Generals!
For the next several days you’ll be able to test some things and give us all your feedback in this thread.
You can play around, test and give feedback on anything you like, but our focus will be on these points:
- Equipment Designer - We’ve added functionality to save your designs across game sessions. Save a tank/ship/plane design in one playthrough, and load it up in another.
- Also added is the ability to share designs with friends using the import/export feature.
- Saadabad Pact Branch - Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey are getting a shared branch that allows them to cooperate more with one another.
- Iran is getting some extra characters and focuses, including scientists and generals.
- Afghanistan is also getting some extra characters in the form of a communist country leader and some new advisors.
- Iraq’s Kurdistan branch is being expanded upon
We’re working hard on polishing Graveyard of Empires content on multiple fronts with the addition of new focuses, characters and events. We’ll continue to work on fixes, content and balancing as the beta progresses, and we may want to update the beta content during this time to make sure you have the opportunity to give us specific feedback relevant to the state of the game at that time.
The equipment designer persistence feature is something we might want to extend in the future towards other parts of the game as well, so please give us feedback on that! (The import/export feature is available in the equipment designer that comes with MTG, NSB or BBA)
- Gorion and AveeBee
The Open Beta continues with fresh Tweaks.
Open Beta Update 1.15.6.3
April 16th 2025
Balance
Afghanistan
- There are now more ways of increasing democracy support, making it easier to avoid the civil war in the democratic path
India
- Reduced several focuses in the India focus tree to 35 days
- Heavy Industry now gives 6 tungsten in capital state
- Seek Financial Aid from the USSR now gives 5 oil, 4 Tungsten and 6 steel in capital state
- Increased Resistance gained from Violence against the British to 60% (from 50%)
- Princely Subjugation now increases resistance target by 60% (from 20%) and reduces damage to garrison by -10% (from +50%)
- The "Anti-Imperialist Zeal" national spirit granted by the focus "The Sun Sets" now also gives attack and defense bonuses France and the USA, matching the bonuses targeting the UK
Iran
- Added +75 Political Power and +5% Communist Party Popularity to the Iranian focus "Soviet Alignment"
Gameplay
Iran
- Added a focus under the Fight For Iran path that allows Iran to reinstate the Qajar dynasty if they are a British puppet
- Added two new generals
India
- Added new communist branches for India
- Added North-Central and Western-Central India as areas targeted during the Mughal Uprising, giving the Mughal side more options for conquests during the civil war
- The focus "Revolt of the Princes" now gives a spirit that makes it easier to annex the princely states
- Improved descriptions of several Indian focuses
- The focus "Royal Navy Mutiny" now removes the Marginalized Muslim Community spirit
General
- Added an event that fires off if the Soviet Union are in control of Iranian Kurdish territory, which will release Kurdistan as the Republic of Mahabad
- Added the option to add 'notes' to your equipment design
Performance
- Improve performance of French and Russian localization
Bugfixes
Iraq
- The Constitutional Monarchy path no longer uses the country name "Iraqi Republic"
- The focus "Propose Syrian Unification" can now be taken even if Syria is a puppet of Vichy France rather than Free France
- Assures that none of the four members of the Golden Square join the Kurdish side when the focus "Launch a Revolt" is completed
- Renamed the army national spirit from "Army" to "National Army"
Iran
- Iranian focus "Soviet Alignment" now bypasses if Iran is already in a faction
- The focus "One for All, All for One" no longer uses an unfitting icon
- Adds the "Passive Defense" agency upgrade as a fallback reward for the focus "Fund State Intelligence"
- Adjusted focus branch offsets for the Iranian focus tree and how the Saadabad Pact branch accounts for collapsing focus branches
- The decision "Destabilize Northern Iraq" now correctly removes 10% stability rather than adds it
- Fixed generic portraits not showing in the pool of Iranian Officers
- Demand Afghan Territory and Demand Iraqi Territory no longer have broken tooltip names
- Changed the bypass requirements for Soviet Alignment to prevent blocking if player joins faction manually
India
- Subhas Chandra Bose no longer loses his country leader traits if India turns communist
- Fixed an issue where fascist UK decolonizing would attempt to turn India into a Dominion rather than a Satellite
- You now need to complete one of the two first railway focuses to complete "The People's Railway"
- Fixed an issue where Bhoodan movement would give random states shared building slots
- Fixed an issue where you could take the focus "Hegemony of the Subcontinent" before Pakistan spawned
- The "Mughal Influence" state modifier is now removed if the Mughals lose access to the state
- The decision to integrate the Princely States can now be taken even if the Princely states are puppets of the Raj
- Adds a National Spirit that slowly erodes the autonomy of the Princely states if Raj takes the focus "Mughal Court"
- Makes sure the icon for "Gun And Shell Factory" shows up rather than the generic icon
Afghanistan
- Fixed an issue in the 1939 start where Afghanistan started with some focuses completed despite missing their parent focuses
- Fixed an issue where the focus "Defender of Central Asia" would sometimes change the capital hub
- The focus "Approach Foreign Intelligence Services" no longer attempts to create two separate agencies when playing as communist
- The decision "Exploit Turko-Persian Heritage" no longer gets soft-locked if a country gets annexed during a pending invitation
- The decision "Alliance with the Turkic People" will no longer be locked saying "Establishing a Resistance cell in progress" after a decision is aborted
- The focus "Purchase Aircraft" no longer gives unusable British planes
- Adds fitting focus filters
- The focus "The Red Threat" no longer forcibly puts Afghanistan into the Axis
- Saadabad focus "Expand Road and Rail Connections" can no longer be taken when at war with a former member of the pact
- The USSR can no longer take the focus "Preemptive Invasion of Iran" if they are in a faction with Iran
- Syria and Lebanon now becomes free if they refuse the event sent by France from "French Union"
- Added AI strategy to have the UK always let a loyal Raj back into the allies if it completed "Tryst with Destiny"
- British focus "Ceylon Forward Operating Base" now bypasses correctly
- Turkish focus "Reinstate the Darülfünûn-u Şahâne" no longer bypasses when you are not in a faction, locking you out of a research slot permanently
- The state modifier "Resistant to Occupation" given to states conquered from India is no longer permanently reapplied in states if India gets capitulated, modifier also doesn't reapply if it was previously removed or the state was given willingly
- MIO's now reset to no MIO if you import an equipment design for which you don't have the MIO (shareable equipment designs)
Open Beta Patch 1.16.5
Shareable Equipment Designs
- Tank, Plane and Ship designs can now be saved between playthroughs
- Tank, Plane and Ship designs can now be exported to and imported from clipboard
Balance
- Soviet AI will now make use of Heavy Tanks
- Added an extra event as part of the Fight For Iran branch where allies of the faction leader will peace out if the leader chooses to accept the peace negotiations
- Added more places in the alt-history branches for Germany to lower the Consumer Goods Factory Factors if they have either the MEFO Bills or Economy of Conquest
- Germany: Reduced chance of AI Lithuania and Poland giving up territory to Germany in the Brest-Litovsk Path
- Added historical Generals Haj Ali Razmara and Assadollah Hosseinpoor to Iran
- Added political advisors Abdolsamad Kambakhsh, Rokneddin Mokhtari and Karim Buzarjomehri to Iran
- Iran: Focus "Clash of The Titans" is now visible from game start, and is available even if Greece hasn't formed Byzantium yet, but doing so while Greek Byzantine exists will offer a healthy attack bonus
- Added two new focuses to give democratic Iran the chance to get scientists, facilities and breakthrough progress
- Lowered the chances of the more obscure paths being taken by GoE countries if the game rules are set to non-historical or the country is set to random
- Adjusted 24 Iranian focuses from 70 to 35 days, with minor tweaks to some of them as a result of the time being lowered
- India: "Rally the Indian Left" now takes 35 days (down from 70)
- India: "Reds in the Shadow" now takes 35 days (down from 70)
- India: "League Against Gandhism" now adds 30 Political Power
- India: Removed War Support modifier, reduced Party Popularity and added 60 Political Power to the focus "All Indian Kishan Sabha"
Gameplay
- Added a joint focus tree between Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan to represent the Saadabad Pact, updated some content for Turkey to account for the new joint focus tree
- Afghanistan: Added a country leader to the communist path, as well as a Field Marshal and German General to the fascist path
- Added more resource variety in GoE nations, such as Chromium, Steel, etc.
- India: the Princely Breakaway State can now get more territorial concessions during the Mughal uprising, subdivided into Southern, Eastern, Northern, Central and Western India. Controlling all states in an area will let the Mughal side keep them at the end, instantly coring them.
- Added bypass to Revolt of the Princes if you already control all of India. Bypass gives the manpower and War Support you would normally get
- Added a way to core the princely states with the Akhand Bharat decisions
- Added the United Maghreb as a new formable nation
- Added custom agency icons for British Raj, Pakistan and Bangladesh
- The Turkmen and Tajik states in Afghanistan are now cores of their respective tags
- Afghanistan: Added a new focus for the Afghan Democratic branch to gain more democratic support as well as unlock two new advisors
- Iraq: Added Ma'ruf al-Rusafi as an advisor
- Iraq: Added four focuses to the Kurdistan path for Iraq, allowing Kurdistan to go communist and join the comintern
- India: Reworked how to flip communist as India. Now unlocks infiltration decisions to undermine the independence movement and the British, which reduces threshold to flip communist and boost communist support, instead of using the Autonomy system
- India: Renamed Train Robberies to the Peoples Railways, it no longer gives Train Robberies spirit, instead adds an optional decision and alters the railway focuses
- India: Subhas Chandra Bose can now become an advisor for Communist India if he is swayed
- Added formable "Mesopotamia" for Kurdistan, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt, to allow for the restoration of the Cradle of Civilization
- Afghanistan: Reworked the tooltip for the focus "Retire the Uncles" to be more readable
Modding
- Modding: Fixed CTDs when attempting to scope to non-existing states
- Modding: Fixed dynamic scopes parsing for the fighting_army_strength_ratio trigger
Bugfix
- Fixed spelling issue for Uruguay focus "Pay Off All External Debts"
- Fixed rare CTD when removing advisors
- United Kingdom: Expand the Secret Intelligence Service typo fix (it's no longer the Greta War)
- India: Removed advisor Jim Corbett from the Rally the Indian Left focus, as he is actually unlocked by Lobby Parliament
- If Germany chooses to setup Bourbon France after capitulating France, Free France will now get its Focus Tree with the DLC La Résistance
- Iran: Updated the available triggers for the "Promoting Resistance in " to be more clear
- Iran: Added tooltip explaining what Generals are unlocked from the focus "United Progressive Parties"
- Iran: Added more restrictions to when certain Iranian characters can be hired based on for example ideology or focuses completed
- Iran: Added small portraits for Jafar Kavian and Fazlollah Zahedi
- Iran: Resource rights are now reclaimed upon entering war with a country that bought resource rights to Khuzestan Oil
- Fixed bug where more equipment got recovered than lost
- Fixed a bug where spy network modifier was applied to countries, even if they are not at war with the country
- India: Fixed an erroneous tooltip that stated you had 1 year to finish the Mughal uprising, when in fact it was 255 days
- Iran: The focus "Soviet Alignment" now has an effect even if the Soviet Union isn't in a faction
- Iran: Removes state modifier "Promoting Resistance Here" applied by Iran in states that can be ceded to them if Iran gains control of the state
- Iran: Fixes a tooltip to avoid "Iraq declares war on Iraq"
- Added missing states to the formable nations the Macedonian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Turan, the Aksumite Empire, Al-Andalus, the Persian Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Roman Empire and the Holy Roman Empire
- Ethiopian focuses targeting Yemen now also correctly target the Province of Aden
- Iran: Fixes mutually exclusive branches under "Dig and Defend" and "Force Them Back" not collapsing
- Iran: Fixes focus branches collapsing no whether the rule was set to hide or not hide obsolete branches
- Fixed an OOS related to using random in Rajs history file
- Planes created with Iraqi focus "Purchase Alternative Aircraft" no longer give you non-functional fighters
- Fixed a minor typo in the description of indian focus "The Mughal Uprising"
- Fixed missing focus filters in Iraq
- Indian focus "Lobby for Increased Polling Responsibilities" no longer gives a non functioning bonus to militia attack
- Afghanistan: Bonuses from Mohammad Hashim Khan, Abdul Hai Habibi, and other historical characters will now be displayed correctly with the character name in tooltips.
- India no longer stays as a colony after Britain decolonizes
- Afghanistan: Bonuses from the generic advisor Sher Ali Sherkhanzai (fascist writer) and other non-historical characters will now be displayed correctly with the character name in tooltips.
- Fixed Dams built via the Afghanistan Focus Tree not showing up on the map with their 3D models.
- Fixed Purchase Dreadnoughts decision tooltip always stating payment to the United States, even when ships were bought from a different country.
- India: When GoE is disabled, the focus Institute of Fundamental Research will grant one scientist level to nuclear scientist Homi J. Bhabha
- India / Madras: Fixed Chithira Thirunal Balarma Varma not showing up with his unique portraits as Country Leader, Political Advisor and Army Leader.
- India: Fixed Princely Breakaway State using the wrong small flag on unit counters
- Afghanistan: Reform Quami - Support companies will now be added to template if the technology is researched after the focus is taken.
- India: Princely Breakaway State will now show the appropriate country flag
- India: Added advisors to the East India Company focus "Lobby Parliament" effect and tooltip
- Afghanistan: Afghanistan and the Soviet Union now join a tech-sharing group when 'Soviet Research Cooperation' focus is taken.
- Afghanistan: Chak Dam focus for Afghanistan now builds in a different state
- Adds Lebanon and Kuwait to the Mesopotamia formable
- Afghanistan: No longer tries to join the Axis from focus "Into the Plains of the British Raj" if they are already part of the Axis
- Afghanistan: The focus "Linchpin of Global Defense" now correctly modifies the Quami national spirit.
- Iran: Clarifies that only Main Instigator gets resource rights if Iran does "Push for Negotiations", but adds extra effects for other attackers and makes sure all attackers can peace out, added new flavor event for all parties
- Iran: Fixes branches not hiding when they should in the Iranian focus tree
- Iran: Making sure the non-aligned party actually take over if the Islamic Revolution happens
- Iran: Added a capitulation progress requirement to 'Swear Fealty to the Invaders' to ensure the AI doesn't surrender when it is winning the war.