HOI4 Dev Diary - Achievements & Patchlog

[CMDR_HERNE]

The Our Words Backed By Nuclear Weapons achievement is a nice reference to the usual warmongering Ghandi in Civ. That did make me chuckle

 

[rainkloud]

Thank you for addressing the airplane issues. Greatly appreciate it and hope your team has a great holiday seasons.

 

[Aodhan_]

Cool 3 new Italian Generals nice sureprise pity there wasn't more, ah well roll on the axis dlc.

 

[OHgamer]

Best thing I like about this DLC is the colonial system. So much potential for modders.

 

[Atheory]

Shirley Temple said it best perhaps

"oh my goodness"

and no, this does not hint at my age.....................

 

[neusaap]

Check the previous DD.

Perhaps I'm simply blind, but all I could find was:

Yes and no.. not for release, but some time in the future you should be able to go:

DANSKE_KOMMUNISTER = {
    color = rgb { 255 0 0 }
    color_ui = rgb { 255 10 10 } 
}

Now, I assume flags are done as follows:
DANSKE_KOMMUNISTER_communism.tga
DANSKE_KOMMUNISTER_democratic.tga
DANSKE_KOMMUNISTER_fascism.tga
(though the latter two don't make sense)
and localisation like this:

l_english:
 DANSKE_KOMMUNISTER_communism:0 "Danish Union of Danish Workerpeople's Danish Republic of Denmark and Not-Sweden"
 DANSKE_KOMMUNISTER_democratic:0 "Danish Democratic People's Republic of Denmark and Not-Sweden"
 DANSKE_KOMMUNISTER_fascism:0 "Danish National People's Republic of Denmark and Not-Sweden"

But how do you do the leaders then? Should you simply script it inside that DANSKE_KOMMUNISTER bit, or use an event to replace them manually (with a uses_cosmetic_tag trigger, or manually inside the same event/focus/whatever you use to trigger the cosmetic tag itself?

 

[Aodhan_]

Shirley Temple said it best perhaps

"oh my goodness"

and no, this does not hint at my age.....................

Had to google Shirley Temple ( only joking great actress )

 

[RELee]

Shirley Temple said it best perhaps

"oh my goodness"

and no, this does not hint at my age.....................

it does reflect on my age. I heard the quote in her little girl voice.

 

[Miinda]

- Voice over sound for infantry units in: German, French, Italian, British english, American english, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish languages.

Will these lines be available for download somewhere? Or will I have to rely on people better at datamining to find them for me?

 

[grandad1982]

@podcat could you go in to some detail about how you fixed the airwing size issue (smaller was better than large) and how this plays out in game? Don't be afraid of too much detail!

@SteelVolt that's a great looking set of ai work. Thank you. Maybe i missed it or failed to notice/understand it if I did see it but was there anything about reducing ai division spam/preventing massive ai equipment deficits?

 

[Tecrinarep]

Could we have some explanation about the nerf of France ? I never had the feeling France had too much tanks in hoi4.

Is it common in MP that the French player use only Inf divisions and LL its tanks to its allies ? It could be a beginning of an explanation.

 

[Niko92]

Perhaps I'm simply blind, but all I could find was:

Now, I assume flags are done as follows:
DANSKE_KOMMUNISTER_communism.tga
DANSKE_KOMMUNISTER_democratic.tga
DANSKE_KOMMUNISTER_fascism.tga
(though the latter two don't make sense)
and localisation like this:

l_english:
 DANSKE_KOMMUNISTER_communism:0 "Danish Union of Danish Workerpeople's Danish Republic of Denmark and Not-Sweden"
 DANSKE_KOMMUNISTER_democratic:0 "Danish Democratic People's Republic of Denmark and Not-Sweden"
 DANSKE_KOMMUNISTER_fascism:0 "Danish National People's Republic of Denmark and Not-Sweden"

But how do you do the leaders then? Should you simply script it inside that DANSKE_KOMMUNISTER bit, or use an event to replace them manually (with a uses_cosmetic_tag trigger, or manually inside the same event/focus/whatever you use to trigger the cosmetic tag itself?

I'm guessing that the way it works is that you can "copy" the identity of another country to another country. For example

ITA = { set_cosmetic_tag = GER }

would give make Italy use Germany's visuals, eg. flags, country names, color, leader names etc. So you just create a fake TAG that can be used as a cosmetic tag.

 

[xoin]

- Added flags for ANG BOT COG MZB KEN and ZIM
- Added 'set_cosmetic_tag' effect wich allows to dynamically change country's appearance: name, flag, map color, names & portraits pool
- Added cosmetic flags for German dominated UKR and BLR

Going to be interesting if strobeflags are not fixed in this patch.

 

[neusaap]

I'm guessing that the way it works is that you can "copy" the identity of another country to another country. For example

ITA = { set_cosmetic_tag = GER }

would give make Italy use Germany's visuals, eg. flags, country names, color, leader names etc. So you just create a fake TAG that can be used as a cosmetic tag.

That would be cool, but then I hope it's really cosmetic and won't screw with techs...

 

[Jorlem]

You can also pre-order Together for Victory here! If you are an owner of the Expansion Pass you'll already get it (together with the next 2 expansions). Owning Together for Victory will also grant you new forum avatars and an unique icon! (actually people with just base game will also get a few new ones as of today)

Will there be a warning if someone with the Expansion Pass tries to buy it anyway?

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Any chance that laws might not be reordered based on which one you have active? (That is, the active law would not be moved in the list of potential laws to the upper left, but remain where it is to allow players to more easily see at a glance how it is relative to other laws in that catagory.)

 

[PhroX]

I must say, Emilio De Bono has some very impressive facial hair.

 

[Tuskin38]

I just knew posts like these would show up. Anybody ignorant of what the zombies actually are, are going to flip their lid when they see the achievement. I hope the tooltip for the focus in the tree adequately explains what they are and why they're named that because trigger-finger people like JerkyJerry here are going to go nuts, if not.

I don't think they were being serious. If they were, then wow.

I know, I'm just worried about the context in-game. Those descriptions are usually pretty short.

Quill18 looked at the Focus in a video, it does explain it.

It doesn't explain why they used the Word Zombie, but it is clear from the description.

 

[g4g4dk]

Any news on fixing those stucked naval battles? I played a game with japan and there was a battle that was lasting for more than 2 years.

I could not find anything on the logs

 

[Grallak]

- Stopped Japanese cloning program (Removed one of the Matsuis ).

The spirits have been satisfied. *Claps hands manically*

Btw, will germany actually try to invade England now? Would be really awkward if the devs didn't make germany try to invade England since this is an England patch (and nothing else > )
Kind of like the Denmark patch where Denmark still has horrid national ideas in eu4.

 

[CaosRL]

Can you tell which countries are using the spanish voices? : )