V1.5.0a The Ruin Patch A

The Ruin Patch A is the v1.5.0A patch for The New Order released on October 31, 2023, that updated the mod to Hearts of Iron IV's 1.13 "Stella Polaris" version and the compatibility with the Arms Against Tyranny expansion

Major Additions[edit | edit source]

Updated the mod to 1.13 "Stella Polaris" and the Arms Against Tyranny expansion

Minor Additions[edit | edit source]

10 new event pics for UNRA
Reworked Switzerland starting situation
Facelifted Ukraine's Pillars of the Revolution GUI
The UK now gets its overseas territories back from Canada if the exiles return
Added Old Guard decisions to the Party of Contrasts mechanic

Bug Fixes[edit | edit source]

Germany and Pakt Related Bug Fixes[edit | edit source]

British Isles[edit | edit source]

Fixed bug where Collab Britain did not rejoin the Pakt when they should have
Fixed bug where Free Britain did not join the OFN when they should have
Michael Foot no longer rules as PM for life
Fixed an issue that caused missions for holding and recapturing cities in the Chimes of Midnight mechanic to instantly fail for the Collabs
Fixed an issue that caused focuses in Britain's second civil war tree to not recognize and unlock when you captured a city
Fixed an issue where missions for holding cities already owned at civil war start in the Chimes of Midnight mechanic were not activated at the start of the civil war
Fixed a national spirit not getting removed after the British Civil War
Increased the monthly completion gains on two national projects from the Workshop of the World mechanic so that they can actually be completed before expiring
Addressed an issue causing chaos to increase over the chaos cap
Ideas "Mann-Related Intelligence" and "Mann-Related Weaponry" are now removed at the same time as the Mann mechanic
Britains "Workshop of the world" GUI's graph correctly displays the corresponding month's values
Britains "Workshop of the world" GUI now correctly reloads
Fixed Irish post-crisis event chain missing a trigger mid-way through and preventing elections from occurring
domvile.71 now has option loc
Fixed Veesenmayer's name being misspelt as Vesenmeyer
Corrected spelling of Ownership and Reichswerke in Workshop of the World GUI
Lloyd's mistake focus no longer changes GDP by 0%
Replaced several English minister portraits that used older versions of updated full-size portraits
"Art Is Dead, and They Killed It" now triggers the correct follow-up event
Britain during the 2GU no longer gets a province modifier called the Terrain of Angola
Fixed some British popularity effects now showing a party
Birdwood's post-war event now triggers from peace effect rather than the 5th chaos threshold
Bean and Hamm's factions under Fontaine no longer have meme long names
Butler beating the ideologues now removes popularity from the right fascism faction
Workplace Organisations Act now lists the year it was passed instead of the current year
The British idea "German Economic Dominance" now properly affects all social policies
The British idea "German Economic Dominance" now properly swaps with its variants during the second British pre-war focus tree
Added Severn Barrage goal GFX
'National Purity Act', 'The Imperial State: Vestigial' and 'National Health Service: Groundwork' assorted laws now have proper localisation
ECW City missions should now cancel if the civil war ends
Truro's state lore has been updated to reflect the inability to see the sea from Truro

Ukrainian Changes[edit | edit source]

Ukraine no longer starts with both NSB and non-NSB armor techs
Add generic namelist for UPA, UNRA, and UA-SSR
Uman is no longer set as capital of Ukraine post-UCW
Fixed Erich Weinmann not having a minister portrait
A Second Operation Hanover no longer spawns a RK Ukraine literally anywhere in the world
Fixed Ohlendorf's Leader bio not appearing
All UPA ministers now have role in government listed in their minister descs
Fixed Maivsky name being spelt 4 different ways
Stetsko no longer has Maivsky rotting corpse as his foreign minister
Added Slava Stetsko as a foreign minister for UPA
Added traits to UPA ministers
Dispirited, Deranged Domevoy dynmod setup now displays tooltip with starting effects
UPA's civil war spirits are now removed after one of the main 3 leaders secures power
Horlis is no longer a field marshal for the RK prior to the start of the UCW
UNRA effect no long adds a visible, unlocced power stuggle dynmod
Removed blank UNRA event that just puts Horlis in a suit
UNRA election event now has tooltips for all 3 outcomes, not just Ohloblyn
Fixed several typoed versions of Ohloblyn
Fixed U-SSR focus on start screen not being in a tree you get
First focus of U-SSR pre-UCW tree now uses the right icon
Changed all instances of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic to Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic
Ukrainian-Polish War no longer ends with Ukraine annexing all of Poland, war now limited to Galicia
Poland now starts with core across the entire GGN rather than about a 1/3 of it
Germany retaking Ukraine gives a blank focus tree to the RK
Speer's Ukrainian National Republic now has a party name
Gotenland Emergency event, which replaces Dönitz's coup, is now given to GCW contenders instead of just Speidel
Hungary, Romania, collab Serbia, and collab Britain no longer join then immediately leave the Zollverein after Speer victory
Adjusted Romania's starting libcon and post-PNL reunification party names
Fixed TNS not joining the Zollverein/German econ sphere with Romania
Serbia post-German invasion no longer has a worker directed economy
Serbia will now only rejoin the Pakt and German econ sphere if the collabs won
Partisan Breadbasket actions now have correct costs
Corrected a typo in UKS The Reapers Scythe causing gender rights to not improve
Corrected an error where it wasn't actually taking equipment from UKR and sending it to UKS in UKR Empty Their Warehouses
Cleared out a Contribloc that was missed
Added in loc to the empty UKR_something_is_broken_tt tooltip
The Panacea idea is now removed shortly after the end of the Ukrainian Civil War by a new event
Added localization to the UKR_power_struggle_active flag
Capitalized an 'I' in the So This Is Christmas? event
Replaced 'risis' with 'Crisis' in the 1962 Economic start
Fountaine's Night of Unity now displays loc properly
Player Ukraine is no longer replaced when Germany comes to retake the east
Fixed Breadbasket actions not being takeable if you had exactly the requirements listed on them w/o any excess
Moved Nosenko event again Polish Uprising 60 days later
Corrected numerous misspellings of Melnyk as Melynk
Poland rejecting the UPA's ultimatum now properly gives them 2 extra partisan units
Cleaned up and fixed peace and state control changed effects for UPA
Added a bunch of missing loc for Shukhevych's and Klyachkivsky's invasions of Poland
UPA capitulation event to UNRA no longer says Shukhevych was killed
Pillars of Revolution now properly gives a buff to defense during the UCW
Parties under UNRA can no longer get more than 100% of the vote in a region (or less than 0%)
The gamerules for the Republic of Ukraine now work

Rest of the Pakt[edit | edit source]

Poland under Wachowiak is now a collaborator puppet state instead of autonomous RK
Pleiger should now come to power properly in Kaukasia
Germany will no longer invade Cosic's Serbia if the SCW ended right before the GCW ended
Non-Fatherland Front Simeon no longer has Zveno as his party name
Petre Bejan now actually leads the wing of PNL with his name on it
Pie charts and radial progress bars will now display in the same way in OpenGL as well as in non-OpenGL
Fixed broken alert for low government control on the Breadbasket GUI regions
Fixed an issue where Midnight decision Relocate the Weaponry was not sending equipment to the Collabs
Fixed Speer's Josias Kaukasia tree being impossible to complete
Speer now gets resource rights in Kaukasia after beating Josias
Speer's Kaukasische Militärregierung is now a military authority instead of an autonomous RK
Fixed Deutsches Reich Heydrich Warlord not having a leader
Fixed RK power struggle missions going away after completion/expiry
Afrika-Schild member status is now only removed if the Schild is disbanded

America and OFN Related Bug Fixes[edit | edit source]

The US will no longer lose trust in government if they win the Gulf of Guinea
Post OFN Collapse Congo will not undergo another crisis upon winning its civil war
Fixed 1970 elections for Edna Lott and Brizola
Fixed Tortorelli Arcade Mode decision
Fascist Comrades opinion modifier is now properly removed post-Trujillo and post-Balaguer
Fixed Brazil startup lore referring to the 2WRW
Ibagué state lore now uses the correct year for its creation
"Lott Act" idea is removed in the edge case that the Lott Act passes just as Denys coups Lott
Dominican Republic returning to democracy after the Revolution now updates ideas and econ subtype
Bypasses on Nixon's Britain forpol focuses now work properly
It is now possible for LBJ to finish his civil rights reform event chain
Timer no longer covers decisions during the Puerto Plata invasion
Fixed PADESM victory in the Malagasy Uprising not improving ruling party pop for the US
Fixed German victory in the Malagasy Uprising not hurting ruling party pop for the US
50-50 state control in Haiti is now displayed as Communist control to reflect on-map reality
Fixed numerous CIA missions about Speer that set the mission flag incorrectly and affected the results of future missions if you failed
Weakening Reactionaries in Speer's Germany no longer prevents from sending planes to him during the CW
Operation Jewel can no longer be taken after the Monarchy referendum
CIA Russian safehouses mission should now be takeable
Locked templates of both sides of Malagasy Uprising to prevent them from breaking decisions by deleting templates
Fixed nothing happening in some West Indies Federation events

Japan and Co-Prosperity Sphere Bug Fixes[edit | edit source]

Fixed Kido overthrowing the Japanese government if they win the Philippines and successfully complete reconstruction
US and Japan now both get the end of Hawaii negotiations event, end effects are only on the USA version of the event
Daoud Khan will now use the right calendar before resigning
Set the Army Reform variable at the beginning of each Japanese PM's routes
Fixed an issue where Takagi's and Kaya's events were being swapped
Fixed an issue causing some Army Reform events to be overridden by others
Japan can now see how the Gulf of Guinea campaign is going
Fixed Kaya gamerules not getting some focus

Russian and Kazakh Bug Fixes[edit | edit source]

Zhdanov's favor effects now display the tooltip properly
Zigfrid Shultz should now properly die when he is killed
Fixed all spellings of Vozhd as Vohzd
Unlocalized the names of the Kazakh parties during the KCW
Skrzeszewski now properly comes to power after Yusupov dies

Rest of the World Bug Fixes[edit | edit source]

Syria is back to being yellow
Tanganyika-Zanzibar war no longer starts when Tanganyika is shattered
Fixed German-Iberia Non-Aggression Pact event effect that wasn't adapted to German ideology changes
Portugal-Spain peace deals should now function properly
Spanish State victory now counts as a German victory in the Cold War tab, rather than a stalemate
Iberian Wars outcomes now gives pop effects to US players
Galicia can now receive Japanese support
The Rif Republic can no longer join the Japanese econ sphere before they beat Morocco
Algerian Crisis no longer breaks if you are in observer mode
Icon on A Plan for the Future has been fixed
Fixed decolonization of the East African Mandate
Raseta can no longer secure power if Thermidor coup in on the way
France retaking Franche-Comté no longer triggers a province rename in Chechnya
Fixed two Rwanada ministers with swapped portraits

Miscellaneous Bug Fixes[edit | edit source]

Corrected a typo in PP_Command_Power_Loan_tt
Fixed numerous ministers w/o the proper desc coloring
Fixed sliders being able to be set beyond the maximum value by clicking past the max point
Fixed numerous misspellings of receive, disturb, and distribute
Converted all instances of recruitable_population_factor (a deprecated effect) to conscription_factor (one that actual works)
Fixed numerous techs with the wrong years assigned
Fixed Intel missions to low regional network strength of the other superpower
Missile airwings are once again deployable, moveable, and assignable
Trial by Fire training law has working loc again
Removed instances of have have from loc
Fixed GFX on a bunch of ideas using icons from old Hungary skeleton
Gamerule option that brings the Turkish ending to Turkes Kenes is back

Fixed audio clipping issues with the main theme - Lamentation
Fixed incorrect sub-ideologies in some gamerule descriptions

Balance Changes[edit | edit source]

Increased the costs of losing London and Edinburgh in the Chimes of Midnight mechanic
Increased the time you're expected to hold London in the Chimes of Midnight mechanic
Made it so that the mission for holding Edinburgh in the Chimes of Midnight mechanic can only fire once
Decreased the monthly completion gain for the Severn Barrage national project from the Workshop of the World mechanic
Adjusted Red Army improvement values in the pre-war U-SSR focus tree in order to compensate for the addition of the new decision category
Added a 7 day cooldown for all RK power struggle decisions

QoL Improvements[edit | edit source]

Reduced volume on title theme
Shortened completion times of missions for holding and recapturing cities in the Chimes of Midnight mechanic
Improved the reward for holding Edinburgh in the Chimes of Midnight mechanic
Slightly reduced a requirement for the Winter of 1962 national project from the Workshop of the World mechanic so that it can be fulfilled with one click rather than two
Added bypass and available checks and reduced some focus times to UPA CW tree to encourage faster completion
UPA's Fraternal Coup chain now uses retire character effects instead of remove advisors effects
Negotiated Ceasefire in DCW no longer has a text wall for its effects
Effects of the Western Insurrection decisions "Invitation to the United Front" and "Mandate Warlords back to Order" are made clearer to the user

Other Changes[edit | edit source]

Lenkavskyi no longer takes power immediately after Klyachkivsky's death, only after he secures power
Lenkavskyi now removes Stetsko, Shukhevych, and their respective ministers
Lenkavskyi now has set of ministers
Switched UKR Development Tax idea icon to a barn
Adjusted support company positions for UKR's Sicherungs and SS Grenadiers divisions
Add notification events for changes in Bitter Harvest level
Added leader bio for Stepan Lenkavskyi
Poland can no longer give into the Ukrainian State's demand to handover Galicia
Updated loc for Keith Joseph election event
Channel Crisis now gives Cold War Victory points depending on outcome
New decision category for the U-SSR to improve the condition of its army upon completing the focus "Lessons of the Long March"
Adjusted pre-war U-SSR focus tree's effects in order to improve gameplay and clarity
Steve the Tourist no longer takes a detour in Collabland
Removed most of the coloring from The Ruin's logo description
Graphically facelifted Britains "Workshop of the world" graphs
Humphrey will remain leader of Labor Dems under Hart even if he isn't in the Senate
Changed the Republic of Ukraine's economy type to "Socialized Economy"
Turkes Kenes more vulnerable to Turkish influence