The Ruin

The Ruin is the 1.5.0 patch for The New Order released on September 29, 2023, that provides introductory content for a revised United Kingdom and Reichskommisariat Ukraine.

Major Additions

• 3 Years of Content for the United Kingdom's Collaborationist Government
• 3 Years of Content for Reichskommisariat Ukraine and its various factions
• Added the Channel Crisis Proxy conflict

Minor Additions

Asian Additions

• Japan content has been facelifted for longer, more enjoyable gameplay with rebalanced and overhauled effects, additional events, an Oil Crisis focus tree, a revamped Dai Li Crisis, and much more
• Cosmetic Facelifts for Sukarno's path in line with future plans

European Additions

• New content for Ireland, including the 1965 elections, revamps to the endings and 20 new events
• Changed the starting situation of Gotenland, resulting in slight edits to the German Civil War
• Germany now reconquers Serbia if it goes communist

Rest of the World Additions

• Revamped player side of Haitian civil war proxy
• Expanded Haiti skeleton to 1972
• Added new skeleton to Kazakhstan
• Added new skeleton to Hungary to 1967, with further skeleton content planned for a future update
• Added new skeleton to Afghanistan

Miscellaneous

• Added gamerules for new and expanded content
• Added 11 New Original Soundtracks, Including Lamentation the New Main Menu Theme!
• Added New Game Start Sound
• Added 2 New Loading Screens
• Added report an issue button into pause menu

Bug Fixes

African Bug Fixes

• Cameroon Capitulates mission should now work properly instead of crashes most of the time
• Fixed Ghana and Guinea not joining not joining WAA after Scenario 1 WAC
• Fixed issue with the USA still having WAC decisions + missions after FMA dies in scenario 2 (rarely broke WAC peace deals)
• Fixed monarchy support change effect for South Africa
• Congo-Brazzaville has been renamed to Loango in all instances to reflect lack of owning Brazzaville
• Segregated the officer corps of playable nations in Africa
• SAW peace deals should work in all cases
• Boers should no longer retake all their land when Hüttig puppets them (please)
• Various ideas for the African RKs and South Africa are now removed properly at end of SAW
• USA can no longer decide a path for East Africa if they formed CAR
• Player USA can no longer get a closing screen after AI CAR decolonizes
• East African Mandate and Namibia now have adjectives defined for them
• Congo's adjective is corrected from Congoan to Congolese
• Congolese Civil War events for USA now accounts for leader and country name
• Fixed Mozambique CW loc treating Harare as a city in Mozambique
• Mozambique CW now has a sidebar image

South American Bug Fixes

• Removed "The Shadow Province" national spirit from FULNA led Paraguay
• AI Brazil now takes SAW forpol decisions
• Ecuador going pro-Iberian actually grants Iberia economic bonuses
• Haitian leaning ceasefire in the Blitz now gets the correct world event
• OAS peacekeeping government in Dominican Republic now removes the old government's ministers, normalizes relations, and renames Santo Domingo
• Trujillo is no longer assassinated to remove him from power, if the Blitz ended in total Haitian victory
• Dominican Republic will no longer remain a puppet w/o a party name when Balaguer is elected following DR-PPLN Front defeat in HCW
• Anti-Radical Coup now puts correctly puts Tavárez in power
• Fixed Caribbean crisis not ending properly if referendum was rejected
• Haitian 1964 elections can no longer happen if Haitian communists have taken over the government
• Jacques Stephen Alexis now changes leader role correctly if communists win prior to Amazonists taking power in the DR or PALF winning the WAC
• Fixed the Haitian Communists waiting till the entire OFN is capitulated to declare victory in the CW
• Fixed 2 of the 3 Mexican successor's using Suslov's Red Eminence trait
• Enemy Bombing Runs for PPI is now properly dynamic based on Germany's actions
• PPI Insurgency Strength is now visible
• Colombian gridlock world event now has a event pic that is sized properly
• Switched several Iberian CCW decisions from targeting COL so they could apply to New Granada as well
• Fixed Suriname having too many elections
• USA now gets correct events upon Legion victory in the Dominican Civil War
• USA PHI decisions were missing ai_will_do so added those in

US and OFN Nation Bug Fixes

• Cleaned up effects on USA.1776
• US event for Suharto's victory is now visible for the player
• Removed unneeded brackets in Hart event Idealism Lost
• Fixed several CIA decisions that take the correct amount from the CIA budget
• CIA decisions for supporting Russian factions should work properly now
• Hart can now get Freshly Paved Roads
• Fixed Hart being unplayable for the first 2 years if you start with a divided Senates
• Now possible to complete Goldwater's Far Right Crusade mission
• The USA not longer gets debuffs on African Quaqmire mission when CAR has stability above 50%
• '64 NPP candidates no longer have their treeload in the SAW configuration if SAW is already over
• Wallace's NPP forpol tree no longer overlaps with his main tree
• CIA Mission to funnel guns to South Africa pre-SAW is no longer available after SAW ends
• St. Kitts, Nevis, and Anguilla finally has a color assigned to it
• Pre-NSB Australian and New Zealand military leaders readded
• Canadian patriation news events should now fire at the correct time
• Canadian patriation news events will now remove the Constitution national spirit if patriation is successful
• Restored Falklander culture to South Georgia

Germany and Einsheitpakt Bug Fixes

• Fixed several Heydrich warlords not appearing in his GUI
• Bormann's rail megaproject dynmod no longer uses a icon of planes
• Germany and the Zollverein are no longer both listed as Top 10 economies
• Speer no longer causes the world GDP to be 16% higher than it should be
• An SS Charlemagne division no longer assists in anti-partisan actions for Manchukuoan government
• Atlantic Battleground fopo tab descs for Germany and the US appear correctly now
• Fixed a variety of unit spawns for the Slave Revolt
• Speer now actually gets resource rights to some of the Norwegian oil
• Non-RK NatSoc Norway now uses the NS flag rather than the RK flag
• Slovakia party pops now adjust accordingly if invaded by Germany
• France can no longer join the Iberia sphere if Iberia has collapsed
• French Reclamation world events should now fire in every reclamation scenario, rather than just for a very specific subset of civil war reclamations

Russian Bug Fixes

• Fixed Yagoda not having his Reunification SE
• WerBell's Purchase Tanks decision now works for NSB users
• Werbell can now send volunteers to Portugal, Spain, the Regionals and Morroco at the same time as long you are not supporting opposing sides
• Fixed two Finlands existing post-Tabby if Red Finland won the civil war
• Far East collapse states should all be able to be capitulated now
• Zlatoust now gets the closing screen after shattering West Siberia
• Zlatoust's name now correctly updates after shattering West Siberia
• Fixed TK anarchy being in Turkish sphere
• Readded several occupation events for Chita and Buryatia
• Restored Kirpichnikov's portrait change after beating West Russia

Japan and Sphere Bug Fixes

• Christmas Offensive planning should now properly works
• Japan now gets told what the Christmas Offensive actually is
• Fixed several typos across Ikeda's events
• Fixed several typos across the Dai Li Investigation Chain
• Fixed several typos across Kaya's events
• Fixed an instance of a broken trigger for an event locking players out of an option
• Fixed a focus improving an idea that was given by a mutually exclusive focus branch
• Fixed an effect being misplaced in Japan's Development Decisions
• Added ai_will_do to the first stage of the PHI proxy conflict that were missing for JAP decisions
• Fixed a typo left in the Philippines Reconstruction decisions
• Fixed an effect being misplaced in Japan's Development Decisions
• Fixed a Typo in one of Kissinger's Negotiation Events
• Fixed a Typo in the proxy description of the Mozambique Civil War
• Fixed a Typo in one of the tooltips for Japan's decisions in the Indonesia Proxy
• Fixed a small typo in the event guangdong_hitachiCoup.7
• Replaced all instances of Hitachi Company/Group etc with Hitachi Corporation
• China now claims all of the states of the island of Taiwan if it wins the Great Asian War
• Fixed Guangxi's party name after GAW Japanese victory
• Added all missing minister portraits for Vietnam and Viet Minh
• Removed Xikang focus tree, events, and decisions
• Party pops now adjust correctly at the start of Khmer Serei Elections and when In Tam is elected
• Fixed several ICW events shared between Japan and the US only firing for one of them
• Lubis now inherits US volunteer support rather the US continuing to support the nonexistent FRI tag
• Lubis Victory event for the US now has a functional desc
• Lubis Victory now give pop to the ruling party in the US
• Fixed numerous misspellings of Zulkifli
• Fixed an issue where an Indonesian global flag wasn't being cleared due to a typo

Rest of the World Bug Fixes

• Fixed peace effects for GNS's invasion of Spain during the Iberian Wars
• Iberian infrastructure chain can now be finished in all cases
• Germany can now send volounteers to both Falangists and Frente Azul
• Communist Armenia now has a leader
• Several Scorza ideas w/o icons fixed
• Scozra's Lira Zone idea now has loc
• Fixed several Greek ministers without loc
• Sidos can now receive volounteers from Germany/Italy/Iberia based on whose sphere he joined
• Franco no longer betrays Sidos for De Gaulle
• Italy will no longer conquer French states should the Reclamation be against an Italian-puppeted France
• Fixed OC advisors decision for Japan and USA reappearing before the original advisors spirit expired
• OC bombing mission for Japan and USA now only remove the bombing spirit from the specific country being bombed when it ends, rather than every country being bombed
• After the end of the Algerian war, both Italy and the Iberian Union will have their volunteers cleared
• Iberia will suffer the consequences from losing the Algerian war even when led by the computer
• Somalia's capital is now properly located in Mogadishu
• Mozambique Civil War now gets listed as ongoing in Cold War GUI during proxy
• Turkes Kenes is now listed under Cold War achievements
• New characters added in Ugly American are now all classified with the correct gender
• Added numerous missing ministers for Bulgaria, Macedonia, and the Iranian Civil War

Miscellaneous

• Added faction icons for numerous minor factions
• Overall Army Expenditures tooltip now includes effect from Procurement Funding
• Espionage tech complete popup no longer appears in observer mode
• Espionage tech research only appears when needed for the AI, rather than always for all AI tags
• Fixed several broken songs for Linux users
• Suppression of Church law is no longer misspelt
• Fixed loc on APC designation and armament slots
• Changed ComIntern so new countries will auto-join COMECOM, NAP, and Tech sharing when applicable
• Adjusted icon size on Afrika Schild and Ural Alliance faction icons
• Incorporated all fixes from the most up-to-date Linux GFX fix submod (might require reinstall given how finicky file renaming can be)

Balance Changes

Proxy War Related

• Added in a USA ceasefire decision for the DR Proxy providing infantry equipment to CAL
• Buffed the Caribbean Legion's starting stability by 40% and manpower by 10,000
• CCW fortification decisions can only be fired once
• Increasing State GDP gain for the Fund Jungle Infrastructure decision
• Switched Iberian Industrial Equipment to add GDP to the State value rather than a percentage gain
• US Fund Jungle Infrastructure decision for the CCW adds value directly to the States rather than multiplying it
• Rebalanced GER, USA, IBR, and JAP's Colombian Civil War decision costs
• Added Iberian style Bribing Officials decisions to Japan's CCW decisions
• Added US style Infiltration decisions to German's CCW decisions
• Added new loans decisions to IBR, JAP, GER, and USA
• Buffed fortification decisions for the CCW to be add more forts
• Buffed infrastructure decisions to add state GDP as well
• Added ai modifiers to JAP's Madagaskar proxy decisions
• Adjusted the USA's Madagaskar proxy decisions variables
• The 14th Army decisions and ideas have been rebalanced to give them more of a fighting chance
• Added a new PHI Blitz decision for Japan
• Slightly nerfed the SPH mountaineers but added another division in compensation
• Adjusting some USA PHI decisions and adding in a couple new ones
• The UPH now forms the UFF faction rather than the SPH so that the 14th Army can no longer instantly win by killing the SPH
• The Second Philippines Republic now starts as a Fully Dependent Sphere Member and becomes an Economically Dependent Sphere Member if the reconstruction is successful
• Added new Vengeance for the Dead ideas to PHI
• Overhauled all of Japan's Proxy decisions so that they have up-to-date costs
• Rebalanced JAP's Madagaskar proxy decisions to give them more contribution, factionalism, and investment
• USA_PHI_comphrehensive_aid will now increase the GDP of the Philippines by 2.5% rather than 0.25%
• PHI now starts with an additional 30,000 starting manpower
• PHI now can no longer train divisions until after the proxy conflict
• Rebalanced JAP's PHI proxy conflict decisions
• Rebalanced PHI ideas to be less punishing
• Added 20 convoys to every Philippines tag
• Added a slate of new PHI proxy decisions for JAP and the USA
• Rebalanced Factionalism and Contribution gain in the Madagascar Proxy for both the US and Japan
• Made the Japanese "Assist the Reconstruction" decisions give a 3% GDP boost like its US counterpart
• Moved GDP increases from these two decisions to their remove effects

Economy Related

• Buffed GDP growth modifiers for the Ostland tree from 0.03 to 0.3
• Buffed FRA_back_in_the_pakt gdp growth modifier from 0.2 to 2
• Buffed FRA_delouvrier_plan gdp growth modifier from 0.075 to 7
• Buffed FRA_plan_PRIME gdp growth modifier from 0.75 to 7
• Increasing the GDP growth of OST_finishing_touches to 2% up from 0.3%
• Increasing the GDP growth of OST_attract_siemens to 1% up from 0.3%
• Increasing the GDP growth of OST_the_best_industry to 2.5% up from 0.3%
• OST's starting debt has been halved
• Increased AI weights for focus OST_estonian_harbors from 1 to 50
• Increased GDP Growth given by Japan's Post-Yasuda Decisions
• Reduced Costs across the board for several Japanese decisions, particularly fixing issues of massive debt costs
• Lowered the GDP growth malus provided by the Yasuda Crisis 1% (from 6 to 5)
• Slightly Reduced the cost of one of Japan's Madagaskar decisions
• Lowered Misc Costs for several of Japan's decisions to be in line with gameplay standards
• Decreased Debt Costs for several of Japan's events

Minor Changes

• Removed and corrected several divisions for RK Ukraine
• Rebalanced RK Ukraine's divisions equipment and experience
• France's Technocratic Constitution Idea now reduces Stability by -10% instead of -2%
• Increasing the gdp growth of IBR.226 and IBR.299 from 0.02 to 0.1 for Iberia
• Increased Support given from Kido's Relationship Boost decision, from 5%, to 10%
• Set proper AI strategies for handling the development decisions where possible
• Rebalanced some ai wights to make sure they don't have a NULL effect

QoL Improvements

OFN Improvements

• Brazil's buy and sell weapons for SAW decisions are now hidden by default
• Added bypasses to a bunch of Nixon's forpol focuses for if relevant conflict has already passed
• Added a tooltip to USA_hart_68_some_lip_service clarifying the availability of the focus

Japanese and Sphere Improvements

• Reduced Time-to-remove for several Japanese decisions
• Political Reform decisions available near the end of Japan run now change the specific law (With one exception), allowing Japan to obtain new laws
• Updated Japanese Development Decisions to be more enjoyable, increasing rewards across the board and lowering time-to-remove
• Added loc for one of Japan's Indonesia Proxy decisions
• Moved Japan's Development decisions that do not cost Diet Influence so that they are at the top and grouped together
• Renamed the Decision Category for Development Decisions from "Political Reforms" to "Development Plans"
• The Second Philippines Republic now rejoins the Sphere as soon as the war ends

Oil Crisis Improvements

• If Saudi Arabia is aligned with any factions, any nations aligned with it will also align with the power once Saudi Arabia beats the invading Ba'athist Yemen
• All Arab nations in the Middle East, as well as Iran, no longer receive the Oil Crisis national spirit once the crisis starts
• Italy can now send volunteers to nations aligned with it during the Oil Crisis
• Doubled the interface scroll speed sensitivity

Other Changes

Japan and Sphere Related

• Added a new bio for Takagi
• Added new descriptions for all Diet Factions
• Added a brand new focus tree for all of Japan's paths available during the Oil Crisis that allows Japan to recover from the Crisis, as part of the tree you may even be able to expand the Co-Prosperity Sphere, depending on your performance!
• Added several new events for the Oil Crisis tree to create an interesting narrative during the end-game
• Added checks to all focuses for all PMs so that they may not be done while the Oil Crisis is active
• Removed all Dai Li Investigation Decisions, the Crisis is now handled strictly via a naturally flowing event chain
• Fixed several accounts of the terms like "Prime Minister", "Home Minister", "General" being written with all lowercase letters when being used as to name a character
• Reordered Dai Li Investigation Events to provide a cohesive and naturally flowing narrative
• Added event pics of several events in the Dai Li Investigation
• The Dai Li Crisis now has a cohesive narrative, no events repeat themselves during the investigation
• Shortened several events to provide better readability of Dai Li Investigation events
• Restructured Ikeda's second focus tree, removing a mutually exclusive check and in the process adding an extra year of playable content
• Massively overhauled all of Ikeda's focus effects
• Massively overhauled all of Ikeda's Acts
• Overhauled effects given by Ikeda's events, including the addition of multiple new effects to spice events
• Rewrote several focus descriptions in Ikeda's second focus tree
• Added new GFX to several focuses in Ikeda's second focus tree
• Removed mentions of cut content across Ikeda's content
• Ikeda can now improve the Zaibatsu Question National Idea
• Ikeda can now make use of 2 focuses using the Sphere Development Effect, which increases GDP Growth of all members of their Economy Sphere
• Added several law improvements to Ikeda's focuses and acts, Ikeda can now improve pensions, unemployment police and education
• Provided Unique Icons for all of Kaya's Hardliner Missions
• Massively overhauled effects for all of Kaya's Hardliner Missions
• Adjusted Influence/Approval given by all of Kaya's Hardliner Missions
• Removed Time-To-Remove for all Kaya's Hardliner decision
• Adjusted Costs for all of Kaya's Hardliner Decisions
• Restructured Kaya's Second Focus Tree so that the mutually exclusive branches are on the far sides of the tree
• Massively overhauled all of Kaya's focus effects
• Massively overhauled all of Kaya's Acts
• Overhauled effects given by Kaya's events, including the addition of multiple new effects to spice events
• Improved Kaya's ending event chains and made the moderate one more dynamic, there are no direct failstates and many more triggers to check for player progress
• Added QoL Tooltips to several of Kaya's events to help the player in their experience
• Kaya's Hardliner Subpath can now get rid of the Zaibatsu Question national idea
• Kaya's Moderate Subpath can improve the Zaibatsu Question national idea
• Added several law improvements to Kaya's focuses, Ikeda can now improve unemployment subsidies and pensions
• Increased Centralization/Decentralization given Takagi's focuses to side with the Zaibatsus or Keiretsus
• Takagi's Corruption Focus Branches now improve Admin Efficiency and Army Professionalism
• Takagi can now slowly phase out the idea "The Zaibatsu Question" through Nakasone's reforms
• Takagi can now obtain "Universal Voting" law through his focuses
• Takagi's Focus "Lighten the Punishment Clauses" now provides "Regulated Police" as a security law
• Several instances of 0.10% GDP growth changed to 0.25% in Takagi's Focus Trees
• Takagi's Corruption Focus Branches now improve Admin Efficiency and Army Professionalism
• Increased GDP growth given by Takagi's final Economic Bills
• The Moderate Plan in Takagi's Final Tree now also increases the Minimum Wage
• Overhauled Several of Takagi's Focuses including his Military Branch and the Colonial Reforms
• Takagi can now obtain "Combat Schooling" military training from his Military Focus Tree
• Takagi can now obtain "Rules of Engagement" military supervision from his Military Focus Tree
• Ensured Diet Influence Costs are not shown twice for all decisions available to Takagi
• Improved Focus Effects for Military Reforms and Economic Reforms available to Takagi
• Added AI strategies so Takagi doesn't screw over the Sphere by actively picking a bad focus
• Removed Kaya's ability to give Japan Totalitarian Police
• Reworked Manchukuo's skeleton content for the new pie chart
• Updated several Manchukuo portraits with superior versions
• Updated several Manchukuo national spirits with superior versions
• Added the 'Partisans in the East' National spirit to Manchukuo
• Updated the country name/colour for the Kwantung Army coup
• Reworked Guangdong's pie chart code so that all companies now have a pie chart slice thanks to the new code
• Dynamized the LegCo titles and portrait texticons depending on path and outcome
• Reworked/Replaced dozens of national spirits with superior versions
• Replaced all instances of OTL Nissan logos with the actual OTL one they had rather than the modern one
• Dynamized the Hitachi bio based on Manchuria's country name
• Added a new "Army Reform" Mechanic to Japan which allows them to get rid of a bad national spirit
• Renamed Several of Japan's National Spirits and provided new localization
• Added a decision to Japan's "Army Reform" Mechanic to stop further Viet Minh growth
• Created a new Dynamic National Spirit for showcasing the Emperor's Opinion of Japan's current Government, the National Spirit changes upon reaching certain checkpoints in a path
• Renamed "Co-Equal Sphere Member" to "Independent Sphere Member" and changed its description
• Renamed "Imperial Protectorate" to "Japanese Military Administration" and changed its description
• Collab Malaysia now joins the CPS as a "Japanese Military Administration" and becomes a "Fully Dependent Member" after its election
• Suharto now joins the CPS as a "Independent Sphere Member" upon winning the Civil War
• Second Philippines Republic now starts as a "Fully Dependent Sphere Member" and becomes an "Economically Dependent Sphere Member" after the Reconstruction proxy is successfully complete
• Changed the long name of YSK to "Yokusan Seijikai"
• Changed several of Japan's Leader Traits to offer stronger buffs
• Removed all uses of "-kun" and "-san" from Japan's loc
• Added a self-repeating Balance Check missions for Japan akin to Guangdong's yearly balance check to prevent snow-balling
• Renamed Japan's "Faction Relations" decision category to "The House of Cards"
• Restored over 15 events (Many for Takagi's Path)
• Restored Flavour Events that introduce Japan's PMs
• Spaced out Yasuda Crisis investigation events so that there are no cases of 2 events from it appearing on the screen at the same time
• Provided Event Pics to all spotted cases of events without event pics
• Cut mentions of deprecated content across Japan's code
• Over a dozen QoL improvements to many of Japan's National Ideas to provide a more fun experience
• Japan's reports on CIA sabotage no longer blatantly reveal it's the CIA that is sabotaging Japan
• Indonesia will always be called "Republic of Indonesia"
• Added several QoL tooltips across Japan's content
• Added a tooltip describing possible pit-falls for Japan and how to avoid them to all PM intro events
• Added three decisions to the "Development Plans" decision category which allow all PMs to expand the Shinkansen High Speed Railway across Western Japan and to bring it to Korea.
• Replaced the Nissan texticon with a historically accurate version (a big thank you to Сорока from our Chinese community)

Other Changes

• South Africa now becomes the Republic of South Africa on the map when the Monarchy loses the referendum
• Improved AI for South Sudanese CW
• Diori now is correctly in charge of Niger after Scenario 3 invasion of Zarmaland
• Changed Roberto Urdaneta Arbelaez's subid from Aristocratic Conservatism to Interim Government
• Added decision for America to sabotage the Second Patriotic Army
• Added world event for German military intervention in the South African war
• Changed some laws fro Stahlecker's Ostland and Drechsler's Ostland to better reflect their societies
• Fixed a typo in MST.2
• Added new event pictures to Meyer's Ostland
• Switched the pictures out in Jeckeln's End and Landrut's Escape
• Kovner's partisans should no longer spawn inside Jeckeln's land
• Reworded a sentence in KOV.14 to make more sense
• Gave localization to the Second Interregnum Intro Event
• The player may now opt to end their game if the Second Interregnum starts, the player may also opt to continue the game
• Focus search now gives results that using the same font and coloring as regular focus text
• Adjusted army group view to allow for longer army names
• Purged unused and duplicate leader portraits, removing 75 MB of gfx files
• Fixed several leaders missing portraits or using the wrong portrait
• Exonyms and Endonyms for Serbia
• Islamic Egypt is now called "Islamic State of Egypt"
• The Ba'athists in Yemen now seize the Port of Aden from Italy if they win in the Civil War
• Added a party name to one of South Sudan's leading parties
• Reorganization of color file and tag list to use a far small number of country files - will affect submods