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Europa Universalis IV - Development Diary 4th of April 2023 - Achievements

Hello everybody! Welcome to today’s Developer Diary!

My name is Arnau, I am an Internal QA Tester working at Tinto. And I'm here with @Pintu to bring you this week's Dev Diary where we will focus on one of our favorite topics, the new Achievements that will accompany 1.35.

The idea we have about achievements is to try to give a new inspiration or goal to our beloved players. Some of them are to provide additional depth and difficulty of the campaign and others are paths that will diverge from your normal gameplay experience. We have tried to give a little bit of everything in these new achievements and we hope you will enjoy them.
With the focus of Domination being on some of the major powers of the time it was a bit more difficult than usual to find suitable Achievements, since a lot of these nations are already covered with a fair share of Achievements.
So here is the list of the achievements we at Tinto came up with for the 1.35 Patch.

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From Frankfurt to the Andes
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Starting as Frankfurt, form Jerusalem, and then form the Inca while owning Mallorca.

Let’s start with a small history Lesson for this one. There once was a small group of people in the Imperial City of Frankfurt. After being kicked out of the City because of rebellious behavior they did find asylum on the Balearic Islands where they quickly established themselves as Pirates to live in true freedom. This newfound Freedom brough to a variety of new shores, but one place inspired them more than anything, the Holy City of Jerusalem. From there they spread their beliefs to the New World, where they gave refuge to expelled People from all over the world. With these people, and some inspiration found while looking into the wisdom of the Sun, they swiftly drafted a new plan to ensure their everlasting legacy. And so the Inti State of Jerusalem was born.
What? That sounds like a fantasy story to you? You better brush up on your history lessons then!
Jokes aside, this Achievement was born out of the Grandest LAN last year and the participants from our Studio might have joined a Cult in the process and this is the payment that is expected from us now.

Mehmet's Ambition
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Starting as The Ottomans, own or have Core Eyalets own all the provinces required to form the Roman Empire before 1500.

Do you want to prove to everyone who is the true Successor of the Roman Empire? Make the Conqueror proud by establishing yourself as the true Roman Emperor Sultan.

Triple the Rome
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As Russia, be the Emperor of China and the HRE.

You might ask yourself what there is to aim for as a mighty emperor. Obviously a second emperor title! Or two…

No Country for Old Tercios
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As Spain have Reformed Tercios, 33 Tercio Units, and control 3 Great Power capitals at the same time.

Gonzalo, get the pike! It’s time to show them how to manage this. I think a third of the World should be ours.

All Blue
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As Portugal, all Europe is owned by you or blue European countries that exist in 1444.

All the good things in life are blue. The sky, the sea and even Portugal. Live out your dream to find the All Blue! On your Journey you will find people who share the same Dream.

Stardust Crusaders
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As Japan have the Land of the Christian Sun reform while Palestine and Cairo are Christian.

"Oh, you're approaching me? Instead of running away, you're coming straight to me?”

Copium Wars
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Starting and playing as Ming, own the Britain region.

Don’t worry, they are just here to teach you about Tea.

Brentry
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Starting as England, form the Angevin Kingdom and enact all the Acts of Crown parliamentary issues.

Guess who's back. And now with an even fresher color, new ideas and the desire to take it all around. Assert your claim to the french throne and guide Europe to your Dream of a true union.

The Reapers
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Starting as Aragon, be a Peasant Republic and have Madrid and Paris owned by any Peasant Republic.

We are peaceful people who want to bring you freedom. What, you don't want to embrace our system? Well, we have other tools to make you see reason.

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So, that’s all for today! Since we are close to release this Dev Diary is a rather short one, since there is not much left to cover for this Updates Cycle.
In next week's Dev Diary we will talk about the Changelog for the coming 1.35 Update. We hope you are as excited as we are for the Release of the 1.35 Patch and Domination in just two weeks from now.​

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Dont worry achievement hunters we still <3 you
 
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That Ottoman achi is going to be coalition hell. All of Iberia, France and Italy in 56 years??

Also admin hell. Is there even enough to core all of it in that time? Since you dont have to core it, 600% OE incoming?
 
Russia starts as Orthodox. To become EoC, it needs an Eastern religion. Let's suppose they convert to Tengri. To be HREmperor it needs to be Christian, let's suppose that any denomination works. But if it becomes Tengri, it ceases to be HREmperor, and if it becomes Christian, they cease to be EoC. Is that right? If it's right, it wouldn't be possible to hold both titles simultaneously.
 
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RichardOlcese said:
Russia starts as Orthodox. To become EoC, it needs an Eastern religion. Let's suppose they convert to Tengri. To be HREmperor it needs to be Christian, let's suppose that any denomination works. But if it becomes Tengri, it ceases to be HREmperor, and if it becomes Christian, they cease to be EoC. Is that right? If it's right, it wouldn't be possible to hold both titles simultaneously.
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Unless you first become Tengri, then use it to become EoC, and switch back to Christian (supposing that the Eastern religion is needed only to become EoC, but not to stay as it). Is that twisted proposition even possible?
 
i love the Jojo reference right there also do you plan to improve some of UI
It's like a nightmare to look at the manpower information tab when we gain manpower from multiple TC
 
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Saat98 said:
I'm wondering which countries are blue for the purpose of Portugal's achievement. France is blue so that is a big help, but other than that, I believe that only Sweden is blue, am I right? Prussia doesn't count since it doesn't exist in 1444
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There are many more blue countries in 1444. Portugal is a relatively dark blue, so you have to also include other dark blue countries and light blue countries to even that out. Here is a map with the country colors in Europe for reference:
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Imereti for example is also still in Europe in eu4
 
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Most of them are exploity, memey or/and immersion-breaking. Like, I'm a fan of One Piece, and the achievement from Lions of the North with the reference to it was good, but this is too ridiculous and seems generally too out of place with the rest of achievements. Same can be said for most of these new achievements too.

The previous achievement DD had just two "respectable disagrees" (https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...development-diary-9th-of-august-2022.1538228/) and this already have 17, mind you
 
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Sayndre27 said:
Since France is getting the biggest mission tree in the game (84 missions), shouldn't they get an achievement to complete it? Kinda like Austria, Spain and GB have their own.
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84 on the paper only. This is a maximum of 77 if you exclude path / branching missions that you won't choose. And if you complete the conquest missions of the first part of the tree, then the revolutionnary missions are for the most part already done.
 
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Disappointingly few, and not particularly good selections in my opinion. I agree with
Kenshiro_kun said:
The Stardust Crusaders would be more fitting if you also would have to conquer places where they fighted (dotted ones), it would be more demanding :)
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's post that the jojo achievement should have been based on the sites where the show takes place, and I also think the Frankfurt achievement is one of the most nonsensical thus far.

I think there was a major missed opportunity with the Russia achievement (Triple the Rome), which could have been to own Constantinople and Rome, while being the HRE emperor. I don't really get the correlation with being Emperor of China.

That being said, I still eagerly await the patch!
 
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Will going Angevin for the Brentry achievement disallow earning the Anglophile achievement (complete all British missions)? I know your mission tree will switch up and idk if Anglophile will want the island/colonial British missions
 
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I really think the Copium Wars achievement should be Ming OR Qing.

Also, a lot of these achievements are a bit too memey, guaranteeing individual campaigns for every single achievement. My favourite playthroughs are ones that can stack multiple achievements in one run, but naturally, without having to cheese. I prefer more relaxed games, where I don't have to stress out over getting hard achievements. Most of these achievements seem too difficult for it to be fun for me.
 
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hey dear developer, is ottoman events and all mechanics still tied to ottoman goverment ? i wanna play as catholic ottomans and still have some flavor. any major power doesnt have a problem like that.
 
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The Ottoman achievement seems only possible if the Ottoman Campaign CB we can fabricate has a fixed warscore to enforce it. I presume it also allows you to take land in the peace deal, to get adjacency for fabricating on new targets, since you need to neighbor a tag to fabricate the CB on them. I had a feeling this CB is gonna be OP, the achievement seems to confirm my suspicions, but I guess we'll see in two weeks time. I also foresee a possible problem with the core eyalet requirement, according to the DD (they showed Transylvania, which isn't a hugely deved tag), they get positive reasons to accept based on dip rep and opinion, and negative reasons to reign them in based on their development (Transylvania had -40 reasons for dev in the DD), so you probably won't be able to turn large tags such as France into core eyalets. Unless you start with someone small, reign them in then feed them (IRC they said one eyalet per region, but I could misremember something). Gonna be interesting for sure.
 
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