Enjoy completely new and extensive national goals trees and special events.Amazing World War II simulatorPlay different, unique nations and study complex strategies to develop the best empire.Experience incredibly exciting war moments during which you will have to make tough decisions, and explore different strategies for winning.Research for electronics and mechanical engineering, gather resources, face difficult problems, establish your country as a major power, and prepare yourself for realistic historical adventure.Enjoy the new country packHearts of Iron IV: Death or Dishonor focuses on countries of Europe. Steam Cloud synchronization must be enabled for the game in the Steam library (right click on Europa Universalis IV, click Properties, click on the Updates tab) and in the Steam settings (Steam>Settings, click on the Cloud tab).Buy Hearts of Iron IV: Death or Dishonor to discover new excellent DLC content for four Central and Eastern European countries: Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia. ~/Library/Application Support/Steam/userdata//236850/remote/save games ~/.local/share/Steam/userdata//236850/remote/save games or ~/.steam/debian-installation/userdata//236850/remote/save games A backup is also kept locally on your computer, at:Ĭ:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\\236850\remote\save games If choosing to save on Steam Cloud, the save will be always compressed and uploaded to the Steam servers. ~/Documents/Paradox Interactive/Europa Universalis IV/save games/ ~/.local/share/Paradox Interactive/Europa Universalis IV/save games/ Local saves can be compressed or uncompressed(if not ironman) and are stored in:ĭocuments\Paradox Interactive\Europa Universalis 4\save games\ There are two options for save locations. Additionally caused by Ironman mode's regular saving is occasional loss of connection to Steam when on a slow or unreliable Internet connection, which requires waiting for Steam to reconnect in order to resume gameplay.Īny bugs (such as the well documented "endless war" bugs) can ruin an Ironman game as well. Local saves are faster than Steam Cloud saves as they don't have to be compressed when saving, but you will also need to place your "My Documents" folder on your high-speed storage device. This can be mitigated by playing on a high-speed storage device such as a solid-state drive. Loading a save requires exiting to the main menu.Īs Ironman is set to autosave at monthly intervals, on high speeds the game may frequently freeze for a few seconds as it saves. The player is not allowed to load any saved game while in-game.Easy and Very Easy difficulty is unavailable.Bonuses to human players cannot be enabled (AI bonuses can still be enabled).Historically lucky nations cannot be disabled.Save files can be stored in the Steam Cloud or on a local drive, but are encrypted and cannot be edited.The game saves automatically every 3 months (every March, June, September, and December), on quitting, and whenever almost any decision is taken (such as declaring war).Only a single save will be stored it is thus impossible to load an earlier save if something goes wrong (unfortunately, this includes save game corruption).To gain Achievements one needs to be in Ironman and obey a number of restrictions: