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HOI4 Dev Diary - Patch Notes
An early look at our Patch Notes are available on our forums. Unfortunately, the notes are too large to fit onto steam in this format, an official patch notes post will accompany the release next week. I will also take…
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Dev Diary - Achievements
Hello, and welcome back to another Dev Diary for Hearts of Iron 4. As we close in on wrapping up this major operation, code-named Barbarossa, before winter falls (the first snow fell in Stockholm this weekend, I am sure…
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Dev Diary - A Tech Lead's Life
Hello everyone, it's your favourite (and only) tech lead, The French Paradox! In this diary I'll tell you more about our tech, give some insights into the programmer's job, what we've been up to for the past year (and s…
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HoI4 Dev Diary - Loading Screen Art and more!
Greetings, HoI fans. I'm not much of a forum goer, so most of you probably never heard of me, but I am the Art Lead on Hearts of Iron 4. Today I bring you a rather special Dev Diary. This was prepared for you all by our…
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Hearts of Iron IV: No Step Back | Available Nov. 23rd | Pre-order Available NOW!
From the womb of Mother Russia, Machines are born - But it is in the blood of the People the Union survives! Hearts of Iron IV: No Step Back will release November 23rd, 2021 Do your duty Comrades, And preorder now! http…
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Dev Diary - Modding Changes
Hello, and welcome back to another Dev Diary for No Step back and 1.11 Barbarossa. Today we will be pulling back the veil a bit and show you how modders can affect and use the new features coming in 1.11. For those of y…
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Dev Diary - Officer Corps Recap & AI Improvements
Hi all, and welcome back to today’s developer diary! It can be very easy to get super-focused on details when looking at individual systems or parts of features - something we often tend to do when writing developer dia…
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Dev Diary - Poland is not yet lost | No step back AAR
Welcome to this AAR dev diary! Join me as I take on the task of surviving as Poland against both the Soviets and the Germans in the upcoming No Step Back expansion. This diary will function as a sort of compilation of t…
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Dev Diary: Combat Width & Soviet Feedback
Greetings all, Today we have two important topics to cover, for which we have reinstated @podcat with a battlefield commission, in order to detail our latest efforts to combat the width meta. In addition, Comrades @Brat…
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Dev Diary - Bag of Tricks #3 (The Sequel?)
Greetings all! Today’s dev diary contains the details of a few smaller features coming to the table in No Step Back. In addition, I’ll get ahead of the curve here and point out that there will be no diary next week - we…
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Dev Diary: Trains #2 - Railway Guns
Hello there, C0RAX again. It’s time again to reveal some more secret information that was hinted at in the last dev diary. Specifically this week will be revolving around the final part of railways and trains. So withou…
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Dev Diary: Trains and Supply
Greetings, and welcome back for our last look at the supply system that ships with the Barbarossa update. As you all know, I’m British, and in Britain the trains never run on time - I couldn’t possibly break with this t…
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Dev Diary: Bag of Tricks #2
Greetings all, and welcome back for a slightly less content-focused dev diary than our latter soviet efforts. Today we’ll be covering a couple of smaller additions to be added in NSB, some of which have been hinted at b…
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Dev Diary - Soviet Union: Part Three
“Comrade Bratyn, you have been found guilty of counter-WW2 activity. You have been seen consorting with citizens and even figurehead ideologues of the Imperator team. Undeniable proof of work -by your hand- can be seen…
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Dev Diary: Soviet Union Rework - Part 2
Hello comrades, and welcome back to another DevDiary for No Step Back. After Comrade @ManoDeZombi (as chairman of the People's Commitee for Focus Tree Production) introduced you to the historical and shared branches of…
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Hearts of Iron has joined Instagram!
Greetings Comrades & Generals! We know you're ever watchful for more No Step Back information, and we'll deliver with this weeks dev diary, but for now we wanted to take a moment to talk to you about Operation Zoomer. A…
