Release! | Hearts of Iron IV: By Blood Alone

[Markodds]

Why is the the Sultanate of Aussa not shown on the playable country list? It has its own focus tree you know. HoI4 is getting more and more inconsistent for every expansion

 

[Sunsteel]

Why is the the Sultanate of Aussa not shown on the playable country list? It has its own focus tree you know. HoI4 is getting more and more inconsistent for every expansion
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because it's not a unique tree as it's shared with other nations in the Horn of Africa.

 

[Kafiavo]

worst Portuguese translation by far, half is missing and the other makes 0 sense

 

[Prometheus_1]

When I launch the game it crashes constantly.

 

[Alberto_woofwoof]

I am very confused. Isn't the DLC meant to be out on Thursday?

 

[Dimmie_Dumm]

When I launch the game it crashes constantly.

Switch to DX9.0, it worked for me. Look at the pinned thread.

 

[Prometheus_1]

Switch to DX9.0, it worked for me. Look at the pinned thread.

I had to reinstall all the game , its a pity this works so bad I wated all day to play , I preordered it and now I have to wait hours since I have slow connection redownloading the whole game !

 

[CantGetNoSleep]

Now Live!

Patch Notes Here!

The future of war hangs in the balance. Take to the skies and pen the annals of history in the latest expansion for Hearts of Iron IV - By Blood Alone

Buy it here!

If you missed any of our Developer Diaries or By Blood Alone Tutorials, then check this list down below!

Developer Diaries​

16	Art & Achievements	New art and achievements for By Blood Alone
15	Tech	Updated OS requirements and performance improvements of Avalanche
14	Modding	Overhauled Career Profile with Playthrough Overviews and (moddable!) in-game Awards
13	Quality of Life Improvements	Changes to war support, piercing, AI tank strategy, and more
12	Peace Conference Roundup	Overview of the new peace conference system, including UI and new demand types
11	Division Commanders & Unit Medals	New field officers and awardable medals for divisions.
10	Plane Designer	A look at the new plane designer.
9	Ethiopia #2	A look at the alternate history branches of the new Ethiopian focus tree.
8	Switzerland #2	A look at the alternate history branches of the new Swiss focus tree.
7	Italy #2	A look at the alternate history branches of the updated Italian focus tree.
6	Ethiopia #1	A look at the common and historical branches of the new Ethiopian focus tree.
5	Switzerland #1	A look at the historical branch of the new Swiss focus tree.
4	Italy #1	A look at the common and historical branches of the updated Italian focus tree.
3	Designer Corner: Naval Rebalance	Goals and implementation plans for naval rebalance.
2	Designer Corner: Air Changes	Open discussion for changes to Air management and combat.
1	Designer Corner: Peace Conference	Open discussion for changes to peace conferences.

By Blood Alone Tutorials​

4	Naval Changes & Balance of Power	Join Andrew Channel as they educate you on the changes to the naval system and about the upcoming Balance of Power mechanic.
3	Divisional Command	Join Andrew Channel as they explain the new Divisional Command features coming with By Blood Alone!
2	Air Changes	Join Andrew Channel as they guide you through the changes to the air game coming with By Blood Alone and the Avalanche update!
1	Peace Conferences	Join Andrew Channel as they educate you on the coming changes to Peace Conferences for By Blood Alone and the Avalanche update.

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Crashes on launch. again and again and again. But somehow reporting it (via MSFT thing) fails. No mods.

worked just fine a few hours ago before update.

Running DX12. If I click the DX9 option in launcher, the game still crashes. Do I need to downgrade my DirectX? It is, to put it mildly, disappointing.

Update: Full reinstall of the game. Still crashed.

Final (hopefully) update: selecting the "OpenGL" option (whatever that is) in the launcher worked so far, in that the game hasn't crashed on launch.

 

[CantGetNoSleep]

Switch to DX9.0, it worked for me. Look at the pinned thread.

You kidding me? Need to revert to DX9.0 from DX12 for it to work???

 

[marijn211]

The port balance is pretty terrible if you want to naval invade or fight in like the UK

 

[tecgn]

Anyone having an issue where the game seems to load up ok, but the display is very dark? I have reloaded and reinstalled the game but no change. Everything was working fine until the update.

 

[anyukakedvence]

Hello! I have checked the new airplane building system and i am disappointed. I would like to play with planes what was in the old version. It hurts my eyes when i see interwar small airframe... They had a name before. Is it possible to combine the old with the new systzem?
When you finished a new airframe and you got some basic plane as . For example when you research basic small airframe with Hungary, then you will get a Fighter template (Ezüst Nyíl) and CAS (WM-21 Sólyom). They should have some equipment like an engine and something class specific and the players could modify after.
Regards, Zoltan.

 

[Treviranus]

One thing that irks me a little is that Vittorio Emmanuele gets bonus traits for being the king of Albania and Ethiopia, but these don't get transferred if you retire him for his son Umberto even though you still control Albania and Ethiopia.

 

[Darth Howard]

because it's not a unique tree as it's shared with other nations in the Horn of Africa.

Cool, on vacation so can't check out the DLC, but countries in East Africa have shared trees now? Missed them in the dev diaries

 

[Tennō heika banzai]

South Tyrol isn't correctly portrayed as an occupied territory affected by resistance but instead as core state despite the vast majority German population, the famous South Tyrolian resistance and Greater German stance of the population...
You're doing this for the other italian colonies, most notably Zadar/Zara despite more than 70% of the population being italian, why not this one??

It's not even shown in the occupied territories tab as releasable.
And neither Austria nor Germany have it even as their own core.
This is just laughable

 

[lilcritt]

The port balance is pretty terrible if you want to naval invade or fight in like the UK

If you can air supply, that has been my saving grace.

 

[ToTiTo88]

Anyone having an issue where the game seems to load up ok, but the display is very dark? I have reloaded and reinstalled the game but no change. Everything was working fine until the update.

I have the same problem as you but I can't solve it unfortunately ...
Before the update everything was fine

 

[Simon_9732495]

Anyone having an issue where the game seems to load up ok, but the display is very dark? I have reloaded and reinstalled the game but no change. Everything was working fine until the update.

I have the same problem as you but I can't solve it unfortunately ...
Before the update everything was fine

Try to revert to DX9.

See here:

New DirectX11 Renderer (and how to revert to DX9 if you have issues)

Good evening everyone! As mentioned in the previous dev diary, with the Avalanche update the default renderer in now DirectX11. If you were using DirectX9 previously, the launcher will perform a one-time upgrade to DirectX11 the first time you...

forum.paradoxplaza.com

Edit:
And here:

Experiencing Issues launching BBA? Please run through this checklist first

Some users are reporting being unable to launch the game, not seeing content in the game at launch, or graphical oddities. Before filing a report, please take the time to confirm that you've run through these steps. It may seem tedious, but the...

forum.paradoxplaza.com

 

[Philipp Felix Magnus]

 

[Prometheus_1]

Ok finally after a lot of Struggle I could play the game and, YES finally Italy got the tech tree it deserved, making it worth playing .