Hotfix 1.13.1 is now LIVE! - Not for Problem Reports!

Good day Victorians.

We have a focused hotfix today addressing critical AI issues, performance, bugfixes and balance changes. We are also working on more hotfixes with more issues being addressed. 

This hotfix should improve how the AI interacts with the new systems, a building employment issue and performance should be improved compared to 1.13.0, though we are still investigating improvements in performance and AI.

Note from Martin:

We have also seen an uptick in comments blaming QA for the issues in 1.13. There is a very common misconception that if a release has bugs, it’s QA’s fault for not catching them, but this is almost always just that - a misconception.

We've made a lot of very large system changes in 1.13, with a lot of knock on effects, and they've had to constantly play catch up with our tinkering. Many of the issues that made it into the release were the result of late changes to the build that they simply didn’t have time to catch. In short, if you really want to place blame anywhere, place it on me, as I am ultimately responsible for the quality of each release.

I will be talking more about this in next week’s dev diary, but for now the focus is on finding and squashing bugs and balance issues.

As always, please report any bugs on our bug reporting forums! We have also updated the Known Issues post for 1.13 with any fixed issues.

Otherwise, check out the full patch notes below. Checksum is `ccf2`.

The following changes have been made to the game compared to 1.13.0:

• Fixed an issue where the AI would create a lot of tiny fleets. Also improved the behaviour for armies so AI should have less tiny armies

• Fixed a bug where the AI would not disband empty formations it did not have a use for 

• Improved AI handling of obsolete ships, including cancelling obsolete ship constructions and more aggressive decommissioning of useless ships

• Fixed a bug where the AI would generate way more templates than it needed and did a general improvement pass on how the AI designs ships to produce more sensible templates

• Countries no longer start naval invasions using marines without a general

• Fixed a bug where the AI was constructing new ships they did not have the necessary crew for

• Added triggers for the AI to get rid of Merchant Navy if they have sufficiently high tech unlocked

• Reduced Literacy growth from 0.5% per week to 0.1% per week, as it was way too fast previously

• Reverted the change to several Land Reform law such as Tenant Farmers that added minimum subsistence employment. We will experiment with bringing this back when the UI and mechanics support it properly.

• Reduced the armor values of late game Capital Ships, moderately increased the damage of late game Cruisers, as damage was far too outclassed by armor from Modern Ironclads onwards

• The fraction of Coup Strength formerly calculated off of the number of units commanded by a General or Admiral is now calculated off of that commander's rank divided by the sum of the ranks of all commanders of that type

• Added two textile mills to Ile de France at game start, to discourage French uprisings on account of their threadbare clothes they can’t afford to replace

• Reduced movement radicalism gain from the Geheime Staatskonferenz for Austria

• Reduced movement radicalism gain from the Divided Monarchists Journal Entry for France

• Increased the threshold for the Hungry Forties Journal Entry to fire

Art

• More historical Japanese characters have had their specific character DNA for their appearances added

• Fixed an issue where pre-restoration Officers pops could wear peasant clothing pre-Restoration if the player had no DLCs

• Fixed blockade graphics not being shown on the map

Interface

• Made the Strait map marker show up less frequently in the Default map mode

• Removed the broken commander buttons from the Naval Invasion planner, we are planning to improve the general functionality of this feature in future hotfixes

• Improved the missing crew alert by adding info that ships need to go to port to get new crew. This new part will be displayed in English only, until next week or so.

• Significantly increased AI performance for handling diplomatic plays

• Improved AI performance for handling armies

• Fixed the stranding of armies due to fleets forgetting they were transporting them because they got merged with another fleet. As a backup and to fix saves, we teleport any currently stranded armies at sea to their supply hub.

• Fixed an issue that allowed countries to start or join diplomatic plays in a region even if they didn’t have the necessary interest tier level.

• Stopped drowning marines when you merge two fleets. Instead allowed them to be attached to the other fleet as it was intended.

• Fixed a bug where unraised irregular infantry could not gain any supplies

• Fixed a bug where fleets could return to their home HQ when stationed in other HQs or states

• Fixed ‘Abandon Piracy’ treaty not preventing ‘Piracy’ missions from still occurring

• Fixed an issue where buildings which only employed very small pops would ignore them and dump their wages making them unable to hire anyone

• Potentially fixed an issue that caused a rare bug which would cancel the construction of naval administration buildings

• Fixed an issue that could print errors when hovering characters in the "Honorable Restoration" Journal Entry

• Fixed Sweden owning Livestock Ranches in Kyoto

• Removed deprecated Man-o-War good from the USA-Texas starting treaty

• Removed the Armstrong Ironclad Prestige Good as it can no longer be produced

• Fixed a number of localization issues

Previous Patchnotes

1.13.0