Hi everyone and welcome to the 60th dev diary (wow). This week we released Hearts of Iron IV! Initial reception seems to be great. Good reviews and a lot of players playing the game! The team is really pleased with what we have accomplished! Some fun statistics for first week: Top nations played: Germany - 35% Italy - 13% Soviet - 10% USA - 10% United Kingdom - 4% France - 3.5% The most played minors seems to be China, Poland and Turkey. Hotfix 1.0.1 We have been working on a hotfix patch for solving some performance issues and crashes that have popped up. It is still an optional beta patch, and I expect we will make it available for all on monday. If you have issues listed below and want to try it out go here to check things out early: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/hoi4-1-0-1-hotfix-beta-patch.945139/ Changelog for that is: Stability & Performance

• Fixed several rare CTDs.
• Late-game performance optimizations.
• Large peace conference resolutions are now faster and also properly indicate that they are active to non-participants.
• Added GUI scaling option for people with very small or very high resolution displays (experimental).
• Added a max framerate limiting system (defaults to 75 fps) to help people with the combination of bad cooling, great graphics cards and very high screen refresh. If you are one of these with heat issues I would love to hear if this solved it (changing max_fram_rate in settings can let you remove its effect by making it higher, or go lower if you still have issues)

Gameplay

• Fixed an issue with deploying troops during spanish civil war when continuing savegames.
• Can now zoom in and out using PgUp and PgDown buttons on keyboard.
• Stopped an exploit where player could redirect a naval transfer into an invasion without preparation.
• Fixed a case where fleets who found themselves outside base range would be instantly deleted.
• Fixed some highlighting issues in tutorial.

Content

• Added 9 new unique nation leader portraits.
• Improved some VP/state names in China.
• Improved a lot of alternate ideology nation names and party/leader names.
• France can now send volunteers to Spain if they choose the Support Nationalists focus.
• Fixed many localization issues, both in english and other languages.

Here are some cool portraits [USER=635267]@Sideburnout[/USER] has been adding to the patch to flesh out minors:
Right now we are working on the first proper patch that we plan to release just before vacation in july. You will get more detailed info in coming weeks but the main focus will be: - AI - Air warfare balancing - Making sure invasions are harder to pull off, easier to defend against and more cleverly done by AI - Improving peace conference scoring - Quality of life interface improvements - Bug fixing Enjoy the game and we'll try to keep up with the amazing activity here on the forum! Read original post [quote]Useful links Official Website Hearts of Iron IV Wiki Development Diary Archives World War Wednesday Stream archive[/quote]

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