Sichuans Federalists-in-Exile path now attacks Lianguang via focus instead of via decision, and receives cores when they declare war. Fixed Northern Ireland white-peacing with Ireland, causing a peace between the Entente and the Third Internationale - the peace can now no longer occur if Northern Ireland is in a faction. Fixed Emiliano Chamorro not being the SocCon leader in the Nicaraguan elections. The Arsenal of Montevideo now gives a research bonus to guns. Post-unification Federalist Chinas railway decisions now also add infrastructure. Moved Huang Qixiang from Liangguang to the Left Kuomintang. Fixed Persia not trying to annex Ashkabad. Fixed Albert and Leopold of Belgium having no portraits. Adjusted the requirements for SocDem Lithuania to turn RadSoc, taking socialist Russia and other neighbours into account. Fixed woke stability malus Codreanu got for compromising. Fixed USA releasing Puerto Rico with NatPop ministers. As always this update comes with a mass of other tweaks; Italy and Russia have got massive changes, new game rules have been added, bugs fixed, performance improved and many other changes. Added Kotor as a new state in the Balkans. German East Asia AI no longer guarantees Burma. The socialists now all use a variant of the Negritude colors (black, red and blue), New focus and national spirit icons for Belgium, France, Hawaii, Ireland, the Netherlands, Hunan, Yunnan, the Qing Empire, the Fengtian Government, and the USA, France: Marcel Cachin, Nestor Makhno, Henri Frenay, Hungary: Kocsrd Janky de Bulcs, Hug Snyi, Vilmos Nagy de Nagybaczon, Bla Mikls de Dlnok, Dezs Lszl, Gusztv Jny, Lajos Veress de Dlnok, Gusztv Denk de Kistorony, Dme Sztjay, Szilrd Bakay, Kroly Bartha de Dlnokfalva, Illyria: Slavko Kvaternik, Eduard Buni de Bona, Fedor Dragojlov, Matija ani, Mihajlo Luki, Vladimir Laxa. Fixed Japan's economic integration national spirits invalidating, for their own puppets. Added the option to support New England to Canadas American Civil War game rules. Pretty vital to correct that, so heres the hotfix for that and any other issues weve fixed in the interim. Revamped the puppet system used for non-Together for Victory owners so that the overlord is informed when the puppet level changes, Re-fixed the bug where the final stage of the UK getting ships from Canada/Australasia doesnt cause a crash when the naval group is selected, The Belgrade Pact will no longer disband if Romania is its only member and drops out to fight its civil war, ACW countries are now disabled from generating wargoals on each other during the Rocky Mountain Ceasefire, as opposed to the AI just being discouraged. Peru now joins any of Bolivia's wars if the PBC forms. Increased the accessibility of the German Womens Suffrage national focus. The Greek Civil War revolt now spawns its own units, to avoid making Greece even more manpower-starved. Namibia no longer gets claims on Germany. 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. For Belgium, swapped Hendrik de Man with Achille Van Acker. Added a tooltip for Renew Pride explaining that it unlocks the coring decisions. Increased Russias starting factory count. Expanded Switzerlands national populist path, The Kaiser Wilhelm society now exists at game start, Germany is no longer locked out of the Walloon annexation event. Fixed Liu Heding not transferring back to Anqing once Shandong is annexed by Anqing. Fixed Kemalist Ottomans longer getting the Fate of Sudan event if they annex Egypt. Slightly reduced the length of some Argentine national foci and tweaked the rewards. Rebalanced several national foci for the Ma Clique. Added Ask of Thyself, Crown Imperial, a new version of Land of Hope and Glory, Fantasia on British Sea Songs, Here's A Health unto his Majesty, I vow to Thee My Country, Keep the Home Fires Burning, Soldiers of the King, Song of Liberty and Sons of the Brave. Fixed New Englands Joint Navy Training not giving the correct experience type. Liberia can now be released normally by NFA, GER or GBR. Fixed Peru keeping the Peru-Bolivia Confederation claims upon being released. Fixed Austria not getting a core on Transdanubia if Galicia was granted to Poland. Changes in Brazilian models - they now wear Stahlhelms. Fixed the requirements for Austria inviting Bulgaria to its faction. Updated Chads party names, and starting party popularities. Fixed the release of socialist United Baltic Duchy not giving them the correct cores. Several Fengtian generals skills were toned down in tandem with Zhang. Fixed Muhammad Ali Jinnah remaining as SocDem leader in Dominion of India after his death. Kenya joining the Entente now correctly promotes Philip Euen Mitchell to being its leader, and removes their starting army debuff. Fixed a crash to desktop from Finland spawning ships requiring a non-owned DLC. Fixed New Zealands republican flag being applied to the wrong country. The Left Kuomintangs Dai Anlan is now a Mobile Warfare theorist, rather than Grand Battleplan. Fixed Japan's capitulation peacing out Fengtian and Qing. Fixed the Italian Republics decision to rally supporters insta-cancelling. South Africa now receives a few extra cavalry units two weeks after the Entente enters the war against them. Assyria no longer releases itself into oblivion. When releasing Turkish borderlands with annexation decisions, cores are not granted to neighbors when the states are given to them. We are not yet fully satisfied with this. PBC can now use the Bolivia decision to join the war in the southern cone. Allies with Germany-in-Exile now must give land in Germany to them in the annexation decision. Fixed Spain starting with unusable plane designs. Fixed Mittelafrika's non-core manpower having negative values. It's been less than two weeks since the release of 0.13, and we're here with what we hope will be the one and only hotfix necessary for it. Removed the Sichuanese famine aid events for other countries, with the effect for Sichuan now being calculated differently. Fixed puppets counting as majors for Germanys capitulation. Fixed the West Indies Federation getting planes from a France who has an inappropriate ideology, and asking for them when the receiver of the event does not have enough to give. Added some missing states to what is considered to be French colonial claims. Fixed puppet Britain peacing out with the Entente. Any trade modifiers regarding war debt repayments will now be removed if the US joins the Entente, allowing for free trade between them. Fixed Changtang not being taken from Tibet in peace events. Removed the option to only annex half of White Ruthenia for Russia. Fixed Fengtian not checking if it has the railway modifier, before trying to remove it. Fixed the Chinese United Front tags not having their major status reset upon peace. Removed the costs for refusing the Siam peace deal. Germany no longer gets two Black Monday news events. Fixed the position of Austin, USA on the map. The American Civil War's Legation Marines event no longer fires if the Legation Cities have collapsed. Added AI strategy for Brazil to deal with the rebel tags. Fixed an invalid Russian division template. Removed a random chance of Shanxi just outright refusing the Manchu Coup and causing it to fail. Fixed two response options appearing for many news events. If you are still having trouble, we have written up a guide which we hope will be of some use: https://kaiserreich.fandom.com/wiki/Troubleshooting_the_HoI4_Launcher, - The KR4 Team: Alpinia, Anbory, Arvidus, Beelzebub, Blackfalcon501, DSFDarker, Dr. Njitram, Drozdovite, Edouard Saladier, Eragaxshim, Fbruchmueller, Flamefang, Jeankedezeehond, Jonjon428, Jonny BL, KeetnaWilson, Khalil, Kracc, Kro, Liegnitz, Maltesefalcon, MantisToboggan, Mifil, OperationsManagementDecisions, PPsyrius, Pietrus, Rei VL, Rinbro, Roniius, Roparex, Rylock, Saladenicoise, Sjarlewis, Skip, Telcontar101, The Alpha Dog, Thomahawk2k, Vidyaorszg, WordZero, Yard1, Zaddy-Chan and Zankoas. The Ottomans granting self-rule to the Assyrians, under Canadian intervention, will now return resource rights to the Canadians. South Africa's armoured production bonus now applies to heavy tanks as well. Fixed an unintended consequence of the Left Kuomintang turning Totalist too quickly. The capitulation of the owner of a lease now automatically ends the lease. Removed ideology drift from national spirits in Peru. The path will now be a second SocDem path. Fixed Kurdistan not peacing out with the Ottomans properly. Streamlined and optimised the Wallonia code. The Ottomans will now try to naval invade Egypt. The United States now starts with the Bureau of Ordnance spirit of the navy. Fixed being able to give Thrace to Turkey without them owning Adrianople. Tweaked the states and provinces on the Peru/Chile and Peru/Colombia borders. Added some flavour events of the League of Eight Provinces and Lianguang. Added two new Romani-related news events for Poland. Heres another hotfix! Added decisions for the French Republic to increase their war support after successfully reclaiming the Mtropole. Fixed Armenia not surrendering despite only controlling a lake tile. Fixed the government getting the incorrect generic political support decisions for their respective ideology. Applied balance changes to the War in the Southern Cone. Streamlined Nepals peace-deal to make it less laggy. Hopefully fixed the Nanjing war decisions staying around. German East Asia now gives all of Cambodia to Indochina if it somehow defeats Siam before the Indochinese Revolution is dealt with. Fixed an unlocalised tooltip in the Silver Legion decision in the AUS. Russias Tsereteli can now be re-elected if chosen as provisional president. Fixed puppet Romania being unable to integrate Transylvania. Fixed the event that fires upon the breaking of the Halifax Conference deal firing multiple times. Fixed Siams Conditional Surrender's AI not following their faction leader. Fixed Poland not losing the Monarchist Sympathies national spirit if puppeted. The American Civil War no longer ends if the ceasefire occurs. NatPop Mittelafrika no longer gets cores on most of Africa after beating its rebellions. Rebalanced some of the Russian economic national spirits, and removed all consumer goods debuffs from their Head of State and minister traits. Added a Wilfred Owen loading screen quote. Added checks so Sweden and Finland's foci don't build factories in wastelands. Added a La Resistance-only decision to recruit a Head of Intelligence, which provides an additional operative slot (to make up for the fact that you cant recruit an advisor to do the same, as in vanilla). Fixed countries not taking Suceava in a peace conference. Puppet monarchist Korea is now known as the Korean Empire instead of the Joseon Kingdom. Fixed the Ottoman state modifiers not being properly removed in the Kadroist path revolts. Alsace is now part of the Northern France strategic region. Yunnan now attacks both sides of Lianguang if they're in a civil war. Updated the weapons technology for several South American countries, and Cuba. Added Head of State trait assignment for Siam. Increased suppression values for armoured cars, camels, and bicycle battalions. Democratic Centroamerica no longer can elect RadSocs. Fixed New England's states being considered non-core even if they reunited peacefully. Serbia will now wait for the WK to attack Austria. Slightly increased the amount of World Tension given by Australasia turning syndicalist. The Socialist Republic of Italy Siamic aircraft designer now has a new trait, so that it is different from the Kingdom of Two Sicilies designer Aeronautical Sicula, which they can inherit. Tweaked the names of the Greek political parties. Fixed AuthDem Shandong being unable to remove the revolt national spirits. Adjusted the stats for some Welsh commanders. Removed possible exploit allowing Democratic Argentina to join a faction before dealing with the FOP. Fixed Turkey being able to complete the Classless Society national focus, without having the Total Nationalisation national spirit. Removed the British king as a possible Head of State for the Dominion of India, or South Africa. Fixed the king's path in Sardinia not showing which post-war tree they will get. The Left Kuomintang now gets wargoals on KMT tags that refuse to ally with them. Fixed Nicaragua attacking German Costa Rica. Made Japans Busan negotiations more clear. For Guatemala, Ubico's coup can't trigger for puppets anymore. Fixed George Van Horn Moseley starting as the United States PatAut leader, before being replaced by MacArthur. Fixed the very first vote in the Legation Council sometimes resulting in OK and breaking the event chain. Added Market Liberal popularity as a potential prerequisite for the Ottoman Reform the Conscription System national focus. Ideology groups are: 'f' (fascism), 'd' (democratic), 'n' (neutrality) and 'c' (communism). Fixed a player-lead Costa Rica being annexed by Centroamerica. The news event for America being at war with Japan now only fires after the American Civil War is concluded. Gave the Netherlands a core on Saint Martin. If you hover over the limit field at the top right of your Recruit & Deploy tab, youll see a tooltip that explains exactly how the limit is calculated. Puppets will no longer guard the borders with other puppets of the same overlord. Nicaragua no longer starts without a core on Matagalpa - instead, it has a modifier blocking conscription in the state. Fixed Assyria's Frontline of Imperialism referring to Canada instead of the Entente leader. The Phalanstere decisions now give infrastructure instead of free resources. Modified the effects of the Left Kuomintangs national focus to invade Taiwan. Fixed an event option lockout in military Centroamerica. Slightly tweaked some national focuses for the AutDem path for the Italian Republic. Changes some of the icons in the game rules section. Fixed Manchu Qing not being able to invite allies to its faction. Fixed the Legation Cities Tsingtau Collaboration, and other German-related national spirits staying around, after German East Asia has been defeated. Fengtians decision which gives them the Motorised technology, now has another effect if they already have researched the technology. Improved AI handling of Swedish Black Monday decisions. East Turkestan, and Kumul Khanate led by Hoja-Niyaz, are now labelled as independent in the Chinese alignment chart. Fixed puppet Cuba having inappropriate national focuses and spirits. South Africas tree now unlocks if it is puppeted before 1938. Fixed Paraguay congratulating Huey Long on his victory despite no longer existing as a country. Added event warnings for tags, and their overlords if puppeted, soon to be attacked by the Fengtian Government, Qing/Zhili, and the LEP. Katanga now becomes a puppet of Germany instead of Sudwestafrika, puppets of puppets arent great. GEA will now keep its units in East Asia. Adjusted the effects of some of Paraguays national focuses. Scandinavia now has a World News Event if it forms. Diversified the CSA event pictures a bit. Fixed puppet Serbia not being released as a republic. Fixed Brazil removing their Black Monday national spirit not bypassing some related national focuses. Reworked the AI priorities for sending units to European frontlines. Fixed the country name for syndicalist Tibet. Weve also spent time working on other changes, such as letting you recall volunteers, along with many bug fixes and performance improvements. Germany can no longer take "The Oil Must Flow" national focus before Romania nationalises the Ploiesti fields. Fixed a missing game rule check locking AutDem South Africa out of its tree. Fixed Dutch East Indies national focuses not checking to see if they controlled the state that were to have factories built on them. The Transylvanian Resistance is now removed if Romania or Transylvania are annexed. Fixed the Yunnanese peace for Vietnam firing for a unified China. Updated the French Exiles Intervene in the Weltkrieg news event to account for them potentially declaring war on the Commune of France, before the Weltkrieg has started. Giving Germany a Haitian naval base will now give them docking rights. Fixed Serbian Yugoslavia being unable to core Gorizia. Fixed the Dutch East Indies releasing the West Indies Federation in Saint Martin. Updated the AI so that countries with smaller amounts of factories are not going to try to build tanks. Fixed the Chinese army reform decisions not always appearing. Franois Darlan is now an admiral for the Commune of France, having moved from the French Republic. Fixed Natal's tree being unlocked before the Boer War begins. Armenia getting puppeted by expansionist Russia no longer changes Armenias ideology wheel and ruling party. Fixed the Fifth Zhifeng War between the Zhili and the Fengtian Government being referred to as such, if the Zhili have lost power in Qing. Tweaked Germanys naval AI for it to avoid the English Channel if the British fleet is stronger than the German. Fixed countries not increasing their manpower laws at all if at peace. Fixed South African Federation having no ambition areas, and not getting a claim on Bechuanaland. Fixed Transamur getting ten times their calculated division limit. Fixed Japan intervening to help a dead Fengtian. Fixed incorrect party popularity bonuses given by a West Indies Federation national focus, and their revolution giving SocDem popularity. We hope you enjoy the changes and have fun playing Kaiserreich! New company icons for Germany (Henschel and Fieseler). Fixed the Expanded Tanker Fleet national focus prerequisites for Georgia. Greece is now temporarily removed from its faction during its civil war. Fixed the Italian names of PAP's Catholic divisions, Fixed Manchu SQI causing a focus lockout for the LKMT, Fixed Wallonia not gaining cores on Lige, The LKMT can no longer attack FNG before doing the prerequisite focus, Fixed the SZC NPA focus not allowing for joining it instead. Fixed Anqing not getting the decision to attack Qing despite doing the prerequisite focus. 4. Fixed Russia demanding Armenia without controlling Georgia. Changed Mongolian war decision so it only targets one neighboring tag rather than every Chinese tag that Japan is at war with, many of which Mongolia cant possibly reach (or vice-versa). Fixed Armenia keeping socialist national spirits as a non-socialist puppet. Fixed Anqing declaring war on AuthDem Shandong. Ukraine can no longer ally with Russia as a socialist nation. create_faction = "factionname" creates a faction for your country called "factionname". Fixed SocDem Centroamerica joining the Third International. Peru and Ecuador can now do a white peace if Ecuador is doing well in the Pastaza war. Fixed countries that are spawned by civil wars being automatically embargoed by everyone else. If Shanxi and Qing are forced out of the same faction by a leadership change they now have thirty days of military access to withdraw their troops. Fixed event chain for Portugal seizing Galicia. The new reworked nations brought to you this time around are none other than Bhutan, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Wales and White Ruthenia. Fixed the NatPop Ottomans losing their focus tree if they join the Reichspakt. Adjusted Germanys behaviour in promising Poland autonomy. Fixed some generals not joining their respective revolts in NatPop Brazil. Fixed the Left Kuomintang / Legation Cities peace decision not appearing. Removed Sheikh Ghadban from Saudi Arabia. Fixed the Netherlands losing their claim on Suriname if restored by the Dutch East Indies. Increased the AI priority for researching the first level of field hospitals and logistics companies. The Korean Military Administration modifier is now re-applied correctly if the Korean uprising fails. Added event for Shandong victory in League War. Chen Lianbo will now become a Field Marshal on Liangguangs MarLib path. It can still create a faction with the Bharatiya Commune, or join one if it already exists. Claimed Croatian states are no longer given away by the Fate of Croatia event. Fixed a German East Asia national spirit, where Qing did not count as pro-AOG. Increased the chance for Russia to take the Don-Kuban Union. Increased the compliance that Poland has when obtaining Krakw, Pozna and Upper Silesia. The Reichspakt now cannot collapse if Germany is allied to any European major, unless the ally is also close to surrendering. Legation Cities idea representing Qing influence should be removed in the right cases. Improved Germanys naval invasion defence AI (particularly against the Union of Britain). Fixed King Duarte not being properly removed, when releasing republican Portugal. Added improved starting engine technology to German East Asia. Fixed some problems with the Norway ai_will_do values for focuses, and for the Custom Game Rules. When Greece becomes syndicalist, it no longer drops out of a faction/wars if its faction leader is also socialist. Fixed Yunnan having an integration decision available too early because of a missing flag. Albania now follows its guarantor into and out of factions, should their guarantor subsequently join or leave one. Fixed Hungary not keeping the monarchist flag when re-puppeted by Austria. Fixed the Kurdish revolt not firing for Turkey. Removed a vestigial political power gain debuff from a Tibetan national spirit. Fixed the Belgrade Pact countries not becoming majors upon joining the war. Italy and Two Sicilies can now join Austrias sphere even once they merge with the Reichspakt during WK2 (they will leave the faction with Austria when it leaves). Added new equipment art for Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and White Ruthenia. Mongolias AI has been tweaked so it makes better decisions in its first year and isnt so self-destructive. Now all in Sakhalin. Gave Montenegro a base attack and defense idea, reminiscent of Sisu. Germany is now no longer forced to attend the Congress of Lyon, upon beating the Commune of France. Fixed opinion modifiers for the French Republic and Spain. The Commune of France and Poland will now get an event about Rokossowski leaving the former to go to the latter, if they turn socialist. Fixed the L-KMT not being able to attack Sichuan if they don't directly border it. Hundreds of text standardisations and typo corrections. Fengtians pre-rework bandit events have been fully gutted and reworked. Fixed a bug in Yunnans industry national spirit progression. Serbia no longer kicks Greece from the Belgrade Pact, when forming the Balkan Socialist Federation, if they are both socialist. Fixed the AI saving up to change economic law by two levels, instead of doing one level when it can afford it. Removed the at peace requirement for NatPop Mittelafrikas Assume the title of Statthalter and End the Protectorates national foci. Enjoy! The Ottomans Sarajevo Accords no longer block the Treaty of Budapest from firing. Fixed the League of Eight Provinces selectable missions missing AI factors. Argentina now starts with the Woes of the Christmas Coup national focus pre-completed. Fixed Romania not annexing Cernauti in a peace conference. Rebalanced the effect of the Fate of Puyi event for the Left Kuomintang. Decreased the amount of oil that Scotland gets in its focus tree. Fixed the inverted idea effects for Bulgaria's agrarian route. Ukraine's leftists can no longer collectivise after being purged. Fixed the Belgian annexation decision requiring Garonne instead of Hainaut. Transamur will now drop out of any of Japans wars if they rebel. Fixed Dominion of India and Princely Federation focuses giving outdated naval bonuses. Ported over the new Propaganda decisions from vanilla HOI4. The Ottoman AI will now prioritise researching transport boats when needing to invade Cyprus. Japan now starts with a larger airforce, more similar to its vanilla equivalent. Canada no longer steals New England from MacArthur unless set to by game rule. Upon forming the Italian Empire, the Kingdom of Two Sicilies now receives generals and admirals from the Papal States. If Germany does not intervene, Austria can lose all those states and their faction will be removed for good. Sichuans conscription factor no longer goes into negatives. Removed syndicalist Gold Coast being called Golden Pact, Added leader descriptions for Romanian head of states. Increased the chance of Reijnders coup, if the Netherlands is allied with Reichspakt. Stopped the Mexican AI from declaring war on Central American countries they dont border. Vy zhertvoyu pali (You Fell Victim) now correctly plays for Russian socialists instead of German socialists. Fixed annexation missions for Bechuanaland and Zimbabwe not firing for Germany. Added some clarifying tooltips to White Ruthenia. Fixed Emergency Powers not being correctly removed from the leader of New England. The Greek general Athanasios Klaras now goes by his actual name, as opposed to his real life nom de guerre Aris Velouchiotis. Re-added Manfred von Richthofen as a Chief of Air Force for Germany, after being forgotten from the initial release. Fixed Swedens AI going turning into a Protectionist Economy too often while SocCon, when there is a chance that they may be able to form Scandinavia. Federalist China cannot invite the Ma Clique, Tibet or Xinjiang to their Conference until the invitees respective wars are finished. Socialist puppet South Africa will no longer have elections in 1943 or 1948 reverting ideology to Social Conservative. Greeces civil war now causes a small amount of world tension. Shortened the news event for the Dutch revolution slightly so it doesnt clip under the option button. Fixed Fate of India decision so its available even if Madras still exists. Overhauled Sichuan's starting divisions and templates. You can no longer get the Iraqi neutrality buff if you join a faction. Fixed Azerbaijan peacing out with Russia when Persia collapses. Wrangel's plan for Russia now gives supply hub and railroad construction boosts. Fixed a broken Qing decision cost tooltip. Fixed Germany starting with cruiser submarines but not the tech. Tweaked the effect of the Austro-Hungarian Ties Broken national spirit.