Updates to Making History II have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Making History II 1.21 Release Notes

New Features

• Change MPU growth system to take more factors into account
  
  • Now looks at Region Stability, Transportation Infrastructure, and Colony/Occupied Status in addition to population
    
• Added mipmap support for textures and improved quality
  
• Improved support for player mods
  
  • Created a folder for them to live in
    
  • Game updates will no longer delete mods
    
  • Launcher will look for mods in the mods folder and load them
    

• Exclude occupied regions from national stability calculation
  
• Remove restriction that transports need to be in port to load/unload air units
  
• Fix bug that allowed air units to rebase from a carrier to a region without an airbase
  
• MPUs are now returned to a nations stockpiles when units are disbanded
  
• Fixed a number of UI errors with National Programs
  
• Fixed bug where moving units would sometimes face the wrong direction
  
• Fix bug that allowed units to upgrade when out of supply (such as ships at sea)
  
• Fix sorting by turns remaining in research project list (was sorting by % complete)
  
• Fixed bug that prevented units from repairing/resupplying/upgrading when they were on a carrier or transport
  
• Fix bug that allowed region stability to go over 100
  
• Fixed bug that prevented naval units from retreating
  
• Fixed game stalling bug that occurred when a revolting region tried to join a human controlled nation
  
• Fix bug that sometimes caused surface ship vs. submarine battles to end prematurely
  
• Destroy air units at airbases that get dismantled
  
• Change so that troops recruited in occupied territory retain their native nationality
  
• Fix rare crash related to Interdiction
  
• Fixed bug in reloading decision points from saved games
  
• Allow nations to be liberated even if there is no city
  
• Fix population calculation for nationalities
  
• Fixed bug where units in regions when war is declared sometimes didn't capture the region
  
• Fixed bug that allowed carrier air units to continue their missions even if the carrier moved out of range
  
• Fixed bug that prevented stolen research points from being applied
  
• Fixed bug that allowed one per region projects to be queued more than once
  
• Filter out build options for region projects that are lower level than what already exists in the region
  
• Fixed game stall when AI was using units in allied territory
  
• Fixed bug that allowed invading units to fully resupply when in multi-turn combat
  
• Fix bug that sometimes caused newly created nations to have white borders
  
• Remove decision points when nation is destroyed (fixes save fail bug)
  
• Fix bug that prevented historic capital data being used for newly created nations
  
• Fixed bug that would sometimes cause nations to be at war with each other multiple times after alliance merges
  
• Fixed bug that would sometimes cause AI units to get stuck in puppets
  
• Fixed bug that prevented other planes from escorting Air Transports on paratrooper drops
  

• Revised tooltips on group unit icons on tab
  
• Revised some icons & buttons
  
• Some initial modifications to the Treaty Panels
  
• Fixed icons for Government programs
  
• Fix display of combat powers in city unit panel
  
• Improved notifications for National Programs to improve feedback
  
• Cleaned up National Programs panel
  
• Add missing Missile icon
  
• Format Employed MPUs number on Gov panel tooltip
  
• Swap the Up and Down sorting textures in list panels
  
• Round turns remaining for research projects up rather than truncating
  
• Added Region Stability to Region panel
  
• Update Military Status panel to work with new flag icons
  
• Fix display of Labor Efficiency in city panel
  
• Added tool tips to Region Food Demand
  
• Added National food demand to the food infobar icon
  
• Changed Region Food Demand number to include Factory & Research MPUs
  
• Showing Food Production Surplus on RegionTabInfo Panel
  
• Added tool tips to Region Revolt risk on RegionTabData
  
• "Fund Political Opposition" no longer lets you choose the ruling ideology
  
• Added Ideology Balance numbers to Liberation & Fund Opposition
  
• Fix label on Region Stability in Region panel
  
• Treaty panel cleanup
  
• Updated sea region panel
  
• Small clean-up to Territory transfer panel
  
• Clean-up on Production Queue bubbles, added time remaining to active projects and % complete to paused projects
  
• Corrected problem preventing tool tips on Group bubbles during Merge order
  
• Updated Region Project Queue bubbles to be consistent with style & operation of the city version
  
• Added National Population number to Diplomatic Panel
  
• Fixed issue where text in some popups didn't fit
  
• Add name of Air group to Patrol RC menu option
  
• Increase the width of the map RC menu items
  
• Cleaned up orders UI on unit selection panel
  
• Added tooltips to orders on unit selection panel
  
• Fix arrow not updating when a unit has a "Load" order and the fleet is repositioned
  
• Added list of nations embargoing selected nation to nation UI panel
  
• Change to display the modified output of resource producers
  
• Fixed sorting for nationality icons on Region & city list panels
  
• Fixed clipping of 4 digit defense tool tip
  

• Improve naval threat detection
  
• Fixed bug in AI detecting where units were destroyed
  
• Improved AI for trade interdiction
  
• Improved AI for submarine detection
  
• Improved invasion targeting
  
• Improved sea unit refueling
  
• Improved handling of enemy air unit situations
  
• Improved Shore Bombardment behavior
  
• Improved use of air units for defense
  
• Improved build choices, especially arms and units
  
• Fixed bug in computing market price of resources
  
• Improved choice of aggression target nations
  
• Improved alliance behavior
  

• Added "The Brewing Storm" scenario
  
  • Played on a map of Europe and the Mediterranean
    
  • Starts 9/1/39
    
• Added missing region claims for Ovamboland which prevented it's establishment
  
• Remove the ability for BiPlane Fighters to upgrade to non-carrier fighters
  
• Increase the arms and oil carrying capacity of units
  
• Fix combat properties for BattleCruisers and Heavy Cruisers
  
• Fix spelling of Main Battle Tank
  
• Gave Japan the ability to make Early Tanks and Submarines in TGQ
  
• When creating a new nation use the base nation display name if it is not in use
  
• Fixed Pre-req error for National Laboratories
  
• Added missing region claim for Azwadi Nationality
  
• Tuned costs of city buildings
  
• Tune costs of region projects
  
• Increased initial arms stockpiles
  
• Add starting research for dormant nations to all scenarios
  

• Preserve the settings for Fogging and AI Difficulty across save and load
  
• Added support for specifying a mods directory to installer
  
• Added support for loading player mods
  
• Added option to launch client and server in separate processes
  
  • Should reduce lag on most machines
    
  • Should eliminate "out of virtual memory" crashes
    
• Added default flag icon for nation list
  
• Improve display of long nation names in nation list