Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts news & patch notes

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Hello admirals, This is the last major update of Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts offering new hulls, new guns and parts, and many game optimizations. You are definitely going to enjoy it. However you need to know the following: - Old campaign saves and all ship saves will become unavailable. if you DO NOT want to start a new game on the new major update and lose any previous saved designs of the older game version then you can switch to the previous stable version: v1.6.1.5 Optx4 as shown here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1069660/discussions/2/4763206964692197802/ - The shared designs will have issues with tonnage or will have different models of guns, which will make the designs invalid. It is up to you to repair them manually or delete them. It is advised to NOT USE them for the campaign until you are sure they are functional. You can select the campaign setting to not use shared designs. Please DO NOT report bugs, if you know that you use old shared designs. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36000420/760eed5fa5b00809c3641a862e1ff512e49b6c52.png

*v1.7 MAJOR UPDATE*

*14x NEW HULLS*

• New USA “Dreadnought IV” (Shifting the naming of previous Dreadnought hulls accordingly) based on the USS Arizona Battleship, which can be recreated with sufficient accuracy. It has a base displacement between 27,500 and 35,500 tons and is available during 1914-1927.
• New USA “Dreadnought VI” (Shifting the naming of previous Dreadnought hulls accordingly) with a base displacement between 31,500 and 42,500 tons, available during 1916-1927.
• New British “Compact N3 class” which can recreate the HMS Nelson. It has a base displacement between 32,000 and 39,500 tons. available from 1919.
• New British “Experimental Large Cruiser” with a base displacement between 27,500 and 32,500 tons, available from 1923.
• New Chinese/Spanish “Assault Battleship” with a base displacement between 45,000 and 59,500 tons, available from 1929.
• New Austro-Hungarian “Small Assault Battleship” with a base displacement between 36,000 and 45,500 tons, available from 1929.
• New Russian “Assault Battlecruiser” with a base displacement between 70,500 and 87,500 tons, available from 1929.
• New Chinese/Spanish “Ironclad I” which can recreate the HMS Inflexible ironclad. It has a base displacement between 9,770 and 12,900 tons, available from 1890 to1899.
• New Chinese/Spanish “Ironclad II” with a base displacement between 10,900 and 13,900 tons, available from 1891 to1899.
• New Chinese “Experimental Ironclad I” with a base displacement between 9,600 and 11,200 tons, available from 1890 to1895.
• New Chinese “Experimental Ironclad II” with a base displacement between 9,750 and 12,250 tons, available from 1890 to1895.
• New Chinese “Experimental Ironclad III” with a base displacement between 9,850 and 12,550 tons, available from 1890 to1895.
• New Chinese armored cruiser “Ironclad Cruiser” with a base displacement between 3,000 and 11,500 tons, available from 1890 to 1905.
• New Chinese light cruiser “Small Ironclad” with a base displacement between 3,000 and 6,500 tons, available from 1890 to 1902.
• Various new ship parts.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36000420/f4b6a77396c0ec446d6e942eec37e34196312e58.jpg *NEW GUNS*

• New quad guns for almost all calibers and for all nations.
• New USA 17 to 20-inch guns for Mark-2 tech, 7 to 18-inch guns for Mark-3 tech, 12 to 18-inch guns for Mark-4 tech.
• New USA 4-inch guns for Mark-4/5 techs.
• New USA 2 to 3-inch guns for Mark-2/3 techs.
• New British 15 to 20-inch guns for Mark 1/2/3 techs.
• New British 6 to 8-inch guns for Mark 3/4/5 techs.
• New German 17 to 20-inch guns for Mark-2 tech, 15 to 16-inch guns for Mark-2/3 techs.
• Various fixes and improvements for several guns.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36000420/83c4d47c7dae01961e157136fa970f83a1c328aa.jpg *OTHER*

• Ship parts weights are reduced and costs have been adjusted accordingly. Armor and engine weights slightly adjusted. The result is more available tonnage for ship design, as much as was needed for allowing to recreate historical designs more easily, with adequate protection.
• Triple guns and quad guns are now available sooner in the technology tree.
• Optimizations in ship design calculations affecting positively the loading times and all the processes when you design ships.
• Custom battle's maximum year is now 1960.
• Battle AI became further improved.
• Auto-design is further improved.
• Balances in the ship damage model, mainly affecting the durability of ship parts, armor endurance and how flooding is affected due to structural damage. The overall experience should be an even more realistic and expected feeling of how ships damage each other according to their displacement and protection schemes.
• Optimization and improvement in the Division Screen/Scout logic. This will positively affect the Opponent Battle AI and the player’s divisions set to “Screen” or “Scout”.
• Fixed a minor UI issue which caused a wrong calculation indication for cost of shipyard development.
• Fixed a potential bug that could cause a ship of a design to be wrongly deleted, when its design was deleted.
• Reduced aggression of minors to try to take their own home lands.
• Fine tuning of Game's difficulty settings in Easy/Normal/Hard settings.

*==============================* Thank you everyone who supported this game and we hope you will continue to enjoy it for many years to come.

Hello admirals, You can now play the first playable version of the upcoming major update v1.7. This new update finalizes the available guns for all nations and will also offer some new hulls. There are also important game optimizations. You can read in the changelog what is available now. Players who are accustomed with previous beta stages, will find familiar the procedures. This is how you switch to the beta: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1069660/discussions/3/3191362449922656706/ You need to know the following BEFORE you switch to the beta: - Old campaign saves and all ship saves will become unavailable. DO NOT switch to beta if you are unsure if you want to start a new game on the new major update and lose any previous saved designs of the older game version. - The shared designs will have issues with tonnage or will have different models of guns, which will make the designs invalid. It is up to you to repair them manually or delete them. It is advised to NOT USE them for the campaign until you are sure they are functional. You can select the campaign setting to not use shared designs. Please DO NOT report bugs, if you know that you use old shared designs. - The campaign setting "Slow" is temporarily the only available option to start the campaign, until the new pre-made initial ships become available.

*v1.7 MAJOR UPDATE* (Beta RC)

*14x NEW HULLS*

• New USA “Dreadnought IV” (Shifting the naming of previous Dreadnought hulls accordingly) based on the USS Arizona Battleship, which can be recreated with sufficient accuracy. It has a base displacement between 27,500 and 35,500 tons and is available during 1914-1927.
• New USA “Dreadnought VI” (Shifting the naming of previous Dreadnought hulls accordingly) with a base displacement between 31,500 and 42,500 tons, available during 1916-1927.
• New British “Compact N3 class” which can recreate the HMS Nelson. It has a base displacement between 32,000 and 39,500 tons. available from 1919.
• New British “Experimental Large Cruiser” with a base displacement between 27,500 and 32,500 tons, available from 1923.
• New Chinese/Spanish “Assault Battleship” with a base displacement between 45,000 and 59,500 tons, available from 1929.
• New Austro-Hungarian “Small Assault Battleship” with a base displacement between 36,000 and 45,500 tons, available from 1929.
• New Russian “Assault Battlecruiser” with a base displacement between 70,500 and 87,500 tons, available from 1929.
• New Chinese/Spanish “Ironclad I” which can recreate the HMS Inflexible ironclad. It has a base displacement between 9,770 and 12,900 tons, available from 1890 to1899.
• New Chinese/Spanish “Ironclad II” with a base displacement between 10,900 and 13,900 tons, available from 1891 to1899.
• New Chinese “Experimental Ironclad I” with a base displacement between 9,600 and 11,200 tons, available from 1890 to1895.
• New Chinese “Experimental Ironclad II” with a base displacement between 9,750 and 12,250 tons, available from 1890 to1895.
• New Chinese “Experimental Ironclad III” with a base displacement between 9,850 and 12,550 tons, available from 1890 to1895.
• New Chinese armored cruiser “Ironclad Cruiser” with a base displacement between 3,000 and 11,500 tons, available from 1890 to 1905.
• New Chinese light cruiser “Small Ironclad” with a base displacement between 3,000 and 6,500 tons, available from 1890 to 1902.
• Various new ship parts.

*NEW GUNS*

• New quad guns for almost all calibers and for all nations.
• New USA 17 to 20-inch guns for Mark-2 tech, 7 to 18-inch guns for Mark-3 tech, 12 to 18-inch guns for Mark-4 tech.
• New USA 4-inch guns for Mark-4/5 techs.
• New USA 2 to 3-inch guns for Mark-2/3 techs.
• New British 15 to 20-inch guns for Mark 1/2/3 techs.
• New British 6 to 8-inch guns for Mark 3/4/5 techs.
• New German 17 to 20-inch guns for Mark-2 tech, 15 to 16-inch guns for Mark-2/3 techs.
• Various fixes and improvements for several guns.

*OTHER*

• Ship parts weights are reduced and costs have been adjusted accordingly. Armor and engine weights slightly adjusted. The result is more available tonnage for ship design, as much as was needed for allowing to recreate historical designs more easily, with adequate protection.
• Triple guns and quad guns are now available sooner in the technology tree.
• Optimizations in ship design calculations affecting positively the loading times and all the processes when you design ships.
• Custom battle's maximum year is now 1960.
• Battle AI became further improved.
• Auto-design is further improved.
• Balances in the ship damage model, mainly affecting the durability of ship parts, armor endurance and how flooding is affected due to structural damage. The overall experience should be an even more realistic and expected feeling of how ships damage each other according to their displacement and protection schemes.
• Optimization and improvement in the Division Screen/Scout logic. This will positively affect the Opponent Battle AI and the player’s divisions set to “Screen” or “Scout”.
• Fixed a minor UI issue which caused a wrong calculation indication for cost of shipyard development.
• Fixed a potential bug that could cause a ship of a design to be wrongly deleted, when its design was deleted.
• Reduced aggression of minors to try to take their own home lands.
• Fine tuning of Game's difficulty settings in Easy/Normal/Hard settings.

*==============================* You can use the special Steam forum to offer your feedback about the upcoming new version: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1069660/discussions/3/ We hope you will like the new changes, as we plan to stop offering new major updates, and keep the game version stable for playing without any need for any more save resets. Beta Update 2 - Improvement of USA destroyer gun models for mark 4/5 techs. Changed the 3D models. - Weight changes for small caliber guns to reflect their actual shielded model (allowing them to be armored more). - DD engine weight changes to follow latest base weight changes of ships. - Pitch/Roll factors balanced to follow the latest weight changes. - Various fixes and improvements for auto-design You must restart Steam to get this update fast - The 3d model and weight changes may cause errors to your beta designs, please note. Beta Update 3 - New USA “Dreadnought IV” (Shifting the naming of previous Dreadnought hulls accordingly) based on the USS Arizona Battleship, which can be recreated with sufficient accuracy. It has a base displacement between 27,500 and 35,500 tons and is available during 1914-1927. - New USA “Dreadnought VI” (Shifting the naming of previous Dreadnought hulls accordingly) with a base displacement between 31,500 and 42,500 tons and is available during 1916-1927. - Fixed bug of barrel elongation for some of the new guns. If you notice again a problem in any gun, please report. - Various fixes and improvements for auto-design. You must restart Steam to get this update fast - The 3d model and weight changes may cause errors to your beta designs, please note. Beta Update 4 - New British “Compact N3 class” which can recreate the HMS Nelson. It has a base displacement between 32,000 and 39,500 tons and is available from 1919. - Various new ship parts. - USA 2-inch/3-inch quad guns of Mark 5 reverted to their previous model. - New Chinese 7 to 20-inch guns for Mark 3/4/5 techs. - Further auto-design optimizations. You must restart Steam to get this update fast - The 3d model and weight changes may cause errors to your beta designs, please note. Beta Update 5 - New Barbette parts and fixes on barbette logic which could result in inconsistent allowance of calibers. - Changes in German gun models for cruisers for Mark 4/5 4-inch and 5-inch calibers. - Gun ammo increased, especially for small and medium calibers (This change affected weight, so it had to be delayed for a next major patch). - Ship weights optimizations. - Further auto-design and part placement logic optimizations. You must restart Steam to get this update fast - The saves had to be reset due to the many changes that would affect all designs. Beta Update 6 Hotfix - Balances in the ship damage model, mainly affecting the durability of ship parts, armor endurance and how flooding is affected due to structural damage. The overall experience should be an even more realistic and expected feeling of how ships damage each other according to their displacement and protection schemes. - New Chinese/Spanish “Ironclad I” which can recreate the HMS Inflexible ironclad. It has a base displacement between 9,770 and 12,900 tons, available from 1890 to1899. - New Chinese/Spanish “Ironclad II” with a base displacement between 10,900 and 13,900 tons, available from 1891 to1899. - New Chinese “Experimental Ironclad I” with a base displacement between 9,600 and 11,200 tons, available from 1890 to1895. - New Chinese “Experimental Ironclad II” with a base displacement between 9,750 and 12,250 tons, available from 1890 to1895. - New Chinese “Experimental Ironclad III” with a base displacement between 9,850 and 12,550 tons, available from 1890 to1895. - New Chinese armored cruiser “Ironclad Cruiser” with a base displacement between 3,000 and 11,500 tons, available from 1890 to 1905. - New Chinese light cruiser “Small Ironclad” with a base displacement between 3,000 and 6,500 tons, available from 1890 to 1902. You must restart Steam to get this update fast. Beta Update 7 - New British “Experimental Large Cruiser” with a base displacement between 27,500 and 32,500 tons, available from 1923. - New Chinese/Spanish “Assault Battleship” with a base displacement between 45,000 and 59,500 tons, available from 1929. - New Austro-Hungarian “Small Assault Battleship” with a base displacement between 36,000 and 45,500 tons, available from 1929. - New Russian “Assault Battlecruiser” with a base displacement between 70,500 and 87,500 tons, available from 1929. - Various optimizations. You must restart Steam to get this update fast. The content has been finalized. The update is ready to release after some testing. It will need some time to finalize the pre-made ships which will allow you to play the fast campaign modes. Beta Update 8 - Various optimizations on ship auto-design and some of the new parts. You must restart Steam to get this update fast. Beta Update 9 - Fixed single submerged torpedo tube on the side of new assault warship hulls. - Fixed issue of a barbette in the new ironclad cruiser. You must restart Steam to get this update fast. Beta Update 10 - Optimization and improvement in the Division Screen/Scout logic. This will positively affect the Opponent Battle AI and the player’s divisions set to “Screen” or “Scout”. You must restart Steam to get this update fast. Beta RC - Enabled back all options for campaign Generation (Mixed, Fast, Slow). - Fixed a minor UI issue which caused a wrong calculation indication for cost of shipyard development. - Fixed a potential bug that could cause a ship of a design to be wrongly deleted, when its design was deleted. - Reduced aggression of minors to try to take their own home lands. - Fine tuning of Game's difficulty settings in Easy/Normal/Hard settings. - Further Auto-Design Optimizations. - Fixed problem of scale for new 16-inch Chinese guns. You must restart Steam to get this update fast. The full release is scheduled for 27/12. This is a release candidate.

Hello Admirals, There is ongoing work for the next major update, but we decided to offer an intermediate, very important update, which optimizes the stability and fps performance of the game. Please read: *v1.6.1.5*

• Fixed memory leak issue which could cause severe fps drop, usually in campaign battles. This problem could happen when players were starting a battle and did not start the battle immediately but waited for some time in the preview window or made an alt+tab and moved their mouse, something very natural during long play sessions. Progressively memory consumption could reach unmanageable levels and cause huge fps drop.
• Fixed a bug causing allied minor nations to attack their allies to gain back their lands.
• Fixed a rare code exception which could cause a campaign’s turn to freeze, while moving vessels.
• Part collider optimizations, affecting also positively the auto-design part placement logic.
• Overall auto-design optimizations, resulting in even more effective ships made by the AI.
• Auto-resolve fine tuning, fixing a case where the winner could be wrongly overwhelming too much the opponent, with no losses.
• Other minor fixes.

Uploaded optimized build including: - Further optimizations in fps performance. - Further optimizations in auto-design. - Optimization in Battle AI logic. - Fixed issue which could cause a sold ship to a minor nation to not be fully transferred, so it would appear in player's fleet instead. You must restart Steam to get the update fast. Uploaded optimized build x2 including: - When a minor nation attacks you, the special mission that creates a naval invasion is now happening immediately, without the need to previously have fleets in the area, as before. The government will ask you if you agree to attack and if you agree, you will need to send ships in the mission to invade the province that the minor nation uses as base of operations. - Ships that previously were sent to be repaired randomly to other ports, when their supply port became unavailable, will now be sent to the next nearest port, in a more efficient route. - Other fixes/optimizations. You must restart Steam to get the update fast. Uploaded optimized build x3 including: - Minor nations will attack with less frequency when they want to take back their own lands. It should be more manageable now, but we need further feedback. - Fixed border issues in territories near Canada which could create bugs in the land army distribution (e.g. too small army to defend. etc.). - Fixed potential minor issue creating an empty AI task force for some turns (e.g. when all ships of the task forces got destroyed or were sent for repairs, they might have caused such a problem). - Fixes in temporary issues of auto-design, which now should be much faster and effective. - Fine tuning in ship flooding mechanics with the aim to sink faster ships with high structural damage. You must restart Steam to get the update fast. Uploaded optimized build x4 including: - Various auto-design optimizations. This is the last stable build before v1.7. You must restart Steam to get the update fast. IMPORTANT NOTE We added v1.6.1.5 Optx4 in the list of previous stable builds. It is advised to switch to it, if you do not want to miss any saved data before the release of v1.7 major update.

Hello again admirals, Here is another update, prior to the upcoming major update. Please read what it includes. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36000420/5778f10881b01bb6ee07c945bf8c0f5cdce7697c.jpg *v1.6.1.4*

• Added a new difficulty level “Beginner” which should be ideal for those seeking to learn the game or just play in a more relaxed way. All the difficulty levels now affect the AI aggression and the tension dynamics. Your ongoing saves should not be affected drastically, at least for the “Normal” difficulty levels. Those who play harder difficulties should notice the increased aggression and tension dynamics which lead to a more challenging experience (in a manageable way). There are new parameters in config which can be used by modders.
• Fine tuning of shell ballistics.
• Overpenetration calculations improved, making it harder to over-penetrate an angled ship but if there is overpenetration the damage is even bigger, simulating the passing through of the shell inside multiple sections (this mechanic existed before but now is working better).
• Flooding mechanics improvement so that the flooding in the bow and aft of ship plays less role but flooding in the middle due to citadel penetration will result in even more heavy flooding of water.
• Fixed a very rare bug that could be caused when the player had for his division ships doing an auto-evade torpedo maneuver and at the same time he detached the ships and turned them with manual rudder. This action resulted in ships to lock their turning to the frontal direction.
• Fixed a rare bug that caused a crash when the player ordered the first ship of a follow formation to follow the last ship of the formation.
• Various map border fixes thanks to the help of modder "the Baron" (o Barão).
• Further Battle AI optimizations.

Uploaded optimized build including: - Fine tunings in the damage model and new overpen mechanics. The overpenetration's damage will be even larger when the shell passes through the bow of the ship and less when it passes perpendicularly to the ship plus other improvements. - Fixed error that prevented major nations from consistently fighting the minor nations' fleets which were dispatched to defend their provinces. - Improved Minor Nations logic to scrap obsolete ships so their fleets are more competitive. - Fixed map issue not allowing nations to pass from their own channels. - Auto-Resolve improvement to be consistent with the actual value of ships in normal combat mode. - Fixed some old issues of formations that made the division leader to lock its turning while auto-evasion was on and retreat was enabled. - Fixed some minor issues in hulls and parts that were reported. - Fixed some minor issues in the UI. - Other minor fixes. You need to restart Steam to get this update fast Uploaded optimized build x2 including: - Hotfix addressing turn freeze when moving minor nations vessels. You need to restart Steam to get this update fast Uploaded optimized build x3 including: - Improved further the auto-resolve to be more consistent according to the combat value of ships. - Removed "Delete Design" button from the refit constructor environment. It should not be there, it could cause bugs when players used it. Fixed "Delete Design" inconsistency not applying the delete when you deleted designs from the constructor environment, until you passed the next turn. Those fixes can prevent issues which could be caused when designs were not deleted on the current turn and players kept using them, only to disappear in the next turn. - Fixed "Shared Designs" not being usable for human player in Custom Battles. - Minor nations will now scrap their ships more efficiently. - Fixed very rare issue where mission radius could not be generated resulting in being created in the center of the map. - Minor UI improvement to show the mark of weapons in the Ship Design info panel. You need to restart Steam to get this update fast Uploaded optimized build x4 including: - Slight battle Fps performance improvement. - Shell ballistics fine tuning. - Fix of LOD for British Style quad guns (was a temp error due to ongoing work for new parts). - Other minor fixes and improvements. You need to restart Steam to get this update fast Uploaded optimized build x5 including: - Fixed issue which could cause ship designs and their related ships to become deleted. It was a rather rare incident that could be caused when you have saved a design and on the same turn you tried to make a refit and exited without saving. Other issues some players report: ships disappearing from task forces, or not appearing on map are not bugs. Ships may leave task forces to get repairs (and will return if the Task Force is active) or they may not be visible due to low visibility and poor tower spotting. - Fixed a minor issue that could not allow a design to become valid if the tonnage was absolutely equal with the technology limit of tonnage for a ship type. - Auto-Design further optimization: Auto-design will build, on average, even more effective ships with less frequent the spamming of too many secondary guns. You need to restart Steam to get this update fast Uploaded optimized build x6 including: - Further battle fps optimizations. You should notice a better frame rate overall. - Land Army mechanics improved. The army will support the borders more effectively. Minor nations will not be able to expand as much as before, because their army will be strictly dependent on their home population. The minor nations which lose their home territory will now attempt to retaliate and take it back (previously they would not respond unless they were allied with a major nation). Many other fixes and optimizations on the system make the land army interaction much more consistent. - Fixed some other, rare issues which could result in components' reset on refitted ships. Hopefully no other fix on this will be needed. - Fixed issue which could make AI task forces get stuck on map. - Increased desirability of minor nations to trade older/obsolete ships when mothballed and not scrap them too soon. - Other minor fixes and improvements. You need to restart Steam to get this update fast Uploaded optimized build x7 including: - Final fix for components, guns, techs resetting due to a refit error. This bug came with v1.6 and was happening often when players made consecutive refits of refits on the same turn. - Fixed an old bug of ship constructor which caused a "mount 2" error of part placement. - Battle AI optimization. The battle AI should be more human, opportunistic, try for the maximum gain with minimal losses, and retain a more effective firing distance. - Fixed minor allies attacking their own major allies when they owned any of their homelands (temporary issue of previous update). - Other minor fixes. You need to restart Steam to get this update fast Uploaded optimized build x8 including: - Now you can enforce a special mission to defend against a minor nation that attacks you. You must have a strong fleet in the area to trigger this mission. - Fixed issue which could cause zero army to some minor nations. - Other minor fixes. You need to restart Steam to get this update fast Uploaded hotfix build x9 including: -Fixed issue which could cause turn freeze during building ships in campaign. If you have again such a problem, please make an in-game report as you did. You need to restart Steam to get this update fast

Hello everyone, Here is another essential update for the game, offering fixes and gameplay enhancements. Read below: *v1.6.1.3* - Fixed bug that caused ships to get deleted from the campaign. - Fixed bugs that could cause issues in fleet management window, or refit components to become reset. - Shell ballistics adjustments (affects range, accuracy and final penetration power). Secondary gun ranges are increased. - Battle AI adjustments to find a better optimal range, based on shell ballistics. - Ship acceleration mechanics optimizations, addressing cases where ships could often stall and not accelerate fast enough and also increasing the fps performance as the calculations are less. - Major nations will attack smaller nations with more probability if they are their enemies and have adjacent territories. - The effective army force will now become reduced gradually if the army budget becomes too large compared to the GDP. This should create a realistic result of the effective armies becoming smaller in extended wars and nations will eventually stop doing endless major offensives that they cannot afford. Army costs have been balanced accordingly. - Fix of a minor issue in crew calculations creating a wrong difference of one crew. - Fixed shared designs not being available for the AI enemy in custom battles. - Other minor fixes. Uploaded optimized version including the following: - Major nations can now directly order naval invasions against minor nations that are allied with enemy major nations. - Fix of some old pathfinding issues in the map, happening often near Kamchatka area. - Fixed errors reported related with refit and war reparation designs. - Fixed minor inconsistency in tonnage calculations when too many task forces entered the mission zone. - Fixed issues reported for formations, improving now how ships catch up with the formation or automatically avoid torpedoes and other obstacles. - Fine tuned new ship acceleration mechanics. - Fine tuned armor penetration threshold after the latest shell ballistic changes. Armor should be more durable now. You have to restart Steam to get this update fast Uploaded optimizedx2 version including the following: - Further balances on the damage model, following the shell ballistics changes. Overall you should notice the armored ships to be much more durable, while even small ships with adequate protection can survive for longer. - Fixed issues causing sometimes zero armies to provinces. - Ship acceleration further fine tunings, addressing cases where acceleration could be too low. Players must though not anticipate making ships with 50+ knots speed and zero engine efficiency to accelerate as before. - Improved further the click sensitivity when ordering task forces to enter ports. - Fixed a minor issue causing ships to be added in mission events while being a little out of the radius. - Fixed issue causing recoil to not dissipate when all weapons got disabled. - Fixed minor UI issue for submarine movement window. - Other minor. You have to restart Steam to get this update fast Uploaded optimizedx3 version including the following: - Fine tunings in ship acceleration and shell ballistics, finalizing the systems to a good balance. - Tension slight tone down as per latest feedback. - Formation optimizations. - Fixed case where a naval invasion could be ordered by human or AI player while another special event invasion was active in the same province. - Fixed some tonnage issues reported in mission events. - Fixed minor sorting issues in fleet management. - Other minor. You have to restart Steam to get this update fast Uploaded optimizedx4 version including the following: - Further optimizations in the damage and armor model of the game. The fixes are major, since they cure old issues which could cause either the accuracy to not be consistent (hits were calculated but they did not register) or some angles of shots were not calculated so partial pens could cause too much damage especially against heavily armored turrets. Another issue could be some shots failed to be materialized, so a shell could not find a solution to be sent against a tower or other part of the ship. The whole system is in its best shape, and it will actually fix conditions where smaller ships had much lower accuracy against bigger ships, since their hits could not be executed and so the shots resulted in misses. That problem could make the AI and player to be at a disadvantage and very big and armored ships to be at an overpowered state, depending on various circumstances. - There is now a dissipation effect for hull resistance. As the hull gets larger it requires more hull resistance to be durable. This addresses the case where very large ships, such as the German Super Battleships could become almost immune to shell fire. - Fire chance is now more properly modeled, and is also dependent on the damage output. This new mechanic was needed, since now a lot of shells will consistently find the target according to the accuracy and so ships would very easily become overwhelmed by fires. - Various small fixes for the mission events, based on player reports. - Tension effects reduced for diplomatic actions. This change should help to keep peace for a longer time. - Other minor. You have to restart Steam to get this update fast This update, aims to be the last, unless it is absolutely needed to fix something crucial, before one more major update, which will include new hulls, estimated to arrive in December. Uploaded optimizedx5 version including the following: - Optimizations on the new damage/armor model of ships, fine tuning how partial penetrations or full penetrations occur, based on the angle of hit. More detailed calculations are added. - Ricochet/Blocked floating info is now visible when hitting ships (as it was a long time ago). This indication should help understand when every hit happens and what is the outcome. - Minor fix in Colombia borders. Thanks modder "the Baron" (o Barão) for the help. Others issues in borders will be fixed too. You have to restart Steam to get this update fast Uploaded optimizedx6 version including the following: - Transport capacity losses are now having improved mechanics, properly dissipating their effect. Furthermore the transport losses affect less the transport capacity percentage. Raiding of transports should still be a severe blow to the enemy but more manageable. - Improved torpedo friendly fire to not trigger when the target is too close. This will address the problem of torpedoes not firing when you encircle an opponent. Torpedo friendly fire should be also overall more effective. - Fixed some bugs of the save system which could cause components to reset for ships or some ships to become ineffectively cleaned up from memory. - Fixed expenses in finances UI not showing all the info. - Fixed rare issue which could cause NAN calculation in GDP and this could affect all things in the game, even showing max integer number as losses in battles. - Minor increase in population growth to compensate for the losses of land battles. - Battle fps optimizations. - Further fine tuning in tension, for a more mild transition to war. Allies should also have a stronger will to enter war and help another ally. - More fixes for map borders thanks to the help of modder "the Baron" (o Barão). - Other minor improvements. You have to restart Steam to get this update fast Uploaded hotfix repaired version: - Expenses temporary issue resolved. Issues was caused from the previous update, but it was quickly addressed. Also province income has been increased slightly to compensate for the expenses calculations that are now including everything (previously some data was not used consistently). You have to restart Steam to get this update fast Uploaded repaired version x7: - Further economy fixes/improvements based on the recent feedback. Overall there should be a more manageable economy for both human player and AI. You have to restart Steam to get this update fast

Hello Admirals, A new update is now available, continuing to improve the campaign. Please read: *v1.6.1.2* - Army losses mechanics got further optimizations. Now the losses after combat will directly and heavily affect the participating armies in the province and the whole nation. It will take time to fully recover those losses, so now it will be possible to even completely wipe out an army from a province and force victory. Previously the losses applied only in the conscript pool, so the replacements would be instant and it would need tremendous casualties to have impact in large nations. This change will also affect how nations can withstand prolonged wars. - Minor nations can dissolve similarly as the major nations, when their homelands are conquered. They will not be able to expand without restrictions as before, as they will have to protect their home regions in order to survive. - Further optimizations and fixes on the mission event mechanics, giving more consistent results for the win chance. There is also a new indication in the UI showing the losses for the Attacker and Defender. - Fine tuning in tension, to be overall not very harsh but also provide opportunities for going to war. - Toned down the minor nation's aggressiveness and the interaction of major nations with smaller nations which previously created too many wars against them, resulting in a chain reaction of negative events and subsequent wars. - Fixed bugs related to the fleet management window and the ship erase system making the game to crash. - Fixed some rare issues of the refit mode. - Research logic got a refactoring on how it is affected by the GDP. A new parameter is added (info for modders) called “research_budget_mod_max”. - A further improvement on how campaign AI manages its research logic and its funds. It will be needed to notice the changes, as the AI should now prioritize heavily on important techs, for example the techs that lead to the Dreadnought era, and so it will be able to construct more powerful ships. - Increased crew pool re-generation as per player feedback. Players will still have to manage this resource as it can become depleted after too many crew losses in battles or by the construction of too many large warships. - Minor adjustments to economy to compensate for the research/army cost changes. - Other minor fixes.

Hello Admirals, Here it is an update with more campaign improvements. Read below: *v1.6.1.1* - Minor Nations which are considered "Medium", those which can ally and interact and trade with the Major Nations, can now organize major offensives against their enemies in adjacent borders. They will also try to expand if they are not allied with a major nation or their major ally is not involved in a war. This feature was among the most desired from the community and will definitely spice up the campaign system. - Naval Invasion tonnage threshold vs Major Nations reduced from 100,000 tons to 25,000 tons. Basically you can start a naval invasion wherever you have a decent naval force nearby. You will expect a much increased aggression from AI opponents due to this new change. - Tension minor fixes and improvements. The overall system became more polished. - The government of Major Nations will now consider more effectively which minor nations to attack, evaluating which other major nations may get negatively affected and want to intervene. This new feature will help to maintain good relations with major nations, and not cause random drops of relations which get out of control and cause continuous wars. - Fixed some reported issues with rebellions not giving the provinces to the rebels when their attack succeeded. - Various balances and improvements on the army kills/losses mechanics. - Fixed a division issue causing one ship to go very far ahead of its main division formation. - Fixed a minor and rare issue causing transport losses to be shown in the UI at the opposite side. wars. - Other minor fixes. Uploaded optimized version including: - Fixed potential problem, making it difficult to send Task Forces in port in some areas of the map. Please let us know if you still can anticipate an issue, and what is the resolution you choose to play the game. - Improvement on the mechanics which are responsible for evaluating all army kills/losses in land battles and mission events. You will notice that Naval invasions will be more costly in soldier losses, and according to the magnitude of invasion needed, they will cost troops as many as major offensives do. - Initial Relations between major nations are balanced so that there is time to avoid a war if it is wanted. - Improved Campaign AI to ask for peace when it is becoming weak and try to prolong wars when it has an advantage. - A minor UI improvement in combat, optimizing the floating UI of ships. Please restart Steam to get this update fast Uploaded optimized x2 version including: - Further balances on the army kills/losses mechanics, to give more consistent results. You have to note that mission success is dependent on the losses so if you as an attacker have many more losses than the defender, this will negatively affect the win chance. - Added tooltip to show the chance of your war reparation proposal to be accepted or not. - Made text changes to the special events of alliance offers or war declarations your nation makes, clarifying that the effects are for the AI opponent. - Minor UI improvements for the Task Force movement window, showing the total tonnage of ships that will move and the damage of each ship to appear in the tooltip. - An improvement on Vsync setting, improving the total fps allowed. - Various fixes on cases where a save could not be loaded. - Minor changes in the minimum tonnage allowed for US Large Armored Cruiser and Russian Large Armored Cruiser II allowing them to be built immediately when they are researched. - Fixed issue making naval invasions to continue to trigger battles, even when there is no longer a fleet in the mission radius. - Fixed rare issue of major offensives to not conclude when the defender has no army left. - Fixed issue which could cause ungoverned territories to have no army. - Fixed Croatia flag to appear correctly. - Other minor fixes. Please restart Steam to get this update fast

Hello all, This a necessary update fixing some issues that came with the latest new features of the campaign and further optimizing the game's content. *v1.6.1.0* - Added useful information in the Ship Design window, showing the active ship count for each design. - Fixed of an old issue causing destroyers to not emit smoke screens when they were in the same division with other ship types, such as battleships. - Fixed a rare code exception happening when a Major Offensive began from East Poland. - Fixed rare issue not allowing to exit the constructor. - Fix of wrong chance applied in Rebellion events. - Fix of a UI inconsistency showing inverse chance for attacker in Naval Invasion (In AI events). - Fix of an issue caused by nation intervention making alliances or wars to end prematurely without notice. - Fix of an issue causing Tonnage count in special map events to not be updated fully. - Auto-Design optimizations.

Hello Admirals, You can now receive a new update which offers the following: *v1.6.0.9*

• Added ability to control alliance and war declarations. When the player's nation is more powerful then it can ask the player to declare war against the weaker nation or not, according to relations. The weaker AI nation will not desire to declare war unless provoked. Similarly the weaker nations will usually pay the stronger for an alliance. Previously the player was only passively accepting events generated by the AI, so the new feature will provide much more freedom when to cause a war or pressure to ask for money, if the player’s nation is powerful enough.
• Minor nations which are allied with enemy major nations can now be targeted much more aggressively by the nation’s government. Now wars between nations become much more complex and each campaign playthrough can have many different outcomes, depending on the various war incidents that cause the intervention of the major powers. You can influence such attacks by amassing large fleets in a sea region of interest.
• Further tension mechanics to allow smaller nations which are very weak or have a too small fleet to increase the relations between other nations, who no longer consider them a threat.
• Improved the Campaign AI logic to create diplomatic actions measuring the relations and power of the other nations. For example, a nation which is very powerful or has good relations, will more likely receive positive diplomatic actions and vice versa.
• Improved the Campaign AI logic to balance the demand for new warships.
• Relation effects have been balanced to follow the new features.
• Fixed a minor UI issue when typing the name of a ship in constructor.
• Fixed some other minor issues.

Uploaded optimized version including: - Fix for WASD not working, temporarily, in combat map. - Tension small adjustment. Issuing wars should be more depended on events and wars against minor nations. You need to restart Steam to get the update fast Uploaded optimized x2 version including: -Further tension and relations adjustments. You should be able to do wars or try to avoid them with less fleets and on limited status. More feedback will help to optimize further. You need to restart Steam to get the update fast Uploaded optimized x3 version including: - More adjustments and improvements on the tension mechanics based on your recent and very helpful feedback. There was an expected behavior to cause tension even from fleets which were not particularly large, so there have been some necessary changes to the logic, to please, hopefully, most if not all players with the result. Tension should be triggered when ships are at sea. When nations are in positive relations they can receive a very slight increase in relations if they keep their forces out of port in a reasonable number. - Fixed issue causing the new alliance/war events to be auto-answered wrongly sometimes, and not given to the player for deciding if he wants a war or an alliance. You need to restart Steam to get the update fast Uploaded optimized x4 version including: - Finalization of the full refactoring of tension logic. Tension will now be caused only by task forces which are close to their destination or stationary, which will actually allow to create tension only intentionally, for both AI and player. Fleets that pass by regions will no longer cause accidental tension and so this will greatly help nations which control canals or are near map choke points which previously received a lot of tension by big fleets that were heading to very far away destinations. Moreover, there will be extra tension caused when fleets enter zones where there is no own port, simulating a realistic diplomatic effect when fleets are near sea zones where they should not have any business. The new tension system should be now much more controllable and realistic, also allowing nations to slowly increase their good relations and issue alliances if they share common waters but keep their fleets in reasonable numbers. - Fixed a temporary issue of the new special events for deciding when to declare war or ask for an alliance, which could be triggered two times and cancel a war at the same turn. - Added a cool down time when using the new special event for deciding when to go to war or issue an alliance, so that it needs at least 5 turns to reappear if you choose "cancel". - Fix of initial income/shipyard development being too low in late start campaign years. You will notice this improvement on new campaigns and it affects both the player and AI. If you have an ongoing campaign vs an AI which seems unable to support its fleets economically, it is because there were not much initial funds and Ai was never able to recover, so it is advised to restart this campaign for a more interesting gameplay. - Fixed shared designs not having a working tonnage limit, fixing case when you loaded a shared design which had tonnage higher than allowed, it would reset to the maximum allowed tonnage and corrupting the save. You need to restart Steam to get the update fast

Hello Admirals, We continue to improve the basis of the game. Here is what we have readied: *v1.6.0.8*

• Optimizations in the special event logic, addressing remaining issues of inconsistent chance to win and tonnage measurements. You will also now see in more detail for whom the chance is calculated.
• Fixed old issues causing VP to be sometimes wrongly given to the defender, even though he lost a province.
• Fixed copied design issues, causing overweight ships when building them. To prevent other kinds of issues, copying of designs is disallowed for ship designs gained as war reparations. Designs from war reparation will now be indicated with special transparent color in the Ship Design window.
• Similarly, to prevent issues caused by inconsistent refitting of a refit design on the same turn, now the system allows, correctly, to make a refit design of an existing refit design only if at least one ship of the refit design is built. Refit designs were always meant to work for existing ships, for ships that were built. The “New Design” option is what a player must use for making a new design.
• Further changes on the tension logic, allowing smaller nations to be able to not cause negative tension if they have a small fleet, which will not be considered a threat. An example is Spain, which previously was very hard to not become targeted by other nations and be brought to war. The tension system should overall be more flexible, allowing to influence alliances by positioning fleets accordingly.
• Several Campaign AI improvements, including its new ability to gather naval forces during peacetime against other nations which are in high tension with the AI.
• Improved pathfinding of task forces, refreshing promptly the task force movement on the map, triggering events, power projections calculations and meeting events on the right time. This also solves the issue of AI ships not being visualized sometimes, although they were present on a map region.
• Obsolete ships can now be built and sold (when mothballed) by the player, if he wants.
• When you click on a port you will now see which ships are unavailable to move, with their respective indication e.g. commissioning, repairing etc.

Uploaded optimized version including: - Further fixes on the special events, addressing temporary issues that were reported. - Improved campaign's minimap to work consistently in all monitor resolutions. Please restart Steam to get this update fast Uploaded optimized x2 version including: - Fixed war reparation ships not being able to become refit. - Further tunings in the tension system to be more subtle. - Added a special message when an alliance breaks due to peace treaty and lost war. - Fixed old issue of negative funds that could be created for a nation after paying too many war reparation funds, resulting in a never-ending dismissal of admirals and inability to build anything for the nation. This issue, if it happens in an AI opponent of your campaign, cannot be fixed, needs a new campaign. - Balanced money shortage events for both player and AI to be more impactful. For AI, when naval funds become zero, the bonus funds are more (to prevent the same problem happening in a few turns) but the yearly GDP reduction is higher. - “Create tension” action is now more impactful. - Improved Campaign AI ability to suspend building of ships and reduce ship trade orders if there is not enough shipbuilding capacity. Please restart Steam to get this update fast

Hello Admirals, We are very happy to announce a new large update of Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts. This update focuses on optimizing all aspects of gameplay and most importantly it has significantly increased the speed of campaign loading times. After a period of beta testing, thanks to the really helpful feedback from all who participated in the beta and the collaboration with many players we finalized the update which offers the following: *v1.6.0.7*

• Complete overhaul of the campaign system, greatly improving the loading times. When you start a new campaign the AI will use pre-made designs so the campaign will need a few seconds to start instead of several minutes as before. We will gradually enrich the pre-made ships to greatly increase the variability of AI initial designs.
• The campaign loading time between the shipyard and world map or battle and world map have been decreased significantly. Previously, according to how many designs the player and the AI had active, it would often delay too much to load the next game scene.
• Campaign turn times have also been reduced significantly due to refactoring of the related code.
• New options "Mixed", "Fast", "Slow" for starting the campaign, allow you to use the pre-made AI ships according to your liking. If you want to play in the fastest way, you choose “Fast” so all AI designs are pre-made. In “Mixed” mode only the starting units are pre-made and in “Slow” mode all AI designs are generated on demand, making it a full sandbox mode, but it will cost the most time during turn times. *Important:* Mods will be compatible only with the “Slow” mode.
• Fixed a minor auto-resolve issue, not causing adequate transport losses in “Undefended Port” battles.
• Several improvements in the auto-resolve system to make results even more consistent based on the power of ships. This will not be a "hand holding" mode for players. You will expect more sunken ships for the side that is inferior in techs and overall firepower of the fleet for both AI and player. Mods are not guaranteed to have the same results, as always, so if you want to test it out, you need to use the default game values (auto-resolve is affected not only by dedicated parameters but also cost and many other aspects of ships).
• Fixed and improved various aspects of Campaign’s Victory points system. You will notice the impact of submarine raiding of transports more noticeably and battle results will be much more consistent.
• Increased the impact of Crew rescuing/healing techs.
• Weight fixes in several late tech destroyers, which had very heavy towers and were very difficult to design, creating delays in the auto-design. These various destroyers of your fleet will gain free tons which you can use to improve them.
• Added shipyard capacity indication in Ship Design and Map interface.
• Technology priorities/penalties got a milder effect, addressing cases where technology could either be researched too quick for the era or it could delay too much the AI, when it used the priorities.
• AI units will now not be able to retreat in campaign battles where they "Fail to withdraw" as Task Forces on the map. They may still attempt to fight at a safe distance but they will not try to leave the map as before.
• Experimental more aggressive Division AI logic making the ships which are on screen or scout to behave more independently, often more effectively as the previous AI command. This change will also affect the opponent AI.
• Tension mechanics tuning to make tension more dynamic.
• Economy balances. Army cost affects the expenses more. Transport Capacity and Crew Training costs are more dynamic, and depend more on National GDP. Fleet maintenance and repair costs increased slightly. Shipyard capacity limit affects more the building times and costs.
• Various minor bug fixes.

Thanks again to everyone who contributed in the beta! As a small mention, we have fixed a few more bugs that you reported including the retreat button not working in some Task Force battles of the campaign. Uploaded optimized version including - Fixed issue of "Own Fleet Creation" at the start of campaign, resulting in negative funds if your built ships exceeded the shipyard capacity. - Fixed shipyard cancellation issue, causing tonnage to get lower than before. - Reduced further the difficulty levels' Technology boost of the AI (it is really minimal now). After the latest campaign AI improvements the effect appeared to be strong. Please restart Steam to get the update fast Uploaded optimizedx2 version including - Tension mechanics fine tuning according to feedback. Tension should rise in cases that previously was too passive. You have to know, though, that while you are allied to a nation you cannot raise tension against it. - Fixed old issue of auto-resolve happening when leaving combat causing sometimes to reset damages made in combat. Please restart Steam to get the update fast Uploaded optimizedx3 version including - Further fine tuning in tension mechanics. - Reduced further the AI technology progress boost of harder difficulties to make the gameplay more comfortable. - Logistics and navy power calculations improved, increasing the influence of the Navy Strength and Transport Capacity. This change will greatly affect all aspects of campaign military warfare. - Campaign log can include much more information per turn showing all actions of the AI (when you save the log information gets limited). - Fixed some code exceptions causing ships to disappear from the fleet or sunk ships to not be cleaned up. - Fixed VP calculations related to transports, causing big differences in VP (old issue). - Fine tuned overall VP calculations. - Auto-Resolve further optimizations. - Fixed problem that prevented shared designs to be used in the Fast mode of campaign. - Fixed minor calculation inconsistency for event effects. - Fixed old error causing task forces to travel in the same exact spot if they failed to merge, making it very difficult to select them. - Other minor fixes. Please restart Steam to get the update fast Uploaded optimizedx4 version including - Further fine tuning in tension mechanics. It should be much better if not optimal. - Reduced AI boosts at higher difficulty levels to make the gameplay more comfortable. - Fixed a loading freeze that could happen in campaign prior to a battle (a left over bug of the beta). - A memory handling optimization. Please restart Steam to get the update fast Uploaded optimizedx5 version including - Fixed some old inconsistencies of naval invasions and special events' battles causing AI to not interact properly in all occasions and also added visibility of all AI special events so that players are aware of when the AI attacks somewhere or supports a defense in allied waters. Colors of missions have changed according to nation. This is a major improvement for the campaign, which will activate AI in all the necessary military actions properly. - Fixed bug which made ships to disappear from the fleet in the campaign. - Fixed some bugs that prevented to save components when copying designs. - Fixed kills caused by submarines not saved into the end campaign statistics. - Fine tuned task forces auto-shift position on the map to avoid being merged into the same coordinates. Please note, you cannot add many task forces into singularity as previously, to maximize the tonnage in missions, you need to keep some space between your task forces. - Fixed some minor UI issues showing not total change of shipyard capacity when selling ships. Please restart Steam to get the update fast

Hello all, We usually offer betas prior to the release of a major patch which includes new ships and 3D content. Now we make an exception because we have prepared something that should please the majority of the game's community, The most frequent complaint of players was the occasional long loading times in the campaign. So we have addressed just that. Please read: *v1.6.0.7* (Beta 5)

• Complete overhaul of the campaign system, greatly improving the loading times. When you start a new campaign the AI will use pre-made designs so the campaign will need a few seconds to start instead of several minutes as before. We will gradually enrich the pre-made ships to greatly increase the variability of AI initial designs.
• The campaign loading time between the shipyard and world map or battle and world map have been decreased significantly. Previously, according to how many designs the player and the AI had active, it would often delay too much to load the next game scene.
• Campaign turn times have also been reduced significantly due to refactoring of the related code.
• New options "Mixed", "Fast", "Slow" for starting the campaign, allow you to use the pre-made AI ships according to your liking. If you want to play in the fastest way, you choose “Fast” so all AI designs are pre-made. In “Mixed” mode only the starting units are pre-made and in “Slow” mode all AI designs are generated on demand, making it a full sandbox mode, but it will cost the most time during turn times. *Important:* Mods will be compatible only with the “Slow” mode. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36000420/579a76ea0d94dcb391c17e636e22733f6b2cffcc.jpg
• Fixed a minor auto-resolve issue, not causing adequate transport losses in “Undefended Port” battles.
• Several improvements in the auto-resolve system to make results even more consistent based on the power of ships. This will not be a "hand holding" mode for players. You will expect more sunken ships for the side that is inferior in techs and overall firepower of the fleet for both AI and player. Mods are not guaranteed to have the same results, as always, so if you want to test it out, you need to use the default game values (auto-resolve is affected not only by dedicated parameters but also cost and many other aspects of ships).
• Fixed and improved various aspects of Campaign’s Victory points system. You will notice the impact of submarine raiding of transports more noticeably and battle results will be much more consistent.
• Increased the impact of Crew rescuing/healing techs.
• Weight fixes in several late tech destroyers, which had very heavy towers and were very difficult to design, creating delays in the auto-design. These various destroyers of your fleet will gain free tons which you can use to improve them.
• Weight fixes in several late tech destroyers, which had very heavy towers and were very difficult to design, creating delays in the auto-design. These various destroyers of your fleet will gain free tons which you can use to improve them.
• Added shipyard capacity indication in Ship Design and Map interface.
• Visual optimizations in combat environments.
• AI units will now not be able to retreat in campaign battles where they "Fail to withdraw" as Task Forces on the map. They may still attempt to fight at a safe distance but they will not try to leave the map as before.
• Experimental more aggressive Division AI logic making the ships which are on screen or scout to behave more independently, often more effectively as the previous AI command. This change will also affect the opponent AI.
• Technology priorities/penalties got a milder effect, addressing cases where technology could either be researched too quick for the era or it could delay too much the AI, when it used the priorities.
• Tension mechanics tuning to make tension more dynamic.
• Economy balances. Army cost affects the expenses more. Transport Capacity and Crew Training costs are more dynamic, and depend more on National GDP. Fleet maintenance and repair costs increased slightly. Shipyard capacity limit affects more the building times and costs.
• Various minor bug fixes.

This beta version should be fully compatible with your current saves (as it includes everything from the latest stable version). So you can continue your older saves or start a new campaign and use any of your current shared designs without any problem. However, because it is a beta after all, it is advised to back up your saves, or start a new campaign with the beta in order to test it out. With this beta, we would like to receive your feedback regarding the loading times, and if in the campaign you notice something not working right, such as the AI not following up the latest tech in its designs, does not refit often or there are pathfinding issues etc. We also think that modders who occasionally want to restart their campaigns or pass several turns to see the impact of their changes, will find the new improvements welcome. In order to participate in this beta, you need to follow these simple instructions: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36000420/aa4a718decfdd856d567bfbea23365aa3f1023cb.jpg - Find the game on your Steam Game Library and right click on it: - Click on properties... - ... and in the opened window, select from the list the "Betas" option. On the appearing list, select the "beta branch" to switch to the latest beta version of the game. - If you want to switch back to the stable live version, repeat the procedure and select from the Beta list "None". As usually, Beta Feedback can be shared in the Steam Beta Forum: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1069660/discussions/3/ or in the Official Forum: https://forum.game-labs.net/topic/44122-beta-1607-fast-loading-in-campaign/

Hello all, We have some new additions that further improve the game. You can read below: *v1.6.0.6* - Fix of the bug that caused ships to freeze aiming and movement due to a code exception (very old bug) caused in campaign rarely when players saved a refit design which involved a change of guns and those ships participated in a battle the same turn. Hopefully this is the definite fix . Please report if you anticipate it again. - Fix of another rare bug that could cause overweight ships due to a wrong save of engine data. - Adjusted the ship damage model to make "All-or-Nothing" armor schemes more viable. Taking damage out of the citadel will have smaller impact so well protected ships will distinctively endure more damage. - Gun accuracy improved slightly at all ranges. - Shell dispersion logic optimization, addressing issues that could be caused at the edge of range for large caliber guns,which previously would not be able to find a firing solution. - Ship maneuverability mechanics’ optimizations and fix of the reverse bug, that could make ships in division to not be able to complete their reverse movement. These changes also improve the way that ships maintain their division formations. - Fixed auto-refit mode reducing too much the speed of the ships. - Further auto-design optimizations, making it faster and more effective. - Minor other fixes. Uploaded optimized build including: - Auto-Design further optimizations. - Armor penetration thresholds fine tunings. In short, armored ships will be even more durable in combat but full penetrations will result in an even more catastrophic damage. - Battle AI adjustments to exploit more effectively the advantages of its ships. - A minor camera fix in campaign map. You need to restart Steam to get the update. Uploaded optimizedx2 build including: - Auto-Design further optimizations. - Increased ammo replenishment in campaign. - Fixed FPS limit not being saved in settings. - Fixed some problems in camera scrolling in campaign map, being either too sensitive or not fast enough. - End techs improved to not cause overweight ships. - Fixed remaining issue of shell ballistics not being able to find a fire solution sometimes. Gun ranges and accuracies have been adjusted accordingly. - Adjusted further the armoring logic and damage model, addressing cases where some ships with very high endurance were too hard to sink plus other fixes. You need to restart Steam to get the update. Note: There will be a new beta shortly introducing a radical change in the game, making a new campaign to need only a few seconds to start, and overall to greatly reduce the loading times. Mainly this update will improve the number one issue of the game, as stated by the community. Uploaded optimizedx3 build including: - A further improvement for the FPS limit in settings. You should notice also a slight fps increase. - Battle AI fine tuning. - Tension slight tone down. - Other minor. You need to restart Steam to get the update. Note: In about 2 hours, we will provide the promised beta. Uploaded optimizedx4 build including: - Auto-Design further optimizations. - Further shell dispersion optimizations. - Further ship movement optimizations. - Rudder options became more distinct in their effect. - Aiming became more persistent when hitting the enemy. - More aggressive Division AI logic for Screen/Scout commands (passed the change from the current beta) You need to restart Steam to get the update. Uploaded optimizedx5 build including: - Fixed issue in Campaign forcing the AI to design ships too often, delaying the turns. - Further optimizations for auto-design. - Further improvement on how snapping works in the ship constructor, fixing previous problems causing difficulties to add guns on barbettes. You need to restart Steam to get the update. Note: The beta version of the game will be updated soon, most probably today. Uploaded optimizedx6 build including: - Possible fix for minor nation ships not cleaning up after being sunk in battle. - Optimization in ship movement at sea mechanics. - Optimizations in shell ballistics (affects penetration due to different shell physics applied). - Optimization in environment lighting for battles. - Optimization in auto-design. - Optimizations in Battle AI. You need to restart Steam to get the update. Note: This version aims to be stable and good enough as a safe build to revert if you have any issue when we make the beta version finalized and released. We will offer a release candidate of beta tomorrow.

Hello fellow admirals, We offer another small update with important fixes and improvements. *v1.6.0.5* - Fixed a memory leak which could cause a freeze prior to a campaign battle after long gameplay sessions. It is needed feedback if you ever get such a bug again, after this fix. - Optimized ship acceleration logic. You should notice a battle fps increase and more consistent acceleration for ships during combat. - Fixed reverse bug, causing ships to turn in one direction when executing a reverse, which created problems in their formations. - Improved Battle AI division logic, the AI should attack more aggressively when it has many ships. - Adjusted ship instability mechanics, so that it is easier to balance the weight offset. - Gun aiming fine tunings, guns will be on average a little more accurate at closer ranges. - Reduced further the Beam/Draught effect on accuracy and visibility. - Campaign AI will be more effective in researching technology so that its fleets will be more powerful. - Naval Academy funds increased for several missions to allow more flexibility after latest cost changes. - Auto-Design improved to make better ships on average. - Other minor fixes. Uploaded optimized version including: - Optimizations on AI making it more efficient and saving fps performance. - Reduced cost of ship maintenance, repair, and ammo replenishment in campaign. This change should give more flexibility in funds for both player and AI. - Increased the armor damage threshold (the amount of penetration power needed to trigger a partial pen). Ships that are heavily armored will be more durable on average. - Fine tuning in accuracy factors, increasing the overall efficiency in aiming and gun accuracy. - Reduced smoke screen effects on accuracy and duration. - An extra fix for the memory leak in campaign that can cause ships to freeze aiming and moving. Thank you for the continuous reports on this. - Optimization in Ship Constructor, reducing the calculations per second that could cause unnecessary lag. - Auto-Design further optimization to be faster and more efficient. You must restart Steam to receive the update Uploaded optimized x2 version including: - Ongoing fix for the rare memory leak of campaign. Thank you again for your continuous reports on this. It might need one more thing to fix it, if we receive new reports. - Fixed an issue with ships of minor allies not repairing and being used on fleets. - Improvement on the hull design mechanics making the adjustment of displacement affecting the hull stats directly. For example, you will reduce the displacement of the ship and parts will play a bigger role in affecting the ship's targeting signature. Maneuverability of the ship and its hull structure strength will be also affected dramatically according to minimum/maximum tonnage settings. Damage model and ship maneuverability aspects got balanced after this new functionality. - Bad weather probability reduced. You must restart Steam to receive the update

Hello everyone, We offer this patch which includes several improvements and fixes that were needed. Please read: *v1.6.0.4* - Improved AI task forces to actually try to escape and fight unfavored battles only if cornered. - Important improvement on auto-resolve to give predictable results and not force the player to play too many meaningless battles. - Task Force pathfinding improvements, also improving the consistency of engage distance for In Being / Sea Control radius for ships that are in port. Previously, sometimes, ships in ports would generate battles too far away. - Further ship costs balances plus Campaign/Mission funds adjustments for compensation. The new costs will represent even better the combat power of ships, which aids the AI and Auto-resolve systems. - Funnel capacity balanced so that the importance of funnels, engines and boilers is increased. - Adjusted the replenishment rate for ammo and fuel of task forces, to increase the necessity of having allies and friendly ports nearby. - Auto-Design optimizations. - Battle AI adjustments. - Ship visibility adjustments, fixing also the previous overpowered effect of beam/draught ratio which allowed ships to make ships too hard to spot or hit. - Ship maneuverability further balances to increase the overall realistic ship handling. - Shell dispersion logic improvements. Gun accuracy consistency increased. - Fixed various possible (and rare) cases which could cause a code exception when starting a campaign battle and make ships to not be able to shoot or move, forcing the player to restart the game. If you still anticipate problems, please let us know. Repaired version uploaded - Adjusted fuel/ammo replenishment. It should be not so strict now and Task Forces can remain at adequate levels of ammo and fuel if properly supplied. - Further potential fixes for the reported issue of ships not firing or steering at start of combat in campaign (due to a code exception). Please restart Steam to get the update Repaired x2 version uploaded - Fixed, possibly, the reason of rare code exception in campaign causing freeze of shooting / steering at start of combat. Thank you for the continued reports. - Important performance optimization for this update, finalized. You should notice an overall increase in fps in all levels of gameplay. - Fixed a minor casemate gun issue reported for USA Dreadnought II hull. - Optimizations in shell dispersion and section hit logic. This is an important improvement. You should notice extreme consistency of armor protection when hitting a section, for example, previously all-or-nothing armor schemes could be more vulnerable due to sections of the fore or aft belt wrongly triggering a penetration on the mid belt when hit from the side, depending on angle of hit. Please restart Steam to get the update

Hello, You can check the latest small update which we have just deployed: *v1.6.0.3* - Balanced the cost of torpedoes/torpedo propulsion. Electric torpedoes now are lighter but more expensive. The oxygen torpedoes are much more expensive. Speed of torpedoes according to propulsion has been re-adjusted. - Gun accuracy balanced further towards realism. - Shell ballistics balanced further. - Long-barreled guns fire rate vs Short barreled has received slight re-balance. - Crew losses Surrender threshold increased to 80%. - Fire spread chance increases further according to structural damage. - Fixed 7-inch damage error (it was lower than it should be). - AI screen/scout logic improved to send ships in more effective attacking positions. - Tension will increase and be more dynamic (as it was requested by several players, due to recent economic changes, tension calculations were too mild and it took too long to trigger a war). - Ship turning rate, acceleration, maneuverability balances. Ships could turn too fast before. - Improved auto-design to use guns of longer barrel length. - Fixed a memory leak caused by successive battle starts. Uploaded repaired version including: - Tension mechanics adjustments, to have more consistent negative effects. - Shell kinetic energy fine tuning (affects shell ballistics and penetration). - Fixed some graphic setting issues. Vsync and FPS limit settings work more consistently. You may notice performance increase depending on your system. You need to restart Steam to get this update

Hello, Here is another small update offering an important fix: *v1.6.0.2* - Improved saving system so that older shared designs that are not deleted as files, cannot corrupt a new campaign, when player re-used their name scheme.

Hello, The following update has become available: *v1.6.0.1* - Fixed a remaining issue in ship naming, not allowing to add space between words. - Fixed problems that created inconsistency in calculation of Task Forces paths and eventually not allowing to trigger battles. - Fixed a few other minor issues.

Hello, An update which improves and optimizes the game in all aspects is available. It was intended to add new ships, guns, content for at least +50 new ships but it would delay this necessary update further. You can read what it includes below: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36000420/2d96175222472b1343ee6727cd612cfb73695157.png OPTIMIZATIONS AND GAMEPLAY IMPROVEMENTS

• Improved the side guns’ targeting mechanics to use a more effective logic with less cost in game fps performance. You should notice your secondary guns to auto- target much more efficiently.
• Fixed inconsistencies of gun splashes mechanics and rebalanced. Now the gun splashes play a more significant role in the ship’s overall accuracy and make stereoscopic rangefinders more distinct.
• Various balances in gun reload rates and accuracy tables, always faithful to basic historical data. Overall, the guns will fire now faster and the combat pace matches more the upcoming multiplayer version of the game. Fast forwarding of the game’s speed should not be overused, as it can drop performance and players will certainly lose the advantage in tactical factors, far more than in the previous version of the game.
• Various balances in the ship damage model.
• Ship costs/weights major rebalance, so that the actual combat cost of each vessel is accurately reflected by its final price. The new prices are now more inline with the historical data.
• Crew losses surrender threshold increased from 40% to 65% following the new balances.
• Campaign’s economy balance to be stricter. Building too many battleships should now be very hard (in the previous version of the game, the economy was less demanding and most players built too many overpowered ships which resulted in easy gameplay).
• Penalties of blockading and losing transports increased. A nation can now collapse more easily after a prolonged war.
• Battle AI improved to follow the new balance and is now more opportunistic as a good player would be.
• Campaign AI improved in its shipbuilding decision making and in naval invasion behavior.

VISUAL

• In 3D combat, Division main unit cards now show the silhouettes of ships (Previously they had a generic ship icon).
• Aesthetic improvements in the UI in pre-battle and after battle windows.
• More weather environments.
• Minor improvement on ship foam and funnel effects.

FIXES

• Major repair in the save system of the campaign. Previously, some errors related to Naval invasion saving and other, could cause the game to not function properly and eventually collapse at the start of a next battle. Those errors could be resolved when the game was restarted. Due to those repairs, we had to upgrade the save version of the game, therefore all previous saves will become incompatible and deleted.
• Fixed problems of map resolution in ultra wide monitors.
• Fixed small bug causing the accuracy penalty of low speed to seize to function at zero speed.
• Fixed inconsistency of transport losses calculations in auto-resolve.
• Fixed code exceptions of the UI that could rarely happen during the 3D combat.
• Fixed a rare issue which could cause guns to not rotate and get stuck for some time.
• Fixed issue which could make minor allies to place orders on ship designs that were taken as war reparations.
• Fixed a rare error causing an empty template of design for a war reparation ship.
• Fixed a glitch allowing wrongly to edit the name of a refit main design.
• Fixed bug caused when renaming ships that were refitted.
• Fixed an old bug causing ships to become fully damaged when losing all crew in the campaign.
• Fixed crew quarters not having cost in campaign.
• Minor fixes in some hulls.

SPECIAL

• Added crew options for submarines.
• Added the operational range in the ship design description in the campaign.
• Added Shipbuilding Capacity to Build and Refit Ship PopUp Windows on Design Window.
• Added tooltips showing information about the ships offered as war reparations.
• Disabled AI command button and Ship identification process during combat. Those aspects were rarely used, could be a reason for rare bugs in the campaign and had a cost in performance. Battles will play even smoother now. More specifically for the Ship identification, you will be able to fully read all enemy info without the previous time delay. The identification was a left-over feature for a complex intelligence mechanic that was not worth doing for the sake of a better gameplay experience.

LANGUAGE SUPPORT

• The Chinese translation is updated using the corrections of forum member “Weiyang” who generously offered them for free as fan work. We thank him very much. Chinese players can provide feedback to help us improve further the Chinese text.
• Various minor fixes in the text in various languages.

================================================================================ ***WARNING*** Old campaign saves and old ship designs are incompatible for this patch. If you want to use your old saves and campaigns you can switch via Steam in older versions. Here is how: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36000420/7c582d769fcda89f94a8c55b1e7694b93643a75a.jpg Right click the game in Steam Library and go to Properties. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36000420/88a1a5498a469cad2d6b2e29af051bc9f03d83c4.jpg In the Betas section choose the previous version you want. You can switch to "None" to play the latest version. If you want to share your thoughts about the new update, you can do so in our forums: Official Forum Steam Forum

Hello fellow admirals, We are really happy to announce that the Multiplayer version of Ultimate Admiral; Dreadnoughts is now available as an optional DLC. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2672570/Ultimate_Admiral_Dreadnoughts_Multiplayer/ Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts “Multiplayer” offers a special game mode in which you can design your ships as in the main game. The special difference is that you can make fleets using any ship you designed and from any nation and send them to combat against other random players or your Steam friends. There is also a “Player vs AI” mode which you can use to try out your designs. As you win battles against players or the AI, you increase your rank with maximum rank the “Ultimate Admiral”. The Multiplayer version is really hand crafted by our development team in order to please all the dedicated fans of our game. We hope you’ll enjoy it! Please note that for a short time period we will offer a special discount for the main game to invite new players to try what Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts has to offer. That must be a great summer deal!

Hello fellow admirals, Today we want to announce that the Multiplayer DLC of Ultimate Admiral; Dreadnoughts will be released next week! That is right, next week you will be able to enjoy the amazing naval battles of Ultimate Admiral; Dreadnoughts against your friends or other players. You may wishlist now at this link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2672570/Ultimate_Admiral_Dreadnoughts_Multiplayer/

Hello all, The Beta Multiplayer of Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts reached its final stage of testing. We will soon make it available as an optional DLC. We now can share a number of Steam keys which will give you temporary access to the game so you can try it out, provide some feedback or simply enjoy a game with your friends or other players. If you already own the main game Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts then head to this link: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1069660/discussions/0/4514380548229300795/ (It is visible only if you login to Steam and if you own the main game) Take a key and enable it according to the simple instructions below: ==Add the provided key to your Steam account== Log in to the Steam client application. Click the button labeled "+ Add a Game" on the bottom left on the Steam client and select "Activate a Product on Steam..." and follow the on-screen instructions. Alternatively, go to Steam Menu -> Games ->"Activate a Product on Steam..." and follow the on-screen instructions. If you need more information you can head to the closed forum: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1069660/discussions/5/ (Visible only if you login to Steam and own the main game)

Hello all, We are happy to announce that we have started working on the next Major Update v1.6 and we now offer its first playable version as a beta. This beta version is fully playable and should be already a clear improvement in gameplay and stability compared to the older v1.5. You can read what it includes in the changelog below. The final v1.6 will have more improvements based on the received feedback and many new hulls, guns and ship models. Those will start to become available after the end of this summer in subsequent beta updates. ***WARNING - VERY IMPORTANT*** Old campaign saves and old ship designs are incompatible. When you install and launch the v1.6 all old saves will be automatically deleted (Naval Academy progress should remain intact). It is mandatory to clean up shared designs manually.

*==MAJOR UPDATE v1.6 BETA==*

*NEW HULLS* - POSTPONED FOR FUTURE *NEW GUNS* - - POSTPONED FOR FUTURE *OPTIMIZATIONS AND GAMEPLAY IMPROVEMENTS* - Improved the side guns’ targeting mechanics to use a more effective logic with less cost in game fps performance. You should notice your secondary guns to auto- target much more efficiently. - Fixed inconsistencies of gun splashes mechanics and rebalanced. Now the gun splashes play a more significant role in the ship’s overall accuracy and make stereoscopic rangefinders more distinct. - Various balances in gun reload rates and accuracy tables, always faithful to basic historical data. Overall, the guns will fire now faster and the combat pace matches more the upcoming multiplayer version of the game. Fast forwarding of the game’s speed should not be overused, as it can drop performance and players will certainly lose the advantage in tactical factors, far more than in the previous version of the game. - Ship costs/weights major rebalance, so that the actual combat cost of each vessel is accurately reflected by its final price. - Crew losses surrender threshold increased from 40% to 60% following the new balances. - Campaign’s economy balance to be stricter. Building too many battleships should now be very hard (in the previous version of the game, the economy was less demanding and most players built too many overpowered ships which resulted in easy gameplay). - Penalties of blockading and losing transports increased. A nation can now collapse more easily after a prolonged war. - Battle AI improved to follow the new balance and is now more opportunistic as a good player would be. - Campaign AI improved in its shipbuilding decision making and in naval invasion behavior. *VISUAL* - In 3D combat, Division main unit cards now show the silhouettes of ships (Previously they had a generic ship icon). - Aesthetic improvements in the UI in pre-battle and after battle windows. - More weather environments. - Minor improvement on ship foam effects. *FIXES* - Major repair in the save system of the campaign. Previously, some errors related to Naval invasion saving and other, could cause the game to not function properly and eventually collapse at the start of a next battle. Those errors could be resolved when the game was restarted. Due to those repairs, we had to upgrade the save version of the game, therefore all previous saves will become incompatible and deleted. - Fixed problems of map resolution in ultra wide monitors. - Fixed small bug causing the accuracy penalty of low speed to seize to function at zero speed. - Fixed inconsistency of transport losses calculations in auto-resolve. - Fixed code exceptions of the UI that could rarely happen during the 3D combat. - Fixed a rare issue which could cause guns to not rotate and get stuck for some time. - Fixed issue which could make minor allies to place orders on ship designs that were taken as war reparations. - Fixed a rare error causing an empty template of design for a war reparation ship. - Fixed a glitch allowing wrongly to edit the name of a refit main design. - Fixed bug caused when renaming ships that were refitted. - Fixed an old bug causing ships to become fully damaged when losing all crew in the campaign. - Minor fixes in some hulls. - More will be added… *SPECIAL* - Added crew options for submarines. - Added the operational range in the ship design description in the campaign. - Added Shipbuilding Capacity to Build and Refit Ship PopUp Windows on Design Window. - Added tooltips showing information about the ships offered as war reparations. - Refit designing allows using guns of older techs (Not yet ready). - More will be added… *LANGUAGE SUPPORT* - The Chinese translation is updated using the corrections of forum member “Weiyang” who generously offered them for free as fan work. We thank him very much. Chinese players can provide feedback to help us improve further the Chinese text. - Various minor fixes in the text in various languages. *==============================* You can now visit the Beta feedback threads: Steam forum https://steamcommunity.com/app/1069660/discussions/3/ Official forum https://forum.game-labs.net/topic/44017-beta-v16-feedback/#comment-786383

Hello admirals, We are happy to announce one more small but very important update: Optimization Update v1.5.1.6 - Optimizations in Ship movement mechanics, adjusting speed of ships to more realistic levels. - Optimizations and visualization improvements on ships' funnel smoke and water foam emissions. - Further optimizations in section hit logic, making even more consistent the calculated hits depending on the ship's orientation in relation to gun fire direction. This improvement affects the applied gun accuracy. - Fixed old bug that could be caused when single ship divisions followed each other and the leading division received damage, causing a logical loop and a game crash. Thanks to player "godspeedthunder" for his persistent help about this matter. - Fixed minor issues in the calculations of time needed to arrive for ships in the campaign map. - Auto-Design adjustments: improving AI efficiency on placing parts - Fixed problem of torpedo friendly fire mechanics making them to not work properly. - Other minor fixes in UI and localization. Enjoy! The Game-Labs Team

Hello all, You may receive another update which improves further the game. Here it is: Optimization Update v1.5.1.5 - Ships will no longer exceed their maximum designed speed in an effort to maintain their formation in a faster way. This change in general should be positive and fix long standing issues of ships becoming too fast or other problems reported. - Engine vibrations dissipate faster according to speed. - Optimizations in ship hit boxes, affecting positively the applied accuracy of ships, and making the hits on ship sections more consistent according to shell trajectory. - Optimizations in the targeting logic of side guns. - Improved the torpedo aiming prediction making torpedoes more easily fired. - Optimizations in auto-design making AI ships balance better the ship's protection versus speed and firepower. - Other optimizations affect the game's stability when loading battles or fighting battles vs many ships. Enjoy! The Game-Labs Team

Hey Admirals, Here is the latest small update which should fix and improve things you lately reported: Optimization Update v1.5.1.4 - Refactored the code of Gun recoil so that it now is more consistent. Previously it could fail to update if there was no other gun firing on the ship. Modders should check to rebalance their mods regarding recoil values. - Fixed engine vibrations being not consistent according to UI update. - Improved campaign logic making very rare the possibility to trigger pointless meeting battles vs a lone AI ship which failed to escape. The AI ships will make a successful effort to escape most of the time. - Balanced the negative impacts of the economy so they are not so harsh on the nation's GDP when losing TR ships. Previously the provinces could reach zero income or a nation such as Britain could very fast dissolve after some months of blockading, for example. - Fixed cases which could cause a fatal error at the start of a campaign battle. - Fixed issue which prevented a nation from cancelling an alliance. - Minor optimization in combat fps. - Optimizations in ship movement mechanics. - Battle AI optimizations. - Destroyers and Torpedo boats will receive bigger damage from torpedo hits. - Other minor fixes. Enjoy! The Game-Labs Team Uploaded Optimized version including the following: - Further optimization on the Battle AI code. Fixed rare issue which could cause ship freezing on campaign depending on the amount of time played continuously and fps rate. - Fixed rare issue which disallowed refitting a ship that had the same name with another class of ship. Please restart Steam to receive the update properly Uploaded Optimized version x2 including the following: - Fixed a temporary problem of refit that came with the previous update. - Fixed 3-Mast cruisers hitbox inconsistency not allowing them to receive belt hits. Please restart Steam to receive the update properly