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Avalanche 1.12.2 - By Blood Alone - Checksum e45c
Hello there Generals! We are excited to be able to share with you the patch notes for today's patch! This patch was planned for day 7, but we were able to get it to you on steam a bit early, and just in time for the wee…
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Open Beta & Game Assistance | Hearts of Iron IV: By Blood Alone
Hello there generals! You might have already seen two forum posts made by our Game Director and Tech Lead, about how to assist you with common issues. I have made this post to cover all of that in one single place, and…
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Release! | Hearts of Iron IV: By Blood Alone
Now Live! Patch Notes Here! The future of war hangs in the balance. Take to the skies and pen the annals of history in the latest expansion for Hearts of Iron IV - By Blood Alone Buy it here! If you missed any of our De…
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Avalanche 1.12.1 - By Blood Alone - Checksum 45c2
Greetings all, As is tradition, we’re releasing the upcoming patch notes for the Avalanche update along with By Blood Alone ahead of the time with release later today. Undoubtedly there may be some missing items here, a…
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Developer Diary | Art & Achievements
Hello, and welcome to this week's Dev Diary! I am HOI’s 2D artist and am the one who makes the little buttons, icons, and whatever gets thrown in my way for you to look at and push on, and today I have gotten the opport…
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Developer Diary | Tech
Bonjour friends, it’s your favourite Tech Lead again! Last year already I wrote to you in the final weeks leading to the release of the Barbarossa patch, and we draw close to the go-live of the Avalanche patch, here I a…
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Hearts of Iron IV: By Blood Alone | Feature Highlights | #3
Today we go to the drawing board and the planning table as we take a look at the Divisional Command changes as well as the Plane designer with Peter Nicholson and Gabriel Blum. Click Here to watch the Features Highlight…
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Developer Diary | Modding
Greetings all, Today we have quite a number of items for the dev diary. We’ll be covering some new additions to the career profile system, followed by some new tools coming for modders in the Avalanche update. To begin…
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Hearts of Iron IV: By Blood Alone | Feature Highlights | #2
Today we take a dive into the various alternative futures that can unfold in the coming expansion! Explore the focus trees for Italy, Switzerland and Ethiopia with Game Director Peter Nicolson & our Hearts of Iron IV de…
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Developer Diary | Quality of Life Improvements
Greetings all, Due to a misplaced carrier pigeon, today’s dev diary will not be on modding changes, but will instead focus on a variety of minor and QoL changes coming in the Avalanche patch accompanying By Blood Alone.…
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Pre-Order! | Hearts of Iron 4: By Blood Alone
Coming September 27th 2022! The future of war hangs in the balance. Take to the skies and pen the annals of history in the latest expansion for Hearts of Iron IV - By Blood Alone Pre-Order Here! Pre-Order Bonus Song
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Barbarossa 1.11.13 - Nakama Crossplay - Checksum d173
Hello everyone! We just released patch 1.11.13 for "Barbarossa" on Steam and Microsoft Store. The new checksum is d173. This update introduces the possibility to play multiplayer games across stores (such as Steam and M…
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Developer Diary | Peace Conference Roundup
Hello all! I join you to once again talk about peace conferences. This time we have more info on our changes and features that I was not able to go into last time. Most of these are coming as part of By Blood Alone. Pre…
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Developer Diary | Division Commanders & Unit Medals
Greetings all! Welcome back to today’s feature dev diary on a series of interconnected subsystems being added to the game in By Blood Alone. One of the major points in my first roadmap dev diary was that I felt quite st…
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Get your PDXCON 2022 tickets now!
PDXCON returns to Stockholm this September! Meet the devs, join a massive board game session, attend Paradox games’ orchestra & play our games! Get the tickets while supplies last!
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Developer Diary | Plane Designer
Hello, and welcome back to another Dev Diary for the upcoming By Blood Alone DLC and accompanying Patch 1.12! The team has returned from the summer vacation, and we are now back fixing bugs and tweaking the balancing of…
