V1.4.1c Ugly American Patch D

Ugly American Patch D is the v1.4.1c update patch for The New Order released on June 21 2023, adding minor changes, fixing bugs, balance changes and various improvements from the Ugly American v1.4.1 update.

Minor Changes

• Added new world events to the Canada skeleton
• Added faction interactions to Turkey's skeleton
• Added Turkish Econ Sphere
• Reworked British states

Bug Fixes

General Sphere Bug Fixes

• Fixed Comintern buttons being misaligned
• Effect of international brigade vote doesn't change if you choose to start a new vote before selecting the event
• Nations can no longer opt for ComIntern associate instead of membership if they are already an associate
• COMECOM no longer tear countries out of tighter-knit econ spheres when it gets founded
• Fixed several econ spheres not have a Sphere Insularity value including Iberia, Italy, COMECOM, and the French Community post-reclamation/reconciliation

America and OFN Bug Fixes

• CAR is now actually a member of OFN prior to its collapse
• US decision to increase volunteers to Mano Campaign now works
• Every Mano Pact state no longer gets a dynmod for each member of PALF, instead now using only one dynmod
• the Congo establishing regular elections is no-longer a world ending event
• Fixed a bug that caused a large portion of crashes and peace deal strangeness during the WAC
• Wars immediately after WAC now fire the correct block of peace deal code
• Mano Campaign peace deals fixed for both sides (PALF victory should be fixed completely)
• Post-WAC peace deals no longer give WAC peace popup messages
• Fixed issues with fopo tabs not being removed after the fall of PALF
• WAC proxy spirits are now correctly removed at the end of the war for all West Africa countries
• FMA victory in scenario 2 now gives Cold War Points
• WAC standardized to 200 Cold War Points
• Mossiland and Ivory Coast now get the correct cosmetic tag after Reclamation/Reconciliation if FMA won WAC
• Free French puppets now drop their cosmetic tags if the reclamation fails
• Fixed Sokoto and Yorubaland spawning in capitulated for Cameroon Collapse
• Fixed Madagascar decisions increasing No/Isolated Authority straight to Tamed Territory in one decision
• ORM and ETB should actually have cores on each other now
• SWB now properly gets cores on Timbuktu, Mopti, Fulani
• In WAC Scenario 3, Sokoto's invasion of Nigeria is cut and instead gets invaded by FMA
• In Scenarios 1 and 2, Sokoto revolt in Cameroon collapse can now conquer all of Nigeria
• Fixed Fuuta Fulbe not getting properly annexed post-war in some scenarios
• Brazilian SAW superevent now triggers the correct audio
• Dominican Republic now gets the proper party pops after Communist putsch
• Haitian communist no longer disappears after winning the CW, if Cantave couped the government prior
• Brazil's Reassign Officers decisions no longer mention the SAW
• The Free State of Colombia will no longer have holdover ideas from the CCW when the 2CCW hits
• The Free State of Colombia's capital will not move from Bogata after the 2CCW
• Heriberto Schwartau Eskildsen is no longer on both sides of the 2CCW
• The COL testing decisions now require the COL_civil_war_ongoing global flag to access
• Fixed Colombia Revolutionaries sometimes missing one of their ministers in post-war skeleton
• Fixed an issue where IBR Colombian Civil War Global Conflict decisions would require Command Power but didn't spend any
• Baby Doc no longer uses Papa Doc's bio
• AI handles invasion of Bolivia/Santa Cruz better
• PAC (First Paraguay Corps) should now spawn with its troops
• Santo Domingo state lore initials change if city is formally named Santo Domingo, instead of still using TRJ
• Fixed several issues with loc not accounting for CRA occasionally happening in 1963
• Oh Darling! achievement is now completable
• CIA can now prevent Suriname independence
• Hopefully fixed constant coups in Haiti
• Fixed Nationalists info in caucus deccat not displaying properly
• Debate events should trigger again
• US will now try to extract Maurice
• Progressives no longer increases Marxist support by winning proxy wars
• If Hall wins a proxy war, Marxist popularity will increase instead of nothing
• Events for Bormann-Hart attempted détente now have loc
• The US event for the rejection of Bormann's détente now use the correct loc for Goldwater

Germany and Pakt Bug Fixes

• Fixed Josias I coronation not properly creating Josias I leader role
• Added sidebar images for Reichsstaat Cabal and Atlantic Battleground global conflicts
• RND can not longer assist the Villasboa regime if the Democratios control Paraguay
• Speer's econ tree now properly says the megacorps needs to be Waning and not Vulnerable for last focus of each corp specific branch
• Added the event for Speer post-Paraguayan War
• German espionage decisions can now all be taken at the exact values listed on the cost trigger
• Fixed several espionage events missing tooltips for Bormann
• Germany & the USA will no longer get events about their rival pulling ahead in the Battle of the Atlantic when Britain takes the lead
• Germany will be able to interact with the Cabal during ceasefire scenarios
• Germany's CCW decisions will now remove command power as a cost
• General Bob Smith will no longer show his support for the monarchy in post-Gaxotte reconciliation
• Meyer-Landrut should no longer lose all his gains in Ostland if Speer puppets them mid-war
• Added in value = 1 to the timed country flags for the Speer EconMech, hopefully fixing the issue of the timed flags not applying properly
• Added the SGR_SAW_withdrawal flag to the pullout decision so you can now properly take related focuses and decisions
• Switched FROM to OSL in the coring scripted effect for Ostland
• Removed BLR core on Wilna, removed MST cores on Wilna, Wiljeka, Minsk-Stadt
• MST tag should now core all of Ostland if Speer intervenes
• If Ireland passes the Tariff Commission Repeal Act, it no longer sets them to Closed Economy
• England now has a seal in the fopo tab during the Battle for England
• Fixed OC defeats being listed as victories for Germany, turns out an easy way to not have a war is to not exist
• Bormann can now get the benefits from the UAR forming if the OC ends prior to its formation
• Espionage idea for countries at war with Germany now list the correct intel agency rather than just leaving a blank
• Fixed Maurice espionage chain, no longer able to kill him twice
• German Madagascar will now use German unit models
• Fixed Speer bring AREMA Madagascar back into the Pakt
• AREMA Madagascar now loses all spirits from the Garrison under Speer
• Hopefully fixed SAW Looming Failure mission reappearing
• Made French AI more violent in their civil war scenarios
• The German Support and Japanese Support ideas now have brief descriptions
• Addressed an issue in GER_PPI_Arm_Street_Gangs where it was checking for > 10 involvement but only taking down 5
• Add AI to Germany + Iberia decisions in the Dominican Civil War
• Fixed German PPI intel bar not working
• Fixed an issue in GER_COL_reorganize_the_army and GER_COL_send_advisors where the Command Power costs were higher than what was actually taken

Japan and Co-Prosperity Sphere Bug Fixes

• Morita no longer attempts to fix the space issue in the Tree Pearls
• Vietnam will now lose the 'The Personalist Revolution' national spirit after the military coup
• Indonesia will no longer sometimes liberate random CW tags in its peace deal
• Philippine reconstruction should trigger correctly in FPR scenario
• Fixed Philippine post-recon elections
• The Firipin Shotō Rinji now has the Imperial Protectorate status rather than the Fully Dependent Member of the Sphere status
• Fixed Garcia not being able to form the UFF when the Simbang Gabi coup fails
• Any Philippines that's not Tanada's will be added to the OFN EconSphere (Barring Japan's)
• One of UMAJF's divisions is no longer vacationing in Southern Italy at game start
• Fixed several Kaya events displaying loc keys instead of the names of ministers
• The national spirit "The Extremist's Handprint" now has an icon
• Turkes Kenes should surely be concluded within 500 days
• Operation Ko-Ni-Go state modifier in Colombia CW has loc and an icon now
• Japanese create_unit effects for CCW now actually create units

Italy and Triumvirate Bug Fixes

• Decolonising Israel will no longer cause the collapse of our reality
• Decolonising Lebanon will no longer cause the collapse of our reality
• Decolonising Palestine will no longer cause the collapse of our reality
• Italy's party pops now update correctly after FD election
• Montenegro now gets both its states back if it dies to Croatia
• UAR no longer uses a spirit icon with José Martí
• Iberia's mission to retake Algeria after the death of Salazar now can be completed
• Fixed an issue where the Ba'athists, Constitutionalists, and Islamists didn't receive a core on Tikrit after the war

Russia Bug Fixes

• Fixed numerous misspellings of Khrushchev
• Fixed South Urals Prototype MANPADS tech gfx
• Fixed Magnitogorsk triggers not displaying amount of subjects needed for decisions

• Zlatoust now gets the correct cosmetic tags and cores post-deunification

• Chita Smuta mission "Exporting the Chita Model" no longer disappears immediately
• Magadan Regional dev decision no longer appears at any point for any leader
• WerBell's invasion of Mali contracts no longer appear during WAC
• Fixed WerBell Smuta decisions not unlocked
• Siberia no longer has to wait 30 days to invade if the other superregional hasn't formed
• Fixed several Russian tags have +40% war support or stability effects in their Smuta trees
• Tomsk focus no longer refers to Shostakovich as Shotakovich
• Fixed Kemerovo event using the wrong description and title
• Far East state fishing spirits no longer refer to the wrong ocean
• Sablin's party wing mechanic no longer shows the Bukharinists as only having very high or very low influence
• Sablin's Army reform decisions now have same requirements as the Economic reforms
• Sablin's Chita occupation flavor event now has effects
• Fixed Petlin's Magadan sometimes getting 2 Bastion of Free Trade spirits during superregional
• Fixed Onega using some pre-Unfinished Business Finland lore
• Removed some starting ideas from warlords that shouldn't be there in the Omsk collapse
• Removed military access between Zlatoust and Yugra in the Omsk collapse
• If Komi forms the united front with WRRF, it now keeps the same flag rather than reverting to the Center Komi flag
• Rewrote a Samara event didn't make sense with how landline telephones work
• Onega's Volunteer Guard decisions now stay active for as long as Left Komi exists in addition to the previous WRRF
• Fixed issue with Onega deunifying West Russia where the former unifier could still declare war on the South Urals
• Onega beating West Siberia no longer creates border gore
• States spit out by Onega beating West Siberia now join their faction

• Reworked Dzhermen Gvishiani minister portrait so he no longer looks like a tiny baby man

Miscellaneous Bug Fixes

• Addresses various performance concerns related to the foreign policy menu
• Fixed several UA leaders using a subid not intended for use until a future update

• alt_APC and alt_MBT can no longer be selected in division designer
• Alt unit versions are locced
• Anti-tank units now require anti-tank equipment to be researched

• Fixed a handful of broken focus shines
• Standardized spelling of guerrilla across code and loc
• Fixed several ideas with broken gfx
• Pátra now has a state lore gfx
• Tórshavn and Nuuk no longer lose their state lore gfx when it isn't winter
• Fixed World Tension disagreeing with average tension between the superpowers due to issue with base-game World Tension system
• Socdev level no longer increases if have slightly under the needed amount of socdev points
• Adjusted news event UI to fit two line titles better
• Added the characters š, Đ and đ into the world event font
• Cleaned up the top section of division designer UI

Balance Changes

• Weakened the Japanese decisions in Turkes Kenes
• Easier to keep the tension level higher in Turkes Kenes

• The Yasuda crisis will no longer cause a quarter of Japan's GDP to disappear
• Costs for dockyards reduced by 60%
• Greatly reduced Political Power from people joining the ComIntern
• Lowered the Command Power Costs for the USA, IBR, GER, and JAP in the Colombian Civil War Global Conflict
• Changed the IBR CCW Bribe Officials and Granting loan decisions to use money instead of PP
• Rebalancing IBR CCW decision costs to be cheaper
• COL, CLL, CLD, and CLC's starting OOBs have been renamed and rebalanced

QoL Improvements

• A world event now triggers for the start of Icelandic election proxy, so players besides the US know why the proxy is happening
• US Forpol decision USA_assist_reconstruction now grants a 3% GDP boost to the UPH or SPH depending on who is alive
• Increased PHI's starting unit count as well as changing their starting supply to 1.0
• Reducing the infantry battalions in the UPH from 9 to 6 in template 'Infantry Division'

Other Changes

• Replaced America with Turkey in the Turkes Kenes proxy to reflect updated skeleton content
• Updated 2 political screen UI assets
• Germany can now take its South African War focuses as long as the war is running
• Japan's faction has been renamed back to Dai Tōa Kyōeiken
• PALF Burkina Faso has had its name changed
• The Harbin 3's Smuta occupation decisions now integrate each other generals along pre-UB lines
• Modernists use the Liberal Technocracy subid
• Marcos' cosmetic tag is now the Third Philippine Republic
• Cocos Islands and Christmas Island have had cultures adjusted
• Cleaned up gui for army and navy traits screens
• Non-Russian communists can no longer refound the NKVD as their default intel agency
• LaR intel agencies no longer use hardcoded names
• Event pic files have been reorganized, expect issues for submods
• FMA and PALF now properly prepare to invade Zarmaland and Sokoto after FMA vs PALF WAC
• Reenabled WAA vs PALF Scenario
• Russian tags get reduced dockyard costs up until reunification
• Magadan's RFP now gets renamed prior to it splitting into factions
• Magadan event about M1 Garands now actually gives M1 Garands
• Dirlewanger's Anarchy now has a description
• Changed the colors of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Costa Rica
• WAC now appears as ongoing in the global conflicts menu
• Mano Campaign's outcome now gives Cold War points
• Naval assign leader menu and Army assign leader menu now uses same format for their topbars
• Utopian Socialism is now a subid of progressivism
• Echeverria's ideology is now changed to Christian Progressivism
• WAC Toggle Equipment decisions now change icons based on visiblity
• Mali no longer gets a WAA faction status after FMA wins in Scenario 3
• Hooked up events from Matsushita's Riots which were missed from 1.4.0 release