Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg is a Hearts of Iron II, Darkest Hour and Hearts of Iron IV Game Mod that is set in an alternate timeline where the Central Powers win World War I. To get the game, you download Hearts of the Iron IV from the stream then download the Kaiserreich Mod. Now the game is moving forward to 0.12 Beta as developers of Paradox Development Studios revealed the changes to be expected on a Reddit post.
It’s a smaller update compared to the others on this game before but it has arrived sooner than expected considering every game is struggling with development. Patagonian and Puerto Rico got a full rework. There are also multiple bug fixes, more portraits for KR agents, a new demobilization system for the AI, and fixed performance report bugs. A 25% smoothness is expected after the new update.
Everything you need to know about Beta 0.12
Changes
Notable Additions
For those people with “La Resistance”, the entire roster of generic operative portraits has been replaced with custom KR portraits; a number of countries also have a few unique, historical operatives in their recruitment pool
Added a system for the AI to demobilize its economic and conscription laws in the later game and reduce its overall number of units. This is primarily a fix for performance, to prevent countries at peace from having really high conscription and a massive number of units on-screen
New Focus Trees
Puerto Rico
Reworked/Expanded Focus Trees
Patagonian Worker’s Front
Bhutan
New Events
Argentina
Bhutan
Legation Cities
Patagonian Worker’s Front
Puerto Rico
Russia
Russian Socialist Republic
United States of America
Fengtian Government/Reorganized National Government of China
New Decisions
Patagonian Worker’s Front
Fengtian Government/Reorganized National Government of China
GFX
New gfx for Armored cars of Habsburg Monarchy
VK16 light tank was replaced by original czech design (name is still same)
New portraits: Hermann Goering (MAF), Alberto de Zara (ITA), Sebastiano Visconti Prasca (ITA), David Wijnkoop (HOL), Maxime Weygand (NFA), Jean de Laborde (NFA), Alphonse Juin (NFA), Jean de Lattre de Tassigny (NFA), Carol II (ROM), Michael I (ROM), Shripad Amrit Dange (BHC), Nirmal Kumar Bose (BHC), Bhagat Singh (BHC), Raja Wadiyar IV (PRF), K.M. Cariappa (PRF), V.K. Krishna Menon (DEH), Muhammad Ali Jinnah (DEH), Sikandar Hayat Khan (DEH), Rajendrasinhji Jadeja (DEH), Zhabdrung Rinpoche (BHU). Sisavang Thayana (LAO), MuYahya al Hamid (YEM), Basilio J. Valdez (PHI), Crisanto Evangelista (PHI), Joao de Almeida (POR), Symon Petliura (UKR), Branislau Taraskievic (WHR), Jekabs Peterss (LAT), Pauls Kalnins (LAT), Janis Kurelis (LAT), Petras Klimas (LIT), Steponas Kairys (LIT), Antanas Smetona (LIT), Juozas Butkus (LIT), Stasys Salkauskis (LIT), Hugh Mulzac (CSA), Archibald Wavell (CAN)
Quebec leader portraits are now in-game
A number of Japanese vanilla portraits have been replaced (we’re slowly replacing all of them)
Many African leaders for alternate ideologies have had portraits cut.
A large amount of African leaders with poor quality portraits have been redone or replaced
News Event photos for FRA, USA/CSA/PSA/NEE, CHI, FNG, and MAF expanded for variety
Music Mod
Added songs for Germany and German puppets: Sommer, See und Sonnenschein, Hart wie Kameldornholz, Es ist so schön Soldat zu sein, Rosemarie, and Das kann doch einen Seemann nicht erschüttern
A Russian music update has taken place to accompany the code changes. This includes songs that will now play for Transamur, SOV and DKU. Songs Removed: March of the Markov Regiment, March of the Kornilov Regiment, March of the Drozdovsky Regiment, March of the Alekseev Regiment, Soldier’s Dance and Capital Oppresses Us. Songs added: Ey, Ukhnem!, Ochi chernye, Iz-za Ostrova Na Strezhen, Soldatushki, bravo rebyatushki, Kalinka, Vragu ne sdayetsa nash gordy ‘Varyag’, Patrioticheskaya Pesnya, Davno my doma ne byli, V Put, Katyusha, Tri Tankista, Kazachya Pesnya, Chernoglazaya Kazachka, Ty Kuban, ty nasha Rodina, Po Dikim Stepyam Zabaykalya, Kol slaven nash Gospod v Sione, Slavsya!, Marsh Preobrazhenskogo Polka, Polyushko-pole, Dalnevostochnaya, Orlyenok, Po dolinam i po vzgoryam, Kazaki-Kazachenki, Pesnya Cavaleriyskogo Patrulya and Pesnya 27 Divizii
Added song for Romania: Lelita Saftita, alongside translation fixes for their songs
Added song for China: The Love of the White Jade Orchid
Added songs for Puerto Rico: Lamento Borincano and Preciosa
Mapping
New states in the Amazon
New states and borders in Arabia
New states and borders in India
New states and borders in Belarus
Miscellaneous
The strikes/mutiny/draft dodging ideas from vanilla (that get added when you’re at war and either War Support or Stability is too low) which were added a couple of patches ago has now been removed
Increased suppression value of cavalry units
Added a “La Resistance”-only decision to recruit a Head of Intelligence, which provides an additional operative slot (to make up for the fact that you can’t recruit an advisor to do the same, as in vanilla).
Added custom operatives for Canada, National France, Australasia, Lithuania, Germany, Commune of France, Union of Britain, Siam, New England, USA, and the CSA
Germany, Commune of France, and Union of Britain now begin the game with intelligence agencies already created
The ingame descriptions for Syndicalism and Totalism have been rewritten to more accurately represent both ideologies.
Anqing Clique has received code updates and improved behavior
Small rework of the Cuban autentico path, national populists now split off from the mainline authoritarian democrats
Militarist/Nationalist Poland can now join the Belgrade Pact.
Added description for Austrian tanks and armored cars
Persia’s 70 day focus tree times reduced to 56 days
Peacefully annexing an Italian nation will now add their generals/admirals to the annexer’s roster.
New England now starts as an autonomous puppet of Canada rather than an occupied puppet.
Changed the propaganda decisions to one that is used while at peace and one that is used during war. The old “propaganda against warmonger” decision was far too costly in terms of performance
The Rocky Mountain Ceasefire cannot be fired if Canada has already intervened in the war on either of the two sides involved
Reduced the Union of Britain’s overall population to match the increase in Canada’s population, so the British Exiles actually came from somewhere
The UoB, USA and PSA can no longer get six research slots
Ukraine’s Khruschev path has been replaced by a functionally identical Oleksander Shumsky path, some icons have been switched around and new portraits were created for Vasyl, Danylo, Petliura and Skoropadsky
Yunnan’s focus to improve the Kunming Arsenal now switches the improved version in if you have the normal version active
Doubled the likelihood of the Yunnan AI to sort out its internal disputes before it gets dragged into a faction or war with Liangguang
All Russian (both RUS and SOV) heads of state and several generals now have new or reworked descriptions.
The Austrian Empire is now called the Empire of Austria, and if puppeted will become Austria, led by a generic.
Empire of Austria will become paternal autocratic in the Military Occupation path
Don-Kuban, Alash Autonomy and Turkestan leaders all now have descriptions.
Numerous Russian events have either had their descriptions reworked or been replaced by new events entirely, giving more character to Russia’s political paths.
Flanders-Wallonia no longer starts with a land doctrine and Electrical Engineering researched, which was making it more advanced than every other country in the game.
All USA/CSA/PSA/AUS/NEE presidents now have leader traits
Ma Clique setting up Ma Biao and keeping him is now cheaper
The Legation Cities now have another leadership crisis if Germany falls and they have chosen Ambassador Bodenheimer as their High Commissioner.
The Legation Cities have had their political power gain lowered.
Finished the localization and added a new focus filter for the Legation Cities tree
New German and Japanese commanders for the Legation Cities, they leave if either group takes over the Cities
Legation Cities can now pay pp to boost their relationship with Zongchang-led Shandong, leading to better trade power and civilian economy to be diverted from Shandong to them
Iceland has received a new leader for the social democratic party
Added new news events for Russian leadership changes
Reduced focus times on Indian focus trees
Moved Indian focuses which would add cores to regained Indian states to be decisions instead. All the events for terrorism in those states have been removed, and the built-in LaR resistance system is used instead
General descriptions have been added for all of Brazil’s general roster
Russian generals have been rebalanced and three new generals have been added
A revamp party list for the Philippines
Yang Yuting’s Fengtian/Reorganized National Government of China must now secure control of Manchuria following its formation
The “From Beijing to the Begonia Leaf” focus now grants a core on Jingzhao/Beijing
Fengtian can now ask for Japanese aid at any time, not just when fighting Qing, though the AI will be hesitant to do so unless losing.
Added a news event for a successful Fengtian reunification conference.
Improved Fengtian’s focus tree search
Incomplete Content
Country paths and focus filters for FOP and PRI
Fixes
Notable Fixes
Fixed an issue with ministers which was causing a noticeable “hitch” every game day, causing a lot of lag for a number of users
Chinese United Front should behave better, break apart correctly and should now properly white peace between potential participants
The “Peace with the Western Coalition” timer no longer endlessly resets
Removed the generic civil war mechanic in Siam, it now works like all other civil wars in the mod, spawning a new tag, SIR. This has fixed a large number of secondary issues
Other Fixes
Cosmetic tag for League of Nine Provinces now works correctly
LEP can now remove unrest if Shandong is AuthDem
Persia’s starting ship construction no longer has no modules
Italian unification decisions are no longer restricted to neighbors
Amended the peace conference code so the “leave Italy to Italians” rule will be friendlier to Sardinia
AI Germany will now not demand the Polish border strip while it’s at war with either France or Russia
AI Germany should now man the borders with a socialist Switzerland
Canada is now included in the Deal with the Devil ceasefire, if it’s on the side of one of the two participants
Democratic and Military Central America have had their army focus length reduced to face the Mexican invasion better. Democratic CEN has also gotten extra XP to edit their units more.
Fixed some of the issues that arises from Portugal going into exile
Fixed an annexation bug where Panama was trying to decide how to puppet itself.
Revamped the puppet system used for non-Together for Victory owners so that the overlord is informed when the puppet level changes
Re-fixed the bug where the final stage of the UK getting ships from Canada/Australasia doesn’t cause a crash when the naval group is selected
The Belgrade Pact will no longer disband if Romania is its only member and drops out to fight its civil war
ACW countries are now disabled from generating wargoals on each other during the Rocky Mountain Ceasefire, as opposed to the AI just being discouraged
Canada’s Quid Pro Quo focus fixed – it now requires that you actually intervened in the war (or fought CSA separately, and then gave land back). It’s no longer enough to have simply declared support for the faction during the Intervention Debate.
Allowed for the Halifax Conference to take place outside of Canada, if Canada has fallen
The UK will now get the same Irish IRA issues as Union of Britain, if it annexes all of Ireland
USA passing the tariff act or reaching a compromise with Canada will now affect AI Canada’s chances of supporting the USA in the ACW
Canada’s monarchy decisions are no longer allowed if it is a puppet or otherwise not in the Entente
Fixed a bug with Yunnan’s improved Kunming Arsenal not showing its icon on researched equipment
Added a missing localization entry for an army national idea of Yunnan
Fixed a bunch of decisions for various countries that were not being taken by the AI, even though they otherwise worked
Venice and Lombardy now inherit the Austrian influence idea if it is still held by Italy when it peacefully dissolves after the failed ANI coup
When Canada intervenes in the ACW on behalf of a faction, it no longer shares military access – this is so Canada and the Entente keep their own zones of control. If the faction they intervened for collapses, the areas they captured thus won’t immediately revert to the control of whoever annexed them.
Canada’s decisions to attack the CSA or intervene in the ACW will now be canceled if the CSA applies its strikes modifier before the decision reaches its 30-day mark.
If Canada intervenes on behalf of an ACW faction, and that faction uses its decision to concentrate on a front for 90 days, Canada also receives the beneficial 90-day modifier.
Fixed the opening Imperial Conference event having reversed localization, based on whether Canada chose to concentrate on the dominions or itself.
Added some negative effects to Canada’s “negotiate with Quebec” path, so it’s not better in every way than the other paths.
Fixed two Bulgarian generals still being available as ministers after they’re purged
Fixed PatAut Brazil being unable to remove negative national spirits
Fixed the Swedish syndicalist flag which was not properly rendering
Updated the Colombian, Montenegrin and Venezuelan flags so they are now using the correct colors
Made some changes to the peace conference code which could cause a crash if too many countries were capitulating at the same time. Towards this end, the capitulation of Germany is now delayed by a day, so the rest of the Reichpakt capitulates first and THEN Germany itself
Hawaii now inherits USA tech when it’s released
Fixed the Battle of Honolulu event for Hawaii only having one outcome
Reduced Anqing equipment gain from shipment/railroad decisions
Reduced timers for Fengtian’s “Shanhaiguan Infiltration” events
Fengtian will now receive the “Shanhaiguan Infiltration” events when fighting any owner of Beijing, not just Qing
Swapped incorrectly applied consumer goods factors for Hunan’s Economic Assistance ideas
Fixed reversed “Manchurian Model Cities” compliance gain
