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What changed
- UI and audio
- Gameplay
- Balance
- Events
- Performance
- Fixes
Generals! We return with new intel from Command, a new War Effort is now live with balance and gameplay tweaks, UI and performance changes and a bunch of bugfixes, make sure to read them all below;
Balance
Afghanistan
- The focus Socialist Coup can now be bypassed if they are already communist, and the coup can be performed peacefully if there is more than 60% communist support in the country - Countries will be more likely to accept your Confederation with Pakistan if they are in the same faction as you - The focus Reform the Quami now grants an additional 10% recruitable population factor
General
- Removed hostile armor speed factor from German Blitzkrieg operational planning modifier; this modifier only half-worked by virtue of a bug that has now been fixed
Gameplay
Afghanistan
- Mohammed Daoud Khan now becomes a general if going down the Nufus branch - Added a focus to the Quami branch that allows for the production of cheaper, but less efficient rifles - The army branch now contains two focuses relating to utilizing Camels in the military, with one of the focuses requiring Battle for the Bosphorus - Added a focus to the industrial branch to expand the Spinzar Cotton Factory, granting two more civilian factories - Added a focus accessible to the non-aligned/democratic branches about constructing a national identity, gaining strong bonuses after some investment - Added new focuses to the Nufus military branch, to gain a larger army, and potentially seek mutual guarantees with Turkey
- Added a strong capstone focus to the Nufus branch that references the historical title of the Royal Afghan Army; Prussians of the Orient - Added 4 new political advisors - Added Traditionalist Paths to the Against Kabul Branch - Added three new low-probability expansionist AI Strategy Plans
France
- Improved the description of the focus "Fatherland"
India
- Added a news event for the formation of the East India Company - Added a news event for the Royal Indian navy Mutiny when India flips communist - Added a news event for the Death Knell of the Raj
General
- Overlords capitulating now always gives half progress to next autonomy level, disregarding of which autonomy level it currently is
UI
- Fixed an issue where army composition summary in frontline tooltip would show incorrect information - Added the option to disable map corner scrolling while keyboard navigation remains enabled - Added hotkey for accepting diplomatic requests quickly by Shift + Left Clicking top bar alerts
Performance
- Improved multiplayer save file transfer speed significantly, which should help resyncing to be much faster than before
Modding
- Added "after" (as opposed to "immediate") effect scope for events
Bugfix
Afghanistan
- You will no longer lose your own core states when gaining Tajikistan or Turkmenistan as allies when declaring war on the Soviets after having completed the focus "Alliance with Turkic Peoples"
India
- Pakistan and Bangladesh will no longer be counted as Princely States that break away from the Raj when declaring war as the Mughal Empire after having completed the focus "Revolt of the Princes" - Fixed an instance where UK could swap India communist by completing decolonization while a dynamic india tag existed
Iraq
- Muhammad Amin Zaki now correctly becomes available if you complete the Encourage Federalism focus
Turkey
- The turkish focus "Taking over Defense of the Gulf" will no longer allow Britain to transfer states it does not own and control to Turkey
United States of America
- Fixed an issue where America could
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