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Scheduled Downtime
Attention Players! Our databases will be undergoing scheduled maintenance and upgrades during this time period. This will affect all games and services. You will not be able to log into your Paradox Account during the d…
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Hearts of Iron IV Dev Diary: Officer Corps 2
Hello there C0RAX, here! For my first HoI dev diary, I’m here to show you the second part of the Officer Corps, a new way of personalising your military that will be included as part of No Step Back and the Barbarossa u…
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Dev Diary - Officer Corp
Greetings all, Arheo here! For my first HoI dev diary, I’m here to introduce the Officer Corps: a collection of new features that will be included as part of No Step Back and the Barbarossa update. For quite a while, we…
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Dev Diary | Bag of Tricks - Part One
Another Wednesday means time for another update! Today its time for a "bag of tricks" diary which means its an assortment of smaller features and improvements. Todays selection has several things you guys have asked for…
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Patch 1.10.7 "Collie" - Hotfix
Just a very small hotfix to fix an issue with the 1.10.6 patch released earlier today, ################################################################ ######## Hotfix 1.10.7 "Collie" ######## ##########################…
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Hearts of Iron IV: 5th Anniversary Bundle
For five years, wargamers around the world have been challenged to outbuild and outfight history’s most terrible war machines in Hearts of Iron IV, a grand strategy wargame from Paradox Development Studio. Millions of t…
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HOI4 5 Year Anniversary: Patch Notes | Patch 1.10.6 "Collie"
Patch 1.10.6 "Collie" ################################## # Gameplay ################################## - It is no longer possible to swap templates on divisions that are encircled - For garrison reinforcement, check the…
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Dev Diary | 5th Anniversary
Hi and welcome to another dev diary! It is almost time for the Hearts of Iron 5 year anniversary so we will take a short break from No Step Back, and celebrate that with some streams as well as new 3d model and radio pa…
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Dev Diary - PDXCON Recap and Team update
Hi everyone! We need some recovery time after PdxCon before we talk about more new stuff so today I figured we would recap stuff from PdxCon as well as talk about some team and studio topics. I am happy to say that we a…
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PDXCON Remixed: The Spanish Gambit | Community Challenge
The Spanish Gambit Hearts of Iron team members Drikus Kuiper • Content Design Lead - PDS, Daniel Sjöberg • Senior QA - PDS & Josh Bassett • Community Manager have attempted 'The Spanish Gambit' - win the Spanish Civil W…
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Dev Diary: Baltic States | Part Two
Hello everyone and welcome back to another dev diary for Barbarossa where today I’m going to be diving into the unique branches for the Baltic states. I would like to open up by showing the state rework I neglected to s…
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Dev Diary - Baltic States | Part One
Hello and welcome to another dev diary for the Barbarossa patch! Today I’m back with you to talk about not one, not two, but three new focus trees coming with the upcoming expansion: Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia! The…
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Road to PDXCON: Grand Campaign - Hearts of Iron [7th May 12:00 CEST]
Join the Hearts of Iron team, The Grand Campaign cast and our Discord senate for the third leg of our story! The story has unfolded and the Dual Monarchy stands at the precipice of a World War. In this modded, community…
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Dev Diary: Combat & Stat Changes
Hi everyone and welcome back to another dev diary! Today is about various changes that affect combat and units. With the Barbarossa update we want to shake up the meta a bit and also change a few stats and other aspects…
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Dev Diary: Tank Designer
Hello, and welcome back to another DevDiary about content coming in the 1.11 “Barbarossa” patch and its accompanying DLC. As always, keep in mind that the things shown in this DevDiary are still under development, so th…
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Dev Diary: Poland Focus Tree Rework | Part 2/2
Hello folks and welcome back to the Poland dev-diary extravaganza! This week, I am going to continue covering the changes coming to Poland in 1.11 Barbarossa and the unannounced DLC.Today we’ll be covering the DLC conte…

