Hearts of Iron IV Dev Tracker

Generals!

We are back with our latest War Effort patch of the year, which contains a bunch of bugfixes, some balance changes, and tweaks to the game. But before we get to that, we have some words from @Wrongwraith

Hi everyone,
I’m Thomas, the Design Lead on Hearts of Iron.

It’s time for another War Effort, and it’s a big one.

Our primary focus for this War effort has been bug fixing — we’ve addressed a wide range of issues across the game to improve stability and polish. However, we’re not just fixing bugs; we’re also delivering balance tweaks, gameplay adjustments, and other enhancements.

This time around, from a balancing point of view, we’ve mainly looked at Armored Cars and Tanks. The reasoning behind this is that we felt that, as many of you have pointed out, it was usually better to make a cheap light tank than to use Armored Cars. While this is not entirely wrong from a historical point of view, it was a bit too m... Read more

Hello everyone!

As we mentioned not too long ago[forum.paradoxplaza.com], we’ll be bringing you several patches over the coming weeks and months. 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
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Generals!

Command has issued fresh orders to the front, alongside the this next patch for our War Effort 1.15.4. Below, Check out the patch notes below for tonnes of bugfixes, balance tweaks, an interesting addition to a certain blueprint operation and more!

We've also added the option to rollback to 1.15.3 in case you encounter any issues.

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- Reworked the Infantry Tank MIO to now apply modifiers to all tank classes rather than on a per-class basis. This means that each tank class now has more than 4-5 relevant nodes.
- Added and tweaked the amount of war support and stability gained through focuses through the alt-history branches for Germany. Also modified Wilhel... Read more

Generals!

We've released a minor hotfix to address a number of graphical content options recently added with Götterdämmerung.

This is in addition to our developers continued efforts on Hearts of Iron IV, ... Read more

Generals!

Our delightful Command have been hard at work since the initial release of Götterdämmerung, so we’re pleased to share with you our latest innovations, a few hefty bug fixes and some gameplay tweaks!

Be sure to read them below, and let us know what you think!

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- Concealment Expert visibility reduction changed from -15% to -10%
- Submarine Torpedoes Hit Chance reduced from 0%/+1%/+1.5%/+2% to 0%/+0.5%/+1%/+1.5%
- Anechoic Tiles visibility reduction changed from -25% to -20%
- Submarine Snorkels visibility reduction changed from -7%/-15% to -7%/-13%
- Increased the amount of factory and dockyard output penalties when hitting max MEFO penalty
- BEL: Added Weekly Manpower to The Belgian Legion.
- Balancing the Prioritize Economic Growth branch by adding Civilian Economy trade law and slightly re-arranging the reduction of Consu... Read more

Generals!

It has been a week since the release of Götterdämmerung ​but Command has continued their work in the background, with today's patch rolling out with some much needed bug fixes, some balance passes and a few tweaks to the AI. Make sure to check them out below as we continue to work diligently on more for the future!


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- Reduced the base convoy cost for the Underway Replenishment by ~20%. (From 0.35 per fuel to 0.28 per fuel)
- Adding days to the mission "Public Dissent" to give the player more of a fighting chance to avoid the negative fallout of the mission and subsequent event
- Fixed an exploit with swapping division templates
- Added basic transport plane technology to more countries in 1936 bookmark
- Made political power a bit more abundant for the Freedom at Gunpoint/African Union branch for Congo. Also modified some AI chances, ... Read more

Greetings all,

With a mere one day to go before the launch of Götterdämmmerung, it is tradition that we leave you with the change log to pore over. The usual disclaimer applies; this list should be comprehensive but omissions may have occurred. Any items we add retroactively will be placed in a separate spoiler underneath the main list.



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

Generals!

The latest War Effort update is here and with it arrives more bugfixes and balance changes, with a few changes to France, the Warlords in the east and some changes to certain spirits!

Check out all the changes below and let us know what you think, and what other changes you'd like to see~

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- Brazil: focus "Potenji River Conference" changed so that instead of having Brazil declare war on American major enemies, they now instead join the American war, thus not applying the Defensive War bonus on the Axis and Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere in the late-game.
- Brazil: now even more extra hyper-unlikely to reject unification with Portugal i... Read more

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

Generals!

We're rolling out a quick hotfix to address a few minor issues cropping up with some scripts and implementation of the Content Creator Pack.

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- Fixed ship creation script from autoincluding version numbering inconsistently, leading to a few instances of invalid script
- Non-Designer equipment will no longer show version naming by default*
- A few CCP icons were being shown in unintended locations, this is no longer the case

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

Hello, Community Manager Katten here. I want to begin by thanking you all for the feedback we have received on our two latest news posts regarding the DLC Integration and Trial of Allegiance Reception & Thoughts. We are reading all your comments and are working on responding to as many as possible.


Steam Store Changes Since our update last week, which added "Country Pack" to the beginning of the names for Battle for the Bosporus and Trial of Allegiance, we have received more feedback about the unclear naming of our DLCs. Of particular concern is the Subscription, referred to as the "Expansion Subscription," which may suggest to some that it only includes expansions when it actually encompasses all DLCs for the game. As a result, we have made the following changes to provide better transparency:

• Hearts of Iron IV: Eastern Front Planes Pack > Unit Pack - Hearts of Iron IV: Eastern Front Planes
  
• Hearts of ...

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

Greetings all!

Today marks the first dev diary since the release of Trial of Allegiance, so we’ll be looking back over how things went, and community reactions in a little more detail than usual. While I would have loved to have some data on player choices and interactions for today’s diary, our analytics engine is busy chugging away. So, we’ll have to hold off on that until the machine spirit has assessed the incoming preponderance of data.

The Elephant in the Room
It would be hard to talk about Trial of Allegiance without first mentioning that we’re acutely aware of its critical reception from fans. I see no reason not to be transparent about this, and I’m going to use today as an opportunity to talk about what it means to us and how we analyze reactions, so let’s dive into some of the facts:

Everything’s on Fire!
Well, actually no. Trial of Allegiance has thus far been one of our most stable releases in terms of bugs and player-en... 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 there generals, it's your friendly neighbourhood Community Manager, Katten, here to talk about, Trial of Allegiance patch notes!

But before that, I want to remind you that the DLC releases tomorrow at 17:00 CET! So if you want to secure the exclusive track 'Carnaval Do Brasil', pre-purchase now!

And if you missed what this DLC is all about, watch our release trailer below;


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