQue]

I hope we'll still see a British loyalist path added to the British Raj in the near future.

 

[SherlockWolfenstein]

I understand that the Indian Reichskomissariat from Gotterdammerung doesn't recognise the new provinces added in GoE. Has that been corrected?

 

[Lord Sheogorath]

India: Forward Bloc now removes the occupation law No Garrison until independence is achieved through the focus Give Me Blood And I Will Grant You Freedom

Was this necessary? So now I will have to wait till about 1942-43 for resistance to rise to any significant level where the state can join Azad Hind.

Not to mention that the bug where princely states that don't join Azad Hind from the start can't be cored. And the civil war takes everything away from the Azad Hind and gives it away to British Raj, and gives useless 4 inf divisions, instead of distributing the stockpiles based on autonomy, party popularity, the number of states rebelling or any logical way.

I am already sitting at speed 5, trying to build 0 military equipment because all those will disappear from the stockpile. Now I will have to wait even longer for the resistance to rise.

 

[ScaleZenzi]

Honestly doesn't seem like much is in this patch aside from some of the most egregious bugs (like the communist path being completely unselectable). I feel like this doesn't set a great tone for the follow ups, considering the first of the updates already seems to be bare minimum and yet misses some really obvious stuff (ex: Iraq's army spirit still just being "army," the Sikh achievement still being unobtainable, no Lebanon in the Hashemite path - I just don't really see why this took a week)

Can we get any estimate for the scopes of the following updates? I feel like most of the trees need some serious overhauls when it comes to lengths, rewards, and loc, and confidence hasn't exactly been high considering the state of the initial release.

Apologies if maybe my original comment was a little brash, but the actual Game Director of HOI4 just "Disagreeing" this and moving on without comment just further dampens my confidence as a consumer and doesn't seem like great optics. I don't think its unreasonable to expect thorough communication after a release like this, even if maybe my messaging was a little off.

We know virtually nothing about the upcoming releases, other than that Operation KNEE will be a "Patch" for GoE, and Operation SHOULDER is going to be a war effort patch that's probably mostly unrelated to GoE. If Knee is similar in size to this one, I don't think it comes anywhere close to making GoE a DLC you could realistically rate positively still.

The promise of April updates & changes to GoE is nice and a good sign, but is incredibly vague and deliberately avoids making any promises in particular.

 

[Lamartine]

• Queueing research and MIO upgrades, so that as a major nation, you can already set some priorities for your MIO if you want to—without constantly having to interrupt gameplay. This would reduce the number of clicks and improve convenience.
• An optional pop-up reminder when espionage activities are completed—there is a mod for this, but having it as a built-in option would be great

I agree with all these, but for those that don't know, you already can queue up MIO upgrades. You just have to do it from scratch at the start of every game. Having templates that save across games would be a godsend

 

[Kosaki MacTavish]

Apologies if maybe my original comment was a little brash, but the actual Game Director of HOI4 just "Disagreeing" this and moving on without comment just further dampens my confidence as a consumer and doesn't seem like great optics. I don't think its unreasonable to expect thorough communication after a release like this, even if maybe my messaging was a little off.

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We know virtually nothing about the upcoming releases, other than that Operation KNEE will be a "Patch" for GoE, and Operation SHOULDER is going to be a war effort patch that's probably mostly unrelated to GoE. If Knee is similar in size to this one, I don't think it comes anywhere close to making GoE a DLC you could realistically rate positively still.

The promise of April updates & changes to GoE is nice and a good sign, but is incredibly vague and deliberately avoids making any promises in particular.

I would love for Open BETA sessions.

 

[Telenil]

Added an event chain for Syria and Lebanon that allows them to side with Vichy/Free France or declare independence when Paris falls

I'm still not sure why these new puppets were created, especially for those who do not own the DLC. They weren't mentioned at all in the DD, details would be appreciated.

 

[Scyobi_Empire]

no localisation fix for Palestine still being called the Mandate of Palestine if its independent via game rules and autonomy system?

 

[elcrapo]

Apologies if maybe my original comment was a little brash, but the actual Game Director of HOI4 just "Disagreeing" this and moving on without comment just further dampens my confidence as a consumer and doesn't seem like great optics. I don't think its unreasonable to expect thorough communication after a release like this, even if maybe my messaging was a little off.

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We know virtually nothing about the upcoming releases, other than that Operation KNEE will be a "Patch" for GoE, and Operation SHOULDER is going to be a war effort patch that's probably mostly unrelated to GoE. If Knee is similar in size to this one, I don't think it comes anywhere close to making GoE a DLC you could realistically rate positively still.

The promise of April updates & changes to GoE is nice and a good sign, but is incredibly vague and deliberately avoids making any promises in particular.

I think the reaction mostly was in response to "I just don't really see why this took a week" in your message.

Between all the internal meetings, putting in place the teams to work on these patches, identifiying properly all the numerous reported bugs, and setting up the plan and priorisations to fix them, I do think that the whole HoI team had a rough work week since release.

Usualy the first patch post release drops on week + 2. I think we should see this first patch as "part of the fixes dropped one week in advance".


Next patch should probably be much bigger (finger crossed).

 

[Mtvrr123]

Hello everyone!

As we mentioned not too long ago here is our first batch of patch, notes. Operation HEAD, 1.16.1 , Checksum 48b7
Balance

• Increased the artillery required for Elephantry
  • reduced its base soft attack by 20%
  • reduced breakthrough by 20%
  • reduced manpower requirement by 10%
  • increased supply consumption by 25%
• India
  
  • Train Robberies now reduce railway/hub/infra by 2% (was 3%) for each railway focus completed
  • Train Robberies now reduce weekly stability by 0.1% (was 0.3%)
• Iran: The Immortal Legion now has a much larger starting template
• India: The national spirit “Anti-Imperialist Zeal” now gives 8% defense bonus against the USA (up from 0.8%)

Gameplay

• Added an event chain for Syria and Lebanon that allows them to side with Vichy/Free France or declare independence when Paris falls
• Added additional animation variants for elephantry
• Generic elephantry now uses the generic infantry model
• Iraq: More models can be selected for artillery and anti-tank battalions in the division designer
• India: Added better tooltip to train robberies
• India: Famine now only requires you to lose a starting Indian State (excluding Aden) with 30 days to retake it
• India: Improved Famine description
• India: The focus “Threaten the Princes” now gives 10% communist support

Modding

• Added "count" functionality for all any_object triggers. It will evaluate true if at least "count" items fulfill the child triggers. The count field will support scoped variables

Bugfixes

• India: The Mughal Influence state modifier will now be removed if no longer owned by the Mughal Empire or India
• India: The Mughal Uprising now changes the name of political parties rather than keeping the Indian ones
• India: The British Raj no longer loses certain spirits after separating from the East India Company or Princely Breakaway States
• India: "Parkash Singh"s trait "Brave" is no longer missing a title and description
• India: The "Conquer Afghanistan" focus no longer attempts to give a special forces doctrine discount when you do not have AAT
• India: The "Frontier Corps" focus no longer gives a special forces doctrine reward if you are missing AAT
• India: The "Nothing Personal" focus will now bypass if unavailable
• India: Forward Bloc now removes the occupation law No Garrison until independence is achieved through the focus Give Me Blood And I Will Grant You Freedom
• India: The game rule to make India go down the historical path will no longer block achievements
• India: Independence unrest events no longer continue to appear after declaring independence in India's fascist path
• India: East India Railways will no longer bypass automatically when GoE is missing
• India: The Ahadi Division template given by The Mughal Uprising can now be edited
• India: Famine should now longer trigger if a country spawns in the affected area
• India: The ruling party of the Mughal Empire and British Raj are no longer flipped (Mughals getting GB and RAJ getting Mughal Court) after starting the civil war
• India: Aden no longer gets returned to the Raj after the Mughal Uprising if it was previously handed over to the United Kingdom
• India: Fixed a bug where a blank EIC focus was appearing in the focus tree upon formation
• India: Numerous national focuses have been updated with filter tags
• India: The focus Royal Indian Navy Mutiny no longer requires independence
• India: Fixed a broken bypass condition for the focus Pledge for the Allies
• Iraq: Nuri As Said no longer has a placeholder portrait when missing GOE
• Iraq: The event from Propose Syrian Unification no longer gives the wrong war goal
• Iraq: Restoration of Hejaz focus now grants cores on the targeted states, instead of claims
• Iran/Soviet Union: Fixed a bug in which the Soviets could not puppet Iran if they chose to justify without the focus
• Iran: Join allies focuses can now be appropriately bypassed
• Iran: Changed the Memphis Initiative to include any state in the Middle East
• Iran: Fixed a bug where Iran started with Treaty of Saadabad in 1939, where it should not have
• Iran: Fixed a bug where Opposition to the Shah decisions still appeared after a peaceful takeover
• Iran: Allowed Organize Protests or Establish Local Opposition Groups to be bypassed if any of the focuses starting a civil war are taken
• Iran: Jafar Kavian and Ghulam Yahya Daneshian are now gated behind the Communist focus branch
• Iran: Fixed a bug where the Islamic Revolution leader would not become country leader if a civil war was started in the "Strengthen Iranian Parliament" focus
• Iran: Fixed issue with two national spirits disappearing when communist civil war starts
• Afghanistan: The "Graveyard of Empires" focus now works correctly if you have the Quami national spirit
• United Kingdom: Puppets breaking away from the UK when it goes fascist/communist should now function correctly
• Arabia: Can no longer be formed by Kurdistan
• Arabia: Now correctly gains cores on new states

Localization Bugfixes

• Issues with technical text being displayed in Russian localization should now be resolved
• The East India Company Investment Schemes window is now functional when playing with Russian localization
• Typo: Masshad -> Mashhad
• India: Fixed a typo in the description of the Risk of Famine national spirit, where "loses" is misspelled as "looses"
• India: The Sideline the Conflict focus tooltip no longer displays a bugged name
• India: Several technology bonuses now have a name

Art Bugfixes

• Fixed minor issue with Elephant animations
• Various 2D Icons updated
• Missing elephantry icons added
• Changed animation_blend_time to zero between the animation stages for elephantry

Technical Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where production was not recalculated when taking decisions. This fixes instances of bugs such as MEFO bills failing to update when they should
• Fixed a OOS due to portrait generation when host and client have different DLC configurations
• Fix a Windows CTD on startup when some specific utf-8 characters are in the installation path
• Fixed buffer overflow when rendering 2D elements

And lastly, here’s an updated roadmap

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- Happy to see changes already being made!
-I know that I'm gonna sound like a broken record here and since you are already reworking stuff:
Please make Austria(as A-H/Austrian Empire) have a decision to be able to core southern Poland(Historical Galicia and Bucovina), add this decision to Hungary as well, as why would a decision during an event, made by a another country, make u lose your cores?
-Same goes for Silesia(+ zaolzie) as Im pretty sure that as Hungary, even when you annex Puppeted Czech Kingdom with Silesia you do not core it(unless my game bugged out that time)
- And also, add the Habsburg Spain/Mexico focuses Hungary has, to Austria's Focus tree as well. That would make Austria's focus tree perfect.
(And maybe, add the decision to restore the HRE without giving power to lichtenstein?)

- Some descriptions of some focuses still refer to Otto von Habsburg as being a King/ruling a Kingdom eventhough Austria never was a Kingdom and was a Archduchy ruled by an Archduke.

 

[Vril266]

I'm still not sure why these new puppets were created, especially for those who do not own the DLC. They weren't mentioned at all in the DD, details would be appreciated.

Yes. Especially when you consider that Palestine, Syria, or Lebanon were merely regional designations; these names were used exclusively for administrative purposes. There was never a colonial state or anything of the sort. The mandate territories were entirely under the direct control of Great Britain, btw. france, without their own regional government.

It looks ugly and to be honest, It gives an ahistorical impression.
It would be enough if we can found these countries. This was also the case in all other Hearts of Iron games.

Mandatory Palestine - Wikipedia

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