Patch v.1.4.1d "Ugly American"

The logo of "Ugly American."

Patch 1.4.1d "Ugly American" was a patch to address issues with Patch v.1.4.1c "Ugly American". It was released on June 20, 2023.

Patch Notes

Minor Additions

• Added new world events to the Canada skeleton
• Added faction interactions to Turkey's skeleton
• Added Turkish Econ Sphere
• Reworked British states

Bug Fixes

• Addresses various performance concerns related to the foreign policy menu
• alt_APC and alt_MBT can no longer be selected in division designer
• Alt unit versions are locced
• Anti-tank units now require anti-tank equipment to be researched
• Fixed a handful of broken focus shines
• Standardized spelling of guerrilla across code and loc
• Fixed several ideas with broken gfx
• Pátra now has a state lore gfx
• Tórshavn and Nuuk no longer lose their state lore gfx when it isn't winter
• Fixed World Tension disagreeing with average tension between the superpowers due to issue with base-game World Tension system
• Socdev level no longer increases if have slightly under the needed amount of socdev points
• Fixed Comintern buttons being misaligned
• Effect of international brigade vote doesn't change if you choose to start a new vote before selecting the event
• Nations can no longer opt for ComIntern associate instead of membership if they are already an associate
• Fixed several UA leaders using a subid not intended for use until a future update
• Fixed an issue where IBR Colombian Civil War Global Conflict decisions would require Command Power but didn't spend any
• Fixed an issue where the Ba'athists, Constitutionalists, and Islamists didn't receive a core on tikrit after the war
• Fixed several econ spheres not have a Sphere Insularity value including Iberia, Italy, COMECOM, and the French Community post-reclamation/reconciliation
• Cleaned up the top section of division designer UI
• COMECOM no longer tear countries out of tighter-knit econ spheres when it gets founded
• Adjusted news event UI to fit two line titles better
• Added the characters š, Đ and đ into the world event font
• CAR is now actually a member of OFN prior to its collapse
• US decision to increase volunteers to Mano Campaign now works
• Every Mano Pact state no longer gets a dynmod for each member of PALF, instead now using only one dynmod
• Fixed Speer bring AREMA Madagascar back into the Pakt
• AREMA Madagascar now loses all spirits from the Garrison under Speer
• the Congo establishing regular elections is no-longer a world ending event
• German Madagascar will now use German unit models
• Fixed a bug that caused a large portion of crashes and peace deal strangeness during the WAC
• Wars immediately after WAC now fire the correct block of peace deal code
• Mano Campaign peace deals fixed for both sides (PALF victory should be fixed completely)
• Post-WAC peace deals no longer give WAC peace popup messages
• Fixed issues with fopo tabs not being removed after the fall of PALF
• WAC proxy spirits are now correctly removed at the end of the war for all West Africa countries
• FMA victory in scenario 2 now gives Cold War Points
• WAC standardized to 200 Cold War Points
• Mossiland and Ivory Coast now get the correct cosmetic tag after Reclamation/Reconciliation if FMA won WAC
• Free French puppets now drop their cosmetic tags if the reclamation fails
• Fixed Sokoto and Yorubaland spawning in capitulated for Cameroon Collapse
• Fixed Madagascar decisions increasing No/Isolated Authority straight to Tamed Territory in one decision
• ORM and ETB should actually have cores on each other now
• SWB now properly gets cores on Timbuktu, Mopti, Fulani
• In WAC Scenario 3, Sokoto's invasion of Nigeria is cut and instead gets invaded by FMA
• In Scenarios 1 and 2, Sokoto revolt in Cameroon collapse can now conquer all of Nigeria
• Fixed Fuuta Fulbe not getting properly annexed post-war in some scenarios
• Brazilian SAW superevent now triggers the correct audio
• The Free State of Colombia will no longer have holdover ideas from the CCW when the 2CCW hits
• The Free State of Colombia's capital will not move from Bogata after the 2CCW
• The German Support and Japanese Support ideas now have brief descriptions
• Heriberto Schwartau Eskildsen is no longer on both sides of the 2CCW
• Fixed Colombia Revolutionaries sometimes missing one of their ministers in post-war skeleton
• Dominican Republic now gets the proper party pops after Communist putsch
• Haitian communist no longer disappears after winning the CW, if Cantave couped the government prior
• Add AI to Germany + Iberia decisions in the Dominican Civil War
• Operation Ko-Ni-Go state modifier in Colombia CW has loc and an icon now
• Japanese create_unit effects for CCW now actually create units
• Brazil's Reassign Officers decisions no longer mention the SAW
• Addressed an issue in GER_PPI_Arm_Street_Gangs where it was checking for > 10 involvement but only taking down 5
• The COL testing decisions now require the COL_civil_war_ongoing global flag to access
• Fixed an issue in GER_COL_reorganize_the_army and GER_COL_send_advisors where the Command Power costs were higher than what was actually taken
• Any Philippines that's not Tanada's will be added to the OFN EconSphere (Barring Japan's)
• Baby Doc no longer uses Papa Doc's bio
• Added the event for Speer post-Paraguayan War
• AI handles invasion of Bolivia/Santa Cruz better
• PAC (First Paraguay Corps) should now spawn with its troops
• Santo Domingo state lore initials change if city is formally named Santo Domingo, instead of still using TRJ
• Fixed several issues with loc not accounting for CRA occasionally happening in 1963
• Oh Darling! achievement is now completable
• CIA can now prevent Suriname independence
• Fixed German PPI intel bar not working
• Hopefully fixed constant coups in Haiti
• Fixed Nationalists info in caucus deccat not displaying properly
• Debate events should trigger again
• US will now try to extract Maurice
• Progressives no longer increases Marxist support by winning proxy wars
• If Hall wins a proxy war, Marxist popularity will increase instead of nothing
• Events for Bormann-Hart attempted détente now have loc
• The US event for the rejection of Bormann's détente now use the correct loc for Goldwater
• Fixed Josias I coronation not properly creating Josias I leader role
• Added sidebar images for Reichsstaat Cabal and Atlantic Battleground global conflicts
• RND can not longer assist the Villasboa regime if the Democratios control Paraguay
• Speer's econ tree now properly says the megacorps needs to be Waning and not Vulnerable for last focus of each corp specific branch
• German espionage decisions can now all be taken at the exact values listed on the cost trigger
• Fixed several espionage events missing tooltips for Bormann
• Germany & the USA will no longer get events about their rival pulling ahead in the Battle of the Atlantic when Britain takes the lead
• Germany will be able to interact with the Cabal during ceasefire scenarios
• Germany's CCW decisions will now remove command power as a cost
• Fixed Maurice espionage chain, no longer able to kill him twice
• Hopefully fixed SAW Looming Failure mission reappearing
• General Bob Smith will no longer show his support for the monarchy in post-Gaxotte reconciliation
• Meyer-Landrut should no longer lose all his gains in Ostland if Speer puppets them mid-war
• Added in value = 1 to the timed country flags for the Speer EconMech, hopefully fixing the issue of the timed flags not applying properly
• Added the SGR_SAW_withdrawal flag to the pullout decision so you can now properly take related focuses and decisions
• Switched FROM to OSL in the coring scripted effect for Ostland
• Removed BLR core on Wilna, removed MST cores on Wilna, Wiljeka, Minsk-Stadt
• MST tag should now core all of Ostland if Speer intervenes
• If Ireland passes the Tariff Commission Repeal Act, it no longer sets them to Closed Economy
• England now has a seal in the fopo tab during the Battle for England
• Fixed OC defeats being listed as victories for Germany, turns out an easy way to not have a war is to not exist
• Bormann can now get the benefits from the UAR forming if the OC ends prior to its formation
• Espionage idea for countries at war with Germany now list the correct intel agency rather than just leaving a blank
• Made French AI more violent in their civil war scenarios
• The Firipin Shotō Rinji now has the Imperial Protectorate status rather than the Fully Dependent Member of the Sphere status
• Morita no longer attempts to fix the space issue in the Tree Pearls
• Vietnam will now lose the 'The Personalist Revolution' national spirit after the military coup
• Indonesia will no longer sometimes liberate random CW tags in its peace deal
• Philippine reconstruction should trigger correctly in FPR scenario
• Fixed Philippine post-recon elections
• One of UMAJF's divisions is no longer vacationing in Southern Italy at game start
• Fixed several Kaya events displaying loc keys instead of the names of ministers
• Fixed Garcia not being able to form the UFF when the Simbang Gabi coup fails
• The national spirit "The Extremist's Handprint" now has an icon
• Decolonising Israel will no longer cause the collapse of our reality
• Decolonising Lebanon will no longer cause the collapse of our reality
• Decolonising Palestine will no longer cause the collapse of our reality
• Italy's party pops now update correctly after FD election
• Montenegro now gets both its states back if it dies to Croatia
• UAR no longer uses a spirit icon with José Martí
• Iberia's mission to retake Algeria after the death of Salazar now can be completed
• Fixed numerous misspellings of Khrushchev
• Fixed South Urals Prototype MANPADS tech gfx
• Fixed Magnitogorsk triggers not displaying amount of subjects needed for decisions
• Turkes Kenes should surely be concluded within 500 days
• Zlatoust now gets the correct cosmetic tags and cores post-deunification
• Chita Smuta mission "Exporting the Chita Model" no longer disappears immediately
• Magadan Regional dev decision no longer appears at any point for any leader
• WerBell's invasion of Mali contracts no longer appear during WAC
• Fixed WerBell Smuta decisions not unlocked
• Siberia no longer has to wait 30 days to invade if the other superregional hasn't formed
• Fixed several Russian tags have +40% war support or stability effects in their Smuta trees
• Tomsk focus no longer refers to Shostakovich as Shotakovich
• Fixed Kemerovo event using the wrong description and title
• Far East state fishing spirits no longer refer to the wrong ocean
• Sablin's party wing mechanic no longer shows the Bukharinists as only having very high or very low influence
• Sablin's Army reform decisions now have same requirements as the Economic reforms
• Sablin's Chita occupation flavor event now has effects
• Fixed Petlin's Magadan sometimes getting 2 Bastion of Free Trade spirits during superregional
• Fixed Onega using some pre-UB Finland lore
• Removed some starting ideas from warlords that shouldn't be there in the Omsk collapse
• Removed military access between ZLT and YGR in the Omsk collapse
• If Komi forms the united front with WRRF, it now keeps the same flag rather than reverting to the Center Komi flag
• Rewrote a Samara event didn't make sense with how landline telephones work
• Onega's Volunteer Guard decisions now stay active for as long as Left Komi exists in addition to the previous WRRF
• Fixed issue with Onega deunifying West Russia where the former unifier could still declare war on the South Urals
• Onega beating West Siberia no longer creates border gore
• States spit out by Onega beating West Siberia now join their faction
• Reworked Dzhermen Gvishiani minister portrait so he no longer looks like a tiny baby man

Balance Changes

• Weakened the Japanese decisions in Turkes Kenes
• Easier to keep the tension level higher in Turkes Kenes
• The Yasuda crisis will no longer cause a quarter of Japan's GDP to disappear
• Costs for dockyards reduced by 60%
• Greatly reduced pp from people joining the ComIntern
• Lowered the Command Power Costs for the USA, IBR, GER, and JAP in the Colombian Civil War Global Conflict
• Changed the IBR CCW Bribe Officials and Granting loan decisions to use money instead of PP
• Rebalancing IBR CCW decision costs to be cheaper
• COL, CLL, CLD, and CLC's starting OOBs have been renamed and rebalanced

QoL Improvements

• A world event now triggers for the start of Icelandic election proxy, so players besides the US know why the proxy is happening
• US Fopo decision USA_assist_reconstruction now grants a 3% GDP boost to the UPH or SPH depending on who is alive
• Increased PHI's starting unit count as well as changing their starting supply to 1.0
• Reducing the infantry battalions in the UPH from 9 to 6 in template 'Infantry Division'

Other Changes

• Replaced America with Turkey in the Turkes Kenes proxy to reflect updated skeleton content
• Updated 2 political screen UI assets
• Germany can now take its South African War focuses as long as the war is running
• Japan's faction has been renamed back to Dai Tōa Kyōeiken
• PALF Burkina Faso has had its name changed
• The Harbin 3's Smuta occupation decisions now integrate each other generals along pre-UB lines
• Modernists use the Liberal Technocracy subid
• Marcos' cosmetic tag is now the Third Philippine Republic
• Cocos Islands and Christmas Island have had cultures adjusted
• Cleaned up gui for army and navy traits screens
• Non-Russian communists can no longer refound the NKVD as their default intel agency
• LaR intel agencies no longer use hardcoded names
• Event pic files have been reorganized, expect issues for submods
• FMA and PALF now properly prepare to invade Zarmaland and Sokoto after FMA vs PALF WAC
• Reenabled WAA vs PALF Scenario
• Russian tags get reduced dockyard costs up until reunification
• Magadan's RFP now gets renamed prior to it splitting into factions
• Magadan event about M1 Garands now actually gives M1 Garands
• Dirlewanger's Anarchy now has a description
• Changed the colors of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Costa Rica
• WAC now appears as ongoing in the global conflicts menu
• Mano Campaign's outcome now gives Cold War points
• Naval assign leader menu and Army assign leader menu now uses same format for their topbars
• Utopian Socialism is now a subid of progressivism
• Echeverria's ideology is now changed to Christian Progressivism
• WAC Toggle Equipment decisions now change icons based on visiblity
• Mali no longer gets a WAA faction status after FMA wins in Scenario 3
• Hooked up events from Matsushita's Riots which were missed from 1.4.0 release