Victoria II Update Released

Updates to Victoria II have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

New Features

• Difficulty is back, with lots of different effects.

• Added a sphere overview to the outliner

• Added flags in zoomed out mode to represent armies and navies on the map.

• When releaseing a nation you are now able to select that you want to continue playing as them. (singleplayer only, but will not make them a satellite.)

New Countries

• Added Israel, South Rhodesia, Congo Free State & Iceland as releasable countries.

• You can now form the Byzantine Empire if you play as a greek state and achieve a few goals.

• Playable Babylon added as a free DLC integrated in the patch.

AI Improvements * Diplomacy AI

• AI will now try to influence and remove other GPs influence from countries it wants to attack

• AI is more likely to cancel alliances with those that occupy their territory.

• Countries which has cores in other countries no longer want to ally with them

• AI less keen on expelling advisors

• Fixed a bug which made the GP AI misjudge the influence gain of other GPs

• AI now less likely to sphere unciv neighbors with low production output

• AI now a bit more stubborn when feeling superior to another country when determining peace chance

• AI should now be able to intervene in wars

• AI now takes possible intervention into account when evaluating wars

• Made sphere leaders slightly more friendly towards spherees

• AI doesn't really like to intervene and help out countries with high badboy

• AI now dislikes provinces it cannot reach even if has lots of goodie factorys and gold RGOs

• AI now likes countries which can get canals built through them

• Fixed a serious bug that made the AI overconfident when going to war

• AI now considers neighbors more of a threat when evaluating enemies allies, and allies close to war target is considered slightly better

• AI will no longer count countries in their own sphere as allies when evaluating if another country should be allied with.

• Great powers will now consider allying with people outside their sphere.

• AI is now less likely to break alliances.

• AI can now cancel alliances because of CB against allied

• There's now a small distance penalty when evaluating non-neighboring states as target of wargoals

* Economic AI

• Fixed an issue with AI budget minister assuming it could take loans when it couldn't

• Fixed an issue with AI budget minister not always taking the cost of the national stockpile into account

• AI now tries to lower taxes for rich strata to make them invest more in projects

• AI should now build and upgrade naval bases in decent positions

• AI no longer tries to upgrade factories that are already being upgraded

• AI should now promote more craftmen/clerks

• AI will now save some more money in the budget

• AI is now better at promoting Capitalists to kickstart the economy.

* Military AI

• A country that has heavily occupied core territory will now mobilize

• Army AI: Splits off siege forces when dealing with rebel occupied provinces

• Army AI: now properly considers areas with rebels "war zones"

• AI now considers Military Tactics a bit stronger when calculating troop strength

* Tech AI

• tech ai should now be more resonable

• AI should be a little bit better at keeping up in naval tech