Victoria 2 - 3.04 BETA PATCH - Merry Christmas!

[austrianemporer]

Allow POPs to purchase from the stockpile.
The options seem to have disappeared. Not sure if it's from the new patch.

They tried that when Victoria II came out. It turned out to be a disaster.

 

[Solaire95]

Hey Paradox, we love you.

 

[JoelCab]

Will the patch also be available for those of us who have non-steam versions of Victoria 2?

 

[Aardvark Bellay]

Will the patch also be available for those of us who have non-steam versions of Victoria 2?

See post #19.

Probably delayed, as they haven't finished the testing on the Beta and/or realised it's too buggy and already rue the day when they decided to make this dev-game-fan patch for 'fun'..
Maybe.

 

[zonkie]

As some of you might have noticed there have been rumors of a new patch for Victoria 2 (the best paradox game). This started during summer when I was bored and reading forums but I only managed to get a few things done before vacation was over, then recently Wiz and Groogy got super pumped about spending their Christmas vacation on fixing stuff in victoria and things started up again (we even guilt-tripped Sideburnout into make some event images). So Merry Christmas everyone!

Here is the complete patchlog:

• Right-clicking a country on the map when no units are selected now opens diplomacy with that country.
• AI Great Powers in Europe now care about crises on other continents.
• Fixed a bug where forming nations could completely mess up diplomatic relations and satellites.
• AI Great Powers in America now care about crises in the other American continent.
• Effects of Machine Tools, Tractors, Nitroglycerin, Distribution Channels & Electricity inventions are now country wide instead of being spread through province event spam.
• Election events are now country-wide, and occur less often (about twice per election).
• Added Borderless Windowed mode.
• Fixed map crash when you start Victoria 2 for the first time.
• Will now show proper unit information if you hover over the unit icon.
• Fixed units getting stuck if you embark them on ships.
• Increased the cooldown between crises to 5 years.
• AI no longer believes the Age of Sail ended in 1936.
• AI will no longer delete closed factories while at war.
• It is now possible for non-host players in multiplayer to see how the AI would respond to diplomatic offers.
• Call Ally will now get a clear yes/no answer from allies, instead of random chance.
• Right-clicking 'go to diplomacy' will no longer be interpeted by the game as a desperate desire to crash to desktop.
• No longer possible to load an infinite amount of troops onto a single ship if they happen to board at the same time.
• You now only get the bankruptcy notification/CB if the amount owed to you is a significant sum.
• Can now set decisions to be ignored, ignored decisions will not light up the 'decision can be taken' icon in main interface.
• 'Sign the Geneva Convention' decision now has larger benefits and slower badboy decay as a downside instead of reducing max military spending.
• 'National Banking Act' decision is now actually worth taking.
• has_national_minority and political_movement triggers now have the correct localisations.
• Added split in half (shortcut 's') in unit view. This will split the selected unit into two as balanced units as it can, then select only the more powerful of the two.
• Added World Wars, the next level after Great Wars. a GW can become a WW after mass politics (1905) is researched and the winning side gains 50% warscore. After this all wargoals have their cost cut to 30% allowing you to really dismantle stuff at the end of the game.
• Fascist Siam now called Thailand
• Removed factory output changes depending on difficulty level. Non standard difficulty levels should now be safe to play without risking economic issues.
• A lot less wickedness will now be stamped out in the USA (moral crusader event now fires on country level and not every week).
• Jacobins now make democracies of prussian constitutionalism.
• Airplane-only armies no longer completely murder the strongest offensive armies when attacked. Discipline (org dmg reduction) is reduced a lot making them better mixed where they can support from the back line as they wont be able to hold provinces well. Also reduced defense a bit.
• Crisis with attacker backer and no defender backer now resolves automatically in favor of attacker rather than fizzling.
• Lone defender backer now gets some prestige for being gutsy and stepping up even if no attackers.
• Added historical military leaders to many nations.
• The Polar Bear Purchase will now turn all pops in iceland, greenland & jan mayen into polar bears.
• Added some jaw-dropping polar bear artwork.

Of course since we had so little time available before Christmas we made sure to only prioritize the most important fixes:

So how do I actually get this patch?
The patch is right now available only as opt-in on steam. Here is how to get it:

• Right-Click Victoria II in your steam game list and go to Properties
• Click BETAS tab
• Change "NONE" to "beta 3.04" (if you don't see it restart steam)
• Should now get a download and stuff updating

Fine Print:
This is something somewhat-unofficial done during our spare time (possibly under the influence of alcohol) and at no point has QA or betas been involved in testing the changes. If it breaks something badly we'll fix it after christmas, but note that its an optional opt-in etc. (now go have fun!)

Victoria 3 confirmed.

 

[Anthedon]

Wow, did not see that coming.

 

[Hideyowaifus]

The polar bear nation is also in the Extended timeline mod for eu4. :3

 

[Deaghaidh]

#IceBear4Prez

 

[Cardus]

Hope so.
As I profoundly hate steam and only use GG exes, I am to wait for a proper zip version do test the changes.

I second not the hate but the profound distrust for a kind of monopolist which installs a kind of malware.

 

[frolix42]

I second not the hate but the profound distrust for a kind of monopolist which installs a kind of malware.

You're referring to Microsoft? They scare Valve as well. And I'm sick of uninstalling GWX, I don't want Win10!

 

[Cardus]

You're referring to Microsoft? They scare Valve as well. And I'm sick of uninstalling GWX, I don't want Win10!

I mean Steam which is reported by most antivirus as a malware and which forces customers to install intrusive software in order to both download and activate game medium. By malware I mean "software programs designed to damage or do other unwanted actions on a computer system". So in my opinion Steam is malware, or at the best, pretty close to it.


EDIT
https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffe...c_now_reads_all_the_domains_you_have_visited/

VAC now reads all the domains you have visited and sends it back to their servers hashed (self.GlobalOffensive)

submitted 1 year ago * by theonlybond

Decompiled module: http://i.imgur.com/z9dppCk.png

What it does:

• Goes through all your DNS Cache entries (ipconfig /displaydns)
  
  
• Hashes each one with md5
  
  
• Reports back to VAC Servers

....

 

[daschnek]

I mean Steam which is reported by most antivirus as a malware and which forces customers to install intrusive software in order to both download and activate game medium. By malware I mean "software programs designed to damage or do other unwanted actions on a computer system". So in my opinion Steam is malware, or at the best, pretty close to it.


EDIT
https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffe...c_now_reads_all_the_domains_you_have_visited/

By "unwanted action" I assume you mean delivering games cheaply and making those games easy to install and maintain?

No sane definition of malware would include Steam, you're just being incredibly dense.

 

[Cardus]

By "unwanted action" I assume you mean delivering games cheaply and making those games easy to install and maintain?

No sane definition of malware would include Steam, you're just being incredibly dense.

By unwanted action I mean what I posted and linked as example. If you take some time to think before posting you would find that by yourself.

PS
It seems that most antivirus are incredibly dense with Steam as they classify it as a malware.

According to Steam

....
Norton Firewall
When using the "Friends" feature, some Norton Firewall users have reported that their firewall software reports that Steam may be malicious software attempting to access their system. This is a false positive.
....
Kaspersky AV or Internet Security
Kaspersky AV may prevent the in-game overlay from functioning in some or all games. This may occur silently, or Kaspersky may warn you that Steam is acting as an Invader application trying to load itself in another process.
....

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4361-MVDP-3638&l=italian

PPS
It seems that you joined the forum in 2012 but this is your first post since. I'm curious why your first post in this forum is not about the games but to "defend" Steam.

 

[daschnek]

By unwanted action I mean what I posted and linked as example. If you take some time to think before posting you would find that by yourself.

PS
It seems that most antivirus are incredibly dense with Steam as they classify it as a malware.

That issue was never actually an issue - just VAC checking DNS logs for entries related to cheat DRM. It wasn't a security issue, and Valve couldn't actually see anyone's web history. If you actually paid attention to your sources, you'd understand that.

Also, the source that you quote about AV's detecting Steam explicitly states that these are false positives. Steam does inject itself into games, which is a behavior that AVs don't like, but that doesn't make Steam itself a virus or malware.

You're grasping for straws way too hard here, just so you can find a way to criticize a service that you clearly have never made a serious attempt to use or understand. I dislike that the Victoria patch hasn't come to non-Steam Victoria players, but calling Steam malware is a ridiculous assertion that helps no one and makes non-Steam users look utterly retarded.

I haven't posted here in nearly four years because I can post about Paradox games elsewhere - I come here for news about games and the mods. The Paradox forum community is also just generally cringeworthy - your posts are a fantastic example. Calling steam a piece of malware? What is this, 2006? Because that's what I thought about steam when I was 11 years old.

 

[Cardus]

That issue was never actually an issue - just VAC checking DNS logs for entries related to cheat DRM. It wasn't a security issue, and Valve couldn't actually see anyone's web history. If you actually paid attention to your sources, you'd understand that.

Also, the source that you quote about AV's detecting Steam explicitly states that these are false positives. Steam does inject itself into games, which is a behavior that AVs don't like, but that doesn't make Steam itself a virus or malware.

You're grasping for straws way too hard here, just so you can find a way to criticize a service that you clearly have never made a serious attempt to use or understand. I dislike that the Victoria patch hasn't come to non-Steam Victoria players, but calling Steam malware is a ridiculous assertion that helps no one and makes non-Steam users look utterly retarded.

Sure, according to Steam the antivirus are wrong (or using your words the antivirus are incredibly dense). I am still curios why in 3 years you didn't make a single post about the games in this forum (which it is supposed to be for the games). It seems, instead, that you are only interested in Steam's reputation.

 

[daschnek]

Sure, according to Steam the antivirus are wrong (or using your words the antivirus are incredibly dense).

Well, yes, AV software can often be wrong. Some pieces of legitimate software act similarly to viruses or malware in order to perform legitimate functions. This is called a false positive. In this case, the function in question is injecting steam into games for the steam overlay. Did baby just get his first computer or something? This is basic stuff.

It seems, instead, that you are only interested in Steam's reputation.

Big Steam conspiracy, 2016.

 

[Cardus]

Well, yes, AV software can often be wrong. Some pieces of legitimate software act similarly to viruses or malware in order to perform legitimate functions. This is called a false positive. In this case, the function in question is injecting steam into games for the steam overlay. Did baby just get his first computer or something? This is basic stuff.

Big Steam conspiracy, 2016.

I won't reply to you anymore as we are off topic. Unlike you I don't complain if this patch is not available for non Steam users as I understand that Paradox has good business reason to deliver only through Steam. I just think that Paradox has taken a path which puzzles me a lot.
Regarding your claim to being here for almost 4 years (I said 3 to be more kind to you) as a simple observer it is very curious. You have no registered games so you could not see anything "restricted" to games owners so why did you bother to register or log in? Instead the first post in 3 (or 4) years is about Steam. I think that (according to Steam terminology) you may look as "a false positive". But we all know that Steam is trustworthy (while antivirus are not).

 

[Kipperian]

Thanks for the patch and Happy New Year! I know that it isn't going to happen, but to release a final, stable 1.3 patch for HoI2 Armageddon would be... amazing.

 

[patscholero]

The sun never sets on the Paradox Empire! Really grateful for this patch. Hope there will be a stable version, though.

 

[realQuiGon]

When will Paradox release the patch as an official patch? Or will they never do that because it wasn't developed under Paradox control?

I would also like to know that.