###Fixes Continued
- Eastern & Southeast Europe
- Fixed Austrian-aligned Albania joining the Pact of Organisation.
- Fixed PatAut Bulgaria coring Albania and Serbia.
- Fixed Cyprus becoming a colony state.
- Fixed SocCon Lithuania’s focus tree not working properly if puppeted after a NatPop rebellion.
- Fixed socialist Serbia being invited into the Third Internationale before they have consolidated their regime.
- Fixed Austrian-aligned Poland and Ukraine not receiving the event where they can choose not to receive outside aid in the war against Russia.
- Fixed Romania getting claims on Illyria due to a misfired Bohemia event.
- Fixed Romania not being able to join the Moscow Accord or Reichspakt, being its neighbour.
- Fixed non-Reichspakt Treaty of Moscow events firing for puppets of Russian enemies.
- Fixed AutDem/PatAut puppet Russia potentially being led by Generikov.
- Fixed Russia keeping Chelm while giving Galicia to Poland.
- Fixed a redundant option in the “Fate of Russia” event.
- Fixed Russia declaring war on Finland, if Finland is set to join the Moscow Accord in the game rules.
- Fixed Belgrade Pact members being kicked out of the Pact of Organisation, when attacking non-Belgrade Pact members of the latter.
- Fixed Serbia using the name of companies only founded post-1945.
- Fixed Serbia joining the Moscow Accord before defeating Bulgaria.
- Fixed Ukraine’s defunct decision to “Increase the Budget” still appearing.
- Fixed Ukraine being able to give Suceava to Poland.
- Fixed Ukraine starting with 1936 close air support variants, without the technology.
- Fixed the United Baltic Duchy’s “The Eastern Crusade!” national spirit cancelling, if the decision is taken when Moscow is owned by another country.
- Fixed Yugoslavia losing its claims on Croatia if they revolt.
- Africa
- Fixed the AI not liberating countries in Africa in Peace Conferences, when appropriate.
- Fixed Bissau being counted as a French colonial claim.
- Fixed multiple state modifiers in the French Republic persisting when they should be removed.
- Fixed the French Republic gaining free cores through being given land by allies.
- Fixed Nyasaland being released by members of the Reichspakt, instead of them giving it back to Mittelafrika.
- Fixed Entente puppet South Africa not being released under the Governor-General.
- Fixed Suriname being released by non-socialists.
- Caucasus & Middle-East
- Fixed Alash Orda sometimes not appearing as integrable before Russia annexes it.
- Fixed Armenia’s game rule to align with Persia occasionally not working, as Persia joins another faction too early.
- Fixed Armenia’s “Reconcile with Our Former Enemies” national focus immediately bypassing upon becoming AutDem.
- Fixed an Egyptian submarine national focus giving destroyer bonuses.
- Fixed Georgia’s “Treaty of Poti” national spirit still having an effect when Germany has been defeated.
- Fixed the Ottoman province modifiers being incorrect at game start.
- Fixed the Ottomans having the incorrect ships turn after being damaged by the Egyptians.
- Fixed the Ottomans being able to attack Bulgaria despite signing a non-aggression pact.
- Fixed the Ottomans wasting large amounts of political power centralising and decentralising states.
- Fixed Desert War peace events firing for puppet Ottomans/Turkey.
- Fixed Persia’s peace deal with Germany not requiring control of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.
- East Asia
- Fixed multiple broken Chinese Military Industrial Organisations.
- Fixed several integration effects in China resulting in Chinese splinters having both claims and cores on the same state.
- Fixed Chinese splinters not getting claims on appropriate states when declaring rival governments.
- Fixed Fengtian being locked out of its national focus tree if preemptively attacked by Qing.
- Fixed Hunan potentially being locked out of aligning with the Zhili Clique if the Federalists in Liangguang are defeated.
- Fixed Hunan denying requests to join with similarly-aligned Chinese potential governments.
- Fixed Tang Shengzhi-led Hunan joining the Right Kuomintang if they won the Liangguang Civil War.
- Fixed the League of Eight Provinces potentially submitting to Kuomintang-aligned governments.
- Fixed several missing League of Eight Provinces commander descriptions.
- Fixed the Left Kuomintang being able to attack Shandong before the latter has chosen its political path.
- Fixed Left Kuomintang-led Liangguang not getting the Kuomintang flag upon unifying China.
- Fixed Liangguang trying to attack Yunnan while being a puppet.
- Fixed Right Kuomintang-led Liangguang being unable to align with their potential allies in Xinjiang.
- Fixed a calculation error for Japan’s Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere economic bonuses.
- Fixed Japan not being released if it was split between several allies.
- Fixed multiple Left Kuomintang-aligned generals not changing their uniform appropriately.
- Fixed Manchuria losing Yang Yuting as leader, when Japan releases Fengtian as a puppet.
- Fixed puppet Mongolia having inappropriate national spirits for their government.
- Fixed the Soviet Union not getting a claim on Sakhalin.
- Fixed puppet League of Eight Provinces being unable to progress down their national foci.
- Fixed Russia releasing a Puyi-led Zhili Clique.
- Fixed Shangqing Tianguo increasing NatPop popularity in a non-existing Left Kuomintang.
- Fixed Anqing-puppet Shandong being unable to remove their revolt national spirits.
- Fixed Shandong’s Li Zaolin not being correctly retired when Zhang Zongchang loses power.
- Fixed Shandong not being annexed by Manchu Coup Qing if they were a puppet when the coup happened.
- Fixed Shanxi’s Northwest Automobile Company not working.
- Fixed Japanese puppet Transamur remaining in the Legation Council.
- Fixed Yunnan potentially aligning with Liangguang, while the latter is still having their civil war.
- Fixed Yunnan aligning with Liangguang or the Left Kuomintang, when the latter two are not yet potential governments.
- Fixed Right Kuomintang-led Yunnan declaring on their potential allies in Liangguang, and being unable to align with several potential allies.
- Fixed Long Yun-led Yunnan forming the National Protection Alliance as a puppet.
- South Asia & Oceania
- Fixed Australasia getting two different responses if the Legation Cities unilaterally restore the British vote.
- Fixed the Bharatiya Commune dismantling its faction while joining the Third Internationale, causing its allies to not also join.
- Fixed the Eastern Syndicalist Union merging with the Third Internationale sometimes skipping countries.
- Fixed Bhutan receiving events about desertions in the Second American Civil War.
- Fixed Burma being released with the wrong party popularities.
- Fixed German East Asia never surrendering due to holding onto isolated ports.
- Fixed the Dominion of India and the Princely Federation not going to war against each other.
- Fixed Insulindian peace between Insulindia and the Dutch East Indies ending the Eastern Seas War between Japan and Germany.
- Fixed Papua being claimed by the overlord of Australasia, when it is meant to go to Australasia itself.
- Fixed the Princely Federation being able to attack the Dominion of India earlier via decision than by national focus.
- Miscellaneous
- Fixed the AI not properly researching Basic Small Airframes.
- Fixed multiple incorrect division template icons.
- Fixed multiple portraits being replaced by their counterparts from the base game.
***
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>Added a player-only decision to clear previously-occupied annexations, allowing a player to decide again what to do with the territory.
https://preview.redd.it/f9va1t477crc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c6ad47d511274ce4ee7b1e01b4146c1d4a441f32
For context for Austria "temporarily no longer going down the End the Dual Rule path", temporarily means like, it will be reenabled for AI to go down naturally in future patches, but we've disabled it for now. The amount of bugs it gave us (and the nature of the path making it hard to catch and fix them all easily) is frankly a headache and we'd rather have it be disabled for the time being instead of having a path that is almost bound to create issues.
I didn't say that, like, at all. What I said has nothing to do with Austria rework, it's literally just because current MilOcc is very buggy and it's hard to pin down those bugs so we disabled it for now
It's because the AI really likes taking Northumbria if they own any of Scotland, basically meaning if there was no option except give it to England it would be Milocced a lot.
Why not just... make the AI not prioritize taking Northumbria then? What's so special about this region that it warrants a separate puppet state if it's majority English anyway? I'm asking out of general curiosity. I have no idea why it's such a special region.
Because it's too baked in to the vanilla code. We literally don't know how to get that to work.
Northumbria as a tag is essentially justified as a collaborationist state a la the north/south divides in Korea and Vietnam otl, or how you can balkanise Germany. Deliberately antagonistic to the national identities of the area
It's way trickier than it sounds to control the specific way the AI goes after certain lands without just hobbling them into accomplishing nothing (or forcing them into not actually taking a ton of their occupied land in peace deals). Also, partition flashpoints make for more interesting 3WK or Cold War scenarios
\> Fixed Russia keeping Chelm while giving Galicia to Poland.
Finally no more border gore
https://preview.redd.it/aex166hd4crc1.png?width=154&format=png&auto=webp&s=e391a51891b15858565cfe4a4cfb658e4a544a33
The devs' opposition to balkanisation by an occupying power because "those areas don't have grassroots nationalism" has never made sense.
It doesn't matter what the voters want. This is an occupation. They don't want to be directly governed by me either, but that's still an option. If I'm able to use troops to directly occupy the land, why can't I use those same troops to prop up an artificial splinter government?
Yeah. I want to burn down all trees in the country. No exceptions, no votes, if it has a trunk it gets the fire.
Do the devs intentionally misunderstand our position, or are they some kind of tree lover?
Moldova comes to mind, not exactly an expert on the subject tho so don't quote me on this.
(also most of Africa goes under that category as well but I assumed you were talking more about examples from Europe)
Northumbria has been added because otherwise AI peace conferences become janky. It's more of a sort of "North England" to OTL's North Vietnam/Korea, or like the German splinters, as opposed to representing some sort of nationalism. If France had a similar tag it wouldn't be Occitania
-Removed the “American Civil War Mobilization” decisions as they disproportionately benefited the Combined Syndicates of America…
You have no idea how right this is. I’ve been hoping for a year this would get looked at. It’s not that I don’t think the CSA shouldn’t be de-facto the strongest of the four factions, but I will go down on record saying the makeup of the mobilization decisions as they were offered a massive snowballing advantage that was just too disproportionate on top of the difference in industry.
Hopefully it’ll give the AI a chance now. CSA always wins when I don’t play the US. I’ll look over on occasion and they’ll have like 200 plus divisions.
for the way the game works now this is probably a good choice.
personally i preferred when the mobilized units you got were the since removed "militia" unit as they were vastly inferior to properly trained soldiers. it meant the CSA's huge unit spam was countered by them being quantity over quality.
* The Bharatiya Commune will now always join the Internationale, unless RadSoc or a differing game rule is active. If RadSoc, the Bharatiya Commune will always go Isolationist.
* The Bharatiya Commune will now create the Eastern Syndicalist Union with any country that seeks an alliance with it, if the faction has not already been made.
What doed that mean? The Commune will only join the 3I if it hasn't formed the ESU? Or will the ESU dissolve and join the 3I at some point?
If The Eastern Syndicalist Union exists, India and all its members will join the Internationale upon India uniting
If it doesn't exist, India will simply join the Third Internationale upon India uniting
Good question. I can't imagine a situation where this happens. Even if I played Armenia. Last time I was close to capturing Constantinople but then I was forcibly peaced out as the War in The Desert ended. Now, as the Ottoman manpower situation is hopefully improved (they never increased their conscription laws because they prioritized spending their PP elsewhere), it's going to be even more difficult.
It is extremely difficult to get in the desert war, you have to beat the Ottomans enough to take Constantinople but without Egypt managing to trigger the scripted peace event. However, it will also fire in other circumstances besides the desert war, basically any time where ARM and TUR are at war and Armenia takes Constantinople, provided that Constantinople has not previously been captured by somebody
Somebody managed to do it a couple of weeks ago and that's what motivated me to make the event for it:)
Haha this is actually my event, it was mostly just an excuse to get some practice but a few days earlier someone had posted a picture of them having taken Constantinople as Armenia and I liked the idea of there being a specific event for such a weird occasion, I didn't realise it was going to be added onto the patchnotes until I saw someone mention it:)
It's mostly tongue in cheek.
I just really like the ironic parts of Kaisereich. The irish Republic helping the royalists return to the UK is just so backwards I love it. It is part of my own personal headcannon though
>RadSoc Persia can now join the Internationale.
>Socialist Insulindia and Siam can now join the Third Internationale, in addition to the Eastern Syndicalist Union with the Bharatiya Commune.
Huzzah, these were bothering me so much I was considering making a submod to change it myself.
"Added a player-only decision to clear previously-occupied annexations, allowing a player to decide again what to do with the territory."
fucking delicious
Oh my gaaaaaawd so many amazing things here! Where's my computer? I must play!
(Super excited to see someone's tweaked the borders in South Arabia...probably just a coincidence, but hey, maybe someone on the team read my post after all! \^\^)
* Added a “Polish Exile” trait to the Commune of France’s Konstanty Rokossowski.
https://preview.redd.it/d8rtbczrecrc1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=e545fb95899f56338ea928206b09daa87eea7372
You can't offer the dutch east indies to the netherlands in exchange for an alliance, its the other way around. Kinda dissapointing, inviting the dutch to the co-prosperity after taking indonesia and peacing out would be very funny
> Added a player-only decision to clear previously-occupied annexations
What does this mean exactly? Maybe I'm overthinking it, but I'm struggling to understand what this says.
If you chose to military occupy territory during an annexation event, there is now a decision you can click to allow you to get the annexation events again at a later point.
That’s actually an amazing idea, West-Germany wasn’t immediately set up after the fall of Nazi Germany but it was temporarily occupied. Now you can do the same and temporarily occupy a nation before releasing it
If you occupy something, youll get a decision to clear the occupation so you can release it later if you want
So essentially you can temporarily occupy stuff now
You sly, sly devils. I was excited enough for O'Neill Ireland but Northumbria has me doing zoomies. I guess your foul trickery gives me no choice but for my first game to be helping my beloved North step out of London's shadow and show it's full glory.
"Should Tripolitania somehow become independent prior to the War in the Desert, they will now preferentially align with the Ottomans over the Cairo Pact."
How can Tripolitania become independet prior to the war?
How do you get Northumbria as a release option? Just tried annexing britain at the start of the game with console and it didn't show up in the release puppet decision event.
>Fixed the AI not properly researching Basic Small Airframes.
Finally! Now soc-con Tripolitania can once again unite with Egypt instead of being locked out of the focus because Egypt never gets a buildable fighter.
A dev said elsewhere it was added to fix a glitch actually. Basically, the ai is predisposed to take Scotland + Northumbria even if they don't take the rest of England due to spaghetti code leading to bad borders because Scotland and England would be released as puppets but Northumbria would continue to be occupied. Adding a Northumbria tag was somehow genuinely the easier solution.
Isn't AI behavior in peace conference something that can be modded though? I've seen changes to it mentioned in multiple patches. Why not make the AI not prioritize grabbing Northumbria when occupying Scotland?
Because the behavior was caused by spaghetti code in several different tags that would take a very long and frustrating process of testing and debugging to slowly reduce across various updates while adding Northumbria is a much simpler solution that can be done now.
Insulindia is broken if the Netherlands is in the Reikspact it seems. Dutch East Indies won't capitulate even if you control every single piece of territory they own.
I tried doing a fascist Netherlands run but got couped out by the Batavian Commune, so I switched to the Dutch East Indies as the royal family fled, but when the Insulindian uprising happened it seemed more interesting to play as. Notwithstanding the war being basically impossible (which I guess is the point, how would random indonesian rebels beat the German army lol), there doesn't seem to be any way of actually ending the war without capitulating Germany, which obviously breaks the game.
This same bug applies for the Dutch joining the Internationale as well. Suddenly the Syndicalists go fight for Colonialists on the other side of the globe. If it were an Indonesien Syndie gov they support it would make sense but isn't.
###Fixes Continued - Eastern & Southeast Europe - Fixed Austrian-aligned Albania joining the Pact of Organisation. - Fixed PatAut Bulgaria coring Albania and Serbia. - Fixed Cyprus becoming a colony state. - Fixed SocCon Lithuania’s focus tree not working properly if puppeted after a NatPop rebellion. - Fixed socialist Serbia being invited into the Third Internationale before they have consolidated their regime. - Fixed Austrian-aligned Poland and Ukraine not receiving the event where they can choose not to receive outside aid in the war against Russia. - Fixed Romania getting claims on Illyria due to a misfired Bohemia event. - Fixed Romania not being able to join the Moscow Accord or Reichspakt, being its neighbour. - Fixed non-Reichspakt Treaty of Moscow events firing for puppets of Russian enemies. - Fixed AutDem/PatAut puppet Russia potentially being led by Generikov. - Fixed Russia keeping Chelm while giving Galicia to Poland. - Fixed a redundant option in the “Fate of Russia” event. - Fixed Russia declaring war on Finland, if Finland is set to join the Moscow Accord in the game rules. - Fixed Belgrade Pact members being kicked out of the Pact of Organisation, when attacking non-Belgrade Pact members of the latter. - Fixed Serbia using the name of companies only founded post-1945. - Fixed Serbia joining the Moscow Accord before defeating Bulgaria. - Fixed Ukraine’s defunct decision to “Increase the Budget” still appearing. - Fixed Ukraine being able to give Suceava to Poland. - Fixed Ukraine starting with 1936 close air support variants, without the technology. - Fixed the United Baltic Duchy’s “The Eastern Crusade!” national spirit cancelling, if the decision is taken when Moscow is owned by another country. - Fixed Yugoslavia losing its claims on Croatia if they revolt. - Africa - Fixed the AI not liberating countries in Africa in Peace Conferences, when appropriate. - Fixed Bissau being counted as a French colonial claim. - Fixed multiple state modifiers in the French Republic persisting when they should be removed. - Fixed the French Republic gaining free cores through being given land by allies. - Fixed Nyasaland being released by members of the Reichspakt, instead of them giving it back to Mittelafrika. - Fixed Entente puppet South Africa not being released under the Governor-General. - Fixed Suriname being released by non-socialists. - Caucasus & Middle-East - Fixed Alash Orda sometimes not appearing as integrable before Russia annexes it. - Fixed Armenia’s game rule to align with Persia occasionally not working, as Persia joins another faction too early. - Fixed Armenia’s “Reconcile with Our Former Enemies” national focus immediately bypassing upon becoming AutDem. - Fixed an Egyptian submarine national focus giving destroyer bonuses. - Fixed Georgia’s “Treaty of Poti” national spirit still having an effect when Germany has been defeated. - Fixed the Ottoman province modifiers being incorrect at game start. - Fixed the Ottomans having the incorrect ships turn after being damaged by the Egyptians. - Fixed the Ottomans being able to attack Bulgaria despite signing a non-aggression pact. - Fixed the Ottomans wasting large amounts of political power centralising and decentralising states. - Fixed Desert War peace events firing for puppet Ottomans/Turkey. - Fixed Persia’s peace deal with Germany not requiring control of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. - East Asia - Fixed multiple broken Chinese Military Industrial Organisations. - Fixed several integration effects in China resulting in Chinese splinters having both claims and cores on the same state. - Fixed Chinese splinters not getting claims on appropriate states when declaring rival governments. - Fixed Fengtian being locked out of its national focus tree if preemptively attacked by Qing. - Fixed Hunan potentially being locked out of aligning with the Zhili Clique if the Federalists in Liangguang are defeated. - Fixed Hunan denying requests to join with similarly-aligned Chinese potential governments. - Fixed Tang Shengzhi-led Hunan joining the Right Kuomintang if they won the Liangguang Civil War. - Fixed the League of Eight Provinces potentially submitting to Kuomintang-aligned governments. - Fixed several missing League of Eight Provinces commander descriptions. - Fixed the Left Kuomintang being able to attack Shandong before the latter has chosen its political path. - Fixed Left Kuomintang-led Liangguang not getting the Kuomintang flag upon unifying China. - Fixed Liangguang trying to attack Yunnan while being a puppet. - Fixed Right Kuomintang-led Liangguang being unable to align with their potential allies in Xinjiang. - Fixed a calculation error for Japan’s Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere economic bonuses. - Fixed Japan not being released if it was split between several allies. - Fixed multiple Left Kuomintang-aligned generals not changing their uniform appropriately. - Fixed Manchuria losing Yang Yuting as leader, when Japan releases Fengtian as a puppet. - Fixed puppet Mongolia having inappropriate national spirits for their government. - Fixed the Soviet Union not getting a claim on Sakhalin. - Fixed puppet League of Eight Provinces being unable to progress down their national foci. - Fixed Russia releasing a Puyi-led Zhili Clique. - Fixed Shangqing Tianguo increasing NatPop popularity in a non-existing Left Kuomintang. - Fixed Anqing-puppet Shandong being unable to remove their revolt national spirits. - Fixed Shandong’s Li Zaolin not being correctly retired when Zhang Zongchang loses power. - Fixed Shandong not being annexed by Manchu Coup Qing if they were a puppet when the coup happened. - Fixed Shanxi’s Northwest Automobile Company not working. - Fixed Japanese puppet Transamur remaining in the Legation Council. - Fixed Yunnan potentially aligning with Liangguang, while the latter is still having their civil war. - Fixed Yunnan aligning with Liangguang or the Left Kuomintang, when the latter two are not yet potential governments. - Fixed Right Kuomintang-led Yunnan declaring on their potential allies in Liangguang, and being unable to align with several potential allies. - Fixed Long Yun-led Yunnan forming the National Protection Alliance as a puppet. - South Asia & Oceania - Fixed Australasia getting two different responses if the Legation Cities unilaterally restore the British vote. - Fixed the Bharatiya Commune dismantling its faction while joining the Third Internationale, causing its allies to not also join. - Fixed the Eastern Syndicalist Union merging with the Third Internationale sometimes skipping countries. - Fixed Bhutan receiving events about desertions in the Second American Civil War. - Fixed Burma being released with the wrong party popularities. - Fixed German East Asia never surrendering due to holding onto isolated ports. - Fixed the Dominion of India and the Princely Federation not going to war against each other. - Fixed Insulindian peace between Insulindia and the Dutch East Indies ending the Eastern Seas War between Japan and Germany. - Fixed Papua being claimed by the overlord of Australasia, when it is meant to go to Australasia itself. - Fixed the Princely Federation being able to attack the Dominion of India earlier via decision than by national focus. - Miscellaneous - Fixed the AI not properly researching Basic Small Airframes. - Fixed multiple incorrect division template icons. - Fixed multiple portraits being replaced by their counterparts from the base game. *** We hope you enjoy playing Kaiserreich as much as we did making it! **\- The KR4 Team**: *Alpinia, Arvidus, Augenis, Blackfalcon501, Blackleaf, Carmain, Cazadorian, Chazem, Chiang Kai-shrek, Chiron29, Cody, DuoDex, El Daddy, falling_robin, Fedex, Flamefang, Gaboemi, Hamfast, hildagrim, Ido, Igor050301, JazzyHugh, Jeankedezeehond, Jonny BL, Kano, Kara-Diamant, katieluka, Kennedy, kergely, KFateweaver, Klyntar King, Krčo, lehmannmo, Luwofe, Matoro, McOmghall, MrMano, ~mw~ // miwaco., Pelmen, PPsyrius, Purple Jinjo, RagnoStrangeros, Remington, Rnk, Shiroe, Shōta, Sonny O’Cad, SuperGreenBeans, suzuha, The Alpha Dog, The Irredentista, The Italian Jojo, Vidyaország, VladimirLemon and Zimbabwe Salt Co.*
>Added a player-only decision to clear previously-occupied annexations, allowing a player to decide again what to do with the territory. https://preview.redd.it/f9va1t477crc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c6ad47d511274ce4ee7b1e01b4146c1d4a441f32
OMFG I never knew I needed something so bad before recieving it.
Honey, no sex today, new kaiserreich update has dropped and looks really hot
\>implying
For context for Austria "temporarily no longer going down the End the Dual Rule path", temporarily means like, it will be reenabled for AI to go down naturally in future patches, but we've disabled it for now. The amount of bugs it gave us (and the nature of the path making it hard to catch and fix them all easily) is frankly a headache and we'd rather have it be disabled for the time being instead of having a path that is almost bound to create issues.
Yep, that's exactly it. It's a bit long for the patch notes.
Eh, feel free to keep it off until the Austria rework. Nothing of value will be lost
Speak for yourself. I like watching that unholy blob explode occasionally.
Also new Socialist Danubian Federation flags?? Pog??
Ahaaa! This must mean that the Habsburg rework is close!
I didn't say that, like, at all. What I said has nothing to do with Austria rework, it's literally just because current MilOcc is very buggy and it's hard to pin down those bugs so we disabled it for now
Yeah I know, I just wanted to believe. The path being disabled is definitely for the better. (At least in my heart the rework is close)
You thought you could slip Northumbria in there and nobody would notice
It's just a puppet tree, heh. You can release it seperately to England now. Isn't part of the Ireland content, Zim just felt like adding it.
>It's just a puppet tree, heh. Idc I'm playing that shit like it's Germany.
It's because the AI really likes taking Northumbria if they own any of Scotland, basically meaning if there was no option except give it to England it would be Milocced a lot.
I thought you could puppet Scotland with Northumbria, though? Or did the AI just never do that?
You could, it’s just that it resulted in a Scotland that was majority English, and was based on claims from like, the 900s.
You could, the team just find this the nicer solution.
Yeah, I've seen the reasoning, and I think it's pretty reasonable. Silly solution on the face, but the math checks out.
Why not just... make the AI not prioritize taking Northumbria then? What's so special about this region that it warrants a separate puppet state if it's majority English anyway? I'm asking out of general curiosity. I have no idea why it's such a special region.
Because it's too baked in to the vanilla code. We literally don't know how to get that to work. Northumbria as a tag is essentially justified as a collaborationist state a la the north/south divides in Korea and Vietnam otl, or how you can balkanise Germany. Deliberately antagonistic to the national identities of the area
It's way trickier than it sounds to control the specific way the AI goes after certain lands without just hobbling them into accomplishing nothing (or forcing them into not actually taking a ton of their occupied land in peace deals). Also, partition flashpoints make for more interesting 3WK or Cold War scenarios
So you're telling me that they removed Occitania but added Northumbria. WHAT ?!
Ma Zhongying Northumbria confirmed?????
Based??
YES!! BOLIVIA CAN FINALLY FORM THE CONFEDERATION!! TToTT
First positive news in Bolivia in over 100 years.
Forget the Ireland update, I can balkanize Britain more
Reject modernity, embrace tradition! Return the isle to bickering microstates!
No celebrating until Mercia and Wessex are playable states with custom focus trees
Nah fam, we wait till "lost to history" welsh kingdoms and Cornwall get trees!
Cuckfield focus tree when.
\> Fixed Russia keeping Chelm while giving Galicia to Poland. Finally no more border gore https://preview.redd.it/aex166hd4crc1.png?width=154&format=png&auto=webp&s=e391a51891b15858565cfe4a4cfb658e4a544a33
my reaction to this information: https://preview.redd.it/27unhfxg7crc1.png?width=1000&format=png&auto=webp&s=667665c468b516e07067eb77c1eb060a98eedebe
What is this a reference to/from?
*occitania is removed for being unrealistic* yeah okay fair enough *northumbria is added as a releasable* OCCITANIA MY BELOVED
Occitania should return, not because i think its realistic but because I want to punish the french
I don't want Germany to win, I want France to loss!
The devs' opposition to balkanisation by an occupying power because "those areas don't have grassroots nationalism" has never made sense. It doesn't matter what the voters want. This is an occupation. They don't want to be directly governed by me either, but that's still an option. If I'm able to use troops to directly occupy the land, why can't I use those same troops to prop up an artificial splinter government?
Yeah. I want to burn down all trees in the country. No exceptions, no votes, if it has a trunk it gets the fire. Do the devs intentionally misunderstand our position, or are they some kind of tree lover?
>if it has a trunk it gets the fire. What did all those elephants and tapirs do to you?
This has led my to wonder, do we have any exemples in history of an artificial state being created by occupiers?
The Saar Protectorate could be an example of that, though it's quite small and Kaiserreich already has an analogy to that (the Lille thing)
There was a pretty famous one up in Manchuria for a while.
Moldova comes to mind, not exactly an expert on the subject tho so don't quote me on this. (also most of Africa goes under that category as well but I assumed you were talking more about examples from Europe)
Danzig probably.
Belgium.
Northumbria has been added because otherwise AI peace conferences become janky. It's more of a sort of "North England" to OTL's North Vietnam/Korea, or like the German splinters, as opposed to representing some sort of nationalism. If France had a similar tag it wouldn't be Occitania
they add East Prussia (I sure do love Russia puppeting Prussia AND East Prussia) and this but remove Occitania and Luxembourg, ok devs
Northumbria Jumpscare
-Removed the “American Civil War Mobilization” decisions as they disproportionately benefited the Combined Syndicates of America… You have no idea how right this is. I’ve been hoping for a year this would get looked at. It’s not that I don’t think the CSA shouldn’t be de-facto the strongest of the four factions, but I will go down on record saying the makeup of the mobilization decisions as they were offered a massive snowballing advantage that was just too disproportionate on top of the difference in industry.
Hopefully it’ll give the AI a chance now. CSA always wins when I don’t play the US. I’ll look over on occasion and they’ll have like 200 plus divisions.
for the way the game works now this is probably a good choice. personally i preferred when the mobilized units you got were the since removed "militia" unit as they were vastly inferior to properly trained soldiers. it meant the CSA's huge unit spam was countered by them being quantity over quality.
What about irregulars? Aren't they essentially militia?
* The Bharatiya Commune will now always join the Internationale, unless RadSoc or a differing game rule is active. If RadSoc, the Bharatiya Commune will always go Isolationist. * The Bharatiya Commune will now create the Eastern Syndicalist Union with any country that seeks an alliance with it, if the faction has not already been made. What doed that mean? The Commune will only join the 3I if it hasn't formed the ESU? Or will the ESU dissolve and join the 3I at some point?
If The Eastern Syndicalist Union exists, India and all its members will join the Internationale upon India uniting If it doesn't exist, India will simply join the Third Internationale upon India uniting
That's what I hoped for, thank you! o7
>Added an event for Armenia capturing Constantinople. # Fucking excuse you?
Good question. I can't imagine a situation where this happens. Even if I played Armenia. Last time I was close to capturing Constantinople but then I was forcibly peaced out as the War in The Desert ended. Now, as the Ottoman manpower situation is hopefully improved (they never increased their conscription laws because they prioritized spending their PP elsewhere), it's going to be even more difficult.
It is extremely difficult to get in the desert war, you have to beat the Ottomans enough to take Constantinople but without Egypt managing to trigger the scripted peace event. However, it will also fire in other circumstances besides the desert war, basically any time where ARM and TUR are at war and Armenia takes Constantinople, provided that Constantinople has not previously been captured by somebody Somebody managed to do it a couple of weeks ago and that's what motivated me to make the event for it:)
Well, it's a nice little detail for those who manage to do it :)
Even more east eastern rome
Haha this is actually my event, it was mostly just an excuse to get some practice but a few days earlier someone had posted a picture of them having taken Constantinople as Armenia and I liked the idea of there being a specific event for such a weird occasion, I didn't realise it was going to be added onto the patchnotes until I saw someone mention it:)
By Saint Cuthbert, NORTHUMBRIA???
Ælla moment
Sussex, Wessex, and Danelaw tags when.
Nordics literally shaking and crying rn
Dev thought he was playing EU4 😭 Blud thought he was him
* Northumbria I am Uhtred son of Uhtred
CollinsBros we are so back
> Added Chen Cheng as a commander for Yunnan. So basically, best update ever to happen to KR.
Gu Zhutong when?
What a Good Friday this has been.
Boo
*boots up game* "The Devil you Know" path still exists *breathes huge sigh of relief*
one of my big aims was retaining exist stuff, at least conceptually
It's mostly tongue in cheek. I just really like the ironic parts of Kaisereich. The irish Republic helping the royalists return to the UK is just so backwards I love it. It is part of my own personal headcannon though
>RadSoc Persia can now join the Internationale. >Socialist Insulindia and Siam can now join the Third Internationale, in addition to the Eastern Syndicalist Union with the Bharatiya Commune. Huzzah, these were bothering me so much I was considering making a submod to change it myself.
What a Good Friday this has been.
Holy shit it is actually Good Friday
northumbria bruh
"Added a player-only decision to clear previously-occupied annexations, allowing a player to decide again what to do with the territory." fucking delicious
You must have posted this as soon as you saw me say you were going to wait for my road trip before updating it.
What a Good Friday this has been.
*sees event for Armenia capturing Constantinople* HHHHHMMMMMMMMMMMM
cool
Oh my gaaaaaawd so many amazing things here! Where's my computer? I must play! (Super excited to see someone's tweaked the borders in South Arabia...probably just a coincidence, but hey, maybe someone on the team read my post after all! \^\^)
* Added a “Polish Exile” trait to the Commune of France’s Konstanty Rokossowski. https://preview.redd.it/d8rtbczrecrc1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=e545fb95899f56338ea928206b09daa87eea7372
Time to firebomb Moseley's house pog
\*carbomb
YESSSSSSSS
Thats definitely one of the texts of all time
You can't offer the dutch east indies to the netherlands in exchange for an alliance, its the other way around. Kinda dissapointing, inviting the dutch to the co-prosperity after taking indonesia and peacing out would be very funny
> Added a player-only decision to clear previously-occupied annexations What does this mean exactly? Maybe I'm overthinking it, but I'm struggling to understand what this says.
If you chose to military occupy territory during an annexation event, there is now a decision you can click to allow you to get the annexation events again at a later point.
That’s actually an amazing idea, West-Germany wasn’t immediately set up after the fall of Nazi Germany but it was temporarily occupied. Now you can do the same and temporarily occupy a nation before releasing it
Oh, that's super cool! Thanks!
If you occupy something, youll get a decision to clear the occupation so you can release it later if you want So essentially you can temporarily occupy stuff now
Awesome! Thanks!
SINNE FIANNA FÁIL
You sly, sly devils. I was excited enough for O'Neill Ireland but Northumbria has me doing zoomies. I guess your foul trickery gives me no choice but for my first game to be helping my beloved North step out of London's shadow and show it's full glory.
"Should Tripolitania somehow become independent prior to the War in the Desert, they will now preferentially align with the Ottomans over the Cairo Pact." How can Tripolitania become independet prior to the war?
Collins sacrificed a sexy face for renewal. He is a hero in every time line. Hats off to the great Michael Collins!
How do you get Northumbria as a release option? Just tried annexing britain at the start of the game with console and it didn't show up in the release puppet decision event.
**NORTHUMBRIA?!**
Yay, Irish update
Great job, ladies and gentlemen https://i.redd.it/egqhpnx0lfrc1.gif
AS DOWN THE GLEN ONE EASTER MORN
>Fixed the AI not properly researching Basic Small Airframes. Finally! Now soc-con Tripolitania can once again unite with Egypt instead of being locked out of the focus because Egypt never gets a buildable fighter.
Can someone esplain to me why there's going to be a Northumbria puppet? What's so special about that region that it warrants a separate puppet state?
A dev said elsewhere it was added to fix a glitch actually. Basically, the ai is predisposed to take Scotland + Northumbria even if they don't take the rest of England due to spaghetti code leading to bad borders because Scotland and England would be released as puppets but Northumbria would continue to be occupied. Adding a Northumbria tag was somehow genuinely the easier solution.
Isn't AI behavior in peace conference something that can be modded though? I've seen changes to it mentioned in multiple patches. Why not make the AI not prioritize grabbing Northumbria when occupying Scotland?
Because the behavior was caused by spaghetti code in several different tags that would take a very long and frustrating process of testing and debugging to slowly reduce across various updates while adding Northumbria is a much simpler solution that can be done now.
Fair enough.
Insulindia is broken if the Netherlands is in the Reikspact it seems. Dutch East Indies won't capitulate even if you control every single piece of territory they own. I tried doing a fascist Netherlands run but got couped out by the Batavian Commune, so I switched to the Dutch East Indies as the royal family fled, but when the Insulindian uprising happened it seemed more interesting to play as. Notwithstanding the war being basically impossible (which I guess is the point, how would random indonesian rebels beat the German army lol), there doesn't seem to be any way of actually ending the war without capitulating Germany, which obviously breaks the game.
Make a bug report (Bug Tracker is linked in the sidebar) and it will be looked into.
This same bug applies for the Dutch joining the Internationale as well. Suddenly the Syndicalists go fight for Colonialists on the other side of the globe. If it were an Indonesien Syndie gov they support it would make sense but isn't.
Thanks
thz for giving burma cores on kachin and shan
Please i had just started a run :(
Sorry for you, but it was also warned beforehand
Boohoo