Hello Generals, Katten here. Operation Cockpit has arrived! With an additional change to the Anschluss focus in Germany and a message from our Game Designer C0rax explaining the intent behind recent balancing! Below that, as usual, you will find a set of patch notes that is now live. Feel free to give us feedback on these planned changes in this thread, or in our Discord!

The Intent Behind it

The initial intent of hitprofile changes in the naval rebalance started with 1.12.0 was to reduce the effect of speed, this is now complete with the halving of the effect of speed on the calculation. - decreased HIT_PROFILE_SPEED_FACTOR from 2 to 0.5 this will make ships speed affect hit profiles less The final calculation is (visibility*100) / (speed*0.5 +20) with this final piece in place destroyers are roughly being hit at the same rate as pre 1.12.0 but the effect of slower speed ships such as capital ships is much lower resulting in greatly reduced hit rates. 1.12.12 hit profiles
1.11.X hit profiles
For a long time air accidents have been of minimal consequence thus reliability of planes was less valuable than wanted and air accident advisors were of low value. Accidents have now been doubled in occurrence and the amount of aircraft lost per incident is also doubled. This means that reliability modifiers for planes are even more useful and taking that air accident reduction spirit or advisors might be a good idea if you need to conserve your aircraft stocks. Additionally when training as before you get a 1.5x multiplier to accident occurrence when training so keep an eye when training airwings you may have to lose a few aircraft to keep those wings ready for war. Obviously losing more aircraft to accidents reduces your wings experience so we have also increased this so that you can still train your wings in good time despite the increased losses. - Air accident base chance increased from 0.05 to 0.1, accident chance multiplier increased from 0.5 to 1, accident effect multiplier increased from 0.005 to 0.01 ace death chance increased from 0.003 to 0.005 - Air wing XP game from training per day increased from 3 to 7 since Air accidents are more common, air exercises xp adjusted to match - increased supply per transport plane to 0.01 from 0.002 ################################## # Balance ################################## - Canadian Focuses 'National Steel Car' and 'Send in the Zombies' are no longer mutually exclusive. If Great Depression has already been removed, the focus on "War Fuelled Economy" and "Reactivate the Farmers Unity League" will grant a significant temporary construction speed boost. - Canadian focuses regarding the repatriation of Newfoundland are now available to the recently added Communist path - Divisional Commanders: XP requirements for level thresholds and for gaining an aptitude trait have been reduced across the board by 20-50% - Divisional Commanders: XP gain from combat increased by 33% - decreased HIT_PROFILE_SPEED_FACTOR from 2 to 0.5 this will make ships speed affect hit profiles less - Air accident base chance increased from 0.05 to 0.1, accident chance multiplier increased from 0.5 to 1, accident effect multiplier increased from 0.005 to 0.01 ace death chance increased from 0.003 to 0.005 - Air wing XP game from training per day increased from 3 to 7 since Air accidents are more common, air exercises xp adjusted to match - increased supply per transport plane to 0.01 from 0.002 ################################## # UI ################################## - Now the discord and the Instagram tooltips will have correct localization. - Added link to Instagram and Discord to the in-game menu. ################################## # Bugfix ################################## - Fixed the Portuguese Great War tank not appearing in the tech tree without NSB. - Re-introduced many tank icons for most countries that were screwed by No Step Back. Tank icons in the non-NSB generic tree will now appear in the Tank Designer with NSB. - Improved the way country-specific tank icons appear in the tank designer, based on tech. - Turkey will no longer be able to ask again for investment to a country until the country has accepted the portfolio and finishes the decision to invest in Turkey. - Fixed issues with equipment bonuses to Carriers provided by Italian focus Refit Civilian Ships. - Fixed issue with Italian focuses Standardization and Specialization so that they provide bonuses to aircraft as promised. - Fixed issue in which Australian designer Cockatoo Docks and Engineer was not providing any real bonuses to Heavy Cruisers. - Super Heavy Battleship armour now reduces Torpedo critical chance instead of increasing it - Fix for Flying Tigers without BBA - Remove duplicated delimiter in focus-tree tooltips - Fixed wrong positioning of British focus "Embargo The Soviet Union" when hiding obsolete branches and Global Defense focus has been taken. - Fixed disappearing icons in the division designer when NATO symbols are used - Names in trade views are now updated when the country changes ideology - Soviet Marti Class cruiser will now have the minelayer role. - The Linguist trait should now work - Fixed wrong naming of peace conference after load game during the peace conference. - Fixed issues with misplaced focus branches in UK and USA focus trees when the Hide Obsolete Branches custom rule was set as "Show". - Fixed a few Czech Designers having their icons broken when Death or Dishonor DLC was not active. - Fixed a Dutch Designer having its icon broken when Man the Guns DLC was not active. - removed erroneous leader trait XP stats from the engineering school's army spirit. It now grants a global initiative factor - Fixed issues with dynamic textures on DX11 with older drivers / Windows releases - Fixed handling of X1R5G5B5 and A1R5G5B5 textures on DX11 when not supported by graphics drivers or older Windows versions - Added Black Sea cores missing from the Polish Fascist branch after selecting the national focus "Decide Post-War Borders". - Added checks to Hungarian focus "Renew the Rome Protocols" to make sure Austria and Italy exist and are independent. - Made it harder to do the Anschluss swap exploit. - Anschluss fix v2. You now need >40k inf eq in the standing army to do it - Fixed localization for poland.26 event. - Series of bug fixes focused on Interface and Localization. Thank you all for assisting us with your bug reports during this Open beta! And here is the updated map of the War Effort!
/Katten