No Call, No Show | Patch 1.17.1

Commanders,

We hope you’re enjoying No Compromise, No Surrender. This patch addresses a variety of issues we’ve observed — please keep those bug reports coming. Report bugs here.

Balance

• Adjusted the surrender-limit bonuses granted to Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei in the Chinese focus tree.

• Reduced the duration of Japan’s focus “The Military Ministers’ Attaché System” to 35 days and updated AI planning to reflect this change.

• Philippines: Rebalanced the Subject… Surrender branch — lowered resistance targets and increased damage dealt to garrisons.

• Japan now gains slightly less mastery from the Surprise Invasion modifier. Added Densely Populated Rural Area to several Chinese states where it is appropriate.

• The Japanese focus “7075 Aluminium Alloy” now grants 5 aluminium in Osaka instead of 25% air breakthrough progress. “Develop New Fighters” provides larger bonuses to air breakthrough and reduces the ahead-of-time penalty for light planes.

• Relaxed the faction goal requirements for “Military Infrastructure.”

• Raised the non-aligned country limit for “Indifference is a Threat” to make it more forgiving.

• Greatly lowered the manpower threshold for “The Red Tide” objective and increased its reward.

• Expanded the pool of subject countries eligible for the “Eastern European Security” goal.

• Added a faction initiative reward to the “One Germany” objective.

• Reduced requirements and increased the reward for the “Building up Guam” objective.

• Boosted rewards for the “Organize the Resistance” goal.

• Significantly increased rewards for “Maintain Control of the (Chinese) Coastline.”

• Significantly improved rewards for “Throw Out the Invaders.”

• Increased the reward for “Control the Chinese Capitals.”

• Enhanced the reward for the “Align China” objective.

• Democratic China’s focus “Shifting the Balance” now offers alternate requirements and hides advisors that are ideologically unavailable on the democratic path.

• The focus “Championing the Cause of Liberty” now grants an extra research slot.

• Added 15 tungsten to the Fujian province resource node.

• The Chinese United Front faction manifesto now grants up to 10% core defence, scaling with how incomplete the manifesto is.

• Reduced the starting penalty of the Chinese national spirit “Inefficient Economy” from −40% to −35%.

• Minor adjustments to subdoctrine mastery bonuses.

• Moved Basic Submarine Snorkel technology from 1940 to 1939; Improved Submarine Snorkel from 1944 to 1943.

• Moved AIP-Diesel Combination Engines from 1940 to 1939 and High-Speed Walter Engines from 1944 to 1943.

• Improved Dual-Purpose Battery technology moved from 1939 to 1940.

• Ice Composite Runways technology moved from 1945 to 1944.

• Clarified that Transport Ships are the unlock condition for the Support Ships special project.

Gameplay

• Philippines: Dictator MacArthur will remain in PHI if war breaks out with the USA.

• Moved Taiyuan’s map location for greater historical accuracy and added a level 1 land fort to the province.

User Interface

• Fixed naval headquarters tooltip in combat results duplicating the same leader.

• Fixed captured naval HQs not appearing in the controlled HQs list.

• Resolved an issue preventing naval HQs from being captured after loading a save.

• Fixed a broken line break in the doctrine cost reduction tooltip.

• “Lack of Energy” now appears correctly inside the Factory Output tooltip.

• Fixed the “switch faction theater” button showing a generic faction icon incorrectly.

• Made the Naval Dominance flag in the naval region screen clickable again.

• Fixed the war summary window being unclosable while the division designer was open.

• Equipment stat tooltips now include doctrine modifiers in the breakdown.

• Naval HQ leader window now updates correctly when adding new navy leaders.

• Air and naval exercises now properly display XP-limited training via shift+click, consistent with army exercises.

• Improved usability of the request garrison support slider.

• Fixed missing country names in faction influence tooltips.

AI

• Japanese AI will automatically merge any Chinese puppet it creates into the Reorganised Government at the end of a peace conference.

• Improved AI selection of fleet homebases.

• Improved naval AI objective selection.

• Italy and the UK will contest the Mediterranean to a more historically plausible extent.

• The US and Japan will contest the Pacific more appropriately.

• AI now evaluates convoy raiding per naval base instead of per enemy country, preventing fleets from overcommitting worldwide.

• AI will more actively move fleets toward their basing locations, reducing instances of strike forces being stuck behind range gates.

• Naval AI escalation now better responds to enemy presence in targeted dominance-growth regions.

Modding

• Fixed a crash in the has_mastery_level trigger when an invalid subdoctrine was supplied.

• Addressed several multiplayer out-of-sync cases.

• Fixed stacking battalion bonus display in aggregated doctrine descriptions.

• Fixed triggers “has_industry_to_become_leader”, “has_enough_influence_for_leadership” and “has_manpower_to_become_leader” to correctly support = no.

• Added max_track_columns and max_track_rows properties to grand doctrines to support dynamic multi-row doctrine track layouts.

• Fixed scripted GUI windows disappearing after switching countries.

• Doctrine selection list now anchors to the right side when multiple doctrine-track rows exist.

• naval_dominance strategies now accept AI areas as arguments as well as strategic regions, allowing finer control over strike force distribution (use with caution to avoid over-dispersal).

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash related to battleplans.

• Fixed faction goals for naval and air size that were incorrectly measuring army size.

• Fixed completed goals not appearing in certain circumstances.

• Fixed Faction Theaters showing 0 countries when the theater was owned by another faction.

• Chinese warlords can now access the Mining Commission industrial concern after the appropriate Nationalist focus.

• USA will no longer immediately make peace in the Philippine War of Independence.

• Fixed a case where Japan could be penalised for winning the border war against the Soviets too quickly.

• Fixed Communist China’s People’s Militia subdoctrine failing to unlock mastery rewards correctly.

• Added an event that unlocks the “Retreat to Taiwan” focus for Nationalist China.

• Fixed Military R&D goal applying faction influence to the wrong country.

• Prevented duplicate decisions for reducing autonomy of the same warlord after taking “Impair the Control Yuan”; Guangdong is now targetable correctly if puppeted via the Liangguang incident.

• Democratic Japan can no longer invite nations to their faction via decisions if the faction leader is not democratic.

• Evacuate factory decisions for China and warlords no longer temporarily remove and then re-add factories to the same state.

• Fixed admirals not being removed from naval HQs after becoming unavailable.

• Fixed several modifiers from “The Well-timed Swoop of a Falcon” focus not applying correctly to China.

• Fixed wording and logic where ships and aircraft were mistakenly referred to as battalions in faction goals.

• Fixed availability check for the Japanese focus “Fund the RIKEN Institute.”

• Fixed the Guerrilla state modifier from Nat China disappearing if the recipient was not at war with the PRC.

• “Reclaim the North” now grants cores on the specified states China already controls, not only on those it does not control.

• Fixed doctrine cost reductions being spent when the cost was already reduced to zero.

• Locked Japan’s decision to offer China a white peace so it can only be used once.

• Prevented China from triggering the Xi’an Incident in the 1939 start.

• Chinese warlords are now more likely to accept joining the United Front via the event.

• Fixed resources from production becoming zero after becoming a puppet.

• Fixed warlords sometimes capitulating before gaining the political power to ask to join the Chinese United Front.

• Fixed several unlocalized doctrine bonuses in the British and Ethiopian focus trees.

• Fixed inability to assign a naval commander to an HQ after using sorting buttons.

• Fixed German “Danzig for Slovakia” focus not working if Czechoslovakia was annexed via “Integrate Czechoslovakia.”

• Fixed Raj attempting to use an unavailable MIO for infantry equipment production when Graveyard of Empires is disabled.

• Fixed military advisor Werner Junck being incorrectly available for Iraq despite focus-tree locks.

• Fixed exploit allowing divisions assigned to “Raid Weapon Depots” or “Paratrooper Raid” to change templates while preparing or executing the raid.

• Fixed incorrect starting subdoctrines for the USA in the 1939 start.

• You can now draw offensive lines attached to naval invasion orders.

• Added a US Naval Supply Hub to Norfolk.

• Several fixes to ensure Chiang Kai-shek’s wife becomes country leader if he dies after completing certain Liangguang incident focuses, and corrected Hebei-Chahar invitation timing.

• Fixed various unit animation glitches.

• Set Communist China to always accept invites to the Chinese United Front when historical focuses are enabled.

• Communist China: Added a guerrilla warfare expert trait focused on partisan operations.

• Fixed a crash when using the Nationalist China focus tree during the German Civil War.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when releasing a nation and immediately attempting a new equipment design without progressing.

• Carriers on active naval missions should no longer send excessive network commands per tick, improving latency on poor connections.

• Naval target blacklisting now functions correctly for all mission types.

• Fixed a crash on macOS when hovering borderwar map icons.

• Fixed carrier fighters dealing excessive damage.

• Fixed an exploit where airwings with zero attackers could still deal damage.

• Fixed a crash triggered when reinforce rate became too small to calculate.

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