Today we're releasing Patch #5 for Axis & Allies 1942 Online and this one is major! The patch notes below outline the substantial features and fixes included in today's update and check out Cody Ouimet's (Producer, Axis & Allies 1942 Online) development letter for a more detailed discussion of this patch, plus future development plans.

PATCH #5 NOTES

NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

• New Movement Arrows

- Visually redesigned movement arrows for Combat Move and Noncombat Move Phases

New Player Controls

- Revamped control scheme that allows for separated selection and action buttons using their mouse or input device - Revamped movement controls that allow for full stack movements through modifier keys

New Rendering Engine

- New rendering engine that improves performance substantially across a wide variety of hardware

In-Game Notifications

- Players will now receive notifications in game through a new notifications panel on the main menu and in-game.

Ranked Ladders and Matchmaking

- Competitive ladders and matchmaking are now an option when playing online. Note: Matchmaking is only available for ranked play at this time - Current online games have been rebranded as Custom Games - Layout for game cards for Active Campaigns and Join Custom Games have been adjusted for better readability

Player Profile

- New player profile contains statistics on your ranked and custom games

OTHER CHANGES

Temporary Tutorial Removal

- Tutorials 2, 3 and 4 have been temporarily removed from the game while we rework them for the new control and movement arrow systems.

New World Map

- The background art for the World map has been adjusted to give North America (Canada, United States and Mexico) more correct proportions.

Commander Name and Email Change

- We have removed the ability for players to manually change their Commander Name and Emails for the time being while we resolve issues with the system

Custom Movement

- Players can now customize the movement for Tanks and Naval units during the Combat Move Phase

Tooltips and Notifications

- User Error tooltips have been reconfigured into expandable windows

Transport User Experience

- Updated transport controls to quickly load and move stacks of transports

BUG FIXES

Improvements to retreating and crashes related to retreating to valid retreat zones

Variety of issues where Transports would no longer become selectable, would not allow for custom movement to pick up valid units for drop-off elsewhere or would not load units

Moving Tanks through one territory and into another will no longer result in a crash

Errors and crashes when spamming mouse clicks or hotkeys in large quantities when moving units

Errors and crashes related to the landing of Fighters on certain Aircraft Carriers.

War Diary will now show the correct information for the target player and round

AI Fixes

- Weve fixed a number of issues with the AI that would result in the AI crashing and not being able to start back up - German AI will now do more with the Battleship and Transport in the Mediterranean in the early game

Crashes when moving into and out of hostile sea zones

Stranded Defending Fighters will now find valid landing spots before crashing and no longer float in the sea zone

Server-side optimizations and performance increases

Valid Mobilization regions will now highlight when animations are disabled

Windowed Mode - Game will now remember window location correctly

[ 2019-11-14 21:53:16 CET ] [ Original post ]