HoI 4 - SOV Focus Tree reset after winning a Civil War (1.5.0 [9515])

[Sultan Suleiman]

Description of issue
SOV Focus Tree reset after winning a Civil War (1.5.0 [9515])

Game Version
Cornflakes 1.5.0

Enabled DLC
All of the above

Do you have mods enabled?
No

Description
Sometime after the 4th International event (with historical focus mode turned OFF), a civil war erupts in the Soviet Union, with non-aligned Russia appearing around Kazakhstan.

Everything proceeds normally, until the Stalin wins the conflict. After the treaty is signed, all of the Soviet Union's national focuses are reset, and Stalin begins focusing again on The Great Purge (the focus he almost always chooses first without historical focus mode on).

Seems like Stalin's progress in the game should be left unchanged, since he's surviving a coup attempt, not starting a new government: unfortunately, the bug breaks the Soviet Union several years into the campaign.

Steps to Reproduce
1. Play with historical focus mode turned off.
2. Take The Great Purge.
3. Wait of the 4th International (with the outcome of Stalin falling into paranoia and reclusiveness and the warning of an imminent civil war).
4. Wait for non-aligned Russia to rebel (Officers Revolt)
5. Win the war and annex Russia.

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[Guntrigger]

Hi,
Thanks for the report, we are investigating this now.

 

[Guntrigger]

Issue has been reproduced internally and logged.
Thanks again for the quality bug report.

 

[Lothar Warschau]

This also happened to me when I was playing SOV yesterday.

 

[Triglav]

bug is quite deeper than that , copypast with translation of my post from other forum:

"So , Soviet Union receive in 1.5.0 new mechanic for Purge wich allowed to have all National Spirits from national focus tree and 7 research slots in Ironman game without any mod

how does this work :
- research national focus tree (and +1 research slot) except "Found the PCDI" and lower , I recomend Collectivist Propaganda path or you lose Armor Genius Konstantin Rokossovsky (he is not national spirit, only national spirits survive wipe after civil war)
- Purge , dont kill officers
- after purge research "Rehabilitated Military" or "NKVD Primacy" path and be ready to dive for "Closed City Network" (+1 research slot) when civil war started
- officers revolt started and we dive for "Closed City Network" national focus , war shouldnt ended before we research it
- and here is new mechanic , end of civil war wiped national focus tree , but all national spirits and research slots survive
- Great Purge not researched so, instant Trotsky Coup , we can choose easy way with Trotsky or hard way with Stalin
- end of civil war wiped national focus tree again , you can use this to add more factories and infrastructure

After this we have clean national focus tree, national spirits we take and 5 research slots.
Time to pimp our Soviet Union to Super Soviet Union with seven research slots and all national spirits

P.S. Paradox should give "Stalin - Sage of Seven Ways" achievment for this"

 

[Sultan Suleiman]

Guntrigger:

Not a problem! Thank you for logging the report.

Just a note to anyone else suffering from this problem: if you use cheats to annex the rebels as another country and then have the Soviets annex them in turn, it functions as a nifty workaround to maintain the Soviet focus tree (obviously won't work in Ironman games--sorry).

So, for instance, since Luxemburg was already annexed in my game, I did this (via the console activated by the tilde key):

1.) tag GER
2.) Release Luxemburg. Select "Play As."
3.) annex D02 (the rebels, in my case)
4.) tag SOV
5.) annex LUX
6.) tag GER
7.) annex LUX (to prevent the Soviets from holding the province of Luxembourg)

I hope this solution helps people get their game back on track!

 

[Sufferance]

Hey y'all. I just want to add that this bug occured for me in the latest Beta patch as well. 1.5.1