Hey Drifters,

Here's another small hotfix patch for 0.7.6, mainly fixing some additional issues with the Architect Mode not working properly.

• Fixed issue where Korean symbols defaulted to square symbols.
  
• Fixed issue where Drifter morale icons were not correct in regards to their attributes.
  
• Fixed issue where the Upgrade Tooltip was always the first Upgrade Tooltip shown during that session.
  
• Fixed issue where the Control Mapper data was not saved.
  
• Fixed issue where you could open the SurvivalGuide and Map in the Architect Mode.
  
• Fixed issue where the boatwake would spawn an error, clogging log files.
  
• It is no longer possible to apply in Architect Mode while moving a building.
  
• Various small fixes to landmark salvageables.
  
• Various small UI Improvements.

14/03/2024 - Update 1.13
- Fixed a bug where additional time would be added to the players save timer whenever a death was experienced. Apologies to any speedrunners out there.

Hello and welcome to the first Development Diary for the 1.7 update and Sphere of Influence expansion for Victoria 3. This Dev Diary is meant to give you a broad overview of the major Expansion and update features, which we’ll naturally go over in much greater detail in the next few weeks. As mentioned previously, all of this is scheduled to release on May 6th and you can pre-order Sphere of Influence right now.

Power Blocs are multinational associations that can be formed by high-ranking countries, and which take a variety of forms based on their Identity and Principles. Power Bloc Identities are set when they are formed, while Principles can be added and removed over time. Power Blocs are highly customizable in other ways, such as choosing their name and customizing their emblem, as well as creating custom statues to reflect the glory and reach of your Bloc.

A Power Bloc might take the form of a single Great Power and countries under its influence, a multilateral military alliance between several Major/Great Powers, or an economic cooperation with numerous countries in a unified market.

Power Blocs have Leverage on countries outside the Bloc (including members of other Blocs) and can use that Leverage to entice and cajole them into the Power Bloc. Being part of a Power Bloc comes with both benefits and obligations, and members are at risk of having their internal politics meddled with by the leader of the Bloc.

In Sphere of Influence, Interest Groups can now join Lobbies with specific foreign policy agendas centered around other countries. These Lobbies form organically as the result of a new system of Diplomatic Catalysts: A lobby friendly to Great Britain might form after the signing of an alliance with them, while a lobby hostile to Austria might spring up after being defeated by them in a war, all depending on a variety of diplomatic and political conditions at the time the Catalyst occurred.

Lobbies will try to promote or counter the interests of foreign powers and will help or hinder your diplomatic efforts based on whether your goals align with their own. Lobbies that are friendly to a specific foreign power can smooth the way for diplomatic agreement that would otherwise not be possible, but will oppose hostile actions and undermine any war efforts against that power, while unfriendly lobbies will try to hinder diplomatic efforts with the country of their ire but may create an opportunity for a key alliance with their rival instead.

In addition to appearing as due to Diplomatic Catalysts, Political Lobbies can also form as a result of certain events, like Social Democrats feeling the need to prove their opposition to Communism


Foreign Investment makes it possible for both governments and autonomous private investors to construct building levels in other countries and enjoy the profits generated. To construct in another country, you need to have certain diplomatic pacts in place, or otherwise be part of a Power Bloc that allows such construction. If you do not own Sphere of Influence you will still be able to do Foreign Investment in your subjects.

The Great Game is a major new content addition adding a new Objective and new Journal Entries focused on the historical Great Game that played out between Russia and Britain in Central Asia. The Objective can be played as either Russia/Britain or one of the other involved powers such as Persia, and which country you select changes the conditions required to ‘win’ the Great Game. The new Objective ties directly into numerous new Journal Entries such as Persia’s ambition to restore its hegemony over Afghanistan, most of which will be present even if the Objective isn’t selected and so will also drive AI behavior in the region.

As one of the Afghanistani minors, your most immediate priority will be to reunify Afghanistan and either restore the Durrani Empire or create something new


Subject Interactions are a new group of Diplomatic Actions that can be done either by an overlord against their subjects, or by a subject against their overlord. These include actions such as Increasing or Decreasing Autonomy, changing the level of payments owed by a subject, appointing a new ruler, or allowing them to manage their own market. Certain Subject Actions, such as Increasing Autonomy or Granting Market Independence, will be available even to those without Sphere of Influence.

The mechanics for Building Ownership are completely revised in the 1.7 update so that the owners of a building no longer have to work in that building, or even live in the same state - London-based Capitalists can now own buildings all over the world, and buildings can be selectively nationalized or privatized and put up for sale to interested investors, with the available options being restricted by which economic system a country is operating under. Additionally, buildings can now potentially have a different owner for each of its levels.

Instead of hanging around on the farms doing what could (God forbid) be considered ‘working’, the Aristocrats of East Anglia now stay in their Manor Houses and enjoy the proper leisurely pursuits of a countryside gentleman or gentlewoman


Update 1.7 adds Liberty Desire for Subjects that restricts both which actions they can take against their overlord and which actions an overlord is able to take against them. Liberty Desire is calculated on a variety of factors, such as how intertwined the subject’s economy is with their overlord, and can increase or decrease over time. AI subjects will have a number of new diplomatic strategies influenced by their liberty desire, such as pursuing independence or remaining a subject but seeking greater autonomy from their overlord.

Owing to a relatively high level of Liberty Desire, Cambodia is pursuing a strategy of increased autonomy and self-reliance, but will not seek full independence yet


This is of course by no means an exhaustive list of everything we’re adding in Sphere of Influence and 1.7! There are new companies, new flavor events, more historical characters, new clothing and changes to the map, to name just a few. Since there is a lot to talk about, we’ll be releasing weekly dev diaries for at least the next couple of months!

That’s all for today. Next week we begin the deep-dives into 1.7 and Sphere of Influence, on the topic of Power Blocs!

Below you can see the Upcoming Dev Diary Schedule, so mark the dates down for when we go over your topics of interest!

Just in time for the Steam Spring Sale 🥳

• Smaller size-on-disk: 4.7 GB (used to be 11.6 GB) (now compressing some assets that are then decompressed on start)
  
• Using items on hotspots are now done through single-click to select the item rather than drag-n-dropping the item while holding down the mouse button
  
• Items that can't be used on hotspots (or combined with other hotspots) are now communicated to the player with a X-icon rather than the player saying something like "That doesn't seem to work"
  
• All translations now in place (German, Frensh, Spanish, Polish)

Enjoy, and welcome to the Discord if you want to report anything or hang out 👍
https://www.warmkitten.com/discord

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Hello! The long winter has come to an end, and spring has arrived.
In this season of blooming flowers, why not decorate your signboards with various colors?
If you have any great ideas, please share them on our Discord server!

Update schedule:

• March 15, 2024, 6:00 AM (CET)
  
• March 15, 2024, 10:00 PM (PST)
  
• March 15, 2024, 2:00 PM (KST)

You can now make messages for other survivors using a wider range of colors!
To edit the colors of your signboard, interact with it and change the background/text color.



🐛 Fixed an issue where NPCs occasionally penetrated thin walls.
🦋 Improved frame stuttering.
🦋 Improved frame freezing upon player death.

Hiló Vikings,

Tribes of Midgard will be 70% off during Steam's Spring Sale March 14th to 21st, starting today at 1pm EST!

We'll be running a stream throughout the event, so you can get a glimpse into the world of Midgard and all the creatures of legend that await!

If you're a Viking joining us for the first time - "vulkonir" (welcome)! You haven't missed a thing- you'll get to experience all the content we've included since launch, as we've built upon our seasonal updates.

Lastly, be sure to join our Discord to hang out with our community, and share any builds you create in Survival Mode!

Talk soon,
The Norsfell team

Find us: https://linktr.ee/TribesOfMidgard

Hello everyone,
This is tokoronyori.
Thank you for playing Bokura.

I have updated the following.

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ver1.1.4
Added new language support
・Portuguese (Brazil)
・Spanish (Latin America)
・Russian
・Polish
・Thai
・Ukrainian
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Thank you for enjoying Bokura.

Players,

After much anticipation, the new major DLC "Dark Moon" for "Apocalypse Party" is officially online!

Just click "Update" in your game library to receive all the following content for free! (If the update is not detected, we recommend restarting Steam).

For those who haven't purchased the game yet, don't miss out on this Steam Spring Fest's historic low 30% discount. (The Steam Spring Fest will start 2 hours after this announcement is released).



"New Mode, Infinite Dungeon"

• Experience true clearing through layering and exhilarating kills!
  
• Richer construction options (In addition to talent upgrades, blessings, weapons, forging, talent tag packs, consumables, and even betting can be purchased from the store)
  
• No growth ceiling, values can inflate infinitely
  
• Still supports 3-player co-op! Climb the leaderboards together!

"A Series of Super Reliable New Features"

• Killing Bosses awards Boss heads, which can be used to directly unlock characters & character skills (kills completed before the update will also be inherited)
  
• Co-op character sharing (try out all the characters unlocked by teammates)
  
• Encyclopedia filtering feature (quality/tags)
  
• Korean language support

"Comprehensive Content Upgrade"

• 60 new talents under the new tag 【Dark】 (total talent count exceeds 570)
  
• 12 types of new weapon categories
  
• Various new playful weapons (screaming chicken, fire wheels, teleportation gun, fishing rod, lawnmower, etc.)
  
• 2 new divine weapons (Godslayer Spear and a super cool flying vehicle)
  
• 2 new characters (total now exceeds 40 characters with diverse gameplay)
  
• 3 new divine skills
  
• Comprehensive balance adjustments (see the end of the article for details)

"Chapter 4: The Fallen"

• A new medium-sized map
  
• 4 new highly challenging BOSSes (Gargoyle, Arctic Werewolf, Evil Spirit, etc.)
  
• Several types of new elite monsters

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/39614/Soulstone_Party_Bundle/

Soulstone Survivors: Become a Void Hunter, forge weapons, learn skills, and unlock new characters. In this action-packed game, challenge powerful lords, use soulstones to upgrade your skill tree, and equip new runes. Every battle is a quest for god-like power.



March 27, 3:00 AM (PT/UTC-7)
March 27, 7:00 PM (Korea Standard Time/UTC+9)

1) Record exciting gameplay footage (multiple genres are acceptable), and edit creatively;

2) Publish on your personal YouTube or Twitter page (feel free to be creative with the caption!), and tag the official channel (@mention is required for successful participation):
YouTube: @Apocalypse_Party;
Twitter: @Project_zero2;

3) At the end of the event, the top 5 YouTube or Twitter videos with the highest number of likes from valid submissions will be selected based on the number of likes.

4) After the event concludes, the officials will contact the Top 5 players individually. With the valid submissions, an official Top 5 highlight reel will be edited and displayed on YouTube, Twitter, and the Steam official store page.

"Top 5" Player Rewards:
- Top 1
$50 Steam gift card *1
Game key *2;

- Top 2 & Top 3
$20 Steam gift card *1
Game key *2;

- Top 4 & Top 5
$10 Steam gift card *1
Game key *1;

Participant Rewards:
Among all players who share their video link in the official Discord (valid submissions only), 3 will be randomly selected to receive:
$10 Steam gift card *1;

Notes:
1) Gameplay footage is not limited to any chapter or mode;
2) By participating in the event, players agree to allow the official editing and publishing of the content in the original video; please retain the original video until the end of the event. If a selected submission is lost, eligibility will automatically be deferred;
3) Video content must not contain any non-compliant, vulgar, or illegal content;
4) Players found cheating or manipulating likes will be disqualified from the competition.
5) The final interpretation right of the event belongs to the official of "Apocalypse Party."

- 【Physics Holy Sword】: Damage increased by 40%
- 【Winter is Coming】and axe-type weapons: Damage increased by 35%
- 【Eternal Spear】and spear-type weapons: Damage increased by 14%
- 【Fire Cloud Evil God】and hammer-type weapons: Damage increased by 8%
- 【Semi-automatic sniper rifles】: Damage increased by 15%
- 【MEGA Particle Cannon】and 【Electromagnetic Gauss Rifle】: Damage increased by 50%
- 【Burning Staff】and 【Flamethrower】: Damage increased by 43%
- 【Avada Kedavra Wand】: Damage increased by 60%
- 【Club-type weapons】: Damage increased by 15%
- 【Wheelchair】: Damage increased by 36%
- 【Burst energy pistols】: Damage increased by 10%
- 【Paper Airplane】: Damage increased by 21%
- 【Cupid's Arrow】: Damage increased by 13%
- 【Firework-type weapons】: Projectile hit damage reduced by 25%

- 【Toilet】: Liquid projectile damage increased by 35%
- 【Atheism】: Health recovery increased by 200%
- 【Machine Gun Drone】: Projectile damage increased by 15%
- 【Scumbag's Oath】: Lightning damage increased by 40%
- 【Emerald Splash】: Additional bullet damage increased by 75%
- 【Explosive Barrel】: Explosion damage increased by 65%
- 【Master Yi】: Health regeneration in meditation state increased by 66%
- 【Fire Fist Mech】: Firewall damage increased by 20%
- 【No Sword】: Destroying an equipment increases equipment damage by 50%
- 【Earth】: Damage dealt increased by 30%
- 【Titanic Plank】: Damage dealt increased by 40%
- 【Gunpowder Trap】: Damage to enemies upon touch increased by 45%
- 【Ghoul】: Health recovery of summoned creatures increased by 40%
- 【BBQ Stove】: Damage to enemies increased by 45%
- 【Heatwave】: Collision damage to enemies increased by 25%
- 【Master's Reward】: Health recovery of summoned creatures increased by 15%
- 【Molotov Cocktail】: Explosion damage increased by 25%
- 【Passing the Torch】: Enhanced to +25% fire damage
- 【Dog Chain】: Enhanced to +50% damage of all types for self, +15% for teammates
- 【Ten Thousand Volts】: Damage increased by 25%, range increased by 25%
- 【Iai Slash】: Enhanced to increase the next melee attack damage by 200%
- 【Meltdown Reaction】: Enhanced to +70% damage of all types to enemies
- 【Blade Roller】: Damage increased by 35%
- 【Arcane Codex】: Damage increased by 30%
- 【Kael's Sphere】: Damage increased by 25%
- 【Barbarian King】: Enhanced to +25% melee damage, +1% melee damage for every 1% health lost
- 【Zealot】: Enhanced to +60% damage of all types
- 【Scarlet Witch】: Damage increased by 33%
- 【Butcher】: Corpse piece damage increased by 40%
- 【Sunflower Manual】: Duration increased by 50%
- 【Electric Shield】: Damage increased by 30%
- 【Blood Shield】: Armor recovery increased by 38%
- 【Death Knight】: Health recovery increased by 70%
- 【Sea Queen】: Damage increased by 20%
- 【Speed Chase】: Movement speed increase enhanced by 25%
- 【Radar Sense】: Damage increase enhanced by 33%
- 【Wrath of Zeus】: Damage increase enhanced by 20%
- 【Lionheart】: Damage increased by 20%
- 【Snake Evasion】: Enhanced to +45% movement speed when not moving in a straight line
- 【Frost Barrier】: Damage increased by 20%
- 【Static Charge】: Movement speed increase enhanced by 33%
- 【Lightning Clone】: Damage increased by 100%
- 【Trident of Poseidon】: Damage increased by 20%
- 【Self-Immolation】: Damage increased by 18%
- 【Demeter's Blessing】: Additional damage increased by 20%
- 【King of Gods】: Enhanced to +7% movement speed, up to 77%
- 【River God's Barrel】: Damage increased by 60%
- 【Mirror Water Moon】: Damage increased by 22%
- 【Price Discrimination】: Enhanced to increase damage by 70% to the enemy with the highest health in the area of effect
- 【Only Speed Matters】: Enhanced to +0.7% movement speed, up to 42%
- 【Lightning Rod】: Damage increased by 16.6%
- 【Curling Impact】: Damage increased by 20%
- 【Burn the Boats】: Enhanced to +35% critical damage, +25% melee critical rate
- 【Kite Experiment】: Damage increased by 15%
- 【Frying Pan】: Damage increased by 30%
- 【Odin's Staff】: Damage increased by 10%
- 【Thor's Hammer】: Damage increased by 40%
- 【Nuclear Power Generator】: Damage increased by 25%
- 【Loki's Staff】: Damage increased by 10%
- 【Not a Drop Left】: Enhanced to higher bullet damage the lower the percentage of remaining bullets in firearms (up to 120% increase)
- 【Corpse Explosion】: Damage increased by 30%
- 【Ghost Operation】: Damage increased by 14%
- 【War Saint Guan Yu】: Divine skill energy recovery increased by 25%

- 【Shadow Arrow】: Damage increased by 10%, enhanced to dark damage
- 【Fireball】: Damage increased by 33%
- 【Flying Thunder God】: Damage increased by 25%
- 【Black Hole】: Damage increased by 24%
- 【Tesla Cage】: Damage increased by 21%
- 【Emperor of Flame】: Damage increased by 17%
- 【Blizzard】: Damage increased by 15%
- 【Death's Anthem】: Damage increased by 14%
- 【Busan Walker】: Damage increased by 5%

- 【Pandemic Fighter】-【Experiment Failed】: Reduced damage to allies by 33%
- 【BK Director】: Increased armor and armor cap by 20 points
- 【Bard】-【Music Tailor】: Increased note damage by 30%
- 【Bard】-【Household Name】: Increased note damage by 185%
- 【Bard】-【Tang Dog】: Increased note damage by 43%, dog transformation time reduced to 3 seconds
- 【Football Player】: Increased collision damage from movement speed by 25%
- 【Nature Spirit】: Increased elk collision damage by 50%, snowball damage by 33%
- 【Engineer】-【Decoy Dummy】: Dummy increased damage by 60% and range by 66%
- 【Engineer】-【Paralyzing Cable】: Cable increased damage by 100% and connection distance by 33%
- 【Alchemist】-【Combustion Agent】: Additional 10% fire damage
- 【Gang Leader】-【Godfather】: Smoking cigar provides two guaranteed critical hits
- 【Soul Priest】-【Out of Body】: Increased damage boost and cap by 66%, duration increased by 5 seconds
- 【Soul Priest】-【Commanding Evil Spirits】: Evil spirit projectile damage increased by 40%
- 【Soul Priest】-【Barrier Breaker】: Finishing damage ratio increased from 20% to 50%
- 【Protagonist】-【Perfect Reload】: Damage increase after perfect reload additionally increased by 30%, duration increased by 3 seconds
- 【Executioner】-【Guillotine】: Sacrifice damage increase additionally increased by 20%
- 【Executioner】-【Evil Spirit Possession】: Increased instant kill range by 35%
- 【Executioner】-【Grim Reaper's Arrival】: Increased initial Grim Reaper's arrival time by 20%
- 【Hell Messenger】-【Darkness Unleashed】: Increased damage by 77%
- 【Hell Messenger】-【Darkness Overwhelm】: Reduced the number of kills needed to fill by 3
- 【Hunter】-【Bloodthirsty Mark】: Increased recovery amount for summons by 100%
- 【Frost Mage】-【Cold Blood】: Additional 10% frost damage
- 【Clown】-【Juggling Throw】: Catching a weapon additionally provides 100% damage increase
- 【Heavy Armored Knight】-【Charge】: Increased skill damage gain from movement speed by 33%
- 【Heavy Armored Knight】-【Concussive Slam】: Additional damage increase after a successful interrupt by 4%, damage cap increased by 45%
- 【Electronic Musician】-【Disco】: Additional 10% lightning damage
- 【Electronic Musician】-【Wanna Dance】: Skill increased radius by 30% and damage by 50%
- 【Merchant】: Little cart increased damage by 50%
- 【Death Walker】: Increased damage gain cap from losing health by 90%
- 【SWAT】-【Edogawa】: Increased impact damage by 50%
- 【Priest】-【Judgement】: Reduced the decrease in divine skill energy recovery speed by 30%
- 【Princess】-【Still Split】: Increased provided damage boost by 60%
- 【Princess】-【Still Apart】: Increased provided damage boost by 50%
- 【Princess】-【Summon Hero】: Increased provided damage boost by 100%
- 【Princess】: Increased health cap by 20 points
- 【Queen】-【Mother of Dragons】: Increased ghost dragon health cap by 50%
- 【Queen】-【Dragon Riding】: Increased attack damage during dragon riding by 300%
- 【Ranger】-【Elderly Robin Hood】: Slightly increased the angle required to lose the boost
- 【Ranger】-【Bow and Arrow Legend】: Provided damage and attack speed additionally increased by 50%
- 【Special Forces】-【Metal Gear】: Melee attacks additionally load 4 bullets, firearm attacks additionally increase melee damage by 20%
- 【Beastmaster】: Increased claw damage by 40%
- 【Beastmaster】-【Ferocious Animals】: Increased damage boost and cap by 100%, additionally increased duration by two seconds
- 【Thief】: Slide and roll have a brief invincibility period
- 【Thief】-【Skills 2, 3】: Backstab judgment relaxed, and backstab bonus changed from additive to multiplicative
- 【Thief】-【Skill 1】: Damage boost additionally increased by 15%
- 【Undead】-【Skill 2】: Permanent damage increase after removing curse doubled
- 【Undead】-【Skill 3】: Increased area of effect doubled
- 【Valkyrie】-【Skill 2】: Flag provided range and area damage additionally increased by 3%
- 【Hina】-【Skills 1, 2】: Damage caused by afterimage recovery increased by 50%

Enjoy!!!

- Added an NPC that trades heart gems to increase max hp or to get tris.
- Adjusted player acceleration to give a slightly stronger control.