KR4 Changelog/Beta

Here you can find information on each hotfix, release, and patch of Kaiserreich for Hearts of Iron 4.

Patch 0.6.1

Got a lot to say about the last few days, so much in fact I can’t fit it all here, see all we know here.

The short version is things aren’t perfect, but very much improved from release; steam is all good again at the very least. Thank you for bearing with us and we hope you enjoy 0.6.1!

The KR4 team

Additions

Added Austrian decisions for greater influence over the outcome of the 1936 elections
Added Ottoman decisions to influence the war a bit more
Added German East Asia decisions to regain the cores in Cochinchina
Added event explain 1.5.2 slowdown and what can be done about it
Added event explaining dynamic focus trees (No they aren’t missing…)

GFX

Added more tech icons from Lamp’s Eqpt Icons have been integrated (thanks again 电灯弗里曼)
German East Asia now has German equipment GFX

Map

Al-Hajara and Kuwait are now in the Arabian strategic region

Miscellaneous

Bulgaria can now continue the war against the Ottomans after the treaty of Edirne
The Ottomans can now flood the Tigris-Euphrates plain to slow down Iranian-Arabian advances
Egypt is now less likely to piss of Arabia when Iran wins the Ottoman war
Rashidi-Saudi war has been rebalanced so it doesn’t last as long
Wallonia now no longer starts an early WK without player intervention
Turkey is now a soft red instead of flashy green
Slightly changed Iran's starting units
Changed automatic communard names to remove aristocratic-sounding ones
You can now retain the Panama canal when annexing Panama
Nerfed the Dmitri path for Russia
Tried to make the Russian Civil War a bit less likely
CNT receives slightly less units when spawning
Removed an absolute warning from Japan
If Germany joins Ostasien-Indochinese war, Indochinese Union will receive volunteers from the Internationale
Germany now begins with an Imperial Pride spirit which raises their surrender limit
Credits updated
Readme updated
CSA has less starting units

Fixes

Yemen now has a portrait for its leader! And other related issues from steam have been fixed
Various fixes to the Netherlands, including focus bypasses not having to be done manually anymore
The Ottoman Empire will no longer defend Cyprus like a bunch of rabid crusaders
Saudi Arabia no longer has claims on Yemen territory which led to early wars
Iran won’t magically spawn Egypt out of thin air anymore
The Last stand idea for the Ottoman Empire now gets removed in case of Ottoman victory
Egypt will no longer take Kurdish territory without asking Kurdistan
Sea Doggos have been sent packing
Doggos have also been removed from the tech screen for those running on 1.5.1
The Land Reform event chain of Indochinese Union can be correctly finished
Pluralist Austria should be less of an industrial juggernaut
Various Iran bugs fixed, including peace with Entente, peace with Germany spam for German player, the Shining Democracy idea having the communist picture, Reza Khan name fix, and Azerbaijan war changes.
Ukrainian units will no longer have ? in their names
Nikolai Yudenich will never be the leader of the United Baltic Duchy for anyone else than Russia
Fixed being able to annex Transamur as Russia without any opposition if Transamur was a puppet of someone else than Japan
Numerous annexation event fixes including Egypt no longer released with its Syrian holdings
When Germany capitulates, countries will no longer peace out with countries they don’t border (either personally or through an ally/puppet) on another continent if they control any coastal state in that country
Sweden’s Black Monday spirit can now actually be removed. Keep in mind that Sweden is still WIP and not really fully playable.
Ireland can now actually remove their Black Monday effects
Kingdom of Spain and Carlist Spain joining factions now works once again
Mittelafrika no longer goes independent with the Goering focus - it was only ever intended to become a nominal puppet
Australasia’s Oversized Fleet spirit now goes away on its own if their fleet size drops significantly
Australasia’s carrier no longer starts with too many planes loaded onto it
Ethiopia’s constitution chain no longer has a chance of stalling if two or more of the ideologies are equal in popularity
CNT’s focus which used to sponsor a syndicalist coup in Portugal now just gives them a war goal against Portugal instead
Significant localisation improvements for nations added in 0.6

We hope you enjoy playing Kaiserreich 0.6.1 as much as we did making it!

- The KR4 Team: ~mw~, Akamber, Anbory, Autovonbismarck, Beelzebub, Blackfalcon501, DDago, Delincious, Denizz, Flamefang, Herkles, Jeankedezeehond, Kaiserbot, Liegnitz, Medizine, Miklos Horthy, Nijato, OperationsManagementDecisions, PPsyrius, Packard, Pietrus, Rinbro, Roparex, Rylock, Sea Lion, TheBlackWinds, Thomahawk2k, TornadoWatch, VirtualHummingbird, Wladyslaw Sikorski, WordZero, Wyandotte and Zankoas

Patch 0.6

It’s been a while hasn’t it? We have been thoroughly enjoying Waking the Tiger and all the new tools it has brought us; I’m sure you will enjoy what we have done with them. Not only that, but this patch also brings the Italian and Middle East reworks which will hopefully spice up gameplay in those areas, not to mention new content to many other nations all over the world. Waking the Tiger is not required for this patch, for more information see the ingame starting events. While 1.5 ‘Cornflakes’ is very exciting it has also brought with it many things that need changing so bugs are to be expected, please be patient with us and report on the github with as much detail as possible. Finally, thank you for bearing with us for what has been a very, very long wait. We promise it was worth it!

The KR4 team

General

Completely reworked the Italian peninsula, complete with new tags
Completely reworked the Middle East, complete with new tags
Compatibility with 1.5 ‘Cornflakes’
Compatibility with 1.5.1 and 1.5.2 hotfixes
Added German East Asia as a starting tag
Added division namelists for all tags in the game
Added preliminary decisions
Preliminary updates to the new ‘Cornflakes’ stability system
Reworked map in China in preparation for future rework
World tension is now controlled via scripted major events rather than via peace conferences and minor events

Added focus trees to:

Albania
Australasia
Dahomey
Emilia
Gabon
German East-Asia
Indochina
Iran
Jabal Shammar
Katanga
Lombardia
Morocco
Muscat
Nejd
Papal State
Sardinia
Sudwestafrika
Tripolitania
Tuscany
Two Sicilies
Venice
Wallonia
Yemen

Reworked/expanded focus trees of:

Austria
Bulgaria
Carlist Spain
Egypt
Flanders
Flanders-Wallonia
Germany
Mittelafrika
Netherlands
Republic of Italy
Socialist Republic of Italy
Switzerland
Union of Britain

Added events to:

Bulgaria
Egypt
Emilia
Flanders
Flanders-Wallonia
Germany
Iran
Jabal Shammar
Japan
Katanga
Lombardia
Mittelafrika
Muscat
Nejd
Ottoman Empire
Papal State
Republic of Italy
Sardinia
Socialist Republic of Italy
Switzerland
Transamur
Tripolitania
Tuscany
Two Sicilies
Venice
Wallonia
Yemen

Added decisions to:

Albania
Belgrade Pact (Serbia, Greece and Romania)
Bulgaria
Burma (Wartime Decisions)
Cairo Pact (Mashriq, Egypt, Tripolitania, Najd, Jabal Shammar, and Iran)
Deutsch-Ostasien
Flanders-Wallonia
Indochinese Union
Republic of Italy
Royalist Romania (Civil War)
Siam (Wartime Decisions)
Socialist Republic of Italy

GFX

New unit models for Carlist Spain (courtesy of A Carton of Juice), Iran, the French Republic, Sicily, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Lithuania, The Papal State, Sardinia, Jabal Shammar, Nejd, Oman, Netherlands, Flanders-Wallonia, Dominican Republic, *Norway, Greece, Albania, Liberia, Venezuela, Piratini, Deutsche Ostasien, Ma Clique, Kikuyuland, Hausaland, Zanzibar, Lombardia and dozens of other nations around the globe
Added some tech icons to Flanders-Wallonia and the Netherlands
Added tech icons to Germany and the RoI courtesy of 电灯弗里曼 of “Lamp’s Eqpt Icons”
Dozens of new portraits and pictures for all nations
Fixed the Union Flag proportions and redid the coat of arms for the Union of Britain flag
Gave 500+ ministers pictures who were previously either missing them, had low quality ones or had pictures of totally different people
Many lower quality portraits have been updated
Many new focus and idea icons

We hope you enjoy playing Kaiserreich 0.6 ‘Garibaldi's Nightmare’ as much as we did making it!

- The KR4 Team: ~mw~, Akamber, Anbory, Autovonbismarck, Beelzebub, Blackfalcon501, Cinzya, CrazyZombie, DDago, Delincious, Denizz, Flamefang, Herkles, Jeankedezeehond, Kaiserbot, Liegnitz, Medizine, Nijato, OperationsManagementDecisions, Packard, PPsyrius, Pietrus, Rinbro, Rylock, Sea Lion, TheBeezKneez, TheBlackWinds, Thomahawk2k, TornadoWatch, VirtualHummingbird, WordZero, Wyandotte, Zankoas

Patch 0.5.4b

A small save game compatible fix to resolve a CTD added in 0.5.4, with some minor other fixes to boot.

Changes

Fixed a CTD in the German naval focus tree
Fixed a number of localisation errors added in 0.5.4
Fixed an OOB error for Bulgaria
Fixed main menu song not playing
Updated main menu song with a higher quality version

Patch 0.5.4a

Released due to missing some changes in the initial upload.

Changes

Fixed Plock getting left out of peace deals
Typo fix for Bulgaria
Updated Die Wacht am Rhein to a new Christmas version

Patch 0.5.4 - 'Birthday Cake'

I’d like to give an extra thanks to all the new team members who helped with this patch, this patch would have either been much smaller or much later without their work. This patch is mostly polish, with many quality of life changes and bug fixes, notability fixing front lines and lakes which I think we can all agree has been a pain for awhile. Hopefully this will be the last patch for 0.5 and we can focus on 0.6, but we will keep an eye out for major bugs as normal. Finally, another thanks to all those using the new bug reporting system, it has made our lives much easier.

The KR4 Team

General

A few minor optimisations to do with redundant checks and events
A victorious France is now more likely to partition Germany, and less likely to directly seize the Rhineland.
Added a small arms design company to Ukraine
Added leader and idea descriptions to the Kingdom of Spain
Added leader localisation to Austria, Bharatiya Commune, Commune of France, Flanders-Wallonia, Japan, Mexico, Mongolia, Poland, Portugal, Princely Federation, Ukraine and White Ruthenia
Added missing annexation events for MLY and TRM
Added missing focus descriptions for Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Venezuela and the United States
Added proper state names for Switzerland
Added several new war names
Added ‘Secure Nis’ focus for Bulgaria
Added/improved states in Australasia, Bulgaria and Greece
Centroamerican localisation totally overhauled and now complete
Changed Roman von Ungern-Sternberg to be a paternal autocrat rather than a national populist
Cleaned up Bolivian idea descriptions
Cleaned up event descriptions for Icelandic fuel deal chain
Cleaned up some rouge spaces and tabs in code
Improved localisation for several news events
Made all lakes part of states
Major border refinements in Bulgaria and Greece
Nerfed Bulgarian ideas ‘Call to Arms’ and ‘Bulgarian Militarism’
Several small QoL changes for Germany
Several small QoL changes for UoB
Significant QoL changes for Mongolia
United Provinces localisation totally overhauled and now complete
Updated localisation for Egypt, Germany In Exile, Legation Cities, Mongolia, Ottoman Empire, Ukraine and White Ruthenia

GFX

Added new Dutch sound effects
Added sprites for Russian mechanized and motorized
Added Tuvan portraits
Fixed some minor errors in new flags added in 0.5
Minor refinements to a few Russian portraits
New GFX for Mongolia added
Several new GFX added for Australasia
Updated and expanded Dutch airplane sprites

Fixes

Notably, several major bugs fixed all over the place caused by people using goverment rather than government in code
A few small fixes for the Centroamerican focus tree
Added several missing bypasses in the German focus tree
Added three missing Serbian general portraits
Can no longer become a absolute monarchy when you’re syndicalist Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
cuba.4 will now fire correctly for Cuba rather than Canada
Fix Bulgaria-Serbia peace affecting Belgrade Pact members when not in the war
Fixed CAR/CNT not getting proper ideas when elected
Fixed Colombia not requiring the Galapagos islands to take the 'Pacify Ecuador' focus, nor gaining a core there after taking the focus
Fixed Germany not gaining a core on Vorarlburg when annexing Austria and choosing to go Grossdeutschland
Fixed Japan annexing mongolia instead of Russia in several event chains
Fixed a typo in the Danish army
Fixed an event option for gerdom.56
Fixed an incorrect state reference in some Russian events
Fixed an issue where Centroamerica couldn’t annex the Canal in certain circumstances
Fixed japfor.39 firing when Japan didn't control German East Asia
Fixed mixed up Ho Chi Minh events
Fixed multiple broken focus descriptions for Chile
Fixed multiple broken focus descriptions for Venezuela
Fixed multiple focus GFX not showing up when taken
Fixed numerous bugs with the CSA constitutional convention
Fixed several Siam events firing more than once when they shouldn’t
Fixed several bugs caused by people thinking CA = CV
Fixed several war names added last patch not working as they should
Fixed the Cyprus annexation event not working as it should
Fixed two broken German companies
Germany can no longer sell Ceylon to a non existent Princely Federation
Germany owning Plock is no longer a prerequisite for some Polish focuses
Improved bypass detection in the Russian focus tree
Lots of localisation fixes
Made Belgium correctly peace out of wars when they leave Mitteleuropa
MassachusettEs? Massachusetts
Multiple outstanding Mongolian bugs fixed
Reclaim Oregon focus now checks if the PSA controls Idaho
Several more wrong way round opinion modifiers fixed
Several unknown character errors fixed
Various fixes for Bulgaria focus tree

We hope you enjoy playing Kaiserreich 0.5.4 ‘Birthday Cake’ as much as we did making it!

- The KR4 Team: ~mw~, Ahearne, Akamber, Anbory, Autovonbismarck, BattleSarge, Beelzebub, Blackfalcon501, Cinzya, CrazyZombie, DDago, Denizz, Flamefang, Gibzit, Herkles, Indyclone, Jeankedezeehond, Kaiserbot, Kraken, Medizine, Nijato, OperationsManagementDecisions, PPsyrius, Packard, Raptor Jesus, Rinbro, Rylock, Sea Lion, Skullcrusher, TheBeezKneez, TheBlackWinds, Thomahawk2k, VirtualHummingbird, Wyandotte, Zankoas

Patch 0.5.3 - 'Third Strike'

Sorry for the wait on this patch, but on the up side it is bigger than we planned. There are a lot of bug fixes here, notably a fix for the Ottoman CTD. We also have some minor content additions along with some quality of life fixes; Germany has received a buf, Morocco is now released at game start, wars now have custom scripted names and more localisation work has been done. We are hoping this will be the last patch for 0.5, but we will keep watching and if any issues do arise we will of course issue a fix. Finally, thanks to everyone using the new bug tracker, it is making our lives much easier.

The KR4 team

General

Added a Central Asian namelist
Added an event for Germany in Exile to gain a German Empire cosmetic tag
Added an event to let the overlord of Romania choose whether to create a republic or keep the monarchy
Added new localisation to Austria
Added new localisation to Fengtian
Added new localisation to Liberia
Added new localisation to Mexico
Added new localisation to Siam
Bulgaria now has a claim on Nis
German-Polish border has been redrawn
Germany can now keep Crete if they annex Greece
Improved German AI
Japanese party names overhauled
Marginally increased German early game PP
Minor balance changes to Fengtian
Minor balance changes to Siam
Nerfs to Siamese, Filipino and Vietnamese military commander stats
New Leader and Commander list for the Indochinese Union
New Leader and Commander list for Vietnam
Morocco now starts as a puppet of Germany
Reduced impact of Romanian oil shortage on Germany
Reduced the time for several German focuses
Reverted reordering of German political focuses in 0.5.2
Updated team credits
War localisations are now scripted with custom flavour names

GFX

Added new focus icons for Iron Guard Romania
Added new focus icons for Royalist Romania
Added new focus icons for Serbia
Added some new sprites for Germany
Updated a few older idea icons
Updated a few older portraits

Fixes

A rare bug where Russia would defeat Japan but not get Transamur fixed
Another fix for the Japanese Centralist route
Australasia will no longer get the Dominion of India’s Imperial Conference event and vice versa
Ethiopia will now core all of Eritrea as it should
Event for annexing Commune of France as Germany event is no longer broken
Fengtian will now get the “War of National Reclamation” idea, even if not declaring war on Qing via focus
Fixed Ethiopian and Somalian focuses not bypassing their respective wargoal focuses once one is already a puppet the other
Fixed George V retiring when he should be dying
Fixed Germany research bonuses being the wrong way round at times
Fixed Ireland joining the Entente after Germany has capitulated
Fixed Soviet claims not apply correctly
Fixed a Siamese event firing for not Siam
Fixed a Tibetan event firing endlessly
Fixed a building slot error in the Egyptian focus tree
Fixed a few news events firing when they shouldn’t
Fixed artillery localisation for Liberia
Fixed some Fengtian events firing endlessly
Fixed the AoG getting annexed after asking for help
Fixed ‘Women Soldiers’ idea icon not showing for the Union of Britain
ISAC focus for Delhi now works as intended
Japan will no longer give aid to a rebellious Fengtian
Many fixes for annexation events
Minor fixes to Monoligan localisation
Minor spelling fixes for Germany
Minor spelling fixes for Switzerland
Missing Cyprus annexation event added
Poland should no longer take anti-German focuses once puppeted
Several missing sanity checks for White Ruthenia have been added
Several missing sanity checks for the Commune of France have been added
Soviet anime studios are no longer a thing, this upsets us as well
Various fixes to the German language text for MAF
Various minor fixed for Ireland
White Ruthenia should no longer take anti-German focuses once puppeted

We hope you enjoy playing Kaiserreich 0.5.3 ‘Third Strike’ as much as we did making it!

- The KR4 Team: ~mw~, Ahearne, Akamber, Anbory, Autovonbismarck, BattleSarge, Beelzebub, Blackfalcon501, Cinzya, CrazyZombie, DDago, Denizz, Flamefang, Gibzit, Herkles, Indyclone, Jeankedezeehond, Kaiserbot, Kraken, Medizine, Nijato, OperationsManagementDecisions, PPsyrius, Packard, Raptor Jesus, Rinbro, Rylock, Sea Lion, Skullcrusher, TheBeezKneez, TheBlackWinds, Thomahawk2k, VirtualHummingbird, Wyandotte, Zankoas

Patch 0.5.2h - 'Spooky Scary Skeletons'

Happy Halloween everyone! As a little treat, we have a special Halloween update for you. It is just a cosmetic update, and will be 100% save game compatible. Now I am aware we have promised that before, so if you are having issues, remember you can download old version from the forums here: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/kaiserreich-info-download.996902/ Otherwise, we hope you enjoy your Halloween, and remember to check out our progress reports every Friday to see how 0.6 is coming along.

The KR4 team

General

Added magic™ Halloween GFX

We hope you enjoy playing Kaiserreich 0.5.2h 'Spooky Scary Skeletons' as much as we did making it!

- The KR4 Team: ~mw~, Ahearne, Akamber, Anbory, Autovonbismarck, Beelzebub, Blackfalcon501, Cinzya, CrazyZombie, Denizz, Flamefang, Gibzit, Herkles, hyvinvointinionvaakalaudalla, Indyclone, Jeankedezeehond, Kaiserbot, Kornilov, Kraken, MaelTec, Medizine, Nijato, OperationsManagementDecisions, PPsyrius, Packard, Raptor Jesus, Rylock, Sea Lion, Skullcrusher, TheBeezKneez, TheBlackWinds, Thomahawk2k, Wyandotte, Zankoas

Patch 0.5.2 - 'Second Strike'

As is becoming a worrying tradition for us, 0.5 was not an ideal release. That being said, the 0.5.1 hotfix seems to have fixed nearly all the issues, so we are almost proud to give you a slightly smaller hotfix. Along with many bug fixes, there are also several quality of life changes; the Union of Britain will no longer take Devolution until WKII is over, the nerfs to industrial tech have been mostly reverted, puppets will take industry focuses and the AI will no longer drown in occupation policy costs. These things aren’t as exciting as new focus tress, but nevertheless, we hope you will enjoy these changes.

The KR4 team

General

Significant localisation work has been done, particularly on nations that got new content in 0.5
The industrial tech nerfs have mostly reverted
Factory costs have been increased by 10% to compensate

GFX

Added a new National Spirit icon for Fengtian
Added a new flag for the Soviet Union Internationalists
Added a new portrait for Frank Merriam
Added new flags for Mozambique
Added new flags for the United Kingdom and her subjects
Improved the portrait of Napoleon IV
New Icon for the R.E.D Focus, thanks to Discord user Celt

Miscellaneous

Added an event warning the player about unfinished Chinese nations
Added unique localisation to several Mittelafrikan events that were sharing localisation previously
Altered some Fengtian localization for better clarity
Changes have been made to the AI code so that puppets will now take their industrial focuses
Devolution for the Union of Britain now requires the Weltkrieg to be over before it can be taken
Fengtian no longer gets extra PP via high and very high popularity ideas as part of the National Irredentism branch, and instead moves from low to medium popularity, then gaining a special timed PP Spirit instead
“Preservation of the Xinhai Order” National Spirit now gives slightly more PP to compensate for the above
Fengtian’s post-reclamation war conquest events will now fire at a slower pace
Made quenched militarism harder to remove for Germany
Mantetsu Influence Spirits now have stronger negative effects
Mexico now won’t take any more states in the American Civil War than the ones it claims
Minor tweaks to the United Baltic Duchy history files
Nerfed Germany focuses by 120 political power
Overhauled Fengtian’s starting OOB
Removed several broken Spartakiade events
Several balance tweaks to Egypt
Several balance tweaks to Fengtian
To help the AI, gentle occupation policy now has no political power cost
Tunisian can now get a white peace with National France if successful in its revolt
Tweaked Serbia AI to make it less willing to take war foci when they are weak
When Canada refuses to sell the HMS Lion, Serbia now gets a small bonus for heavy cruiser research instead
You can now ask for greater armenia as Russia if Turkey holds it

Fixes

A backlog of bugs for Canada, the United Kingdom and the Union of Britain has finally been cleared
A few minor errors in the peace AI have been fixed
A lot of bug fixes for Mittelafrika
A CTD found in the Legations Cities events has been fixed
Fixed Japanese political events not setting ruling party correctly
Fixed an error in which the small flag for National-Populist Mexico would display its default one
Fixed dynamic localisation in Serbian events not working
Fixed instances of one-time minister costs being applied incorrectly
Fixed localisation in several Fengtian minister events
Fixed normal Bulgarian annexation event firing for Belgrade Pact members
Fixed the colours of Great Britain’s flag
Fixed the proportions of the Soviet Union Syndicalist flag
Germany will no longer send aid to an already defeated Bulgaria
In rare cases certain Russian events could fire for others nations, this has been fixed
Multiple fixes for annexation events
Several smaller fixes for Egypt
Several smaller fixes for Fengtian
The American civil war will no longer refire
The Italian Black Monday idea will now be removed as intended
Worldnews.120 will now fire correctly

We hope you enjoy playing Kaiserreich 0.5.2 ‘Second Strike’ as much as we did making it!

- The KR4 Team: ~mw~, Ahearne, Akamber, Anbory, Autovonbismarck, Beelzebub, Blackfalcon501, Cinzya, CrazyZombie, Denizz, Flamefang, Gibzit, Herkles, hyvinvointinionvaakalaudalla, Indyclone, Jeankedezeehond, Kaiserbot, Kornilov, Kraken, MaelTec, Medizine, Nijato, OperationsManagementDecisions, PPsyrius, Packard, Raptor Jesus, Rylock, Sea Lion, Skullcrusher, TheBeezKneez, TheBlackWinds, Thomahawk2k, Wyandotte, Zankoas

Patch 0.5.1a

Fixes

Corrected three typos
Added a missing logo

Patch 0.5.1 - 'Hot Safarix'

One day we won't need a hotfix, but that day isn't today. 0.5.1 includes some minor content additions that didn't make it into release, along with a lot of bug fixes. We have also reduced the increase to factory cost to a quarter of what it was in 0.5. As seems to be our modus operandi, we added new CTD's even as we fixed dozens, but thanks to your bug reports they have been far easier to find than last time, though as always, I doubt this will be the only hotfix we need. Also please remember that even among hotfixes, save game compatibility is not guaranteed, so if you are having issues download the old version from the PDX forums or start a new game.

General

Added some extra events to the Fengtian Government
Rebalanced AI weighting on researching techs
Reduced the increase in factory cost by 75%, what a mouthful
Removed the Kaiserbund in preparation of further changes

GFX

Added Nepalese sprites
Added Turkestani sprites
Added an event picture to Fengtian
Added portraits for the Philippines
Slightly changed the colours of the Belgian flags

Miscellaneous

Added Qing and Fengtian Government claims to Mongolia
Added a peace event between National France and Wadai if both AIs manage to stall the war
Added a research slot to Fengtian’s “Mantetsu Research Wing” focus
Added additional tooltips to the Fengtian Focus Tree for clarity
Added missing convoys to Somalia
Balanced Flanders-Wallonia Tank bonuses
Buffed research bonuses on Fengtian’s Focus Tree
Converted Fengtian railway construction events to triggers instead of MTTH
Fengtian’s Hiroshima Proposal events now add equipment instead of transferring it
Fengtian’s “Yanshan Plan” focus now spawns four divisions of mountaineers
General Wu Peifu now has the “Old Guard” trait
Minor improvements to the Japanese AI
Nerfed the tuareg and friends revolt
Phibunsongkhram may now pass away naturally if he survived the assassination attempt
Prince Kan’in Kotohito can no longer be poisoned, shot and bombed all at the same time
Prince Kan’in Kotohito is now less likely to be poisoned, shot, or bombed
Re-balanced factories given by Fengtian investment events
Rebalanced Fengtian’s starting weapons cache
Reduced Fengtian’s starting weapons cache
Removed a redundant division type in Fengtian’s Order of Battle
The “War of National Reclamation” idea no longer gives bonuses to planning, but now gives bonuses to attack and out of supply factor
The “Year of Righteous Effort” idea now gives bonuses to planning
War restrictions on some late Liberian focuses loosened up a bit

Fixes

AI puppets will now build more than five divisions
AI will no longer focus on Industry and Air Doctrine tech at the expense of all else
Bulgaria and its neighbours now have an opinion malus from the start
Fall of Madrid city capture news event loc fixed
Fengtian will now always leave the Co-Prosperity Sphere when declaring war on Japan
Fengtian will now properly seek peace with Mongolia after capturing Chahar and Suiyuan, provided that Japan has not begun Operation Kuma
Fix Yugoslavia not having small flags
Fix for the Nepali flag
Fixed Albert I abdicating when the Liberals win the election
Fixed an oversight in Prajadhipok’s death event
Fixed CTD when taking the “Rikshirden” focus
Fixed Carlist Economic Cooperation idea remaining even when CAR was at war with Portugal and Italy
Fixed Flemish Adalberts discovery of the Fountain of Youth
Fixed Germany Black Monday ideas being reversed
Fixed Germany in exile instantly getting back all of its european territories
Fixed Mittelafrika suiciding against a Portugal that is in the Entente
Fixed Portugal’s king being assassinated in the middle of the SCW
Fixed a bad flag setting which made one path in the Romandy Crisis event chain shut down Switzerland’s focus tree progress
Fixed an issue in which Nigeria would use its old Kaiserbund flag
Fixed edge case in which the Chilean focuses that required an alliance with Brazil fired when they were both puppets of syndicalists
Fixed missing loc on some of the “Treaty of Scandinavia” events
Fixed numerous Fengtian Minister events (thanks for the feedback guys)
Fixed several instances where Japan wouldn’t release Fengtian as a puppet before declaring war on it
Fixed some incorrect tech bonuses in the German naval tree
Germany in exile now gets a tech transfer from Germany
Japan will no longer demand Indonesia when already at war
Liberia becoming puppet at the outset of the ACW no longer changes its government type
Liberian coups no longer happen if it’s at war
Localization has been ported for several legacy Chinese events
Marcel Cerdan won’t go in New-York if it’s hold by the CSA or in the middle of a civil war anymore
Phibunsongkhram finally gets some rest and leaves his Field Marshal position if he’s assassinated
Phibunsongkhram’s hair no longer changes colour when he becomes the Prime Minister
Portuguese peace deal with Mittelafrika fixed
Qing will no longer arbitrarily annex the Legation Cities
Removed Belgian ingenuity and capped research slots at 5
Siam can now get a share of Germany when it capitulates
South Africa no longer loses HoG if Smuts is made Governor General
Various Egyptian Bugs fixed
Fixed a lot of other stuff we forgot to add to the bug tracker

We hope you enjoy playing Kaiserreich 0.5.1 ‘Hot Safarix’ as much as we did making it!

The KR4 Team: ~mw~, Ahearne, Anbory, Autovonbismarck, Blackfalcon501, DDago, Delincious, Denizz, Dskod1, Flamefang, Gibzit, Herkles, hyvinvointinionvaakalaudalla, Indyclone, Jeankedezeehond, Kaiserbot, Kraken, Kornilov, MaelTec, Nijato, OMD, PPsyrius, Packard, Rylock, Skullcrusher, Strategia, TheBlackWinds, VincentDN, Wyandotte and Zankoas

Patch 0.5 - 'Heia Safari'

The Kaiserreich team are proud to present alpha 0.5 ‘Heia Safari’. Been a long wait hasn’t it? We are very excited to bring you the Africa rework, and encourage you to step out of Europe and play somewhere new, we promise you won’t regret it. This patch also comes with more bug fixes than the last two major patches combined, from small bugs that had been left gathering dust on our bug tracker to dozens of CTD’s and save game corruptions. We have also done our first batch of optimisation work as well as some early balance work. All of which means KR4 0.5 is the most polished version of Kaiserreich yet!

The KR4 team

P.S. I’ve put details on our optimisation process and balance process as well as some thoughts on the topic at the bottom so skip to the end if that is your cup of tea, think of it like a mini dev diary

P.P.S. If you are interested in helping make Kaiserreich the best it can be, head to our discord (https://discord.gg/013cqzfpWMRLqnvHr) and check the pinned messages in welcome_room

General

Early balance changes done
First performance work done
General rework of Africa
General rework of Portugal
Now compatible with 1.4.2
Significant map work

Additions

Added focus trees to:

Egypt
Ethiopia
Flanders
Flanders-Wallonia
Germany in Exile
Legation Cities
Liberia
Norway
Portugal
Serbia
Siam
Somalia
Switzerland
White Ruthenia

Reworked/expanded focus trees of:

Canada
Germany
Japan
Mittelafrika
National France
Russia
South Africa
Transamur
Union of Britain
United Baltic Duchy
United Kingdom

Added events to:

Belgrade Pact
Canada
Central African Emirate
Egypt
Ethiopia
Fengtian Government
Flanders
Flanders-Wallonia
Gabon
Germany
Germany in Exile
Japan
Kikuyu
Kongo
Legation Cities
Liberia
Mittelafrika
Namibia
National France
Norway
Portugal
Russia
Serbia
Siam
Somalia
South Africa
Switzerland
Tanganjika
Transamur
Uganda
United Baltic Duchy
United Kingdom
White Ruthenia
Zanzibar

Added GFX for:

Added colourised portraits for USA and all ACW nations
Added colorized portraits for all Serbian generals
Added colourised portraits for all generals of both Iron Guard and Royalist Roumania
Added new sprites for Alash Orda
Added new sprites for Arab/Middle Eastern nations
Added new sprites for Armenia
Added new sprites for Azerbaijan
Added new sprites for Bolivia
Added new sprites for CNT-FAI
Added new sprites for Colombia
Added new sprites for Georgia
Added new sprites for Haiti
Added new sprites for Japan
Added new sprites for Libya/Tripolitania
Added new sprites for Panama
Added new sprites for Paraguay
Added new sprites for Peru
Added new sprites for Portugal
Added new sprites for Russia
Added new sprites for The Dominican Republic
Added new sprites for The Sultanate of Malaysia
Added new sprites for Tibet
Added new sprites for Transamur
Added new sprites for the Philippines
Added new sprites for the United Baltic Duchy
Event images for Fengtian Government
Event images for Japan
Event images for Portugal
Event images for Siam
Event images for Somalia
Event images for the Legation Cities
Generic portraits now work for all parts of the world, for both army commanders and political leaders - new generic portraits have also been added
Many older and low quality focus icons have been redone
Many older and low quality idea icons have been redone
Many older and low quality portraits have been redone
New Idea icons for Fengtian
New focus tree icons for Bhartiya Commune
New focus tree icons for Commune of France
New focus tree icons for Dominion of India
New focus tree icons for Japan
New focus tree icons for National France
New focus tree icons for Peru
New focus tree icons for Princely Federation
New focus tree icons for Russia
New focus tree icons for Siam
New idea icon for Japan
New idea icons for Legation Cities
New idea icons for Siam
Several flag revisions and changes; Portugal is now properly White and Blue
Lots of stuff we forgot to write down

Miscellaneous

New 3d models from Diday’s Common Units Of WWII, thank you to Danse Pied-Tendre and Team: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=746777837
New 3d models from 魔人ぐだ子’s various unit reskins and unit packs: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198097591809/myworkshopfiles/
A lot of equipment localisation has been added
A lot of nuclear focuses for minor nation have been removed
Added annexation events for the whole of Africa, including a Cape Verde-Guinea tag to better handle Portuguese Africa
Added new renaming events for France, Vive la Commune!
Added new renaming events for Mexico, Viva México!
Added new victory points in National France
Added non-English localisation to tell you to play in English
Added ship names for Chile
Added ship names for Portugal
Added unique name lists to almost all starting nations
Basic Mitteleuropa code done, will be finished at a later date
Bulgaria now starts with all of Dobruja, not just the south
Bunkers added along the Qing-Fengtian border
Bunkers and naval fortifications added to Tsingtau to represent the city’s pre-weltkrieg defenses
Bunkers and naval fortifications added to Vladivostok to represent the city’s pre-weltkrieg defenses
Changed Qingdao to Tsingtau to represent German ownership
Changed the “Mukden” Victory Point to “Shenyang” to better illustrate Chinese vs Manchu identity
Changes to daily political power gain to make tooltips clears, end result is the same
Combined Syndicates of America have been nerfed
Constantinople gets its glorious Greek name when controlled by Greece
Continuous air production has been nerfed
Continuous political effort has been disabled as it was making balance near impossible
Continuous tech share has been disabled as it was causing issues
Corrected a lot of English names in places that definitely don’t speak English
Credits have been moved from a starting event to the actual credits list
Crete has been removed as a starting tag
Daily login rewards added to give our loyal fans a bonus before we add microtransactions
Fengtian and Transamur now begin with a non-aggression pact
Fengtian now has a specialized Minister System
Fengtian now starts with specific production and trade
Fengtian tree Political Power and Party Popularity re-balanced
Idea descriptions added for Fengtian ideas
Illyria now has some starting ideas
Industrial tech has been nerfed to slow unit spam down and make it less of a no-brainer choice
Ireland has been nerfed
Japan has been nerfed
Japan now has a chance of joining Fengtian’s wars if it is close to defeat
Leader description added for Zhang Zuolin
Many lines of redundant code have been removed
Mittelafrika now holds Ivory Coast from the start
Mittelafrika’s fleet has been reduced in size to match its status as a colony
Mittelafrika’s fleet is now based out of Sansibar instead of Mombassa
Most Chinese factions have new starting infantry equipment gfx
Most Chinese factions now have small arms equipment descriptions
National France now holds Sierra Leone from the start
New generals for Canada
New generals for the Union of Britain
New generals for the United Kingdom
No more incorrect white peace messages, the treaty message correctly displays that a peace deal was made
Ottomans now gives military access to Germany and Bulgaria
Party popularity in Fengtian no longer alters Popularity
Peru has been nerfed
Petry Krasnov now has an aged portrait
Portugal no longer gets its land stolen by it’s own allies when in the Entente
Qing is now notified when Zhang Zuolin announces that he will conquer them within one year
Reduced infrastructure in Jehol and Nenjiang, added infrastructure to Fengtian Province
Related to the above, all Party Popularity/Influence changes in Fengtian are now represented through party-specific custom tooltips for better clarity
Reworked ‘’Nature of the Union’’ focus for La Plata
Russia and Transamur now embargo each other
Russia has been nerfed
Serbia holds Kosovo from the start
Several changes from 1.4.2 have been ported over
Several files have been fused to help with navigation
Several impassable mountain ranges have been shrunk or removed to be less annoying
Several new straits have been added to represent defended naval chokepoints
Several states have been given real populations rather that someone just pulling a number out of their head randomly
Several unused files have been removed
Small improvements to AI tech code have been made
Somali ministers and companies are no longer a part of Abyssinia
Swap idea command is now used where possible
Tang Yulin can now ride a tiger
The Fengtian Government Focus Tree and a number of events now include additional tooltips for better clarity
The Legation Cities’ relations with the treaty powers are now reflected accurately in game
The cost of factories has been increased to slow unit spam down
There are no longer hills and mountains in the middle of a coastal plain in Northeast China (because vanilla cannot always into topography)
Tweaks have been made to the Legation Cities OOB
Tweaks to the UI to remove useless options
Victory Points added to Northeast China (Qiqihar, Chaofeng, Chaoyang, Shanghaiguan)
Zanzibar naval base count increased from 1 to 3
A lot of miscellaneous QOL tweaks and minor adjustments, far too many to list, have been done

Incomplete Content

Georgian focus tree, unfortunately the Georgian dev has left the team so the tree has been delayed
Japanese focus tree, sadly an unexpected departure from the team caused a gap that had to be filled, delaying other things, such as the Japanese rework
Expansions of the Siamese, Fengtian, National French and Egyptian focus trees were partially done, but unable to be completed in time

Fixes

Notable Fixes
Fixed THIRTEEN CTD’s hidden away in the OOB
Fixed a CTD in the Lithuanian focus tree
Fixed a CTD caused by save game corruption caused by the (mis?)use of timed flags
Fixed a Legation Cities/Qing CTD
Several errors that wouldn’t have affected Windows players but would have been catastrophic for mac or linux players have been fixed
A prolific bug causing ideas to not apply has been fixed
A significant error causing the add equipment command to not work has been fixed, this was present in 100’s of events, and lead to some options making no sense
Fixed a number of logic errors (such as confusion over greater than vs greater than or equal to) in some core code, which could break things such as stability or party popularity
A lot of errors in the Legation cities events have been fixed
A lot of fixes for mitteleuropa events, both in localisation and how they work
A lot of fixes to the Balkan wars
A lot of localisation errors caused by things sharing a name (like a focus and an idea)
A lot of missing German localisation has been added
A lot of missing opinion modifier localisation have been fixed
A lot of wrong-way-round opinion modifiers have been fixed
A minor error in the Combined Syndicates of America naval OOB has been fixed
Bulgaria no longer has mysteriously purple unit cards
Civil war against a non-puppeted syndicalist Ireland no longer happens
Corneliu Codreanu no longer ends up as NatPop leader of Serbia
Ditto with Korea
Fengtian will no longer randomly capitulate due to legacy China events
Fix Greece not getting Eastern Thrace after defeating Bulgaria
Fixed Italian events pictures not showing up correctly
Fixed Italian focuses bypassing at incorrect times
Fixed Japan being able to ask favours of Transamur mid-way through their independence war
Fixed Japanese and Russian Mongolian events firing for the wrong nations
Fixed Japanese puppet rebellions happening at incorrect times causing nonsense wars
Fixed LEC OOB unit names.
Fixed Russia getting incorrect news events
Fixed SPG being unusable
Fixed a Greek General missing a name
Fixed a bug in the Japanese political events that would lock the player out of all paths
Fixed a rare bug which would break the american civil war event chain causing all sorts of nonsense to happen
Fixed incorrect localisation in Italian events
Fixed issues with AI La Plata attacking Chile too early
Fixed missing GFX in the Union of Britain tech tree
Fixed several South American nations being able to take focus they really shouldn’t while a puppet
Fixed some AUS (Austria) cores listed at TEX (American Union State) cores as the reverse
Fixed some Fengtian events
Fixed some general China events
Fixed some missing localisation for Japan
Fixed the Golden Gate bridge events talking about a non-existent PSA
Fixed the Taiwan rebelling never firing
Fixed wrong countries getting Paraguayan elections due to bad trigger scope
Germans are no longer confused as to if they like or dislike a German king on the Polish throne
If Austria annexes Poland it will annes all of it
Indochina is not longer missing it’s name
Japan’s “On the Basic Principles of National Defence” no longer fires repeatedly
King Rama VIII/Ananda Mahidol no longer side with the Syndicalists
Many fixes in the annexation events
More spelling fixes than we have words
Pittsburgh is not Philadelphia
Romanian focus ‘Nationalize the Oil Industry’ now also checks for Germany having the Schachtplan or Grönerplan
Several broken Bulgarian events and focuses have been commented out
Several errors causes by POL-PLC confusion have been fixed
Several fixes related to event not being told about the new states we have added
Several focuses have been rescued from underneath another focus
Several legacy Chinese events have been disabled as they were conflicting with newer events
Several logic errors in the minister events have been fixed
Several logic errors in the stability events have been fixed
Several missing checks in the American Union State tree have been added
Several missing checks in the Combined Syndicates of America have been added
Several missing checks in the United States of America tree have been added
Several missing focus tree icons have been fixed
The Head of State for a country is now called that instead of ‘Leader’
The fourth and third International are not the same thing
United Baltic Duchy can no longer colonise land they don’t own
Fixed a lot of other stuff we forgot to add to the bug tracker, like, really a lot, really really a lot

So let's talk performance first.

Rather than testing in absolutes (it takes 21 minutes for a year to go by compared to 17 in vanilla for example) we test in percentage of vanilla speed. The last patch, 0.4.8 ran at 68% of vanilla speed. In early August we ran tests on our dev build and found speed had crashed down to 45% of vanilla. We had to, painfully, tear out our own content and go back over existing code to optimise it to bring this back up. Cutting code is never fun, and our AI team lost will over half of their work. Fortunately it wasn’t in vain, and this patch runs at about 77% of vanilla speed. That’s right, it is 11% faster than last patch even after all the extra content we have added.

DISCLAIMER: Your mileage my vary of course, every system is different, every game is different, and we can’t test after every change we make. We take as much care as we can with our testing, but we are limited in both time (we have real lives you know?) and resources (no money :-( ) so take these numbers as illustrations more than abosutles.

And balance.

Since last patch we have been collecting a lot of data from our wonderful beta testers, thank you to all of you who have helped us past and present. We have also reached out to multiplayer groups as well as continuing to have our own in house games. This has given us a lot of information which we are using as best we can. Also if you happen to be part of a large KR multiplayer group that does regular games, please get in touch with me, I’d love to get some feedback from you.

But balancing Kaiserreich is a nightmarish task; totally asymmetrical gameplay, large amounts of randomness, huge interlocking systems, AI micro control, AI macro control, massive amounts of content produced at different times by different people sometimes for totally different games. Some of the code was written by people who have not only left the team, but are completely out of contact. A while ago we said that one of out event chains for Austria was as long as the entire Russian file in vanilla. That wasn’t a lie, but it isn’t a good thing. Maintaining that kind of code is difficult, and performance and balance wise it is a disaster waiting to happen.

But enough whining, what have we done? We have identified three key areas that we are going to work on. First, the start of the Second Weltkrieg, who is able to start the war and when is very important, it is meant to be the defining event after all. So we are working to expand, remove or tweak the starting event chains and focuses for the war to ensure it starts when it should, and offers up a good fight. Second, we are taking a look at focus length, and reduced the length of many focuses in order to improve balance. A 70 day focus is 70 political power spent, and the rewards you get from it need to reflect that. Finally, we are cutting some of the more broken content until we figure out what to do with it, highlights include Qing getting 3x50% boosts to Nuclear tech and Ireland being able to mobilise over 40% of its population. Some of these changes are in this patch, the rest will be coming soon after.

DISCLAIMER: Balancing is an ongoing effort, and if I had to guess I would say we are less than 10% of the way to a balanced game. And that is if we will ever get there, all the new content is working against us giving us more variables and more code to look over. But we are trying, and if you do find game breaking exploits please get in content with me.

We hope you enjoy playing Kaiserreich 0.5 ‘Heia Safari’ as much as we did making it!

- The KR4 Team: ~mw~, Ahearne, Anbory, Autovonbismarck, Blackfalcon501, DDago, Delincious, Denizz, Dskod1, Flamefang, Gibzit, Herkles, hyvinvointinionvaakalaudalla, Indyclone, Jeankedezeehond, Kaiserbot, Kraken, Kornilov, MaelTec, Nijato, OMD, PPsyrius, Packard, Rylock, Skullcrusher, Strategia, TheBlackWinds, VincentDN, Wyandotte and Zankoas

Patch 0.4.8 - 'To Russia With Love'

Fixes

Fixed a CTD involving Lithuanian trying to puppet itself
Fixed some errors in the annexation events

Patch 0.4.7 - 'Cherry's Maiden Voyage'

General

We swear we have people who can actually do photoshop for the main menu logo
Countries will now start at their correct stability

Fixes

Fixed a CTD involving the CSA's naval lineup, guess the ship's name?
Various bug fixes for the United Baltic Duchy
South German Federation no longer uses the Bavarian flag

Patch 0.4.6a

General

Forgot to update the main menu logo

Patch 0.4.6 - 'CTD No More?'

General

Reverted changes to the AI which upped the threshold at which units considered themselves low strength or low organisation, and thus were held back from invasions
Added GFX for Thailand
Added GFX for Mittel-Afrika
Minor balancing changes for Japan
Minor improvements to the Japanese AI
German ship localisation added

Fixes

Austria event localisations no longer consist of "Blablabla"
Ireland's Black Monday event chain now works as intended
Some missing focus GFX has been added
Some missing localisation, mainly for Austria, has been added
Several missing VP's have been added
A CTD involving the Somali OOB has been fixed
Several Austrian foci have been rewritten to be less broken
Italian Federation's peaceful union event with SRI now works as intended
Kingdom of Italy focus now takes into account that Karl can be on the Austrian throne and not just Otto
Austrian annexation event which creates the Kingdom of Italy no longer uses one of the papal portraits for the new king
Indian states no longer start the game with their units being largely unequipped
Lots of other fixes that didn't get written down, we were in just a little bit of a hurry to get this patch out

Patch 0.4.5 - 'Danube, Alps and Adria'

General

KR4 is now compatible with DoD
KR4 is now compatible with patch 1.4
KR4 is now compatible with patch 1.4.1
Somalia is now present at start
Lots of mountains ranges, deserts and other no-go zones are now shown
Loading messages now have a Kaiserreich twist to them

Additions

Added focus trees to:

Socialist Republic Italy
United Provinces

Reworked/expanded focus trees of:

Austria
Japan*

Added events to:

Austria
Baltic Duchy
Cuba
Fengtian Government
Ireland
Japan
Nepal
Siam
Socialist Republic Italy
Transamur
Union of Britain

Added GFX for:
Abbas II now has a new portrait
British planes
Burmese infantry
Canadian planes
Carol II has a new portrait
Fathy Pasha now has a portrait
Fengtian Government events
Hu Shih now has a portrait
Japanese ideas
Mohammad Shah Qajar has an updated portrait
Multiple new portraits across South America
Multiple new portraits for Indochinese Union generals
New portraits for Bhutan
New younger portrait for Nikita Kruschev
Niclas y Glais has a new portrait
Oswald Mosley has a new portrait
Replaced the Scottish Kaiser Tot with an age appropriate portrait
Spanish planes
Lots of other things

Miscellaneous

Added AI improvements from Vanilla+, thank you to Sleight of Hand: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=720937262
Added German ship localisation
Added Italian ship localisation
Added Japanese ship localisation
Added Norwegian generals
Added USA ship localisation
Added cosmetic country tags custom colours
Added events for a UoB annexation of Ireland
Added new generals to La Plata
Balancing changes to Japan all over, mostly in ideas and focuses
Balancing changes to Lithuanian Black Monday idea
Balancing changes to the Indian civil wars
Black Monday event chain for Ireland added
Dominionist South Africa can now rejoin the Entente after the civil war
Illyria now has a name list for generals and admirals
Japanese AI substantially improved
Multiple changes to Egypt including an army debuff and a readjusting of it's industry
Multiple leaders now have descriptions
Multiple new World News events added for US Presidential Elections, the Second Internationale and rebellions in Lithuania and White Ruthenia
Nationalist South Africa can now join Mitteleuropa after the civil war
Optimisations to the Japanese code
Qing Focus Tree now has unique localisation
SWAT teams have been deployed for security to avoid any more minor nations been taken hostage, we will catch you /u/Al-Horesmi you monster
Transylvania asks to join Romania when they somehow become independent and are no longer a puppet
Transylvania, Banat, Vojvodina and Bukovina states & cities are now renamed when owned by Romania, Austria or Serbia

Fixes

A LOT of fixes for Japan, notably in events not firing, in peace events and in foreign policy
A number of minor file conflict errors have been fixed
A small number of missing localisations have been found and returned to where they should be
A very rare combination of events would cause the whole ACW event chain to break, now fixed
AUS will no longer get both the AUS and CSA victory messages
Bulgarian focuses "Examine the Economy" and "Military Investment" added two factories each, but only one building slot, now fixed
CSA, TEX and PSA cores are now correctly removed after the Second ACW has ended
Centroamérica can now correctly establish relations with capitalist countries
Fixed some missing minister localisation
Germany can now Bailout the Junker Estates and progress down their tree if Poland joins the Entente
Idaho and Nevada will no longer get given to a non-existent PSA
Mexico can now join The Third Internationale instead of United Provinces, thanks John_Sux
No longer does Texas provide multiple National Guard Divisions to the USA
Numerous fixes relating to Chinese and Russian interaction events such as Port Arthur, thank you to everyone who reported this
POR.13 is no longer missing localisation
People living in Berlin will no longer think they have been conquered by the Lithuanians when it was actually the Polish
Portugal can no longer politely decline to be invaded, thanks Mad_Scientist_Hououin_Kyouma
Portuguese events now have the correct localisation
"Relations with Capitalist Nations" will now fire correctly
Royalist Romania no longer releases Transylvania when starting the civil war
Russia can no longer create it's own faction if already puppeted by another nation
Sweden can once again remove the Black Monday idea, thank you to everyone who reported this
The American Union State can no longer integrate federal officers twice
The Fall of Denver news event now has the correct options
The Poland black Monday event chain will now work as it should, thanks Dr. Njitram
The Turkestan Khanate will no longer appear out of thin air, thanks Rathoz
The Union of Britain intro event now has the correct localisation
The sale of Crete will now give PP as it should, thanks Fraggy ツ
Ukraine will no longer lend money to Germany if it is at war with them
Various errors with AUS cores fixed
Various errors with CSA cores fixed
World news event "The Fall of Denver" will no longer have several conflicting answers
worldnews.25 now has the correct localisation
worldnews.282 has been corrected to mention Poland instead of Lithuania, thanks Askooin
amcivwar.31200 is no longer missing localisation
rusd.150 is no longer full of spelling errors
Fixed some other stuff we forgot to add to the bug tracker

We have decided to go against our usual policy, and ship the incomplete Japanese rework rather than waiting for it to be finished. Japan has been unmaintained for several months now, and thus we believe that however buggy the unfinished rework is, it can only be better than the live version. The rest of the rework, foreign policy in particular, will be in at a later date, until then bug reports are even more appreciated than normal.

Patch 0.4.4a

General

We put the wrong German focus tree in...

Patch 0.4.4

General

We forgot to put the German focus tree in...

Patch 0.4.3 - 'PDXCON'

General

Added an event chain of sorts to remove faction joining limits, check the startup event for more details
Adjusted the April fools joke to be multiplayer compatible but still unable to be used to ruin games
First parts of a Japan rework are in, expect QOL changes and bugfixes
Miscellaneous improvements to Ottoman code
Prince Joachim of Ireland now has a portrait
Added GFX for Ottoman support divisions (marines, mountaineers, etc.)
Added GFX for Ottoman planes

Fixes

Fixed several Ottoman putsch bugs
Fixed the Ottoman OPDA bug triggered by the annexation of Austria
Fixed some other stuff we forgot to add to the bug tracker
Fixed small bugs in South America
Grammar fix in the Reclaiming the Pacific description, thanks 54e_TNTDragon11
Fixed reversed PP modifiers for capturing American cities, thanks gentledoom
Swedish politics can no longer be left and right at the same time, thanks Iamunow
Fixed a missing decimal place for Swedish focuses, thanks EAminy
CSA will no longer ask for New England if they own it already
Reed will no longer investigate himself for terrorism, thanks Violent Beetle
Fixed inaccurate focus descriptions for the CSA, thanks Violent Beetle
PSA core related events now actually work, thanks Beavertails Eh?
"Henry Stimson's ingame portrait is...General Omar Bradley's!" fixed, thanks Saint Elysse
THE GOD DAMN AUS AND CSA REAPPEARING ON LOADING A SAVE GAME BUG IS FIXED, thanks literally everyone and their mother who reported this one
A (rare?) CTD caused by merging fleets has been fixed, thanks Saint Elysse
Iwane Matsui no longer holders several ranks in the Japanese army at the same time, thanks Hopit
"After Muhammed Ali Jinnah died he was resurrected by the muslims to run in 1940 for PM", fixed, thanks Djamti
Missing picture from worldnews.257 fixed
Carlists Banned event will no longer fire more than once, thanks Pheasant-One
PSA tech transfer now works as intended, thanks Beavertails Eh?
Worldnews.315 is no longer missing localisation
Ukrainian language event for the Don-Kuban Union no longer fires more than once, thanks Steve Spangler
The CSA no longer hates left wing Filipinos, thanks Violent Beetle
Forming the German empire as Austria is no longer a looping event chain, thanks TE | FluffyBastard
Reintegration of the PSA now gives cores as it should, thanks Xiuhcoatl
Fixed some other stuff we forgot to add to the bug tracker

Patch 0.4.2

General

Added a missing logo

Patch 0.4.1 - 'Stars and Fixes'

General

The April fools joke is no longer activated by event, see in game event, no pun intended, for details
Who would have thought you couldn't trust people to activate it in multiplayer
World tension has been reduced slightly
Frequency of random political events has been reduced slightly
A missing polish event has been added
A few Germany admirals have been added
Fengtian's sole admiral now has a portrait
Several missing localisations have been added
Occupation costs have been reduced significantly, this is a possible fix for the AI inactivity issues some people have been having, credit to Cohacq for the idea
Added some flavor events for entente nations
Added additional events for Fengtian
Mantetsu influence will fire less often for Fengtian
S.K.M. Sigismund I of White Ruthenia now has a portrait
Friedrich Christian von Wettin now has a portrait

Fixes

A huge number of fixes for USA and associated nations
Fixes for Ukraine surrounding Black Monday
Several fixes for Fengtian
Several fixes to the AI, both peace and general
More fixes to the annexations events
Fixes to localisation all over the place
A game breaking bug that had been hiding in the temporary Chinese focus trees has been fixed, this may have been the cause of the madness that was happening over there
Fixed several Shangqing and Yunnan events and ideas
Worldnews.17b is missing localisation fixed, thanks Indyclone77
Worldnews.17 not displaying correctly fixed, thanks Miyokari
The Anniversary of the Lublin Union firing twice fixed, thanks Call_Me_Derpy
Typo in worldnews.14 fixed, thanks Dr. Nijtram
'Syndicalism Spreads to Burma' will no longer longer fire for countries that aren't Burma, thanks Iamunow
A bug with restoring the Italian Monarchy has been fixed, thanks Miyokari
"Power to the People" in the Italian Federation focus branch doing nothing fixed, thanks Djamti
Ralph Chaplin portrait being off centre fixed, thanks Dr. Dispenser
France lying about peacing out has been fixed
CSA focus "Join the Internationale" now does stuff, thanks [14e] Marmottin
Some debuffs that were meant to be buffs in the CSA tree have been fixed, thanks moonborn
Asking for a visa in Germany no longer sends volunteers to the CNT-FAI, I never thought I would ever type that sentence, thanks InvAsian
Missing decimal place in German ministers fixed, thanks Shadow
Missing mutually exclusive code in PSA fixed, thanks Violent Beetle
Could still do the "Reconstructing America" focus even though avoided the civil war fixed, thanks InterstellarWar
Long is now longer a God who can move through space and time, thanks Cyborg Lincoln
Longs reforms can no longer fire every time he gets elected, thanks Violent Beetle
Fixed some other stuff we forgot to add to the bug tracker

Patch 0.4 - 'Pax Americana'

General

Quick reminder that the flickering flag fix mod was added to the mod a few patches ago, so using it is 1) no longer necessary and 2) will cause conflict errors
The Kaiserreich Music Mod is now being worked on by the whole team, so expect more frequent updates for it, to coincide with this release a new version has been release, so go check it out!
Added a Q&A, accessed via the opening event chain
Added a credits file to the mod files, go check it out!
Added tech sharing groups for Japan, Germany, Canada, and USA
Chile has had a total lore rework
Ecuador has had a total lore rework
The team has now learnt to spell Bharatiya, it's not Bhartiya or Bharatyara
The team has now learnt to spell Fengtian, it's not Fentieng or Fentiang
Kaiserreich has the beginnings of its own UI, WIP though
Lend lease now unlocked for both the player and AI
Many new ministers and leaders have been added
Many news events and city capture events have been added
Old send troops/equipment events replaced by in game mechanics
Refined/rewrote/expanded the opening events
Rewrote/added a significant amount of localisation, notably focus descriptions
Send volunteers now unlocked for both the player and AI
Several nations have been renamed for the sake of readability. While it is technically "The Principality of Albania", if you can't read it, it doesn't mean anything, so is now just "Albania"
The AI has been taught how to use volunteers and lend lease
The Balkans have had a total lore and map rework
The partition and annexation events have been redone from the ground up
Major border work has been done all over the place, more details under Miscellaneous
Many irregularities in the vanilla map have been fixed, more details under Miscellaneous
The conference AI has been further refined (Border gore is gone hopefully, at least in common cases)
Lots and lots of bugs have been fixed, check the end of the change log for a list and credits for those who helped

Additions

Added focus trees to:

American Union State
Bharatiya Commune
Chile
Combined Syndicates of America
Ecuador
Fengtian Government (WIP)
Hawaii
Kingdom of Spain
Mittelafrika
New England
Ottoman Empire
Pacific States of America
Paraguay
Piratini
Poland
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Princely Federation
Transamur
Ukraine
United States of America
Uruguay
Venezuela

Reworked/expanded focus trees of:

Austria (WIP)
Dominion of India
Germany (WIP)
Ireland
Italian Federation
Mexico
Russia
South Africa

Added events to:

Afghanistan
American Union State
Armenia
Austria
Canada
Chile
Combined Syndicates of America
Dominican Republic
Dominion of India
Don-Kuban Union
Ecuador
Ethiopia
Fengtian Government
Germany
Greece
Haiti
Hawaii
Ireland
Italian Federation
Mittelafrika
New England
Ottoman Empire
Pacific States of America
Poland
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Portugal
Princely Federation
Russia
Socialist Republic of Italy
South Africa
Spain
Tannu Tuva
Transamur
Turkestan Khanate
Ukraine
United States of America

Added GFX for:

A lot of ministers
AOG units
Arabic units voices
Austrian units
Baltic Duchy focus tree
Brazil focus tree
Chillan units
Colombian focus tree
Ethiopian units
Fengtian focus tree
German focus tree
Military leaders for Bulgaria
Military leaders for Ethiopia
Military leaders for Spain
Military leaders for all Indian nations
New loading screens
Ottoman tanks and airplanes
Peru focus tree
Platine focus tree
Polish focus tree
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth focus tree
Qing infantry and cavalry
Somali units
Turkish units
Turkish units voices
A rather large bug has been squashed that was stopping focus tree GFX showing up, so it may look like there is a LOT of new GFX, depending on how badly the bug affected you
Lots of other things

Miscellaneous

Fixed a number of mistakes throughout the localisation thanks to Dick Bong, Ace of Aces: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=860317290
Fixed a number of mistakes throughout the localisation thanks to Halcyon Hush: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=812241072
Some cities now have their own custom banner thanks to Herr-Doktor Dire: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=851679195
A lot of skins have been added thanks to SilentAssassin: https://steamcommunity.com/id/32ndSnowblind/myworkshopfiles
A whole host of new sounds have been added thanks to Tekoa:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=814292943
A lot of skins have been added thanks to Skyllio:
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198035083616/myworkshopfiles
A few incorrectly named files are now named correctly
A new of new songs have been added to the music mod
Added forts to French-German border
Added generals to South American nations
Added new name changing events
Added oil related national spirits to Germany
Added provinces and reshaped borders in China to fit the upcoming rework
Added provinces to the Northern Amazon to make warfare there less of a pain
Added several countries in Africa
Added several new flags and portraits for African nations
Added the Adalbert Canal
Added the Haitian-Dominican war
Added three new hats
Algeria, Croatia, Serbia and many more now have period correct flags instead of modern day ones
Centroamerica is now Centroamérica
Chile's OOB has been completely revised
If Germany is exiled to Africa it can now join the Entente
Increased the political power costs of some of Ireland's events
Kaiserbund events no longer fire for occupied zones
Kuching's VP is no longer in the middle of South China Sea
Minor map improvements to Africa
Minor map improvements to Austria
Minor map improvements to Bulgaria
Minor map improvements to Flanders-Wallonia
Minor map improvements to Germany
Minor map improvements to India
Minor map improvements to South America
Missing far right Colombian ministers are no longer missing
Multiple minor countries now have new colours
Natuna Isles is now correctly under the Dutch control
Nerfed Ulster, it is no longer completely overpowered
Nerfed some of Ireland's idea bonuses
Panama is now Panamá
Removed the rest, in theory, of the double line breaks in the code
Removed the rest, in theory, of the random spaces at the end of localisation
Removed the rest, in theory, of the random spaces at the start of localisation
Reorganised some ministers for Greece
Revision of Siamese territories at 1936 start; all territories west of the Mekong river are now in Siamese hands while Pahang, Penang and Perak are in German hands
Reworked Irish parties
Reworked La Plata and Brazil states
Russian Far East now get a long-lost lake that Paradox forgot on the Fengtian-Transamur border
Several strange song name translations have been fixed in the music mod
Siam has got a new army OOB
South African Federation is now the Union of South Africa as was intended by lore, the flag has been updated as well
(South) Rhodesia is back and in charge (under the South African Federation)
Soviet events nerfed
Soviet focus tree nerfed
The Galapagos is no longer a desert but now a glorious hill
The Russian-Mitteleuropa border now better reflects the actual Brest-Litovsk treaty
Updated credits to reflect new team members
VP have been rebalanced to make a bit more sense (more for India and reduction for South East Asia for example)

Incomplete Content

Several extra focus trees and associated events were nearly done for release, but with the release of 0.3 in the back of our minds, we have decided not to add anything last minute. They may get added in 0.4.1, or just in 0.5 as planned. They are:
Ethiopia's focus tree and associated events
Flanders-Wallonia's focus tree and associated events
Georgia's focus tree
New Greek events
Serbia's focus tree
Siam's focus tree
Turkestan's focus tree and associated events
Legation Cities' focus tree. I know I know, delayed twice now, sadly the modder working on it hasn't been around much, so all I can say is soonTM

Fixes

Due to the length of this section, and me being only human, I have not spell checked/grammar checked/duplicate checked it as thoroughly as above, so here been bad English
Lots and lots of localisation fixes all over the place
More fixes for localisation of the old change logs
Fixed election events for Canada so they will now fire
A few minor bugs have been fixed in the music mod
Fixed reversed opinion modifiers in Canada events
Ireland now leaves its alliance if it turns Syndicalist
The defeated country in the the Romanian civil war now loses their cores as they should
Restore the United Kingdom option as the Dominion of Canada will now work, thanks michaeld1453
Emotionally supporting artillery is no longer possible, thanks bartpp7
AI leaving one state after peacing out is now fixed
Irish American coalition NF doesn't create any kind of alliance like the text suggests now fixed, thanks Kanaric
Britain and Canada cannot interact with Ireland via focus tree ("War" show of force focus for Britain cannot be chosen despite prerequisites being met) now fixed, thanks spartanlemur
Fengtian will no longer surrender randomly, thanks Warden2054
Lawrence of Germania is no longer lost, thanks JurisDocta
Wilhelm II can no longer die twice, thanks Warden2054
Mutually exclusive choices in the UoB focus tree are now actually mutually exclusive, thanks Airos
Yeman is no longer randomly given Afghanistan, thanks Warden2054
Austrian kings are no longer lost, thanks tkbacon99
Austrian focuses are no longer obstructed by the UI in special cases, thanks I aPOROgise
Cambodia now has a name, thanks Warden2054
The gender identity crisis of the Dutch Queen has been resolved, thanks funkybunch416
Hungarians have learned how to English, thanks ST Hélios | No Game No Life
Tension is less "broken as ****", thanks angry-mustache
Irish scientists can no longer duplicate themselves, thanks GodKingDarky
Kamikaze no longer fires twice, thanks TheD3rp
50% is not the same as 5% in Peru, thanks DerAstrophysiker
Lettow-Vorbeck no longer gives +0.00 division recovery, thanks PrussianBlue
Qing years are now actually years, no Lizard ones, thanks Warden2054
Mongolia will no longer try to puppet AND annex Ma Clique at the same time, thanks DerAstrophysiker
Germany will no longer capitulate daily, thanks browd
PSA will no longer have three capitals, thanks iain-d
A BUG WHERE FRANCE WOULD ANNEX EVERYTHING BUT THE TARGET YES THE ENTIRE WORLD HAS BEEN FIXED HOW WAS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE, thanks [The Cove.] kuledude1
Coffee now has two e's, isn't that nice, thanks Oncle Neddy
https://i.redd.it/vg6gvyf71wiy.png is fixed
Ceylon will no longer lie in peace negotiations, thanks Jerman
https://i.redd.it/633km5xjfpiy.png is fixed
A fleet merge CTD has been fixed...somehow, we honestly have no idea how, but it is no longer happening so...win I guess? Thanks gusscyprien
Austria will no longer be given the chance to annex Spain when they already own Spain, thanks Oleghka2
Focus requirements will no longer also bypass the focus in the German focus tree, thanks Roman von Ungern-Sternberg
Missing effects in the Nat France tree are no longer missing, thanks Mordian Iron Guard
Russia no longer gets the assassination of president kerensky twice
GFX will no longer get lost in translation, thanks kj22
Portugal can no longer be annex twice at the same time, thanks browd
Death and being Tsar are now mutually exclusive, thanks Djamti
In Soviet Russia gulag goes to you, now fixed, thanks Achillessc2
Vladimir Kirillivich is no longer able to stay in Goverment even through death, thanks Djamti
1937 no longer happens twice in Russia, thanks Jergan
Russia will no longer declare war on a Mongolia that doesn't exist, thanks Zhetone
If all the workers are dead, why are they still striking? Thanks Eternium
Soviet Russia has remembered how to create new armies, thanks Bob and Kvothe
You can no longer being a Russian and Don-Kuban minister at the same time, thanks Zhetone
White Ruthenia is no longer invincible, thanks znuzzo
If Croatia isn't real, why is there still a focus called "Invite Croatia"? Now fixed
Anney Kenney no longer thinks Tom Mann and Arthur Horner are the same person
Crete has a flag now, what a luxury
Indian volunteers will no longer get lost on route and end up in South America, thanks Leddit
AUS will no longer surrender when UNDER 85%, thanks Warden2054
Opinion modifiers being the wrong way round now fixed, hopefully
Jeddah is not the same as Mecca
This may be a shock, but there are some roads in deserts
Hawaii is no longer facing the wrong way, silly Paradox
Worldnews.37 now has words, thanks Dr. Njitram
Russian words are now the right size, thanks Oliver47
Ships are no longer named after people who weren't important in this timeline, thanks snegovick
Galicia now can be annexed, thanks MaximillanVoss
Commune of France will no longer get the event "Profit from Legation Cities no longer available", thanks Violent Beetle
Stability events now have correct tooltips
Cores in Germany are slightly less messed up, thanks DerAstrophysiker
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck's identity crisis has been resolved, thanks PrussianBlue
Germany manpower will no longer get doubled
When August von Mackensen says he is retiring, he now means it
Armour localisation no longer missing, thanks Dr. Njitram
delhi.205 has words, thanks Indyclone77
beng.20 no longer has the same words for all options, thanks Indyclone77
If I say you can have Romania, you can have Romania damn it! Thanks demanvanwezel
Russia has learnt what puppets are, thanks Violent Beetle
Korea is no longer totally messed up, we hope, thanks ventu
Russia is no longer terrified of guarantees, thanks Violent Beetle
Taiwan is no longer totally messed up, we hope, thanks kaiser41
It pains me to say this, but the Mad Baron can no longer cheat death, thanks kaiser41
Slovakia is...fixed? Thanks dr. Njitram
Thomas Dewey will no longer be made leader of every single country...how was this even possible?
Fixed some other stuff we forgot to add to the bug tracker

Patch 0.3.6a

General

Removed April fool's joke from normal play for real this time, as before you can still trigger it if you want in the console with "event april.1"
Note that 0.3.5, 0.3.6, 0.3.6a should all be save game compatible with 0.3.4, but if you do get the all past events firing on save load bug, head here to download the old version: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/kaiserreich-info-download.996902/

Patch 0.3.6

General

Removed April fool's joke from normal play, you can still trigger it if you want in the console with "event april.1"

Patch 0.3.5

General

Added April fool's joke

Patch 0.3.4

Fixes

The AI won't leave a single state in peace conferences anymore
Fixed some other issues with the peace AI

Patch 0.3.3a

Fixes

The Peace AI is now working for real and has goals for every country
The Second congress of the internationale doesn't fire a year after it should anymore.
Fixed some things with the Show of Force chain and the Words and War foci
Fixed some things with the Irish-American coalition focus

Patch 0.3.3 - 'For real this is the last one'

General

Removed some of the double line breaks in the code
Removed some of the random spaces at the start of localisation
Finland map reworked
Found a catastrophic error in the peace AI and fixed it, we don't understand how no-one had noticed it, that's why the Peace AI wasn't working
Moved Fengtian naval base and fleet to Yingkou
Removed the atheist option in Ireland's religious direction event
Irish research time bonuses nerfed
Increased the Irish ai_chance of accepting Germany's offer in the German Treaty with Ireland focus
Minor tweaks and improvements to the AI in a few specific places
Romania now uses the actual Garda de fier flag
Quenched expansionism can now be removed as La Plata without having to defeat Brazil
Renamed four Bulgarian states
"Croatia" state renamed to "Posavina"
Increased Netherlands mainland population to 8.48 million from 8.09m in accordance with historical stats

Additions

Added a missing notice for the German capitulation event firing for countries at war with it, thanks nathankris8
Added events for Syndicalist Ireland to join the Internationale, thanks ComradeVosktov
Added an event to give you cores on the Don-Kuban Union if you conquer them without the focus tree as Russia
Added some new loading screen quotes
Added a tooltip to warn the players about forming Scandinavia (it removes the Swedish focus tree)
Added missing notice for Germany about UBD breaks away after SOP nationalists coup
Added country goals for the peace AI for the Balkans and middle eastern countries
Added events for an Irish annexation of Britain
Added a Slovenian core on Slovenia

Fixes

Lots and lots of localisation fixes all over the place
Fixed localisation for the old change logs
Annexations events now doesn't release the cores of the owner
Fixed two OOB's
Fixed some localisation for Carlist Spain, thanks bartpp7
Weird line in the generic focus tree fixed
The Second congress for the CoF will now actually fire
The Republic of China can't rise up anymore if a foreign power is occupying the AoG, thanks pewp3wpew
Some fixes to the SPO coup for the United Baltic Duchy
Germany doesn't get an event to release the UBD again when they have just integrated them
Fixed missing decimal place in Wallonian population making it home to 16 million people instead of 1.6 million
Fixed the "Formalise the Union" event firing for everyone
Balanced the split between North and South Wallonia
Honestly guys, the Black Friday modifier can now be removed from Germany
Fixed the "Show of Force" event chain
Fixed Japan getting a Transamur event in the Korean rebellion event chain
Fixed the aluminium focus for Peru not actually giving aluminium
Fixed Germany taking Spanish Africa even if it's not owned by the CNT
Fixed flags accidentally saved as the wrong bpp
Georgia and Armenia now have Russian portraits as generic ones
Localisation fixes for Austria, thanks hopit
Fixes for the Mexican-USA war and associated peace events, thanks jesse
Mail meant for the Ottomans isn't now being accidentally delivered to the Bulgarians, thanks supertuho
Soviets and other released nations are no longer stuck at average stability, thanks Kvothe
United Baltic Duchy can no longer integrate itself, how on earth this was happening is still beyond us, thanks DerAstrophysiker
Multiple fixes for the Mexican focus tree, thanks kanaric
Republic of China no longer gets a phantom president for a few days
The Entente will now actually declare war on the UoB, thanks airos
Swedish event "Major Hotel Strike" fixed, thanks airos
German event chain surrounding Brecht fixed, thanks DerAstrophysiker
Bulgaria cannot longer take the focus "Victory in the Balkans" if it loses, thanks DerAstrophysiker
Fixes for the Qing WIP focus tree, thanks iain-d
Balkan war supports event will no longer fire every single day for Russia, thanks kj
German puppets and allies will now peace out with the RoC as they should
British focus "Reformed Militia" fixed, thanks Tugas_EagleEye
Fixed accidentally permanent modifiers for Fengtian, thanks Asha
Fixed a missing decimal place in cruiser companies, giving them +50% Naval power rather than 5%, thanks Asha
Fixed puppet events being reversed for Ma Clique, thanks Caspoi
Fixed many spelling and grammar errors in the United Baltic Duchy, thanks Scootzyxd
Fixed a missing decimal place in light tank companies, giving them +50% breakthrough instead of +5%, thanks j.gaasvig
Lots and lots of spelling mistakes pointed out by greenrocket now fixed
Liberating Portugal now actually gives its land back, thanks tikik11
Canada can no longer fire the Irish-Canadian Treaty without protecting Ireland in the Show of Force chain first
Fixed German partitions happening even if Germany didn't get out of the continent entirely yet, thanks MaximillanVoss
Adapted the liberation of the UK event to work after a peace conference
T.E Lawrence's portrait will no longer play hide and seek with the player, thanks Roman von Ungern-Sternberg
Japan can no longer release Korea when it is owned by other nations, thanks Kanaric
Fixed Vilnius having literally zero people living there, thanks Piktoonis
Some bugs with Lithuania's independence war fixed, thanks Ottovski
Labour Revolts MTTH increased from 30 days to 120 days
Restoring the United kingdom no longer ends the game, thanks Piktoonis
Fixed duplicated plane listing for the Netherlands in the airforce tree
Fixed some other stuff we forgot to add to the bug Tracker

Patch 0.3.2a

Fixes

Fixed missing flag GFX
Fixed title screen GFX saying wrong version number

Patch 0.3.2

Additions

Added some localisation for Transamur parties
Added leaders to Transamur

Fixes

Main screen logo now shows correct version
In game start event now shows correct version
Readme now shows correct version
Mongolian fix tree now not half deleted, thanks to Johgertt among others
German volunteers events can now only fire once, thanks Martyrizing
German focus tree now correctly removes Black Friday modifiers, thanks Cereal_Comma
Minor fixes to Centroamérica
Minor fixes to puppets

Patch 0.3.1 - 'It was optimistic to think we wouldn't need one'

Additions

Irish focus tree and events are now polished and included
Lots of new German generals
Ministers for Turkey, Flanders, Wallonia and Yugoslavia
Some new event pictures
Qing empire companies
Made Åland a demilitarised zone

Fixes

Fixed CTD's caused by the German volunteers.
Fixed CTD's caused by the Peruvian guarantee on Bolivia
Fixed ministers for Colombia and Ecuador
Finished applying the company rework
Lots of fixes, new bypasses and semi-dynamic wargoals for the Mongolian tree
Fixed the Batavian commune stealing rightful french lands in Germany
La Plata localisation corrected
Corrections in the Baltic Duchy Localisation
Swedish focus to end democracy now actually ends democracy
Fixed the Congress of the Internationale for France not getting bypassed
Fixed a Mexican NOT/NOR mix up
Fixed the madras and Siamese events trying to trigger Dehli events (it's Delhi you moron)
Austria no longer needs to own provinces in Spain for their focus tree
Population fixes for Pas de Calais and Wallonie
Fixed Russian and Soviet annexation events, the Soviets will no longer release Finland with Karelia
Fixed new Austrian states not being released
Fixed Peruvian aluminium focus and two icons in the tree
Ausgleich news event now has a pic
Fixed crush Venezuela focus crushing Ecuador instead for Colombia
Fixed the Aftermath of the Civil War foci for Carlist Spain and the CNT
Fixes to stop CNT being on Crack
Spain now starts with fractured society, you can't avoid the civil war anymore
Fixed the localisation for the Pragmatic Statesman trait
Fixed the Swedish focus not transferring Åland after Finland accepted the deal
Finland now has a slightly better flag
Some more fixes we forgot
Squished lots more spelling errors

Patch 0.3 - 'Eternal Peace'

General

Now compatible with HOI4 1.3.3 (also fixed the mod saying it is compatible when it really wasn't)
Carried over changes from HOI4 1.3.3
Carried over changes from KRDH 1.8, credit to the DH team: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/kaiserreich.529944/
Added a new and improved peace AI
Added a readme
Added starting ministers for (almost) all countries
Company and ministers totally reworked
Deleted many old/unused files/code from the mod
Made significant improvements to the stability system
Mod's file structure redone
Renamed and gave titles to most files
Spell checked the whole localisation
Updated credits to reflect new team members
So many bugs fixed, check the end of the change log for a list
Changed the ingame browser to now lead to the new KR wiki, help moving content from the old wiki would be very much appreciated: http://kaiserreich.wikia.com

Additions

Added focus trees to:

Bolivia
Bulgaria
Carlist Spain
Centroamérica
Colombia
Mongolia (The mad baron rises!)
Peru
Sweden
United Baltic Duchy

Improved and expanded the focus trees of:

Austria
Brazil
CNT (Syndie Spain)
Commune of France
Japan
Lithuania
Netherlands
Russia
Union of Britain

Added events to:

Alash Autonomy/Orda
Bolivia
Bulgaria
Burma
Chile
Colombia
Commune of France
Dutch East Indies
Ecuador
Ethiopia
Indochina
Japan
Legation Cities
Mexico
Paraguay
Peru
Russia (mostly involving Savinkov)
Siam
Ukraine
Union of Britain
United Baltic Duchy
Uruguay
Venezuela
White Ruthenia

Added GFX for:

Japanese events
Spanish events
Intro events
"Manchurian Exploitation" national spirit
Equipment (Russia in particular)
Malaysian leaders
Indonesian/Dutch East Indies leaders
Laotian leaders
Burmese leaders
Siamese leaders
Filipino leaders
Dutch generals
South American nations ideas
Lots of other things

Miscellaneous

The Sahara and Rub-Al-Khali are now fake lakes instead of wastelands, thanks to Yakez for this idea: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=864597738
Added twenty plane pictures to Dutch airforce tree from the 'Icons for Plane mod' by Schüewoo: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=709144835
Added Fengtian and Transamurian infantry models from 'Manchukuo Reskin' mod by SilentAssassin: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=832721263
Added Fengtian political parties
Added a unique "Royal Ploughing Ceremony" mechanic for some of the Southeast Asian kingdoms (Siam, Burma and Cambodia if liberated)
Added an event chain for Germany to ask the old central powers for help if it is losing the war
Added an event to select the amount of news events you want
Added new separatist nations/Siamese Autonomous zones in Burma - Kachin, Mrauk-U/Rakhine, Mon and Shan
Added our second Kaiserbot to the credits
Added political parties to all South American nations
Added renaming events for Alsace, Eastern Europe and some Japanese areas
Added starting embargoes between some countries
Added three Dutch admirals
Added two new hats
Austria nerfed, factories at the start reduced
Changed the -500 factions joining malus to the can_join_factions = no rule
Differentiated Security and Intelligence ministers
Garrison and militia units rebalanced
Gave Canada more building slots
General map improvements (Italy, Austria, France, Spain, Canada, South east asia…)
Germany buffed, AI is smarter, PP gains are higher, focus tree is stronger
Intro events now fire on day one
Made some minor changes to Dutch naval OOB
Moved Fengtian's capital to Mukden
Reduced early 1936 event spam
Renamed a lot of cities and states, in Eastern Europe for example
Renamed "Hsinking" to "Changchun"
Renamed "Warsaw" to "Warszawa"
Renamed "Transamurian Admiralty" to just "Transamur"
Replaced modern day African flags with in-universe ones
Reworked South American flags
Reworked the Belgrade Pact event chain
Reworked the Ausgleich event chain
Streamlined starting events
Switched Fengtian to authoritarian democracy from paternal autocracy
UoB autonomist path now results in releasing both Scotland and Wales as integrated puppet instead for those who own the TfV
The same change also applied to Siamese Autonomous areas being turned into integrated puppets instead of normal puppets

Incomplete Content

We thought you couldn't wait any longer for 0.3...
The following trees sadly couldn't be finished in time, so have had their groundwork added, and will be finished and activated at a later date:
Ethiopia
Ireland
Legation Cities
USA and associated revolters
Qing and Republic of China decisions have been moved to a WIP focus tree, full focus trees coming later
The rework of the German focus tree isn't done, and again, will be added at a later date, but some minor changes have been added in the meantime
Siamese custom technological GFX were causing too many errors and couldn't get fixed in time so has been removed, will be redone and added back again later
A few changes from HOI4 1.3.3 couldn't be ported across in time (Russian infrastructure changes for example), will be added later
A few minor bugs haven't been fixed, but they are all just typos, cosmetic or missing GFX...with the exception of:
Puppets are still not peacing out correctly, we have been trying really hard to fix this one, but aren't 100% sure we have been successful, so any saves with this bug would be priceless

Fixes

Note this isn't a complete list, it is really hard to record every single bug we fix. That being said most should be here, but don't lose heart if a bug you reported isn't listed here. Also sorry if this list is a bit of a mess, it has been copied straight from our bugtracker with very little clean up.
Scenario selector not centralised
Canadian ministers broken
Missing Canada minister texture
One SIA army chief who thought base control was a valid land doctrine
Non-existent event canada.19
Oregon territory ACW focus for Canada broken
Canadian NF tree giving the Philippines free oil
News events do not fire when they are supposed to
Austrian Focus Tree - Air focus gives airports in Veneto, which is owned by Italian Federation at game start
Carlist Spain gets cores in places it shouldn't such has Equatorial Guinea
German PP balance is terrible
When doing the naval exercise NF of CAN you can threaten the USA among other options. Choosing this option lowers the opinion of AUS (Austria) instead of TEX (AUS)
More Qing bugs than I thought possible
The post-war "Annex Switzerland" event for Germany. If you choose the first option "Annex all of Switzerland", nothing happens (you own all of Switzerland anyway), but the event will not be cancelled and repeat itself every two months or so
When an Entente power conquers the SRI, they get the possibility to give the land to the Italian federation in exchange for an alliance. If you choose this option, the Italian Federation gets the land, but doesn't join the Entente or any other faction
Can't restore the monarchy as Brazil
Lots and lots of duplicate ministers
Canadian events totally broken
Some countries don't have a localisation for every ideology, Indochinese Kaiserbund and England for example
Canada has events where both options do the exact same thing
Commune of France events missing localisation
"The Internationale Congress" Focus in the Commune of France focus tree is broken
"World Revolution" Focus in the Commune of France focus tree is unavailable if the communists win the Spanish civil war
"Election day 4: The Economic Affairs" commie france event has slightly wrong code
CTD if Integralist Revolt win the Brazilian civil war
As Austria events for supporting both Spain and Carlists appear
The 'Declaration of Port Arthur' event and its response cause Fengtian to be annexed by Japan rather than China
If Korea is already a Japanese puppet, it remains part of the Co-prosperity sphere after being released
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth missing leader GFX
"Annexation of Romandy" event is missing localisation
Both "Croatia sides with Hungary" and "Croatia sides with us" can fire at the same time for Austria
Event "uob.45" has no possible options
Ireland ministers broken
Non-existent event: hungary.2
CTD in mid 1936, credit to PPsyrius for creating and then fixing that one
Countries not annexing everything in peace conferences
La Plata focus 'Military Science' requires 'Special Forces of the Union', which doesn't exist elsewhere on the focus tree
The Remilitarisation of Oltenia news event is too long, goes outside the pop-up
Puppets can still join the Belgrade Pact, leading to very odd one sides wars
If Bulgaria rapidly wins a war, then Romanian civil war fires, they lose their occupied land
Bulgaria unable to get core in central Macedonia
You can't demand Germany's pacific colonies as Japan if they've created the Malaysian Kaiserbund, because Germany needs to own Singapore, which becomes part of the Malaysian Kaiserbund
Missing Italian localisation
Batavian Commune missing leader GFX
Arthur Ross national idea missing GFX
"Explore the north" Canadian focus missing GFX
"Our Popularity is rising event" fires too often
Romanian creation of a Bulgarian puppet not working as it should
The decision for the Qing Empire to deal with the Shangqing results in the Shangqing getting a wargoal to declare war on themselves and not a wargoal for the Qing Empire against the Shangqing
Russia doesn't get cores as it should
Sending Churchill to Russia event chain broken
Event chain for Italy losing the war against Austria broken
Totalist Poland still asks to join Mitteleuropa due to Soviet threat
Code errors in Japanese focus tree
"Syndicalist Uprising in Manila" news event firing twice
Some files have wrong encoding
German capitulation event broken
City captures events of the American civil war broken
Mahidol line of succession events broken for Siam
Indochinese nations using wrong flags - Laotian Kaiserbund using the Siamese flag in its colonial flag along with others
Localisation for Japan and Fengtian is broken
Spanish civil war sometimes has one faction get annexed at the start
Countries not using the correct vanilla 3D model (such as Russia using Soviet ones, US ACW factions adopt USA model etc)

Patch 0.2.1e

General

Music mod separated to a sub mod again

Additions

Added new portraits for Mexico
Added alternative leaders for some SEA nations
Added oil resources to Burma
Added general portraits for national France
Added partition of Switzerland

Fixes

Fixed puppeting events firing indefinitely
Fixed code for Operation Tsunami
Fixed faulty requirements for Joint Ventures in the Brazilian Focus Tree
Fixed La Plata cores
Defensive Positions in the Malvinas national focus
Fixed localisation errors for Mexico
Fixed event triggers for Mexico
Fixed Filipino ministers
Fixed South American ministers
Poland-Lithuania now gets her cores
Fixed companies for UoB (again)
Fixed randomly turning into Georgia
Fixed some bugs with Russia
Korean Rebellion can only fire once now
Intro event now acknowledges the existence of 0.2, even though he is still shocked by the news
News events now fire properly
The Maquisards focus doesn't require France to not exist if Occitania does anymore
Fixed localisation errors for the protection of Liberia
Fixed Wallonian name
Removed the possibility to become free or to be annexed with the autonomy system
Fixed the CNT not rising up
Fixed the Carlists not getting their focus tree
Fixed south American flags

Patch 0.2

Additions

Added events and focus tree for Lithuania
Added news events
Added events for Australasia
Added events and focus tree for Mexico
Added events for Poland
Added puppeting events
Added events and focus tree for Netherlands
Added events for Spain
Spanish civil war implemented
Focus trees for Carlist Spain and CNT-FAI
Added events and focus tree for a restored UK
Focus tree for Brazil
Added events and focus tree for La Plata
Added events for Chile
Updated localisation for focus trees
Added events for the Philippines
Flavor events for Siam
Expanded Japanese foreign tree
Added companies for various countries
Rebalanced Russia
Music mod now included in the main mod, with some additional tracks
Added events + focus tree for Iron Guard Romania
Revised some map colours
Expanded Ausgleich chain
Changed colour for the Radical-Socialist ideology
Added missing descriptions to focus trees

Fixes

Fixed a ton of localisation errors
Fixed a ton of bugs
Fixed CTDs caused by unit templates

Patch 0.1.6c

Fixes

Fixed CTDs related to the Nevada militia for the PSA and the panzer focus for Germany

Patch 0.1.6a

Fixes

Fixed continuous focus window clustering the focus trees

Patch 0.1.6

General

Now compatible with 1.3

Fixes

Fixed some bugs

Patch 0.1.5a

Additions

Polish military staff traits
Bohemian generals
Brazilian, Hungarian, La Platan and Mexican companies
Tweaked some existing companies
Romania can now claim Transylvania and Serbia can now claim Bosnia during the Ausgleich
Some tooltips for the Russian political choices foci

Fixes

Liberated UK now joins the Entente
Partition events should now work properly
All the releasable countries in Africa now have a proper colour
The Heavy cruiser focus for Canada no longer takes 2870 days to finish
American Union State HoG should now accept their place in the government and not leave
The American Junta event now fires instantly
The territory transfer between Canada and the US after the ACW2 should now give the entirety of the US to the American government
Balanced PP loss events for Russia, she should now loose less PP
Minor Localisation fixes

Patch 0.1.5

General

Rebalanced political influence of early German events
UoB's manpower has been buffed
Removed Holy League tree for Italian federation

Additions

Some new portraits
Military adviser traits added for most playable countries
Added tooltips for new mechanics
Re-added ace pilot events

Fixes

Fixed some issues with the "Show of force" chain
Fixed numerous bugs with the AUS events
Diplo-annexation of Ireland no longer fires constantly
Fixed Japanese annexation of Hawaii
Rhineland chain will no longer fire in 1936 and start WK2
Fixed Shelling of Leval and some other prewar chains
Popularity events should no longer spam the player
Wilhelm III now gets correct portrait
Fixed many bugs with Delhi's events and national foci
Japan can now demand Borneo from Germany
Soviets can no longer claim Haiti
Russian states and cities no longer have Soviet names
Russian partition of Germany should work correctly now
Qing-Japanese peace treaties should fire correctly now
Soviets now able to get all the trans-Siberian railway
Lawrence's UK now leaves the internationale, and he can no longer cheat death
Japan no longer gets Qing events
National France can now only move its capital to Paris after the war is over
Soviet fate of Poland no longer fires for random nations
Taking states from Austria no longer breaks after Ausgleich war
The fading sun event for Qing/Japan no longer causes crashes
Fixed Irish flag
Fixed some issues with the American civil war
Many localisation fixes
Darkened Egypt's colour
Switched Syndicalism and Radical Socialism in the ideology menu

Patch 0.1.4

Additions

Added main menu picture
Added a new loading screen
Canadian military leaders
British military leaders
New music in the music mod
Added effects to Austrian focus tree (Italian Question and onwards)
Added independent wars
Improved naval and air branches for Italian focus tree
Added some events to a few minors

Fixes

Balanced Faction modifiers
Wallonia no longer gets Eupen-Malmedy
Some of the issues with the show of force chain fixed
Fixed colonisation of Taiwan and Korea
Guy Fawkes day now fires correctly
Fixed Soviet peace with Japan
Fixed Japanese peace with Qing
WK2 should fire more consistently
Fixed Caribbean election event firing for random nations
Fixed death events for UoB
Russia now limited to one political path
Fixed crash when taking Industrial Decentralisation Act
Petrograd, Tsaritsyn, Nizhny Novgorod, Urga now have correct names
Various localisation fixes
Fixed some issues with graphics
UoB now only takes one of the reform paths each game
Blocked all peace treaty options except take state

Patch 0.1.3

Fixes

Fixed German naval CTD
Fixed random faction joining for AI

Patch 0.1.2

Fixes

Missing GFX files are now in, companies and ministers should appear

Patch 0.1.1

Fixes

Fixed most reported crashes
Fixed several broken OOBs
Korea should now revolt properly
Fixed some graphics issues
Fixed Japan sometimes getting the wrong events
Fixed Guy Fawkes firing several times in 1936
Fixed localisation in ACW
Fixed divided government problem for Canada
Fixed concessions in the Caucasus for Russia
Fixed Libyan/Omani/Albanian leader (sorry for those who loved Bob Brown :-( )
Fixed team morale because some thought we had a bad start
Fixed several other reported bugs

Patch 0.1

Release!

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Patch 0.5.1 - 'Hot Safarix'

Patch 0.5 - 'Heia Safari'

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