Upcoming Dev Diary?

[Dlin369]

I hope Collie is a country pack with some minors. Barbarossa is either the USSR or something big enough to justify the backlash, so I imagine it'll be a while before we see it. So I hope we get something smaller to hold us through the wait

 

[Hoi Neuling]

Dlin369: Yep let´s hope so, the important minors aren´t done yet [British-Malaya, French-Indochina, Jap. Pacific-Islands, Holland-Malaya and such]. Barbarossa says the Name itself, that will be Russia, Italy and forgotten Minors in the East-Block, maybe Skandinava too if we get lucky.

 

[safe-keeper]

I doubt Italy and the Med will be in the same DLC as the USSR and the eastern front. They'll be two different DLCs. So one for Italy and the Med, and one for the Soviets and quite possibly Scandinavians.

 

[kimidf]

As I said before, I think 1.10 Collie will be a rebalancing and readjustments of the Asian / Pacific front, especially the Sino-Japanese war, but I don't think they will insert new outbreaks and I think the Southeast Asian countries will already have a DLC set in that specific area in the future.


I believe Barbarossa will come a dlc where we will surely see a rework both Soviet and Polish, as well as approaches for Finland and shared trees for the Baltic countries and maybe small shared trees for Soviet republics such as Ukraine, Belarus etc

 

[safe-keeper]

Interesting. Even if that doesn't turn out to be it, I would certainly love to see a second Chinese/Asian DLC like you describe. Flesh out the Sino-Japanese war, and also add the Vietnamese rebellion against the French, various Asian focus trees, and so on.

 

[sauronlooking]

As I said before, I think 1.10 Collie will be a rebalancing and readjustments of the Asian / Pacific front, especially the Sino-Japanese war, but I don't think they will insert new outbreaks and I think the Southeast Asian countries will already have a DLC set in that specific area in the future.


I believe Barbarossa will come a dlc where we will surely see a rework both Soviet and Polish, as well as approaches for Finland and shared trees for the Baltic countries and maybe small shared trees for Soviet republics such as Ukraine, Belarus etc

Collie was also a dog that participated in north Africa and Sicily fights. So it may be a hint at an Italian rework.

 

[kimidf]

Collie was also a dog that participated in north Africa and Sicily fights. So it may be a hint at an Italian rework.

Normally the game developers put in their patch the names of operations enclave used in World War II and Collie refers to a secondary British operation on the Pacific front in 1945


I don't think there is going to be any major rework in 1.10 but surely minor readjustments on the Pacific / Asian front and the big rework will surely come 1.11 accompanied by a big DLC surely set on the eastern front as suggested by the name of that patch.


Therefore I think Italian reworking will take a long time to do.

Operación Collie - Operation Collie - abcdef.wiki

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[Voigt]

Didn't people think Italian rework already because of Operation Husky for LaR?

 

[LastButterfly]

Didn't people think Italian rework already because of Operation Husky for LaR?

Wasn't Italy planned for it at first but eventually removed due to time constraints and such ? I'm not sure but I remember reading something like this in an old Q&A below one of the dev diaries of LaR.

 

[safe-keeper]

I know they wanted to do the USSR but didn't have time to do it properly, since it would be a really big update.

Also, again, they've said patch names aren't indicative of content.

 

[Hoi Neuling]

Yep it was planed for Husky and LaR, but couldn´t get in in the big Rework. There was something the Devs mentioned about that Italy-Delayment, but I can´t remember where it was. So if we get lucky will see it in 1.10 "Collie" or latest in 1.11 "Barbarossa".

 

[xtfoster]

Yep it was planed for Husky and LaR, but couldn´t get in in the big Rework. There was something the Devs mentioned about that Italy-Delayment, but I can´t remember where it was. So if we get lucky will see it in 1.10 "Collie" or latest in 1.11 "Barbarossa".

I keep seeing people saying this, but like everything else on the internet I haven't been able to find any confirmation. Not one post from anyone with Paradox that says Italy was planned for LaR but wasn't done in time, just lots of posts saying they remember seeing something that said that.

 

[PurpulaPhoenixum53]

I keep seeing people saying this, but like everything else on the internet I haven't been able to find any confirmation. Not one post from anyone with Paradox that says Italy was planned for LaR but wasn't done in time, just lots of posts saying they remember seeing something that said that.

If I can remember correctly someone asked on a Stream during LaR about whether Italy was going to be included in it. The dev on the Stream stated that they had initaled planned for Italy to be LaR, but the Spainish focus tree was so massive that they couldn't fit it, so they went with a quick tree with Portugal, which is obvious.

 

[LastButterfly]

I keep seeing people saying this, but like everything else on the internet I haven't been able to find any confirmation

Well, that's why I asked for confirmation. I think I saw it in one of the dev's answer following a LaR dev diary ; if my memory isn't wrong, it should still be archived on this forum. However, I haven't had the time to look up the diaries and search in the thread to find that answer again so far. If I can manage the time later, I'll gladly link it provided I find such a message.

 

[him_15]

Are the Dev back to work yet?

 

[xtfoster]

From what they have said in the past, some of them probably are. It isn't like Paradox (or most other Swedish companies) completely shut down for the 'Holiday'. It is just that A) the (full time) employees are entitled to a paid vacation during the summer, B) the employers are prevented from saying no (during the summer, except in certain exceptional situations), C) it just makes sense for the majority of the employees (and for the employers to encourage them) to take their breaks at the same time, and D) it makes sense for the company to go into 'low activity mode' while the majority of their employees are away.

It could be that some of the employees left 1-2 weeks earlier, which means they might be back by now. And some of them could have started their breaks 1-2 weeks later, so they might not be back when the company starts to get back into the cycle.

 

[Hoi Neuling]

They will make an announcement, when it´s time. But I personaly don´t epect it for next week on Wednesday.

 

[kimidf]

I think it is now that the diaries of the regular devs are back at once, as has happened in the rest of the grand strategy game for weeks that they returned to normality and also many months ago of the last official development diary and I think they have passed the enough time to start teaching things they are developing

 

[Vlad123]

I think it is now that the diaries of the regular devs are back at once, as has happened in the rest of the grand strategy game for weeks that they returned to normality and also many months ago of the last official development diary and I think they have passed the enough time to start teaching things they are developing

I hope start soon

 

[davor999]

It seems like they’ve been on holiday for months at this point?