Developer posts and news about this game.
General Added network stutter smoothing: brief connection delays have less impact on the smoothness of play. The setting can be changed in the menu and during a match Added a “CPU cannot keep up with the match” warning when processing falls significantly behind in an online match
General Improved game and interface performance, including matches with large numbers of units and effects Added settings for the amount of animation particles and the visibility of decorations and additional model elements Reworked and improved the appearance of grass When placi
General Redesigned the main menu with separate single-player and multiplayer sections, a new look for windows and smooth transitions Added Arena mode to matchmaking and private games: battles with identical, randomly composed armies of land units, with no building or development.
General Optimized performance in large battles with many units, effects and pieces of debris. Models and textures needed immediately now take priority when loading Gates can now be switched to automatic mode: they open when your units or allied units approach and close after they
General Map terrain is smoother: slopes and hills no longer look angular Higher FPS: the scripts that run the interface and gameplay now execute faster Bug Fixes If a match's mod or map was unavailable on the server, the client closed with a message about a corrupted installation
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 t
General Vehicles, siege weapons and some ships can now move in reverse, automatically choosing the quickest route while accounting for turns Optimized pathfinding and target selection, the game’s most demanding algorithms Solo players can now queue for team matches of any size; t
General Network match response is now 2 ms faster Melee units that slow cavalry now distribute their attacks more effectively among targets that have not yet been slowed Armageddon mode has been completely removed from the game Bug Fixes If the store failed to load, the game coul
General Saboteur bomb planting reworked: mark a spot and the Saboteur walks over and plants the bomb right there instead of under itself, then pulls back to a safe distance unless you give it another order. With several Saboteurs selected, the button shows how many bombs are read
General The effect radius of an aura is now displayed for the selected unit Selected aircraft icons now show their state: servicing, ready for takeoff, carrying out a mission, or returning to the airfield Improved wheeled vehicle animations: wheels now turn with the vehicle and s
General Automated moderation has been added to in-game chats: for now, hostile communication only results in warnings, with no penalties In Tug of War, forests around troop spawn points and starting houses are cleared The Stop command now brings a unit to a complete halt, includi
Bug Fixes Fixed over a thousand translation issues across 24 languages, including incorrect terms and numbers, missing text, encoding errors, and duplicate names for different units; the Persian translation was extensively revised Typing in chat also triggered camera hotkeys The
General Mouse selection has been reworked: clicks now account for both the object's ground footprint and the bounding shape of its model. For elongated objects, both areas rotate with the body Bug Fixes In fullscreen, the camera would not pan down when the cursor touched the edge
General Bug reports can now be sent directly from the game. A screenshot, logs and match data are attached automatically Canyons, ravines, cliffs and plateaus have returned to the map generator Bug Fixes After switching to another window, the game could still consider a mouse but
General Introduced a new map generator for team matches. Five map types will now appear regularly: U-shaped, O-shaped, H-shaped, two continents, and a shared continent Improved the matchmaking algorithm for team matches Increased the minimum matchmaking team size to 4v4 Adjusted
In this update the scene graphics have been improved, and experimental rendering styles and a brightness setting have been added. Many water units now have an elliptical shape instead of a circular one — collisions and hits are counted against the hull rather than against the cir
In this update the fog of war now fully hides all changes in unexplored areas. The tank crushing mechanic has been expanded to all heavy tanks. We've fixed a number of bugs, including collision issues with the Ram and internal engine errors. For modders, we've added the Aura syst
In this update we’re rolling out a major rework of late–game ground warfare and Wonder victories. Super-heavy tanks now truly feel terrifying on the battlefield, gaining the ability to crush enemy infantry, while many armored vehicles and anti-tank weapons receive powerful slowin
When the damned armies fell, silence did not follow. From beneath their bodies poured a thick, putrid green fog, and the earth beneath them hissed as if awakening in pain. The dead grass blackened, curled, and from the cracks crawled roots — like hands reaching toward the sky. Wi
Hi friends! We’ve released a small but important update to community maps with mods. We went through community maps and updated their connected mods to the latest builds. This reduces the number of crashes and, in some cases, even restores functionality to maps that were breaking