Anniversary Maintenance Patch - 2.0.4 (Open Beta)

[Traxium318]

Great news

 

[Pirosmani99]

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Avē!

First, I’d like to introduce myself, I am not one of the previous Game Directors, Johan or Peter, but I am Niels Uiterwijk, the original tech lead on the project. Today my role at paradox has changed as I am the Technical Director in studio green (studio working Stellaris). But still, from outer space I look back at earth and think of Imperator sometimes and decided to make a small maintenance patch, fixing some of the issues that modders & other people ran into.

Without further ado, the patch notes:



As you can see, this is a minor patch, and for now it will be released as an open beta on steam & windows only. The plan is to release this on all platforms at some point in the undetermined future. Please leave feedback (or links to bug reports that you want to see fixed) in the comments section, I am quite bad at replying, but I will read them.

Thanks to all the people that helped me with this!


Available now on the steam beta branch: 2.0.4 - open beta

I also have to stress that this is not a revival of Imperator: Rome! Do not expect new content or patches going forward.

Hello - really hopeful for this patch, one thing I wanted to raise from modding perspective as part of the Imperatrix Victoria team is making the map actually wrappable as a cylinder. This would really help bring our world map to life for the 19th century! There are a lot of hardcoded bits I've found that would be nice to open up, but this one in particular would be a big QoL boost.

 

[Wargaming accountant]

Please make some form of wider announcement when this patch is released. It is a fantastic game and I really do think that the only thing holding it back is that most people who bought and played it back in the days are not aware of the amazing changes all the patches to date have brought. A concerted marketing effort combined with another sale will see you scrambling for a dev team in no time

 

[x8ight]

This came up recently, currently anytime we have a desync in a MP game the political leanings of all the characters in the republic recalculate and complete break your govt. Would be great to see a little fix there for consistency's sake.

 

[Sanny]

Please continue to support Imperator Rome (even if periodically) in the future.

 

[SAS]

Great news indeed !

 

[Paweud]

Amazing

 

[Pureon]

Thank you Niels and team! The modders really appreciate all your efforts

 

[martigames08]

Please continue development.

 

[AngryHitsuji]

Taking a bare minimum of effort to patch a game you sold to customers as one that would be supported for years is not "giving back". It's what you should have kept doing the whole time.

 

[Arizal]

I bought the game when it originally came out, and was disappointed by it. When patch 2.0.4b went out, I just found a new job and completely forgot about it. Recently, by seeing a renewed interest for it, I decided to boot it up again, and discovered an interesting game.

I always thought I was less interested by Antiquity and that's why I wasn't hooked initially, but I'm about to reach 200 hours in this game. That's far from my 3000 hours on EUIV (mostly accrued before Leviathan), but enough to make me interested in a future patch.

Of course, the game has its faults. I couldn't care less about scorn families as soon as I have access to a port, the civil war mechanic can be a bit wacky at times, the trade is horrid (but improved by being automated), and I keep misclicking and making the provincial view disappear, but some of its mechanics are miles ahead of EUIV, and apparently some features will be ported in Project Ceasar / EU5. So renewed interest for it is welcome.

 

[PDX_Gorion]

Hello - really hopeful for this patch, one thing I wanted to raise from modding perspective as part of the Imperatrix Victoria team is making the map actually wrappable as a cylinder. This would really help bring our world map to life for the 19th century! There are a lot of hardcoded bits I've found that would be nice to open up, but this one in particular would be a big QoL boost.

Sorry this is out of scope. The map is quite special in its projection already, making it wrappable was unfortunately not part of the feature request back in the day.

I must say that's rather swag of you

Please continue to support Imperator Rome (even if periodically) in the future.

Can't rule that out, there are quite a few devs in paradox that have a keen interest in imperator!

 

[SeekTruthFromFx]

Ave!

We've definitely noticed the community events and followed them with interrest. It was really cool seeing all the streams, videos being made and ppl playing + the community reacting to that again. So much that we've decided to make another push for the 2.0.4 patch being actually released. A year ago I've made it an open beta on steam, and for various reasons I couldnt get it released on the other platforms (turns out tech doesn't stop and old tech doesnt work anymore). However we decided that we need to gather resources from the internal paradox studio's (tinto, green & gold) to make an effort into releasing this patch.

I can't promise a date, but it does seem very likely that we will be able to actually release it (all platforms & all stores we support)!

I have to stress though, there is no internal team working on this game, and we are not planning to start one up. But we do want to give back to the community, so the 2.0.4 patch is also being expanded a little bit with requests coming from modders.

Once we are closer to knowing when we can release it, we will make a new forum post & share on socials as well

This is really great news, thank you!

A particular request: at the moment the 2.0.4 Open Beta breaks Imperator on Linux. The game runs from the terminal, and the launcher runs from dowser, and Steam counts the playtime (I have 24 hours in the last 2 weeks!). But changing settings in the launcher has no effect, and if you start the launcher from Steam, then it can't find the game. Some players report that the last bug is because the beta changes the initial of the game (it's binaries/imperator when it needs to be binaries/Imperator), which matters because filenames are case sensitive on Linux. All Linux players would be grateful if you could fix this in the release of 2.0.x. Thank you!

 

[Cagallo]

This is more a question for both devs and modders, but how much change would it require to leave trade open for modding?

 

[Diskianterezh]

I have to stress though, there is no internal team working on this game, and we are not planning to start one up. But we do want to give back to the community, so the 2.0.4 patch is also being expanded a little bit with requests coming from modders.

Wonderful news !
While I'm at it, I see you're taking modders requests . Would it be possible to add the ability to mod the "remove from office" button validation conditions?
If we want to add conditions for changing a general, governor, or advisor (for instance, when it's unloyal he cannot be removed, but it could also take other modded reasons), there is no actual way to change the condition of the boolean, its hardcoded. We have to instead mod the UI by forcing the button gray under conditions, which is both like trying to pick apples by uprooting the tree, and horrible for mod compatibility !
Thank you for your time in any case.

 

[PDXKatten]

New Update to Open Beta

There is a new branch 2.0.4-old with the previous version that is available NOW!


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# Bugfixes
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# Game Mechanic
- Fixed bug where temp modifiers were removed when provinces are annexed as part of a civil war
- Fix a bug when using add_to_war effect, adding a defender would always make it the war leader

# Effects
- Added set_player_country effect to allow modders to swtich the player's country
- Added add_deity_to_pantheon effect to allow deities outside of the allowed pool to a country's pantheon
- Added set_automated_trading effect to enable/disable state automated trading
- Added set_governor_policy effect to change governor policy
- Added unlock_invention effect to directly unlock a invention for free (without checking preconditions)
- Added add_trade_route and remove_trade_route effects to add and remove trade routes, respectively

# Triggers
- Added is_automated_trading trigger to check if a state has automated trading set
- Added distance_from trigger to check the distance between a province and another province, state (capital) or country (capital)
- Added can_unlock_invention to check if an invention can be unlocked by country (optionally ignoring cost, dependencies and potential trigger)
- Added can_add_trade_route to check if a trade route can be added.

# Other
- Added a modifier cultural_assimilation_speed_modifier, which changes the assimilation speed. Assimilation speed less than 0 prevents assimilation.
- Added a property for subject types to allow them to bypass usual subject diplomatic limitations for declaring war (allowed_to_declare_war_against_others). This is not enabled by default for the base game. To fully enable this to work you'll also need to change the allow triggers for wargoals


Integrated fixes provided by the Invictus team:
Thank you Imperator: Invictus Mod Development team with highlight to Robbe Vander Kerken (aka Snowlet) & Nathaniel Van Drei (aka Dementive)

# Achievements:
- Fixed the Great Destroyer achievement being impossible to obtain
- Fixed Cincinattus achievement being impossible to obtain

# Governor policy:
- Switched to more efficient iterator: any_integrated_culture
- AI will no longer attempt the religious conversion governor policy when they have major syncretism

# Inventions:
- Switched to more efficient iterator: any_integrated_culture

# Missions:
- Fixed broken tooltip in Strategic Fastness Antigonid task
- Fixed broken AI triggers in Carthaginian missions
- Fixed Hannid character not being put into the Hannid family
- Fixed AI carthage not paying for the city in Cypriot Opportunities task
- Fixed Experienced Shipwrights being impossible to complete as it requires impassable territories
- Added missing ai_mission_back_out_trigger and start_mission_ai_effect in missions
- Macedonian missions now account for Imperial Cult government type
- Fixed province investment checks not account for Spartan investments
- Addex extra sanity checks to Macedonian missions
- Fixed several Macedonian task triggers not working
- Fixed Roman AI not getting claims upon Aquitania
- Fixed Protector of the Aegean Sea not highligting subjects correctly

# Character interactions:
- Fixed still being able to bribe mercenaries from countries with the Mercenary Benefits invention

# Unit Abilities:
- Optimized check for Barca Legion from Forced march

# Events:
- Fixed released countries not having a primary culture
- Fixed missing 'equals' characters in the scripts
- Fixed wrongly set global variable for the parthian invasion
- Fixed Antigonid capital being incorrectly set upon collapsing
- Fixed Mithradaic events not properly unlocking Pontus content
- Fixed Arsaces being able to spawn twice
- Fixed ruler not appearing in Carthaginian Iberian events
- Deleted extra dot from opinion modifier in Roman Greece missions
- Fixed Eastern Empire mission not triggering if you only have land in Macedonia
- Fixed duplicated ai_chance blocks in Western Greek missions
- Added sanity checks to ports being built through effect
- Fixed league of Korinthos not properly annexing subjects
- Fixed Serapis sanctuary taking 36 and not 360 days to be built
- Added failsafe in Egyptian character creation for events
- Fixed wrong tooltip for opinion modifier in Cities of Greece task
- Fixed Epirus subjugating themselves in the Magna Graecian missions
- Fixed Pax Epirum potentially spamming the error log
- Fixed characters befriending themselves
- Fixed desecration event opinion tooltip showing the wrong country
- Fixed broken modifier duration in Armenian events
- Fixed politics events using incorrect syntax to check countries in diplomatic range
- Fixed Republic event incorrectly checking for party scopes
- Fixed Cretan event occasionally annexing the world
- Fixed Co-Consuls being deposed by going to the olympics
- Fixed most prestigious family fading into obscurity
- Fixed startup events not pointing to your country
- Fixed error log spam from a dead character losing health

# GUI:
- Removed unused GUI types from GUI files making the GUI editor more stable
- select_import_destination.gui changed the y size of a scrollarea to remain within the window
- Replaced 4 buttons in console.gui that crash the game with useful buttons for modding
- portrait_editor_window made it possible to move the window and made all features usable

# Shaders:
- Changed gfx/FX/coat_of_arms/coat_of_arms_textured_emblem.shader so textured emblems actually work, re-added their red channel which was accidentally removed.

# Localization:
- Fixed loads of spelling errors
- Fixed various grammatical errors
- Fixed Agriana being called Agrianaa
- Fixed Ati Muwer being referred to as a male
- Fixed missing apostrophe in 'Attar
- Fixed capitalization issues
- Fixed loyalty icon not appearing
- Removed extra spaces after names

# Various fixes:
- Commented out lines triggering non-existent events
- Fixed AI Rome not getting claims on Central Gaul
- Fixed Anoint heir checking for a commented out law
- Fixed Forced March checking for a non-existent terrain type
- Added many missing equal signs
- Replaced errorous 7 character with "{"
- Fixed missions checking for "mountains" instead of "mountain"
- Fixed "[" being used instead of "{" in effect syntax
- Fixed Elephantina being unobtainable due to checking for "warelephants" instead of "warelephant" unit
- Fixed Ferrata being unobtainable due to checking for "heavy_infrantry" instead of "heavy_infantry" unit
- Fixed Antigonid events in rare cases triggering a non-existent event
- Fixed League of Korinthos forming while the player is a subject of Macedon in Greece triggering the wrong event
- Fixed non-existent Rhodes sacking event being triggered
- Fixed Carthaginian naval dominance missions checking for non-existent region
- Fixed Thracian and Roman events improperly checking for Galatia region
- Fixed Oinoandia coat of arms having a wrongly defined colour
- Fixed cancelling the Death to Tyrants mission potentially finding a wrong character to put as ruler
- Fixed edge-case where recruiting a character could raise an error
- Fixed using the omen effect on Daniel having wrong syntax
- Fixed Apotheosis manpower and money effects not having a minimum setup properly
- Fixed several wrongly defined minimum and maximums
- Fixed Daring trait not increasing likelihood of injuries
- Fixed "Forced Smiles" event where Commander demands an office for a friend not triggering and not being updated to account for Governors
- Fixed wrong areas being selected in for loyalty hit in event where Governor demands they adapt to local mannerisms
- Fixed "Learning from experience" event potentially selecting a party leader and being impossible for non-republics to trigger
- Fixed several minor edge-case and syntax issues in generic infrastructure mission events
- Fixed Carthaginian trade mission events showing the wrong character
- Fixed unneeded if's in monarchy events
- Fixed "Crisis in X" event attempting to show too many characters
- Fixed Rapax and Improba distinctions never triggering
- Fixed broken edge-case tooltip in Install Philokles decision
- Fixed Egyptian marriage event potentialyl failing to find a Thracian bride
- Ensured else_if was properly used instead of using else, if
- In common\loyalty\00_events.txt line 2876 was `ymonths`, it has been changed to `months`
- In events\storms.txt there were 2 checks for `is_in_region = areas`, the areas region does not exist so these lines were removed
- In common\modifiers\00_from_events_province.txt there were a few modifiers with like `local_population_happiness = -0.1.0` that I removed the extra decimal point from.
- The monthly_tarentum_war_pulse on_action incorrectly used is_in_region = carthage_area which is an area not a region, I changed it to africa_region.
- Fix great_work_template_06 being used in gw_ai_build even though it was removed
- Fix italia_region being used instead of central_italy_region in greek missions 4
- Fix missing = in make_subject effect in 01_seleukid_missions_03_anatolia.txt and in events/me_seleukid_03_anatolia.txt
- Fix missing closing bracket in script_values/00_army_values.txt
- Fix missing = on line 578 of script_values/00_mission_egypt.txt
- Fix is_in_region = tripolitania_occidentalis_area in script_values/00_missions.txt, changed to is_in_area.
- Fix bugged is_in_area = carthage_area check in dhe_dde_pyrhus.txt events file
- Fix block of code incorrectly placed inside of a random_list effect in events/governor_policies.txt line 657
- Fix incorrectly spelled colors in coat_of_arms/00_pre_scripted_countries.txt
- Remove change_country_color = "median_color" line from form_media decisions because median_color does not exist
- Remove duplicate modifier = {} blocks from military traditions in 00_latin, 00_persian, and 00_persian_2
- Fix ai_build_city_pay_price_effect being used in area scope instead of country scope in 01_spartan_missions_02_peloponnesus.txt
- Fix incorrect use of is_culture trigger in modifiers/00_triggered_character_modifiers.txt
- Remove duplicate script values in 00_mission_antigonid, 00_mission_carthage, and 00_mission_epirus
- Fix incorrect scope for fam:40 used in scripted_effects/00_dde_pyrrhus_effects
- Fix incorrect scope for has_same_family trigger in scripted_effects/00_on_action_effects
- Fix incorrect usage of unit_owner scope in scripted_guis/desecrate_holy_site.txt
- Remove duplicate map = yes field in civilian_road_building.txt
- Change floor = 1 to proper use with floor = yes in unit_abilities/pillage.txt
- Fix incorrect scope for owns_or_subject_owns on line 624 of dhe_macedon.txt
- Fix usage of has_culture_group instead of country_culture_group in dhe_judea.txt
- Fix incorrect use of country scope in right_portrait fields of events in country_diplomacy.txt
- Fix left_portrait = yes in me_roman_2_provincia.txt
- Fix use of [ instead of { in me_greek_2_greece.txt
- Fix use of has_province_modifier instead of has_character_modifier on line 547 of rel_flavor_buddhist
- Fix incorrect scoping to head_of_family in royal_marriage.txt
- Fix missing = on line 279 of characterwindow.gui
- Fix missing = on line 246 of messages.gui
- Fix missing = on line 189 of multi_unit_window.gui
- Fix missing bracket in culture_view.gui and government_view.gui for the top level base_window block
- Fix too many decimals in debug_menus.gui line 649
- Fix too many decimals in multiplayer_lobby.gui
- Fix broken block of brackets at the bottom of game_configuration.gui
- Remove extra } at the end of overview_view.gui
- Fix missing bracket in select_fabricate_claim.gui line 77
- Remove extra bracket from the end of select_target_character.gui and create_social_profile_window.gui
- Fix missing bracket errors in gw_tower_03_bottom.asset and female_clothes_iberian_3.asset asset files
- Fix missing = in frontend_mainview, frontend_singleplayer, loadscreen, and progressbar_idler
- Fix incorrect spelling of GetNameWithNoTooltip function in shared/cooltip.gui

 

[Lord Lambert]

New Update 4/11/2024​

Oof we gotta wait 7 months for this? D:

 

[PDXKatten]

Oof we gotta wait 7 months for this? D:

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[Lord Lambert]

You saw nothing

 

[IsaacCAT]

Wonderful sight