Victoria 3 News

Hello Victorians!

Today we have released a hotfix for the 1.5 Open Beta, which includes fixes for:

• Cannot change language in the Settings menu unless game was started in English
  
• Occupying a state may remove fronts from the war
  
• Crash to desktop in some cases when a front is destroyed, or when reloading the game
  
• Trade Route Caravans not visible
  
• Occupation texture not being visible on the paper map
  
• AI having a tendency to only build Infantry or light ships
  
• Job Satisfaction causing buildings to find it hard to hire pops, particularly rich pops
  
• Migration is reversed
  

Remember to join our Discord server to submit feedback and Open Beta Bugs!

Welcome Victorians, to the next update to the Open Beta! Featuring changes, improvements and new features highlighted in Dev Diary 97!

Alongside this, we have also updated the known issues post - please make sure to read it before reporting bugs or submitting feedback. Finally, remember to join our Discord server to submit feedback!

Key Features include from Dev Diary 97:

• Multiple Battles!
  
• Naval Battles are re-enabled!
  
• Conscription is re-enabled!
  
• Unit Experience and upgrading of units.
  
• Retreat and Pursuit during battles!
  
• Re-home formations!
  
• Food, Pollution and Population Growth changes!
  
• UI/UX updates.
  
• Narrative content additions and changes, including to colonial administrations, dynamic countries, more formables/unifications (including the winners of the community poll).
  
• Interest Group tweaks!
  
• Military Graphics!
  
• Finally some Performance improvements through Job Satisfaction for example.
  

You can take part in the Open Beta by:

1. Right clicking Victoria 3 in Steam and selecting Properties.
   
2. Then Selecting Betas from the left side tabs
   
3. Finally clicking the right side drop down box and clicking

   1.5-beta - 1.5 Open Beta

Hello Victorians!

Victoria 3 is now on sale from today until the 13th of October! So, grab your conductors hat and whistle your way along the Victorian era!

(The expansion pass will also be affected due to it dynamically changing with price/items owned)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/529340/Victoria_3/

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/32180/Victoria_3_Expansion_Pass/

Good Day Victorians!

The Remastered Victoria 2 soundtrack, previously a pre-order bonus for Victoria 3 at release, has now been given away to all owners of the game for free!

You can access the soundtrack both in-game via the music player or through the files:

\Steam\steamapps\common\Victoria 3\game\dlc\dlc001_preorder\Victoria 2 Remastered Soundtrack

Today's Dev Diary will be looking at the changes and improvements coming in the second update to the 1.5 Open Beta!

Due to the sheer size of this Dev Diary we couldn't post it here natively! Please visit our forums to read and see all the improvements coming to Open Beta 1.5 here: https://pdxint.at/3F7EqUl