Hearts of Iron IV Dev Tracker

Generals!

This is a minor hotfix patch regarding a bug we found with BBA's Medal system.

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- Available medal icon no longer shows up if BBA is not owned

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

Generals!

Operation Pike is rolling out with plenty of new bug fixes, Modding Support, Balance Tweaks and changes for our Canadian comrades in the North!

The patch will be live on Steam today, but the Microsoft patch is unfortunately delayed until March 14th, sorry about that!



Feature
- German, Japanese and British trees will now hide obsolete branches if the related game rule is turned on.
- French and USA focus trees will now hide obsolete branches if the related game rule is turned on.
- Added a new alt-history branch to Canada's Communist path, allowing further reduction of the Great Depression, wargoals on the United States, and various other benefits, at the cost of being unable to join or create factions


Balance
- Germany now begin with 80 transport planes, from 4

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

Generals!
With Operation Sabre comes plenty of new bugfixes, some attention towards Bulgaria and Romania, and the portions to your Career Profiles we outlined in our Previous Developer Diary[forum.paradoxplaza.com]

Listed below are all the changes, (Unchanged from the Open Beta) we appreciate all of your feedback and look forward the future!

Feature - For easy and very easy difficulties, AI countries will transfer a part of their Peace Score to the human player(s)
- Puppets will transfer a part of their Peace Score to their Overlord (can be disabled with custom game rules)
- Faction members will transfer a part of their Peace Score to their Faction Leader (can be disabled with custom game rules)
- Countries with a low ... 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.

Patch 1.11.12 "Barbarossa" Checksum: 22d5

Balance:
- Improved tank conversion costs for tank modules
- Limited Stabilizer tank module to one per vehicle
- Armor stat ARMOR_VS_AVERAGE changed from 0.3 to 0.4 to patch piercing
- Reduced resource costs of tank upgrades, armor upgrades improved
- Reduced high velocity gun piercing
- Reduced tech piercing bonus for tank destroyers and motorised AT
- Adjusted flame tank terrain modifiers
- Recon tank stats are now proportional to unit size (including armor)
- Equipment conversion speed bonuses unlocked by tech is no longer applied to tank production lines when NSB is active. Instead the bonus reduces the base cost of the conversion, which now is 90% of the chassis cost up from 20%. The techs will reduce the cost to 50% and 10% respectively.
- Mot... Read more

Patch 1.11.11 "Barbarossa" Checksum: 8e75


Balance:
- Adjusted the ship refitting cost calculation. The base cost is now a percentage of the hull cost, and the cost for any module changes are added on top of that. The same is true for tanks.
- Removed path connecting advanced light tank chassis to modern tank chassis research

Stability & Performance:
- Fixed rare OOS happening when players joined an MP game after playing a different game

Modding:
- Hot-reloading AI strategy plans will not crash the game.

Database:
- Changed the starting British Motorized Division template to use motorized - sorry, motorised - recon
- Added some bypass conditions to Czech focuses
- Unlocked fuel tank module for French cruiser submarines

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

Patch 1.11.10 "Barbarossa"
Bugfix
- Added a bypass to the Free French "Form the National Committee" Focus to avoid blocking the player if they don't have 90 Legitimacy
- Fixed a problem in British Alternate Strategy Plans when historical focuses are off without a specific strategy plan being selected
- Fixed issue where Estonia and Latvia would not follow the historical focuses
- Added missing leader tooltip in Soviet focus The Glory of the Red Army. Pavel Rybalko will become a general after completing the focus, and now everyone knows it.
- Turkey no longer gets a wargoal on themselves when refusing Balkan Federation demands
- Niche Role will now be correctly set correctly when AI designs ships. This also applies to players using "auto design".
- Japanese puppets should now get the corrects name
- Fixed achievement "Better than Szent Istvan" being impossible to earn due to a an issue with the new character system
- Naval battles will no ... Read more

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

Patch 1.11.9 "Barbarossa"
UI:
- Fixed some DX11 and OpenGL UI elements being 1 pixel off by making them incorrectly positioned the same way DX9 does

Modding:
- The game will no longer show an empty "Modify Government" alert when using hidden ideas

Stability & Performance:
- Fixed CTD due to AI not being notified when a leader is removed from a country

Bugfix:
- Fixed adding or removing divisions to a general under a marshal not updating the marshal's abilities' effects
- Fixed capping of the reliability value to 100% in the Tech Details view
- Fixed a bug where character traits would sometimes duplicate on level up.
- Fixed Radio II XP cost for the tank designer being higher than intended
- Isoroku Yamamoto will no longer have an extra 'I' in his name
- Fixed a rare issue where the Japanese coal liquification focus could fail to add a refinery
- Fixes to French career profile translatio... Read more

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

Patch 1.11.8 "Barbarossa"
- Added an option in the settings menu to disable cloud storage backup of your career profile statistics.
- Players that own most major DLCs should no longer see promotions for the DLC Subscription in the main menu.
- Fixed potential cloud storage issues for the career profile which could result in your statistics not being backed up.
- Fixed a potential desync issue with statistics collection in multiplayer
- Fixed the "Civil wars" stat collection for "Battle for the Bosporus" DLC.

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

Patch 1.11.7 "Barbarossa"
- Added a Career Profile where players can view statistics about their playthrough
- Added promotion for the new DLC Subscription