War Effort – Operation Pike Patch 1.12.11 for Hearts of Iron IV has landed on all platforms apart from Microsoft Windows, and we have compiled its complete list of changes here. Today’s update will include new bug fixes, Modding Support, Balance Tweaks, and changes for our Canadian comrades in the North. According to Paradox, Microsoft will receive the same update on March 14, 2023. While you update the game, here are the official patch notes for the Hearts of Iron IV Patch 1.12.11 update.
Hearts of Iron IV Update Patch 1.12.11 Notes
Generals!
It's time for Operation Pike! Get ready to sing "O Canada" as we give their focus tree some well-needed love, as well as a host of bugfixes, gameplay tweaks for By Blood Alone content and modding support!
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— Hearts of Iron (@HOI_Game) March 9, 2023
Features
- German, Japanese, and British trees will now hide obsolete branches if the related game rule is turned on.
- French and USA focus trees will now hide obsolete branches if the related game rule is turned on.
- Added a new alt-history branch to Canada’s Communist path, allowing further reduction of the Great Depression, war goals on the United States, and various other benefits, at the cost of being unable to join or create factions
Balance
- Germany now begins with 80 transport planes, from 4
Gameplay
- Tweaked Ethiopian Balance of Power to decrease the risk of country collapse
- Made coring decisions for the Italo-Ethiopian empire available when controlling, rather than owning, states
- Made it possible to move the capital to Jerusalem after Axum for Ethiopia
- Made it possible for Ethiopia to collaborate with Italy as Monarchy as well as a Fascist
- Improved Regional Supply depots National Spirit for Ethiopia
- Made multiple investments at the same time possible for Ethiopia
- Added camelry to Sultanate of Aussa
UI
- Now the disabling construction of railway lines on the map will remove them from the construction UI.
- Delete-building button should now be visible/usable on UI-scaled clients
- Now, if you hover the mouse over an invasion arrow, the whole path will be visible even if it is overlapped by another one.
- Visual improvement of the create faction window.
- Now the army theater groups will show the reinforcement priority.
Modding
- Removed deprecated trigger pc_is_state_outside_influence_for
- State-level production speed modifiers now have the correct loc keys
Bug fixes
- Changed the “repair_speed_infrastructure_factor” modifier description to accurately reflect its actual effect
- Fixed creation of unbuildable plane variants by create_equipment_variant effect.
- The focus tree screen will now properly refresh when something changes the display – like when the player chooses a branch and it hides the other ones.
- Fixed the exploit of ignoring the special forces cap when changing army templates.
- The game rule “Show Obsolete Branches in Focus Tree” no longer requires any DLC.
- Motorized rocket artillery fuel usage increased from 0.12 to 1.2 to be in line with Trucks
- Fixed the missing description for all none-Italian countries receiving the end News Event for the Fate of Mussolini Event chain
- The USA no longer hires both communist and fascist advisors without DLCs
- Events and focuses that invite all un-faction-ed countries of a specific ideology to a faction will no longer target subjects (this affects Spain and the Soviet Union currently)
- Fixed issue in which Italian Aircraft Designer CRDA-CANT would require the wrong Naval Designer to be active. It now requires CRDA Naval Designer as intended.
- Octavian Goga will now correctly become the country leader on completion of the National Christian Party focus.
- The name of peace conferences will appear in the correct language after language changes during peace conferences.
- Fixed issue so that now Italian partisan general Ada Gobetti is properly cautious.
- The obsolete Soviet AI plan “Alternate” has now been purged.
- Build Cost equipment stat modifiers now display the correct color for a bonus (green for negative, red for positive)
- Fixed extra word in Alpine Supremacy description
- Fixed typo in Bulgarian Re-integration Campaign
- Fixed issue with Costanzo Ciano Light Cruiser Class granted by Italian focus Flotta d’Evasione when Man the Guns DLC was not active.
- Fixes to Canada’s communist path focuses
Hearts of Iron IV is available on macOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Classic Mac OS with the update 1.12.11 patch notes published on its Steam page.
