• Season 2 will reset scores to base MMR
  
• Players must play in placement matches again
  
• Season 1 rankings will display on your Player Profile

Patch Notes

Features

• Total Victory against the AI
  
• Total Victory games are now available when playing with or against the AI
  
• Toggle the game type in the game setup window or from the game lobby
  
• Player Status
  
• Players can now see the current status of other players in their games
  
• Hover over the power icons along the bottom HUD to see the player name and current status
  
• Statuses:
  
• Online: Player is in the Main Menu, taking their turn in another game, or observing another game
  
• Offline: The player is offline
  
• Taking Their Turn: Player is logged in and actively taking their turn in the game you are observing
  
• Spectating: Player is logged in and spectating the game you are currently taking your turn in

Bug Fixes

• [Noncombat Move] - Resolved an issue where players were unable to advance to the Mobilization phase due to a crash on phase commit.
  
• [Automatic Aircraft Landing] - Resolved issues where players and the AI would encounter a crash when attempting to automatically land unlanded aircraft or crash unlanded aircraft
  
• [Aircraft Carrier/Fighters] - Resolved an issue where players could get into an illegal state when moving Fighters and Aircraft Carriers
  
• [Tooltips] - Revised several tooltips to be shorter in overall length
  
• [Rules Information] - Revised Submarine rules description to include both attacking and defending Submarines being able to Submerge during combat
  
• [AI] - Resolved several crashes and memory leaks that would happen when playing with or against the AI in an offline mode.
  
• [AI] - Resolved an issue where the AI would take several minutes to take its turn when it is playing both the United States and Soviet Union.
  
• [Map Notes] - Map Notes will no longer type out slow due to the profanity filter checking against every letter typed.
  
• [Strategic Bombing Raids] - Fixed an issue where the dice would not display properly when rolling.

• A fix for errors being encountered during the Noncombat Movement Phase when landing Fighters and moving other units. NOTE: These fixes won't resolve all issues in previously created games, and we will be removing games that have reached a corrupted state due to these issues that are still active.
  
• A fix for deploying/redeploying naval units during Mobilization Phase
  
• A fix for Industrial Complex damage not being preserved between sessions and rounds
  
• A fix for the crash when opening the Settings and Game Settings screens
  
• A fix for Legacy mode not enabling properly when turning it on. A restart is now required to fully enable this mode.
  
• A fix for errors occurring during Submarine submerging
  
• A fix for an error encountered when Amphibious Assaults are conducted from Germany to Karelia S.S.R.
  

Patch Notes

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• [Create Custom Game] - Visual improvements made to separate Computer Players and better distinguish between the Axis & Allies powers during Power Selection
  
• [Aircraft Carrier/Fighters] - Resolved more issues involving Aircraft Carriers and Fighter edge cases, and improved performance while landing Aircraft
  
• [Observer Mode] - Resolved an issue where players watching another player during Observer Mode would become de-synced
  
• [Observer Mode] - When following an AI player take their turn in offline mode (Single Player/Hot Seat), the AI will now wait for the player to load into the Combat Board before starting its actions for Combat.
  
• Note: You can adjust the speed of the AI from Settings > Gameplay.
  
• [Performance] - Resolved a bug where players occasionally could not progress to the next phase
  
• Networking] - Resolved a number of issues where games were not automatically forfeiting after the game timer expired

Features at Launch: July 31, 2019

• Digital adaptation of Axis & Allies 1942 Second Edition
  
• Learn-to-Play Tutorials
  
• Online Multiplayer
  
• Offline Single Player
  
• AI players for single and multiplayer
  
• Hotseat
  

Features Added During Early Access (So Far)

• After a bumpy start, we've vastly improved the servers
  
• Gameplay is now stable and speedy
  

• 1,012 bugs squashed and counting!
  

• Updated designs for all buttons and in-game windows
  
• Adjusted appearance of North & South America
  
• Combat Speed: added options to disable combat animations
  
• Arrow Design: No more spaghetti arrows!
  
• Clean, smooth arrows display your planned movements
  
• Check out our new trailer for a preview:
  

• We added ranked games— practice up, because the competition is fierce!
  
• Rankings include:
  
  
  
  1. Platinum
     
  2. Gold
     
  3. Silver
     
  4. Bronze
     
  5. Wood (this one was controversial)
     
  
  
• Play five ranked games to get an initial ranking, then work your way to the top or (defend your title)
  
• Matchmaking pairs you with players of similar skill
  

• Allies Ranking
  
• Allies Win/Loss Ratio
  
• Axis Ranking
  
• Axis Win/Loss Ratio
  
• Custom Games Statistics
  

• They matter!
  
• We listened to the community and made some tweaks to align with official rules as written. For example:
  
• No more refunds for non-mobilized units
  
• Choose to ignore unaccompanied enemy submarines / transports
  

• Axis & Allies creator, Larry Harris, designed a variant starting condition for the 1942 Second Edition, granting Allies a bit more strength at the outset of the game
  
• We've added Larry's variant (...Larriant?) as an optional starting condition
  

• Smarter robot players!
  
• Note: AI players present a decent challenge for newcomers who want to learn the game. Our robots aren't yet a threat to expert strategists, but we're working on it!
  

• Get notifications in-game!
  
• Directly load into the game from the notification
  

• Added New Left + Right Click controls
  
• Move stacks of units with Shift + Right-Click
  
• Combat: assign all hits with Shift + Left Click
  

Bonus: Old vs New Arrow Design

Patch Notes

New Features

• The Soviet Union AI will now be more aggressive when defending against Japan and Germany
  
• AI will now use Submarines abilities more effectively, submerging and avoiding enemy submarines
  
• AI will now properly defend Transports with Warships
  

• The Create Custom Game screen has been streamlined into a single screen, with clearer setup choices
  

Bug Fixes and Minor Updates

• [Rules Implementation] - Resolved issue where players get stuck in mobilization if they purchased more units than they could place as a result of liberating an allied capital, with allied territories reverting to the ally’s control

• [Aircraft Carrier/Fighters] - Resolved an issue where players could get into an illegal state when moving Fighters and Aircraft Carriers

• [Aircraft Carrier/Fighters] - Resolved an issue where a game could crash when automatically landing fighters in certain regions

• [Observer Mode] - Resolved an issue where Observer Mode sound effects were playing the same sound effects as when the player is in control

• [Audio] - Players can now control the volume of the sound effects when in Observer Mode

• [Combat] - When retreating, instructions for player input are now displayed on screen

• [Tutorials] - Players will no longer become blocked from progressing through tutorial 3 when following the instructions

• [Legacy Mode] - Players can now manually enable the Legacy Support mode on their device via the Settings screen. This may lead to better performance for some on lower end hardware

• [Combat] - Resolved issue where clicking too fast before an animation had finished would result in a crash

• [AI] - Resolved various crashes and issues with the AI, both online and offline

• [Game Names] - We've added more variants to the auto generated game names for Ranked games

PATCH #7 NOTES

New Features and Improvements

• AI players are better at reacting to game events and shifting goals
  
• AI players are better at executing team goals
  
• AI players are better at supporting teammates
  
• AI players use transports more effectively (specifically Japan, UK, & USA)

• Players must now deploy all purchased units during the Mobilization phase. IPC will no longer be refunded for undeployed units
  
• Choose to ignore or engage enemy transports/submarines located in the same sea zone as your units at the start of your turn

1. By default, the game will treat enemy transports/submarines as “Hostile”
   
2. To ignore enemy transports/submarines:
   -Click on the relevant sea zone
   -Click on the “dossier” tab in the bottom left corner of the screen, or press “e”
   -Change the toggle below the Sea Zone name from “Hostile” to “Friendly”
   
3. You are no longer required to move your units out of the sea zone during Combat Move to avoid engaging enemy transports/submarines. Units starting in a hostile sea zone can now make Noncombat Moves

• Choose to ignore or engage enemy transports/submarines in a sea zone during amphibious assaults and bombardments

1. By default, the game will treat enemy transports/submarines as “Hostile”
   
2. To ignore enemy transports/submarines:

• Updated buttons and menu visuals to improve readability of game UI
  
• Tooltips appear when required info is missing or invalid on a game creation window
  
• When loading units to transports, players will now see an arrow from the starting region to
• the diamond icon (destination marker) to indicate the action
  
• Diamond icons (destination markers) have colored edges to showcase type(s) of movement to a region:

1. Blue: Sea Units
   
2. Red: Air Units
   
3. Yellow: Land Units
   
4. White: Bombardments

• When players make incomplete or invalid movements, the units and diamond icons for that movement will now flash

• Unit Movements can now be cancelled by pressing SHIFT+Right Click on the Unit Stack
  
• Cancel individual land units loaded to a transport stack, without cancelling loaded units for all transports in the stack. To do this:

1. Click on the transport stack on the map
   
2. Open the “dossier” in the bottom left corner of the screen
   
3. Hover over the unit you wish to unload and click the red “X”

• Players with unsupported hardware configurations who were able to play the game prior to Patch #5, should now be able to play again with our newly updated engine
  
• Linux Players: We are still encountering issues with certain Nvidia hardware and drivers with Axis & Allies 1942 Online currently. Linux players with affected hardware will be able to play again through our Legacy Renderer until we resolve the core problem

Bug Fixes

• [Automatic Aircraft Landing] - Resolved crash caused by players or AI attempting to automatically land unlanded planes
  
• [Aircraft Carriers/Fighters] - Resolved an issue where players could move fighters and aircraft carriers into positions that break game rules
  
• [Movement] - Resolved an issue where movements taking units out of and back into a starting region in a single move could not be cancelled
  
• [Finished Games] - Resolved an issue where finished games wouldn’t properly appear in the Player Profile
  
• [Finished Games] - Win ratio percentage for ranked games no longer calculates based off of all games played
  
• [Launch] - Game will no longer become stuck when loading into a game with a corrupted game state
  
• [Game Saves] - Saved games no longer become corrupted due to system activities
  
• [Unit Placement] - Resolved issue where certain units overlapped with Industrial Complex’s too much
  
• [Performance] - Resolved memory leaks and fixed more issues where players were encountering black screens, units disappearing from the combat board or other crashes after a short play session
  
• [Notifications] - Servers will no longer be affected by multiple unread Notifications in the database
  
• [Notifications] - Notifications are now capped at 100 notifications. Older notifications will be removed to make room for new notifications after the cap has been reached
  
• [Notifications] - Players who declined a game invite will no longer receive notifications that “The game has started without you!”
  
• [Online AI] - Resolved issue where the online AI wouldn’t take its turn
  
• [Movement] - Resolved issues where tanks could not Combat Move through friendly territories to attack hostile regions
  
• [Transports] - Resolved issue where Transports would “teleport” back to original sea zone after the combat phase
  
• [Transports] - Resolved issue where Transports could not pick up units from certain regions and islands
  
• [Movement] - Mass moving Fighters/Bombers will no longer cause under-fueled units to travel farther than capable
  
• [Map] - World Map will no longer only partially show up when returning to the Game Board from combat

Patch #6 Notes

• Reduced the width and size of movement arrows introduced in Patch 5.
  
• Arrows are 50% thinner
  
• Smoother curves
  
• Arrows take shortest distance to the region
  
• Arrow movement stops just after the border, improving map visibility
  

• Added functionality to the destination markers (diamond icons)
  
• Players can click markers to deploy/move units into regions
  
• Destination marker scales down in size when players zoom in
  

• Added toast-style notifications for ranked matchmaking
  
• Notification remains in lower left-hand corner while players navigate through the Main Menu
  
• Players cancel matchmaking from this notification
  
• Players can enter games from the notification once a match has been found
  

• Reduced the default speed of the AI for new players
  
• Players can adjust the speed of the AI players to their liking by changing it within the Options -> Settings -> Gameplay screen.
  
• Existing players AI speeds will not be changed as a result of this change.
  <*>Please Note: If your AI speed is set to “Fast” or “Very Fast” you will not be able to view live combats for the AI when it is taking its turn.
  

• Finished Games have been added to the Player Profile.
  
• View the outcomes of your 5 most recent games.
  
• Expand the Finished Game card to see additional details, including who you played with
  
• Ranked Games no longer count towards the Custom games win/loss ratios
  

• Adjusted unit placement to improve map visibility
  
• Reduced instances of overlapping units
  

• We’ve resolved the issue players were encountering when playing the game that would result in a black screen, units disappearing from the combat board or other crashes occurring after a short play session.

• We’ve resolved issues where players encountered problems attempting to load units in and around the area of Australia and the Solomon Islands

• The AI will no longer take 24 hours to complete or start its turn
  
• Various fixes to the AI to provide additional stability when playing the AI

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