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Dharma is the 12th expansion for Europa Universalis IV. It was announced on 2018-05-19[1] and released on 2018-09-06[2]. The expansion coincides with patch 1.26.
Expansion features[edit | edit source]
- Design Your Government: Unlock unique reforms that will define how you govern your kingdom or republic, earning free policies and boosting the power of some estates.
- Enhanced Policy System: Special bonuses that make the policy system even more attractive.
- Trade Company Investments: Upgrade and improve the provinces tied to your trade companies, conferring bonuses both to the European master and neighboring Indian nations.
- New Indian Mission Trees: Unique mission paths for the most important Indian sultanates and kingdoms.
- New Indian Estates: India gets five new castes, raise the Brahmins to reduce unrest in a province or install Jain governors for a boost to income while reducing manpower.
- New Mughal Culture Bonus: The Mughal Empire can assimilate and accommodate newly conquered cultures with ease.
- Charter Companies: Europeans can buy a foothold into trade charter zones in Africa and Asia, if they can find a prince that trusts them.
- Upgraded Trade Centers: Invest in the development of your Centers of Trade.
- And more, including: new ways to suppress rebellion, the monsoon season, new uses for colonists in non-colonial development, scornful insults, multiplayer teams, new art, and more.
Free features[edit | edit source]
- Integrated the estates system into the base game.
- A major reworking of the game's map of India, Tibet and Burma.
- Reworked policy system.
- A host of new achievements.
- Unique national ideas for Indian nations.
- New parliament issues and bribes.
- New regional missions for Tibet, and North & South India.
Major DLC changes[edit | edit source]
- The government reforms mechanic was integrated into the base game as part of patch 1.30. The players can tailor aspects of their government as the game progresses.[3].
Dev diaries[edit | edit source]
- Main article: Developer diaries
All developer diaries about the Dharma expansion, patch 1.26 (aka Mughals), and patch 1.27 (aka Poland).
- Patch 1.27 (Poland)
| No. | Title and Link | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | Poland Update and Moving Forward | DDRJake, EU4's game director, on the upcoming hotfix and teasing focus of the future Immersion Pack and patch 1.28 | 2018-10-02 |
| 26 | The 1.27 "Poland" update 2/2 | Final dev diary for the upcoming 1.27 "Poland" update | 2018-09-25 |
| 25 | The 1.27 "Poland" update 1/2 | More flavor in the Polish regions, new NIs, event chains and some more government reforms/types | 2018-09-18 |
- Patch 1.26 (Mughals)
| No. | Title and Link | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | Final Post-Dharma Dev Diary | Post-release support including a hotfix list | 2018-09-11 |
| 23 | Mughals Update Patch Notes | A sneak preview of the 1.26 "Mughals" patch notes | 2018-09-04 |
| 22 | Recap of Changes | Recap of the main changes incoming as part of Dharma and the 1.26 "Mughals" patch | 2018-08-28 |
| 21 | New Achievements | A look at the new achievements coming for Dharma | 2018-08-21 |
| 20 | Dharma's Content Pack | Elephants coming to a place nearby you in the content pack for Dharma | 2018-08-14 |
| 19 | Additional Missions and National Ideas | Shedding more light on the new mission trees and NIs coming in Dharma and Third Rome | 2018-08-07 |
| 18 | Evolving Centers of Trade | Changing the trade setup and the ability to evolve centers of trade | 2018-07-31 |
| 17 | Balance changes and Bengal National Ideas | A round-up of the balance changes made to existing mechanics in 1.26 so far | 2018-07-24 |
| 16 | Multiplayer and Indian Siege Graphics | Allowing for players (nations) to team up in multiplayer and new graphics for Indian sieges | 2018-07-17 |
| 15 | New nations to be formed! | The new formable nations as well as their national ideas | 2018-07-10 |
| 14 | Climate, Weather and Elephants | Weather mapmode, changes to winter and terrain as well as a new Indian cavalry model | 2018-07-03 |
| 13 | Two smaller features | Settlement growth and scornful insults | 2018-06-26 |
| 12 | Audio in the Mughals Update | Franco "Audiomancer" Freda, sound designer at Paradox, on enhancing EU4's audio to today's standards | 2018-06-19 |
| 11 | Truce Mapmode and Suppressing Rebels | Adding a truce mapmode, as well as an update to the autonomous rebel suppression mechanic | 2018-06-12 |
| 10 | Charter Trade Companies Investments and Policy Rework | Making Charter Trade Companies more worthwhile for all involved, as well as a rework on Policies to make them all more useful | 2018-06-05 |
| 9 | Refining Mission Trees: India and Russia | New mission trees for Indian nations as well as the Russian nations in Third Rome | 2018-05-29 |
| 8 | Estates And The Dharma Expansion | Changes to the (now free) estates system, new estates for India and a new government form for The Cossacks owners | 2018-05-22 |
| 7 | Mughal Diwans and Charter Trade Companies | Culture assimilation for the Mughals and trade charters to aid the colonizer nations gain a foothold around the world | 2018-05-15 |
| 6 | Burma, Bengal, and Tibet | Map changes of Southeast Asian area, including Burma, Bengal, and Tibet | 2018-05-08 |
| 5 | Northern India Changes | The 2nd DD covering the map changes made to India - this time the northern half | 2018-05-01 |
| 4 | India Map Update | New countries and provinces in India | 2018-04-24 |
| 3 | Theocracies and Tribal governments | The 3rd part of the exposé on how governments will work in the next expansion | 2018-04-17 |
| 2 | Republican Reforms | Continuation of previous diary that shows new reforms for republics | 2018-04-10 |
| 1 | Government Reforms | DDRJake, EU4's game director, talking on completely new system of governments in EU4 | 2018-04-03 |
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Forum: Bow Before the Peacock Throne in New Europa Universalis IV Expansion, 2018-05-19
- ↑ Forum: Gather the Riches of the East in EU:Dharma, 2018-09-06
- ↑ Forum, Dev diary #60 - Emperor Patch Notes & Unit Sprites, 2020-06-02.
