Greetings Everyone!

We're back to our regular update schedule! That means Beta on the 1st and a full release every 7th/8th. So kick back and enjoy the holidays, we've got you covered!

With super high-fives and the world's longest secret handshake,

-Gxp & Co.

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Highlights

• New focus tree for Mengkukuo.
  
• Major focus tree reworks for: Afghanistan, Armenia, Guatemala, Uruguay, Shared Tree for N. Ireland, Wales, Britanny and Scotland, Shared Tree for West-Africa.
  
• Minor focus tree reworks for: Algeria, Colombia, Costa Rica, Danzig, Ecuador.

Addition

• New portraits and historical characters for many countries, such as Afghanistan, Armenia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras Mengkukuo etc.
  
• New achievement added: 'Napoleon Reborn'
  
• Added historical war names, such as "Second Italo-Ethiopian War", "Great Patriotic War", "Winter War", "Second Russian Civil War" etc.
  
• Overhauled characters for New Zealand.
  
• Rework chiefs and high command for Australia.
  
• New field marshal and commander for South Africa.
  
• New Swiss noble as non aligned leader.
  
• Added even more scientists!
  
• Added a secret portal. It only works on Tuesdays, and is invisible.
  
• [AAT] Added support equipment MIOs for the US and the UK.

Adjustments

• Resource prospecting decisions can now be selected by countries with resource rights over an area.
  
• Added a new focus for the UK added by the 1.15 update.
  
• Standardized tech for releasables in West Africa and Siberia.
  
• Historical population rebalancing for states.
  
• Form Polynesia decision category reworked.
  
• Germany has been given a new start date idea that serves as an attempt to prevent some exploits. (WIP)
  
• Both Axial Jet Engine and Supersonic Jet special projects no longer require DLC as they now solely unlock Road to 56 equipment.
  
• Made it easier to transition between different states of consciousness via lo-fi beats.
  
• [ToA] Argentina's focus tree, decisions and mechanics rebalanced.
  
• [AAT] State preparation decisions for democratic Norway halved in cost to match vanilla.

Bugfixes

• Fixes aimed at trying to fix the 1942 CTD.
  
• Fixed MEFO bill not having it's remove effect.
  
• Fix states going to Finland/Sweden breaking their victory point and state names.
  
• Fixed Barbados and Barotseland being mixed up.
  
• France's assimilate Wallonia now includes the Ardennes.
  
• Operation Bolivar no longer remains visible in the German tree when going alt-hist.
  
• Fixed Anschluss tooltip not matching the code.
  
• Fixed incorrect focus requirement in a German MIO.
  
• Chinese Warlordism GUI has been fixed.
  
• Fixed the login glitch that prevented aliens from spawning in our universe.
  
• [GD] Fixed missing cores of Greater Hungary and the EU.
  
• [GD] Fix Hungary releasing Venice as a ghost puppet without any states.
  
• [GD] Fix Austrian DLC events.
  
• [GD] Fix Germany getting Friuli when demanding Schleswig.
  
• A lot of small bugfixes. (more than usual)

Credits

• Please check out our 'Credits.txt' links and order of battles for more information about the people, mods and resources that helped develop this project.

Bugfixes

• Austria OOB will now load.
  
• Possible CTD with a bad OOB load fixed.
  
• Possible CTD with Japan focus that would gave out a tech that was already gained though a special project fixed.
  
• Possible CTD with bad GUI reference fixed.
  
• Air bases will no longer delete themselves after researching Combat Service Support tech.
  
• Bad reference to Strat region in AI file fixed.

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Highlight

• Most Tech bugs with Special Projects have been fixed, but some remain.
  
• More scientists across a few tags

Additions

• Added New Special Project: "Heavy Tank Studies"
  
• Added two new achievements.

Adjustments

• Adjusted German 'Support a Coup in Liechtenstein' to account for Liechtenstein existing.
  
• Increased the amount of authoritarian support the Cuban 'Military Coup' branch gives.
  
• New Support Companies stats scale with later techs similar to vanilla.
  
• Support techs research times are now in line with Vanilla.
  
• “Combat Service support” no longer gives +5% Supply range but instead +5% Air field repair speed.
  
• Motorized Highway Techs now grant land breakthroughs and now count as motorized techs for the purpose of related MIO’s.
  
• [BBA] Axial Jet Engine and Supersonic Jet now unlock Road to 56 engine modules instead of the DLC axial engine and supersonic frame.
  
• [GD] Germany no longer loses democracy support when abandoning the 4-year plan.
  
• Factory counts on France and Soviets factory count are in line with Vanilla

Bugfixes

• Fixed Slovakia, Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia and Montenegro having a broken shared tree instead of their own or generic.
  
• Fixed Katanga having no name.
  
• Fixed Alsace-Lorraine having no cores.
  
• USA can no longer offer itself Marshall Aid when it is the overlord of puppets in Europe.
  
• Fixed Otto Skorzeny being removed entirely in the last updates when solving him duplicating.
  
• Fixed some states of the Raj never losing their princely state modifier.
  
• [AAT] Fixed some bugs with Motorized MIO’s tech research for support companies that went unnoticed.
  
• [ToA] Argentina can no longer force the Allies to declare war on them, resulting in a war support hit.
  
• [GD] Fixed Austria getting cores on the wrong states instead of Hungary.
  
• [GD] Fixed broken Belgian MIO bonuses.
  
• [GD] Fix broken Hungarian transition to Ferenc Szalasi.
  
• [GD] Fix Hungary to be able to leave the civilian economy while having the Treaty of Trianon.
  
• [GD] Fixed some bad country leader checks in Austria's tree.
  
• [GD] Fixed Congo's lack of decisions
  
• Other smaller bug fixes not noted

GFX

• Custom Rt56 Special Projects now have their own Custom GFX

AI

• German AI has been improved, further improvements are in the works.
  
• English AI has been updated to be more in line with new Vanilla behavior

Credits

• Please check out our 'Credits.txt' links and order of battles for more information about the people, mods and resources that helped develop this project.

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Highlights

• Content that gave Tech Bonus for Rockets, Nukes, Jets, and Radar now comes with breakthrough, and in some cases a related National Spirit.
  
• 80+ new scientist characters have been added to the mod

Additions

• New Special Project 'Naval high-frequency Location Finder.' Which improves Submarine Detection.
  
• The Technocrats are back in Germany with two new focuses in the Economy tree.
  
• New decision for lowering MEFO Bill costs that reloads every 180 days but with an increasing cost each time...
  
• New Achievement 'Vampire Economy' for Germany
  
• New political advisors and monarch for Czechoslovakia
  
• Overhauled generals and admirals for France

Adjustments

• Scientist refuge decisions now give special project speed like vanilla.
  
• States and victory points now rename like in vanilla when ownership changes instead of control.
  
• Reduced the political power penalty of the German inner circle.
  
• The Japanese focus _Nishina Okochi Directive_ will now grant progress towards a nuclear breakthrough
  
• Combat Report Decisions now grant breakthrough
  
• The AOI can now form as a contested puppet if you're at war with Ethiopia in exile
  
• Various military advisors who didn't already now provide a maximum command power boost instead of taking from it
  
• Soviets free pile of guns has been greatly reduced
  
• Army Spirits have been brought into line with Vanilla's values
  
• Four Year Plan focus gives one more civ
  
• [GD] Belgium no longer becomes "Flanders"

Bugfixes

• Fixed references to Schleswig in the German tree pointing to Friuli.
  
• Fix army chief Werner von Fritz, having no trait.
  
• Restored the Rhine releasable to the map.
  
• Fix duplicate Otto Skorzeny.
  
• French events demanding Wallonia will now grant control of both Walloon states.
  
• Fixed the German RKs not having the correct territory to be formed or assigned.
  
• Fixed HRE and Benelux formables.
  
• The nuclear engine special project is now available for non-DLC players and uses our pre-DLC modules.
  
• Radar 1940 no longer requires a Special Project that never existed. Its existence was counter-revolutionary propaganda.
  
• Some Other Bad State references have been fixed throughout the mod.
  
• Fixed an Icelandic air chief having high command trait, and a navy high command having a chief trait.
  
• Fixed a broken icon in the mandate of palestine focus tree.
  
• Fixed Livonia having no name.
  
• Disabled construction modifier GUI as it currently doesn't work.
  
• [GD] Fixed Belgium having bicycle templates but not its associated technology.
  
• [GD] Air independent propulsion for submarines now unlocks the modules it should.
  
• [GD] Fixed missing localization for Congo behavior.
  
• [GD] Fixed references to Burgenland in the Hungarian DLC tree and decisions pointing to Indonesia, misplaced oil and also a missing agriculture idea.
  
• [GD] Disabled various events, advisors and the troop balance decision category from the Road to 56 Austria tree when using the DLC tree.
  
• [Non-AAT] Fixed duplicate German design companies.
  
• [LaR] Some agents for Japan and Germany have been ported over from Vanilla

GFX

• Soviet Scientist Nikolai Dukhov was given a custom portrait GFX

Credits

• Please check out our 'Credits.txt' links and order of battles for more information about the people, mods and resources that helped develop this project, as well as for opportunities to learn about the related history.

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Greetings!

Götterdämmerung has arrived, and with it a brand new patch! The team has slaved away for weeks in the forges of Asgard to bring you a day 1 update in preparation for the epic battle! So go forth and have fun!

Please note that your old saves will 1000% not compatible with this new update! There will also be bugs and other issues as this is a huge update, and we'll be quick patching as needed over the coming weeks. Help us out by giving us feedback over on Discord[discord.gg].

As always, with super high-fives and the speed of Sleipnir,

-Gxp & Co.

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Originally posted by author:

Alles, Alles, Alles weiß ich,
Alles ward mir nun frei.
Auch deine Raben hör' ich rauschen;
mit bang ersehnter Botschaft
send' ich die Beiden nun heim.
Ruhe, ruhe, du Gott!

-Wagner, Twilight of the Gods

Highlights

• Updated the mod to be compatible with Götterdämmerung.

Additions

• Added a new achievement.
  
• Added more states in Nepal.
  
• Added Niue and American Samoa to the map.
  
• Added focus descriptions to most of the r56 Lithuania tree.

Adjustments

• Papal States can no longer be released in peace deals by AI.
  
• Made the UK AI less likely to join wars with Israel.
  
• Put in adjustable tables to account for both dwarves and elves.

Bugfixes

• Fixed numerous errors on the tech screen.
  
• Fixed the city of Bonn duplicating itself.
  
• Fixed requirements for the Afghani focus 'Operation Countenance'.
  
• Fix Lithuania's "Kings Party" checking Christian Democrats instead of social democrats due to a typo.
  
• Fixed the Scarecrow achievement.
  
• Fixed a typo in an Austrian event.
  
• Fixed ceasefires for Israeli independence war not working properly.
  
• Brunhilda keeps complaining about the lack of salons. This is not a bug.
  
• [MtG] Fix Korean focus tree trying to add Quebecois ships.
  
• [AAT] Fix Finland adding resources in land they don't own, then offering resource access to that state to their faction leader.
  
• [BBA] Fixed Ethiopia asking majors that they are at war with for assistance against Italy.
  
• [NSB] Fixed broken code for Baltic Forest Brothers divisions, which should make their communist civil wars more even.

GFX

• Added a new portrait to Liechtenstein and the United Kingdom.
  
• Added new generic portraits.
  
• Added a portrait of Odin, but he gave us the eye and we had to take it down.

Credits

• Please check out our 'Credits.txt' links and order of battles for more information about the people, mods and resources that helped develop this project, as well as for opportunities.

Hi folks!

The team's hard at work preparing 56 for Götterdämmerung!

That means we won't be releasing any more updates from now till after the dlc lands! That also includes skipping Beta, but don't panic! Those are things happening in the distant scifi future of November, but in the present it's still October and time for a brand new patch. The full update notes are below!

We'll let everyone know more details about our upcoming update as release approaches so be sure to check out our Discord[discord.gg] and X!

See you next month! 🎃

Additions

• Added a small focus tree to Jordan and reworked the way British protectorates enter the Arab-Israeli war. (To play Jordan, start as the Mandate of Palestine, trigger the collapse of the Mandate by favouring the Arab side and you will get the event to switch to Jordan around two weeks after the collapse.)
  
• Added more focuses and advisors to Liechtenstein.
  
• Added new generals and advisors to nationalist China.
  
• Added an achievement to Venezuela.
  
• The vanilla Bulgaria focus tree will now take advantage of focus auto-hiding.
  
• Expanded the communist branch and added post-yalta content for Czechoslovakia, the Soviets can now if they wish do the historical thing of initially letting Czechoslovakia be democratic.

Adjustments

• Reshuffled the opening part of the Romanian focus tree to hopefully make the alternate history paths more viable.
  
• More starting compliance for Germany's Reichskommissariats to reduce the amount of rebellions.
  
• Shortened late-game research-bonus-only focuses for Czechoslovakia. Many of the no-longer-relevant Czechoslovakian political/alliance focuses hide after their annexation or involvement in the Yalta conference as a losing country.

Bugfixes

• Fixed many issues with the Austrian civil war, such as troops being incorrectly divided between each side or the civil war triggering when Austria was close to capitulation.
  
• Fixed a typo that made democratic neutral Germany form on historical instead of East/West Germany.
  
• Fixed Mongolia annexing Tannu Tuva on historical.
  
• Fixed Iraq not being to join and call people into wars.
  
• Fixed Iran granting Germany resource access to a state with no resources.
  
• Fixed a bug where Yugoslavia would surrender Slovakia to Austria instead of Liechtenstein.
  
• Czechoslovakia can no longer invite Romania/Yugoslavia/Hungary while not having a faction.
  
• Fixed Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourgh having the wrong trait.
  
• Prevented duplicate Arthur Seyss-Inquart and Luis Gonzalez de Ubieta.
  
• Fix a duplicate city of Bonn.
  
• Fixed several Caribbean nations not receiving the unification sub-branch.
  
• Fix most micronations having a delayed calculation of building count.
  
• Fixed Pearl Harbor very rarely not happening on historical due to Japan bypassing "Strike on the Southern Resource Area".
  
• [AAT] Fixed Finland joining the Allies/forming the Northern Defense Front on historical.
  
• [AAT] Fixed Finland's fascist civil war seemingly flipping democratic.

AI

• Historical AI for Cuba.
  
• South Africa no longer requests UK colonies on historical.
  
• Yalta Peacedeal: AI now avoids expanding puppeted loser countries.

Localization

• Shortened the extremely long bypass tooltip for Japan's "Strike on the Southern Resource Area".

GFX

• Improved several portraits and advisor sprites for nationalist China.

Credits

• Please check out our 'Credits.txt' links and order of battles for more information about the people, mods and resources that helped develop this project.

Contact Us!
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Highlights

• New Austria focus tree!

Additions

• Dutch East Indies' leaders and advisors have been reworked.
  
• Added 2 new achievements.
  
• Added election events to the United Kingdom with Clement Attlee as a new potential leader.
  
• Press C in the construction menu to toggle a new GUI that shows your construction bonuses for each building.

Adjustments

• Anti-Soviet Japan can no longer ally a communist/democratic faction by decision when Germany is not fascist. However, it can now ally fascist/non-aligned factions other than Germany, even if Germany is fascist, as long as these factions border the Soviet Union. (bordering the USSR not required if they are no longer a valid enemy)
  
• Yalta is now slightly more flexible in firing + a few more border fixes.
  
• When Belgium turns into Flanders/Wallonia by event or game rule, part of the Belgian advisors are sent over to these new countries.
  
• Balance pass for certain paths for France, Poland, Greece, Switzerland, Finland and Norway.
  
• France starting infantry equipment stockpile decreased from 10,000 to 2,400.
  
• The portal to a parallel Earth has been temporarily closed. It will be reopened eventually as a toll road for your convenience.
  
• [AAT] Iceland no longer stops being democratic when it breaks with Denmark (Something Paradox presumably did so it'd still be called a Kingdom).

Bugfixes

• Finland social democratic path now works as intended.
  
• Nationalist Spain now properly receives Franco as a field marshal.
  
• USA has been told to not guarantee Iceland on historical when the UK may invade it. Just in case, the UK has also been told not to attack Iceland when anyone but their enemies guarantees it.
  
• Mongolia no longer does its focus to demand Buryatia on historical.
  
• Fixed Liechtenstein not gaining cores on Austria after completing 'A New Union' focus.
  
• Fixed CTD after Wallonia/Flanders creation.
  
• Fixed Liechtenstein's historical AI strategy not working as intended.
  
• Fixed Historical Germany being around a month late to every major annexation. (Anschluss, Sudetenland, etc)
  
• Fixed a filipino focus forcing the communists to help nationalist Spain.
  
• Fixed some broken dynamic localization in filipino events.
  
• Fixed the time-loop that was causing some members of the team to learn to play the piano.
  
• [BBA] Switzerland may behave more randomly than before on ahistorical as it no longer tries to pursue multiple ideology paths at once.

AI

• USSR should focus more on military factories after 1939.
  
• Peace deal improvements: AI now avoids unnecessarily fragmenting Yugoslavia and creating a German state exclusively in non-German land like Austria.

Localization

• Fixed a bunch of typos.
  
• Attempts to translate the mod into Klingon have been shelved until some native speakers can be found.

GFX

• New/reworked portraits for Austria.
  
• New advisor portraits for Austria, Liechtenstein and Indonesia.

Credits

• Please check out our 'Credits.txt' links and order of battles for more information about the people, mods and resources that helped develop this project.

General

• A whole boatload of bug fixes! Plus ice cream.

Hi folks!

We've got a hot new Summer update! Included in this care package? A new focus tree for Liechtenstein and a bunch of content for Peru! We've also enhanced the map and added a bunch of releasables!

As with all map changes be aware that your old saves will no longer work. Please check out our Retro Release if you want to continue your old save!

With mega-high-fives,

-Gxp & Co.


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Highlights

• New focus tree for Liechtenstein.
  
• New BoP, party support mechanic, easter eggs and more for Peru.
  
• Various map additions across the world, with many new releasable nations on the map.

Additions

• After Japan capitulates, colonial lands in Indonesia and Vietnam previously held by them will spawn anti-colonialist rebellions.
  
• Finished and unlocked previously unusable decisions for the occupation of Germany.
  
• In the "Fate of Korea" event, Korea can now be split into north and south Korea by the United States/Soviet Union in reasonably historical games.
  
• Added the nations of Sint Maarten, St Kitts & Nevis, Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent & the Grenadines, Barbados, Grenada to the map as releasables.
  
• Added the nations of Palau, Nauru, Kiribati, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu to the map as releasables.
  
• Most of the Spain changes from update 1.14.6 now carry over.
  
• Restored the ToA airzones in South America.
  
• Split the Ivory Coast into three different airzones.
  
• Added Burgenland as a state.
  
• Added the Chatham islands for New Zealand.
  
• Added new provinces to Luxembourg, Austria, West Africa, Guyana, Central America and the Caribbean.
  
• Added a weekly manpower focus to communist Bhutan.

Adjustments

• French Indochina is now restored after WW2, however if liberated by a Chinese nation, it can demand the French treaty port for its return.
  
• USA's Marshall Plan now sends an event to most of Europe instead of just allies, while the NATO focus has been moved down to make it optional and more chronologically correct.
  
• When the Italian Social Republic becomes a puppet of Germany, its north is ceded to Germany as historically.
  
• Reduced the size of Gibraltar and Zara.
  
• More and more accurate advisors for various warlords and Nepal.
  
• Removed the non aligned leader of Sardinia as he is already active for Italy.
  
• Every Belgian focus that creates wargoals, or sends threatening events will now create war justification alerts.
  
• Slightly adjusted universal time-space ratio to enable faster pizza delivery.
  
• [AAT] Denmark now only capitulates instantly when neighbors invade it, no longer also doing so if the attacker is close and has a strong navy, as it didn't consider allied navies.

Bugfixes

• Balkan Pact and Little Entente events now work as intended
  
• Germany should now lose cores on all of the Sudetenland and Austria after Yalta.
  
• Neutral Germany gets some free democracy support to not immediately go back to fascism.
  
• Fixed Japan being able to develop oil in North Sakhalin despite losing resource rights there.
  
• Fixed Honduras being able to demand Belize but demanding to controlling first forcing you to declare war first anyway
  
• Added some missing country names
  
• To avoid unintended consequence the UK focus Indian autonomy now demands that the Raj has a % of occupied territory
  
• Fixed bad generic portraits (there are still a few)
  
• Removed a decision to install a monarch in Poland if it's a puppet of Germany as it caused more harm than good
  
• Fixed a CTD upon the completion of the Italian focus "The King of the Skies" due to slight difference in ace abilities in r56
  
• The Albanian tree no longer breaks after they are overthrown by Yugoslavia
  
• Remove the prerequisite to have a core on Littorale to restore the Rijeka naval academy for Austro-Hungarian candidates (except Austria)
  
• Fixed Genovevo Perez Damera portrait.
  
• Fixed Luxembourgian advisor portrait not displaying correctly.
  
• [BftB] Turkish fundamentalists demands for the closure of factories should appear as intended.
  
• [BftB] Bulgarian allies will be more likely to get annexed if tension is very high.
  
• [ToA] fixed Bolivian decision demanding the wrong states.

GFX

• Replaced many generics with new portraits.
  
• New Neville Chamberlain portrait.
  
• New company, focus and advisor GFX for Liechtenstein, Chinese warlords and Nepal.
  
• New monarch national spirits for the United Kingdom.

Credits

• Please check out our 'Credits.txt' links and order of battles for more information about the people, mods and resources that helped develop this project.