Europa Universalis IV recently saw its largest update with The Austria Update, but with every big patch, not everything went as smoothly as expected and the game received an immediate hotfix for most of the issues. A week on and Paradox have now deployed a second patch - 1.30.2 - aiming to complete the process.
The 1.30.1 hotfix already addressed most of the issues we found during our review including the stationary armies that saw the new mercenary mechanic comically confuse the AI. As such, the new 1.30.2 Update is more focused on the game balance. There isn’t much that really stands out here but the small tweaks look to make sense.
While all the changes are small in the big picture, some are big for themselves, with the religious powers added in Emperor seeing some dramatic scaling such as investigating heresy reform desire up from the original 10%, all the way to 50%. Read our highlights of the patch notes below for what we feel are the main points.
Europa Universalis IV Austria Patch Notes - Update 1.30.2
- Golden Bulls base cost is now 400 ducats.
- Investigate heresy now costs 500 Curia Treasury
- Investigate heresy now only available to pope
- Investigate heresy now scales by 50% reform desire instead of only 10%.
- Modern Firearm Techniques Policy now gives 10% Inf Combat Ability
- Can no longer combine both Golden Liberty & Increased Levies
- Halved Cossacks development bonus privilege on steppe provinces.
- Supremacy over the Crown should now trigger way less
- Estate disasters now start progressing at 50% Loyalty and won't lose progress while you have more than 100% influence
- The Estate Bailout event for Statutory Rights MTTH have been increased from 24 to 128.
The full patch notes are available over at Paradoxplaza and you can read our full Emperor Review if you’d like to see what the Austria Update brought to the table.
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