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.
