r/victoria2

Overall, pretty good game going on, thinking of expansion possibly into Indonesia to access raw materials from the Dutch, as well as working on the formation of Yugoslavia as a potential puppet state (I hate the British so much, 300k have died to form Arabia, and they refuse to give up the Trucial States)

R5: This game I started by having a war against Burgundy and Scandinavia for the control of the German sphere , afterwards I form the HRE. After the truce was broken I took Burgundy territory I had core in, Because I was afraid Scandinavia was going to declare war with me to get their territory back I liberated as a puppet Schleswig, to create a buffer state.

Greetings Victoria 2 and Paradox community. I'm a big fan of Victoria 2 and reverse engineering.

Yesterday, wandering around the .exe I found this text that said "Nudge Nudge...". First I searched it in google and discovered it's an internal tool used by the developers of Victoria 2 and Paradox, but apparently there was no way to get to it, as they removed their access after the realise. So I proposed to make it start one way or the other, and finaly I achived it. I had to change some of the conditions that triggers after the game charges all the files. Insted of going the normal way, directly to the menu, I made it start the tool right after, and then I could enter it.

As you can see in the image, there is a menu in the top left corner that allow you to change the position, size and rotation of all the models that renders on each province. The inputs are: Text (province name displacement), Unit, Capital, Construct, UnitConstruct (the guy with the hammer and anvil), Factory, Railroad Spine, Fort, Naval Base, Railroad (idk the difference) and Towns.

Also there is a display of the province name, the cords, a save button, 4 arrows to manualy move the position (also you can use WASD), 4 buttons to change the rotation, a rotation indicator, and 3 buttons to change the size.

In this mode, the game is limited to the geografic map view. There is no fog of war, no units and no normal menu. Also you can't pause, take screenshots, or open the console. The preview soldier will always be from Sweden because the studio is swedish, nice easter egg.

I'd like to give to everybody the modded .exe but I'm afraid as you can expect that is totaly ilegal and risky. But if you want to make this setup I can give you the process to achive this:

1. Install Ghidra (reverse engineering tool), open the v2game.exe in a new project and let the program scane to decompile it.

IMPORTANT: Remember doing a copy of the orginal .exe, in case you mess up with something. Otherway you can reinstall the game.

2. In the top bar, Navigation -> Go To... and type "0075802a", then if Ghidra made their work correctly, you will see something like "0075802a 75 7f JZ LAB_007580ab". Then right click->Patch Instructor, wait, and then you will be able to edit the line's contnent. Replace "JZ" with "JNZ" and Enter.

3. Go to File->Export Program, then as Format set "Original File" and the Output File to the game's folder. If it asks you to rewrite the file, accept.

4. If you did everything right (and if I remember right..) when you enter to the game, it will start the Nudge Mode.

This is a brute way to achive this, but I only wanted to see is this was posible. Now you know that it is so. Perhaps this will speed up and improve the game modding process.

If you are interested, I'll make a video talking over this in my Youtube channel. I'm DevDuc.

It seemed that the STATE of New Mexico would be confused with the NATION of Mexico for some. They suggested renaming the whole god damn thing, I suggested becoming a international pariah.

This time I was able to make a lot of progress

First of all I was able to take Nepal into my sphere, as well as Malaysia, also I took Bulgaria as a puppet, I expanded my army and even navy (this last one is like very primitive but it works), and last but most important is I was able to take japnese territory

First I started preparing a CB against Japan, in the meantime I started taking Nepal, moved the recently trained armies to the north to prepare an invasion to Shakhalin, and also gained core in all manchuria.

After preparing the army and getting the CB I declared war and called germany, all my puppets, thailand, nepal and Egypt, then the ottomans declared war on egypt, I called germany, austria and Irna to that war, but after 1 year Italy started attacking austria, called germany to help

In japan we were doing defensive battles, mostly forcing them to cross the sea and then killing them, after that we took the island, but japan sent over 300k men vs 90k men I had there, I needed to draw back my army there, I lost a lot of organization, but japan lost more men

Also with the ottomans started to lose, even giving constantinople, and germany could move their troops to the italian front, also my allies started to take the japanese islands in the south, and in the North the japanese needed to move their troops to support in the south

After 2 years the ottomans gave us Bulgaria, after two months the Italian accepted a white peace, and I could advance even to hokaido, and after some months Japan surrendered

We reclaimed Shakhalin and started to take a lot of decisions and we are now aiming for mass politics, also we are supporting Malaysia witht their independence war

Now with the history:

With the Eastern Islands taking more and more power, the "Di'er Dao Changcheng" has a large gap to close, they have our territory at their mercy, our ports, our coasts, our people, we need to do something

The Emperor started moving, we needed an excuse to make them crumble before, with our army expanding we moved our newly trained troops to the zones where we could cross to the islands

We found the perfect excuse, there was an increase of japanese pirates, we found out they were mercenaries of japanese landlords to assault korean ships

The war begun and our troops defended our coasts in manchuria, the defense was very effective, and even crossed to shakhalin, but while we were doing that our egyptian ally was being attacked by the ottomans, we called the germans and the austrians to help them

Meanwhile our army in Shakhalin was being destroyed, so we draw back, after recovering and some japanese attacks we took shakhalin again

The ottomans started to lose territory in the balkans, so our goal with that war changed into freeing the largest country there, Bulgaria, a powerful ally, but the Italian kingdom went to war to get the italian territories controlled by austria

The germans and austrians needed to keep all their armies in europe, we stayed in the same situation for over 1 year, with large battles in shakhalin, our allies taking the southern japanese islands

During the war our claims over the manchurian territories were accepted, we started different kinds of taxations and our emperor gave more power to the parlament

After some time the ottomans surrendered, and gave us bulgaria, and the european armies were able to focus on italy, in japan we were able to keep the control in shakhalin for over 5 months, so we were planning to take hokaido

After taking a white peace with Italy, our european allies moved troops to help us, and took the southern islands and even further

Our claims over those territories were growing, and when we blocked their troops from crossing to hokaido they surrendered, and gave us a lot of territories

During all this Malaysia decided to become independent, and we supported them, this was our ultimate goal becoming true

Now we are planning to free even more people from the european

ALL HAIL THE "Di'er Dao Changcheng"

A follow-up to the post where I asked about the best border for France. So far, I've taken the Champagne region and liberated the Occitanie cores. After that war, France ceased to be a great power, but they're recovering. I plan to deliver the final blow in WWI.

P.S.: I also wanted to show what the "South German East Indies" look like so far.

Hello everyone, first time post. I'm having trouble with a mod I'm developing for vic2. As you can see in the image attached, the game will not explain what's wrong. I have searched for this error and the solution is either reinstall the mod (i cannot ofc, i'm making it) or delete cache, which has not worked. Could anyone help, please?

Additional information: it's a total conversion mod. I have changed every map file, but checked everything is correct, every province has its definition, +rivers.bmp etc.