Patch Notes | Operation KNEE Checksum 225a

[Telenil]

I still don't know why Palestine, Syria and Burma have been created. Has this been discussed at some point?

Agreed. I think the devs need to look at how diplomacy works in general. Most wars throughout history do not end with the complete invasion and capitulation of one side or the other, its kind of what makes WW2 unique

Isn't that why it would be pretty weird to see WW2 end in a negotiated peace? "I have no chance to win if I don't invade the UK/the US and that frustrates me" must be reasonnably close to the thoughts of the German commanders of the time.

 

[astartes906]

I hope one day we will have default units models for africa and middle eastern countries (even indians ones now why not)

 

[ZeDoctor1918]

Isn't that why it would be pretty weird to see WW2 end in a negotiated peace? "I have no chance to win if I don't invade the UK/the US and that frustrates me" must be reasonnably close to the thoughts of the German commanders of the time.

Could this not be accomplished by giving most of the alt-history branches a decision to sue for peace in the decisions, whereas something like Danzig or War would have no such option? Or the focus could even have a warning such as "If war breaks out, negotiation will be impossible"

 

[FORMICARIUS]

I still don't know why Palestine, Syria and Burma have been created. Has this been discussed at some point?


Isn't that why it would be pretty weird to see WW2 end in a negotiated peace? "I have no chance to win if I don't invade the UK/the US and that frustrates me" must be reasonnably close to the thoughts of the German commanders of the time.

It's simple. If you play as turkey, Iraq or Iran you can cap them and get some extra equipments

 

[fishmonkey]

I still don't know why Palestine, Syria and Burma have been created. Has this been discussed at some point?


Isn't that why it would be pretty weird to see WW2 end in a negotiated peace? "I have no chance to win if I don't invade the UK/the US and that frustrates me" must be reasonnably close to the thoughts of the German commanders of the time.

Maybe it should only be possible in smaller wars, maybe where on one side there is no major involved?

 

[Spoty66]

Generals!

Welcome to our latest list of updates:

.: Operation KNEE, 1.16.2:.

Balance

• Added a port to Rangoon, Aqaba and Latakia
• Added infrastructure and two civilian factories to states in Burma
• Added infrastructure to some states in Afghanistan
• India
  • "Urge Violence against the British"-decisions now cost 13pp (down from 20pp), reduces compliance by -10%, and increases resistance by 50% (from 35%)
  • You now only need >25% more pressure than Pakistan/Bangladesh to win a princely state
• Iran: The focuses "People's Revolutionary Airforce" and "People's Revolutionary Navy" are no longer mutually exclusive
• Tweaked Musamdam's population and lowered it to a more realistic figure

Gameplay

• Updated how air volunteers work. They now will always add the bonus from the modifier, making the intended behaviour of "Legion Condor" work as expected
• Country leaders for new subject nations added in Graveyard of Empires, such as Palestine, Kuwait, Jordan, etc., now display their unique portraits even if Graveyard of Empires is disabled
• India
  • Gaining a princely state now gives a core on that state
  • Princely states can now be cored in the communist path
  • The focus "Royal Indian Navy Mutiny" now requires >50% communist support, rather than full independence
  • The focus "Threaten the Princes" now gives 10% communist support

AI

• India: the AI will now take the decision to become independent when it is available, if it is going down the communist path

Modding

• Added bypass_effect block to national focuses that runs when a focus is manually or automatically bypassed

Bugfixes

Afghanistan

• Added missing search filters to the "Against Kabul"-branch
• Added missing tooltip information for the focus "Qatgani Cavalry"
• Added several missing focus filters
• Fixed a bug where Afghanistan did not start the game with artillery researched if Graveyard of Empires was disabled
• Fixed some instances where focuses would allow joining or creating factions while being a subject
• Helmand Valley events will no longer fire for Afghanistan if they own all relevant states
• The unique country flag for the Afghan-Pakistan Confederation is now displayed correctly
• The focus "Prepare for Operation Countenance" no longer creates a supply hub in Farah and Herat even if Afghanistan does not control them

Germany

• States added in Graveyard of Empires now get included in the formation of the appropriate German Reichskommissariats

India

• Added a bypass for the focus "Annex Goa"
• Added a bypass for the focus "Crush The Anathema"
• Decisions to claim Pakistan as Akhand Bharat can no longer be used to claim Bangladesh during the famine
• Divisions located in Burma will no longer be permanently exiled after the white peace triggers for the Mughal Uprising
• Fixed a bug causing some nuclear raids to not delete military factories correcty with "Bathe in Hellfire" completed
• Fixed a bug where the national spirit "Neutral Foreign Policy" was not properly removed from Pakistan and Bangladesh
• Fixed an exploit where the East India Company could buy the world without paying
• Fixed an incorrect tooltip in the partition mission
• Fixed an instance where a fascist UK would automatically flip India to fascist
• Fixed an instance where Freeman Freeman-Thomas would not lose his negative trait when Britain left India
• Fixed an instance where the civil war started by the focus "Give Me Blood And I Will Grant You Freedom" would not end correctly
• Fixed an issue where a princely state could be automatically annexed while at war with it
• Fixed grammar issues and a typo in the tooltip and description of the focus "Funnel investments into Princely States"
• Fixed missing and incorrect focus filters
• Fixed some instances where focuses would allow joining factions while being a subject
• Fixed the "Agrarian Society" national spirit sometimes not having an effect for India when the Princely Breakaway State or East India Company was created
• Negative versions of the "Marginalized Muslim Community" national spirit is no longer retained by India after the split with Pakistan
• Removed cores from certain states when Graveyard of Empires is disabled
• The achievement "That's Sikh!" is now obtainable
• The correct country name will now be used if "India Fragmentation Status" is set to "British Raj Fragmented" in game settings
• The focus "Expand the Silk Road" no longer builds a railway through the Soviet Union
• The focus "Gurkhas" no longer rewards an unusable Special Forces branch specialism when AAT is disabled
• The focus "Headhunt Army Personnel" now properly allows sending volunteers
• The focus "Institutional Money Laundering" no longer grants a research bonus with no name
• The focus "Jaguar" no longer allows two experimental facilities to exist in the same state
• The focus "Join the Shadow Scheme" can no longer build factories in core states not owned by India
• The focus "Punjab Autonomy" no longer breaks when puppets control the states
• The focus "Special Operations Executive" no longer rewards an unusable cost reduction for paratroopers doctrine when AAT is disabled
• The national spirit "Aggression towards Princely States" now grants -100% generate wargoal tension limit
• The national spirit "War Taxes" can no longer be lowered when not at war, now resets after a war ends, and can no longer be exploited to go above the limit
• The tooltips for the event options in the events "Widespread protests" and "Religious Violence" now display the correct compliance values

Iran

• Added several missing focus filters
• Added missing states to the decision system "Recreate the Persian Empire"
• Completing the focuses "The Memphis Initiative" and "Glory of Cyrus the Great" will now allow Iran to get cores on all of the Middle East, Egypt and Afghanistan
• Fixed a bug that could give Iran decisions to core Turkey twice
• Fixed a bug where avoiding the civil war in the democratic path could result in being stuck with no elections
• Fixed an exploit where the Immortal Legion template could be used to generate free equipment
• Fixed an instance where the "Election Season"-event would sometimes list a leader as retiring before being made leader again
• Fixed some instances where focuses would allow joining or creating factions while being a subject
• The decisions from "War Profiteering" are no longer displayed after your oil has been sold
• The event chain from the focus "A Foothold in the Indus" now grants a war goal instead of automatically declaring war if India rejects the demands
• The focus "Request Trains from Germany" now correctly adds German trains to stockpile
• The focuses "Establish the Airforce" and "Construct Air Bases" no longer grant building slots along with air bases

Iraq

• Added several missing focus filters
• Fixed a typo in the description of the focus "Increase Anglo-Iraqi Economic Ties"
• The focus "Project Babylon" no longer allows two experimental facilities to exist in the same state
• The focus "Regional Military Integration" no longer tries to build factories meant for Jordan in Iraq
• The focuses "Form OPEC" and "Join the Axis" can no longer be taken if Iraq is a subject
• The national spirit "Anglo-Iraqi Mutual Defense Agreement" is now removed if you go to war with Britain

Turkey

• The focus "Unite the Azeri Diaspora" now correctly rewards a core on East Azerbaijan

Overall

• Fixed a bug that would cause the first variant of equipment to always be called "Mk0" regardless of country-specific naming scheme
• Fixed an issue where buying dreadnaughts from Germany would not spawn them correctly

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Why, when Sumka, who was the most loyal to the king, rises, there is a civil war ??? It does not make sense at all to start a war against Sumka, who was the most loyal person to Manshizadeh.

 

[Kosaki MacTavish]

I still don't know why Palestine, Syria and Burma have been created. Has this been discussed at some point?

Burma has been a long time coming for me personally, but it should've been a 1939 starting nation like Slovakia.

Or in this matter, should've been UK's nonaligned integrated puppet in 1936 and then turned into nonaligned colony in April 1937.

I also wanted Italian East Africa to be a starting nation in the 1939 start, but that's for another time.

 

[Idle America]

Happy as I am to see improvements, I really hope the next one fixes Italy puppeting itself. If we can get a decision for Ethiopia to offer peace at the same time, all the better.

 

[stormsand9]

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• The national spirit "Anglo-Iraqi Mutual Defense Agreement" is now removed if you go to war with Britain

So, now if you don't get rid of this spirit but still go to war against Britain as Hashemite Iraq, you can never remove it. You are forced to become fascist via the Golden square to get a focus to remove it.

This is just like how if you don't nationalise the oil before going to war against the U.K, you have no way to ever get back your oil. It doesn't go to the U.K because "there is no route" (because you're at war) but you can never get it.

Now I'm really starting to get annoyed as much as everyone else regarding GOE, why didn't anyone think about adding a decision of some kind as compromise to eventually remove the anglo-iraqi treaty if you go to war as Hashemite Iraq without getting rid of it? Or a decision to nationalise the oil if you don't do the focus? or remove the check for if you're at peace with the U.K? Why Why Why?

This wouldn't be that big of a deal to me if you didn't keep adding necessary focus' for me to do. Before operation HEAD I didn't need to do the focus to get Syria, as I could just get the territory in WW2, but with operation HEAD now I can't do that as Syria defaults to Vichy France as a puppet even though I have cores on all their land, so I have to do the 70 day focus to request Syria from France. just like I have to do a 70 day focus to get my oil, and a 70 day focus to not get destroyed by 1000 British naval invasions that have +10% attack bonus against me. Now I have all these extra focus' I have to prioritise instead of getting to the fun focus' that widen out the gameplay like 4th research slot.

And the reason I mention the "fun" part in the last paragraph is because the game has been specifically programmed to make anyone who joins the Axis' lives miserable, and this to me is because the U.K is just absurdly strong because 1. Like all AI, they put way too much production into inf equipment guranteeing you'll be facing massive armies from them and 2. the natural counter to the U.K in the mediterranean and the middle east, Italy has been coded to be completely and utterly useless. Always losing their navy except the battleships in the first few months, and never properly guarding the north african ports. Just to have a fun historical game as Germany, Not only do I have to guard their ports for them, but also guard Rome and Sicily too. But I can't do that as an axis Minor like Iraq, or Bulgaria.

 

[Umbosch]

Fixed a bug that would cause the first variant of equipment to always be called "Mk0" regardless of country-specific naming scheme

Thx. Is there now a chance to overwrite in game MK 01, 02 with rename also?. As German i like more variants with letters or numbers?

Has every one lend lease bugs? I have order lend lease from France. Before the charge reached me they send me new offers. But i must be stupid to accept before the first charge is delivered. Once that was done, I accepted all seven offers. Was at then end all the same = one charge. But now I can't delete it any more. France can't either. At my flag side there is no land lease flag from france. Only in the diplomatic actions show me there is lend lease they i can modifier. New test switch to France and give me 1000 better rifles but i can't cancle this order also. It could also be because he renegotiated due to the global tension, which dropped from 30 to 29. Normally, the mechanics then cancel the lend-lease.

PS: I have fix it. Switch to france modifier the lend lease and reject it as manchukuo. But it only works every other time. I mean it's only one rifle. That a damn french gun can ruin my game. And the fact that the diplomatic pressure is back to zero after the save load seems to be another nail in the coffin for the Espionage DLC.

 

[Selenter]

please fix

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[RUS Locs][1.16.2] Russian localization errors in Italian cities

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[1.16.2] Russian localization error in the name of the German Reich

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[eastcoastceojam]

Thanks for this new patch.

I see that my bug report on the logic for awarding factories during the Mughal Civil War has been marked as marked as "In Review". Is there a chance this gets corrected in the next patch?

It is frustrating to realize I need to postpone taking these focuses until after the Mughal Civil War white peace, as they are clearly intended to be completed during the Civil War.

If I complete them before the end of the Civil War, you can end up with the below- all awarded factories are placed in states reverting to the Raj once the white peace fires. This can happen if you are able to push deep into the Raj during the Mughal Civil War, which means the game is punishing you for being successful.

Mughal India's Civil War industrial focuses build factories in states that are controlled but not owned

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[stingray20]

I still don't know why Palestine, Syria and Burma have been created. Has this been discussed at some point?


Isn't that why it would be pretty weird to see WW2 end in a negotiated peace? "I have no chance to win if I don't invade the UK/the US and that frustrates me" must be reasonnably close to the thoughts of the German commanders of the time.

You’re right it would be weird for WW2 as it happened to end in a negotiated peace, but if say the British were defeated in just India by India to the point where they have no forces on the subcontinent you would think that both India and Britain may negotiate to end a war for indias independence at that point. No country could realistically keep fighting with some of the losses the AI takes in game, there should be a point where I can ask the ai to end the war in exchange for whatever

 

[Ossiv]

I still don't know why Palestine, Syria and Burma have been created. Has this been discussed at some point?


Isn't that why it would be pretty weird to see WW2 end in a negotiated peace? "I have no chance to win if I don't invade the UK/the US and that frustrates me" must be reasonnably close to the thoughts of the German commanders of the time.

Hitler proposed a negotiated peace to the UK after France fell. Stalin proposed a negotiated peace to Germany many times during WWII, last time after Zitadelle in 1943. The German resistance planned for peace negotiations with Allied, if they could have killed Hitler. They made many attempts, although only Walkyrie is widely known.

Since these were historical peace proposals (or attempts), they should be included in game, at least as part of alt-history.

 

[Umbosch]

talin proposed a negotiated peace to Germany many times during WWII, last time time after Zitadelle in 1943.

Wait wat?

 

[vermicious knid]

Hitler proposed a negotiated peace to the UK after France fell. Stalin proposed a negotiated peace to Germany many times during WWII, last time after Zitadelle in 1943. The German resistance planned for peace negotiations with Allied, if they could have killed Hitler. They made many attempts, although only Walkyrie is widely known.

Since these were historical peace proposals (or attempts), they should be included in game, at least as part of alt-history.

Given the number of attempts at negotiated peace and the fact that such peaces had been the norm for centuries in Europe the possibility should absolutely exist in-game.

We know that PDX is capable of including that sort of Diplomacy AI...they have it in other games. I'd be happy to never see another peace deal that involves Germany annexing the entire Soviet Union, for example. Not a plausible outcome for multiple reasons and the game should depict the sort of disastrous consequences that would ensue if a player tries it.

 

[Lord Sheogorath]

Can India Loyalist leaders (Cariappa, Manekshaw) stay with nationalist or socialist versions of India instead of defecting to the british Raj during a civil war? That would make more sense.

 

[him_15]

Iraqi Army spirit name still hasn't been fixed.

 

[CanterburyITA]

Thanks for continuing to patch GoE. Looking forward to the war effort this week.

I have been playing around with Afghanistan recently and want to suggest that the focus "Follower of Islam" should not require "Seek American Aid".

 

[boba22299]

I’m hoping PDX sees this because among all of the issues of the DLC, to which there are many, this is the thing that irked me the most.

Paradox, if every constitutional monarchy in the game is represented as a spirit, why is it a locked advisor for Iraq. You have given me a boatload of advisors in the DLC that I would like to use, but for some reason Iraq is unique and locks Ghazi, and later his successor, as an advisor that just takes up a slot. These effects could easily simply be a spirit, that get removed if you get rid of the monarchy.

Please be consistent, Paradox. If it’s a spirit in the UK, Germany, Hungary, Italy, and countless others, it should be a spirit for Iraq.