Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts News

Hello Admirals,

We offer another small update with needed fixes and improvements according to your latest feedback. Please read below:

*v1.08.9 Small Update*

• Various repairs in the code of penetration estimations. The shell speed estimations are now properly working and showing accurate data info in the gun tables and ship stats. These changes will also affect the battle as the penetrations are calculated with improved consistency.
  
• Fixed old issue of shell hits to, sometimes, appear inconsistent. A hit could appear landing on the bow but it was physically and visually evaluated as a citadel hit in the sections eventually causing inconsistent damage. The hit mapping repairs fixes various issues reported by players regarding penetration, damage and hit rates, as deck hits would be very inconsistent.
  
• Fixed wrong damage information of ships in the campaign, causing confusion to players, and sometimes wrong evaluation of ships to get into repairs or not.
  
• Fixed old issue of wrongly allowing Task Forces to be auto-replenished with crew at sea (while adding crew is impossible from the fleet management). The ships should now properly return to port for repairs if the crew losses become high. This fix also addresses the exploit of players parking huge battleship task forces in AI waters and progressively destroying them because the ships would not be damaged (Due to previous damage repair wrong info) nor have any crew losses on the next turns, so eventually the Task Forces dominated the area. AI overpowered fleets will also become less effective in an equal way.
  
• Fixed “Saved Crew” indication not appearing in consecutive battles.
  
• Weight adjustments for deck, turrets, barbettes. Deck armor is slightly lighter, with a more profound effect in large ships. Turret and Barbette armor limits are now more historically correct.
  
• Fixed "saved" battles bug, which caused ammo values to be corrupted if you loaded the same battle more than one time.
  
• Definite fix of turret rotation bugs. Now the turrets will not fire at impossible angles and will follow the ship listing left or right. If the turrets are not able to fire due to horizontal/vertical angle then this will appear on the respective gun info.
  

When guns cannot fire due to their horizontal or vertical angle, a new indication appears. More similar indications to help players understand the combat situation will become available on the next major update.

The game should be now fully playable and enjoyable without critical bugs. We prepare for the next major update which will include the full global map, all nations, full technology tree and many other improvements. More info will be available for the next update in September.

Enjoy the game!

The Game-Labs Team

Uploaded Repair x1: Fixed minor issues with Deck Hit Ratio on tall ships.
Please Restart Steam to get the minor fix.

Hello Admirals,

We offer an update which aims to be the last before the next major update. It includes important fixes and improvements that you can read below.

*v1.08.8 Small Update*

*FIXES*

• Fixed a bug of alliances which could cause a nation to be in an alliance and not follow the war against its enemies.
  
• Fixed UI bug which caused the citadel sections to not show up in ships of very large displacement.
  
• Fixed turret rotation bug which could freeze the turret movement when a ship was maneuvering heavily. This bug affected the AI a lot, when executing evasive maneuvers and severely reduced its effectiveness.
  
• Fixed a bug that affected the power projection calculations making transport losses too few.
  
• Fixed campaign bug that caused zero crew ships to be used in combat.
  

*BALANCES/IMPROVEMENTS*
Improved campaign AI to build ships only of the latest design.

• Improved campaign AI to more effectively scrap ships, and so to create a more advanced fleet.
  
• New feature which was planned for the next major update: Crew Heal/Salvage techs. Researching survivability allows options to improve the amount of crew casualties that become restored after combat. This feature is not yet fully working, please note.
  
• Crew pool growth decreased (it would become inflated due to the latest changes).
  
• Ship maintenance increased further.
  
• Slight armor weight adjustments (Affecting mainly ships of small displacement which could become over-armored easily).
  
• Improved penetration mechanics/estimations. You will also notice more accurate penetration estimations when hovering on a target.
  
• Various Battle AI improvements.
  
• Increased funds in the Naval Academy to compensate for the latest armor weight adjustments which affect costs.
  
• Improved further the Auto-Design in its speed and effectiveness of its designs.
  

Enjoy!
The Game-Labs Team

EDIT: Uploaded fix for targeting. Please restart Steam to receive the update. EDIT 2: Uploaded small repair for fixing a potential issue of AI overscrapping ships. Additionally fixed some old issues which allowed ships under repair to be used in campaign missions in some rare occasions.

Hello Admirals,
Please be informed that another important update has just become available to improve the gameplay and fix some longstanding issues with the long campaign turns or slow Campaign generation time.

*v1.08.7 Hotfix*

• Fixed bugs that created too long Campaign turns while designing ships. Auto-Design in general should be faster now and not “freeze” as it did before on some occasions.
  
• Fixed bugs that created errors in Transport Capacity output for AI nations and impossibility to increase their GDP.
  
• Fixed bug that made AI nations lose free crew from pool and have not enough to send to operational ships.
  
• GDP growth penalty during war increased. It should better balance the money availability for all nations during war.
  
• Various adjustments on penetration and penetration estimations. Fixed issues related with the impact of shell velocity on penetration values.
  
• Shell dispersion fixes.
  
• Battle AI fine tuning to keep a more effective distance for itself.
  
• The game now can run on the background (by disabling “Full Screen” mode from the settings), so you can Alt+Tab and work with other applications while the game loads or does a lengthy procedure.
  

Enjoy!

The Game-Labs Team

Hello all,
We have just deployed a necessary set of changes as per your recent feedback, which should surely improve your gameplay experience.

*v1.08.6 Quick Fix*

- Armor weight exponentially increases better, allowing more design freedom.
- Auto-Design effectiveness and speed increased (fixed also problem that could cause overarmoring of a ship section).
- Citadel armor offers more consistent protection (Tooltips updated to show the minimum amount of penetration power loss before hitting the layer)
- Maximum Ship maintenance penalty when exceeding the port's capacity limit increased from +25% to +50%.
- Fixed some small UI issues (Gun sorting in Ship Design could become unstable, Fixed zero port capacity appearing as -1).
- Adjustments to the ship physics to lessen the pitch motion.
- Increased the TR capacity output, so that nations can overcome the losses of transports quicker according to the money invested.

Enjoy!

The Game-Labs Team

Hello Admirals,

We have repaired a major problem that caused lag and crashes, especially in the campaign. Furthermore, we offer fixes and improvements that you recently requested. Please take a look at the changelog.

*v1.08.5 Hotfix*

FIXES

• *Repaired the memory leak issue:* The memory consumption increased while you held a part and hovered on the mount. When you spent a lot of time designing ships by hand, this memory leak could accumulate to very high values, affecting game performance and even crashing the game.
  
• Repaired problems of the auto-design which could cause too long campaign turns when building ships.
  
• Fixed issue of the not updated flag for ships you gained with war reparations.
  
• Fixed problem of no dissipation for the income loss due to sunk transports, causing incurable financial collapse, especially to the AI.
  
• Fixed problem that caused ships in a formation to not avoid other obstacles and prefer to move straight.
  
• Fixed bug that prevented adding armor in some 5-inch barbettes.
  
• Fixed bug that highlighted all the ship cards when entering the ship design interface.
  
• Fixed bug that could cause torpedoes or guns to be fired on the opposite side of the ship, when the target was too near.
  

BALANCES/IMPROVEMENTS

• Improved Refit mechanics and UI so now you can copy a refit to create a new design. Additionally, more information is given in the “Refit” button on why some ships can or cannot be refitted.
  
• Improved penetration mechanics so that the shell terminal velocity is more accurately affecting the penetration and angle of hit.
  
• Improved ship physics and their motion at sea.
  
• Reduced the weight of Radio/Hydrophone/Sonar and increased their cost respectively.
  
• Increased the cost of Radar.
  
• AI targeting fine tuning.
  
• Shell dispersion improvements.
  
• Slight adjustment to citadel weight modifiers.
  
• Armor weight adjustments to rise exponentially and prevent the creation of unrealistic ships with too much unnatural armor for the size of the ship.
  

Enjoy!
The Game-Labs Team