This update is primarily aimed at diversifying the types of economies—each economy has become more unique, with its own set of metrics—and at increasing the game’s transparency and clarity. At the same time, this update also introduces new content, for which new achievements will be added shortly.
NEW
Added fine-grained quality settings.
Added the ability to manually pick the timecode of any track.
Added a "Strong faction support" button in parliament.
Introduced the "Streamlining" mechanic for economic ministries.
Added a new set of position icons, with the option to switch back to the old set in settings.
Added impulses for the "Tetris" event.
The specialist recruitment program now renews automatically.
Reworked the doctrine effects of the Economy Type doctrines Kadarism, Keynesian Model, East Asian Model, Titoism, and Syndicalism.
Diversified the economy models — each now has its own unique indicators and their influence.
Added tracking of the influence of each modifier, doctrine, and politician in statistics.
Added the ability to expand the list of influences from each modifier, doctrine, and politician.
Added scrolling to hover pop-up windows.
Added a text scale setting.
Added a game zoom feature.
You can now set your own politician as a Politburo member from the start.
Added the Cults of Tolstoy and Borovoy.
Added the event "The Verdict on an Era" about characterizing the Brezhnev era.
Added the ability to create Greater Kurdistan, Russian America, Greater Germany, and Greater Afghanistan.
Added storylines on the fate of Britain, Spain, the Philippines, and Quebec.
Added the ability to promote your own royal house abroad — in Britain, Ireland, Spain, and the CAR.
Widened the range of countries that can be invited into the EEC.
Added new aviation and naval decisions.
Added a decision to transform the EEC into the Eurasian Union.
Added the ability to proclaim the «Mahatma Lenin» teaching the official state creed.
Added the ability to overcome the Christian schism.
Changing the language no longer requires a restart, but is only available from the main menu.
BALANCE
The Chairman of Parliament's trait effects now scale with the parliament's total power.
Rebalanced the right branch of military technologies and its effects.
Training a politician when dispatched now takes 6 months instead of 1 year.
Trait influence on political capital doubled.
Added buttons to force non-allied great powers out of a war.
The «Mahatma Lenin» achievement now requires proclaiming the teaching of the same name.
The player's left/right leanings are now measured by the political compass axes.
TRANSPARENCY
Removed the limit on the number of selected countries.
The politicians window now remembers your filters.
FIXES
The tutorial is no longer offered every time you launch the game — after the first answer, the setting turns off automatically.
Have a nice play! And don't forget - there will be new achievements soon!