Hello all!\n\nThe beta for 8.1.0 has come to an end and is in good shape for a public release.\n\nSpecial thanks to all of the people that participated :) Love ya\'ll!\n\nAs discussed previously , version 8.1.0 replaces entirely the old multiplayer server. No data could be carried over, therefore, you will have to create a new account to access online features (both chat or multiplayer, PBEM/realtime).\n\nIf you have a PBEM game going on on the old server, you have until January 1st to complete it.\nYou can install 8.0.7 back from the beta branch system on Steam: (Right-click the game Properties Betas choose 8.0.7)\n\n

ADDED

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• Brand new PBEM server. \n
• Several new sections in the Manual.\n
• 7.5 cm le.IG 18 and 7.5 cm Gebirgsgeschutz 36 light artillery to Germany.\n

CHANGED

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• All base game units end use year has been changed from 1946 to 1949.\n
• Updated all of the realtime multiplayer libraries (we were quite a few versions behind).\n
• Many sections of the manual have been cleaned up and reorganized.\n
• Red color on damage breakdown is now brighter for increased readability on dark backgrounds.\n
• End of turn menu will no longer appear when playing a singleplayer game (when going from one human player to another).\n
• Foreign equipment is now available in the upgrade menu.\n
• When upgrading/downgrading a unit to a modified version of itself, it will no longer be sent to the reserve.\n
• Saving during multiplayer games is now allowed (all).\n
• Rebalanced Low Countries campaign scenario (Axis side).\n
• Finnish F2 Buffalo has been renamed into B-239.\n
• Coastal batteries are now allowed to be deployed on any ocean/sea coastline that you control.\n

FIXED

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• Achievement \'Losing a hero\' could not be unlocked.\n
• Naval units were affected by land units\' ZoC.\n
• Game was loading Custom Heroes data from one folder and saving it into another, leading to data mismatch. Proper location is: GAME/MODS/YOUR_MOD/Custom Heroes/Custom heroes.txt\n
• When opening the \'Statistics\' menu before the game\'s end, if you changed the sorting mode, that could re order the whole list of players.\n
• Move or attack not properly greyed out on units that have the \'move or attack\' property.\n
• Typo in the Farragut and Allan M Sumner destroyer classes (USA).\n
• Buildings (units) were showing a non zero upkeep value, even though they had no upkeep value.\n
• \'Better Scientists\' policy was not excluded from the menu when playing without the \'Research\' setting.\n
• \'Flexible Strategy\' policy was not giving any refunds on policies you cancelled after loading a save.\n
• Music player resuming automatically when tabbing out/back in even though you manually paused it.\n
• Europe \'45 had a missing airfield VP in Poland and 2 wrong road tiles in Iraq.\n
• AA units could attack enemy planes during bad weather if the tile had an enemy land unit in range.\n
• In some specific cases, air units could become invisible when an enemy land/naval mine was on the same tile.\n
• Upgrading a ship to a carrier was not allowing that ship to launch airplanes.\n
• Fighter planes had their attack SFX overwritten in some cases.\n
• Landing bonus on damage breakdown was showed as red instead of green for Marines.\n
• Some units could remain invisible in some specific cases due to the recent \'cleared FOW saving\' feature.\n
• Several upgrade/downgrade cost issues.\n
• Minor localization issues.\n
• Drawings were not refreshed for your allies in real time multiplayer.\n
• Using supply ships/planes in real time multiplayer was not synced.\n
• Germany in the scenario North Africa 1942 had negative manpower on turn 1.\n
• Joining a faction through the diplomacy menu was opening the \'faction creation\' popup window.\n
• Sometimes, in very specific cases, some unit in the Order of Battle could display a hero name even though they had none.\n
• FOW on the map was not refreshed in real time multiplayer after a player accepted an alliance proposition.\n
• Weather was not synced properly in real time multiplayer.\n
• Upgrades, downgrades, or update actions were not synced properly in real time multiplayer.\n
• Efficient Modernization policy was applied even when downgrading (money getting in) meaning you\'d lose some money (25%).\n
• Code freeze due to units no longer existing in the game being used by events (they will now be skipped/removed).\n
• Localization issue with policy picking confirmation window.\n
• Main menu soundtrack sort of starting to play twice when launching the game.\n
• When trying to draw/erase with the drawing tool in real time multiplayer, it would always modify the active player regardless if it was you or someone else.\n

REMOVED

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• Access to previous multiplayer server. (You can still use the old version until January 1st, 2026)\n

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