Steam Cloud saving support (optional, temporary 10 max save files support).
New toggle: Offline PBEM when hosting a scenario offline. Will lock some features to prevent cheating when playing with several people, but offline.
[h3]CHANGED[/h3]
Multiplayer compatibility version to 7.7.7.
Attacks against units in train transport are now doubled (essentially making units moving in trains very vulnerable to external attacks).
AI will now back out with some of its units if they cannot deal enough damage at the frontline but some others can and would perform better in their place and are nearby enough to take their place during the turn (improved much more after an additional update, it's as good as it gets).
Few units graphics.
Added 5 more turns to Op. Market Garden as it was impossible to complete.
Added more major VPs to German side on Stalingrad 42 standalone as you could complete the scenario very quickly by using some very specific strategy.
Nukes now disable tiles for 15 turns.
Reworked a bit the standalone scenarios menu.
[h3]FIXED[/h3]
AI healing its units right at the frontline instead of attacking (unit with 90%+ HP not in need of urgent healing).
When AI had the choice to attack two targets with same damage dealt but a difference in retaliation damage received, it would not take into account the retaliation damage received and could end up choosing targets that would deal more retaliation damage.
AI could sometimes deploy its commanders at the frontline where there were enemy units.
AI artificially increasing its available (limited) manpower.
AI AA would not stay in defensive mode and always move out.
AI freeze when trying to spawn units that are tiles (trench, factory...).
Revamp of many geographical areas of many countries on Europe 1939 standalone scenario.
Updated entirely Europe 1941 standalone scenario.
Updated entirely Europe 1942 standalone scenario.
AI fighters will now focus on targeting unescorted enemy bombers in priority.
AI fighters focusing on targeting other enemy fighters priority has been changed for nations considering themselves as 'losing the war'. They will focus on bombers first to avoid unnecessary casualties that they cannot afford.
Amount of units required around an enemy VP to make it count as 'under siege' and disable spawning of reinforcements has been reduced from 50% to 25% of available tiles. This means that if around a given VP you had 6 walkable tiles, you needed to bring 3 or more of your units and place them directly around it in order to prevent enemy reinforcements to be spawned at this particular VP. Now, since it is 25%, 2 units are enough.
Experimental: Max healable HP per turn has been reduced from 50% to 35%. This is an attempt at fixing the fact that units can barely damage each other and frontlines never really move, as no breakthrough is possible since units mostly can heal in a turn the damage they are taking. This change may or may not stay, we'll see how it affects balance and if it does solve the issue.
Attacks against units in train transport are now doubled (essentially making units moving in trains very vulnerable to external attacks).
Few units graphics.
[h3]FIXED[/h3]
Natural manpower growth (expand of the max manpower cap) was being lifted once a month instead of every turn (obviously scaled by the amount of time that goes by every turn).
Major manpower exploit when playing with realistic manpower ON.
Upkeep issue with units in reserve, was always counted as full price.
El Alamein belonging to the Axis in Afrikakorps 1942 standalone scenario.
AI redeploying some of its units when it shouldn't have.
Portugal missing Marines infantry unit counter.
Unit having waypoint being sent back to the reserve due to an upgrade would not clear its waypoints.
Vichy France performing landings.
Land units starting the scenario in water would have various movement points values instead of their amphibian movement values.
AI healing its units right at the frontline instead of attacking (unit with 90%+ HP not in need of urgent healing).
When AI had the choice to attack two targets with same damage dealt but a difference in retaliation damage received, it would not take into account the retaliation damage received and could end up choosing targets that would deal more retaliation damage.
7.7.5
[h3]ADDED[/h3]
Game has been translated in a brand new language, although very niche, players who speak Catalan are going to be happy, we can thank @Divadov for his work! Enjoy!
[h3]CHANGED[/h3]
Overdue rework of the settings menu. It really was a mess, it is now much more organized!
Improved balance of Europe 1939, as well as a geographical rework. Also, Italy will now join the Allies when Rome falls (to the Allies). Romania will now properly join the USSR upon capitulating when being invaded by the USSR (instead of just capitulating).
AI organized retreat/defense system. It will now much more intelligently pick defensive spots or retreat when being outnumbered or in a defavorable situation when losing the war.
Morale passive regeneration rate (3% -> 5% per turn).
Morale loss from artillery pounding or bombardment now directly scales with damage to HP ratio, with a minimal morale loss of 5.
Increased impact of morale on retreat of units.
All italian infantry graphics.
AI will now properly enlarge its frontline instead of massing its troops in a single place.
Added major VPs to Stalingrad '42 standalone.
Increased manpower growth rate (from 3% to 5%).
[h3]FIXED[/h3]
AI's turns slowing down a lot in certain cases (when it tried to calculate a path towards its goal, but none could be found). I am now running a lightweight algorithm (
AI would upgrade its garrisons even though it did not have the manpower for it, ending up with negative manpower (when playing with realistic manpower ON).
One instance of AI freeze in very specific cases.
Buying/Requesting/Transferring tiles being part of a capitulation event would not cancel the capitulation (Example: German player buying Paris hexagon, if Paris fell, Germany would capitulate).
Berlin 1945 Steam leaderboard not working.
Major manpower exploit when playing with realistic manpower ON.
7.7.4
[h3]ADDED[/h3]
2cm Flak to Slovakia.
Possibility to annex territory through the Territory management UI (making captured territory your own, removing the occupation penalty).
When you try to deploy a unit, the cooldown for destroyed tiles will now be shown (on top of the minimal occupation time).
[h3]CHANGED[/h3]
Multiplayer compatibility -> 7.7.4.
Ships upkeep cost (lowered).
Cost to refuel ships (lowered).
AI ships will now focus on going primarily towards naval capturable victory points instead of rushing coastlines.
AI fighters will be more careful when engagement ground targets and taking back supportive fire (less aggressive as a whole to let bombers perform this role, so that they can better focus on escorting or air supremacy).
AI planes starting their turn over an enemy unit, and attack right away will now use all of their movement points instead of just 1.
Winter now lasts one less month. Snow starts falling on November 15th, and will start melting on March 15th (Before, it was from November 1st to April 1st).
Balance on Europe 1939 standalone scenario.
[h3]FIXED[/h3]
In real time multiplayer, you could not end your turn after an AI played.
On War Declared event trigger sometimes not firing.
[h3]REMOVED[/h3]
Hardcoded Soviet income debuff (-50% economy up to June 22nd 1941).
7.7.3
[h3]ADDED[/h3]
Excelsior UK heavy tank prototype.
T14 US heavy tank prototype.
Light infantry 43 for Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Shortcut (new keybinds) to bring up the draw/erase tools.
[h3]CHANGED[/h3]
Multiplayer compatibility bumped to 7.7.3.
AI fighters will now seek air superiority at all times. Meaning destroying enemy fighters.
AI order of play of its paratroopers and fighters (paratroopers now playing before fighters so that fighters can properly escort them if needed).
AI order of play of all of most of its units. Units closer to the frontline will now play first (basically the play order is now based on their distance to the frontline).
AI will prioritize playing its units that are sitting on harbours first to help with starting landings.
Way the modified base game units are saved. It is fully failsafe now. Before, some cases were found where units duplicated themselves, and as a results some modifications were never applied. This update not only improves the system, but also patches any mod (upon loading) that suffered from this.
Prototypes no longer count in the research tree. You are not forced to research them to move on through the techs.
Small performance improvements during AI turns.
Improved AI goal picking routine. I am now assigning each landmass and body of water an ID/index, and so if a ship is trying to go from A to B, but both hex have difference ocean index, it means they aren't linked and cannot be reached by ship. So it will try to go somewhere else. Same for land units which have landings disabled.
Units embarking in trains can now move right after doing so.
Units embarking in landing crafts can now move right after doing so.
Units embarking in air transports can now move right after doing so.
[h3]FIXED[/h3]
Missing translation entries.
Inconsistencies in the manual (PDF).
Damage UI elements not being shown when the unit dealing the damage was not in the camera's FOV.
Planes with range > 1 could not target ground units at a distance greater than 0 (right underneath them) with mods.
AI was not using up manpower when purchasing new units when playing with the 'realistic manpower' setting... Oopsie.
Ironman tooltip for campaigns not working properly.
AI pathfinding issue, where when given a goal (tile to move to), if it could not reach it, it would just sit there instead of trying to get something else to do.
AI ships did not prioritze capturing enemy VPs when they were in reach.
AI gunboats did not move.
Instances of AI recon land units or artillery units or fighters (during escort missions) not moving because they were assigned a goal they could not reach.
Aggressiveness on AI planes was set too high which could lead to suicide attacks.
Embark/Disembark button not showing up when staying on an enemy VP (in a train).
Crazy movement points with trains when playing on turn 1, saving, and loading that save, then getting out of the train.
AI ships sometimes not moving at all (in very specific cases).
Potential movement path visualization could not work when a unit was in a landing craft on a harbour and you were pointing at land right next to it.
AI trying to cover its naval victory points, although it would be useless since they cannot be bombed.