Turning Inertia, Elephants and Bug Fixes

General

• Optimized rendering of explosions, other visual effects and marks on the ground
• Reduced overlapping identical sounds when many units fire or perform the same action at once
• Added turning inertia to ships, elephants, artillery and vehicles

Bug Fixes

• The Yamato could fail to turn its hull to bring its turrets to bear on a target
• Restored image distortion effects that had been missing for a long time due to a bug
• When an object disappeared from the minimap, nearby object markers could also disappear
• Loading large textures could interrupt game loading with a false out-of-memory error
• A corrupted image could stop other images from loading
• Sounds could come from the wrong direction
• Tooltips could lose lines or retain text from the previous tooltip
• The announcer volume setting was not saved between game launches

Balance

• Elephants now frighten enemy cavalry: riders retreat and temporarily stop responding to orders
• Elephant collision shapes have changed from round to elongated
• The Light tank, Flamethrower tank, FT17, Type FT, Chinese Light tank and Light tank F3000 now crush troops while moving
• Early European, early Asian and Italian fishing boats, the Battle boat and the Sampan now accelerate smoothly
• Increased the clearance needed for cavalry, some artillery, the Motorcycle, Tankette KS, Tankette KD and Armored car Terni to pass