RTW3: v.1.00.39 Public Beta Now Available

[MaximKI]

Hello everyone,

There's a new public beta update installer available at the following download link: HERE

For Steam users, you can switch to it by going to RTW3 in your Steam Library, right-clicking on it, choosing Properties -> Betas -> then choosing the latest beta branch from the drop-down list and allowing Steam to update your game. If it updates correctly, you should see the latest beta version listed as your version in-game on the bottom right.

What's New in Version 1.00.39:

• Reversed the "CA cannot have protected cruiser armour configuration" change. Important Note: The earlier change to early CA in 1.00.37 proved to be ill considered. As some players have correctly pointed out, the main difference between pre-1900 in game CA and CL should be size, not armor configuration. Early cruisers have now been refurbished in the game and CA are now cruisers that have an armored belt or have a size over 8000 tons, others are CL. Templates and design logic have been updated accordingly. France and Russia have been given belt and sloping armor deck as bonus techs to reflect their early adoption of armored cruisers. This might cause transient issues in already started games with 1.00.37, in which case we advise continuing to play until this resolves itself or starting new game. The end result is that the treatment of pre-1900 cruisers is now much more historical and consistent.
• Added an option to have spacebar both pause and run the game.
• Added weather forecast to pre battle screen. Note that this is unreliable, just as the real weather forecast. It will improve with tech and time.
• Prevented some cheesy tricks in officer assignment, for example assigning bad officers to empty divisions.
• Added possibility to manually change aircraft type of an air unit.
• Added save path info on main screen.
• Fixed a bug where the default settings were not used if the preferences file was not found.
• Fixed a bug that could set the year of ship designs to 1899 in an 1890 start.
• Fixed a bug where a Lieutenant commander could be promoted directly to Admiral in some cases.
• Fixed a bug with the free manual promotion per turn not resetting after the turn.

[Merlin56]

Hi guys, Microsoft Defender will not let me download the .39 update as it says virus found.

Regards.

[MaximKI]

Hi guys, Microsoft Defender will not let me download the .39 update as it says virus found.

Regards.

This is likely a Windows Defender issue. We recommend temporarily deactivating it, downloading the update and then turning Windows Defender back on.

[Merlin56]

Thanks, will do.