A new week, and we'll continue on the track on which we started last week: Maps! This time we'll look closer at the map of Balkan



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It's time for us to start looking at updating the map, so that is what this week's development diary is about



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Starting Monday the 25th of February 2019 at around 13:00CET we will be offering everyone that owns Europa Universalis IV, but not Art of War, a chance to try this expansion for free for one week!



What’s happening?
For one week we’ll be offering everyone to try a selected Europa Universalis IV expansion for free. Once the week is over, the expansion will be deactivated again if you didn’t purchase it.

How do I partake?
Simply start Europa Universalis IV, log in to your Paradox Account in the launcher and ensure the expansion is selected under the DLC tab in the launcher before pressing play.

Do I get to keep the expansion?
It is a time limited trial only. If you don’t purchase the expansion, it will be deactivated once the week is over.

Can I continue my ongoing campaign?
There should be no problem continuing a save started without the expansion, with the expansion. However: A campaign played with the free expansion activated will not be possible to continue without it, so be wary about this fact.

I already own this expansion, can I pick which one I want then?
No. We are focusing on this one particular expansion. If you Already own it, thank you for supporting us by buying our games! Hopefully next time it will be an expansion you don't already own.

Why are you doing this?
We want to give people the opportunity to try out some content they might not own before buying it!

I’m having problems starting the game, with my Paradox Account or the expansion!
Please submit a ticket through https://support.paradoxplaza.com

When is the free trial over?
The free trial will end around noon CET on Monday the 4th of March, at which point you will no longer be able to access Art of War. Any campaigns started using the expansion will not be possible to continue without it.

Are the cosmetic content packs included?
At this time no, sorry. We are looking into a way of also including them for future trials.

We recently revealed that we will be dropping 32-bit support for Europa Universalis IV. Let's take a moment to talk a bit more about what that actually means



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This week we'll focus on Europa Universalis the Board Game. Check out the progress of this great game currently in development by our friends over at Aegir Games.



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Today Paradox Interactive announced the release date of Imperator: Rome, scheduled for the 25th of April 2019.



If you own Imperator: Rome (pre-ordering counts as owning) and Europa Universalis IV you'll get this Roman Unit Pack for Europa Universalis IV.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/859580/Imperator_Rome/

To activate this offer you need to have a Paradox Account linked with your Steam account. You can find information on how to do that here!

*This offer will be valid also after the release of Imperator. This is not pre-order exclusive

We just released 1.28.3, and we keep on working tech debt which might not be the most interesting of topics so we'll keep it short. We do have some news regarding 32-bit support however



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We just released 1.28.3, focusing on squashing lots of pesky bugs!

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# Gamebalance
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# Governments
- Germany can keep the Prussian Monarchy reform if the country that formed it already had the reform
- Mughals are now in the Indian tech group.
- Updated the province requirement for the decision to Form Spanish Nation Diplomatically to reflect map changes in the Spain update.
- Hindustan and Bharat can no longer be formed by end game tags (e.g. Ottomans).

# War & Peace
- Old World AI will refuse to join as ally in a colonial war that escalates through refused enforce peace from overlord
- Colonial parents now become war leaders when called in by their subjects
- Countries will not be able to negotiate peace while they have a pending enforce peace demand for the same war
- Countries with good (100+) relations will be excluded from coastal raiding

# Other
- Religious Zeal from converting to Protestant/Reformed now gives you 33% cheaper missionary maintenance cost.
- Texas' leader names and ship names have been made more Texan.

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# AI
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# Other
- Pirates will be more likely to pick Naval & Maritime ideas now


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# Interface
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# Tooltips
- Typos in the generic mission tree tooltips have been corrected.
- show guarantees when describing co-belligerent allies
- Fixed typos in expel minority tooltips

# Other
- Lemurians in the "Lemuria" RNW scenario use the Indian graphical culture.
- Missionary cost tooltip in religious screen now shows effect from maintenance slider.
- improved the tooltip and progress of several achievements
- Fixed mission names exceeding their bounds in German

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# Usermodding
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# Effects
- Removed 'change_government_via_reform' as 'change_government' will now always refund reform progress

# Triggers
- Removed 'owns_all_islands' trigger, replaced by the more generic 'owns_all_provinces'

# Other
- Localization files may now be placed in subfolders under game/localisation

And much, much more...

Since the patchnotes are too long to fit in a Steam announcement, I must ask you to visit our official forums to read it in full!

And as usual: We will not be able to collect bug reports from Steam, so please post any bugs in our official bug report forum!

Thank you!

We anticipate the release of our 1.28.3 Bugfix galore patch within the next couple of weeks. Let's check out the changelog for it while we wait



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From today and the coming week, anyone that doesn't already own Mandate of heaven can try it for free!



Click here to go to the official FAQ to lean more!