Update v1.01.001:

Performance & Stability

Major performance and stability improvements to the world map view

Major performance and stability improvements for the city view, especially for larger cities

 

World Map Visual Overhaul

Instead of a plain 2d plane, the world map now uses fully tessellated 3d terrain

Trees, rocks, bushes, icebergs, and other biome-appropriate models are now covering the world map

Seas are now fully animated and shaded in the world map view

Sea in the local (city) view is adjusted to fit the world map view coloration

Cloud system is added to the world map

Idle animations are added to the world map figurines

Particle effects are added during the ships movement

Added interaction sounds to the world map figurines

Animations, particles and sounds are tweaked during the world map battle phases

Changed the style of world map figurines' pedestal

 

Gameplay & UI

Copy tool now includes the chosen building upgrades

Naval fleets can now be issued queued movement orders and they will automatically proceed to their destination when army cooldown is over (unless the route gets blocked)

Updated movement UI for Navy Units

All military units now show their active supply line and its status on the map

Mouse over popups (stats panels) from military units info tabs are enlarged to make them more readable and make room for more useful info

Added more info to the army unit stats tabs

Reinforce All button added to the army info tabs

All military units have updated unit highlights

 

Other

Improved German localization

Steam Trading Cards added

 

Update v1.00.203:

Finalized DLC streaming - There were a couple of issues in the last update which are now ironed out. Target was and is memory management

 

Improved cutscene loading - There were some issues with cutscene object LODs that are now rectified and your cutscenes should load faster.

 

Update v1.00.202:

Fix for those of you experiencing crashes on loading your existing save files.

 

Update v1.00.201:

Performance & Stability

Optimized road system (road is split into chunks with frustum culling and LOD implementation, to lower RAM usage and improve rendering)

World map databases are now streamed to improve memory management and lower RAM usage. This helps with a number of potential crash-to-desktop issues

Improved and optimized action lines on the world map to improve memory management and lower RAM usage.

Optimized trees, grass and terrain details to improve performance for Africa: (Cairo, Douala, Kampala, Lake Tana, Gaborone, Gqeberha, Mauritius, Tsauchab River, Bissau, Dabou, Lake of Fetzara, Senegal River)

Optimized trees, grass and terrain details to improve performance for South America (Salta, Salvador, Santos, Bogotá, Cumana, Paramaribo, Achao, Rancagua, Villa Carlos Paz)

Optimized trees, grass and terrain details to improve performance for Arctic circle (Fort Churchill, Fort Providence, Fort Simpson, Yellowknife)

Removed a number of barely noticeable (if at all) objects from maps to improve performance and reduce memory usage

Supporter pack DLC assets are now also streamed to improve memory management and prevent crashes

 

Camera & Visuals

Changed camera zoom distance to allow greater zoom out, as frequently requested by players

Tweaked environment (nature) sound effects

Improved city builder view: New skybox

Improved city builder view: Adjusted depth of field

Improved city builder view: Tweaked fog drawing distance in all weathers

Improved city builder view: Adjusted buildings draw distances and LOD setup

Improved city builder view: Adjusted shadows render distance

Improved camera behavior in city view so it’s smoother

Tweaked reflection maps for both day and night time

Tweaked ambient SFX crossfades and volume

 

Gameplay

New building: Large Water tower as an improved version of the Water tower

New building: Large Power substation as an improved version of the Power substation.

Increased distribution output of the normal Power substation

Increased distribution output of the normal Water tower

Greatly increased region resource output for better conquest rewards

Changed input resource amounts for the Battleship. It now requires 200 Steel, 50 Rubber and 50 Electrical parts

Warehouse global stock limit bonus raised from 500 to 1000

Base global stock limit raised from 2000 to 3000 per resource

Base local stock limit raised from 100 to 300

Added more information to the Needs and Luxuries tabs for the housing info panels.

Removed a lot of unnecessary information from being displayed for the housing info panel when there are no residents

Added several missing minimap building markers (airport, water purification plant, electric factory)

Prague map moved over to the Central Europe region. Only affects new game starts.

 

Bugfixes

If a water deposit was already depleted (and save) and/or almost depleted, it will now be infinite as intended

Tweaked the behavior of reflection probes (used to create reflections) to prevent a potential issue with rendering pink objects as part of the reflection

 

Update v1.00.102:

Fixes a rather big exploit related to the trade deal screen

 

Update v1.00.101:

Performance & Stability

Optimized maps in North America (terrain, trees, grass, details) to improve performance in early game: New York, Norfolk, Washington, Reno, Salt Lake City, Seattle, El Marques, Jacksonville, Monterrey, Anchorage, Juneau, Tazlina Lake, Whitehorse, Chisasibi, Fort Severn, Lac Nemiscau, Mary's Harbour

Optimized maps in Europe (terrain, trees, grass, details) to improve performance in early game: Antwerp, Berlin, Bodensee, Dublin, Edinburgh, Limerick, Lisbon, Liverpool, London, Munich, Southampton, Valencia, Athens, Burgas, Palermo, Zagreb, Kyiv, Oslo, Prague, Riga, Stavenger, Stockholm

Optimized maps in Asia (terrain, trees, grass, details) to improve early game performance: Kunming, Okayama, Seoul, Xiamen, Bayingolin, Dushanbe, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Yakutsk, Yelizovo, Perm, Yekaterinburg, Mount Talang, Palu, Singapore, Sintang, Izmir, Muscat

Optimized maps in Australia (terrain, trees, grass, details) to improve early game performance: Auckland, Christchurch, Port Chalmers, Sydney, Danau Tigi, Goodenough Island, Pellew Island, Perth

Optimized tutorial map(s) for improved performance

Optimized memory management on a number of panels to prevent or reduce 'garbage' buildup

Optimized memory management on the Load save game panel to prevent memory issues when a large number of saves exists

Streamlined objects instantiation to lower RAM usage including: Maps database, Building models database, Story dialogues databases. Other databases will receive the same overhaul over time.

Optimized blueprint (planning) models to reduce memory usage (VRAM). This is only the first step.

More will be done for the upcoming update(s)

Added a Texture Quality option to the Video Settings

Fixed a bug that manifested as logging a single error/warning too many times which could impact performance somewhat

 

Gameplay

Water treatment facility lowered from development level 8 to 6

Water deposits are now always infinite

Added screen edge camera scroll to the world map (previously already added to the City Building view)

Adjusted lighting for improved visuals

Improved lighting dynamics in regards to day/night change and weather changes

Added the option to manually type in numerical values in several more places

Burgas map is now linked to Carpathia as the starting region, as requested by players

When a region is a part of a peace treaty negotiation, the appropriate continent icon is shown, instead of a placeholder generic "compass" icon

Improved overall user experience on the peace treaty panel

Improved tooltip on the garrison that now shows if it is "being upgraded"

Added the number of empty housing slots on the individual resident class header tooltip

Any changes to the development database (buildings shuffled around the development levels a bit for example) will now be properly mirrored when loading the game

The Breakthrough slider is no longer interactable

Per class taxes on the population screen are now properly updated

Disabled some shortcuts during the tutorial, while they're not needed

Fixed a couple of non-localized labels

Improved billboard textures on rocks in the arid biome

Fixed a faulty sprite on the Population statistics screen

Fixed the starting camera position and rotation on the Juneau map (Alaska)

Fixed bug where default flag wouldn't carry proper information on a new game start

 

Update v1.00.005:

Additions

Added visible hotkeys added to the Dashboard for easier and quicker access to full-screen panels

Added the option to have infinite resource deposits (only applicable to new game starts)

Added keybindings for the Dashboard Panels

Added camera zoom in/out speed slider in the General options

Added camera speed slider (using the keyboard) in the General options

Added screen edge scrolling, which can be toggled in General options (World Map will be included soon too)

Added screen edge scroll speed slider in the General options

Added keybinding for HUD actions (Demolish, Copy, Move, Repair, Planning)

Added a formatted tooltip to the garrison on the region info panel

Added a naval link through the 'Suez canal'

Added a naval link through 'Panama canal'

Stock Overview Panel can now be sorted by column and ascending/descending

Added several missing info columns to the Stock Overview Panel

 

Adjustments and Balance

Nerfed garrisons; they still pose a challenge when upgraded

Buffed the AI; as the last change made it a bit more passive than intended

Nerfed all storyline effects (penalties primarily)

Increased the Minimize/Maximize Header button in the HUD so it's more visible

Tweaked the Change weather and Change time of day button visuals to make them more noticeable

Weather and time of day is now non-dynamic by default (only affects new game starts). You can still manually change it to whatever weather and day/night status you want.

 

Fixes

Optimized tutorial loading to prevent possible crashes (reduced memory allocation)

Fixed an issue that would occur when an army unit reached its maximum level; the error ocould caues the game to crash

Fixed a potential crash when loading saves (the save was basically corrupted, but it will load now)

Fixed several potential crashes when autosaving; the crash was due to undefined renderers in traffic objects

Fixed numerous instances of Unity 'overloading' the log file that would cause the game to stutter

Fixed several issues that could potentially cause the game to crash seemingly at random after several hours of playing, even on high-end computers

Fixed an issue that would cause the game to crash on exit, resulting with a massive game log

Fixed a potential issue that could cause the game to crash during trading

Fixed several tooltips

Removed unused UI buttons on the Town center info panel

 

Update v1.00.104:

Fixes some of the crashes and potential crashes, especially when loading an existing save file.

 

Update v1.00.003:

Fixed numerous instances where unnecessary information was being written into the log, potentially heavily impacting framerate or even causing the game to crash. This has been mostly reported in regards to fighter planes on the world map.

Increased the amount of water in water deposits. This only impacts new game starts, since the remaining amount is saved in the save file.

AI difficulty rebalanced. Will be more felt on new games, very advanced save games might not see as much of a noticeable impact.

Removed 2 buttons on a number of info panels that currently had no function.

Default flag setup adjusted.

Resource tooltip now also displays the surplus or deficit in most places

Kyiv map now has Coal. If you have an existing save file, it is possible that there could be a conflict with the new deposits, preventing you from continuing your save file if you’ve built on top of the locations.

Construction cost difficulty option now works as intended

Event frequency set to ‘Never’ now includes all stories including Epidemic

Reduced the chance of rain and storm when weather is set to dynamic.

Fixed numerous typos in text strings