Austria now is made aware of its influence in Italy, Bulgaria now takes Nis and Macedonia from Serbia when it has lost them then later goes to war against Serbia with Austria, Serbia and Bulgaria are now notified when Romania leaves the Belgrade Pact, Added annexation missions to Macedonia and Dobrogea. Japan can no longer move to a war economy while at peace. We've straightened a number of things out, but we've also expanded the Ottoman "Fevzi" route, so you're getting a little content bonus too. If you wish to continue a save you can download the old version here: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/kaiserreich-download.1141575/. Fixed Natal's tree being unlocked before the Boer War begins. Pretty much every nation's focus tree is somewhat unfinished. More than ever before, we hope you enjoy playing Kaiserreich! Please note that this patch is targeting the 1.9.1 beta build, so please make sure you opt into the beta to play. Mechanized companies no also affect amphibious mechanized vehicles, Tank companies now also affect td/aa/spg variants, Countries which can join the ISAC by other means no longer are invited to join automatically, Removed AOG, Normandy, Schleswig-Holstein, and Yugoslavia tags, If a country occupies territory owned by a country they are allied with, they should now automatically turn it over, Moderate resource rebalancing in parts of western Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia, Continued rebalancing starting slots for states, notably the USA, Removed starting cores for more nations which aren't around in 1936 - saves on performance, Converted colonial government ideas to a special government type, The corrupt kleptocrat minister trait is now less corrupt. The Internationale will now collapse if a suitable leader cannot be found. Removed Spain's ridiculously high surrender limits in the Spanish Civil War. Can no longer go down to “Disarmed Nation” voluntarily, NatPop SIC now more likely to join Entente, Added a couple of tooltips to three Russian events, Ecuador now starts with a mountaineer template, Smedley Butler now dies after the Second American Civil War, GEA and RUS will now send lend-lease to the United Front if possible, Aland is now demilitarized again at the end of wars. The Ottoman Renaissance idea now applies to all possible revolters. That's usually still fine. Fixed Chile not losing the Chilean-Argentinian War idea after their coup d’etat. So in that vein, please be aware that new features may not be utilized to the full or as balanced as we might like that, that will come with time. Some adjustments to the Treaty of Budapest: the AI is now guaranteed to accept peace, unless they’re in a faction and the faction leader (a player) has already refused the treaty, Added more variations to the event text, particularly for Italy and Poland, and covering the possibility for when Germany’s intervention means Italy might not receive anything out of the treaty (the text won’t imply that they do), Workaround for a rare occurrence where partial control over a non-enemy state whose owner is in exile will drag them into a peace conference, even though their faction hasn’t capitulated yet, Fixed incorrect state id reference in Status of Salonica trigger, All government changes in Switzerland, Honduras, Uruguay, Papal State, and Lombardy now properly remove old ministers, Bulgaria no longer loses all its cores in the instance where the Greek rebel state is annexed by Greece proper (Bulgaria’s cores were accidentally being removed instead of the Greek rebel cores), Fate of Dalmatia decision now fires the correct event, Fixed Guangzhou being counted as part of Legation Cities, Fixed Mongolian and Tibetan endonyms being overridden by Chinese ones, Socialist Russia no longer claims Pas-de-Calais, Fixed a puppet Ma Clique being able to change their government, Alash Orda will no longer be set free by the RCW in the rare case where they stay loyal, Fixed the Romanian legionary minister changes removing the HoG, Poland can now be granted a puppet Galicia if released after the latter, Replaced Bulgarian flag’s coat of arms with one the monarchy actually used, Germany: Eberhard von Mackensen, Albert Kesselring, August von Mackensen, Gerd von Rundstedt, Gotthard Heinrici, Rupprecht von Bayern, Heinz Guderian, Walter Model, Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, Wilhelm III (General Variant), Erich Raeder, Ewald Kleist, Friedrich Paulus, Hermann Boehm, Erwin von Witzleben, Erich von Manstein, Erich Hoepner, Franz von Papen, Georg Kuchler, Günther Lütjens, Lothar Arnauld Periere, Rudolf Rocker, Wilhelm Souchon, Gustav Krupp, Karl Doenitz, Gunther Kluge, Hermann Hoth, Wilhelm Pieck, Others: Ali Kelmendi (ALB), Ahmet Zogu (ALB), Jawaharlal Nehru (BHC), Georgi Dimitrov (BUL), Reginald Hildyard (CAF), Carlos Campo (CHL), Yang Yuting (FNG), Asgeir Asgeirsson (ICE), Ta Thu Thau (INC), Eoin O’Duffy (IRE), Franz Ritter von Epp (MAF), Theodor von Hippel (MAF), Ferdinand Schorner (MAF), Guy Halifax (SAF), Thomas Dewey (USA), Saint Louis in Senegal is now in the right place, Volgograd state and VP has been renamed to Tsaritsyn from the start, Fixed the urban terrain of Tashkent being on the wrong place. Venezuela can now join the Entente if at war with an Internationale member. Fixed the descriptions for the Ulster repression ideas. What do you do as Italy though? Germany AI fixed so it will now build ships again. Fengtian should now always warn targets for war, Honduras is no longer stuck repeating its political turmoil event over and over. Made some AI changes, so the Entente is more likely to concentrate on Great Britain once it has a foothold there, and Austria no longer prioritizes the Russian front over its front with the SRI. If an Entente country releases Belgium, it is automatically independent. Added custom tile pictures to major cities. Added new ideas and buffs to the QIE Zhili and Manchu trees that greatly increase the economic and military abilities of the tag. Player Serbia or Romania can now decide they want to keep the Belgrade Pact even after the war with Austria, which AI will honor as long as Romania doesn't claim Serbian territory. Moved Socotra's port to the right spot on the island. P.P.S. To press further claims, they need to fight another war. Yet another hotfix is out, including a number of changes that will most likely make it worth the wait. Puppet FOP no longer escapes/joins other factions. GER can no longer take the Caucasus Oil route if Azerbaijan is dead. It represents the total number of divisions that a country can safely support. Removed Japanese Home Island oil. Japan must now be losing the naval war to unlock Kamikazes. Bet you didn’t see this one coming? Added “An Idea Worth Dying For” to the Kaisercat submod. We owe a massive thanks to Dayshine, among others, who have been working on CWTools. Romania's Iron Guard content expanded, especially the middle Legionary tree. The Austrian Empire is now called the Empire of Austria, and if puppeted will become Austria, led by a generic. Removed the white border around the Hunan flag, Fixed the resolution of the Rassid Arabia flag, Fixed Persia returning Herat to Afghanistan. Fixed Fengtian Unification Conference events firing for the wrong tags. Militarist/Nationalist Poland can now join the Belgrade Pact. Loosened the requirements for the Treaty of Novosibirsk. The headline two focus trees are Puerto Rico and Patagonian, both fully reworked. Fixed the Egyptian Cairo Pact on map area showing up too early. New England can only get LEC rights it if is the sole America, Fixed Fate of India decision so it appears even if Madras exists, The loc of Jean III’s death event for NFA now changes if you reconquered the mainland, Persia no longer spawns Russia after the Turks occupy it, Fixed CHL not being able to join Internationale after peaceful ARG reunification, The Tour d’Algérie event for NFA has been moved earlier, Fixed AI NFA sending volunteers to the Spain it didn’t choose to support, Port Said Convention now has a generic event if not created by the Ottomans, Missing resistance in occupied Cyrenaica fixed. Fixed HUN not being counted as an Austrian puppet during its civil war. Rocket artillery and motorized rocket artillery added to companies, Ireland now starts with an AuthDem Minister of the Interior, instead of NatPop. Removed multiple impassable areas due to consistent AI problems. Fixed the Baltic Duchy keeping the Forest Brothers' resistance. Several Fengtian generals’ skills were toned down in tandem with Zhang. Removed syndicalist Gold Coast being called Golden Pact, Added leader descriptions for Romanian head of states. If Bulgaria goes SocDem or MarkLib after the Balkan War, the possibility of an Absolutist or Narrow Socialist coup is now triggered by a separate event, and this is under player control (no more relying on RNG for it to occur). Added missing hardness bonuses to rest of  motorized battalions from mech 1, Your soldiers now can learn both, how to ride a horse and how to shot from AT-rifle (vanilla bug of infantry AT weapons not applying to cavalry, and cavalry not being in category “all infantry”), Adjusted airtech window grid to vanilla standards, removing the need to use scrollbars to see scout planes while using FullHD. Restored all Brazilian leader descriptions accidentally deleted. The Kaiserreich Dev-Team Proudly Presents: We, the Kaiserreich Team, are proud to present the most popular alternate history mod for Hearts of Iron II, Hearts of Iron IV & Darkest Hour! Added peace conference rule for the Third Internationale to stay out of China and Southeast Asia if there are any Asian countries at the conference who are willing to take those states, Peace conference code has been sped up considerably, Bulgarian coup events are no longer limited by the Russian government - their chances of success are just influenced instead, Russian AI will now focus on the Caucasus first before Eastern Europe, if they can go after both, The Halbstarke error, which prevented Black Monday effects from being removed by Germany, has been fixed. GEA can no longer annex Austria with cores. Fixed some major supply zone issues across the globe, supply now works a lot better. Romania needs to be at peace and own Transylvania to disband the militias. Shortened the news event for the Dutch revolution slightly so it doesn’t clip under the option button. My suggestion is something like a blue and red bicolor (tradititional Somali colors) with a … Fixed the restoration of the Federalist faction if Chen is betrayed by Zhang. Fixed independent JBS being re-puppeted to OTT. Russia can now attack Japan after the Fading Sun. Colombia can no longer affirm ties with a dead Entente. Added a new focus tree for Fevzi Cakmak’s regime, Libya can now move its capital to Benghazi or Tripoli when it conquers them, Added a lot more event pictures to National France, Changed a few idea icons for National France, Ziraat Bankasi icon for OTT no longer features the words “Turkish Republic”, New portraits for Muhamed Husan in Tanzania and Ivan Valkov in Bulgaria, Corrected the population numbers of Chad, South Chad, Ubangi-Shari and Eastern Neukamerun, Changed the border of the South Chad state. Fixed Austria never releasing Hungary locking itself out of its paths, Austria no longer peaces out with the Belgrade Pact when Germany falls, Fixed a crash bug caused by a PRF event picture. We’re doing a sweep through events to catch all those places which were missed previously, but it’s an effort which will take a while, so it’s unlikely to work perfectly yet. You have to border the L-KMT now to declare a war on them as R-KMT Yunnan. Several new event pictures for Russia and the Commune of France. In 0.11.2 we’ve fixed a lot of them, including the infamous disappearing national spirits bug. Fixed countries forming the United Front from the grave. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Ported over the vanilla sharks to the Pacific. Two Sicilies has received a new land reform tree. Date restrictions have been removed from all Risorgimento focuses. Sorry for the slight delay there. Fengtian no longer asks Japan to declare war against a tag it's already at war with. Annexation missions for Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia and Transylvania have been added for the Austrian Civil War. We are so happy to be here and couldn’t be more proud of all the work that has been done to get here. You can now see all planes in same time, The Andesian Rebellion events now have localization, SRI attack decisions will now disappear if the target no longer exists, If syndicalist France is released after annexation, it is puppeted to the releaser if no faction exists for it to join, Removed the duplicate SRI decision to join the Phalanstere, SRI socialist welfare idea now costs consumer_goods_factor instead of adding it, Additional units are no longer transferred from Legionarry Italy to Venice upon the revolt breaking out; any Italian units left in Venice are teleported away, Romania’s AI should now core Transylvania much more efficiently. Germany will no longer invest in Belgium while fighting them. Fixed Siam getting negative consumer goods from welfare. It’s time for another hotfix! The Internationale now has access to exiled Russian Bolshevik military leaders, denoted by a special trait. Hunan’s focus tree wasn’t finished. Updated AI factors for the conscription laws. NEWS. What does that mean? The effects of the Halifax Conference are now removed once Germany capitulates. All Italian war and diplomacy focuses have been transferred to decisions. We can’t guarantee such a rapid release schedule in the future, we are after all a group of volunteers working in our spare time, but we’d like to think this represents just how much our standards and practices have improved as a team. Korea and Taiwan now start as Japanese cores - but with significant penalties, as represented by their new state modifiers. Added several flavor events for Lithuania, Redid annexation missions for the south Slavic states, Russia can now directly attack White Ruthenia instead of buying state bonds when White Ruthenia is socialist and they are not, Germany now revokes its guarantee on Azerbaijan if they refuse to defend them from Persia, Russian/Soviet general transfers no longer leave some in both countries, Performance optimisation for Russian events and focuses, Russian civil war ideas are removed via annexation, Fixed focus available conditions for Poland, Removed Molotov-Ribbentrop line from Poland and Galician states, Russia now no longer joins the internationale via “Deal With the Devil”, it just enters the war, Removed the Russian focus to join the Internationale - Syndie Russia can still join under the proper circumstances via event, White Ruthenia’s focus tree times have been shortened (70 to 56). Transamur can now integrate states, and the Far East focus now targets the correct state. Fixed Transamur not breaking away from Japan when forming Russia. Hejaz now gets a wargoal on SAU when seeking Arabian unification. Fixed a RUS idea breaking without Waking the Tiger. Added a small dispersed industry tech boost to Restored Qing’s NCERA rural development focus. A new state category with 11 slots has been added - Sprawling Metropolis. Yunnan’s AI has been tweaked to care slightly more for useful things like factories and research slots in their focus tree. Finally, we have broken a lot of the models off from the main mod and into submods. A slight rebalance to the Japanese air tree. Fixed Yunnan being able to form its own faction when already in one. Fixed Austria not getting a core on Burgenland. Welcome to the first beta version of Kaiserreich for Hearts of Iron 4. The Federalists can now give ultimatums to Shanxi if they border it. Fixed Bulgaria's syndicalist coup ending the war for Thrace. Made the Napoleon coronation event loc less specific. Denmark will now always simply join the Reichspakt during the Weltkrieg unless they are ruled by the social democrats to prevent issues with events that didn’t anticipate this behavior. If you started down the PSF path while in Africa but then elect the radicals into power upon your return to the continent, your research national spirit no longer instantly cancels. We also apply it to the player for balance reasons: if the AI has division limits but a player doesn’t, the difference in difficulty (particularly for major nations) is profound. The USA and Germany stability debuffs were changed to accommodate this. STORE. Replaced repetitive loading screen quote sources with new quotes from: John McLean, H.G. Moved the West Prussia-Masuria border to the Vistula. I like the limit, but I feel it’s unfair to country X! AI Entente countries can now send volunteers to Canada's chosen side. Added custom difficulty settings for most major conflicts and alliances, GRE - can now have the outcome of the Monarchy Referendum chosen. SOV's admirals are now exiled in Britain. Fixed two Bulgarian generals still being available as ministers after they’re purged, Fixed PatAut Brazil being unable to remove negative national spirits, Fixed the Swedish syndicalist flag which was not properly rendering, Updated the Colombian, Montenegrin and Venezuelan flags so they are now using the correct colors, Made some changes to the peace conference code which could cause a crash if too many countries were capitulating at the same time. The British and French each have focuses to initiate returning their colonies that they occupy to each other once the mainlands are reclaimed. Tried to improve the flow of the United Front code. LIT should now keep its units at home if set to revolt. GEA will now keep its units in East Asia. Annexation missions (the decisions you see which pop up after you gain territory, which allow for the release of puppets) have been reworked so they are now triggered. Fixed a double removal of the national revolutionary idea in Insulindia. At this point, all political leaders (who aren’t using military portraits) have been completed, as have army and navy generics for the British, Germans, Russians, and Americans, Added a failsafe to annex Argentina because people keep forgetting to annex South Georgia or the Falklands, Rearranged some annexation decisions so the occupy option is always below the liberate option(s), Annie Kenney has been removed and replaced with Sylvia Pankhurst, Ukraine has received some additional focuses and will abolish the monarchy if it goes NatPop or SocCon. Fixed event which calls Poland or Italy into the Belgrade Pact war with Austria, in an instance where they have already acquired their needed states in the interim. The Ottoman rework has been teased for a long time so I know you’ll be happy to hear it is finally here and ready for you to enjoy! Ireland custom path for joining factions now works, Removed odd idea added in Fate of Slovenia event, Ulster revolt event for Ireland now fires properly. Notably, the production AI has seen many changes, which should translate into a more reactive and generally more fun to play against unit buildup.