Hearts of Iron IV News

Hearts of Iron 4 celebrates fifth anniversary with new DLC and old dev builds

Hearts of Iron IV was released on June 6, 2016, making this year the fifth anniversary of the WW2 grand strategy game - a milestone it shares with Stellaris. It's only relatively recently that the idea of a strategy game being supported this long after launch has been accepted as normal, and Crusader Kings II received nearly a decade's worth of expansions before CK3 came along.

The developers at Paradox Development Studios are celebrating the occasion in a couple of ways. Firstly, two new cosmetic add-ons have been released, one called the Eastern Front Planes pack, and the other the Eastern Front Music pack. The former adds 50 new plane models across six nations, while the latter offers new radio tracks for Germany, the Soviet Union, Romania, and Poland.

There are also some developer streams running on Twitch. There will be two anniversary-themed multiplayer sessions today and tomorrow, each starting at 5pm CEST / 11am EST / 8am PDT and running for five hours until 10pm CEST / 4pm EST / 1pm PDT.

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Dev Diary | Bag of Tricks - Part One

Another Wednesday means time for another update! Today its time for a "bag of tricks" diary which means its an assortment of smaller features and improvements. Todays selection has several things you guys have asked for for a long time so I hope you will like it!

[h2]Decommissioned templates[/h2]
Its now possible to mark templates as old. Much like with equipment they will no longer show in the list.

Divisions can still use them but get a little warning, and you cant switch to one until it is recommissioned.

It is also possible to reorganize the list of templates using drag and drop, so you can make sure you keep your horsie boys on top where they belong.

[h2]Army List Controls[/h2]
We have also added various controls to the army list. Its now possible to sort and much easier to select

[h2]Colorized infra bonuses[/h2]
Infrastructure help you build more effectively. To make it easier to parse where the best states are we went ahead and colorized the bonus indicator

[h2]Lend Lease QoL[/h2]
To make it possible to more easily send ALL of your stockpile of something we have now added a button to the lend lease interface to set it to the content of your stockpile. A lot nicer than typing out a number you have to look up ːsteamhappyː

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War join spam[/h2]
This one has been on my top 5 annoying things since back in 2014 :D When your war causes a lot of nations to get pulled in you get a ton of separate messages. This can be super annoying because just as you fire off your attack you need to deal with popups. No longer. Check out the comparison when declaring on Poland as Germany. in New vs Old:

[h3]That's it for today, see you all next week![/h3]
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Turn Hearts of Iron 4 into the best Star Wars game with this (very alpha) mod

Continuing our never-ending debate (or, more accurately, gag) on what the best Star Wars game is, we now have a new contender from the Hearts of Iron 4 mods scene. Star Wars: Palpatine's Gamble is a new user creation that fully converts the WW2 grand strategy game and throws you into the height of the Clone Wars.

The vision of this project is ambitious, and we hope that it gets fleshed out more as it's very much in an alpha state right now. The main map has been completely redone - replaced with a new 'galaxy map' of sorts where sea territory has been repurposed into dedicated space lanes that connect planets together. Land territory now only exists within planetary boundaries, and land armies fight on planets in much the same way they do in vanilla HOI4, with frontlines and everything.

New bespoke mechanics have been created in place of vanilla systems. There will be a galactic senate and marketplace, corporations, bounty hunters, even something to represent the Banking Clans, which in Star Wars lore were the main source of funding for both sides of the Clone War. The mod even changes the division designer to allow you create forces with Clone Wars-era units, and you can have iconic figures such as Anakin Skywalker or Obi-Wan Kenobi leading your armies as generals.

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Patch 1.10.7 "Collie" - Hotfix

Just a very small hotfix to fix an issue with the 1.10.6 patch released earlier today,

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- Bonuses to specific batallion types will apply correctly again

Hearts of Iron IV: 5th Anniversary Bundle

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For five years, wargamers around the world have been challenged to outbuild and outfight history’s most terrible war machines in Hearts of Iron IV, a grand strategy wargame from Paradox Development Studio. Millions of tanks and planes have been built as players fought through an infinite variety of alternate histories set against the backdrop of humanity’s greatest struggle.

In honor of the fifth anniversary of Hearts of Iron IV, Paradox has announced a new bundle that will give players even more style as they prove that they are the master of modern total war.

The Hearts of Iron IV Anniversary Bundle Includes:

[h3]Eastern Front Planes Pack: [/h3]
Over 50 new airplane models for nations fighting in central and eastern Europe, including Germany, the Soviet Union, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia and Hungary.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1579991/Hearts_of_Iron_IV_Eastern_Front_Planes_Pack/
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Eastern Front Music Pack: [/h3]
13 new music tracks including the Soviet National Anthem, Lili Marlene and My, Pierwsza Brygada.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1579992/Hearts_of_Iron_IV_Eastern_Front_Music_Pack/

A newly available Immersion Bundle collects the game’s cosmetic touches that add further visual and audio detail to the game, including:

Radio Pack: 35 songs spread across all three factions, as well reproduced music from earlier games in the Hearts of Iron series.
Axis Armor Pack: Over 60 armored vehicle models for the German, Japanese and Italian armies, including the StuG III, Japanese experimental heavy tanks and the L-6 light tank.
Allied Armor Pack: Over 50 armored vehicle models for the American, Soviet, British, and French armies, including the M7 Priest, the French Renault tank and a host of new tank destroyers.
Allied Speeches Pack: Over 70 minutes of speeches from some of the most inspiring moments from the Allied campaign, including MacArthur’s celebrated “I shall return” and Churchill’s pledge to “fight on the beaches”.

Paradox has also updated the Mobilization Bundle to include all of the available Hearts of Iron IV expansions.

[h2]These Hearts of Iron IV compilations are all available at the Paradox and Steam stores.
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https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/20999/Hearts_of_Iron_IV_5th_Anniversary_Bundle/