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Formazione Generali!
The wait is over. In this gigante developer diary we explore the majority of the Italy focus tree! Of course, we’ll save some secrets for later down the line.

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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

Greetings Generals
The long tradition of HoI anniversary surprises, while slightly delayed, has not been forgotten.

Today, we have the pleasure of announcing to you the next milestone in the Hearts of Iron story: By Blood Alone. Over the coming months, we’ll be revealing more on what each of these features consists of, but for now enjoy a snapshot of the future for Hearts of Iron.

In By Blood Alone, you will chart the course of Mussolini’s regime in Italy or subvert Italy’s historical path in one of many new alt-historical paths in the new Italian focus tree, driven by the constant involvement in war from the beginning to the end of the game.

Choose to take on the task of resisting the Italian colonial occupation as Ethiopia in their new, expansive focus tree. Will you go into exile only to return ... 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

Bugfix:... Read more

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

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.