Hello everyone!
Let's get straight to all the new stuff. 😋
Unit Visuals 💂
This update adds maybe one of most notable changes to frontlines. You can now add some extra flair to your wars by displaying a line of units across active battle lines. These frontlines will also be reinforced from the nearest core or capital.
Note that these units don't have actual health of combat stats, they are just visual (at least for now).
Sorry for the very compressed gifs, they look a lot smoother in game 😄
You have some options to configure how exactly you want the units to appear. Edit these from the bottom-left-corner gear icon. You can make a thick and snappy line of units, or a more slowly moving and scattered bunch. The choice is yours, make sure to do some experimentation.
This feature was originally part of a mod for the game but it (and the next one) was so good that me and the mod creator agreed I should implement the core mechanic to the base game.
Flag Wave 💨🏁
Flags now look even cooler by having a wavy animation and a shadow behind it. If this wave doesn't fit your type of flags you can disable this in pause menu settings.
Even Better Revolt Borders ✊
Revolt Borders should now follow terrain features like mountains, deserts and crossings more closely.
You can also preview possible revolt borders around a city by holding ALT and then hovering over it. This works in the default and diplo map modes. Note that these might not match exactly with a revolt if the revolt has rightful territory in the area.
In Terrain View, you can preview a city's region that ignores country borders.
In upcoming updates, I might use these new borders for something more, we'll see.
List of Current Wars 📋
There is now a visible list of current wars along with their participants. You can click on the flags to move the camera to them
This is a bit experimental feature, depending on how many wars are active in your scenario this bottom row might fill up fast. If this is distracting, you can disable it in in-game Display Settings. So these things might be heavily changed in future updates, but let me know what you think about them!
v4.5.0 Full Changelog
Additions
Added Unit Visuals for wars. These units will stick close to frontlines, and will be supplied from the nearest city core
You can modify how dense and fast these units are in the Settings found in bottom left corner
These units are purely visual. They do not possess any tactics and whatnot. They are just for visual appeal and to make wars more fun to watch
Added a wavy effect to flags in Nation View. You can disable the effect in Pause Menu Display Settings
You can now preview possible revolt borders of a city by holding ALT and hovering over a city in default or diplomatic map mode
Note that if a city rightful has rightful territory around the city, then this preview might not match
On Terrain view, previewable area shows the entire region around the city, ignoring nation borders
Added a visible list of ongoing and recently ended wars to the bottom. You can hide it from in-game display settings
Added a setting to make Nuke Wasteland optional
Bugfixes & Improvements
Improved revolt borders so that they more closely follow Terrain. Things like crossings, mountains, and deserts will act as natural barriers
Removed the old Revolt Borders selection setting
Updated Europe 1792, 1914, 1938 and 2026 scenarios
Fixed Toggle All not toggling all Text Popup Settings
Fixed and added some random flag icons
Fixed some issues with Settings Page
Fixed some translations
Minor changes to some setting default values
Nations no longer lose gold when releasing puppet nations
