ADDED • New 'Help' section in the main menu, where you will be able to find both the game's Manual, as well as a 'Contact Support' email generator + log file opener. Please use this now to report issues or request for help, as it will contain all of the informations about your installation. • New 'Community' section in the main menu, containing all of the various social network links • Confirmation window when you try to delete a save file. • Automatic dedicated chat channels for every languages the game supports. • Hot load support for real time multiplayer (game host can now load any save file mid game and that will be synced for every other players in the room). CHANGED • Updated several sections of the manual. • Ships now apply Zone of Control around them (submarines or submerged units excluded). • Rework of the main menu presentation (buttons layout, menus, sub-sections). Improved clarity. • Language setting has therefore been moved to the regular settings menu, under the 'Accessibility' category. • When pressing the 'delete' button in the Mods menu, if the mod is a Workshop mod, it will now automatically unsubscribe you from it. • Musics will now be played in the main menu if there is a modded video playing in the background, but the game detects that the video has no audio track. • In the multiplayer game hosting menu, both PBEM and real time buttons will be visible at all times and greyed out only when scenario is not properly configured. • Upon their creation, new mods will have new automatic data set in the Manifest.json (username, version...). FIXED • Editors could not save data to mod if there were active mods that were missing data. • AA units were still not able to attack land units further than 1 tile away. • New Orleans heavy cruiser (USA) having wrong graphics. • Stats on units counters would not reposition properly when changing the scale of units in the settings. • Transferring a unit to another player had no redeployment time (if sent to reserve). • Max FPS setting issues when saving/loading the player settings. • Chat was no longer autoconnecting when playing a scenario (regression from 8.0.4). • Real time multiplayer trying to raise events even when playing offline (regression from 8.0.4).

ADDED • Damage breakdown mention + how-to in Tutorial task + step to help new players better understand battle/damage outcomes. • When closing the tutorial window, it will now turn into a little 'book' icon on the UI so that you can open it later if you want/need to. • Fog of War clearing is now saved between sessions (no more 'recon' FOW loss). CHANGED • Multiplayer compatibility version. • Updated the game engine (Unity) to match the latest security update. • Transferring a unit that was on the map to some other player that was not an ally or an enemy would leave the unit on the territory, it will now be sent to the player's reserve instantly. • Improved sync of units movements in real time multiplayer. • Kicking someone from a faction will now make it join its own faction based on its country name. • Improved data exchanged during real time multiplayer games (reduced/batched existing data). It should be lighter and more reliable now. • Renamed 'Library' tag into 'Code' tag for filtering mods on the Workshop. • Yellow fuel icon indicating low fuel for a unit now starts showing from 30% instead of 40% of available fuel remaining. • Increased modded tiles resolution from 256 to 512 (sharper). • Increased modded units resolution from 256 to 512 (sharper). • Moved map opacity window to the right of the plans drawing window. • Removed char limit on Workshop Uploader mod description/changelog text fields. • Rebalanced Operation Crusader (Axis side) campaign scenario. • Reworked the UI of the main menu scenario editor UI. • Cheapened Tutorial alliance invitation cost a lot to make it more accessible and not block the player. FIXED • Several sync functions were missing in real time multiplayer. • Italian Littorio BB 1942 refit stats were a little off. • Notifications shown to non active human players in real time multiplayer. • Changing the 'sleep state' of a unit was not synced properly in real time multiplayer. • Field modifications category in the Policies menu was not properly localized. • Typo in a Finnish village on Europe scenario. • One airfield in Albania on Europe scenario was providing manpower and income. • Partisans not spawning in a rare, specific case. • AI carriers could, in rare cases, stay stranded at sea instead of going back to harbour to refuel. • 'No game hosted' UI message in multiplayer menu would sometimes still be displayed while you were already in a lobby about to start a real time multiplayer game.

ADDED • Brand new main menu soundtrack, unfortunately was not ready in time for the release of 8.0.0 and the new art style, composed by the same artist. • Close/Minimize buttons to the tutorial window. • Loading wheel in the multiplayer button for when the game chats with the server. CHANGED • Multiplayer compatibility version. • Manual (PDF), fixed incoherences and added Convoy section. • Increased online chat max slots from 100 to 500. • Improved clarity regarding landings in the tutorial (unit needing to be located on a tile adjacent to the tile where you want it to land). • Login, register, password recovery, and account deletion buttons in the multiplayer menu will now be disabled whenever the game chatting with the server (to prevent request spamming that does nothing but waste everyone's time and resources). • When you override the manpower of a tile in the map editor, and when that tile became occupied during the game, the regular 'occupied' value of the tile (found in the Tiles editor) would be used instead of calculated from the override you chose. Now, an automatic override of the occupied value is calculated, as 1/5th of the value, to respect the base game ratio between occupied and non occupied tiles. • Land and naval mines are now allowed to be deployed on victory points, as long as they are not reinforcement tiles. • Many more properties are now exported to CSV in the Units editor. • Code clean up for modders. FIXED • Upgrading/Downgrading unit error message thrown in real time multiplayer. • AA units were restricted from targeting enemy land units further than 1 tile away, even when they attack range stat was set to any number higher than 1. • Korean, Japanese, and Chinese number order issue with units naming. • Incompatibility between the mountaineer and truck/mechanized option, when trying to move on a mountain and having both options active on your unit.

FIXED • Planes could not attack ground targets. • Save files were not displayed.

FIXED • Wrongly pushed the DEMO version to the main branch. Oops.

BREAKING CHANGES • Save files and scenarios generated by version 8 and onward are not compatible with earlier version (7.x). Files from 7.x are compatible with 8.x. ADDED • Brand new in-game Tutorial to make new players life easier. • Tooltip over the 'Continue' button to provide information about what save is going to be loaded if you press it. • Localization of the game into Traditional Chinese. • Compression to save files, they now are 90% smaller (yes, 90%). This is the reason why the files no longer are backward compatible. Old files will still load fine. • Support for MP3 format for SFXs and musics for mods. I strongly encourage every modder to update their mod and replace their WAV sound files with MP3 files to achieve significant RAM gains (over 90%). CHANGED • Multiplayer compatibility version. • App icon was changed to look more modern. • Main menu wallpaper was remade. • Joining or creating a faction in the Diplomacy menu has been split in two for improved clarity. • Capturing units in campaign would not always add them to your reserve (in the case that you reached your max core units). • All save files are now properly trimmed instead of growing exponentially. • You can now select units that are on top of one another in the map editor (air/ground on single tile). • Mods graphics load process, over 85% RAM gains were achieved on average, reducing significantly RAM pressure from mods (tested on Napoleonic Wars mod). • For modders: A new folder named 'Flags' has been added to the 'Graphics' folder. This is where all of the flags should now be placed. The game will automatically move them for the players/you upon loading the mod, but it would be nice if you could move them there directly, as such: HexOfSteel/MODS/YourModName/Graphics/Flags/USA/Flag.png FIXED • Coral Sea campaign scenario as Axis was instant lost on turn 1. • Recon units in trains could move twice. • Modded heroes with custom graphics with wrong dimensions would prevent whole mod loading. • Borders will now be properly redrawn in real time (after any tile edit) in the Map Editor. • AI will no longer purchase paratroopers when there are no land VPs in the scenario. • AI will no longer purchase land units (infantry, tanks, etc) when there are no land VPs in the scenario. • Having a '+' char in your mod's name would prevent all sound effects or music clips to be loaded. • Sea Hurricane Mk I was not marked as carrier compatible. • Some units properties were not synced properly when loading a save file. • Minor details in Units Editor. • Countries not localized in the multiplayer real time lobby. • Real time hosting data transfer fixes. • Real time multiplayer now has proper re-sync (even for large maps) when a player goes out of sync and reconnects. • Leave room button would still be displayed even after being kicked out of a real time multiplayer room. • Various localization fixes in different languages. • README and mod thumbnail files are now properly copied over to disk when creating a mod.

ADDED • Laid down the groundwork for an actual in game tutorial. CHANGED • Multiplayer compatibility version. • Network code reorganization. • When playing with the 'camera follow AI moves' setting, it will now focus on units being targeted by AI artillery units which are in the FOW instead of not focusing on anything and skipping those attacks from FOW. • Faction change cost: reduced when switching to neutral (old formula only counted players you were at war with, but not if they got vanquished entirely or not). • Towed AA units no longer can move and attack, it's either one or the other during their turn. Only SPAA can both move and attack. FIXED • Units would overlap on friendly mines when ordered to move across them into FOW and if there was an enemy unit in that tile in the FOW (kind of very specific). • Custom units spawned in the Map Editor using the 'spawn units' button could have 'broken' graphics. • Notifications menu not properly scaling with your screen's height. • Units would not move to destination tile in very specific case: enemy land mine on one tile + enemy unit on an adjacent tile + ZOC setting ON. • Minor issues with some scenarios. • Units editor resetting the active mod whenever you left the menu, giving you the 'you need to select a mod' message every time you tried to mod any unit afterward. • AI planes would not perform attacks when it should have in some cases. • Video player for video wallpaper in main menu would stretch the video content. • Most likely fixed the 'spotted units' icons not clearing out when they should (radar/sonar). • A lot of the units options stats modifications were scattered around the whole codebase and not always matching, I have unified the definition of such modifications, and now a single modification is used across the whole game. • In some rare/specific cases, the mods manager mods listing would break when a steam workshop mod could not be found at its install location (when installed on a separate disk, for example, and that disk was not connected). • AI risk/reward calculations when attacking. • Save/Load menu UI scaling issues. • Diplomacy menu UI scaling issues. • Some outdated units were patched in many scenarios (name changed, stats, etc). • Battle of Berlin campaign scenario on the Allies side would not allow you to play both US and UK, it was either one or the other, and the other one would be AI controlled. • AI trains pathfinding thought it could move through destroyed bridges. • Units spawned through events were broken (regression from prev. version). • Units ID when spawned were limited from 0 to 100. • You could undo your move when your unit was intercepted by the ZOC of an enemy unit from the FOW (regression from prev. version). • Negative or very low fuel issues on planes with some specific loadouts (regression from prev. version). • Units spawned in the map editor using the auto spawn buttons would not be properly registered to the player (regression from prev. version). • Scenario would not end when there were both major VPs to be captured and one or more units to be destroyed to achieve victory, and the major VPs were captured. • Medals not properly showing in list of completed/beaten scenarios (Axis/Allies). • Localization typos.

ADDED • Warning popup window for chinese players trying to play realtime multiplayer, the game does not have any servers in China, which as a result can lead to poor performances during online games (realtime only). • New file inside mod folders: Manifest.json. With the rework of the mod manager UI, some information relative to the mod can now be seen (author, mod version, description of the mod, dependencies, etc). I would like to invite all modders to update their mod with the new file (new file is automatically added to any mod whenever you open the Mods Manager UI menu). • New unit property: Exclude unit. This is a BOOL (true/false) which basically excludes any unit tagged with the flag from the game, you can use this to hide base game units. • New unit property: Move or Attack. This is a BOOL (true/false) which when applied will prevent the unit to both move AND attack during its turn. CHANGED • Multiplayer compat. version. • Improved AI target acquisition. • AI now takes into account units cost when planning for an attack. • AI's aggressiveness is now properly influenced by the actual economical situation (allies vs enemies total income). • Vehicles armour have less impact vs infantry damage when engaged in unfavourable terrain (cities, forests...). • Mods manager UI menu. • Mods loading order (top to bottom). • AI units marked as scenario victory condition (must be killed in order to win the scenario) now are going to flee away from enemy units. As an example, the battle of Midway or the • • Coral sea had such victory conditions, the carriers will no longer rush into the enemy fleet, but flee instead. • Store menu no longer resets after closing it and reopening it (your basket will be kept intact). • Mods thumbnail template has been updated. • Quicksaves naming convention, clearer and more informative now. • Reworked the stats of all artillery (towed) with 15 and less damage. • Artillery with 15 damage and above or 3 range and above are now considered as heavy and have the 'move or attack' mechanic. • Heavy artillery (20+ damage) will now remove 2 entrenchment level when attacking. • VERY heavy artillery (30+ damage) will now remove 3 entrenchment level when attacking. FIXED • AI was wrongly calculating supportive fire when making attack decisions, which could lead to some 'kamikaze' attacks. • Choices UI elements for next scenario(s) in campaigns were not translated when completing a campaign scenario. • When the AI was playing very fast and deploying new units, some of them would remain visible through the FOW. • Bug during human/AI control swapping mid-game through the Diplomacy menu. • AI paratroopers would often place themselves over rivers or mountains in their transport mode trying to paradrop but they could not due to the tile not being walkable. • Changing a unit's starting level and reverting back in the map editor would not revert the unit's HP. • Typo in french localization. • Cavalry had wrong localized name for Napoleonic Wars mod. • Operation Uranus (Allied campaign scenario) had no victory conditions. • Removed annoying Aleutian islands major victory points on Pacific 1941. As a result, I will have to reset the Steam leaderboard for that specific scenario as this will change the victory quite a lot. • In very specific situations, the AI would skip some of its units (if a unit died during its own turn and another one was playing before, that next unit would be skipped). • Strategic bombers with the recon property would be shown as possible to bomb a tile even though they are not capable of such an action. • Patrol boats would be shown possible to move through some enemy-controlled VP even though when clicking it would result in the unit not moving and wasting its movement action. • AI would have issues with its vision through FOW around its VPs when playing with 'stricter FOW' setting ON. • Bombing a tile with a strategic bomber did not disable the 'undo' feature.

ADDED • Dynamic filtering for the Units Editor search bar, you can now type in your own filters. You can use operators and units properties directly to filter at will. For example, typing in: 'name contains light infantry and productionyear >= 1943' would return all units where their name contains the 'light infantry' words and where the production year is superior or equal to 1943. I will be releasing the list of properties available on the Forums for you to dig. Spaces don't matter, caps don't matter, so doing LIGHT INFANTRY will work just like light infantry, and doing productionyear>1943 will work fine just as PRODUCTIONyear > 1943. • Game will now look in an additional (optional) 'Shared' folder in the Units/Graphics path of your mod when it cannot find certain graphics. Useful when you have the same graphics shared across several countries, this way you don't have to duplicate the same image for all, but you keep only one in that Shared folder. CHANGED • Multiplayer compatibility version. • Updated the Manual. • Horse-towed units now get 2 movement points as a bonus, not 3 anymore. This brings horse-towed artillery up to 3 MPs max instead of 4. • Light artillery guns can now move/attack during their turn. • Heavy artillery guns can now only move OR attack during their turn. • AT and AA guns can now move and attack during their turn. • Rebalanced Operation Weserubung campaign scenario. • Rebalanced Sea Lion campaign scenarios. • Rebalanced Low Countries campaign scenario. • Reworked in game soundtracks UI menu. • When editing an official campaign scenario through the editor, the game will no longer create a copy of the original file, you will be directly editing the scenario itself (allowing you more freedom with the scenarios the game has to offer). FIXED • Multiplayer being inaccessible. • Vichy not properly transferred to Germany upon its capitulation following Op. Torch on the Europe scenarios. • Production time was not reset when moving from one campaign scenario to the next. • Lessons of War policy was not applied to artillery/ships (+1 bonus XP). • Supplies bug when no available tiles were found around a unit.

ADDED • Light infantry 43, heavy infantry, engineers, AT infantry, AT infantry 43 to Ireland. • When a country capitulates, the country dealing the death blow will now have a chance to capture equipment from the player (tanks, ships, planes, guns). • Hong-Kong server/region location for real-time multiplayer. Could help against disconnection for players based in China. • Basic localization for units suffixes (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th etc) + units realistic naming (brigade, division, etc). • Tank units with the "engineers" flag now have proper NATO graphics representation. • 2 new keybinds to control time in the game. You can now increase/decrease time scale/speed (from x1 to x3). Offline only, will not work in multiplayer. CHANGED • Multiplayer compatibility version. • Increased Germany's income a little bit in the Campaign of Poland '39 scenario. • Units captured after a country capitulated now are at 25% health (to simulate that all of their crews are gone and you basically have the raw equipment but no men to use it). • Units with maxHP=0 will no longer display their health state while in the reserve menu (factories, airfields, trenches...). • Newly spawned Garrison units are now put asleep automatically when spawned in a victory point. • Swedish infantry graphics have been updated. • Units in landing crafts can now perform overrun action against land units when trying to land. FIXED • None of the gunboats/patrolboats had any AA damage value. • If a player picked the policy/doctrine 'improved radars', when placing your mouse/finger over a ship being equipped with radars, its attack range would display the RADAR range instead of actual firing range of the ship. • In the map/scenario editor, when setting a player's faction to be its own, the faction would automatically be applied to be the one that was used on the first player. • When bringing up the heal tooltip, the amount of HP potentially healed would often go over the difference between current/max HP of the unit (showing a heal of 50 even though your unit is at 75/100 HP). • On the Axis side, you could not continue the campaign after the Battle of the Bulge (clicking on the 'battle of berlin' button would not load it). • File extension shown in the quick game/map editor list of scenarios on scenarios made by the player. • Regular infantry engineers were missing their NATO icon. • Ships upgrading to destroyers could not attack submarines, and ships downgraded from destroy would keep that ability. • Planes over frozen bridge getting double damage penalty. • Units without any fuel or ammunitions (some buildings) were still receiving negative ammo and fuel penalty from artillery strikes. • Starting OOBs + scenario setup in Battle of Coral Sea campaign scenario (Axis + Allies). • Several UI inconsistencies and issues in the settings menu. • Some typos/mistakes in the french localization file.

ADDED • HP amount of the unit in the reserve slot in the UI. • You can now press ENTER on your keyboard to execute the 'YES' shortcut on confirmation windows. • (Map editor) Confirmation window to reset terrain. CHANGED • Camera moving with mouse on edge would be flaky and would not work on Macbooks with the notch. • Romania will no longer transfer soviet VPs it capture on its border to Germany when Historical Focus setting is ON (Odessa, etc). FIXED • Notifications being sent to another player would sometimes simply not be created at all, that would happen for interactions between players, for example, when transferring money. • Wrong amount of XP added instead of being subtracted to ships and artillery when repairing them. • (Map editor) resetting the terrain would not reset desert tiles. • AI freeze instance due to unavailable policy picking when the year of the scenario was prior to 1600. • One possible AI freeze instance (division by zero).

ADDED • Ukrainian language translation. • Support for more than 1 delimiter for CSV modding, allowed parsing characters are the following: COMMA (privileged), SEMICOLON, VERTICAL BAR. • Support for modded countries for flags UI tooltips. CHANGED • Multiplayer compatibility version (now 7.7.29). • Reduced the size/weight of some UI elements. • Op. Weserübung (Axis) balance issues. • Some mods files had unnecessary serialized data. FIXED • Unlimited money glitch linked to the Cheap Upgrades policy. • You could undo your movement after having repaired/blown up a bridge. • Upkeep summary from income tooltip could not add up when you were not at war (peace time only). • Transferring a unit to another player would reset the unit's category ID used in the unit's name (12th infantry division would become 0th infantry division). They would all have 0 assigned. • Operation Sonnenblume as the Axis had no proper victory condition. • In some rare/specific cases, a unit could fail to retreat even after it displayed the 'Retreat!' text. • French Bearn aircraft carrier had 0 ammunition. • AI would not purchase infantry commanders if those commanders had different bonuses like tanks or artillery and it did not field enough tanks or arty. • Rounding errors in manpower calculations. • Dutch localization file had errors. • Kicking player from your faction through diplomacy menu would not work quite right. • Custom turn production time when modding units would not apply to AI.

ADDED • Tooltips on all flags on the UI. • Possibility to check stats mid game (new button "Statistics" in the in game menu when you press ESCAPE). CHANGED • Multiplayer compatibility version now is 7.7.27. • Many units have been marked as prototypes (M6, Super Pershing, Tortoise, T28, and several others from other nations). • Soviet IS-3 availability date. • M4A3E2 (76) W graphics. • Tweaked a few american tanks stats. • Added commanders to the campaign of France germany campaign scenario. FIXED • AI would buy militia/volkssturm or similar units on turn 1 of a scenario, or on the first turn after a save was loaded even though it was controlling more than 50% of its core territory. • Engineer property was not applied to partisans when naturally spawned. • AI never bought the best towed AT/AA/arty gun units. • AI not purchasing any towed guns late war (1944+) and would purchase SPGs only. • When using the "spawn units" button in the map editor, it would not take into account modded units. • Desync in PBEM should be fixed automatically now (you know, that bug where you and your friends turns got mismatched and you are now playing as him and he as you). In the case where such a thing occurs, the game will warn you that the issue was discovered, and it will also tell you if it was able or not to patch it. • Waypoints were not cleared in campaign mode when your units were taken from one scenario to another, and would prevent turns from ending, as well as selecting any unit with invalid waypoints. If you have save files affected by this, simply redeploy/send back to reserve any unit that cannot be selected on the map, it's always core units that have this problem. Sending them back to the reserve will wipe the waypoints data clean.

ADDED • New setting: hide enemy's HP. This will simply disable the HP on the UI for any units that you do not have any relation with (enemies/neutrals). • New US tank unit: M4A3E2(76)W Jumbo. • Found a way to allow the game to use more than the default 2 GB of RAM restricted by Apple. This will only work on supported devices, running iOS 15/iPadOS 15 or above. CHANGED • Soviet Br-5 range + 1 (it had the exact same stats as the ML-20 152mm otherwise). • Stalingrad '43 difficulty/balance. • Kursk '43 difficulty/balance. • You will now be able to divert to Overlord in the Allies campaign after completing Monte Cassino. FIXED • Supplies rate on UI when hovering with the mouse/finger over an enemy unit (or any other than the current player's) would use the current player as reference to calculate the supplies, often showing 100%. This was a UI bug and not an actual gameplay bug as when the AI played it would use itself as a reference and have the proper supplies rate applied. • AI sending back all of its units back into its reserve if there was no victory points on the map (bit of an odd setup but I got people making tactical battles for mods and this was an edge case). • Tiles holder in the map editor would not scroll left/right (only react to direct mouse drag with the left mouse button). • Transfer unit window could go outside of the screen if popping up near the screen's edge. • The scenario 'Battle of the Bulge' showed 'Battle of Bulge' in the localization file in English. • Some French localization issues.

ADDED • Brand new standalone scenario: Vitebsk–Orsha offensive. • Dedicated NATO cavalry icon. CHANGED • Updated/Unified all of the game's counters graphics. Not all had the same shadow/light effect and it disturbed me. They are all the same now (effect wise), and some countries got a refresh too. • Cavalry manpower cost reduced from 15k to 5k manpower. • Adjusted the cost of the veterancy option (store) as it was way too expensive. FIXED • AI ship embarking routine was not properly working. • Some commanders had no graphics (pink icon).

CHANGED: • Updated banned players list (from chat). • Updated multiplayer compatibility version to 7.7.24. FIXED: • Winter Soldiers policy could end up being free for everyone. • Cavalry units now have a dedicated NATO icon. • Terrain damage modifier breakdown was showing wrong info (UI). • Reduced RAM usage.

CHANGED • AI will no longer purchase militia/Volkssturm units unless it has lost a significant amount of its core territory (40+%). • Setting negative terrain modifier in the tiles editor is now possible. FIXED • Weather prediction could regenerate itself after loading a save (on turn 1 only). • Loading a save would reset the morale of all units. • AI would send its units into reserve in some cases when it should not have done so (when it had units on the map but no territory. This could affect vanilla scenarios as well as modded ones, such as the Napoleonic Wars mod). • Units in naval transport ships would start with lvl 3 entrenchment on turn 1. • Modded heroes image in unit window would not appear and would show generic medal image. • Some manpower availability issue when disbanding units when nearing max fielded + available total, some manpower would not be refunded. • Units tagged as Missiles (V1s, V2s...) would not be able to attack during bad weather. • Units tagged as Missiles (V1s, V2s...) could get ambushed by bumping into another air unit. • After loading a save, any unit being overstrength (lvl > 1) would see its HP be regenerated to full automatically. (So, a unit with base max HP = 100, let's say it was lvl 2, its new max was 120, current was 110, it would be set back to 120 on save load). • On Europe '45 standalone, 1 snow tile had the 'block season change' property ON and snow there would never melt. • The 'isCarrier' flag would not be updated properly on units (any scenario).

ADDED • Possibility to playtest a scenario directly from the map editor, and go back to the editor after playtesting it. 2 new buttons have been added to go back and forth. • Brazilian localization. CHANGED • AI units in landing crafts with less than 60% HP will now go back to heal instead of try harder to land and get destroyed or simply not do anything due to too low damage. • Updated Karelia geography on all Europe standalone scenarios. • Removed all major VPs in Norway for German occupier on all Europe standalone scenarios. FIXED • AI planes purchase rate. Not buying enough. • Sometimes during ambushes a unit could not deal any damage to the other because it had 0 action points. • Plenty of units first introduction dates were wrong. • Upgrading a unit into paratroopers would not properly set the movement points and autonomy.

CHANGED • Updated the multiplayer compatibility version. • Updated the game engine. • Updated list of banned players from the online chat. • V-Sync setting has been moved to the Graphics tab in the settings. • Units in transport trains are no longer allowed to move across enemy territory. • AI would not be aggressive enough at choke points (bridges), and even when at 3 v 1 they would not perform attacks. FIXED • UI and income issue with destroyed (bombed) tiles and the Minimized Destruction policy. • Sometimes, notifications could not be properly created when one than more thing happened on a single hex related to a single unit. • AI turning his ships into landing crafts sometimes (when they were sitting on a harbour). • AA not providing defensive supportive fire when enemy fighters were attacking friendly land units while playing with the 'AA support during air engagements' setting. • AI deploying supply depots at the contact of the enemy.

CHANGED • Updated Battle of Berlin standalone scenario. • Increased upkeep cost on tanks/armoured vehicles. • Clouds will now nicely fade in and out when zooming in/out instead of popping out as they did. FIXED • Supply ships freezing the game in some cases (when clicking on it twice very fast, would not happen otherwise). • AI downgrading units into garrisons way too close to the frontline. • Sometimes unit not retreating towards better tile. • Volkssturm availability date was wrong (october instead of january '44). • AI would/could upgrade/downgrade its units in VPs as part of the Garrison change into or from paratroopers which would lead to issues (from mods, not an issue with base game). • AI heavy bombers would never bomb tiles if there were no enemy units inside it.

CHANGED • Renamed british 'Commando' unit into 'Commandos'. • Max zoom sensitivity has been changed from 5 to 10. • When being neutral and declaring war on someone else, you will automatically be into your own faction (instead of joining the one that would be closer to your ideology). This change was made because when playing for example Sweden, you declare war on Norway, as Sweden you would be placed in the Allies and Norway would be alone. What should have happened is the other way around, you are on your own and Norway is in the Allies. FIXED • Upgrade/Downgrade issue(s) with units marked as paratroopers. • Spawning units in the map editor using the spawn button would create units with 0 morale. • Transport options bug with some AT or artillery units which had no armour set. • AT units would fall under the 'damage reduction over frequency' setting. • Annexation of tiles had the wrong cost applied. • Republic of China was missing Marines counter (for modding). • Some units stats were off. • Supply units could not resupply allies in some cases. • Supply units could destroy tiles in some cases.

ADDED • 2-pdr to Canada. • Supply depot to Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Croatia. CHANGED • Multiplayer compatibility version. • Online chat compatibility version, it also now is split between platforns. Mobile has its own chat, and PC has its own chat. • Capitulation UI window will now mention the name of the country that capitulated (on top of showing the flag). • Units editor no longer will automatically save when you close the menu. You will have to manually hit the 'save' button. • In the units editor, the game will no longer generate/display all units slots when the research bar is empty to prevent excessive lag. FIXED • Online chat not working. • Resizing issues in the map editor. • 'isEngineers' property in the units editor would not be applied when creating/editing units. • Hellcat (US plane) should not have been able to carry torpedoes. • Bridges no longer working in mods. • Some game manual (PDF) discrepancies. • Supply depots for many nations were not available before 1939. • Some games would be shown in the multiplayer PBEM menu even though they did not exist. • Fixed the 'auto overrun' bug. • PBEM games could sometimes not be deleted.

ADDED • Nothing. CHANGED • Manual got updated. • Inside the research menu, the unit stats tooltip would be cut on some specific aspect ratio. I have now changed it to be wider than high. This way it will always be fully visible, even on very wide screens. • Europe '43 rebalance. • Changed a bit morale color schemes (Excellent = bright green, Good = dark green, normal = grey, bad = yellow, awful = red). FIXED • Battle outcome damage on the UI could show -0 damage. • In some cases modded units could not get the Marines counter assigned. • Supplies issues (NaN) when a unit was on a sea tile that was frozen. • Bridge tiles types were wrong. • Some issues with engineers able but not able to cross destroyed bridges. • Upon loading a save, if some of your units were in a train, they would have wrong max MP and fuel. • Armour penalty to damage and final damage sometimes positive even when armour penalty was greater than final damage. • Movement points issue with tanks/mechanized units when playing with the 'infinite ammo and fuel' setting ON. • When playing campaign scenarios while having the 'research' setting turned ON would constantly remind you that you have available research points, but you could not use them. Now, all campaign scenarios force disable the research setting. • Unit retreat (when human-owned and attacked by the AI) would 'teleport' from tile to tile instead of having the regular movement animation (if the movement animation setting was not OFF). • Sea Lion North/South had not enough income/manpower to be played with upkeep/manpower optional settings. • Some buildings had no graphics shown in the store when NATO graphics were turned ON. • Offensive symbols censorship setting not properly working. • Missing entry in the french localization file (shore bombardment). • Issue in the map editor when generating a new map and only filling some of the players' info (Faction/Ideology), if you did not set a country, it would break everything. • Sometimes morale did not refresh on units until you came close to them.

ADDED • AT Infantry 43 to USSR. • Light Infantry 43 to France, Vichy France, and Republican Spain. • Partisans to CCP. • New setting: NATO icons default. • New setting: Stricter fog of war (only clears fog around units and victory points). CHANGED • Multiplayer compatibility version. • Reduced ship vs. land unit damage. • Modified retreat mechanics: Added a retreat damage threshold (% of unit HP). Morale and veterancy affect retreat threshold. Militia and political units have penalties or bonuses to this threshold. More dynamic retreating behavior, including Victory Point units, which have a higher threshold based on point type. • AI wait time reworked, resulting in 50% faster AI turns when Fast AI setting is on. • Retreat is now possible across more hexes based on movement. • Improved graphics for some units. • Europe '39 balance adjustments. • AI recon planes avoid overlapping scout areas. • Units blocked from retreat by allies no longer surrender but receive a penalty next turn (cannot attack). FIXED • AI not purchasing AT Infantry 43 when it should have. • Issues with Europe '45 wars/factions and Vichy France capitulation. • Ju 188 aircraft in the wrong category. • Income calculation in scenario stats summary. • Bombers no longer rotate to face attackers. • AI now buys up-to-date recon vehicles in late war. • Weather prediction UI icon error fixed. • Fog of war and supportive fire interaction corrected (units hidden properly). • Units with veterancy > 1 load correct HP from saved files. • Ice penalty for tanks applied correctly. • Improved AI decision making regarding supportive fire and attacks. • AT units now trigger supportive fire against enemy tanks. • Long AI wait times during gameplay. • Resolved unit overlapping bug (possibly!). • Tile sync issue fixed during real-time multiplayer. • Fixed AA behavior when bombers attack ground targets with "No AA support during air fights" enabled. • AI not executing Op. Husky and Op. Overlord in Europe scenarios. • Croatia state generation in Europe '39. • Vichy France capitulation issues in Europe '39. • AI USSR not invading Iran in August '41 on Europe scenarios. • Units with "can attack ships" flag now can attack landing crafts. • AT units were providing supportive fire against regular infantry units. • Unit retreat directions (moving towards the enemy instead of away from it).

ADDED • 8 cm 29M (AA) to Hungary. • BA-20, BT-7, BA-6, BA-27, T-34 76 1943, T-34 85 to Mongolia. • BA-27 to USSR. • Garrisons to Iceland. • Light infantry 43 to Spain (fascist). • 28cm Krupp K5 railway gun to Germany. • Possibility through the units editor to personalize in what direction units can rotate. • Units will now face the general direction of the enemy on scenario start (instead of all facing in the same direction). CHANGED • Multiplayer compat version. • Slightly increased supply depots upkeep. • Core code datastructure related to research and unit facing rotation. This will lead to a reset of this data on your save files. • AI engineers won't sit on rivers forever, if nobody needs them there, they will move out. • Small cost increase between strategic bombers capacities (damage). • Improved balance of Europe '39 and '44. • Reworked entirely the unit indice system, units numbers (indices) are now being properly recycled (no more 1000th light inf). • Related to the above change, several unit types are now in their own indice category. • Annexing tiles which have no production value is now 50% more expensive. • Annexing tiles which have a production value will now also be more expensive. • Prototype units now are only 30% more expensive than what they would normally be (their very limited max fielded number is really limiting them already). • Whole bunch of units turned into prototypes (SU-26, AT-1, T-44, Neubaufahrzeug...). • Added extra categories for prototypes so they don't count as regular units (for units indices). • Unit cost rounding from 10 to 5. FIXED • AI units movement sounds could be heard while in FOW. • AI AA units moving without attacking first. • AI will now better remember where enemy units providing supportive fire are. • Upgrading/Downgrading a unit would not update its name. • Not possible to assign custom faction in map editor after adding a new player, you would need to close and re open the settings to be able to do it. • If you changed the max HP of some units, the game would not properly apply the change(s) when opening a save file. • Gunboats could not move across anti tank obstacles on bridges. • Downgrading an infantry unit from a paratrooper into a regular infantry would keep its type as a plane (if the para unit was not on the ground). • Anyone could delete any hosted PBEM game (instead of host only). • AI units when being downgraded or upgraded would lose some fuel / ammo in the process (which the AI would have to pay for to refill). • Made the AI less prone to being ambushed and running into enemy VPs. • Units pathfinding issue when clicking on a tile to move to. • AI submarines not diving when moving a second time. • AI freeze with mods when upgrading/downgrading garrisons. • Italy (AI) would transfer all the captured British VPs to Germany instead of keeping them for themselves. • Placing your finger over visible mines (land/naval) would not display any information about it. • 'Don't run before turn X' optional trigger not shown properly in the map editor. • AI not buying as many units as it should have / could have when playing with upkeep. • AI marines purchase ratio was too high. • AI AT infantry purchase ratio was too high. • Some soviet units production date were off. • Some countries were missing their Train transport graphics. • Changing a unit's level through the map editor would not update the unit's XP. • Soviet Union (AI) not redeploying its army when Op. Barbarossa begins. • UK AI will now properly invade Iceland in 1940. • Germany trying to naval invade the UK on Europe scenarios (when historical focus is ON). • Some units were in the wrong category/wrongly categorized. • AI not moving to certain enemy victory points when it should have. • Progressive cost working wrongly (being always +1). • Winter version of non frozen lake had the same texture as a frozen lake, which would lead to some confusion. REMOVED • Rotation settings now managed per unit in editor.