Making History: The First World War News

For the last several months our focus has been on localizing The First World War into different languages. We released an early Chinese version a few weeks ago and now have a working build that adds both Russian and German. We've decided to make these imperfect translations available to all players while we continue to work on improvements.



All text content for both have been localized but it's very rough in many places. This includes poor translation and in some cases, strings that do not fit well in the UI. We have native speakers helping us cleanup the over 15,000 lines of text for each language.



There are also Spanish and French versions in progress and we intend to follow that up with possibly Portuguese, Italian, Turkish, Bulgarian, Japanese or Polish. We’ll be deciding that in the near future and the plan is to also make translations for The Second World War.

Feedback is welcome.

Quick patch to fix missing strings in The July Crisis scenario.

The Chinese language version of Making History: The First World War is now ready to share.



All Lobby, Hud and Event text has been localized to Simplified Chinese.



This is a large amount of text - over 10,000 lines of translations. The Events alone were over 7,000.



So there's a good chance we may have messed somewhere. Please let us know if you find issues and we'll try to fix them for the next build.



Coming up...



Russian Language translation release. This is currently being reviewed and tested. Should be ready for release in the very near future.

A Chinese version of Making History: The First World War has been requested by multiple community members. We just wanted to let our Chinese players know that a translation is being worked on. We've completed most of the UI and are beginning on the many events and units.



We will update you when the translation is ready.

In this update we fixed several user reported bugs and content errors. A few modifications were made to some Events which we believe is the source of a troublesome save bug that some users have experienced.

There are not many changes to the game at this stage, however we are planning to begin releasing more content related updates since the overall game is mostly set. We received many suggestions over the months since we first released the game. These have been filed and we’ll review them all. In the meantime, thanks for providing bug reports and game feedback.

[h3]Release Notes:[/h3]

• Altered the MexicanTejano_PlanDeSanDiego event to prevent a game stall bug
  
• Changed Kiautschou Nationality to Northern Chinese, they now build German style hardware
  
• Fixed bug in content that allowed Koenigsberg to have more than 1 recruitment facility
  
• Fixed Marines Unit model display for several Nations
  
• Added new religions Taoism & Confucianism
  
• Added coal maintenance for Power Plants
  
• Fixed Coastal Defense Model Location for Kiautschou
  
• Fixed Coal Model Location for Phuoc Long
  
• Fixed Finish Civil War Event Text errors
  
• Altered the RussianRevolution_RedRevolution event to prevent save game errors