Knobby

in the past 3 campaigns i have NEVER seen an uprising or major country reforming be successful. The current owner always wins. even if the current owner is 'ungoverned territory'

how do i attack ungoverned regions?

game still hanging at 'next turn' on the second turn edit: actually this seems fixed, thanks! edit2: Aaaand it's back

every second turn now hangs at 'next turn', doesn't progress to research / movement etc. the program is still responding though, I can exit to main menu and reload a save.

so far all my battles in the last few patches have been unplayable due to no visibility. last battle was in most recent patch. mousing over the weather thingy it said morning and light overcast, but visuals were of heavy fog. very annoying. Naval invasions however seem to work properly now. thanks for fixing!

last naval invasion i tried i had 610,000 tonnage for 28,000 needed. it failed of course...

naval invasions are ridiculous now. 4 times in a row I failed an invasion while I had 9-10 times the needed tonnage. Also, the actual needed tonnage is about 50% higher than the indicated tonnage in the naval invasion dialog

Emergency alliance mechanism is broken. As GB I've been at war with USA for a long time, racking up on the victory points, getting ready to make peace and get some juicy territories. AI does not want to sign peace yet. OK, I'll continue wrecking their fleets. Then France gets in a war with US and I get an emergency alliance with France. Unfortunately that ALSO means I'm now suddenly at war with Germany and Spain. Ok, annoying but I can handle it. Few turns later, SOMEBODY gets in a war with SOMEBOBY (seriously I have no idea, there were like 10 messages) and I get dragged into more emergency alliances, everybody is at war with half the world and allied with the other half. But here is the problem: I am now suddenly ALLIED with the USA! So much of my time wasted for victory points that I now can never use. And so much more time wil have to be wasted fighting 5 wars that I never wanted to fight against navies that have no fleets left so are real hard to get points against.

I'm still having frequent crashes in ship editor. Even when i have saved a design in the ship editor, if the game crashes before i have exited the editor those saved ships are gone. this means I lose designs and have to redo them, or i have to exit the editor after each2 saved design top ensure they are actually saved. Also, task force still teleports to home port after battle even when there was 0 damage. (did not spot enemy). Strangest thing of all, the taskforce that was teleported home got in a 'straggle' encounter the very next turn... In my latest campaign i have not have a single successful naval invasion. must have been like 5 that just all failed even if I kept enough tonnage in the area.

click dragging on the map is suddenly much slower. if i drag the mouse from one side of teh screen to the other, the map moves maybe only about 1/3 of that distance. scrolling from one side to the other take an insane amount of mouse movements. It's enough to put me off playing TBH

I have to disagree. There are many ways to prevent this, simplest is just to enforce a cool down after a peace treaty, like in basically every other wargame.

yes and yes

That's how I did it previously, but this campaign in multiple wars the option remains greyed out, even though I have way more that 100k tons and superiority

Why can't I do a naval invasion on Russia here?

As Britain, I can't improve relations with Germany, AH, or Chinese. Have not been able to do this for 5 years now (1910 start). Is this because I chose historical opponents? Or is this a bug?

I pressed the end battle button that shows up after a while. NOT the one in the menu

Sorry, forgot to add the screenshot. I mean the victory points awarded for the fight, although technically there never was a fight as the ships never met.

This is an old one but very annoying. Points are awarded for damage that pre-existed before the battle. I get in a battle with a taskforce that was already damaged from previous fights. Ships never spotted each other, no shots were ever fired. Yet enemy gets points for pre-existing damage. Damage that my ships already had before joining battle. This SHOULD NOT happen, as it is unfair and actually makes it possible for the enemy (or player) to get points twice for the same damage.

For me this workaround actually does work. I alt-tabbed after hitting next turn and when i came back turn was complete

can confirm. ryzen 5800X 32gb ram RTX 3070 8gb. game installed on nvme SSD when frame rate drops the hardware is not even close to stressed

i can only improve relations with countries that are already positive

I'm sorry nick, but it is a big problem, as your playtesters have repeatedly been saying. The only reason it is now overly dramatic, is you have first been ignoring us, and no are belittling us.

Yes, one of the many balance fixes that has been sorely needed since adding the additional major nations: Nations already at war, sometimes with multiple opponents, should try everything to avoid more enemies! Not continue badgering me with tension increases and money demands. Just so there is actually a way for that war to end, and also because fighting an opponent with hardly any fleet left and dispersed around the globe is not fun, and actually pretty hard to bring to a conclusion. And with everybody fighting everybody the game indeed slows to a crawl.

Rereading my own post made me realize how angry I am atm, so I want to start by saying that I really do appreciate the hard work the devs have put in during what for most other people is the holiday season, and that in a country that is actively being invaded. Really I want to see this game succeed. I've been heavily invested in it (emotionally even) since back when it wasn't even on steam and all we had was academy missions and custom battles. But seeing mention of a release candidate fills me with dread, considering the actual state of the game. It has taken 10 hotfixes to get the game to a state where testing is even possible, fixing the multiple literal game breaking bugs. This is not hyperbole, these bugs made it impossible playtest as the game would not load, or it would crash, or buttons would not work. The actual framework of the game was not working, and it is just barely working now after 10 hotfixes so we can finally start looking at stuff like the new features and balance etc. Multiple features are still in their brand new state, and clearly not working correctly or not optimized or balanced well. Part of the problem is the black box nature of these features where testing is impossible when the tester does not know how something is supposed to work. Another big part of the frustration and basic lack of enjoyment is how most of these new features are completely out of the players control, or even influence. And then there are replies like this: You have got to be kidding me. Have the devs themselves not played a single battle since 1.10? You must not have if you don't know what we mean by drunken helmsmen. I will not explain here but just assume you have read the explanation posted a few posts before mine and the excellent analysis by @Aurora just below. Nearly every hotfix patchnotes since 1.10 dropped have mentioned 'improvements' to this issue yet we as playtesters see no improvement at all. Sometimes things actually got worse. This seriously make me doubt devs ever play an actual battle. But threatening to remove the one feature that makes battles halfway playable is just so classic Game Labs and makes me so angry. Accusing players of abusing a feature of the game to actually be able to play it? Are you for real!?!? I have to stop typing now. I've tried to keep this civil and constructive, but I just can't anymore...

very often now buttons don't work, for example the auto resolve on submarine missions or the yes button on ship sale requests. returning to main menu and reloading may work, but sometimes the yes button to actually get to the main menu may also not work, and then i have to kill the game in taskmanager