Demo Update Version 0.11.0

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Dread Admiral comes out Sept. 3!

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Dread Admiral

New Features:

• Turned on Critical Hits and Unit Veterancy

• Metamap now has help topics/help menu

• Gun Forts have been made buildable. (Note: Your opponents will also now build them!)

• Rotated some Demo Perks to be less focused on economy. Removed Fortifier, Austerity Measures. Added Double DDs and Aerophobia.

  • Existing Campaigns/loadouts will be unaffected until you update them.

• AI admirals (missions with a Flagship opponent) now favor specific perks, flagship loadouts

Balance:

• Easy Campaign now gives +2 turns per map

• Normal Campaign now gives +1 turn per map

• Anti-Snowball bonus reduced for Easy/Normal by 20%/10% respectively (multiplicative)

• Easy will now have a 50% chance of no modifier for M2. (Note: in the real campaign, all non-admiral missions are chance-based.)

• AI decision variance for Normal increased from (.9, 1.1) to (.85,1.15) (affects how optimal its move/combat decisions are)

• Hard AI gets a bonus Perk

• Maps should now generate the appropriate number of cities much more frequently.

• Fixed a bug that seemed to reduce all enemy movement by 1.

• Made various adjustments that should result in Normal and Easy being mildly easier

• Active Builder nerfed from 10% to 6% (Examples: Refineries cost 28 instead of 27, Downtowns 42 instead of 40)

Submarines

• AI subs should not place themselves under your depth charges.

• AI subs revealed by sonar will no longer go invisible during a siege.

• Possible fix for Subs snaring planes

• AI have reduced preferences for subs when the player has escorts

Visuals:

• Big vs small flak mildly differentiated visually

• Cannon-fire should be more evenly distributed across the hull, especially for things like Gun Forts

• Flagship should be more centered on hex

• Fixed a bug with the Protect City warning. It will now say the City Name.

• Negative values should no longer display for Sieges, Invasions, or similar.

• Added Critical Damage to HUD Description

• Several city button arrow images fixed

Minor:

• Fixed a bug that would cause the Raze City button to disappear permanently from all cities

• Cities should more frequently have nearby open spaces (for Gun Forts)

• Added 9 more help topics regarding Crits, Veterancy, and Phases)

• Plane max speed increased (mostly affects long-range distances)

• Fixed a ui bug regarding the Money reward

• Patrols will visually catch up to their targets sooner

• AI will probably target Flagship more often (internal value is being adjusted for Veterancy)

• AI now prefers to Blockade ports more strongly than it did

• Fixed some minor UI bugs regarding text

• UI Backgrounds have film grain effects. You are officially immersed.

• Pillboxes and Perks that affect City damage now display icons when they are altering damage.

• AI can now start with partially Veteran units, based on difficulty, Admiral, and how far you are into the Campaign.

• Added a bunch of new Chirps

• Chirp panel now has a bit of whirring/static sounds as it turns on/off

• Fixed a bug where the Distress Call modifier could be skipped, resulting in no modifier.

• Fixed a bug that caused all movement for a given AI fleet to be skipped

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