In Debug mode you get some extra information regarding focuses and ideas, and you can also CTRL+ALT over a province to get province IDs and state IDs. It also includes helpful 'errors' to protect against faulty game design, such as when a state has multiple air zones. These errors could for example be that a keyword was unrecognized withing your files or that there were compile errors in some of your files.

Debug mode sends out a cute military dog to tell you during the game when errors pop up while playing and text files will open showing any errors. The following tools can help with modding HOI4 :ĭebug Mode : Go to properties -> set launch options in steam and add '-debug' to enable debug mode.