Hello everyone,

Following our recent Tinto Talks and the release of the 1.2 update, we have gathered a wide variety of questions from across our official channels. The team at Paradox Tinto sat down to provide clear answers regarding our vision, current balance concerns, and the future of the game.

You can watch the full Q&A session here:

Thank you for your continued engagement and constructive feedback. Please feel free to share your thoughts on the video in this thread !

Hello all,

Today we are releasing the Open Beta for version 1.3. It is available to anyone who would like to opt in and help us test.

As with every Beta, your feedback matters a great deal to us. Please share it in the dedicated 1.3 Beta Subforum here:

https://exit.yueirsjskjl.cf/app/3450310/discussions/4/

For bugs and crashes, please use the in-game bug reporter. This lets us track and resolve issues as efficiently as possible.

How to opt into the Open Beta:

1. Find Europa Universalis V in your Steam library and right click on it

2. Select Properties from the drop-down menu

3. Click on Game Versions & Betas

4. Scroll down to version 1.3.0 Open Beta

5. Close EU5 if it is open and wait for the Beta to install

Thank you for taking the time to play version 1.3 with us. We look forward to your reports.

Checksum: 5ad0

Date: June 04, 2026

• Added 10 generic bureaucracies for the 1600-1836 era.

• Added Advances to Travunja, finished Advances of Sicily.

• Added a new Legal Code Law policy (Carta de Logu) for Sardinian culture.

• Added Advances for Maltese, Sardinian and Slovak cultures and for SLO tag.

• Added 17 new Government Reforms locked behind Societal Values.

• Added Advances for Corsican culture, COR Tag and Rhaetian Culture Group.

• Added Romagnol culture and dialect.

• Added advances for Emilian, Piedmontese and Romagnol Cultures.

• Added Advances for Bologna, Ferrara, Modena and Parma.

• Added 2 new government reforms for Sinicized and Unsinicized values.

• Added 14 Events about the Scaliger War.

• Added Scaliger War to the Setup.

• Added 10 DHEs for Pisa.

• Added 15 DHEs for Montferrat.

• Added 2 Yuan era Bureaucracies to China in 1337, and added 2 Ming era Bureaucracies to change them to.

• Added Advances for Lombard and Venetian cultures and for VER.

• Added 5 generic early-game town rights.

• Added 10 DHEs for Lucca.

• Added advances for Median, Venetian and Vivaro-Alpine cultures. Also a few extra for PAP or repurposed many for PAP, VEN or VER.

• Added 10 DHEs for Siena.

• Added advances for Tuscan culture. Also a few extra for FLO, PIS; SIE and TUS or repurposed many for FLO and TUS.

• Added advances for Ligurian culture. Also a few extra for GEN or repurposed many for GEN.

• Added the new "Twilight of the Tsardom" disaster for Bulgaria.

• Added advances for AQU, LUC, MAN, MFA, MOD, PAD, PAR, PCZ, PEA, PIE, RAV, SAL, SAR, SPL and URB.

• Added "Mōs Maiōrum", a new reform that pushes towards Latinitas.

• Added Occitania formable.

• Added a new Military Law Policy "Reformed Tágmata" for Byzantium, unlocked by completing the Fate of the Phoenix Disaster victoriously via the new DHE event "The Reformed Tágmata" (d008_flavor_byz.5).

• Added a "Bulgarian Tsardom" government reform and adjusted the Bulgarian content assets and setup to work with the "Twilight of the Tsardom" new Bulgarian disaster.

• Added the "Wojewodztwo", "Voievodate", and "Vojvodstvo" advances, giving Polish, Carpathian, and South Slavic countries access to the "Voivode" government reform.

• Added 10 new unique Building-based State and Family Banks: the Aragonese Taula de Canvi,  the Berenberg family bank,  the Bank of Hamburg,  the Grimaldi,  Spinola and Pallavicino Genoese banking families,  the Portugues Mendes family,  and the Venetian Banco del Giro. In parallel,  the English Bank of England,  the Dutch Wisselbank and the Swedish Riksbank are now developed upon the new mechanism for Central Banks.

• Added throne rooms for Guelphs and Ghibellines IOs

• Added new loading screen, about Renaissance Florentine Academia

• Players can now permanently designate any owned location as its province capital via a new button in the location window.

• Split Cabinet automation into Members and Actions toggles.

• The court artist system has been fully reworked: artists are now tracked as typed individuals with passive modifiers that apply while at court (painters boost prestige income, architects reduce construction costs, etc.)

• Added Auto-Expand Buildings automation system.

• Added Automated Diplomacy system with capacity reserve slider and action flag checkboxes.

• Added "Unique" tab showing country-specific advances.

• Added new functionality to the Auto-Expand RGO. It automatically constructs the next tier of a producing building each month when conditions are met.

• Added a bug reporter that can be used to report issues from the game to the Paradox Forums.

• Increased crown estate cabinet member preference.

• Closed loophole allowing 2 heads of cabinet.

• Societal value cabinet actions no longer cancelled on reaching max.

• Added base Estate Power modifiers allowing government reforms and privileges to structurally reshape the political balance between Estates at its foundation, with an initial application to the Peasant Republic reform.

• Estate Culture & Religion: Estates now have their own culture and religion, inherited from the pops with the most political weight inside them. An estate aligned with your primary/accepted culture and your state religion gains satisfaction and power; one stuck on a discriminated culture or a heretic/heathen religion loses both. Watch the new alerts — a powerful estate with the wrong culture or religion now actively works against you.

• Our Estates' opinions on other countries are now based on their own Culture and Religion instead of our Country.

• Estates have a malus to Satisfaction if they are not Primary Culture or Primary Religion. It gets worse the more discriminated they are.

• Estates have a Parliament Agenda to change Primary Religion to their own.

• Estates have a Parliament Agenda to change Court Language to one they prefer.

• The Union of Crowns succession law no longer checks for the whole extended family (so no more random cousins become king of either country). Additionally, female characters are now allowed for Hungary.

• Added estate satisfaction and legislative efficiency penalties to low republican tradition.

• Low devotion in devotion-based governments now reduces monthly religious influence by up to -0.1, mirroring the existing high-devotion bonus and making slipping devotion a genuine cost to your religious standing.

• Halved abdicate prestige cost, double legitimacy cost.

• Rebalance complacency drivers: halve passive gain from idle rival slots, double the swing from average control.

• Rebalance corrupt and schemer cabinet trait magnitudes.

• Selling a fiefdom no longer keeps your own ruler.

• Fixed promoting to head of cabinet not showing the skill increase immediately.

• Stopped union heirs moving countries when they are ruling somewhere else.

• Fixed unions with unified succession law not updating other countries' succession laws when the senior partner changes theirs.

• Fixed obscure case of a ruler switching countries when in a union with seniority but the less senior country was the first one they ruled.

• Fixed Settle the Frontier not recognising provinces bordering unowned territory as borders.

• Support Heir cost no longer persists after election.

• Fixed case where a ruler can remain in a country after being replaced despite also ruling somewhere else.

• Societal values cabinet action will stop if they reach max.

• Closed loophole allowing consorts to be cabinet members if they become consort after already being in the cabinet.

• Stopped countries from staying army-based after winning a nationalist/patriots revolt that had engulfed all their territory — the type-restore that added for civil wars now also fires when the revolt-war attacker is annexed (by the original or a third party) and when AutomaticWhitePeaces force-resolves a collapsed revolt war.

• Fixed exploit with having subjects to allow multiple naval governiors.

• Building Upkeep now gradually increases as the years pass, starting unchanged but climbing steadily, about 50% higher after a century and several times higher by the late game. This makes maintaining a large number of buildings an increasing economic burden the longer your campaign runs.

• Allowed laborers to promote to soldiers and burghers.

• AI trade management now reduces capacity on inefficient trades instead of immediately cancelling them if they are unprofitable. This lets the AI keep useful routes alive when a trade is unprofitable but still has goods left to transport even it it could not transport the full desired amount, making trade behavior less abrupt and less chaotic.

• Made stockpiles now add trade supply gradually instead of switching on all at once. The extra supply starts ramping up once a market stockpile is above 50% capacity, reaches full effect at 75%, while at the same time fades out smoothly when stockpile decreases. This reduces sudden market balance and price shocks when stockpiles move around the threshold.

• Extra trade supply from stockpiles now counts toward effective supply when calculating market prices. Large stockpiles can therefore push prices down, improving trade margins and making it more attractive to move surplus goods to markets where they are needed.

• AI Trade will know prefer trades with bigger surpluses if the profit difference is small, in order to promote stable and reliable trades.

• Replaced price band position metric with price deviation.

• Fixed cannons_factory and putrefaction_mill using manufactory_max_level instead of mills_max_level.

• Fixed putrefaction_mill using manufactory_build_time instead of mills_build_time.

• Pop demands scales down if the prices of those exceed default.

• Rebalanced production method profit margin targets for guilds (10%), workshops (15%), manufactories (20%), and mills (25%), and adjusted all building production method inputs to match.

• Burgher Trade Range now scales with the age, unchanged at 600 in the Age of Traditions, then growing by 100 each age up to 1100 in the Age of Revolutions, so burgher auto-trade gradually reaches farther markets as the centuries progress.

• Halved mills_employment to make Age of Revolution production buildings competitive.

• Added 50% mill construction cost discount via industrialization advance.

• Added regional production specialization modifiers.

• Added is_mill flag and location-scaling build efficiency bonuses for Age of Revolution mills.

• Rebalance fine cloth production toward Brugge, reduce French genericism.

• Doubled the cost of expanding rgo's.

• Fixed gold/silver inflation impact not removed by non-metal coinage laws.

• Cities & Harbors: Cities and Megalopolises now provide some innate market attraction of their own, and good natural harbors make a location a stronger trade anchor, further concentrating trade around your major urban and coastal centers.

• Slave import trade orders now check pop culture/religion viability.

• Trade orders spread capacity across multiple routes.

• Gated production building levels by market access.

• Removed glass/cloth guilds from basic European town setups.

• Extracted rural_glassmaker as standalone building.

• Market Attraction: Development, staffed building levels, and natural harbor capacity now contribute much more strongly to a location's market attraction, staffed building levels in particular pull around five times harder than before, development twice as hard, and good natural harbors now add attraction where they previously added none. As a result, your most developed, built-up, and well-harbored locations now dominate the trade map far more decisively, making investment in development, industry, and coastal infrastructure pay off more directly in trade gravity.

• Excluded foreign buildings from total effective building levels.

• Stopped satellite trade buildings from stacking infinitely.

• Trade Offices can now be built in non-ports as well.

• Mills add 0.05 possible burghers per level to their location.

• Boosted slave inflow from buildings and enable slave growth.

• Scaled privateer placement opinion hit by stolen income.

• Overlord fleets only project maritime presence onto subjects bordering the sea zone.

• Trade Automation now produces trades on the first monthly tick after the entry is auto-initialized.

• Stopped slaves from working RGO when allow_rgo_slave_demand is inactive.

• Nerfed traders_look_abroad selling_efficiency bonus from huge (+20%) to medium (+5%).

• Doubled the chance for food goods to be picked when the Columbian Exchange relocates goods between the Old and New Worlds.

• Slave centers can now enslave laborers in addition to peasants, picking the larger valid pop across both pools each month.

• Fixed ships not repairing sometimes despite having money and men to do it.

• Fixed bug where foreign buildings under construction sometimes wouldn't get destroyed properly leaving behind empty constructions.

• Reduced rebel fort garrisons based on rebel category.

• Cultural tradition and influence power system.

• Each Cardinal now gives +1% satisfaction to the clergy estate.

• Increased baseline pop growth modifiers.

• Annex Revolter peace options now show when a non-revolter leads the rebel side.

• Burghers who speak the Market Language now assimilate very slowly instead of being hard-blocked.

• Fixed Japanese Clans being unable to sacrifice their own Works of Art via the "Religious Offering" action.

• Fixed case where rebel wars were starting with non-existent countries, causing the war to be instantly over.

• Added an ask for military access for the entire war side country interaction.

• Added base reluctance to joining the HRE.

• Spy Network Fog of War: Building a spy network in another country now gradually lifts the fog of war on their hidden details as it grows, revealing information like their military strength, manpower, income, and fortifications. Once strong enough, the new "Infiltrate Administration" action lifts the fog of war over their entire territory for several months, revealing all their lands, armies, and buildings.

• Profess Trust costs prestige instead of diplomatic reputation.

• Short and long term economic growth reduces trust equilibrium.

• Reduced military order sponsor income snowball.

• Enforcing Religious Unity in the HRE is no longer possible against subject countries.

• Blocked war declaration on subject when attacker has truce with overlord.

• Added antagonism_development_impact modifier.

• Reduced late-game coalition snowball.

• Reduced fabricated claim antagonism multiplier.

• Being a great or regional power no longer has an impact on diplomatic capacity.

• Added alliance bloc saturation upkeep cost.

• Tweaked alliance bloc saturation upkeep and union partner weight costs.

• Paused annexation progress during civil wars and revolt wars.

• Stopped subjects from creating new subjects.

• Annexation "much smaller" size bonus now scales linearly with pop ratio.

• Bolster Imperial Army will now have a consistent cost and gold requirement to be used.

• Fixed a rare issue where a country would lose their ruler when declaring war against ex-union members.

• Subject annexation now correctly halts while the subject is disloyal.

• The Lessen Tax Burden HRE parliament agenda is now only available if there is actually a tax payment active in the HRE.

• Allowed demanding unlawful territory for countries that do not exist.

• Per-victim opinion list in privateer message and 10x bias scaling.

• Subjugate High Kingship Member action now lists the members of the chosen organisation with the correct picker title; non-targetable countries are shown disabled instead of being hidden.

• Stopped locations from being removed from the IO by the press of a button. Instead, in order to remove provinces from the HRE you need to enforce it in a peace treaty.

• Selecting the whole province in a peace treaty does the same as selecting all the locations, doling them out to the current occupiers.

• Scaled the "Distrust of our rapid Economic Growth" trust penalty by the grower's economic size relative to the observer and by diplomatic proximity, so a tiny country upgrading one RGO no longer alarms distant great powers.

• Fixed disabled marriage between humans issue in multiplayer.

• Fixed confusion when Pronoias got annexed during a rebellion or civil war.

• Transferred subjects pull new overlord into ongoing wars.

• Promoted strongest coalition member to war leader on rally.

• Fixed bug declaring war using subject's cb not recognising it's on behalf of them.

• Loyal subjects now automatically leave independence movements on same conditions as the leader.

• Decreased acceptance penalty from distance in the sell locations action.

• Fixed an exploit where the "Sell Work of Art" economy action could be used repeatedly to sell the same artwork to multiple buyers for infinite gold.

• Fixed being able to demand return cores without occupying forts.

• Fixed IOs not counting conditional modifiers correctly.

• Fixed case where army based country shatters while a subject, causing the subject dependency to end unexpectedly.

• Removed regular-vs-levy damage bonus.

• Reduced fort soldier pop employment to match garrison size.

• Heavy ships penalised in inland seas and narrows.

• Mercenaries stuck in high attrition for two months may abandon their contracts unless you bail them out.

• Fixed artillery siege contribution snapping to zero on unit damage.

• Make GP score antagonism cap a tunable define, lower attacker cap to 25%.

• Added baseline naval governor slot to Age of Discovery.

• Hunt navies objective persists through peace as a standing order.

• Fixed a bug where naval units were not stackwiped when they got overrun and couldn't shatter retreat.

• Naval Combat is now far more likely to sink ships than before.

• Reduced Order Knight mercenary pool size from 50% to 20% of nobles.

• Scaled ship maintenance to grow 5x across ages 1-6 to match land.

• Building a ship now costs roughly four times the gold and ten times the goods it used to, while maintenance costs about double, making fleet construction a major economic event and rewarding well-tended fleets over disposable megafleets.

• Doubled all army goods demands (construction and maintenance).

• Capped initiative-derived engage chance to prevent high-initiative stack-wipes.

• Tagged steppe, cavalry and tribal *_maintenance entries as regiment_maintenance.

• More frequent and impactful slave raids on occupation.

• Raised Levies modifier only applies when the location's own owner raised the levies.

• Supply Carts on Army Logistics now refill food at a useful rate instead of being capped at ~1/day by their tiny consumption.

• Stopped fleets from being loaded as cargo onto another country's fleet.

• Mothballing ships then hiring them out no longer consolidates them, losing ships.

• Random characters who generate with a General or Admiral trait have a small chance of spawning with a battle injury like scarred or one-eyed.

• Fixed an issue where one of your own armies offered up for hire as mercenaries would incorrectly become a Hired Mercenary after saving and reloading.

• Swapped same-Religion and cross-Religion no-Casus-Belli war declaration costs so attacking a country of the same Religion is now the harsher offense, and clarified the matching Stability tooltip entries.

• Stopped retreating armies from looting enemy provinces.

• Fixed land battle war exhaustion being applied in full to every coalition member instead of weighted by their share of the side's combat strength. War exhaustion is now proportional to each country's actual battle contribution, matching the existing naval formula.

• Floored ship maintenance at 10% of construction goods.

• Auxiliary regiments now carry roughly 50% more food than before, extending the time an army can stay in the field before resupplying — about 38 months of food per accompanying heavy-cavalry regiment, up from 25. This restores some headroom for long campaigns after recent tightening of food consumption elsewhere in the supply system.

• Changed smallpox to now spawn in subtropical climates and caps its distance-based stagnation, so outbreaks no longer cluster overwhelmingly in compact Europe while large Asian continents go relatively unscathed.

• Extended colonial migration from just capital region to include anywhere joined by land or strait to the capital too.

• Scaled repeating advance modifiers across ages to preserve relative value.

• Reduced Age of Revolution mill advance research cost by 75%.

• Being the birthplace of Global Trade is now +10% market attraction instead of +2.5%.

• Average Control now have a bigger impact on research speed.

• Fixed weather systems sometimes leaving behind empty modifiers.

• Stopped Wool from providing food.

• Renamed Proximity Speed to Proximity Efficiency.

• Made the High Kingship subjugate war goal make conquering even more expensive

• Dissolve Coalition peace treaty cost 75 -> 20.

• Toned down baseline pop growth modifiers: available_free_land and abundant_free_land restored to pre-bump values; cheap_food_in_location lowered from 0.003 to 0.002.

• Blocked creating subjects on provinces with Colonized locations to avoid permanent 'Colony' integration after annexation.

• Corrected some Serbian localization typos from Feedback.

• Added Rhaetian Culture Group.

• Changed Verona to now start with 90 Belligerent societal value.

• Changed Montferrat color to green.

• Theodore of Montferrat now starts with Born in the Purple modifier.

• Rebalanced RGO distribution for Iron, Wool, Horses, and Beeswax, addressing their over-concentration in Europe, by doing 34 goods swaps across Sub-Saharan Africa, Mongolia, Kazakh steppe, Arabia, Manchuria, Anatolia, Ethiopia, Borneo, and India. All displaced goods are low-value fillers (Livestock, Lumber, Wild Game, Clay).

• Added flavor descriptions for 25 major world cities.

• Added flavor descriptions for 23 Italian locations.

• Added flavor descriptions for 13 Greek and Anatolian locations.

• Added appropriate culture groups to 544 cultures that were missing them.

• Tatar and nomadic Mongolian cultures added to steppe_group, making Kurultai buildable across Golden Horde territory.

• All dialects of Italian have unique character names and location names.

• Added Greek language names for all locations and provinces in the Balkans, Anatolia, and Italy.

• Authored 4 missing Lara dynasty ancestors (Pedro González de Lara, Nuño Pérez de Lara, Gonzalo Núñez de Lara, and Nuño González de Lara ‘el Bueno’) so that the Manrique and Juan Núñez branches of the House of Lara now connect into a single family tree.

• Authored 5 missing Castilian father characters (Juan Núñez I de Lara, Alfonso of Molina, Pedro Fernández de Castro, Álvar Pérez de Guzmán, and Manrique Pérez de Lara) that were previously referenced only as commented-out placeholders by their children, so the paren't-child links can now be enabled. Also renamed a stale spouse alias on Béla IV of Hungary from maria_laskarina to hun_maria_laskarina.

• Added Pisan core on Bonifacio.

• Fixed the ruler of Ansbach, Friedrich IV von Zollern, referencing a broken character entry and not appearing correctly at game start.

• Fixed the primary culture, capital and starting pop mismatches across 17 country tags after a global audit of every TAG's primary culture against its capital's majority pop culture. Includes 10 primary-culture corrections (UJJ, DOG, SWT, KUT, MSV, SGL, GRY, DIS, BLM, TKR), 4 capital relocations (GJJ, DAM, BQL, NST), and added small primary-culture pops in Lübeck, Kengtung and Murzuk where none existed before.

• Fixed the starting Palaiologos royals (Andronikos III and his sons John V and Michael, plus Theodora of Bulgaria, Maria-Irene of Bulgaria, and Theodore I of Montferrat) not carrying the "Born in the Purple" character modifier despite qualifying historically, the modifier was only granted at runtime via on_character_birth, which never fires for characters loaded from the 1337 roster. Also corrected an impossible paren'tage on Demetrios Palaiologos, who is the son of Andronikos II (not Michael IX, who never married Irene of Montferrat).

• Moved Irish iron RGO from Glendalough to Leitrim.

• Granted the "Royal Free City" town rights at start to Fehérvár.

• Fixed several Novgorodian-dialect location names rendering with Cyrillic-script characters in English-language games.

• Corrected the Bulgarian-Byzantine border at the 1337 start date; moved Plovdiv, the Rhodope cluster (Stanimaka, Tsepina, Beden, Perperek, Smolyan, Haskovo), Melnik, and the Pirin locations (Dospat, Bansko/Dobarsko, Krupnik, Nevrokop) from Bulgarian to Byzantine ownership, reflecting Byzantine control of Philippopolis and the Rhodope fortresses from 1323 to the 1344 cession, of Melnik until Dušan's 1342 conquest, and of the Pirin/Mesta corridor as continuously Byzantine since Vatatzes' 1246 reconquest. All twelve land in Byzantine own_control_integrated as Bulgarian-cultured frontier under Byzantine administration; no cores on either side. Flipped the cathedral at Plovdiv from BUL to BYZ to reflect the Greek Orthodox identity of the Metropolitan of Philippopolis.

• Most of English coasts are now coastal ocean instead of narrows.

• Corrected the cultures of around 40 minor Rhineland county rulers who were incorrectly set to a placeholder "Westphalian" culture. They now use their proper Franconian cultures (Rhine, Moselle, Ripuarian, or Low Franconian) to match their regions.

• Fixed the incorrect cultures of Jean d'Arlay of Basel and Bishop Stefan II of Lebus.

• Fixed Ma Xiuying not getting her proper dynasty.

• AI Ming will now benefit from the extra levies from Zhu Yuanzhang modifier.

• Changed Ming map color to vermillion.

• Changed map color of Mao to avoid now clash with vermillion Ming.

• The Hussite Wars are now conducted between Bohemia and the current HRE Emperor instead of the Pope.

• The unit ability "Hussite Tribunal" is now visible during the Hussite Wars for Catholic countries currently at war against Bohemia.

• Guelphs and Ghibellines: Using the "Force Faction Change" Peace Treaty option will now add score to your factions progression towards winning the situation.

• Guelphs and Ghibellines: Declaring War on your own faction will now subtract score from your faction.

• Guelphs and Ghibellines: The Emperor will no longer demand unlawful territory from members of the Ghibellines faction.

• Guelphs and Ghibellines: In the case of the Ghibelline Victory the Leader of the IO might now request the Kingdom of Italy Title with very reduced requirements.

• Guelphs and Ghibellines: In case of a Guelph Victory, countries with their capital in the Italy Region will be forbidden from joining the HRE for 50 years.

• Guelphs and Ghibellines: Increased the amount of score each faction has to accumulate to achieve victory. This should mean that the stalemate outcome in reaching 1437 should be more common now.

• Guelphs and Ghibellines: In rare cases where both Guelphs and Ghibellines reach 100% Progress at the same time the Situation will now end in a Stalemate.

• Guelphs and Ghibellines: In case of a Guelph Victory, the Leader of the IO might now form Italy without the requirements to own Milano, Florence and Naples.

• Guelphs and Ghibellines: Updated the Situation Hint to include information about the proactive score gain and loss and the victory effects of either side.

• Guelphs and Ghibellines: Blocked the Force Faction Change Peace Treaty from targeting the Papal States and Holy Roman Emperor if they are not the war leader.

• Guelphs and Ghibellines: Enabled the Join Faction Action in case the Country Ruler favors the other faction.

• Fixed Wool, Horses, and Beeswax Columbian Exchange accessibility.

• Locations in the region you have declared your ambition to conquer automatically conquered by the Timurids during its situation.

• Added proper events for the end of the Italian Wars for the sides that were missing them.

• Countries now properly get rewards at the end of the Italian Wars (Losing countries no longer get better rewards than the Winner's members).

• Fixed the "Demand the Transfer of a Claimed Province" action in the Treaty of Tordesillas situation, it now correctly chooses the province.

• Uc Bey creation in the Rise of the Turks Situation now applies to all vassals regardless of religion.

• Fixed HYW French vassals using wrong dip rep formula when considering betrayal.

• Fixed the Hundred Years War military advisor quote incorrectly recommending the Sign a Truce action, which is exclusive to England and France, to players of all countries.

• War of Religions The creation of the War of Religions Situation will no longer assign two members of the same union as the initial leaders of the Catholic League and Protestant Union.

• The "Grant Representation to Colonial Subject" action will now properly implement the "Representation in Parliament" policy to the target country.

• The actions during the Rise of Timur situations are no longer available to rebel countries.

• Guelphs and Ghibellines: Only Countries with their capital in Italy are now eligible to lead the Guelph and Ghibelline International Organizations.

• Guelphs and Ghibellines: The "Force Country into our Faction" Casus Belli makes taking land more expensive for both attacker and defender, going from +25% to 50% (attacker) and 0% to +25% (defender).

• The leader of the Catholic League and the Protestant Union are now chosen by their military strength. Additionally, AI will now want to drop alliances with countries of the other religious faction.

• The Reformation: Added the "Sponsor the Reformation" Action for the Situation, inviting either the lutheran or calvinist movement into your country.

• Stopped Timur from declare wars on countries which are not directly bordering him.

• The Rise of Timur will now give the Timurids the Expansionist personality and an area preference to conquer Persia first and foremost. Additionally, the "The Scourge from Central Asia" character modifier now gives 20 additional expected life expectancy to Timur. He might still die in battle though.

• Guelphs and Ghibellines: Forcing another country into the Ghibellines Faction will now also remove the "Support of the Guelphs" Modifier from that countries ruler, which should prevent an instant removal of the country from the Ghibellines IO.

• Fixed Red Turban Rebellions' Demand Annexation being easily spammable by adding a cooldown, increasing its cost and acceptance reasons.

• Fixed an exploit in the Red Turban Rebellions where 'Demand Occupied Territories' could be peaced out cheaply after occupying a single location.

• Guelphs and Ghibellines: Fixed an issue where the Emperor would dissolve a recently requested alliance from the Ghibellines Leader through the "Petition for Imperial Support" Action if the opinion between them was too low to maintain the alliance. Additionally the Emperor will now reject aiding a Ghibellines Leader they have negative relations with.

• Added a readable tooltip for the Request Antipiracy Policy cooldown in the Golden Age of Piracy.

• Italian Wars Foreign League leaders can no longer leave their League.

• Fixed an issue that allowed France to call Appanages at war during the HYW even when the Appanage has the appanage_prevented_from_call_to_war modifier.

• Applied a fix to the Rise of the Turks to prevent a wrong ending when the strongest Beylik has < 100 locations while another Beylik has > 100 locations.

• Fixed an issue where French Appanages with the "appanage_prevented_from_call_to_war" modifier were still auto-joining France's defensive wars; the modifier now correctly blocks both offensive and defensive calls.

• The HRE Emperor can no longer impose "Enforce Religious Unity" on Hussite countries if the latter emerge victorious out of the Hussite Wars Situation.

• Cancelled Yuan's outstanding loans when the player switches to a Red Turban Rebellion warlord, so the abandoned AI Yuan does not spiral on debt the player ran up before jumping ship.

• Reduced the stability and government-power bonuses granted to Red Turban Rebellion warlords on release (events 22 and 36) from extreme/severe to mild.

• Tightened the starting gold given to cultural warlords released by the Red Turban Rebellions (multiplier 1.5x Yuan's monthly income, capped 50-400).

• Scaled Ming's starting gold in the Red Turban Rebellions to Yuan's monthly income (capped 200-1500) and cut the free starting regiments from 14 to 8.

• Gated the Red Turban Rebellions "Demand Complete Annexation" peace treaty so warlords can no longer instantly annex each other without a decisive battlefield victory.

• Further tightened the Red Turban Rebellions "Demand Occupied Territories" and "Demand All Chinese Territories" peace treaties so the player can no longer surrender cheaply to barely-arrived warlords.

• Fixed the HYW "Influence French Subject" action silently failing when used on a French vassal; the resulting "Diplomatic Betrayal" modifier now correctly blocks the vassal from being called into France's offensive and defensive wars, matching the existing Appanage behavior.

• Fixed the "Influence French Subject" action letting England bribe French subjects that should have been protected by the "Strong Diplomacy" modifier.

• Restrained the "Sign a Truce" action between England and France with a longer cooldown (4 to 10 years), an ENG-FRA target-list exclusion, and an AI deprioritization while the Hundred Years' War situation is active.

• The AI is now more cautious about using "Influence French Subject", England will hold off on bribing French subjects when it lacks a casus belli, sufficient manpower, or the military strength to follow through against France.

• Fixed the Hundred Years' War starting tooltips being swapped, so each side now sees a description of its own available actions instead of its opponent's.

• Rebalanced France's starting strength and the Hundred Years' War vassal dynamics so the conflict is no longer a near-guaranteed French walkover. England now has a real opening if it plays to it.

• Reduced the noble levy bonus from the "A Knightly Nobility" feature, lowering France's early military strength.

• Weakened the Appanage subject type — appanages now contribute less institution spread and manpower to their overlord, and a stronger appanage is more inclined toward independence.

• Increased the penalty an overlord suffers for each appanage they hold, making large numbers of appanages harder to keep in line.

• The "Ancient French Taxation", "French Feudal Nobility", "French Appanage", and "French Ducal" government reforms now carry additional subject-loyalty and levy-size penalties.

• Rescaled the "Influence French Subject" diplomatic action so that already-disloyal subjects are cheap to turn, while loyal ones cost full price — making it a tool for exploiting existing discontent rather than flipping loyal vassals outright.

• Vassal defection AI now depends on whether a war is active: during peacetime, subjects will only defect when deeply disloyal, rather than flipping too readily.

• The Hundred Years' War situation hint now includes a "Vassal Defection" section explaining what overlords should watch for and how to counter it.

• The Horde Civil War will no longer fire for subjects.

• The events for the Horde Civil War will now turn the country from fiefdom to a vassal in case it is a subject.

• The Succession Crisis Event "A Request to <Country>" now only triggers if you are not a subject with limited diplomacy.

• Fixed the "Influence of China" disaster being able to retrigger immediately after ending when the player chose to stay independent.

• The Complacent Decline can no longer fire for subjects.

• Fixed the "Horde Civil War" disaster continuing to fire events after it had ended, caused by the pretender death on_action lacking an active-disaster guard and the on_end block not cleaning up pretender character variables.

• Reworked the "War of the Roses" start conditions so the disaster becomes more reachable.

• Fixed the "War of the Roses" disaster failing to end when the Lancaster or York dynasty dies out.

• Savonarola Disaster events now show portraits of the characters referenced in each event.

• Unique disasters that are meant for specific tags no longer have a custom made tooltip trigger to denote that they occur only once they now use the fire_only_once = yes system.

• The Good Ending of the Fate of the Phoenix now resets your Complacency.

• The loan given via the "Seek Aid" action for the Succession Crisis-type disasters now has its loan properly scale to the player's economy.

• Active disasters no longer silently disappear when the player loses a civil war and continues playing as the rebel faction; the disaster now follows the new regime and concludes normally. Decline of Mali no longer fires its conclusion event the moment a civil war begins.

• Fixed the Byzantine Succession Crisis disaster often failing to fire because it incorrectly required Andronikos III to be dead first. It now triggers correctly (as it did before 1.2.2), more often together with the Fate of the Phoenix disaster. John Kantakouzenos is still reserved as the historical pretender only after Andronikos III's death, and the events covering his rise to co-emperor have been extended to better reflect history.

• Fixed the "War of the Roses" disaster getting stuck on a rebel faction with 0 supporters when the supported house died out.

• Fixed the "Fate of the Phoenix" disaster never ending when Byzantium owns exactly 150 locations; changed the success threshold from strictly "= 150" to be ">= 150".

• Tatar Yoke In cases where the Grand Prince of Vladimir leaves the IO through any means a new Grand Prince will now be automatically chosen based on the member countries total populations.

• Allowed any member of the High Kingship of Ireland to use the Subjugate action.

• Joining an empty Autocephalous Patriarchate now properly sets up a leader and patriarch.

• HRE: When using the "Enforce Religious Unity" Action, the Country in question will now accept or reject based on their Tolerance of the True Faith and their Tolerance of Heretics.

• Stopped subjects from increasing their country rank with the IO Actions of the HRE "Ask for Ducal Rights" and "Request Kingdom"

• Reworked the default Land Removal of the Holy Roman Empire to be in the hands of the Emperor, instead of the current owner of the land.

• Reworked the "Bribe Circle Leader" diplomatic action so the bribed leader and their circle members actually vote with the Emperor at the Imperial Diet, with a new refuse option that returns the gold and rewards diplomatic reputation.

• Fixed the Ilkhanate disbanding when only one "Claimant to the Ilkhanate" was left, instead of crowning them as the new Ilkhan.

• Ensuring that all declarations of war done via events have a fallback in case the war declaration is impossible (declaring war on an ally, overlord,etc).

• Societal_values.111 Military Treatise now creates a treatise work of art.

• A Campaign against Korea event will no longer target Korea if the player is Korea.

• Fixed display of dlh_benefits_of_subjugating.

• Fixed Monte dei Paschi and Saint George banks not properly becoming state banks.

• Refined the Events related to Zwinglis conversion to work better with the Reformation.

• Fixed KNI flourishing_capital_modifier capital-move exploit.

• Fixed the Lithuanian event "Western Marital Ties" (flavor_lit.5) creating biologically implausible fallback child for the Polish ruler.

• Fixed the event "Crown the Regent" (regencies.1) granting Bishopric Elective countries a female ruler.

• Tweaked the modifier effects from the Mercan'tilist events "Chocolate Imports" (mercan'tilism_events.8) and "Coffee Imports" (mercan'tilism_events.9) to be thematically appropriate; now the former will give +0.1 Global Monthly Prosperity, and the latter +5% Research Speed.

• Fixed the English event "Warbelton v Gorges" (flavor_eng.71) options applying pop satisfaction penalty to the winning side instead of the losing side; also added a gold cost to the third option "Negotiate a monetary settlement", to prevent it being a strictly dominant choice.

• Fixed the English event "John Oldcastle" (flavor_eng.102) description calling him a heretic regardless of England's primary religion.

• Fixed the first option of the event "Plausible Deniability", it now correctly reduces the opinion of a neighboring country.

• Fixed rulers being able to get multiple modifiers from the Shayk al-Islam event (muslim_school_events.2).

• Fixed the 'Societas Aluminum' event (flavor_flo.42) for Florence so that Viterbo's owner can now accept or reject the mining rights proposal, and improved the reward for accepting to include a Trade Office in Viterbo.

• The Serbian event "Novo Brdo grows" is now a proper DHE.

• Added 30 new parliament monthly pulse events (parliaments.29-58).

• Moved the "Welser Family" (banking.3) Family Bank spawn place from Nuremberg to Augsburg (their historical seat), and updated their spawn date from 1400 to 1414 to match the founding of the Welser-Prun Company.

• Fixed the "Ivan Fyodorov" event (flavor_mos.45) for Muscovy/Russia where option A built a "Printing Press Shop" in Moscow that could not be supplied with Lead, causing 0% Books production. Option A now grants a 25-year "Printing Boom" modifier instead.

• The Event "The Bavarian Division" (flavor_bav.1302) now correctly checks for 3 locations with average satisfaction under 50% instead of 5000%.

• Redesigned flavor_pol.19-22 as graduated reform events.

• Fixed the "Act of Supremacy" Personal Union partner notification event (flavor_eng.250) showing an ERROR for the consort's name and incorrectly highlighting the remainder of the description in gold.

• Fixed the "The Wrong Is Righted" Naples event (flavor_nap.222) showing an ERROR for the consort's name.

• Fixed the Dutch "The Tulip Mania" event (flavor_hol.6) showing "The Religion Group is Islam" as a requirement for Holland in the event browser, by wrapping the Constantinople owner check in a custom tooltip description.

• Fixed the "Occam's Razor" event displaying an empty patron name during a regency.

• Localized requirements for Korean DHE events.

• DHE monthly pulse now honors previous historical tags.

• Ruler receiving black death event reworked to work with the health trait.

• Fixed the unlocalized requirements shown on the Events tab for the "Union of Krewo" event (flavor_pol.47).

• Fixed "New King and the People" event (culture_religion_events.2) firing with stale dead-ruler portraits when the new ruler died during the scheduling delay.

• Fixed theocratic regencies with non-"Bishopric Elective" succession incorrectly allowing female regents, by adding an additional trigger failsafe to the event "Crown the Regent" (regencies.1).

• Fixed the Odia "Achyutananda Das" event (flavor_ori.4) incorrectly granting gold instead of costing it when selecting the option to promote his arts.

• Fixed Edward III's younger sons John of Gaunt and Edmund of Langley appearing with negative ages before their historical birth dates.

• Reworked the "Bloodthirsty Mercs" (mercs.2), "Mercenaries Allowed to Loot" (mercs.3), "Pious Mercs" (mercs.10), and Italian "Hired Condottieri Demands More Payment" (italian_renaissance_culture.10) events to apply direct subunit-strength and economy effects on the chosen mercenary company instead of inert mercenary modifiers.

• The Event Chain to Inherit the Saxon Electorate (flavor_mei.130-.131) will no longer change the name and adjective of Meissen to Saxony/Saxon.

• Added several custom tooltips to Event Triggers related to Brandenburg and its content.

• The Byzantine Crown Jewels event chain now handles bankruptcies on either side properly.

• Fixed Byzantine reconquest events having duplicated options.

• Adapted the Event chain around Tirol's Succession slightly to grant Claim Throne CBs to involved countries in case one of the dynasties, or an unrelated one takes over the Rule of Tirol.

• Fixed the "Scania Affair" event chain (flavor_swe_dan.1) firing while Denmark was a subject of another country.

• Fixed the Dutch The Wisselbank of Amsterdam event (flavor_hol.28) being able to construct an Urban-only Wisselbank in a Rural Amsterdam.

• Fixed the "Wisselbank of Amsterdam" (flavor_hol.28) and "Riksbank" (flavor_swe.60) events firing when the target city was not the country's capital.

• Fixed the "House of Lancaster" event (flavor_eng.46) potentially picking infertile women as Plantagenet wives, by lowering the female age cap from 50 to 35 and adding a missing is_married check in the candidate selection.

• Tightened the trigger of the "House of \[Dynasty] is Shaken" event (dynastic.14) to reduce the amount of "the Dubious" or "the False" nicknames.

• For owners of the Fate of the Phoenix DLC flavor_byz.52 ("Reforming the Corpus Juris Civilis") now ties into the Books of the Basilika Bureaucracy by doubling its positive effect.

• Fixed Portuguese feitoria events (flavor_por.55-59, .64) only firing when a Portuguese subject already owned the target location, instead of when Portugal could establish a foreign trading post there.

• Made sure that China is properly formed when Yuan changes to Northern Yuan.

• The event "Privateer Defects" will now grant the pirate and the target country a 20 year cooldown to prevent the event from happening too frequently.

• Fixed the Byzantine event "Restoring Control in Anatolia" (flavor_byz.36) incorrectly describing Anatolia as a province when it is in fact a region.

• Adjusted the Byzantine event "Rise of Ioánnīs Kantakouzenos" (flavor_byz.32), so it now directly targets John Kantakouzenos instead of the highest-mil character in court.

• The "Reconquest of the Eastern Aegean" event now has lasting consequences: each captured island gains a 5-year "Vignoso's Garrison" modifier that strengthens its defense and garrison growth, but stirs Greek unrest and limits Genoese control there.

• Fixed five Muscovite Dynamic Historical Events not displaying the requirement for their associated historical character to be alive.

• Fixed the Scottish "Rise of the Stewarts (Stuart)" event (flavor_sco.105) firing when Robert II Stewart was already the current ruler of Scotland.

• Fixed the event "<Heir> and the <Culture> People" (culture_religion_events.1) allowing a foreign country to change the culture of an heir that does not belong to it.

• Fixed unlocalized variable names ("tripartite_indenture" and "ransom_paid_edmund_mortimer") showing under Requirements on the "English noble captured" event (flavor_wls.15).

• Improved the description text of "The Creation of a National Bank" (flavor_eng.28) event.

• Fixed "The Creation of a National Bank" event (flavor_eng.28) granting an additional Central Bank in London when one already existed.

• Fixed the "Wisselbank of Amsterdam" event (flavor_hol.28) never being able to fire.

• Fixed the "Loss of Malta to the Knights Hospitaller" event (flavor_kni.100) firing for subjects.

• Fixed "Francesco Petrarca"'s portrait being missing from the Neapolitan "Robert and Petrarca" event chain (flavor_nap.119, .1201 and .1202).

• Fixed wokou pirate nations spawning with their capital location stuck at "None" integration status.

• Fixed the "Embassy to China" event (flavor_tim.5) and the "Rise of Astrarabadi Fazlallah" event (flavor_tim.1100) showing no title in the Events tab.

• Fixed the "Liberation of Jerusalem" event (flavor_ven.26) where the Kingdom of Jerusalem was created independent instead of as a vassal of Venice when picking the second or third option.

• Fixed flavor text being duplicated in the "Crown the Regent" event (regencies.1) description.

• Fixed "The Tripartite Indenture" English event (flavor_eng.95) where only one of the Percy and Mortimer rebellions could start a civil war. Both factions now combine into a single combined uprising when they raise arms.

• Fixed artist_events.1 option D moving Societal Value toward Traditionalist instead of Innovative.

• Fixed the "Konstantinoupolis Outgrows its Walls" event (flavor_byz.34) firing for BYZ-tagged players whose capital was not Konstantinoupolis, leaving the "Aid Constantinople" Cabinet Action it unlocked hidden from the cabinet UI.

• Fixed "The Iberian Wedding" event (flavor_cas.1700) checking for rulers being married to the same character instead to each other.

• Added a new two-step Venetian–Byzantine anti-Genoese pact, set in 1348–1352 and modeling the historical lead-up to the 1351 treaty and the joint naval campaigns of 1351–1355. Venice may propose the alliance ("An Opportunity against the Genoese Threat"), and Byzantium may accept or reject it ("The Venetian Overture"). Accepting grants both sides improved relations and a 10-year "Anti-Genoese Pact" modifier, and pushes Byzantine society toward Latinitas; rejecting it pushes it toward Romanismos.

• The Parliament Issue "Fund a Monastery Network" now uses Modifiers in the same framework as others for its in debate modifiers.

• Fixed your active law policies being lost when you unified a culture group. They are now preserved through the unification.

• Maori formable name changed to Aotearoa.

• Maori kingdoms are now called Waka; Kingitanga is kept if they are Christianised.

• Made Arte della Lana advance into a Privilege.

• Repurposed two Venetian Advances as Government Reforms as it fits better.

• The reform Theme System now grants some progress towards Rōmanismós.

• Fixed Military Order Grandmasters being able to marry despite celibacy vows.

• Fixed Duchy and County rank nations emerging from a Horde collapse displaying the title 'Emirate' instead of 'Horde'.

• Reworked the Aptekarsky Cabinet Action for Muscovy to prevent situations where it fully disables Disease Spread on the country level. Cabinet now works on a province level and grants prosperity on the any location in the province as compensation.

• Fixed the "Barter Exchange" policy under "Coin Laws" never being available to implement, as it incorrectly required markets to hold negative amounts of gold, silver, and copper.

• Fixed the "Tribal Strongholds" privilege giving -5% Max Rural Control instead of +5%, contradicting its flavor text.

• Integrated the four China-specific bureaucracies with the advance tree, government reforms, law policies, and dynasty transition events; bureaucracies now contribute to Celestial Authority, scale with relevant advances and policies, and are correctly established and removed at dynastic transition moments.

• Characters who join a theocracy with the Prussian Crusade can no longer be targeted by the Favor Heir action.

• Added the "Matrilineal Customary Law" legal code policy and restricted "Matrilineal Non-Exclusive" succession visibility to historically accurate cultures (Kerala, Tulu Nadu, West Sumatra, and the Akan belt), with a non-native unlock path.

• Fixed the Two Sicilies formable remaining unavailable after fully annexing Sicily (or Naples), due to a broken rival Italy-presence check when the rival country no longer existed.

• Reduced the "Prikazi" and "Collegium" reform cabinet efficiency bonuses for Muscovy and Russia from 0.15/0.20 to 0.10 each, addressing excessive stacking.

• Era-gate parliament debates to fix mid/late-game flavor mismatches.

• Celtic Traditions government reform cannot be removed while still part of a High Kingship.

• Irish nobles privilege Coign and Livery gives maintenance efficiency for all army units instead of reducing cost lot for only heavies.

• Fixed the "Ruling Commission of England" government reform having an unlocalized commission_established variable and dysfunctional removal conditions. Locked conditions now mirror the "Lords Appellant" (flavor_eng.72) event trigger, which are Legitimacy <= 75, or Crown Estate >= 35%.

• Fixed the Granadan "Jewel of Al-Andalus" government reform incorrectly raising the cost of taking provinces from other religions instead of lowering it.

• Fixed clergy being able to use "Marry a Lowborn" despite their religion's "Clergy Cannot Marry" rule being active.

• Replaced the Blocked from Cabinet Modifiers on the "Curtail the Estate" and "Figurehead Position" Policies with a Power from Cabinet Position Modifier for the applicable Estate.

• Forming Byzantium as Trebizond now instantly researches the Byzantine advance "Byzantine Bureaucracy" to ensure you don't lose access to the mechanic.

• Fixed the "Reintegrate Province" Latin cabinet action being assignable to the same province across multiple cabinet slots.

• Estate opinion of foreign countries now responds to the target country's Societal Values rather than always reflecting our own.

• Allowed the PLC to be formed if Poland and Lithuania are in a union.

• Fixed the "Matrilineal Customary Law" policy tooltip showing unlocalized text caused by an invalid concept link.

• Reworked the Genoese "Diarchy Republic" reform with a distinct plutocratic-naval identity, so the historical "Merchant Republic" transition becomes a slightly more meaningful choice rather than a strict upgrade; also rebalanced the "Genoese Maritime Diplomacy", "Age of the Genoese", and "Free Port" advances to fill the missing maritime-trade levers (trade range, trade income, merchant maintenance, export efficiency) for Genoa.

• Fixed Dynastic Signoria countries getting stuck in indefinite regency when the ruling dynasty went extinct.

• Added a tooltip line on the "Royal Harem" and "Valide Sultan" policies advertising that they unlock the Harem Laws.

• The Burgtor building is now a foreign building for Hansa that can be unlocked via an Age 2 Advance (Hanseatic Fortifications) and can be built in cities whose owner's culture shares a group with the culture of the Hansa, the building has 2 levels and offers lucrative early game modifiers.

• Fixed description and empty Building Requirements tooltip for the Central Bank building.

• Fixed event-locked buildings (Bibliotheca Corviniana, Teatro San Cassiano, Piazza San Marco, Husuni Kubwa) displaying the raw internal unlock variable in their requirements tooltip.

• Fixed divorce decline notification showing Papal States as the country requesting divorce.

• English language male names are now split into 6 lists. Common early game, uncommon early game, common mid game, uncommon mid game, common late game, uncommon late game.

• Former Liturgical Languages are remembered, and can always be reselected in the future.

• Former Court Languages are remembered, and can always be reselected in the future.

• Newborn health-trait births now use flavorful "born with" messages.

• Just and Malevolent ruler traits are now mutually exclusive.

• Fixed canonizing a character wrongly setting Clergy estate satisfaction to 100% instead of applying the amount shown in the action tooltip.

• Fixed the "Grant a triumph" tooltip not showing character effect.

• Fixed the Pilgrimage action displaying its 10 gold base cost in the Religion tab before a holy site was selected, since the real cost scales with the chosen holy site.

• Fixed the Nahua "Appease the Gods", "Host a Ceremony" and "Open a War Path" religious actions remaining available after the Reform Society disaster completes.

• Added 'Merge Colonies' subject interaction, allowing colonial overlords to absorb one colony into another.

• Stopped overlords from being able to seize territory either when they are at war or when the selected subject is at war.

• Fixed Iroquois tribes refusing to merge when bankrupt.

• Fixed Tusi and Samanta subject types ignoring their strength relative to their overlord, which other subject types correctly account for.

• Fixed unlocalized breakdown labels in the Sell Work of Art and Request to Purchase Work of Art country interactions.

• Fixed clergy being able to use "Marry a Lowborn" despite their religion's "Clergy Cannot Marry" rule being active.

• "Restore Roman Borders" CB now considers single-seazone adjacency.

• Added a peace treaty option to destroy a rival Autocephalous Patriarchate.

• Fixed the "Pradhāna-Mahā-Sāmanta" subject description claiming it grants greater Efficiency of Cabinet when the modifier actually applies a penalty. Also fixed similar description and modifier mismatches on Vassal, Appanage, Fiefdom, Dominion, Member of the Hansa, and Trade Company subject types.

• Prevented the Pope from using the "Join Foreign Order of Chivalry" character action.

• Fixed a bug that prevented members of the Lordship of Ireland from using the IO's Casus Belli.

• Fixed AI never using the "Propose Ruler" and "Support Heir" diplomatic actions, which prevented foreign dynasties from competing for vacan't elective successions like Bishoprics.

• Fixed the "Restore Roman Borders" casus belli not applying to subjects' neighbors.

• Fixed the "Temur Khan's Conquest" Casus Belli being removed one day after the Timurids' "Plan Invasion" action created it.

• Fixed the "Enforce Religion" and "Enforce Culture" diplomatic actions never appearing for the Senior Partner of a Personal Union with the "Aligned Legislature" policy active.

• Fixed some scripted relations missing localization strings.

• Fixed appanages set to be inherited by their overlord instead being silently downgraded to a regular vassal when their ruler dies without an heir. The overlord now reliably absorbs them.

• Fixed Kabang transport ship having worse stats than basic Cog.

• Added the "Warrior Societies" advance and "Warrior Lodge" building for North American tribal nations, fixing their inability to gain manpower, and added the "War Party" and "Warrior Society" Age 2 units that remain competitive after European contact spreads professional armies.

• Fixed the Aragonese "Catalan Galley" unit being available to all Iberian countries instead of just Aragonese/Catalan ones, by replacing its potential with the one used for the "Almogavar" units.

• Fixed the "Hungarian Hussars" and "Austrian Grenzhussar" being categorized as heavy cavalry; both are now correctly classified as light cavalry.

• Fixed an issue with the "Gebirgsschützen" infantry blocking the upgrade path from "Arquebusiers" to "Hunters" for Austria.

• Fixed legionaries having 0 initiative.

• Fixed the Byzantine "Varangian Guard" upgrade chain showing the same display name across all six ages; each upgraded variant now has a distinct era-appropriate name.

• Genoese Crossbowmen have been reclassified from heavy infantry to light infantry to better match their historical role.

• Fixed 78 unique land and naval units that became unable to upgrade to a next-age counterpart, leaving them frozen at their current type after the player aged up (e.g. "Tercio", "Lanzas de Castilla", "Landsknechte", "Reisläufer", "Akinji", "Hungarian Black Army", "Iberian Galleon"). Also corrected misleading gfx_tags on "Mauricians", "Ḡilmān", "Iron-Helmet Musketeers" and "Tofangchi" so their visual signals match their descriptions as firearm-equipped infantry.

• Fixed the "Kızılbaş Skirmisher" and "Kızılbaş Cavalry" special units being miscategorized as heavy cavalry.

• Fixed the "Genoese Galley" advance incorrectly locked behind "Meritocracy" for Genoa, and also its upgrade path; alongside that, also fixed the "Long Fada" and "Baghlah" unique naval units missing upgrade paths.

• Fixed "Handgonners" incorrectly upgrading into "Varangians" instead of "Early Arquebusiers" for Byzantine players.

• Hobelars have been reclassified from heavy cavalry to light cavalry to better match their historical role.

• Hakkapeliitta have been reclassified from heavy cavalry to light cavalry to better match their historical role.

• Late Karambit Warriors have been reclassified from heavy infantry to light infantry to better match their historical role.

• Naft Throwers have been reclassified from heavy infantry to light infantry to better match their historical role.

• Hanseatic Cog has been moved from the light-ship category to the transport category, matching its trading-vessel description.

• Jaguar Warrior and Eagle Warrior have had their categories swapped, the macuahuitl-wielding Jaguars are now heavy infantry, and the atlatl-armed Eagles are now light infantry.

• Added new heavy-cavalry Mamluk Horsemen for the early and reformed Mamluk eras, paralleling the existing foot Mamluks.

• The Crusader and Order Knight unit families have been renamed for clarity: foot variants now display as Crusader Sergeants / Order Sergeants, and mounted variants as Crusader Knights / Order Knights

• Order Knights are no longer restricted to Livonia, they are now available to any country with the Military Order Reform, the Military Orders clergy privilege, or in the Iberian culture group.

• Reduced Influenza and Typhus immunity decay rate (monthly_resistance_reduction 0.003 -> 0.002) to fix never-ending outbreaks in dense, well-connected regions.

• Added religion restrictions to the Jerusalemite advances "Symbol of Catholicism" and "Latin Patriarch", and the Saxon advance "Fürstenschule".

• Fixed the 'Offerings' advance not being available to the whole Buddhist group.

• Fixed So clan advances being assigned to the wrong tag.

• Fixed the 'Claim to the Mandate' advance showing empty for non-Monarchy Chinese countries.

• Reworked requirements of some of the Buddhist advances, fixing some of them being blocked to certain religions.

• Reduced Korean research speed by halving the "Hall of Worthies" research modifier and lowering the maximum literacy bonuses from the "Court Poetry" and "Hangeul Alphabet" advances.

• Fixed the "True Heir of Timur" achievement potentially becoming unobtainable because the "Death of Timur" event (flavor_tim.1) could miss its monthly chance to fire.

• Activated slave trade hint and improved its text.

• Added 5 Italian Renaissance themed loading screen quotes.

• Fixed Balliol (SBL) inheriting Scotland's civil war modifiers and the 'Hostile Dunbar Castle' modifier persisting permanently after winning the Scottish Civil War.

• Balance pass on advance modifier outliers; location flavor descriptions.

• Added 3 new loading tips related to the battle of Pavia.

• Switched flat "research_speed" to percentage "research_speed_modifier" on "Royal Society", "

Hello everyone! Happy Wednesday, and welcome to Tinto Talks 111. I’m Ryagi, Community Manager at Paradox Tinto. Today I wanted to give you a short rundown on what’s in store for 1.3, our plans for feedback collection in the Open Beta, as well as a brief overview of how we handle feedback in general.

Update 1.3 has a key focus on Italy, and the Italian Renaissance, with reworks to the 2 major Italian Situations, Italian Wars, and Guelphs and Ghibellines.The first step in these reworks was collecting your feedback, which we did primarily through posts such as this one[forum.paradoxplaza.com]. After feedback was processed, Two Strike Teams were put together. One for each situation; Both with the goal to improve and overhaul the current situation-related gameplay based on that collected feedback. Some of the baseline improvements include: adding new actions,  options,  and content,  fixing,  tweaking,  and rebalancing the existing content,  and also looking for UI and Art-related visual improvements.

The most common pattern among feedback we received on the Guelphs and Ghibellines was that the situation could be ignored entirely, lacked interactivity, and essentially functioned as a free CB generator and not much more. One of the primary aims here was to make the situation more interactive along with delivering a UI that gives the player the tools they need to engage with the situation.

New Guelphs and Ghibellines Situation Panel in 1.3

I asked our Content Designer on Guelphs and Ghibelines to talk a briefly about the vision behind Guelphs and Ghibellines: 

Our vision for the Guelphs and Ghibellines was and remains, to be not solely about direct acquisition of land, but to play with the factional International Organizations and an opportunistic switching of allegiances when necessary. 

We want the Situation to provide plenty of opportunity to go to war with the Force Faction Casus Belli, and bolster their faction's progress with that. Of course direct conquest should not be fully discouraged and is an important part of the Italian gameplay as well. With our changes to the Guelphs and Ghibellines in 1.3, we want to introduce more consequences of acting both in your faction's favor and against it. Conflict within a faction should come to the detriment of your shared goals, while acting against common foes will speed up your progress to victory. In addition to that, we also wanted to breathe more life into the factional allegiance around players and create a good pace for AI countries to switch sides and re-draw the factional lines within Italy. 

And last but not least, becoming the Leader of either the Guelphs or the Ghibellines should come with a lasting impact and reward on the country itself, instead of only affecting the membership within the Holy Roman Empire.

Italian wars received a major facelift in 1.3, and it’s something our Content Designers were passionate about. The baseline feedback was sourced once again from you the community, primarily through this post on the forums[forum.paradoxplaza.com], this post on Reddit, and this post on Discord[discord.com].

Some of the first bits of feedback via Discord on Italian Wars

Perhaps not so surprisingly, some of the feedback we got had similar patterns to feedback on Guelphs or the Ghibellines, specifically to do with interactivity. We also heard from you generally that AI interaction was not guaranteed, and the situation didn’t feel like it offered enough rewards or incentive for the player. 

As with Guelphs and Ghibilines, I asked the Content Designer who worked on this to give an overview:

The Italian Wars rework was built around a few clear goals: add interactivity, make the situation fun to play through, give the AI a stronger read of what's going on, and introduce a new Tension mechanic. Tension works as both a narrative driver, conveying a region sliding into conflict, and as a gameplay lever that unlocks new actions and effects, raises the prices of military-adjacent goods across Italy, enables military intervention at a grander scale, and even annuls truces when it reaches its maximum point. The rewards themselves are now meaningfully powerful, giving the player a real sense of pursuit and accomplishment as they progress. Finally, the UI now surfaces the detailed information players need to engage with the situation, and is intended to set the baseline standard for every new and reworked situation going forward.

A quick preview of the new italian wars panel

Italian Wars is something we felt is best shown in motion, so rather than going into more depth discussing it here, we opted to go for a video + livestream instead, specifically dedicated to showing off the new Italian Wars! Of course you’ll be able to play it yourself in the beta just as soon, but we’ll be using the livestream as a platform to take your questions about the situation, and jumpstart another cycle of feedback on the new Italian Wars. 

If you want to join us for that showcase, we’ll be premiering live Today June 4th, 16:00 CEST/10:00 EST over on the Official Europa Universalis YouTube. If you can’t make it don’t worry! The showcase itself will be available to watch anytime (But of course we can’t take questions on stream from the future) 

These 2 situations are the big ones, but we also have a plethora of new general systems, QOL, Balance and things that we felt the gameplay loop would benefit from.

• Great Power System — Reworked to area-dominance model; new Regional Power tier at 15 points (half GP bonuses); 30 points for full GP status.

• Province Capital Lock — Permanently designate a Province Capital, which will prevent the Shift from population shifts

• Estate Interactions — 8 new actions (levies, taxes, clergy loans, parliament sessions) you can use at the cost of satisfaction

• Coastal/Inland/River Combat Bonuses — Unit types gain or lose effectiveness based on geography in the battles location

• Auto-Expand Buildings & RGOs — Toggle-based automation that upgrades buildings and raw material sites when conditions are met.

• Unified Artist Court — Artists are now  characters with passive modifiers;  

• Cabinet Automation Split — Separated the automation for hiring cabinet members and assigning cabinet actions

• Reformation Spread Rework — Reformation now uses the movement spread system spreading differently through pop-types

• Rebel Negotiations — Buy off or accept rebel demands before they revolt.

• Fort Loyalty & Reduced Rebel Garrisons — Forts roll for loyalty on revolt; rebel garrisons heavily penalized by revolt type.

• Automated Diplomats — Fine-tune which diplomatic actions the AI handles and reserve slots for manual use.

• Chivalric Orders Database — Orders are now defined as self-contained moddable entries.

• Creditworthiness — 0–100 score affecting loan interest rates based on borrowing history.

• Lend Unit to Ally — Send armies to fight under an ally's command until the shared war ends.

• *Imperial Circles — New HRE governance layer with elected Circle Leaders and satisfaction tracking. *\[implemented but with content coming, see section on differences between beta/release]

• Independent Operations — Assign armies to AI control for the duration of a war.

• Government Bonds — New debt instrument for countries with the Central Bank advance

• Cost-to-Efficiency Conversion — ~30 modifiers converted to diminishing-returns efficiency with a 50% cost floor. 

1.3 comes with many balance changes to the Economy, Pop Demands, Navy, Military Orders. We expect these balance changes to have a ripple effect through to other systems (for example, mercenaries) so we’re very eager to see how players feel with new games in the 1.3 Open Beta. 

Johan went into a little more detail on some of these miscellaneous additions coming in our Previous Tinto Talk[forum.paradoxplaza.com]. If you’re curious for more info do check that post out, ask any questions you have here, or dive straight in and see for yourself Today!

One last thing: Starting in 1.3, Achievements will be able to be unlocked in any single-player game, including non-Ironman saves and modded/launch-option games, aligning EU5 with other Paradox Titles such as Imperator/CK3/Victoria 3. We’re confident in making this change due to a majority of player feedback since release. That being said, we're aware this is not something the community is fully unified on, so we’d invite you to express your thoughts on it as you always have.
This shift is unfortunately not as easy as flicking a switch, so you can expect to see this only partially implemented in 1.3 Beta, with full implementation during the beta period, and certainly by the time we have full release. 

1.3 Open beta will be available to opt into starting June 4th. We plan to have the open beta open for around a month, after which 1.3 will be fully released onto the default branches.

The 1.3 Open Beta is a chance for us to share and test the features in 1.3, while collecting feedback on them from you. This means that while this beta is largely “feature complete”, there are still bugs to be fixed and balance changes to be made. Many of these balance tweaks will be based on the feedback we receive from you, the Community.

We plan on pushing weekly updates to the open beta, and it’s likely the first couple of these updates will be the bigger ones. However, we may do quicker updates for hotfixes if we find game breaking issues.

While this is by no means a complete “Known issues” list, here are some of the bits of the open beta that for now are rather rough around the edges:

• Localization

  • We aim to have 1.3 fully localized into the supported non english languages by the time it exits open beta, but until then, languages other than english will have extensive amounts of work in progress localization.

• Performance

  • Performance in the beta of 1.3 has, based on our testing, been relatively equal to or better than 1.2.5, which is promising, but it does not reflect what we hope to achieve by the time 1.3 releases. If performance is something you have been struggling with, please let us know how your system fairs with the 1.3 Open Beta!

• Imperial Circles

  • Imperial circle actions for the Emperor, circle leaders and members are very work in progress and will be expanded upon later in the beta.

  • Balance is being actively tuned, especially with circle satisfaction, which will be heavily impacted by the addition of the actions mentioned above.

• Balance (Especially with new or reworked features such as Italian Wars)

  • This point perhaps goes without saying, but numbers as presented in the beta are not final, and are subject to change based on your feedback throughout the beta process

• Achievements

  • As mentioned in the section above, the shift from Achievements being fully vanilla, iron man only, to non ironman and modded has partial implementation in 1.3 Open Beta, with full implementation by the time beta is over.

For 1.1 Open Beta we heavily utilized a single Megathread, and this we feel went fairly smoothly. However, this time we are going to try a slightly different method to feedback collection on the forums, which should hopefully give us more specific and up to date feedback.

If you’re on Forums:
Throughout the 1.3 Open Beta, we will be hosting daily feedback threads (Mon - Fri) to collect your feedback on various particular aspects of 1.3, including the open beta process itself. The first of these will be held on Beta Launch Day, June 4th.

If you’re on Steam:
We’re sticking to the same method as our 1.1 Rossbach open beta. 1.3 Open beta will have a dedicated subforum which can be found here. All feedback posted here will be taken as feedback based on the open beta!

Here is where Open Beta Feedback will be taken on Steam

If you’re on Discord:

Similar to steam, we’re using the same methods we used for 1.1. Which in this case is the 1.3 Beta Feedback Forum, with various tags to best describe your feedback.

Here is where Open Beta feedback will be taken on Discord

If you’re on Other Platforms:

Your feedback will still be taken into account, but be sure when posting that you specifically mention that it’s related to the 1.3 Open Beta, as a majority of players use live versions, so outside specific community spaces dedicated to 1.3, the default is for us to assume players are discussing the live version.

Feedback processing is an interesting and complex topic I think has room to potentially be explained even more in depth through a future dedicated Tinto Talk, but I wanted to touch on the basics of the process here since it’s very relevant right now to questions you have, and to the 1.3 Open Beta. The difference between a bug and a piece of feedback is sometimes not as clear cut as one might think. And just because something is working as we designed it, doesn’t always mean that design is immovable.
Oftentimes, we will see bugs turn into feedback, or feedback turn into bugs. With that in mind, let’s separate the discussion into bugs/feedback.

Bugs:
Bugs are reported, Investigated by a human QA to confirm validity, after which they are logged in our choice of issue tracking software, Jira. After they are logged, these bugs are then triaged by a lead for the appropriate department (Content, Art, UI, etc) for priority.

In terms of resources, we split our development team so that work is done in parallel. While some might be fixing UI Bugs and working on QoL, Others are improving AI behavior, Performance etc. Of course we can’t assign artists to work on Performance, or the Community Team to work on UI (Or at least, that’s probably not a very good idea…) so departments are always communicating on prioritization and scope when it comes to both feedback and bugs.

Feedback:
For the sake of presentation, I’ll boil down feedback processing into 4 steps:

1. Collection

2. Internal Discussion

3. Development

4. Release

Feedback collection loop vizualized

You’ll notice the distinction between Internal Discussion and Development (Development itself could arguably be split into even more detailed sections but… maybe for a next time). Most if not all direct feedback is discussed by the team internally here before it properly begins its development journey. This can be as simple as “Hey this post describes X or Y thing and I think it’s 100% on the mark, should we do something about it?” “Yes, Make a Jira”. Or as complex as month(s) long discussion on pros and cons, as well as potential solutions. Usually, it’s somewhere in between. When it comes to longer discussions, it’s very common that this isn’t one single discussion but multiple repeated ones that can tie into one another.

After these discussions, feedback is logged similarly to bugs, and a Jira is created and tasked out by our Studio Leads. In some cases for larger batches of feedback, the Community Team assists by collecting data driven feedback reports that dev strike teams then use to tackle said feedback. This was the case for both Italian Wars and Guelphs and Ghibellines, as showcased earlier in the TT.

Once a feature or solution is actually developed, it of course has to be tested on our development branches (And/or if we’re feeling very confident and believe the risk is low enough, Beta Branches) . After this testing, features are slotted into a release candidate branch, and eventually go live to you! And thus begins a new cycle, as new feedback on the implemented solution/feature is collected and the process repeats in parallel with other feedback cycles.

We hope you have enjoyed this Tinto Talk! Some final recaps:

• Reminder, 1.3 Open Beta is live later today with patch notes!

  • Opting in is as easy as selecting a new branch on steam, detailed opt in instructions will be shared in the posts there.

• If you are interested in our two upcoming Q&As, you can find info about them here[forum.paradoxplaza.com].

• If you want to hear more about the Italian Wars, check out our showcase today 16:00 CEST on the Official YouTube

That’s all for now. Next week we’ll check in on the 1.3 Open Beta and talk about what progress we’ve made by then.

Hello everyone! 

You've been asking questions, and we've been listening.

Today we wanted to give you the news that our Europa Universalis V Q&A video arrives June 9th 10:00 CEST/16:00 GMT on YouTube and Bilibili. Each question featured being submitted by you, the community 🌟

But of course... one video wasn't going to be enough. We received so many great submissions that we're also hosting a Live Text Q&A over on our Official Discord[discord.gg], June 11th. Mark your calendars for both these Q&As and stay tuned! 

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Checksum: cf2f

Date: May 20, 2026

Previous Patch: 1.2.4[forum.paradoxplaza.com]

• Added missing localization for all languages

• Fixed various OOS issues

• Optimized RAM usage for diplomacy

• Fixed CTD related to Renovatio Imperii (i.e. forming the HRE).

As usual, here is a list of handy EU5 links:

Be Ambitious!

Hello Everyone, and Welcome to another Happy Wednesday. This is the place where we talk about Europa Universalis V.


Today we released 1.2.4 which amongst other things did this.

• Fixed an issue where a 0-morale army could be auto-overrun by a much smaller force. The overrun calculation now uses each side's true nominal strength, meaning a collapsing army can only be overrun when the attacker genuinely has a 10× size advantage. Morale-collapse still gates resistance as intended.

• Truces now correctly scale with the warscore used to end the war, rather than the final warscore the war ends with. White peace no longer incorrectly applies a 20-year truce. Same-religion and cross-religion no-CB war costs are also now properly differentiated.

• Increased AI army size targets, resulting in fewer but larger stacks rather than many small fragmented armies. The AI also now correctly counts hired mercenaries when evaluating military strength for both sides in ongoing wars, preventing poor peace-deal decisions.

• Fixed a logic flaw where AI armies would never pause to recover morale when food was absent, regardless of whether morale recovery would be positive. The AI also now factors in the land morale modifier when evaluating army strength.

• Fixed a bug where Trade Orders would reset Market Automation the first time the Trades tab was opened after loading a save. Your configured automation now persists correctly across sessions.

• A small fix to FPS sometimes dropping and slowing down the game for some users.

• Cores gained through events or scripts, and cores lost to other countries, now persist for 100 years before expiring. Expiry only triggers if the dominant culture of the location no longer matches the culture of the core's country, giving nations a realistic window to reclaim scripted cores.

What are we working on regarding 1.3 Pavia then?

Well, it is expected to go into open beta later this month, and if you would like a reminder on the plans for it, you can check them at:

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/the-future-of-eu5-grand-voyage-roadmap.1920458/

Other things we have been working on include…

Italian Countries are getting close to two hundred new advances, two overhauled situations in the Guelphs and Ghibellines and Italian Wars, over a 100 new flavour events, and full dialect rendering across every Italian location and character name.


Good walls mean safe populations... right?Along with the new mechanics for Creditworthiness, State Bonds, and Central Banks, 1.3 also brings 10 new unique Building-based State and Family Banks of the 15th and 16th centuries.

In 1.3, Credit will have it's own tab

A first look at creditworthiness in action. Work in progress

In parallel, the English Bank of England, the Dutch Wisselbank and the Swedish Riksbank are now developed upon the new mechanism for Central Banks. We are also adding twenty new government reforms, deepening the Societal Values system, two new generic bureaucracy sets covering mid-game early modern European states and early Chinese administration, and five new town rights, giving you a proper toolbox for shaping your settlements. There is also a new Bulgarian fragmentation disaster, ‘Twilight of the Tsardom’, with a unique government reform, the ‘Bulgarian Tsardom’, and some more advances for Balkan nations that didn’t make the cut for 1.2, but have been added in 1.3.
Next week, the community team will also be hosting a showcase of our reworked Italian Wars situation coming in 1.3, made thanks to your feedback.

/Johan

Happy Wednesday, today we're glad to say Patch 1.2.4 is out now. It primarily gives some buffs to population growth, fixes for unit morale which should hopefully lead to less frustrating stack wipes, and more. In addition to these changes, we have also made some minor tweaks that we hope will positively impact performance. Performance improvements are an ongoing effort that we intend to carry through the beta period on 1.3, please do let us know if you have seen any changes to performance in this patch!

Checksum: e02d

Date: May 20, 2026

Previous Patch: 1.2.3[forum.paradoxplaza.com]

• Rebalanced complacency drivers: halved passive gain from idle rival slots, and doubled the swing from average control.

• Fixed ruler title not updating after forming a country.

• Increased pop growth modifiers from available land and cheap food.

• Fixed an issue that caused white peaces in particular to have a 20-year truce.

• Changed truces to properly scale with the war score used to end the war, instead of the war score the war ended with.

• Changed the combat overrun ratio to use each side's true nominal strength as the numerator, so a 0-morale army can no longer be auto-overrun by a much smaller opponent. Morale collapse still gates resistance, preserving the intended overrun mechanic at a genuine 10x size advantage.

• Changed cores gained from script (events, etc.) or lost to other countries to remain for a period of 100 years, after which they disappear if the dominant culture of the location is not the same as the culture of the core's country.

• Added City Walls to Thessaloniki at the start of the game.

• Added missing (Orthodox) Cathedral buildings in the setup across Greece and the Balkans, mirroring the design for the rest of Europe.

• Reassigned the locations of Ikaria and Samos from Genoa to Byzantium at game start, and updated the "Reconquest of the Eastern Aegean" (flavor_gen.16) and "The Genoese Have Taken Chios" (flavor_gen.51) events to reflect the new starting ownership.

• Set the country rank of Patras to Duchy.

• Rebalanced the new conditions of the "Reform Society" disaster to make it less tedious to achieve once again; the subject location contribution was changed from 0.75 to 0.25, and the monthly push towards centralization from 0.2 to 0.33. The approximate effect is that for a player with 24 direct locations and 120 subject locations, the target drops from 114 to 54, requiring annexing roughly half of subjects instead of almost all.

• Fixed another instance that caused the Percy and Mortimer rebel armies not to spawn when choosing the historical option A of "The Tripartite Indenture" (flavor_eng.95).

• Fixed the Byzantine event "A Brilliant Center of Learning" (flavor_byz.13) granting an "Art School" or "Arts Academy" at Mystras when it is not the capital, which caused the building to be immediately removed. When Mystras is not the capital, option A now applies a permanent "Center of Learning" location modifier.

• Fixed Percy and Mortimer rebel armies not spawning reliably and with too few soldiers when choosing the historical option A of "The Tripartite Indenture" (flavor_eng.95).

• Fixed the "Sack and Destruction of Venice" event (flavor_byz.1) firing when Byzantium acquired Venice through peaceful diplomatic annexation (e.g. annexing a Venetian Pronoia subject). The event trigger now also requires that the new venice_acquired_peacefully_variable, set in on_diplomatic_annex when a BYZ-tagged country diplomatically annexes a subject that owns Venice, is absent.

• Fixed the event "Controversial Texts from \[target_location]" (town_rights_events.16) option B applying an unbounded satisfaction penalty, by adding a proper division by 100 to the formula.

• Fixed the Wallachian "Vlad the Impaler" event (flavor_wal.1) not appearing in the Content list or Events window for Wallachia.

• Prevented castrated/eunuch rulers from triggering dynastic heir events that give bastard sons.

• Improved the text of "The Non-Possessor Movement" event (orthodox_flavor.1).

• Fixed missing localization in Byzantium DHEs in the event viewer.

• Fixed Great Britain and Spain formables not appearing in the lobby Content Viewer.

• Tweaked the formation of Rome as Byzantium so it also integrates the "Marittima" province (Rome, Terracina, Velletri) upon formation, avoiding some issues caused by moving the capital to the Rome location.

• Fixed the "Kephalai" bureaucracy being available from game start instead of requiring winning the "Fate of the Phoenix" disaster, matching the behaviour of the "Allelengyon" bureaucracy.

• Fixed the "Latin Empire" (LAT_f) formable not appearing in the Age of Reformation, due to an inconsistent age requirement in the potential block.

• Added an exception to not Call In Overlord for the subjects of the Latin Empire when using the "Latin Reconquest" CB, so the overlord doesn't automatically get in and take over as the War Lead, potentially forcing a peace deal without the effects of the CB.

• Changed forming Byzantium or the Roman Empire to unlock the "Restore Roman Borders" casus belli, gated on the Fate of the Phoenix DLC.

• Fixed the "Empower the Eunuchs" government reform not granting may_hire_eunuch_advisors, so the Middle Kingdom can now hire eunuch courtiers as intended after the "The Eunuchs of \[Country]" (flavor_chi.44) event.

• Fixed the broken Upper Bergregal hyperlink in the Bergordnung policy tooltip.

• Changed the "Scholai Privileges" urban right to require a university and 20 development instead of a low-literacy check.

• Improved the "Grant a Triumph" Hellenic action reward from 10 to 20 Prestige, and added a tooltip showing the "Triumphant" trait modifiers also granted by the action in the effects section of the action tooltip.

• Made Hellenism religious aspect pairs that share a defining modifier (canonization, omen_strength, omens_offered) mutually exclusive, so the player cannot fill both slots with the same effect.

• Fixed the tooltip added to show the "Triumphant" trait modifier granted by the "Grant a Triumph" action not appearing correctly.

• Set Latin culture to start with kindred opinion of Greek, and vice versa.

• Fixed Shinto AI countries committing Seppuku excessively.

• Fixed the Loan Icon interaction being usable on icons already borrowed from another country.

• Fixed the "Restore Roman Borders" CB showing on subjects when the overlord owned Roman land.

• Changed the Castrate and Blind interactions to exclude a character from being eligible as a pretender in a Succession Crisis; the two actions can also no longer be used against Heads of Cabinet.

• Changed the "Restore Roman Borders" casus belli to also consider subject neighbors as potential targets.

• Removed the DLC lock for the new Age-2-to-Age-6 Varangian units, as their creation was intended as a fix to the base game Age 1 Varangian unit not working properly per its original design intention, and not as a "Fate of the Phoenix" DLC content addition.

• Changed Cataphract and Akritai location triggers to require the "Roman" culture group (greek_group) instead of just the "Greek" culture (greek_culture).

• Changed Cataphract advances and units to require the "Roman" culture group (greek_group) instead of just the "Greek" culture (greek_culture).

• Fixed the "Iberian Caravel" not being able to upgrade to the Square-Rigged Caravel, fixed the wrong costs of the latter, and increased some of its stats.

• Rebalanced the Byzantine "Restoring the Varangians" event chain (flavor_byz.1400-flavor_byz.1403): 1. Moved the event window from 1450-1500 to 1380-1430 so it fires earlier. 2. Reduced the gold transfer from 0.5 to 0.25 yearly income to better match comparable events. 3. Accepting it now permanently grants +1 Varangian unit capacity via a new country modifier.

• Changed the task "Found a Town" under "Infrastructure Efforts" to take into account the Megalopolis rank.

• Fixed 9 Balkanic advances showing generic icons instead of their dedicated unique icons.

• Fixed 7 Frankokratia advances showing generic icons instead of their dedicated unique icons.

• Fixed the Ohmućević dynasty COA to match the Korenić-Neorić Armorial reference.

• Added AI score for the land morale modifier.

• Fixed an issue where AI would never stop to recover morale if they didn't have food, regardless of whether their morale recovery would be positive.

• Increased AI army size targets, leading to fewer, larger stacks as opposed to many smaller stacks.

• Fixed an issue where large countries would often not be able to buy mercenaries due to problems with checking recruitment locations.

• Fixed an issue where AI navies could get stuck in a friendly transport objective.

• Fixed an issue where AI didn't factor in hired mercenaries when evaluating country strength for each side in ongoing wars.

• Fixed the "move_capital_event_effect" showing development changes as 0 when forming countries that move the capital.

• Updated the hire mercenary effect tooltip to show contract length in months.

• Added a religion data mapmode shown when mousing over a religion in the UI, which more clearly shows the situation of a religion per location.

• Changed mousing over a Religion in the UI to display its Holy Sites on the map as icons.

• Changed the "Offered Omens" tile in the religion panel to show the country's actual cap on simultaneously offered omens (e.g. +3 as Hellenism) instead of the total number of omens defined across the religion's gods (e.g. 0/60).

• Fixed the War of the Roses disaster so it can no longer get stuck on empty rebels.

• Differentiated same-religion no-CB war cost from cross-religion.

• Capped 100% peace deal truce at 15 years.

• Fixed city_illustration_trigger causing error spam on some mods.

• Fixed the "Grant Latin Merchant Privileges" message so it now properly shows Italian instead of $italian_language$.

• Fixed Romanian -escu patronymic suffixes to be suffixes instead of prefixes.

• Fixed a crash related to the host losing their country.

• Fixed an issue with fort defenses not calculating properly when loading a save.

• Fixed trade orders resetting Market Automation after the first Trades-tab open after load.

• Changed separatist rebels to rise up with 0 war exhaustion.

• Prevented players from assigning their Head of the Cabinet as the ruler in a newly released location- or building-based subject.

• Fixed a crash to desktop when a new, different country was elected Emperor while constructing an Imperial Armory.

• Fixed the add_morale script effect so it now correctly accumulates onto existing subunit morale instead of overwriting it with the raw delta value.

• Fixed the colonial charter so it once again converts tribal pops (not non-tribal) when flipping a location, restoring native_subjugation enslave_tribals, native_integration make_tribals_peasants, and expel_tribals policies.

• Fixed a crash when a location with town rights was abandoned from an event.

• Fixed a crash related to updating a religious or cultural movement.

As usual, here is a list of handy EU5 links:

Be Ambitious!

Patch 1.2 has been out for a while, and we know you have thoughts. We value all feedback equally, and we want to make this absolutely clear.

The developers at Tinto are sitting down for a Q&A session, and we want your questions to lead the conversation. Whether it's about the patch changes, what's coming next, or how a specific mechanic works under the hood, now is your chance to ask the devs directly.

Please feel free to drop your questions in the comments below. We'll be reading through them on all our platforms and bringing the most-asked ones to the dev team to be answered in a Q&A Video Later.

Thank you for joining us on this journey to make Europa Universalis V a greater game, and remember, Be Ambitious.

— The Tinto Team

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Checksum: 6a4a

Date: May 15th, 2026

Previous Patch: 1.2.2

• The Enforce Landfriede diplo action has now proper AI weighting and can now be declined. If declines, the Emperor joins against you in the war

• Made a follow-up fix for the new Varangian units, as they don't show up at start, but in the proper ages they're unlocked.

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In addition to the notes above, we also have an addendum to patch 1.2.2 (Released May 13th 2026) Due to some technical errors on our end, The following points did not make into our notes for 1.2.2.
To be clear, these are changes that have been on live since version 1.2.2, here they are:

• The Event "<country_adjective> Exiles" (court_flavor_events.36) can no longer fire if the exiles origin country has under 18k population and if they only own locations with less than 12k population. This should prevent very aggressive depopulation of some locations where many small countries exist

• Adjusted the "A Powerful Despot" event chain (flavor_byz_ser.1-flavor_byz_ser.6), so Strumica will be immediately annexed if Serbia wins it.

• Removed Strumica from the setup and adjusted it to be a releasable country bound to the "A Powerful Despot" event chain (flavor_byz_ser.1-flavor_byz_ser.6).

• Nerfed the Ritualistic Court bureaucracy by reducing annexation speed and cultural influence in the Positive Modifier

• Nerfed the Kephalai bureaucracy by increasing the estate enrichment and non-rural prosperity penalties in the Negative Modifier

• Nerfed the Imperial Senate bureaucracy by reducing parliament duration in the Constant Modifier and parliament base support in the Positive Modifier

• Buffed the Thémata bureaucracy by raising manpower and levy size and adding monthly army tradition to the Constant Modifier

• Buffed the Books of the Basiliká bureaucracy by adding a small monthly legitimacy bonus to the Constant Modifier

• Buffed the Romanitas bureaucracy: stronger integration speed and added monthly legitimacy in the Positive Modifier, added cultural influence to the Constant Modifier, and removed antagonism received from the Negative Modifier

• Latin culture starts kindred opinion of Greek and vice versa

• Fixed the achievements "Belisar's Legacy" and "There Can Be Only One" being locked only for Byzantium; now they will also be available if the player started as Byzantium, but later formed another country (such as Rome).

• Fixed city_illustration_trigger causing error spam on some mods

• In the Grant Latin Merchant Privileges message it now properly shows Italian instead of $italian_language$

• Fixed Romanian -escu patronymic suffixes to be suffixes instead of prefixes

• Fixed some cabinet actions not updating properly when assigning characters to them

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We've been reading your feedback closely since 1.2 launched, and early next week we're shipping 1.2.4 to address some of the issues you've flagged most often.

AI and Warfare

A few persistent problems with AI army behaviour are fixed in this patch. The AI now targets fewer, larger stacks rather than spreading thin across the map. We've also resolved an issue where large countries couldn't properly buy mercenaries, and fixed the AI failing to account for already-hired mercs when evaluating war strength, which was causing some badly-timed decisions. Navies getting stuck in friendly transport objectives are also resolved.

War & Diplomacy

Scripted cores gained or lost through events now persist for 100 years before expiring, rather than disappearing immediately. We've also differentiated the no-CB war cost between same-religion and cross-religion wars, and capped 100% peace deal truces at 15 years. Note to Johan, 5 as base and 15 as range does not give results between 5 and 15, it gives 5 to20!

Fate of the Phoenix

Several more bugs related to the DLC and Byzantium will be fixed. The Hellenic action “Grant a Triumph” will be more rewarding, and its tooltip will be made clearer. 

We’re also making a couple of additional fixes and tweaks to the “Roman Borders” CB. Cataphract units and advances will now also be tied to the whole Roman culture group, making it clearer when they can be recruited, which will also increase their recruitment pool, due to not being restricted just to the Greek culture. x

And last but not least, a couple more follow-up fixes for the Varangians will be coming in; the more relevant one is that the DLC lock for the new Age-2-to-Age-6 Varangian units will be removed, as their creation was intended as a fix to the base game Age 1 Varangian unit not working properly as per their original design intention, and not as a Fate of the Phoenix DLC content addition.  

Interface

The religion panel now shows your actual omen cap rather than the total number of omens defined across a religion's gods. Mousing over a religion in the UI highlights its locations and Holy Sites on the map. Several tooltip fixes are included: mercenary contract length in months, capital move development values, and a few broken strings.

Other issues

We are also looking into tuning population growth up a bit, and have been tweaking the reform society disaster to be more achievable. The total number of rows in the 1.2.4 patchnotes are currently at around 50.

We hear you on performance. It remains our number one priority and is the central focus of 1.3, and we'll have more to say on that soon. If you are having performance issues you can help speed this process along by giving info this performance megathread:

https://pdxint.at/4u7aMGx

Thanks for sticking with us and keeping the feedback coming.

- The Tinto Team

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As usual, here is a list of handy EU5 links:

And remember...
Be Ambitious!