OWB 4.2.7 Patch Notes

-- Update 4.2.7 --

### Major Features
- Made several adjustments to the pacing and structure of Lanius’s main tree, starting situation and campaign progression. Changes include focuses no longer locking from tree progression, 2 added focuses and several spirits returned from an older version with adjustments, slight focus rearrangement, some new effects and many weak focuses adjusted to be more powerful. More significant balance changes not directly tied to the tree are detailed further down in this changelog.
- A round of tech balance changes focused most on air and support weaponry. This includes nerfs to CAS, changes narrowing AA’s floor and ceiling of strength, buffs to Militia and Behemoths, significant changes to Fireteams and Demolitions including unit width changes and reworked naval hull production costs. Full details can be found here: https://pastebin.com/AbeJPcPM

### Added
- Added back Lanius’s old “Mustering Cohort” spirit at gamestart with upgrade stages in his tree
- Added political party names to The Last Redoubt
- Added a new description for Grant C. Hayes upon winning the NCR election
- Added an animated portrait for The Immortal
- Added a new focus icon to Standing Rock’s first focus
- Added 2 new advisors to Vault City
- Added 2 Heavy Ships and stronger initial ship variants to Shi at gamestart
- Added starting Recon tech to Gente Del Sol
- Added several additional starting naval techs to Baja State
- Added a bypass to the first stage of the Mojave Chapter’s operation chain

### Changed
- Changed the unifier system to now infuse small amounts of world tension monthly for each unified region to help compensate for decreased natural tension sources
- Changed many ideas and advisors to affect node income, rather than the tariff rate
- Changed NCR post-legion focuses to only require owning some core Legion territory, rather than all of it
- Changed the Vault Tec Calling decisions no longer rename provinces of faction members
- Changed the “Frontier Runner” trait used by Tribal and Vault City advisors to also grant +5% recovery rate
- Changed Lanius’s starting research slots from 4 to 3
- Changed Lanius’s starting military factory count to from 12 to 11
- Changed Lanius to no longer start with Tribal Tech Tree access, instead receiving it from “A Bitter Truth”
- Changed the bonuses of Lanius’s infantry army chief
- Changed Lanius’s starting army to have slightly less chariot battalions and infantry starting equipment
- Changed Lanius’s “Beast of the East” spirit to a permanent starting one with different modifiers
- Changed Lanius to receive less manpower and send more caps to the Legion via his Dog City timer spirit
- Changed Lanius to start with 5% less war support and on a higher economy law
- Changed Lanius’s “Monster of the East” to grant 5% less attack and garrisons reduction
- Changed starting stability and/or war support to be slightly higher for Archidocese of Santa Fe, Baja State, Blue Rose Society, Mescalero Nation, Summers Federation and Sun Dogs
- Changed some of the starting armies, spirits and leader traits of Lanius’s 5 early targets to be slightly stronger over all
- Changed the Legacy of Centurion Paullus spirit to inflict slightly smaller army penalties
- Changed some events and foci for Summers Federation to be slightly stronger and have more consistent lengths
- Changed Hangdogs’ focuses remedying their “Limited Salvaging” debuff to each have an additional, unique minor effect and slightly more flexibility with their order
- Changed the length of a few Hangdogs foci slightly, with a marginal net decrease in length
- Changed Hangdogs’ “Sharper Teeth” to provide a 75% coring cost reduction rather than free cores
- Changed some Hangdogs foci of the “Old World Salvagers” and “Riches of the Box” branches to be slightly stronger
- Changed Hangdogs’ 2nd event option for factories to be weaker
- Changed Hangdogs to start with 1 more civilian factory
- Changed the strength of some Hangdogs advisors slightly
- Changed NCR’s starting NCR Economy caps income from -10% to +0% and Mama Van Graff’s initial caps malus from -10% to -5%
- Changed NCR’s “Mechanized Bull” Power Armor foci to be altogether stronger
- Changed NCR’s “New Necropolis” and “The Bear Roars” foci to take 15 less days and changed the latter to give 5 less army xp.
- Changed NCR’s “Across the Great Divide” for Kimball to bypass if Mojave Territories dies
- Changed NCR’s Kimball’s “The Chop Shop”, "Open Up the Navarro Reservation" and "Lessons of the Baja Campaign" to have stronger or more flexible bonuses
- Changed NCR Moore’s President General trait to swap from weekly modifiers to flat value equivalents via focus "Moore Victorious"
- Changed some NCR/Lost Hills diplomacy decisions to cost slightly less
- Changed some focuses for Baja State and the shared NCR puppet trees to be slightly stronger or faster
- Changed Mojave Territories’s Mojave Pacification spirit garrison damage malus to be 5% lower
- Changed the Mojave Territories to start with militia as their garrison unit
- Changed Mojave Territories’s Warden Nathan advisor to reduce--rather than raise--resistance as intended
- Changed New Reno’s available conscription and manpower for Thradd to be higher
- Changed the Twin Mothers focus “Meeting A Legend” to bypass if Lanius dies early, enabling the “A Legend’s Early End” path
- Changed Caesar’s Legion’s decision to attack Nipton to no longer remove a core if the Mojave Territories or the NCR have cored it. Will now damage the state instead
- Changed Caesar’s Legion’s Wave Tactics tech to be granted by the start focus of the Mojave victory/loss branches rather than a focus which would not trigger if against Mojave Brotherhood
- Changed Caesar’s Legion spirit “Centurion Glory Idea” to “Centurion Glory”
- Changed Shi’s “Engineers of Our Time” focus to grant 1 more research bonus
- Changed some Rio Grande Guerra foci to be stronger and added a spirit to "The Home Effort"
- Changed Rio Grande’s ally integration decisions to also transfer troops
- Changed Rad Hazards’s starting spirit slightly for balance and granted them a unique caps law
- Changed Troll Warren’s Ice Jaw advisor and "Overrun the Armoury" focus to be slightly stronger
- Changed the generic brotherhood tree to grant slightly higher power armor research bonuses but slightly lower production cost reductions
- Changed Washington Brotherhood’s “Dark Foundries” focus to grant 1 less military factory
- Changed Washington Brotherhood’s final Troll Warren decision to require less battalions from Warren
- Changed some autonomy laws of Enclave nations and Washington Brotherhood to grant less industry
- Changed MacArthur foci “Snow It Goes” and “Snow Days are canceled” to reflect the removal of the Snowmads
- Changed the Safehaven leader bio and spirit description to no longer mention Nordikon
- Changed the Mirelurk Tribe focus “Offer Muttfruit for the Rib-breaker Coast” to mention the Willamette River rather than the Columbia River
- Changed the Two People’s spirits “White Moon” and “Red Moon” Political Power reductions from 100% to 50%
- Changed Ouroborus event “Dae’s Challenge” to no longer reference poisoning a blade instead of a healthy breakfast
- Changed the music player UI slightly
- Changed Rio Grande decision so it can now invite TWO and GDH to Mexico without completing a focus that requires owning them, which previously rendered the decision useless
- Changed NCR focus so that NCR will no longer annex New Reno while it is at war

### Fixed
- Fixed Caps Bankruptcy maluses not triggering
- Fixed a bug with the hidden Air cost modifier that halved Aircraft production costs for nations with starting Glider tech
- Fixed NCR decision to invite countries to a Custom Union not giving the appropriate economy law
- Fixed Washington Brotherhood having raid decisions under some conditions
- Fixed Caesar's Legion being able to raid Camp Searchlight multiple times in the event of a Legion Civil War
- Fixed Caesar’s Legion not properly receiving the intended event when Lanius splits off via “No Strings On Me”
- Fixed Lanius’ Cohort being unable to take “Towards Dog City” if they bypass “Ending the Brotherhood” without owning Maxson’s cores
- Fixed the NCR focus “The State of Reno” failing to mention that it also works with the Wrights
- Fixed the NCR focus “Reorganize the Mojave Remnants” failing to spawn any units
- Fixed the NCR focus “Welcome the Mojave’s Commanders” trying to give you generals you already have
- Fixed Gente Del Sol not using their own namelist for ships
- Fixed Slags unguaranteeing Modoc against Thradd due to an oversight
- Fixed several missing portraits for the Ruminators
- Fixed Elizaveta of the Ruminators having Hayes’ description
- Fixed Todd Howitzer being unable to take the “Texan Lands” foci
- Fixed the Metis Congress being unable to take the “Exploitation of the Frontier” focus if Moosejaw agrees to ally them
- Fixed Elijah’s missing portrait
- Fixed Odious’ king’s missing portrait
- Fixed the Gordon’s Path Vault City event “NCR Irregulars” not giving the units listed in the event options
- Fixed some minor issues with the UI
- Fixed a bug that prevented White Legs from taking “The Bone Breakers” and “The Sappers” foci under certain circumstances.
- Fixed missing portraits for several Ruminators characters
- Fixed NCR investment decisions so NCR will no longer spam nations with events that are already part of its economic sphere, or puppet nations it is at war with
- Fixed Development Project Decisions not showing caps cost in the decision tab
- Fixed a Summers Fed focus not giving an event to Maxson.
- Fixed Moj Territories being able to kill Hanlon while he is in charge.
- Fixed plane GFX not properly appearing in naval combat results
- Fixed Gente Del Sol focus effects appearing in the wrong state
- Fixed Baja State not properly being considered a Mexican nation
- Fixed purification stations not being added with building slots in NCR’s Baja Trade Agreements
- Fixed a trigger in the RRG’s focus to bypass a friendly exchange with Texas while at war
- Fixed Mama Van Graff’s description


### Removed
- Removed Anti-Tank support from the Mojave Chapter’s startup militia
- Removed two remnant sea crossings between neighboring provinces in southern Port Maw that were causing funky frontlines
- Removed starting Sophisticated Special Forces tech from Rad Hazards (someone did a little bit of trolling)

### Technical Changes
- Added AI weights to some Baja State foci
- Added substantial additional AI work to Lanius and slight additional AI work to some of his targets
- Added scripted localisation to some Lanius focuses to change their descriptions slightly after forming the Eastern Legion
- Changed added AI weights towards Navy and Air chiefs for all nations to be lower
- Changed AI weight towards the caps Luxury Goods decision to be less over-aggressive
- Changed Maxson Chapter AI to no longer hard rush their Scorpion’s Bite wargoal
- Changed advisor AI for Mojave Territories and Lanius to be more intelligent
- Fixed improper AI weights causing Troll Warren to not increase their conscription law as soon as they should
- Fixed improperly high AI weighting for the highest Tribal conscription laws
- Fixed an oversight from a lack of an AI template causing the Legion and Lanius to be unable to make more chariots consistently
- Fixed the unlock template for Enforcers not applying at gamestart like others
- Fixed typos for Eureka, NCR, Hangdogs, Lost Hills and Summers Federation