Hearts of Iron II: Doomsday Patch v1.2

Hearts of Iron II: Doomsday Patch v1.2

This is the official patch for Hearts of Iron 2: Doomsday from Paradox Interactive updating the title to v1.2. Read below for more details on what this patch contains.

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******* Gameplay Balancing *******

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- Added "volksturm" and "modern blitzkrieg" doctrines to the german land doctrine path.

- All leaders in a combat will gain XP.

- A doctrine can no longer be abandoned if the player is doing research in the same area.

- Air units should now properly stop doing re-running missions if low on org or str.

- Escort fighters now gives a range cap instead of minus range.

- Couping nations is no longer free.

- Trickleback Factor % has been changed

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******* Bugfixes *******

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- Players can no longer change the building_cost.txt without a checksum change

- The multiplayer bug where players couldn't reload save games is now fixed.

- Minor optimisation of network protocol.

- The CTD when merging empty fleets is now fixed.

- Minor Bug fixes in several intelligence actions.

- The freeze when naval units have position 0 is now fixed.

- The Quit window is no longer in the back.

- Going to the auto-control screen no longer unlocks all production sliders.

- Fixed a problem with convoys not getting enough ships assigned to them.

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******* AI Improvements *******

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- Small tweak to ai_reactive.txt to let the AI build a bit more CV & CVL

- The AI should no longer give player controlled units "support defence" orders

- The AI file parmater for stop doing re-running missions is now loaded correctly

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******* Databases *******

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- Fixed the deathdate of South African tech team Jan Smuts to 1950

- Czechoslovakian general Vojcechovsky got his name fixed. Both the leader and the tech team got their death date fixed to 1951.

- Climate in 705 771 772 773 774 775 776 855 859 527 532 372 373 377 461 changed to Subarctic to better simulate mountaineous weather

- Fixed a swat of erroneously spelled minister traits

- Volksturm Doctrine now also gives a small bonus to urban defense for most units

- Hammerfest and Vardo are now 'extra' for Norway instead of 'minimum' because often NOR couldn't be released because of nations occupying either of these unimportant provinces

- CVL model 0 now gets 2 airdefence as opposed to 0

- Edited and added a few necessary tech teams for the 1953 enddate

- Semi-Modern Anti-Air Artillery brigade may now lead to the discovery of SAMs

- Advanced Air Transports may now lead to the discovery of Air Cav Divisions

- Province of Changde (1397) is now a potential extra for Manchukuo and Shanxi, not a minimum.

- Province of Bayan Nur (1439) is now a potential extra for Mengkukuo

- Techs Rear Area Supply Dumps and Deep Logistic Organisation now only give a 10% attrition mod instead of 15%. This to account for the added hospital techs.

- Changed tech component 16031 of tech 16030 (Intercontinetal Strategic Bomber) from aeronautics to rocketry

- Skill of USA's tech team Norfolk Naval Yard dropped to 8 from 9

- Scandinavian tech teams (tag SCA, not the regular Scandinavian countries tech teams) skills dropped by 1

- Climate of Elk City set to Subarctic (omission of before)

- Fixed an error where SAM could be revealed by Semi-Modern Anti-Air Artillery Brigade instead of Semi-Modern Static Anti-Air Artillery

- Fixed a command in land_doctrines_tech that gave an infantry bonus twice

- Historical year of Improved Turbojet CAS moved to 1947 (from 1945)

- Historical year of Air-to-Surface missile moved to 1951 (from 1942), since it requires Improved Turbojet CAS

- Practical Turbojet Engine may now reveal Attack Helicopters

- Slightly edited the minima & extra of the Arab Federation

- Added a few missing tech team pics to Mengkukuo

- Typo in db\tech\land_doctrines_tech.txt at line 1402 is fixed.

- Macquarie Ridge (Province 2592) is now Sub Arctic

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******* Events *******

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- Fixed USSR file for the Bitter Peace event with Japan Axis.

- Random Events 1000, 1010 & 1040 are now disable due to the fully functioning Intel system

- Fixed the deathdates in colonial_release.txt

- Added such events for the release of SCA by any major player to prevent exploits

- Fixed the deathdates for ai_revolters.txt (the free resources for revolters-events)

- Fixed the 'US assassinates Admiral Yamamoto' event so it sleeps the correct tech team

- Added 'persistent = yes' to the Nationalist China event to receive L-L aid from USA. The lack of this parameter prohibited the proper multiple triggering of the event

- The 'US Gearing up for War' event #58 now only moves interventionism 1 step to stop USA from entering the war too early

- Passing the Lend-Lease Act (EVT 3700) does not move the USA towards interventionism anymore.

- Having Practical Turbojet Engines is now a requirement for getting the Attack Helicopters Discovery event

- Martin Bormann should now properly become German HOG when Hess flees to the UK

- When Iraq switches sides again, former allies should properly lose military access now

- Fixed a bad trigger in the Italy Surrenders event

- Now that supplies can be traced through allies, Croatia gets back its normal provinces when released

- Added a death event for Andrew Jackson Higgins (USA)

- Romanian 'election' event 900073 should now put the proper cabinet in charge and not some Polish one (copy-paste error)

- Lend Lease Events fixed

- Added a death event for South African Jan C. Smuts (SAF)

- The USSR Great Purge now also kills of minister Alksnis (and not only the tech team by that name)

- Added a death event for Eleutherios Venizelos (GRE)

- Added a death event for Carl Mannerheim (FIN)

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*******Scenario Setup*******

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* 1936

- Revised Communist China land doctrines

* 1938

- Revised Communist China land doctrines

- Adjusted build times for capital ships in 38 scenario to allow for increased costs

- Adjusted carrier OOBs for 38 scenario to allow for light carriers

* 1939

- Added tech 4040 to ENG

- Removed tech 4200 from FRA

- Added a supply & oilpool to Shantou (1248)

* 1941

- Added German Escort fighters

- Gave the United Kingdom and the United States proper CVL techs

- Japan now has a CVL under constuction

- The United Kingdom now has some CVLs

- Japan now properly receives 8310 and 8320 as blueprints

* 1944

- Fixed Persian techs

- Fixed German techs

- The Malta Defense Force is no longer guarding Sunderland

- Gave Japan and the United Kingdom proper CVL techs

- Added a few CVL's to Japan, United Kingdom & United States

* 1945

- Fixed Etorofu IC

- Added Inventions to ENG and USA

- Added missing UK techs

- Fixed a few minister setup bugs (both DB and .inc based)

- Removed the duplicate CV Béarn from France and fixed its name

- Added a host of AA, air bases, naval bases, radar stations and more to the German territories. They barely had anything before.

* Barbarossa:

- Corrected province setup

- Revised SU and GER oob setup