News Liste Hearts of Iron 4

Balance

• Added two new buildings that provide scaling effects based on the infrastructure level - reduction of energy consumption or increased local resource gain efficiency. These Buildings are mutually exclusive in a state.
• Having zero energy demand now gives zero production penalty
• Resources from infrastructure reduced to 15% from 20% (note that with the new building, you can still end up with more than previously).
• Commercial Nuclear Reactors now grant -50% state energy consumption factor, improved from -25%.
• Electronics Concern now reduce Factory Energy Consumption by 10%.
• Industrial Concern now provides 6 Coal and Increases Coal Gain Efficiency by 5%.
• Replaced Equipment Conversion Technologies with Energy Gain Efficiency Technologies. +15% Energy Gain Per Coal per Technology.
• First four Machine Tools technologies now additionally provide +20% Equipment Conversion Speed.
• Factories gained from exporting resources now impacts the energy per factory less.
• Added a limit for per-factory energy consumption.
• Updated the AI research priorities for Excavation and re-purposed techs to take coal into account.
• Excavation Technologies now provide extra +5% Coal Gain Efficiency.
• Chinese Warlords now keep a starting trait when becoming leaders for the alternate ideologies of their countries.
• The shared Chinese focus "Invite Soviet Advisors" now gives a national spirit that boosts army xp and org, and also brought a few NCNS shared branch focus times in line with the non-NCNS versions.
• Reduced destroyer surface visibility buffs in the "Patrol Boats" and "Light Task Forces" subdoctrines to -5%, as it could be stacked to make them too difficult to hit.
• Added some light tanks to the Nationalist China stockpile to reflect prewar historical inventory.
• Reduced influence gain from shared scientists in faction.
• Lowering and making PP gain from warlord subjects visible.
• Made Nationalist China not wastefully send support to Hebei-Chahar.
• Swapped the populations of Hubei and Wuhan.

Gameplay

• BEL: Chasseurs Ardennais now updated to be rangers with NCNS. National Spirit also updated accordingly.
• Added a new rule so that only the faction leader can set new faction goals.
• PHI: Added more party names.
• Added the ability to blow up and repair the oil fields in Burma.
• Added a diplomatic trigger that prevents the warlord tags from releasing Nationalist or Communist China.
• PHI: USA will now grant independence after the peaceful conclusion of the American Intervention from the Maritime Communism path. You no longer need to complete Treaty of Manila too.
• Nationalist China can now inherit historical Kuomintang generals from warlord subjects they annex through the autonomy system.
• PHI: Made the experience gain penalty reservable earlier (40% with National Defense Act).
• Japanese puppet governments in China can now unlock the Senbu occupation law, and warlord tags that declare a monarchy now get new names for their non-aligned and fascist political parties.
• The shared tree used by Manchukuo and the post-warlord trees now has the option to ask for handover of the treaty port coastal cities.
• PHI: Added some research bonuses to the industrial concerns: Electronic to the Telephone Company, and Industrial to the Railroad Company.
• PHI: Added Basilio Valdes as a new Chief of Army available from the start, and not reliant on US or Japan.
• Made it so Chinese AI always accepts white peace offers from Japan.
• Added Zhu Jiahua for China, Kawashima Naniwa for Manchukuo and Garegin Apresov for Sinkiang as new advisors.
• Added the Tauran Incident as an event chain and border war for Japan and Mongolia.
• Added Weng Wenhao as a Chinese geologist advisor.
• Added Darjeeling as a VP in West Bengal.
• Added Itanagar as a VP.
• Added a land raid against the Great Wall of China.
• Renamed some land cruiser secondary/additional weapons to avoid confusion with turret type modules.
• Added new tutorial video to the in-game tutorial popup screen.

Stability & Performance

• Improved core utilization in AI updates.
• Fixed a rare game state corruption when a player is kicked during hot-joining an MP game.
• Fixed a crash with clicking the naval HQ button on the Officer Corps window.

UI

• Top bar tooltip for Factories will now include Factories sent/received from Subject Relations (Send to Overlord/Received from Subjects).
• Fixed an oversized fallback icon in the factions list window.
• Fixed reopened state view while selecting a province.
• PHI: Added better clarification for the focuses that reduce the time taken by National Defense Act.
• Added tooltip information when editing un-owned faction theaters.
• Added a new Beiyang Army focus icon used by the various Chinese warlords.
• Updated the post-warlord Nationalist China tree to use more modern and accurate focus icons.
• Update to faction commander selection to show relevant skills.
• Subdoctrines that have custom mastery conditions will display them when hovered over in the subdoctrine list.
• Added an energy text icon.
• Fixed display of air mission intel.
• Small fix highlighted states in PHI Maphilindo formables.
• Fixed missing information on request garrison support. faction action.
• Removed some unnecessary doctrines alerts.
• Updated localization for the new Guerrilla Expert trait and old Guerrilla Warfare Expert (now "Guerilla Warfare Expert" and "Counter Insurgency Expert", respectively).
• Changed add_faction_influence_effect localization to take into account possible negative faction influence.
• Adjusted loc for mastery condition tooltips.
• The Warlord PRC cosmetic tag now has a color assigned to it.
• Fixed wrong localization in select country menu for Northeastern Army.
• Fixed the icon of Extra Supplies ability changing when clicking on different generals

AI

• Fixed issue with AI not putting training task forces in the correct locations.
• Adjusted some post-independence Manchu AI focus values to be more reasonable if the strategy plan was cancelled due to Japan going democratic or communist.
• Japan will now produce carrier planes post 1939.
• Fixed an issue with naval AI where RAJ would not use the ships received from the UK following "The Jewel Becomes the Crown" focus.
• AI will now respect strategic region access settings.
• The AI desire to recruit land scientists will now properly be checked when possessing a land facility, rather than a nuclear one.

Modding

• Implemented folder-wide doctrine mastery gain modifiers (e.g. land_mastery_gain_factor).
• Implemented active trigger for doctrine tracks, preventing subdoctrine assignment and mastery gain if not fulfilled.
• Implemented has_any_grand_doctrine trigger, which checks if a certain folder has any assigned grand doctrine.
• Added modifier energy_gain_factor.
• Improved text for when has_manpower_to_become_leader has_industry_to_become_leader has_enough_influence_for_leadership are being implemented with = 0.
• Added ImGui to visualize AI faction theaters.

Bugfix

• Added dummy decision to show available integration targets if controlled.
• Fixed inconsistent tooltips describing military spirits as "available due to our doctrines".
• Renamed Empress Nagako to just "Nagako".
• Fixed an issue where Chinese warlords wouldn't get the appropriate decisions from taking the focus "Approach Japan".
• Iraq can now bypass the focus "Nationalize the Anglo-Iraqi Oil Company" if the UK no longer has the resource rights to their country.
• The US will no longer send lend-lease to non-aligned Japan except if they have done the focus "Form the Jikyoku Iinkai".
• Fixed minor typos here and there.
• Added some missing states to the Turan formable, and allowed Kalmykia to form Greater Mongolia, which now also gains a core on the respective region.
• Communist China: Fixed advisor Kang Sheng not being unlocked in focus "Lessons of the West".
• Communist China: Fixed incorrect stability modifier used in BoP decision Question Old Traditions, Criticize Dogmatism, Criticize The Former Leadership.
• Communist China: Made a hidden idea actually hidden (from A New Central Committee).
• Added back the Chinese air force that was sent to the wrong states in the NCNS reworks, and blinked out of existence as a result.
• Fixed the diplomatic action "Cancel Garrison Support" wrongly showing up without NCNS enabled.
• "Shifting the Balance" and "Joining the International Community" focus requires China to be independent.
• "Lay the Foundation for a United China" will now give autonomy if China is a subject.
• "Eternal Revolution" now requires China to be independent to be able to create a faction.
• Force attack will now correctly ruin the entrenchment of those who haven't taken the Chinese focus "Know Thy Enemy", was previously wrongly applied to everyone.
• "Part of the Comintern" focus requires Communist China to be independent to be able to join a faction.
• Fixed three instances where Japan could create a faction while being a subject of another nation.
• PHI: Luis Taruc becoming available now added to the "Legalize the Communist Party" focus tooltip.
• Fixed a Chinese warlord focus not updating its name correctly.
• Fixed an issue where the focus "A New Dawn Over Manchuria" would give combat bonuses against a non-existent country.
• Yasuhito will now properly be referred to as the Sesshō in the Imperial Influence window if that option was selected in the Kodoha path.
• PHI: Eisenhower and MacArthur return to USA event now states correct country.
• PHI: Reduced chance USA will recall MacArthur.
• Fixed an issue where Korean resistance modifiers would still be present when Asia was decolonised.
• PHI: Added special description to the "Treaty of Manila" focus if the Philippines is already independent.
• Fixed an issue where the achievement "Hail to the Qing" couldn't be completed with the NCNS dlc enabled.
• X-Force and Y-Force decisions can now only be fired once.
• Military access will now only be given to those that one doesn't already have it to when forming the X-force.
• PHI: "Scramble for Leadership" event now makes clear that José Laurel increases the chance for Japanese support in "Secure Japanese Guarantees" focus.
• Fixed an issue where the Japanese puppet governments in India and Burma wouldn't spawn if the recipient had capitulated by the time the decision was taken.
• PHI: Fixed "Reino de Filipinas" focus - Whole Spain cannot be cored if more than one flavour of Spain exists.
• Fixed an issue where unit design cost modifiers could go beyond -100%.
• PHI: Added Philippine country leader names for those who do not have No Compromise, No Surrender.
• PHI: Added a Fascist Demagogue for those who do not have No Compromise, No Surrender.
• Fixed an edge case where Xian incident would trigger from warlord decision if CHI or PRC leaves the CUF, if formed by PRC without Xian incident
• Removed the unintended Unit Medal Effectiveness modifier from Early Mobilization Law.
• Fixed the faction goal "Fortify Iwo Jima" checking wrong province.
• Switched out the advisor icon for Weng Wenhao to have the proper blue background.
• Fixed an issue where the Japanese carrier Zuikaku would be called "Zaikaku" if created through a focus.
• The tooltip for the achievement "The Winner Takes it All" now correctly displays The Chinese Soviet Republic's name instead of China.
• Clarified the success conditions to achieve the "Our Words are Backed with Nuclear Weapons" achievement.
• Fixed an issue where some warlord decisions meant to take over leadership from China stayed even after doing so.
• Fixed an issue where the Japanese focus "The Chrysanthemum Throne" would not properly make Hirohito the country leader if the NCNS dlc was disabled.
• Fixed "Defeat of Anti-Fascists" goal to correctly become visible when no faction members are communist or democratic.
• Fixed "Defeat of Anti-Communists" goal to correctly be taken by AI when at war with fascists.
• Fixed an issue where three Japanese divisions would start black-flagged in the 1939 scenario.
• Removed the Mining Commission industrial concern from Communist China.
• Phi: You can now invite Hispanic nations to join you after you have completed the Treaty of Manila.
• Fixed some cases of faction rule availability displaying twice.
• PER - The Pahlavi Imperium - David Monshizadeh no longer remains visible as Political Advisor when fascist tree is no longer available.
• RAJ - Sharpen the Tulwar - Fixed focus effect that still mentions receiving Mountain Infantry I technology, when the technology is already researched.
• AFG - Added a bypass condition to the focus "The Red Threat" and "Into the Plains of India".
• GER - Fixed Motorized Division historical name list disappearing after becoming Communist Germany.
• Fixed an issue with ghost leaders in naval HQ.
• Fixed an issue with China being part of a decision targeting Chile.
• Fixed "Generalized Support" and "The New School" naval subdoctrines to have correct equipment bonuses.
• Fixed naval task forces violating the laws of spacetime by being in several places at once.
• Fixed an issue where the Japanese focus 'Strategic Offensives" wasn't being properly blocked by the 'Surprise Invasion' national spirit.