Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War news & patch notes

NEW The events "New CPSU Program" and "End of the Cold War" now trigger impulses depending on your choice. West Berlin can be handed over to the Prussians. Added statistics graph intervals — "3 months" and "5 years". The US president modifier now shows a forecast of the next election. The notification about a politician's death now shows who automatically replaced them.

BALANCE Rebalanced the effects of the head of government's traits. Rebalanced the US "AI". The USA now sets a wider range of priorities, plays counterplay sensibly, develops its science and tends to its internal affairs. The scale of the 1990s crises now depends on the player's size. The meat/cattle deficit now responds more adequately to a huge population. Referendums now account for a wider range of indicators. The option "release and stop the persecution" is now also available under democratic Brezhnevism.

FIXES Fixed the "Show startup popups" setting and the broken localization strings in decision descriptions. Fixed achievement registration. Fixed Italy's party politics after Operation "Clean Hands". China no longer aids the mujahideen once you have restored friendship with it. US President Gore received his own effects. Fixed the Soft Federation. Fixed elections around the world. Fixed the USA's nuclear weapons. Trade with China is no longer possible without restoring relations with it first. Fixed Iran softlock. Fixes to the "Press Law" and South Korea. Greenland returns to Denmark when the USA collapses. Decommunization: the decision is now counted as accepted. Fixed bugs in the National Question. Britain and France stop sponsoring the mujahideen if they are in the player's sphere of influence. The army doctrine now shows the penalty for inconsistency with the diplomacy line. Fixed localization bugs. Country GDP figures have been updated to more current values. Reworked the US HDI calculation — it is now more plausible and no longer collapses to bantustan levels during crises.

Update 1.2.00 for Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War released!

It includes a long list of changes! In this major update, we’ve focused on deepening the political and macroeconomic mechanics, as well as significantly improving the ‘AI’. You can expect completely overhauled transparency, a new crisis system, and the ability for Eastern Bloc countries to join the USSR directly. The United States has become much smarter and more dangerous, and moving trade and oil to the regional level will add a new layer of diplomatic planning.

In addition, we’ve performed a deep rebalancing of modifiers (including labor shortages), added many long-awaited interface improvements (window dragging, tooltip freezing, bulk country selection), and optimized the game’s performance.

Details here:

Patch Notes

Major

• The politician card system has been completely reworked — cards are now single-use, but each of them features its own unique game mode. Go for it!

• Implemented a new Oligarchy mechanic.

• Fully reworked the State System doctrine.

• Improved the transparency of the Economy doctrine's mechanics, plus reworked the Keynesianism doctrine.

• Trade weight of countries is now tied to their constituent regions, rather than the country itself.

• Oil has been moved from countries to regions.

• Added the ability to annex the GDR, Czechia, Slovakia, and Romania into the USSR.

• The USA has become much smarter and more consistent (AI improvement).

• Implemented smart formulas for US presidential elections.

• Implemented a new save system.

• Optimized the game.

• Added new decisions and modifiers.

• Added the Asian Financial Crisis.

• Added the Transport Collapse.

• Added the ability to retransmit Western news back to the USA.

• Added the ability to establish a base in Guantanamo.

• Added 4 new buttons in wars.

• Added a new map mode: Regions.

Balance

• Fully reworked the Labor Deficit modifier.

• Added tracking of professional military personnel for advisors in wars. Changed the effect of advisors in wars.

• Rebalanced the leftism and democratic parameters of certain doctrines.

• Penal battalions now depend on the Law and Order level.

• ICBMs now increase support in African and American countries (where coups happen) based on the formula: (ICBMs minus US army strength) divided by 25.

• Added the impact of VAT on Empty Shelves.

• Reworked the effects of the unique events for Romanov, Grishin, and Shcherbitsky.

• Added oil to the countries within the USSR.

• The appearance of politicians now depends on the Election doctrine, corruption, and unity.

• Reworked "obscure/vague" achievements — doctrine conditions are no longer so strict as to create a bottleneck.

Minor

• Implemented the ability to select multiple countries on the map at once.

• Implemented direct display of indicator impacts on statistics.

• Added the ability to drag game windows.

• Added the ability to "freeze" tooltips (selectable in settings).

• You can now cancel a doctrine transition if you have already started it.

• Added new response options for the Katyn and Pact events.

• Introduced a metric for the player country's size in sq. km.

• Renamed some of the sciences/technologies.

• Added information about the rulers offered at the start.

• China's status is now displayed via a modifier.

• Updated the visual appearance of note-events.

• Added 8 new achievements.

• Added two new cheats for Sandbox mode.

New Game Content

• Added an event specifically for Grigory Romanov.

• Completely reworked and changed the Party Privileges modifier.

• Reworked the election system in Europe - it now takes into account your and American achievements in science and the economy.

Gameplay Changes

• Rebalanced the Libya event.

• Added the ability to postpone the relocation of the UN Headquarters.

• A peaceful Minister of Defense will no longer get upset over the cancellation of student mobilization.

• Elections in Cambodia after the withdrawal of Vietnamese troops now take into account the global situation, not just the regional one.

• Events regarding Eastern Bloc countries no longer trigger just "for the fun of it".

• Bug fixes.

Enjoy the game!

In loving memory of Fosya the fennec fox. Sleep well, my small, smart, cunning, mischievous, strong-willed, wayward, sweet, affectionate, loving, and beloved Fosya. Your Human understood you. And he is proud of you.

If you are interested in what she was like, I have written down all of her habits that I could remember here (there will also be links to archives with her videos and photos):

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MJiUZCt8LllthdxWR-gTG7OO-TwDKJY56Pauc1hGP3Y/edit?usp=sharing

The patch includes:

New Gameplay Content

• Added a button to persuade politicians to vote for your law.

• Added the ability to choose the type of doctrine transition via events.

• 2 new achievements.

Gameplay Changes

• Hovering over statistics indicators now shows their type and the form of their influence.

• Rebalanced low corruption.

• Rebalanced the migration doctrine.

• Rebalanced the deficit thresholds for livestock.

• Rebalanced the "Rocket Engineer" trait when serving as Minister of Defense.

• Rebalanced Academset.

• Rebalanced the event for Mitterrand's visit.

• Bug fixes.

Have a great game!

In loving memory of Fosia the fennec. Rest peacefully, my little smart, sly, mischievous, strong-willed, stubborn, sweet, gentle, loving and beloved Fosia. Your Human understood you. And he is proud of you.

If you're interested in what she was like, I've written down all her habits that I remember here (and there will also be links to archives with her videos and photos):

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MJiUZCt8LllthdxWR-gTG7OO-TwDKJY56Pauc1hGP3Y/edit?usp=sharing

The update includes:

This update includes:

Patch 1.1.0.1 includes:

The wait is over! Update 1.1.0 is out with a heap of new changes!

New Game Content

• Added alternative freedom endings.

• Added new loading quotes.

• Penal battalions introduced.

• Implemented US "response" to player's aggressive foreign policy.

• Added more oil-bearing countries and their influence on oil prices.

• Introduced an event for aid to Angola.

• Introduced an event on the killing of Soviet POWs.

• Implemented an event on the youth.

• Implemented an event on "Kyiv's long arm".

• Implemented 2 events for the GDR, 2 events for Hungary, 2 events for Czechoslovakia, and 2 events for Bulgaria.

• Implemented events for Tetris and Fergana.

• Added UN Headquarters indicator.

• Added business type selection under the Plan with market elements, Titoism, and Kadarism.

• Added a decision to weaken GOST.

• Implemented new cheats for Sandbox mode.

• Added a new starting modifier.

• Added 5 new achievements.

UI Changes

• Added a filter for politicians by name.

• Implemented oil price statistics.

• Deeper display of political coordinate fields.

• Added search for decisions by name.

Serious Gameplay Changes

• Politicians are now drawn less linearly from the pool.

• Inactive politicians can now die as well.

• Changed the maximum import cap under the planned economy.

• Changed politicians' voting for doctrines.

• Rework of labor shortage.

• Communism now requires Planned Price Reduction.

• Changed requirements for changing price doctrines.

• Added display of debuffs for low reserves (now different for different economy types).

• Pushback is no longer as strict, and parameter overlapping has been completely reworked.

• Implemented long-term effects for crisis events.

• The USA now also pumps foreign oil.

• Exploitation of sides in wars now has different conditions.

• Politicians can now always change traits while alive.

Other Fixes

• Military button effects doubled.

• Changed the anti-alcohol campaign event (not the modifier).

• Changed war outcome texts.

• Doctrines rebalanced.

• Implemented a change to the Sakharov event.

• Changed the Party Line event.

• Rebalance of the Aral Problem modifier.

• Buff for conscripting students into the army increased.

• Increased Political Power gain for Freedom, Unity, and Republic Loyalty.

• Rebalance of the NPP Disaster modifier.

• Rebalanced starting contributions.

• Added links to politicians who didn't have them.

Enjoy the game!

In loving memory of fennec fox Fosya. Sleep peacefully, little, smart, sly, mischievous, strong-willed, wayward, sweet, affectionate, loving and beloved Fosya. Your Human understood you. And he is proud of you.

If you are interested in what she was like, I wrote down all her habits that I remembered here (and later there will be links to archives with her videos and photos):

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MJiUZCt8LllthdxWR-gTG7OO-TwDKJY56Pauc1hGP3Y/edit?usp=sharing

The major rebalance update includes:

The patch includes significant improvements to economic flexibility:

The patch includes:

• Reduction of IPM requirements from 200% to 125%

• Weakening of the NATO Technology Embargo by 3 times

• Increase in the upper limit of VAT

• Bug fixes

Thank you for your feedback! We are striving to make the game better!

Update 1.8.0 includes:

- Introduction of a transit state for decisions;

- Ability to collapse decisions;

- VAT mechanics;

- New religions;

- New events;

- New political characters and new conditions for changing their traits;

- New backgrounds;

- Ability to go from the science queue icon to the science description;

- Changes to some of the doctrines desired by factions;

- Increase in US points from the type of capitalism flourishing in Europe;

- Changes to the effects of investments in the economy;

- New transitions in trade union and migration doctrines;

- Changes to the effects of technological embargoes;

- Changes to the conditions for referendums;

- Changes to the conditions for entering and leaving the Politburo;

- Rebalancing of the course of wars;

- New button in wars;

- New flag for the country;

- “Communism” now requires planned price reductions

- Changes to the effects of planned price reductions and unregulated prices;

- New achievements;

Enjoy the game! Thank you for being with us! More exciting things are coming soon!

The update includes:

In light of recent changes, we have reviewed your requests and made adjustments to improve your gaming experience:

Update 1.0.7.01 includes:

The update includes:

Update 1.0.6.1999 includes:

The behavior of the “version” field in “info.json” has been changed. The “minVersion” and “maxVersion” fields have been added. Now you can specify the range of versions on which your mod will work so that it does not disappear with minor game updates.

Detailed information is available in the guide:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wx7_-HlL8xuPqtkEl89RhNqg5gvJyfTcA2CWuVnNQic/edit?usp=sharing

Patch x.6.924 includes:

Dear friends, the new update improves the comfort of the game for everyone and at all stages:

1. New variant of army doctrine - "PMC"

2. 2 new events (on Trump's wall and on PMCs at low loyalty of generals and free market)

3. Opportunity to support Greek neutrality

4. Decision on Tolstovism

5. Complete reworking of the effects of OGAS implementation and Empty Shelves

6. Rebalancing of doctrines Allied Mutual Aid, United but Sovereign, 48 hour work week and 996

7. Ability to add your own music to the game

8. New achievement

9. Strengthened Provocation Button on Mexican-American Border

10. Weakened Trump

Enjoy the game! There will be more innovations ahead!

Update includes:

- Rebalancing (rebalancing some of the doctrines and their costs, some of the special modifiers, emergency, invasions, party displacement, and the effect of republics on political capital)

- New events (4 on Trump and 1 on Canada)

- Added drag and drop science queue

- New statistics interface in events

- Notification of the change of the leader of the Republic

- Added diplomatic actions: impose ideology and force to abandon neutrality

- Event on Lenin's Mausoleum now has a decision

- Food program can be changed during the game

- Cosmetic changes in map modes

Enjoy the game! We will be grateful if you recommend our game to your friends, bloggers, journalists and youtubers ;)

Dear Friends. The new update includes:

- Introduced the function to enable multiple mods at a time

- Older versions of safes are now always displayed (although not always available)

- 3 new difficulties and 3 new achievements

- Bugs fixed

Enjoy the game!

There will be new events and balance changes in the next update.

Patch includes:

• Major bugs fixed

• New information window about errors

Thank you for staying with us!

Version 1.0.5 contains the changes you requested from us:

- Ability to continue playing after the year 2000

- Ability to add your own avatars (the old system of avatars as Steam inventory items remains!)

- New notification of unspent science points

- Doctrine conditions have become more flexible

- 3 new achievements

- Small rebalancing

- Critical bug fixed

Thank you for being with us! Enjoy the game!

Dear Friends.

The day has come. The game is finally out. We express our great gratitude to you for waiting. It's been a difficult years of development, but we made it through. And you did too!

Enjoy the game!

Dear friends, as you all know this was a tough week for us.

Due to our misscomunication with Steam we had to postpone the release date of Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War. We are deeply sorry for that and we will take measures to prevent this from happening in future. However, we are happy to announce that after our consultations with Steam representatives we decided on a new release date. Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War will be released on the 11th of July.

We will delight you with a 10% discount, which will be active for a limited time after the release.

Dear Friends.

There's been a response from Steam. The game has been declined in verification for now. We have already urgently made all the necessary changes for re-moderation. And we have already sent the game for re-moderation. We apologise for upsetting you.

We are waiting with you!

Dear friends!

The game is ready to play and is just going through moderation on Steam. The game will be released as soon as it gets approval from Valve. We hope it won't be long now. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Thank you for your patience!

Love you!