Graveyard of Empires | Release Notes

Hi everyone,

with a mere one day to go before the release of Graveyard of Empires, it is tradition that we provide you with the Release Notes. The usual disclaimer applies; this list is comprehensive, but not necessarily complete. Any items we add will be placed in a separate spoiler underneath the main list. (Checksum isn’t final yet and will be added before Release.)

Graveyard of empires

• Added focus tree for Iran

• Added focus tree for Iraq

• Added focus tree for Afghanistan

• Expanded focus tree for the British Raj

• Added numerous 3D models for Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and the Raj

• Added 8 new music tracks

• Added Voiceovers for Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and the Raj

Gameplay

• British Burma now exists from game start as a British subject

• Mandatory Palestine now exists from game start as a British subject

• Jordan now exists from game start as a British subject

• Kuwait now exists from game start as a British subject

• Lebanon now exists from game start as a French subject

• Syria now exists from game start as a French subject

• Added new tactics and modifiers for city combat

• Added Burma namelist and oob

• Removed Prince Henry as leader for Palestine

Balance

• Siam now joins the Co-Prosperity sphere on historical

• Added a port in Phuket

• Added a supply hub in Hat Yai

• Siam starts with army of Siam spirit

• Extra shared slots don't get removed when flipping state owners anymore

• Added railway line to Archangelsk

• Added some resources in Pakistan area (Peshawar 3 Steel, Baluchistan States 3 Oil)

• Updated Siams AI to produce more units and streamline production

• Increased Siams building slots

UI

• Reliability and Torpedo upgrades no longer overlap for Torpedo Cruisers

Modding

• has_artillery_ratio, has_cavalry_ratio and has_unit_type triggers now also consider support units

Bugfixes

• Fixed a Crash To Desktop (CTD) when loading games with prepared raids

• Daily Army, Air and Naval XP gain can no longer be negative

• Prevent a rare Out Of Sync (OOS) related to operative mission names when using different languages

• Swedish national spirit "Hungersköld" is no longer removed too early

• The Netherlands can once again Placate the Germans through their Gateway of Europe Decision

• Without Götterdammerung, there can be only one Fascist Advisor in Belgium

• Fixed an issue where Germany's Operation Panzerfaust would result in Hungary getting puppeted and having their war reset, resulting in teleported divisions

• Dutch East Indies no longer starts with only 10% democratic support

• "Expansion Pass 1: Supporter Pack" is no longer included in save game compatibility checks

• Fixed a rare random OOS in AI truck production

• Fixed rare Out of Sync in character name generation

• Fixed UI Crash when reordering items in lists

Performance

• AI is now more performant when upgrading equipment

• Weather updates are now more efficiently parallelized

• AI plans naval invasion in parallel (drastically reduced spikes on multi-core CPUs)

• Refactored a number of decision systems to improve performance

• Optimized AI diplomacy calculations

• Optimized how reinforcements are computed

• AI is now more performant when selecting which doctrines to upgrade

• MIO attributes are now computed faster across the board

• Naval supremacy is now better parallelized