Patch Notes May 2024 - deliciousmods/1956_beta GitHub Wiki

Warning: This update brings savegame-breaking mapchanges

Tip: You can switch between the Beta and Main release during the beta week to ensure you won't lose your saves. Map changes on the beta but you have a savegame going? Finish your save on the release version then go to the beta. And vice versa.

Highlights

The Emporium has cancelled their plan for world domination and retracted their services. Use the Game Rules to go back in time!
All resources have been rebalanced to fit historical production in 1936!
Overhauled/reworked focus trees for the Philippines, Dutch East Indies, Tibet, Saudi Arabia and Bhutan!

Additions

Tonga, Easter Island and Channel Islands have been added on the map.
Mauritius now claims Diego Garcia as their own.
Added a few historical characters to Sinkiang and other cliques.
Added a character trait to the commander version of Yan Xishan.
Added the Italian and German invasions of Monaco. Also added the death of Louis II.
Jordan can now rename itself from the Emirate of Transjordan to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan if it controls the west bank (Doing so will also core any controlled states west of the Jordan river).
Added a new ruler for communist Germany.
Added a new formable nation for Ukraine and Ruthenia, the Republic of Greater Ukraine.
[LaR] Added a new spy to the Soviet Union.
[LaR] Added two decisions to Francoist Spain featuring concessions to carlists.
[AAT] Added Deutsche Werke, builder of the Lützow and the Graf Zeppelin as an MIO.
[ToA] The Inuit state will use the shared arctic military branch.
Adjusted two define values to reduce in-game CPU usage. (Noticeable for those with weaker CPUs. Not so noticeable change if at all for those with good CPUs)

Adjustments

Removed Canadian, South African, Australian and New Zealander TfV trees.
The Majapahit formable has been replaced by the Pan-Malay Confederation, now also available for the Philippines.
Nepal no longer starts as a British protectorate.
Beersheba is now controlled by the Arab forces upon the collapse of the mandate.
Many nation's have received rebalancing to their population to fit the historical population.
Xibei San Ma's states have been redrawn to fit both Greater Tibet and Greater Mongolia.
Tibet's borders have been completely redrawn and they will also start with Arunachal Pradesh (Lhoyü).
Jafurah state has been added in Arabia, Rub' al Khali has been redrawn and made impassable.
Some parts of the British Pacific colonies have been transferred to Australia, most notably Nauru and parts of the Solomon Islands.
Yaren is now the capital of Nauru.
Many islands and borders regions have received minor tweaks, prominent being the downsized Okinawa.
Removed Volkswagen and Deutsche Arbeitsfront ideas and merged them into Volksgemeinschaft to reduce idea icon bloat on Germany.
Tooltip changes for communist and democratic Germany to make the focus effects more easy to understand.
Many of the world's leaders have abandoned despotism and now strife towards more fitting authoritarian ideologies.
Implemented the change to the high command commando traits and boosted the generic special forces spirit.
Made "Versailles Denounced" to be a timed national spirit for Germany.
[LaR] Carlists should no longer rise up on historical settings.
[BBA] Haile Selassie will be less reckless and will try to leave Ethiopia a few days earlier.
[BBA] Slightly buffed the "Temporare Moral Boost" national spirit for Ethiopia.

Fixes

Fixed releasing Ukraine forcing you to play as Ukraine.
Fixed Argentina starting with the wrong leader.
Fixed multiple small issues in the R56 Lithuania tree.
Nerfed the Turkish Red Army idea from the R56 Turkey tree to 2% conscription from 10%.
Fixed the capitulation pictures which had been wrongly implemented last time.
Fixed a democratic Venezuelan advisor having a missing requirement for recruitment.
The 1936 Arab Revolt will now trigger at the historical date (19th of April 1936)
Iraq will no longer get the Israeli ceasefire event if they didn't join the war in the first place.
Ending Finnish civil wars will return your capital to Helsinki.
Fixed typos in an event describing an assassination of Hitler.
Found and buried the evil clone of Jakob Labart (unless it was the other one? What could possibly go wrong?).
Added National Spirit that prevents Vichy France from instantly rejoining the Axis upon the completion of the German focus "Case Anton".
Saarland no longer enters the void when Germany is disunited into Kingdoms by gamerule.
The Celtic Union will gain a core on the Isle of Mann.
The Papal States won't trigger the fall of Rome.
Removed an unexpecte cameo of Francisco Franco in Republican Spain.
Cuban and Panaman elections of 1936 will now promote a correct candidate.
Improved timings of several resignations and death events for UK.
[non-BBA] Added missing branch hiding in the Italian tree.
[MtG] Fixed a Mexican event granting tank licenses but not taking into account the NSB system.
[LaR] Franco from now on will not be replaced by his incompetent doppelganger who was only willing to restore the Spanish monarchy.
[NSB] Fixed two Mexican character with large portraits as their small portrait when they are given a high command role.
[NSB] Added a missing Ethiopian scripted trigger regarding military academies.
[NSB] Fixed an oversight in the r56 Ethiopian focus tree caused by a condition originally in the BBA Ethiopian tree.
[NSB] Issue with the Soviet Non-Communist Civil War has been fixed, countries should now rebel when appropriate once more.
[ToA] Indigenous tags will not miss starting r56 techs
[ToA] Fixed a focus tree overlap when selecting the democratic branch in Argentina

Balancing

Improved and Advanced Equipment conversion Technologies have been removed and had their bonuses transferred over into Machine Tool tech line at a reduced bonus
[BBA] - Plane IC cost has been increased across the board, with non-jet engine cost scaling more similar to their performance scaling.
[BBA] - Medium Airframe 1 and 2 have had their Speed increased
[BBA] - Medium Airframe 1, 2 and 3 have had their Air Defense increased
[NSB] - Light Tank 1936 has been moved to 1937

GFX

Added new unique capitulation pictures.
Iran will have the Romanian R1 (actually a Czech tankette).
Peruvian tank textures (based on Czech tanks).

The AI will now field better tank divisions, making those who can field tanks a larger threat, anti-tank may now actually be useful against AI.
AI will now devote some research slots at appropriate timings for tank, air and artillery research.
China is now more hesitant to use wargoals on Xinjiang if it is guaranteed by the Soviets.
Italian AI will avoid stationing lots of troops in East Africa where they are likely to be cut off.
[BBA] The AI has been told how to design proper planes, this ranges from Fighters and CAS to Medium Bombers.
[NSB] The AI has been told how to design proper tanks. This is an ongoing process though and it is currently primarily the Major Nations that do these new designs.

Localization

Fixed broken localization in Manchurian focus tree.

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.