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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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Is it a f**king JoJo reference?!?!?!111!
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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Other achievments also look fun or painful (I'm looking at you Mehmet)

Overall great work with a DLC, I am already waiting for 18 April :D
 
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Is it a f**king JoJo reference?!?!?!111!
The Stardust Crusaders would be more fitting if you also would have to conquer places where their fighted (dotted ones), it would be more demanding :)View attachment 963978

Other achievments also look fun or painful (I'm looking at you Mehmet)

Overall great work with a DLC, I am already waiting for 18 April :D
April 18 will be here before you know it!
 
Ah yes, another conquer Britain achievement. To go with For Odin!, Luck of the Irish, Stiff Upper Lippe, Empire of Mann, the Iron Price and the Bohemians.

Joking aside, most of them seem like a challenge. Not sure how to do the Ottomans one. It's basically a 'conquer Europe before 1500' achievement. Or close to, at least, since the rest will be in a coalition against you.
It's the viking blood. Imagining invading the British isles really gets the blood up.

Don't forget the partial ones either. The sun never sets, around the world, etc.
 
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Not the best bunch of achievements, but not the worst either. Lions of the North had some pretty good ones that actually got you to experience the new content, and only had one stupid meme achievement. These ones thankfully aren't just stupid puns, but at the same time I don't think they fit with the new content as well as the LotN ones did.
 
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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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More stupid meme achievements instead of any actually fun or interesting ones? Surely not!
 
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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
Munich, Landshut, Bremen, Ingolstadt & Dithmarschen are all blue in the HRE. Some of the French minors are too. Tyrconnell up in Ireland as well and Odoyev over in the East. Venice too. IIRC Karaman should count as Europe so they should count. Crimea possibly as well, although they're possibly more green than blue.
 
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Meh, these look way too hard for the average player. I wish achievements would be more reasonable, and less aimed at the super min-maxers. This is disappointing
 
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the Inti achievement in particular is a great distillation of how annoying the company's fawning for MP players is. Oh someone at the Grandest LAN did something ludicrous? Genuinely, sincerely, why should anyone in the wider playerbase care?
 
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the Inti achievement in particular is a great distillation of how annoying the company's fawning for MP players is. Oh someone at the Grandest LAN did something ludicrous? Genuinely, sincerely, why should anyone in the wider playerbase care?
I find this one really weird and specific too, it's kind of odd that they have us basically recreating someone's grandest lan campaign for an achievement. It's just such an "unnatural" way of playing. Not the worst thing in the world, but just a very odd achievement choice.
 
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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.

If we're going to add this achievement, then we should at least adjust the provinces required to form Rome to accord better with Roman history. Egypt and North Africa were much more important to ancient Rome than Mesopotamia or Britain ever were.

Which, incidentally, would dovetail with this achievement anyway, since the Egypt would be one of the main Ottoman Eyalets in any case.
 
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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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Honestly, these achievements are some of the worst I've seen since I started following the game in 2017
 
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