Release Notes - 2020-12-15
Attention, Generals!
With our last update of the year, we implement new dynamic country names on the map and a Call of War wiki that you can access from within and outside the game!
The new dynamic country names appear when you zoom out on the map and allow you to leave a visible mark in your game round. The bigger your empire grows; the more impressive your country's name will be represented on the map for all players to see.
The new Wiki replaces the old manual and allows you to search for vital information without leaving the game. You will find a vast amount of information in there to a wide variety of topics, explaining the ins and outs of the game and its mechanics. Please note that we will add more content to the Wiki in the next few weeks.
Today’s update also includes some balancing changes, further updates and bug fixes. For a complete overview please take a look at the list below:
New features:
- A new Call of War Wiki was implemented in the game providing detailed information on a wide range of aspects of the game. The new Wiki can be accessed from outside and inside the game.
- The Wiki can be opened via a new menu item on top of the “other” menu in the bottom right corner on mobile.
- On desktop the existing “info” button in the top left corner of the screen is re-purposed to open the game wiki instead.
- In the forums the current manual articles are replaced with a link to the Wiki.
- The Wiki can also be accessed via https://wiki.callofwar.com/
- The Wiki provides information in English only, as the amount of information is too much to provide localized versions and keeping all those languages up to date in case of changes.
- Country names are now displayed dynamically when zooming out on the map. The bigger your country gets, the larger the font size and your mark on the map for all players to see and to represent the power of your empire.
Balancing:
- The naval combat balance was adjusted, especially in terms of how Destroyers are fighting Submarines. Prior to this update it was too easy for Destroyers to destroy Submarines due to their attack range combined with their high speed and ability to reveal. Destroyers now get their attack range removed and are compensated with higher damage values and lower costs, among other changes::
- Destroyers:
- The attack range was removed
- The research, building and upkeep costs were reduced
- The damage against submarines was increased.
- The view range was increased from 50 to 70.
- Submarines:
- The research, building and upkeep costs were increased
- The hit points of Submarines were decreased.
- Cruisers:
- The damage against submarines was decreased.
- These changes only affect newly created game rounds. Games created before this update and “Classic” game rounds are not affected by this change.
General:
- The inactivity timers in events were streamlined to make it easier for you to know after what amount of time the AI is taking over your reign in case you are not available to rule your nation.
- The inactivity timer is now 2 real life days in all events except in high speed events with 6x or 10x the speed of normal game rounds.
- The inactivity timer for events with 6x or 10x the speed of normal game rounds is 1 real life day now.
- The index of nations/coalitions and the ranking table in the newspaper, including the info how many Victory Points are needed to win the game round were removed for Dominion maps, as these maps do not require Victory Points to win the game.
- Call of War can now be played in landscape mode on tablets.
- Since the army bar and province bar are now displayed at the bottom of the screen on mobile, notifications were moved to the top of the screen and can be closed now to avoid overlap.
Bug fixes:
- A bug was fixed that prevented the Game End timer to be displayed at the end of a game round on mobile devices.
- An issue was resolved that caused the login notification “you have 1 new front report" to be displayed although the player was already logged in and the reported notification was displayed on the screen. The login notification is not displayed anymore when the player is logged in and received the notification itself.
- A bug was fixed on mobile devices that prevented the scrolling function in the stock market from working when scrolling the market and switching resource tabs.
- An issue on mobile devices was resolved that caused an empty space to be displayed between the coalition flag and the country flag in the army bar, which caused the info button to be hidden.
- An issue was resolved that could cause units to be displayed in front of resource icons, but behind other labels on the map. Resource icons are now displayed in front of units, like the other labels on the map.
- We added translations for several tooltips that were displayed in English language for some languages.
- A bug has been fixed that caused the option of using arrow keys to cycle between provinces and armies to not work as intended.
We hope you like the new Call of War Wiki, the dynamic country names on the map and all the other changes and bug fixes of today’s update. We wish you best of luck on the battlefield!
Your Bytro Team
