The next update for Victoria 3, developed by Paradox, arrives with the National Awakening DLC and includes free content under 1.10. The developer diary outlines journal-driven events focused on the Balkans and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as well as national awakening markers and a new colonial slavery law.
National Awakening focuses on the clashes between established dynastic states and aspiring nation-states across the 19th-century Balkans and within Austria-Hungary. Players can follow different journal routes tied to those political tensions; the design aims for historically grounded choices mapped into gameplay, with new objectives and rewards.
The DLC’s event structure is journal-based; each entry offers sub-goals and rewards upon completion. Austria’s Age of Metternich entry, for example, is available from the start and contains ten sub-goals that grant national strength for each completed objective, depending on whether the player preserves conservative order or backs reform.
Update 1.10 also brings free additions. One is a set of national awakening markers that appear when a culture reaches 30 cultural fervor, intended to reflect the moment literary and artistic growth accelerates national consciousness. The patch will also include a colonial slavery law active at the start for Spain, Portugal, Denmark, the Netherlands, and France, representing countries that abolished slavery at home but retained it in overseas colonies.
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