Making History: The First World War
Quick Fix for French Version
Also fixed errors in some City names.
First World War: Now in Turkish
We are very happy to announce that the Turkish language version of Making History: The First World War is now ready.
While we are calling this our Ottoman Release, all Lobby, Hud and Event text has been localized to contemporary the Turkish alphabet.
We will continue to offer new translations in the near future. Polish, Portuguese, Japanese, Bulgarian and Italian are high on our list. Feel free to make requests.
The First World War: French Language Release
We have now completed translating a French language version of Making History: The First World War.
Plus, we have included a Turkish language localization option that is currently still in being tested.
The First World War: Spanish Language Release
We have now implemented a Spanish version of Making History: The First World War.
All text content for both have been localized but there will likely be errors or poor translations in some places. Additionally, there are strings that do not fit well in the UI. We will over time address the problems that are fixable.
The next localization will be French. And as we stated before, we'd like to eventually add Portuguese, Italian, Turkish, Bulgarian, Japanese or Polish and others if possible.
We'll soon be turning our attention back to both gameplay & content for this game and The Second World War. Translations will be added to SWW in the near future.
Der Erste Weltkrieg - Первая мировая война
For the last several months our focus has been on localizing The First World War into different languages. We released an early Chinese version a few weeks ago and now have a working build that adds both Russian and German. We've decided to make these imperfect translations available to all players while we continue to work on improvements.
All text content for both have been localized but it's very rough in many places. This includes poor translation and in some cases, strings that do not fit well in the UI. We have native speakers helping us cleanup the over 15,000 lines of text for each language.
There are also Spanish and French versions in progress and we intend to follow that up with possibly Portuguese, Italian, Turkish, Bulgarian, Japanese or Polish. We’ll be deciding that in the near future and the plan is to also make translations for The Second World War.
Feedback is welcome.
First World War Update
First World War: Chinese Language Version Released
The Chinese language version of Making History: The First World War is now ready to share.
All Lobby, Hud and Event text has been localized to Simplified Chinese.
This is a large amount of text - over 10,000 lines of translations. The Events alone were over 7,000.
So there's a good chance we may have messed somewhere. Please let us know if you find issues and we'll try to fix them for the next build.
Coming up...
Russian Language translation release. This is currently being reviewed and tested. Should be ready for release in the very near future.
First World War Chinese Version In Progress
A Chinese version of Making History: The First World War has been requested by multiple community members. We just wanted to let our Chinese players know that a translation is being worked on. We've completed most of the UI and are beginning on the many events and units.
We will update you when the translation is ready.
Making History: The First World War - Post Release Update #5
In this update we fixed several user reported bugs and content errors. A few modifications were made to some Events which we believe is the source of a troublesome save bug that some users have experienced.
There are not many changes to the game at this stage, however we are planning to begin releasing more content related updates since the overall game is mostly set. We received many suggestions over the months since we first released the game. These have been filed and we’ll review them all. In the meantime, thanks for providing bug reports and game feedback.
Release Notes:
- Altered the MexicanTejano_PlanDeSanDiego event to prevent a game stall bug
- Changed Kiautschou Nationality to Northern Chinese, they now build German style hardware
- Fixed bug in content that allowed Koenigsberg to have more than 1 recruitment facility
- Fixed Marines Unit model display for several Nations
- Added new religions Taoism & Confucianism
- Added coal maintenance for Power Plants
- Fixed Coastal Defense Model Location for Kiautschou
- Fixed Coal Model Location for Phuoc Long
- Fixed Finish Civil War Event Text errors
- Altered the RussianRevolution_RedRevolution event to prevent save game errors
Making History: The First World War - Post Release Update #4
In this new update we focused on fixing some known bugs that were all reported by the community. One big issue involved the Editor. The bug prevented users from creating naval units in mods. This problem was resolved and should now be in working. Since the initial release of The First World War the game soundtrack has received its fair share of negative feedback. That’s not particularly surprising given that musical tastes are highly subjective. Still we understand that some music might be considered less appropriate, more annoying or highly monotonous et cetera, et cetera. We’ve removed one song that stood out as a likely offender and added about 8 new tracks to dilute the repetitiveness.
While we hope the soundtrack updates improve the in-game experience, for some players - maybe most, turning the music levels down is the best solution.
Very often a community member will reach out to us wondering why a certain Achievement hasn’t been awarded or what regions they need to get it. We typically will send out the region list associated with the achievement in question. Finally, we decided to use the Steam Guides section to provide a full accounting of all the region lists used in the Achievements.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/959150/guides/
We left out a few of the more obvious cases like Conquer Asia. Players can use the in-game map views that display continental groupings to cross reference conquest goals.
There are still more unimplemented items on our improvements, fixes and content expansion lists for Making History: The First World War. Please feel free to offer your ideas and suggestions.
Update #4 Release Notes:
- Fixed Editor bug preventing the creation of Naval Units
- Fixed data error in The Russian Revolution that had Kavala in E. Thrace instead of W. Macedonia
- Fixed data error to move Thrace coastal Defense model to correct region
- Modified Bulgarian-Allied Alliance deal to give Bulgarians the promised 20K
- Added new Soundtrack files
- Made change to prevent repeating Turkish Expulsion events
- Fixed misspelling of Soviets in several peace notifications
- Fixed German-Japanese Alliance agreement so Germany transfers promised Pacific colonies to Japan
- Fixed multiple misspellings of “Soviets” in certain event notifications
- Added MPU Cost display to Resource Expansion in Encyclopedia
- More Achievement region lists on Steam Guide