No Compromise, No Surrender — Patch Notes, Livestream & Mods

Generals!

We are launching No Compromise, No Surrender today at 18:00 CET (it may be tomorrow in your local time zone).

Below are the full Patch Notes. Checksum: df93.

(Standard disclaimer: this list is intended to be comprehensive but may not be exhaustive — any additions will be posted in a separate spoiler below.)

• Introduced new ahistorical Japanese focus branches and the Imperial Influence system.

• Added updated historical focus paths for Japan.

• Implemented new focus trees for Nationalist and Communist China.

• Added a complete national focus tree for the Philippines.

• Expanded and refreshed existing warlord focus trees and integrated them into additional warlord tags.

• When NCNS is enabled, Sinkiang and Khotan are split into separate entities.

• With NCNS enabled, Xibei San Ma is split into Qinghai Ma, Gansu Ma and Ningxia Ma.

• Nationalist China is split from Sichuan Clique, Northeastern Army, Hebei–Chahar and Shandong Clique with NCNS enabled.

• Guangdong Clique is separated from Guangxi Clique when NCNS is active.

• Updated province and state definitions across East Asia and the Philippines.

• Added new voice-over lines for the Philippines.

• Added 10 new musical tracks.

• Added 67 new 3D models and reskinned or updated 54 existing models.

• Expanded faction mechanics with a new system for shared intelligence, faction rules and faction objectives.

• Added over 60 faction rules to diversify faction behaviour.

• Introduced more than 150 short-, medium- and long-term faction goals.

• Implemented a new faction theatres system to improve coordination with allied members.

• Replaced the old Army, Navy and Air doctrine trees with a revamped doctrines system.

• Added three Special Projects.

• Introduced 19 new Military Spirit modifiers.

• Reworked building limits by state and province type; established caps for different island categories.

• Overhauled naval invasions: removed global division caps and per-division planning time scaling; invasion caps now depend on the number of concurrent invasion plans and divisions per plan. Planning time no longer scales with division count.

• Introduced Strategic Locations — provinces with enhanced building limits (for example, Natural Harbor increases that province’s naval base cap by 2).

• Added 23 new subdoctrines for NCNS, plus additional subdoctrines for La Résistance and By Blood Alone.

• Reintroduced a Fleet Home Base system (Port) from which fleets draw range and supply; includes an option for automatic home base selection.

• Carrier-based aircraft can now perform air missions while their taskforce executes a naval mission.

• Added Carrier Stances to control how many aircraft defend the taskforce versus how many perform other air missions.

• Increased the maximum naval shore bombardment penalty to defenders to 33%. Shore bombardment generation from heavy and light attack ships has been halved to make effects stronger but harder to cap.

• Reduced generic MIO bonuses for infantry tanks and assault guns to align them with other MIO types.

• USA: lowered all generals and admirals by one level. Several leaders can regain levels through focuses to reflect pre-war progression.

• USA: added Leader Experience Gain to the Department of Defence to help leaders catch up when entering the war late.

• Snowy terrain now imposes harsher movement and breakthrough penalties; extreme cold increases attrition.

• Slight reduction to base strategic deployment speed and a small attrition multiplier applied while units are moving.

• Naval shore bombardment can now score critical hits, dealing major damage to forts and coastal fortifications.

• Removed WAR_SCORE_DECAY_FOR_BUILT_CONVOY; convoys now contribute warscore using the same IC-based logic as ships. Warscore for sinking ships significantly increased.

• Updated submarine escape ratios for more consistent behaviour.

• Danish Welfare ‘Balance of Power’ production efficiency penalties adjusted from −15/−10% to −5/−5%.

• China: Army Reform decisions (available without NCNS) now cost 75 Army Experience. War of Resistance now grants 20% core defense.

• Subjects and overlords no longer receive the Faction Traitor opinion penalty when leaving a faction.

• Carriers now intercept land-based naval strikes by destroying incoming bombers; interception strength scales with the number of carrier fighters while bomber agility, defence and speed affect survival chances.

• Buffed German General Paulus’s defensive, planning and logistics stats to better match his historical staff experience.

• Adjusted equipment requirements across multiple artillery and anti-tank battalions (various reductions and rebalances to better reflect unit composition).

• Support Artillery tech: soft attack bonus per level reduced from +10% to +5%.

• Self-propelled artillery types: combat width reduced from 3 to 2; equipment per battalion standardized to 40 (varied previously).

• Tank destroyer equipment requirements lowered from 50 to 40 per battalion.

• Naval air targeting logic revised: heavy screening increases randomness in target selection, while low screening biases selections toward previous targeting behaviour.

• Reduced the impact of Collaboration on surrender limit from −30% to −15% at 100% collaboration.

• Removed naval admiral level contributions to hit chance and removed the Coordination bonus.

• Reworked Samar and Cebu into Eastern and Western Visayas regions.

• Removed the unused Ausf. I suffix from German equipment variant names to match historical practice; introduced Ausf. Q to preserve variant counts.

• Implemented refined game logic for naval mission targeting.

• Assault Gun Manufacturer MIOs now also affect Modern Self-Propelled Artillery.

• Coastal defense ships can now mount mine rails and perform minelaying operations.

• Iraq now automatically grants air base access to the United Kingdom while the Anglo–Iraqi Treaty is active and cannot revoke air or military access during its duration.

• Added coal information to the mobilization laws interface.

• AI more consistently adheres to production lines before switching; threshold changed from 0.25 to 0.1.

• Removed the Medium Battery tech line and merged its modules into light and heavy battery trees.

• Heavy Cruisers gain +5% attack and increased piercing via Heavy Shell technologies.

• Standardized naval equipment tiers to Early, Basic, Improved and Advanced, with hull years set to 1922, 1936, 1939 and 1943.

• Added submarine carrier airwing size modifiers and three new unit categories: All Anti-Tank Artillery, Mobile Anti-Tank Artillery, and All Rocket Artillery.

• Added minor flavour national spirits for Tibet and a Warsaw Pact focus for the Soviet Union.

• Germany: tag-based Reichskommissariats can no longer be formed on countries already serving as German puppets (e.g., Poland or Czechoslovakia).

• Tweaked Danish AI decision-making about independence based on overlord stability.

• Adjusted Yalta Conference logic to encourage French participation even at very low warscore.

• Opened a passage into Arunachal Pradesh and set portions of the Yunnan–Burma border to impassable terrain where appropriate.

• AI behaviour improved to avoid withdrawing entire armies from fronts when controller areas are split; addresses the majority of occurrences.

• Fixed Mac crash when hovering over deleted templates.

• Implemented out-of-sync (OOS) fixes related to pathfinding and production lines.

• Fixed CTDs triggered by the Raids interface and in the supply system; also resolved a temperature-related OOS.

• Corrected Noric script tooltip display.

• Parallelized parts of the supply dirty check and optimized memory allocation and pathfinding state storage.

• Optimized naval strength comparisons, join-wars and call-allies logic, trade-route calculations and other frequently run systems.

• Raids now evaluate equipment archetypes instead of individual variants, significantly improving performance.

• Improved save file size behaviour related to the international market and added batch GUI removal optimizations.

• Fixed CTD when starting peace conferences and other OOS issues caused by localization.

• Most country-targeted decisions now pan the camera to the target’s capital state on right-click.

• Shift-clicking equipment in the lend-lease setup now adds all items of that type to the offer when using the ‘Once’ option.

• Main menu backgrounds are fully localizable; added localized NCNS background for Chinese.

• Added portrait traits for minor portraits and improved Hirohito’s tooltip.

• Added Korean language folder and selection option.

• Combat results now display naval HQ and best HQ leader information.

• Top bar factories now show coal and energy stats and an alert triggers when fuel falls below 25%.

• Reduced lobby spam by collapsing duplicate lobby names and fixed low-resolution research window layouts.

• Map tooltips can lock to the bottom-right of the screen (toggle in settings). Strategic region names now only show on hover (toggleable).

• Land unit icons now display with transparency in the strategic naval mapmode and naval supply routes have been recoloured to be less noisy.

• Fixed the naval stance dropdown and replaced the navy engagement button with a dropdown menu; modernized repair priority visuals.

• Added more detail to the strategic location icon, a faction button on the top bar and updated the Officer Corps menu icon.

• Added new modifiers including annex_subject_cost_factor, army_experience_from_volunteers, spotting_chance_against, naval_hit_chance_against and amphibious_invasion_against.

• Raid types can now use a range factor modifier to multiply effective unit range.

• Added fade_delay GUI property for containerWindowType to enable an initial delay before a window fades in.

• Focus tree inlays now support buttons with scripted effects; implemented a new trigger has_resources_in_collection.

• Removed cl_tech from the game; migrated usages to ca_tech (renamed to Cruiser Technology). Language argument handling improved: language=X works with or without the l_ prefix.

• Debug mode: hold Tab and click a country on the map to switch tags.

• Fixed a missing land bridge east of Batangas.

• Updated Japanese tank textures included in the Axis Armor Pack.

• Fixed Air Accident modifiers not applying correctly and improved the associated tooltip for clarity.

• Corrected achievement conditions for Nothing Personal, Adolf to require the Austrian states split in Götterdämmerung.

• Removed redundant requirements from Canadian and Ethiopian focus entries.

• Added a missing name to a Yugoslav research bonus and to a Greek tech bonus from the Increase Our Mining Operations focus.

• Disabled automatic bypass on several Belgian focuses and updated localization to clarify ‘Automatic Free Medal Chance’.

• Fixed portrait and localization issues for various leaders (Lluis Companys, Hirohito) and missing French localization for a Swedish focus.

• Corrected incorrect or unrepresentative airframe graphics in starting OOBs for ENG, GER, JAP and USA.

• Fixed border war state selection, restored the Xian Incident event, and prevented amphibious tanks from being misclassified.

• Warlords who imprison Chiang Kai-shek are correctly removed from the faction if China declares war; volunteer-returning units can no longer be absorbed by enemy nations.

• Peace conferences can now force ownership of impassable states; resource rights are automatically cancelled when declaring war on the rights giver.

• Fixed multiple GUI and multiplayer issues (chatbox bug, lobby fake player display after kicks, OpenGL CTD on lobby join).

• Fixed numerous AI and focus tree logic bugs, localization cutoffs and typos across various countries and events.

• Naval aircraft MIO archetypes now correctly apply naval attack, targeting and detection bonuses; depth charge scaling and taskforce reinforcement issues resolved.

• Casualty accounting now uses 64-bit integers; naval commander XP gain fixed and expanded XP tooltip information added.

• Fixed incorrect monthly recruitable population tooltip whitespace and Russian number symbol formatting.

• Removed Axis Armor Pack references from game logic (cosmetic ownership unaffected).

• Corrected supply_factor usage in many national tags and replaced it with supply_consumption where applicable.

• Added Dardanelles adjacency, minor flavour spirits for Tibet and the Warsaw Pact focus for the Soviet Union; other regional fixes applied (Arunachal passage, Yunnan–Burma impassable sections).

• Addressed numerous focus prerequisite and bypass issues, localization problems, and other edge-case bugs across the global tag set.

Mordred will be hosting a four-hour pre-launch multiplayer livestream from the bunker. Join the stream to see NCNS features in action, hang out with the devs and enjoy the chaos!

And finally…

The NCNS release will require many mods to update and may invalidate some save games. Check the Workshop for compatibility updates. Our top modders have already prepared updates for several popular mods — below are the ones confirmed for release day.