Patch 2.1.X

Hearts of Iron IV

Version history

🐱 "Cats and Dogs" 🐶

2.4.2 • 2.4.2.1 • 2.4.2.2 • 2.4.2.3 • 2.4.2.4 • 2.4.2.5

2.4.1 • 2.4.1.1 • 2.4.1.2

2.4 • 2.4.0.1 • 2.4.0.2 • 2.4.0.3 • 2.4.0.4 • 2.4.0.5

🧭 "Daring Do and the Yaks that SMASH!" 🏔️

2.3.2

☀️ "The Herald and The Beast" 💀

14.4.4

🧭 "Daring Do and the Yaks that SMASH!" 🏔️

2.3.1 • 2.3.1.1 • 2.3.1.2 • 2.3.1.3 • 2.3.1.4 • 2.3.1.5 • 2.3.1.6

2.3 • 2.3.0.1

🔥 "The Way of Fire" 🔥

2.2.2.4 • 2.2.2.5 • 2.2.2.6 • 2.2.2.7 • 2.2.2.8

🌑 "Katzenreich" 🐱

22.00.1.1 • 22.00.1.1 v2

🔥 "The Way of Fire" 🔥

2.2.2 • 2.2.2.1 • 2.2.2.2 • 2.2.2.3

2.2.1 • 2.2.1.1 • 2.2.1.2 • 2.2.1.3 • 2.2.1.4

2.2 • 2.2.0.1

🐻 "Bears and Bandits" 🏹

2.1 • 2.1.0.1 • 2.1.1

🦓 "Shores of Zebrica" 🌴

2.0.1.6 • 2.0.1.7 • 2.0.1.8

🔥 "The Dawnclaw Heresy" 🔥

40.0.0.0

🦓 "Shores of Zebrica" 🌴

2.0.1 • 2.0.1.1 • 2.0.1.2 • 2.0.1.3 • 2.0.1.4 • 2.0.1.5

2.0 • 2.0.0.1 • 2.0.0.2 • 2.0.0.3 • 2.0.0.4 • 2.0.0.5

🦅 "Two Eagles" 🦅

1.9.1.14 • 1.9.1.15 • 1.9.2 • 1.9.2.1

"Twilight Theory"

1.9.6.2

🦅 "Two Eagles" 🦅

1.9.1 • 1.9.1.1 • 1.9.1.2 • 1.9.1.3 • 1.9.1.4 • 1.9.1.5 • 1.9.1.6 • 1.9.1.7 • 1.9.1.8 • 1.9.1.9 • 1.9.1.10 • 1.9.1.11 • 1.9.1.12 • 1.9.1.13

1.9 • 1.9.0.1 • 1.9.0.2 • 1.9.0.3 • 1.9.0.4

⚰️ "Dread Flood" ⚰️

1.8.6 • 1.8.6.1

⛰️ "In the Shadow of Mountains" ⛰️

1.8.3 • 1.8.3.1 • 1.8.3.2 • 1.8.3.3 • Minor update • 1.8.3.4 • 1.8.3.4 reupload • 1.8.3.5

1.8 • 1.8.0.1 • 1.8.1 • 1.8.2 • 1.8.2.1

🕊️ "Pax Chrysalia" 🕊️

1.7.7 • 1.7.7.1

1.7.4.3 • 1.7.4.4 • Minor update • 1.7.5 • 1.7.6 • 1.7.6.1 • 1.7.6.2

"Caesarreich: Apocalypse at War"

1.0

🕊️ "Pax Chrysalia" 🕊️

1.7.4 • 1.7.4.1 • 1.7.4.2

👑 "Herzland" 👑

1.7.3 • 1.7.3.1 • 1.7.3.2

1.7 • 1.7.0.1 • 1.7.0.2 • 1.7.1 • 1.7.1.1 • 1.7.1.2 • 1.7.1.3 • 1.7.2

🌵 "Sundered South" 🌴

1.6.1 • 1.6.2 • 1.6.2.1 • 1.6.2.2

1.6 • 1.6.0.1

🔥 "The Burning Sea" 🔥

1.5 • 1.5.0.1 • 1.5.0.2 • 1.5.0.3 • 1.5.1

🌌 "Northern Lights" 🌌

1.4.2 • 1.4.2.1

1.4 • 1.4.0.1 • 1.4.0.2 • 1.4.0.3 • 1.4.1 • 1.4.1.1

"Ponies at the Ready"

1.3.6 • 1.3.6.1

💸 "Idols" 💸

1.4.19

🐃 "Brothers' Feud" 🐃

1.3.5 • 1.3.5.1 • 1.3.5.2 • 1.3.5.3 • 1.3.5.4 • 1.3.5.5

🏞 "Riverlands" 🏞

1.3.3.6 • 1.3.4

1.3.3 • 1.3.3.1 • 1.3.3.2 • 1.3.3.3 • 1.3.3.4 • 1.3.3.5

1.3.2 • 1.3.2.1

1.3 • 1.3.0.1 • 1.3.0.2 • 1.3.1 • 1.3.1.1 • 1.3.1.1+ • 1.3.1.2 • 1.3.1.3 • 1.3.1.4

👑 "Windmill" 👑

1.2 • 1.2.0.1 • 1.2.0.2 • 1.2.0.3 • 1.2.1 • 1.2.2 • 1.2.2.1

🌸 "Poppy" 🌸

1.1 • 1.1.0.1 • 1.1.1 • 1.1.1.1 • 1.1.1.2 • 1.1.1.3 • 1.1.2 • 1.1.2.1

⚔ "Knights and Flowers" 🌸

1.0 • 1.0.1 • 1.0.2 • 1.0.3 • 1.0.3.1 • 1.0.3.2 • 1.0.4

Original release

0.1 • 0.2.0 • 0.2.4 • 0.3.0 • 0.3.1 • 0.3.2 • 0.4.0 • 0.4.1 • 0.5.X • 0.6 • 0.6.3

The 2.1.X series of patches feature some minor fixes and additions. Though it only includes two patches, from June and August of 2023 respectively, each contained a sizable number of changes.

2.1.0.1 "Bears and Bandits"

Released on 2023-06-26 with checksum 3ed5

🐻 “Bears and Bandits” 2.1.0.1 🏹
Additions:

• Added a flag for Greater Soryth.
• Added portraits for Paw Wellington in the Endless Wastes path, Lord Midas, Øverste Administrator-001 as well as various Polar Bear generals and an admiral.
• Added placeholder events for Roam and Talonsvaal about declaring war on various countries.
• Added portrait for Manedalusia's Transitional Military Council.
• Added new cosmetic tags for Polar Bears.
• Added a new victory point and supply hub in Manedalusia.
• Added generic cat and generic penguin spy portraits.
• Added an event for unification of anarchist Adelart with anarchist Greifwald.

Changes:

• Reworked portrait for Flash Sentry in Crystal Empire.
• Updated Barrad GUI with the new Ambrosius portrait.
• "The Wrath of Boreas" focus for Herald of Boreas now requires owning Griffenheim rather than Griffonstone.
• Adjusted some Adelart flags.
• Slightly increased speed for Chargers.
• Adjusted Petershoof state border and nearby rivers.
• Tweaked penguin and changeling state populations and state categories.
• Adjusted Cannibal Mountains state borders.
• Tweaked location of Zumbo victory point and added a supply hub.
• Adjusted border between Manedalusia and Maregypt.
• Changed terrain of various provinces in northern Equus.
• Removed some impassable province adjacencies in Abyssinia.
• Replaced supply hub in Gorak with a naval base.
• Setup 3D models for plane icons.
• Made Panzerbjørn weaker but also less expensive.
• Tarrin now auto-annexes Aquileian countries if it tries to puppet them.
• Made Wingbardy's focuses about invading Herzland consistent between the different paths.
• Changed Sunglider's subideology to harmonic socialism in the post-war elections for Griffonian Republic.
• Tweaked namelist for Manedalusia.
• Various Polar Bear focuses no longer add forts.
• Some Polar Bear focuses now improve state categories, add population or change victory point values or names.
• Changed duration of various focuses for Polar Bears.
• Bjornling now gets more stability from focuses.
• Tactics unique to Equestria at War are now available as Preferred Tactics.
• AI now prefers zebra tactics over generic ones.
• Meme generals for Polar Bears are no longer available at start, but can be unlocked via a decision.
• Adjusted Adelart AI to prefer annexing rather than puppeting Aquileian and Herzland nations.
• Removed "Disrupted Communications" national spirit from South-East Equestrian civil war nations as it did nothing.
• Renamed Coltuba into Coltoba.

Fixes:

• Fixed trigger for one of the songs.
• Fixed small icon for Panzerbjørn.
• Fixed some Polar Bear national spirit, advisor and concern icons.
• Made sure Winggarden DMZ is removed when Hippogriffia annexes it via event.
• Tried to ensure Tarrin AI doesn't keep its divisions on the border with Francistria even if they're not going to attack.
• Fixed Adelart's starting production not using one available factory.
• Fixed wrong national spirit in Adelart having tooltip about locked divisions.
• Fixed an Adelart event reducing non-aligned popularity instead of supremacy.
• Fixed numerous conditions for Polar Bear national spirits, decisions and focuses.
• Fixed some Polar Bear focus bypasses.
• Polar Bear focuses no longer require control of impassable states.
• Fixed Hellquill constantly asking for a guarantee if they are rejected.
• Fixed Nestor Bernier's advisor icon in Adelart.
• Fixed battalion placement in Northern Tribes' starting template.
• Fixed issues with various focus icons.
• Fixed one of Polar Bear Equestrian advisors being unlocked by the wrong focus.
• Fixed a Manehattan focus being unavailable with By Blood Alone.
• Nimbusia can no longer get war goal on Hellquill, Longsword or Gryphia if they are with them in the River Coalition.
• If Adelart becomes the successor of the Griffonian Empire, it will no longer be renamed into Aquileia by certain focuses.
• Fixed missing localization in Polar Bear Communities.
• Fixed some Adelart focuses not checking for other completed focuses.
• Adelart focus that spawns Knights now also gives the technology for them.
• Fixed Colthage Scientific Committee advisor not having an icon.
• If Tarrin becomes Aquileia, its faction is dismantled first.
• Fixed some of Tobuck's AI path game rules not working.
• Fixed advisor icon of a generic Aquileian portrait.
• Fixed a CTD on Colthage capitulation caused by advisors.
• Fixed Chital being able to invite Macawia into its faction when it shouldn't be able to.
• Fixed Stalliongrad leaving the All Ponies Front faction not always working properly.
• Fixed AI naval templates so AI will now actually build ships.
• Fixed "Tricolor Over Griffenheim" award being possible to get as Duchy of Cloudbury.
• Fixed Francistria appearing in Tarrin after Wingbardy annexes both.
• Fixed a national spirit for South-East Equestrian civil war nations invalidating after a day if Disciples don't exist anymore.
• Fixed a CTD caused by an Austurland focus.
• Fixed some Adelart advisor traits.
• Fixed Flowena leaving factions or getting guarantees while at war.
• Fixed Flowena war focuses not bypassing if the target is in the same faction.
• Fixed Polar Bears being unable to change puppet status.
• Fixed some Polar Bear focuses not being mutually exclusive when they should be.
• Fixed some Tobuck dynamic modifiers appearing for every country in the world.
• Fixed forming the Storm Kingdom not removing cores of other pretenders in states owned by other countries.
• Fixed a Vanhoover national spirit having doctrine research bonuses.
• Fixed lack of focus categories in Adelart and Polar Bears.
• Fixed name and description of a Westkeep decision.
• Dehumanized some GFX.
• Miscellaneous bugfixes and improvements.
• Miscellaneous localisation fixes.

This update should be save compatible with 2.1, but some fixes will require a new game.

2.1.1 "Bears and Bandits"

Released on 2023-08-21 with checksum 91c0

🐻 “Bears and Bandits” 2.1.1 🏹
Additions:

• Polar Bears' Hyperbearia betrayal path has been expanded.
• Hippogriffia's Razorbeak path has been expanded.
• When the control of a state changes during war, a proportion of its factories will now be damaged.
• Karkadannistan now has a decision to generate wargoals against its neighbours.
• Dragons now have generic male portraits.
• Added a new general for communist Longsword, and a general for Yale.
• 1019 Armoured Train 2 technology has been added.
• Added Modern Naval Mines 3 (1022) as a ship module.
• Added Naval Cannon (1007), Armour Skirt 2 (1020) and Stabilizer 3 (1026) as tank modules.
• Pingland now has AI game rules.
• Merlock Wood, Count Cloudet, Alexander Kemerskai, Paw Wellington and Torben of Clan Svartpels now have an advisor icon.

Changes:

• Colthage's Zalathel Zarca has received an updated portrait.
• Puerto Caballo's Roca Roja and Ponse Cocktail have received updated portraits.
• MARESOC's Yuria Lovett and Marius Hurricane have received updated portraits.
• Chiropterra's Auburn Leaf, Aurora Gale, Carrot Stick, Dead Air, Ecliptic Brine, Lakana Pandeha, Leaf LeHay, Lightning Charm, Lucent Eclipse, Stirling Silver, Stone Palisade and The Jackal have received updated portraits.
• Longsword's Heinrich von Plummen, Antanas Gogas, Abba Povner, Marija Gimbalnas, Conrad Silvertalon, Rembert Cloudbeak and Golden Morning have received updated portraits.
• Klugetown's Verko has received an updated portrait.
• Austurland's Einvardur Blaivarsson has received an updated portrait.
• Winggarden's Coffee Bean, Sonar Beep and Marble Pillar have received updated portraits.
• Aquileia's Moriset Discret has received an updated portrait.
• Pridea's Dennis Discret has received an updated portrait.
• Pònaidhean's Crimson nic Heart has received an updated portrait.
• Sunstriker Clan's Guntbert Greyfeather has received an updated portrait.
• Lushi's Razech Oumont has received an updated portrait.
• Abyssinia's Alfie and Gordon have received updated portraits.
• Updated several advisor icons for Changeling Lands.
• Improved racial technology trees icon positioning.
• Adjusted the outcomes of border war raiding.
• Concentrated Industry research line now offers more naval output.
• New victory points have been added in Equestria and Vedina.
• Crystal deposits are now more common over Zebrica.
• Default occupation law is now Local Police Force.
• Every Equus country that gets a wargoal on Nova Griffonia can't take the focus to attack them before their civil war has ended.
• Nova Griffonia's historical path has been changed to Highhill's coup.
• The Republican Government in Exile of Haukland should appear more often now.
• The Republican Government in Exile of Haukland will now receive compliance coring should they take over Herzland.
• The GLA shall now be known as the Prywhenian Liberation Army at the start of the game.
• Hippogriffia's Government of National Unity can now only be formed if the Hippogriffia puppet owns Mount Aris.
• Countries that move their capital as part of their content shall no longer revert to the old one if it is taken over by an enemy.
• Countries should now be far more likely to annex states, if they have an annex wargoal or can core them through compliance.
• New Mareland's starting naval doctrine has been changed to Fleet in Being.
• AI will take the Desperate Defence decision more often now.
• Adjusted various decision costs and focus rewards for Polar Bears.
• Knights and Jagers now have a small amount of anti-air attack.
• Generic civil wars will no longer be triggered by an outcome of draft dodging.
• Various GUIs have been updated to match vanilla.
• Stalliongrad's Vasily Pantsushenko has been renamed to Vasily Wheatin.
• Chiropterra's Gorge Batton has been renamed to Gorge Z. Batton.
• Polarland strategic region has been renamed to Polaria.
• Yaks and Jaks have received a new namelist.
• Azir's flags have been reworked.
• Abyssinia's communist flag has been reworked.

Fixes:

• The decision to recruit meme generals for Polar Bears no longer appears for every country.
• Post-defeat Chiropterra will no longer annex Zarantia and Tobuck, which was breaking their path.
• Fixed a CTD related to Colthage's "No Sufrit" political advisor.
• Fixed a CTD which occurred after Francistria capitulates Tarrin.
• Adelart no longer recreates its faction if it already exists.
• Fixed several Adelart high command advisors having inappropriate traits.
• Wingbardy can no longer attempt to ally Tarrin before they complete their elections.
• White peace between Tarrin and Francistria should only occur once henceforth.
• Improved several availability checks for Prywhen's focus tree.
• Changeling Lands' puppet cosmetic tags should correctly drop under correct circumstances from now on.
• Hyperbearia should no longer lose its cosmetic tag if the player rebels.
• The extreme civil war option for Equestria's AI game rule should work again.
• The refinery concern for League of Four Emirs no longer provides an 80% industrial research bonus.
• Corrected an edge case in which Princely Lake City could get stuck with its focus tree.
• Fixed Iris Silverclaw's missing advisor icon for the Griffonian Republic.
• Diamond Dog operatives will no longer have a chance to originate from Brodfeld, but rather Bronzehill.
• Fixed an issue where mutually exclusive foci could be taken as Falcor.
• Fixed several countries having overlapping focuses when "Show obsolete focus paths" is enabled.
• Corrected availability issues with Tobuck's gunrunning decisions.
• Fixed a Tobuck focus to work without By Blood Alone.
• Updated a Sirenalia focus to work with By Blood Alone.
• Fixed a Skyfall focus to work without By Blood Alone.
• Added La Resistance integration for appropriate Griffonian Empire ideas.
• The generic Naval Bomber template will no longer use an incompatible module.
• Fixed an issue with the torpedo tech category, ensuring all related modifiers will work for every torpedo type.
• Corrected several missing focus icon shines.
• Fixed issues with scripted wargoals/cores for Roam and/or Talonsvaal.
• Miscellaneous bugfixes and improvements.
• Miscellaneous localisation fixes.

This update is NOT save compatible with 2.1.0.1.