Patch 1.3 für Victoria 2
Das Update ist für alle Victoria II-Besitzer über den Gamelauncher und die führenden digitalen Downloadplattformen verfügbar.
Major features of patch 1.3 include:
- Improved AI for economy and military matters
- Economy system rebalanced, with support for proper free-market adaption
- New system for how gun boat diplomacy and bankruptcies work
- Socialists can now back political reforms and Liberals can do social reforms (though each less than the other)
- Pop promotion and assimilation have received a major overhaul
- Artillery is now a more useful unit, and mobilization does not punish sparsely populated countries as much
- Many bug fixes, game balance tweaks and interface improvements
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- AI Improvements
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- Tweaked the AI logic for techs and Gas.
- AI will now recruit as many generals as possible.
- AI is now better at assigning leaders.
- AI should now research naval techs correctly.
- National focus AI will now remove focus from colonization attempts that are far behind an opponents colonization attempt of the same region.
- All AI countries will no longer pick the same option on events that all countries get simulatiously.
- Added more AI chance factors to techs, mainly to encourage late game factory unlockers.
- Further fixes to capitalist AI
- AI will now turn off subsidies more intelligently
- AI chance added to lots of Army/Navy techs.
- Upped AI chance on researching new ship types some more.
- AI is more likely to increase military spending if low amount of soldiers.
- AI will nolonger attempt to colonize regions where someone elses colonization is way ahead.
- AI can now delete factories.
- Fixed some Naval AI issues
- Improved Naval AI strait blocking and guarding
- Optimized an AI pathfinding check (ShouldGoByLand)
- fixed: Does the AI know how to remove factories?
- fixed problem with the ai trying to upgrade buildings that aren't there
- fixed Capitalist AI build logic: Single Closed Factory in State under L-F Government
- Fixed a bug which caused the AI to always disband at least one regiment at each reload.
- The AI learned to not build engineers instead of infantry.
- Army AI: Fixed an odds bug where the AI would grossly underestimate enemy strength
- Army AI: Improved odds calculation to look at more factors
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- Gamebalance Changes
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* Pops
- Clergy promotion now check clergy levels, not officer levels.
- A few immigration-attracting effects now also increase assimilation rate.
- Reduced default assimilation rate by 25%.
- Citizenship policies now increase assimilation rates.
- Continents can now affect provinces, which currently just sets assimilation rate depending on continent.
- Having political and social reforms enacted increase the angryness of political party being appointed.
- Low literacy POPs are now far less likely to promote
- Soldiers are now less likely to become craftsmen if you spend money on them.
- Farmers and Labourers at <20% literacy is now less likely to become craftsmen.
- Increased Mil reduction after rising to 3 (from 1).
- Mil from reform desire doubled
- Literacy is now capped to 100%
- Fixed a bug in promotion factors that nerfed promotion to bureaucrats when admin spending was above 0.
- Literate pops are more likely to promote to bureaucrats in states with under 1% bureaucrats.
- Removed lux goods modifier for generic promotion chance as lux needs are higher now.
- Fixed clerk to bureaucrat promotion.
- Soldiers may now also promote to craftsmen.
- Craftsmen now want the wage reforms more.
- Told soldiers not to promote to craftsmen in colonies.
- Clergy less likely to promote to officers when education spending is 100% and Military is under 80
- Pop's desire for voting rights to their strata doubled.
- less bureaucrat promotions when spending = 0
- pops thinking of becoming aristocrats check state scope to see if there's too many rather than the nation
- Pops will not assimilate in overseas colonies.
- Lowly populated areas will not completely depopulate from migration.
- Pops should no longer emigrate to occupied provinces
- Pops in occupied provinces should not promote or demote.
- Hit healthcare with the nerfbat.
- Made craftsmen a little more likely to promote to clerks.
- Pops learned to move around more.
* Military
- Arty brigades have defence now, techs increasing their attack will also raise def.
- Mobilisation calculation is now using merged smaller pops to not punish smaller countries so much. ie, Prussia vs France.
- Supply costs now affect military score.
- Upkeep cost for brigades increased
- Army techs increase upkeep cost more.
- Troops no longer affect colonial progress.
- Tweaked colonial progress to not go backwards.
- MoW arty need upped to be in line with others
- Units will nolonger leave combat if they cancel movement.
* Diplomacy
- Same continent-cores and the capitals are now weighed more in warscore calculations.
- Peacecosts for taking province will not grow because of enemy is losingn territory to rebels at the same time.
- A country being forced to be released will get a truce with the country releasing it.
- Rewrote mechanics so that bankrupcies, 'gunboating' and defaults are 'on the same page':
* A country that cant pay their intresst goes bankrupt, this will put them in default to all creditors for two years
* All creditors gets a cb/wargoal to force them to repay their debts, if they win the country will no longer be in default to them
* After two years, all loans held by the bankrupt country, that it still is defaulting on, will be cleared
- Good peace offers that are declined now incur a penalty to the decliner, also added text to the peace offer message that reflects this.
- Admit Hegemony now gets all relevant countries into your sphere!.
- You can now properly influence countries added to your sphere even if you have a truce.
- No longer possible to humilitate a country which has recently lost a war (within last 5 years.)
- Being forced to disarm now reduces your badboy quicker.
- You can always influence someone in your sphere, even if at truce with them.
- Countries should now allways get a cb on debt default
- Only the selected wargoals are now executed
- Only countries that exists will be added to spheres when a hegemony war is won.
* Economy
- Increased output of underproduced RGO goods
- RGO workers will now be fired if they are oversupplying.
- Prices can now rise if there is a demand for them, but nothing actually produced yet.
- Rebalanced factory outputs to make late game factories actually profitable.
- Complete revision of Pop needs.
- Reduced POP demand for certain manufactured goods
- Lowered electric gear factory's cement cost to be in line with others
- National focus for factory production will now be much strongerly considered by capitalists and they may ignore non-profitability.
- Intrest is now payed before anything else
- If you have no money and get no loans, expenses no longer gets payed
- Loans are now payed of in fleet orders (the private inverstors have a really big one - Removed pop needs effects from many province modifiers as it's a country level effect
- Fixed a major bug that truncated savegames at some times.
- New messages should now appear properly.
- Fixed being occupied is great for industry
- Fixed Uniforms not updating fully
- Improved Gathering the following materials before construction can start info
- Fixed a few missing ports.
- Fixed a lockup with scripted occupation.
- Fixed a few spelling mistakes.
Major features of patch 1.2 include:
- Playable Babylon added as a free DLC integrated in the patch
- Players can now play as any country, even if that country does not exist at the start of the game
- Rebalanced economy and revolt mechanics
- More historical flavor, with new countries, new decisions and new events added to the game
- Additions to the interface, with new outliner options for tracking influence, and a zoomed-out representation of armies & navies
- Improved AI, providing a more challenging experience