Commander - Napoleon at War 1.03 Public Beta Uploaded to the Members area!

[Greg Wilcox]

We have uploaded Commander - Napoleon at War 1.03 Beta to the Members Club for those Members who would like to help us with the testing of the new features and bug fixes for this patch release. We want to make sure that the bug fixes listed have worked as they should and that no new bugs have surfaced because of the changes.

Again this is an early public beta so those who want to help out with the testing may. You can access this public beta as a Private Download as long as you have registered your Commander - Napoleon at War serial number in our Members Club (Click on the MEMBERS link in the top nav bar).


IMPORTANT NOTE: With 1.03 Saved games are now in "my documents\Commander Napoleon at War" to make them easier to find. You will not be able to continue any old saved games.


Changes

Features and Enhancements


• Added in game German language support
• Units that cannot reinforce now fall back from the front line to prevent blocking fresh units
• Units assigned for homeland defense now spread out better
• Some tweaks to rhw 1805 scenario setup
• France is now slightly stronger early on due to the increase from 8% to 12% from the Corps d Arme' tech
• Increased the manpower capacity for France in all scenarios by 15%
• Russia now throw in counter attacks every now and then, more the longer the war goes on eventually driving all the way towards Paris
• Great Britain now do naval invasion into France if later on if the defense is weak
• Great Britain now build slightly less navy and more ground forces
• Sea Port attack penalty now 70% instead of 30%
• Map change, Transportation loop removed
• Map change, Cairo now set up as Ottoman Secondary Capital
• Scenario 1805, Russia has a slightly weaker set up
• Vassals now need to have at leist 4 units in order to get a chance of revolting
• Major Countries and Vassals now do not surrender as easily as before


Fixes
• Fixed a wagon bug that sometimes prevented wagon movements from/to Russia
• Fixed a nasty installer issue where it did created 2 versions of the install in add/remove programs. This cannot retro fix previous issues but anyone applying 1.03 to 1.00 will not see the issues. It also now clears out the installed dir when you uninstall and removes the folder cleanly from the start menu.
• Fixed a freeze bug that occurred sometimes instead of the victory screen


AI Enhancements and Fixes
• AI now mass up several transports before doing naval invasion to land stronger instead of piecemeal
• AI now use leaders
• AI recruits more leaders on higher difficulty levels
• AI, Changed some thresholds for France when deciding if protecting Austria or defending Paris
• AI, improved some distribution problems so France is now more aggressively focusing on conquests early on
• AI stops buying new units earlier, sparing manpower for repairs
• AI, France get more manpower when playing the upper difficulty levels
• AI, Only infantry units now stay put on resource hexes for defense
• AI, Great Britain now build more ships not just Frigates
• AI, made several improvements to the 1805 reducing the amount of situations where the AI went defensive(=passive)
• AI naval units that are going home for repairs do no longer change their mind
• AI now devote more navy for patrolling the seas in order to maintain naval superiority and win the convoy wars
• AI now build some artillery
• AI, Portugal now set more aggressive in 1814 Scenario

[firepowerjohan]

Can you make a separate section for the Beta Testing so that all feedback is assembled there?
Would be perfect [:)]