Making History: The First World War - Early Access Progress

There is not an update this week since we do not have enough items completed to justify a new release. Our focus has been on content development for the next scenario: The Russian Revolution. This scenario will start players off in September 1918 just after the final German offensive fails and the Allied Hundred Days Offensive is in progress. As German, Bulgarian and Ottoman lines begin to collapse, fresh American forces join the fight. Internal instability further undermines the status of the Central Powers and they are ready to find a way out of the war.

This is where the game gets interesting. The Central Power governments are losing control of their empires. Throughout Europe and the Middle East, long suppressed nationalists-minded populations are preparing to fight for their independence and conflicting claims. All this while Russia is torn asunder by a continent-wide civil war. An emerging Communist ideology is fighting to inherit the lands of the former Tsar against a divided and dysfunctional opposition.

The event scripting for The Russian Revolution scenario is just beginning. We want to have a significant amount of that work done before releasing this to the community. For this scenario we were inspired to add a new unit to the game. It’s an Armored Train based on the rail weapons used by the Czech Legion during their legendary campaign along the trans-Siberian railway. This unit will be in the next update.



Here’s what we are planning to work on for the next few weeks:

• Scripting events for The Russian Revolution scenario
  
• Begin implementing Achievements
  
• Review Territorial Claims for all scenarios
  
• Explore adding an Always Expand/Prospect Order for Resources
  
• Implement an Add Claim mechanism to Nationalities Panel
  
• Stop AI mining Sea Regions when at peace
  
• Discourage France from declaring war on Ottomans to defend Greek Claims
  
• Add military units to The Russian Revolution
  

Partial list of items we will have left to finish before official release:

• Add possible 4th scenario focused on MP play
  
• Balance cities in all scenarios
  
• Rework Fleet and Air Content for TRR
  
• Improve Music
  
• Add Difficulty levels
  
• Turn On Editor
  
• Turn On Multiplayer
  
• Turn On Steam Workshop
  

The above lists are not comprehensive and they exclude a lot of non-feature work. We have wish-list items and features that may still find their way into the game. The next update will likely come out in a week and after that we hope to release The Russian Revolution.