A big update that is the result of long period of work to give a more natural list and trim behaviour to a partially submerged ship. The first German battlecruiser, Von der Tann, is also here.
Changelog:
- Von der Tann class battlecruiser has been added for German Empire.
- More physically based centers of mass of all ships have been set. This allows ships to sink after losing stability and makes their roll more natural.
- Battle AI changes:
- During artillery combat the AI can now gradually close the distance to enemies. It depends on the bravery of the AI commander and the power balance between the AI and its enemy.
- The AI can now switch firing side in artillery combat if the opposing side has significantly more working artillery or the artillery on the current side doesn’t have sufficient range due to ship inclination.
- Changes in damage calculation:
- The chance of detonation of torpedo tubes and spare torpedoes has been slightly reduced for direct kinetic hits and significantly reduced for blast waves.
- Slightly reduced the slowdown of projectiles and debris inside ship compartments (they now lose speed less).
- Structural damage has been significantly reduced.
- Slightly increased the chance of fire from surface blast waves.
- Significantly reduced the chance of fire from underwater blast waves.
- Increased the effect of armor weakening from multiple hits in the same place.
- UI/UX changes:
- “Counterflooding” button has been added to the damage control window for appropriate compartment groups.
- “Enable X-Ray view for enemy ships” checkbox has been added to the Difficulty tab of the Settings screen to enable X-Ray view hotkey when an enemy ship is selected. X-Ray view hotkey is now always enabled for all allied ships.
- “Display the status of enemy and allied ships in equal detail” checkbox has been added to the Difficulty tab of the Settings screen allowing detailed information about a selected enemy ship to be displayed in the upper right corner of the battle UI, just like it would be for a selected allied ship.
- “Smoke lifetime (longer smoke trails)” slider has been added to the Graphics tab of the Settings screen to control the length of smoke trails.
- Added the ability to select a sinking ship and switch the camera to it by mouse double clicking.
- The “Abort battle” option has been added to the battle escape menu, allowing you to interrupt the battle and display the report screen.
- A couple of bugs have been fixed.