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Update #84

- Added : You know can upload videos to the workshop, which will be played (with sound) when the games open, in the main menu. Format NEEDS to be .MP4.

- Change : The way wallpapers are being loaded. I figured it was dumb to load ALL custom wallpapers as you only need a random one each time you go to the main menu. Now its not loading them at all, but loading a single one when needed. Basically saves a ton of time when launching the game.

- Change : Soviet revamp of the following units (I invite you to join us on the discord server with the link on the store page of the game to see the before after of almost all units im revamping) : Light infantry, AT infantry, MG team, Mortar team, Engineers, Desantniki, Lavochkin-5, Lavochkin-7, Ilyushin-10, Ilyushin-2, Petlyakov-2, Petlyakov-2R, Petlyakov-3, T-34 85, T-70, T-60, BA-10, BA-64, Yakovlev-1, Yakovlev-3, Yakovlev-7, Yakovlev-9 and all its variants (same illustration), BT-7 and BT-5, KV-1, KV-2, T-26, I-16 Polikarpov.

Will try to revamp as much tomorrow. I should be able to do more, I woke up really late today (12) lol.

Hope you will enjoy the revamp of the units ! Honestly, I'm stoked, I love the new way I came up with to make them.

Cheers !

Update #83

- Added : Battle of Kasserine Pass, Battle of Tripoli, Second battle of El Alamein.
- Added : Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car.
- Added : 14 new achievements.
- Added : Claude Auchinleck, Alan Cunningham, Archibald Wavell, Italo Gariboldi.
- Added : Unlimited fuel + ammo option in the settings. Playing a campaign will turn it OFF automatically. Same for the fog of war.

- Change : Revamp of ALMOST ALL British units.
- Change : Infantry graphics will now move left / right.

- Removed : All scenarios from the campaign as standalone maps. I left only the big maps as official quick games. otherwise you play the campaign for historical scenarios.

I am working onto soviet units now that need a revamp too.
I will try to make a revamp of the Soviets + US before the 31st of August. I would also re do a map of Italy as the current one is just way too big.

Update #82

- Added : Operation Spring Awakening (Lake Balaton).
- Added : New Poland 1939 map.
- Added : Vistula-Oder (1945) soviet Offensive.
- Added : Operation Weserubung.
- Added : Now shows what's being loaded in live from the workshop.
- Added : In game playlist for choosing what song to play (Just click on the music icon, its now a button).
- Added : Turn on or off the fog of war in the settings (By default at each game launch its ON).

- Change : Fullscreen is now exclusive. On Mac OS, the mouse won't leave the screen and show the top or bottom bar. You will need to CMD + TAB to leave the game and see your desktop.
- Change : Mountaineers now deal 15 more damage to units that are on hills / mountains.

- Fix : Player slot in the map editor being not to scale with low resolution screens.
- Fix : Some units stats were a bit off.
- Fix : Tiles in the map editor at the bottom could be sized weirdly, should be fixed now.
- Fix : Mountaineers would avoid walking on mountains even though they can.

Update #81

- Added : Operation Bagration as a scenario.

- Fix : Various stuff, I forgot what. Ah, something with ground generals giving like bonuses to planes which they should not be getting mostly.

Update #80

- Added : A brand new eastern front map. This one is 148 x 115. The dimension will make it way more enjoyable to play on, and require less units on the board. It's not too small, but it's not too big ! I placed over 350 cities.

- Added : Sd. Kfz. 250-9, Sd. Kfz. 223, Fokker DXXI, Morane-Saulnier MS406, Italian paratroopers,105mm mle 1913, Potez 630, 25mm CA mle 39, Breda 20/85, TACAM T-60, 75mm Resita model 1943, Maresal, TACAM R-2, IAR-80, IAR-39.

- Added : Petro Badoglio, Rodolfo Grazioni, Ugo Cavallero, Angelo Iachino, Rino Corso Fougier.

- Fix : Custom sprites were too small upon importation.