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EU4 - Development Diary - 19th of May 2020

Good morning! It’s time for the achievements dev diary. Typically we write this one the week before the patch notes dev diary (don’t worry, that’s coming soon too), but we’re uploading these achievements to the Steam backend very soon and we want to get ahead of that.

Without further ado, here are the achievements coming with the 1.30 update:

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Mary of Lotharingia - Starting as Burgundy, form Lotharingia and have a female ruler named Marie.

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On the Rhodes Again - Starting as The Knights, conquer and core Constantinople, Jerusalem and Antioch.

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Spaghetti Western - Starting as Bologna, become Mexico or Texas.

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Stern des Südens - Form Bavaria starting as München and have your Subject Bremen own Werder.
Shoutout to @mikesc for this one!

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Stiff Upper Lippe - As Lippe, own all of the British Isles.

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Czechs and Balances - Starting as Bohemia, grant at least two privileges to each estate while having at least 50% Crown Land.

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Don’t be Cilli - Starting as Cilli, form another nation.

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Holiest Roman Empire - As either the Papal States or the Emperor, have the Papal States as an Elector while the HRE is officially Catholic.

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Inner Turmoil - Starting as The Isles, own 20 provinces by 1500, none of which are on Islands.

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Kingdom of God - Starting as the Papal State, become the Kingdom of God.
Shoutout to our very own @Duplo who posed for this image. Certainly a dashing figure.

The following achievements are exclusive to owners of the Emperor DLC:

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Everything's Coming Up Mulhouse - Starting as Mulhouse, become Emperor of the HRE and completely decentralize the Empire.

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God Tier - Become a Tier 5 Defender of the Faith as a nation that is neither Catholic nor Sunni.

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Napoleon’s Ambition - As Revolutionary France, spread the Revolution to 10 countries.

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AEIOU - Complete the Austrian mission tree.

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Global Hegemony - Reach 100% Strength as any type of Hegemon.

This brings our total number of achievements to a massive 310. As always we’ve tried to include a mix of difficulty levels and a variety of goals. Personally I think I’ll start with Kingdom of God to get the most out of the new Catholic features, and of course to see “Kingdom of God” printed across the map.

That’s all for today! Join me next week for the final content-focused dev diary that was promised last week. As I’m sure you’ve heard, the Emperor expansion and the free 1.30 update will release on June the 9th. You can pre-purchase Emperor on Steam, or even right here on Paradoxplaza.
 
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All these achievents look interesting and fun, except this one:

On the Rhodes Again - Starting as The Knights, conquer and core Constantinople, Jerusalem and Antioch.
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It's yet another achievemnet centered around forming Jerusalem by x. We already have Good King Rene and King of Jerusalem. Isn't it too much?
 
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promant said:
All these achievents look interesting and fun, except this one:



It's yet another achievemnet centered around forming Jerusalem by x. We already have Good King Rene and King of Jerusalem. Isn't it too much?
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I didn't see anything about having to form Jerusalem to get this achievement. It's one you can double up with King of Jerusalem, but you don't have to.
 
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Inner Turmoil - Starting as The Isles, own 20 provinces by 1500, none of which are on Islands.

The Isles has one of the best ideas yet is one of the hardest to play. If only this achievement were available months ago when I played as The Isles :D
 
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It's cool there are some new achievements for the Ironman folk.
Although their "memeness" doesn't sit well with me. Why shouldn't achievements describe something alt-historical, strange or difficult to achieve rather than mostly revolve around puns?
 
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Muelleri said:
I think AI&Balance update will be in patch notes. Mission tree that din show up until now is Genoa, switzerland(it was shown in dev clash), french minors, italian minors, german minors, albania, brittany, bulgaria, pomerania etc.
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Ah the good old patch notes like "you now need 50% development in that continent to move your capital.". It's a single line in the patch notes and completely warped how the game is played anywhere outside of Europe.

TC are getting changed, though, so that's something.

Anyway, you're right of course.
 
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only 15 achievements!! In 2018 there were 40 new achievements over the course of the year and after a year and a half they only came up with 15?!

much less interested in buying yet another expansion now after this disappointment
 
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whit said:
only 15 achievements!! In 2018 there were 40 new achievements over the course of the year and after a year and a half they only came up with 15?!

much less interested in buying yet another expansion now after this disappointment
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Lol, you play the game only for the achievements?
 
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Was hoping for an additional achievement for Hungary regarding the revamped Black Army. Lots of OPM achievements I doubt I will ever be able to pull off.
 
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whit said:
only 15 achievements!! In 2018 there were 40 new achievements over the course of the year and after a year and a half they only came up with 15?!

much less interested in buying yet another expansion now after this disappointment
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Oh the humanity. Kittens everywhere, dead. Slaughtered.

All this whining. Makes my head implode.

Personally, I find the achievements dandy, I don't mind the pricing of the DLC, I'm perfectly fine with Lotharingia being formable in the game, don't mind not everything being covered in DD's and that you have to go through the patch notes for some info. Also, I have little to say about an achievement icon, which European borders look modern if you squint really hard at the screen for a minute and finally I'm pretty content about another achievement revolving around Jerusalem.
 
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I know this is subjective but boy do I hate achievements that don't exist because that play through would be fun but because the devs thought that pun was hilarious.

Please focus on gameplay first and then think of a funny name for it.


Kingdom of God and the Marie one sound like a good time on the other hand.
 
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promant said:
All these achievents look interesting and fun, except this one:



It's yet another achievemnet centered around forming Jerusalem by x. We already have Good King Rene and King of Jerusalem. Isn't it too much?
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There is no such thing as too much crusade.
There is also no such thing as too many puns, though I would like to see a few harder achievements, most seem very easy or easy to cheese.
 
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Xetfield said:
achievements … are mostly made for the sake of a pun or obnoxious reference.
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Doesn’t this apply to the majority of EU4 achievements anyway?

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Modern political borders? Why?
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Indeed, it's ugly and should be fixed. It looks like it's from some cheap indie game.
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Yep, this bothers me a lot. Same deal with Azur semé de lys or, An Early Reich, and All Belongs to Mother Russia—but those were made in 2014…
Didn’t you know Napoleon is credited as the creator of modern nation-states? Neither did I.
 
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Doesn’t this apply to the majority of EU4 achievements anyway?
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Puns can be married with something making sense in game. e.g. the "Uncommonwealth" requiring to form the PLC as Lithuania, which way fewer player do than starting as Poland. Same as "Poland can into space" being both memeish and punny while requiring one to get max tech by the end of the game as POL or PLC. Then we have puns for the puns' sake, like owning the three Georgias. Finally come the worst offender: the puns creeping into the actual game with Austrasia being part of the Autrian mission tree, while there's nothing pertaining to its centuries long dynastical relationship with Spain.
The first are OK, the second are harmless, but the third category is not cool. The memes should not get into the actual gameplay.
 
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For the sake of maxing out achievements in a single campaign, will it be possible to: form France as Lotharingia, after you RNGed yourself a ruler named Marie, or is Lotharingia an End-Game-Tag?
 
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