HOI4 Dev Diary - 1.9.2 Update

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Hi everyone I hope you are enjoying 1.9.1 and La Resistance. Today will be a smaller diary to let you know that we are putting out a beta for 1.9.2, and also to fill you in on what the plan is now moving forward into next expansion work.

1.9.2 Beta
Since we came back from easter we have been working hard on nailing down some stubborn out of sync bugs. Some of those still elude us so the quest continues but we have also gotten some other things dealt with. Click below for changelog:

Spoiler: Changelog so far

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# Balance
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- added mil factory to china that was incorrectly set up in 1.9.1

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# Bugfix
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- Soviet now retains the old behaviour of sending volunteers to spain
- Fix end of civil war events no longer firing (initially reported on German Civil war)

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# Stability & Performance
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- Fixed OOS related to different language settings between the host and client
- Fixed OOS due to differing ship name in combat result
- Fixed OOS when joining a MP that has not LaR with a client that has LaR enable while comming back from a game with active operatives
- Added basic land and naval combat details to hourly OOS checks
- Fixed save game formatting of AI strategies for managing production of army roles, to use text instead of unstable numeric IDs
- Enabled the abort on map error for when game files are modified in the installation directory
- Fixed CTD when showing the leaderboard before going back to the main menu
- Fix a CTD on related to clearing strategic air data and processing air activity

The beta patch thread is over here and includes info on how to opt into it

We have no release date on this yet, but its not planned to be a giant mega patch like 1.9.1. The goal is to deal with the OOS issues and mop up anything major we missed as well as do some balancing (some operations need a buff for example).

Future
Working from home during the corona pandemic has started to feel more and more normal for us although I really miss hanging out with co-workers at the pub or the like. We are very fortunate to be able to work on at home and not be impacted as heavily as other companies. Paradox has also been super supportive and sending us dinners from local restaurants (gotto make sure they are still there when we go back to work!) and the like.

As for development we are still fixing some stuff but the team is transitioning over to working on the next expansion now. That means that this will be the last dev diary for a while. We will let you know when they kick off again when we know If you want to follow work on 1.9.2 keep an eye on the beta thread. That said expect to hear from us from time to time during the work period .

Stay safe inside your panzers everyone!

 

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Who's been writing the patchlogs lately? The English is awful.

Its me. My english has always been awful

 

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No news about desyncs? Playing multiplayer only with slowest speed, is a bit slow.

ah maybe not everyone is familiar with OOS = Out Of Sync. That was a large part of the diary update and changelog

Just for the record, I had to parse that third OOS fix for half a minute, before I figured out what you meant.

oh you mean the actual logs. Thats a mix of team members so it can be a bit varied in quality

 

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How about tell us what the expansion is going to be about?

A bit early for that I will say that in some ways people will be surprised, and in some other ways they totally wont be

 

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@podcat Will multiplayer save games from 1.9.1 work on the 1.9.2 and will the desync fixes apply to them?

1-9.1->1.9.2 should be savegame compatible yea.

 

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This problem was discussed a lot, but the devs never respond on this. I think the better and simply solution is that "Around Maginot" also requires Poland to have capitulated or Germany is not at war with Poland

telling AI germany to go for norway in this situation would be straight up suicide unless we hardcoded a lot of allied behaviour or a special teleporter to oslo. It would hurt the game too much. Germany needs to do Around Maginot to make sure it is ready to hit the low countries fast. Its quite close to disaster if allies start getting ready to support france. imo timing is how we intend it as its the way that will work best.