​Studio GoldUpdate | September 2026     ​

Hello Generals, Admirals and Air Chief Marshals!Swedish summer is over, and we were blessed as it lasted a good 5 weeks. We’d already started work on the 1.19.3 patch before, and we’ve been at work putting the finishing touches for the last several weeks. And while dates are always subject to change our plan is to release that on September 17.Patch 1.19.3 wraps up our active post-release Thunder at our Gates work, it contains a new secret path for Australia & some additional content for late game Siam & Indonesia. Besides that it also contains a plethora of bug fixes & balancing. Next DLC?You may have seen our Romania Dev Corners, and we’re very excited about that releasing soon. On a related note, though, we have decided to delay our next major expansion. Typically we would start to talk about what is next for HoI around this time, but we looked at where we are and have made the decision that we want to take extra time to really get it to a great quality. We will continue with Dev Corners for now, and aim to start with Dev Diaries earlier than previous years, most likely after Romania releases.Quality of Life UpdateWe are also working on a Quality of Life Update, focused on reducing clicking, but also mental overhead when playing the game. We aim to show this work live on stream in the near future, and we plan to release this patch before the next Expansion Pass comes out.Open BetaWe have been running an Open Beta over the summer, and we will take some of the balance changes we’ve done and add them to the 1.19.3 patch. Overall we are analyzing the results and aim to bring more balance work in our War Effort / Quality of Life and future updates.CommunityWe’re continuing to look into the hacking & griefing issues that are plaguing some of the MP community. We are not sure if we can solve all of the issues, but we will certainly try to improve it from where it is today.Regarding the HoI board game, we’ve been following it as well, and it’s truly unfortunate what is happening. The project seemed to be going well, until it wasn’t. It’s not a fast process by any means, but solutions are being discussed. Hopefully more information will be available soon.- Niels, Studio Manager, PDS Gold