Hex of Steel News

- Added : Polikarpov Po-2 (recon plane).
- Added : Selected unit grey indicator can now be changed to red for easier selected unit spotting. Option to find in the settings.
- Added : 3440 x 1440 resolution.

- Fix : Not all campaign maps were hostable in multiplayer on mobile.
- Fix : self propelled AA cannot attack air units.

- Change : Changes made to the new End of the War 1944 map. Rivers missing etc.

- Fix : I made changes to the AI yesterday to increase stability but this created a new issue with units surrendering never dying.
- Fix : Due to the 4.0.0 update, I made huge (basically re did from the ground up) victory conditions and all the code, and it seems in Smolensk 43 when holding out until required time you would get a defeat screen.
- Fix : Little issue with the AI, like its planes when out of fuel if they could go to an aircraft carrier, they would even if they weren’t carrier based planes.

- Added : Icons for harbours, airfields, factories and refineries.
- Added : New map ! End of the war (November 1944 160x129 survival map for Germany)

- Change : Artillery max range has been set to 3 for a little bit more realism.
- Change : Units are now over flags in the layers.
- Change : AI plays faster in the FOW. I increased its speed by 3.
- Change : Reduced the increment for positioning the overlay.
- Change : If you hold shift while resize the overlay, you will be able to scale it way faster.
- Change : Balance for the Coral Sea scenario.
- Change : Populate map button in map editor will now not randomly spawn units. It will only spawn infantry in cities, and AA in airfields. If the country doesn’t have any AA, it will place something else.

- Fix : neutrals would invite neutrals in their faction.
- Fix : Veteran option broken in the store when untoggling it the unit would still have 115 HP.
- Fix : If your modded unit had “Flag” in its name, such as the SU-15 Flagon, it would display the plane instead of the flag on your potential damage panel. Really REALLY rare issue, since its only with this unit during the Cold War :) But a fix is a fix !
- Fix : If you had custom wallpapers, they wouldn’t be loaded upon game opening the first time.
- Fix : The battlecruiser renown had a typo in its graphics.
- Fix : You could host coop multiplayer games, which AREN’T supported by the game AT ALL, resulting in various issues in multiplayer.
- Fix : You could have negative ammo sometimes (when supporting friendlies).
- Fix : There was quite a big issue with the type of all self propelled AA, they weren’t considered as tanks, and all taking soft damage infantry.
- Fix : AI freeze instance.
- Fix : Sherman Tulip had 5 armour.
- Fix : You couldn’t have units set as target for more than 1 faction in the map editor as a victory condition.
- Fix : Loading a scenario that had targeted units to kill in order to win and looking at the objectives would make the game freeze if you killed any of those units.

- Removed : Heavy MG soviet unit. Again, way too tactical. Your units on your saves will be replaced by normal heavy infantry.
- Removed : Germany 1945 map. With the new one I added, you don’t need the old one, I promise … :)

Hello everyone !

Most of you already know that I always read and almost always answer your comments/topics in the forum, or on the various social networks of the game.

By the way, where I'm the most active and where you can hope to get an answer instantly is the DISCORD server : https://discord.gg/WHjNqxKYkU
(So if you have issues, questions, suggestions, please join the server).

Anyway, I wanted to let you know that I'll be streaming this Sunday on Youtube (playing the game of course), here's the link to the channel : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMMq2he5LtC5Sg5qcfy8y9g
Subscribe and you should get a notification when I go live so you don't miss it :)

I will be going live during the evening for my European players (Around 8pm), which would be around 3pm eastern time for you american fellows

So, yeah, if you have questions you'd like to ask me in live, or if you'd just like to see how the AI will kick my ass, feel free to join the live !

Cheers,

Val

- Added : 21:9 aspect ratio support in the resolution in the settings (2560x1080).
- Added : Save as in the map editor (Just for you @Tchey).

- Change : Updated the email sending the emails for the multilayer.
- Change : The overlay is now automatically loaded and placed properly upon scenario opening (map editor and in game).

- Fix : NATO counters shown in the FOW for human players.
- Fix : Operation Husky was unbalanced.
- Fix : Operation Compass was unbalanced.
- Fix : Coral Sea american balance.
- Fix : Password reset wouldn’t work for multiplayer account.