Europa Universalis IV Dev Tracker

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Below is a full list of changes in the free 1.36 update, 'Byzantium'.

Please note that 1.35 saves may not be compatible with 1.36! See here[forum.paradoxplaza.com] for information on how to roll back versions or prevent auto updates.



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- Added 9 new achievements: ‘King of Kings’, ‘Restore the Pentarchy’, ‘Mets Hayk’, ‘Desert Power’, ‘Breadbasket of the World’, ‘The Last Crusade’, ‘A truly good maaa-tch’, ‘Legacy of Saint George’ and ’ ZoroAustrians’.
- Added 8 new Monuments accessible throu... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Greetings!

I’m Arnau Casellas, the new Associate Producer at Paradox Tinto. You may remember me from previous Dev Diaries, as I have been in Tinto as Internal QA since Lions of the North. So I hope to be with you more often from now on.

We're finally one week away from Europa Universalis IV: King of Kings release!

As a preview, we'll be hosting a King of Kings Q&A on our Discord server[discord.gg] on Thursday, November 2nd at 15.00 CET, so be sure to check that out if you have any specific questions!

In today’s DD, we're sharing with you the changelog of the new update, 1.36 'Byzantium'.

I’m really proud of the work that the Dev Team has put into King of Kings over the last few months, as more than 200 fixes and tweaks have been added since the last patch.

We ho... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Hello everyone, and welcome to another EU4 dev diary!

My name is David Horler (SaintDaveUK), the art lead at Paradox Tinto, and today we will talk about two different topics; the artwork behind King of Kings, and also the new achievements of the 1.36 update.

Loading Screen As our first piece of art, along with the patch we are adding the loading screen of Shah Ismail I of Persia (1487–1524), founder of the Safavid dynasty.

One of Persia’s most impactful rulers (and that’s saying something), he was a warrior at heart and is usually depicted engaging in activities such as fighting and hunting. Ismail’s reign is celebrated for his religious zeal, military prowess, and political cunning. His military victories and his patronage of the arts solidified his legacy, making him a significant figure in Iranian history.

His fiery red hair, unusual for a Persian, is attested in contemporary accounts and betrays his complex and oft-debated ethnic heritage as a c... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Hello, and welcome to another EUIV Dev Diary! Today it will be a bit of a different one, as we will be addressing three topics that we think are of the most relevance to the upcoming DLC and update, which are:

• A recap on the list of features that will come in EUIV: King of Kings.
  
• Addressing the questions and some feedback that arose in the last DD.
  
• Presenting you the free features coming in the 1.36 update, which are mostly focused on QoL (Quality of Life) improvements added to the base game, and 8 new monuments added for the Leviathan DLC owners.

But before getting started, let me say a couple of things. The first one is that this DD was prepared with the help of our new Assistant Producer, Dargeths, who in his previous role as Embedded QA, also knows the game very well, with more than 5,000 hours of gameplay in it.

The second one is that today we have opened the Pre-Orders for EUIV: King of K... Read more

Greetings everyone! Today we will take a look into Yemen and the Arabic states, coming back to a more regular type of DD.

Let us start with the content for the Yemeni countries:


Note: Mission icons are still WIP.

As you might notice, the first mission tree is for the Rassids while the second one is for all Yemeni countries. The reason for this is that they are one of the two unique tags that follow the Zaidi school of Islam (the other one is Gilan on that note) and even are a Feudal Theocracy, so figured they deserve a bit more attention.

In general, though, the Yemeni tags are relatively similar with a similar focus which is the unification of southern Arabia, expansion into the Horn of Africa, and, of course, trade.
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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Good afternoon everyone and welcome! This week we will be covering multiple nations through the lenses of 2 Developer Diaries, one for Qara/Aq Qoyunlu and one for Georgia/Armenia in the thread below!

Embroiled in both external and internal conflicts, the Turkomans in the Middle East offer a very interesting playthrough including government mechanics, events, and now completely new mission trees, government reforms, and more! Both tags share similar mission trees, each imbued with unique branches for AQ and unique branches for QQ.




QQ and AQ will largely share most missions, each tree granting certain diversity in key points.

Despite its smaller size compared to its Eastern neighbor, AQ starts at a much stable si... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

On the 13th August 2013, EU4 was released to the public - and with it a small little event pack called “Purple Phoenix” for a country whose popularity was almost uncanny even back then. Over the ten years, this popularity did not stop but rose further and further, and now it is one of the main three focus points of King of Kings.

Welcome to today’s Development Diary which is all about the one country you guys have been looking forward to the most: Byzantium. Hardly in need of any more introduction on the country, as every single patch of EU4 has at least one video tutorial dedicated to the remnant of the Roman Empire. So without further ado, let us jump into the content we can expect for Byzantium in 1.36.

So first thing first: the setup of Byzantium. The province change has been somewhat spoiled already, but I will mention it here nonetheless to confirm it: yes, Mesambria is now part of Byzantium and it will have the Bulgarian core on it:
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A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Good afternoon and welcome to today’s Developer Diary where we will be discussing new content for the Mamluks! As a preface, there is merit in addressing the design approach I chose to pursue for this country. Domination and its huge amounts of content served as a great platform to gauge what the people wanted, what they liked and disliked. This helped shape the content for 1.36 moving forward, as the entire team takes feedback very seriously and our ears are keenly tuned to the forums and various platforms for it.

How does this affect the content of the Mamluks? For starters, the entirety of the Mamluk tree hosts only 2 new country_modifiers, one temporary and one permanent (more on that later). The idea behind this shift is to give more room to mechanic-related bonuses over pure modifier stacking. So, missions for the Mamluks have been designed from the ground up as a way of investing more effort into slower and natural growth for the country. Moreover, the tree was conceive... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Hello everyone, and welcome back to EUIV Dev Diaries! It’s been a while since the last one, but we come with renewed enthusiasm and energy, especially after having celebrated the 10th Anniversary of the game. It’s been great to notice how big and strong the community is after a decade, and we’re very glad about the reception of the different activities that the CM Team has been deploying in the last month. Kudos to them, as well!

During the summer we’ve also been busy planning, designing, and implementing new content for the game. We still have a bunch of ideas even after the massive amount of content that was added in EUIV: Domination, and we think that we can keep improving the game, even after its longevity. Our objective for the next update will be to further raise the quality of the game while finishing fixing and balancing the post-release issues from 1.35.

In that regard, the topic of the next DLC will be new regional content. And the region that will re... Read more

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Hello everyone! Our latest EU4 mod spotlight features Beyond the Cape.

This mod enriches the seas of EU4 with a rework of several game mechanics, creating a fresh experience for exploration, navies, and colonisation. Portugal also receives a great deal of flavour in the name of immersion and historicity.

Here is Fen_the_man to discuss their work. Enjoy!

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Greetings fellow Explorers,

I am Fen_the_man, the creator of Beyond the Cape. This mod focuses on providing a realistic and historical exploration and colonisation experience and overhauling many events and mechanics in the game to be more interesting, fun, and to better resemble how they happened in... Read more