Hello Generals & Admirals!
It’s been a few weeks since the release of our cosmetic pack “Warships of the Pacific”, and we’ve released two hot fixes. And I thought I would take some time to give you all an update on what is happening in the studio. Developer responses to this will be a bit slower than normal, as Sweden is out of office until Tuesday.
Open Beta
As some of you know we have a current open beta available where one of our game designers is looking into rebalancing the navy. We are aware of the submarines being a bit too easy to spot now, and some of the changes related to that in the open beta, will be released with Peace for our Time.
Peace for our Time
We are planning to release Peace for our Time soon and we are planning to be back very soon with news about our first Focus Pack! This will also be our second release working together with modders from the community, and we hope that you’ll all enjoy the content. We also will have Dev Diaries exploring the new content, closer to release.
As part of the release, we will, of course, include another free patch for everyone, in which we continue to improve the AI, fix bugs and improve performance. This time we also have included some “click reduction tech” for features that were needlessly click heavy.
Our 10-Year Anniversary (HOI IV-X)
June 6th will mark the 10-Year Anniversary of Hearts of Iron IV, and of course we will be celebrating. I can’t share too much more about that for now, but we have some fun things planned!
Thunder at our Gates
A while ago we swapped Thunder at our Gates with Peace for our Time so we could give it some extra polish. We’ve shared several Dev Corners with you which have been very helpful in getting your feedback to the developers.. The features and the content are looking really good, and we are eager to start diving deeper into things once we’ve announced it properly.
Beyond
All of the above is planned to be released this half of the year, and we are, of course, already working on content beyond that. That said, almost everyone in the team contributes to any new release we have, whether they are dedicated to that release or not.
PS. As part of the anniversary, we could look into implementing one or two extra achievements for everyone, so if you have any ideas let us know here.