Game update11 Sep 2026Update 1.1.14Bugs · Delayed artillery crash (Luke)- If a barrage was delayed till the next turn (common), it would crash the game at the end of the barrage. · Duplicate units being created if a core combat unit was fully destroyed (Luke) - root cause of above. Fully destroyed was rare since normally one straggler at least was given out at end of the scenario.
Features · Dedicated UK infantry (not para) company (Luke) · Flame tank now has dedicated animation (Sergey, Alan, Luke) · Smgs and sten guns now have dedicated sfx (Chris, Luke) -before they were using generic MG. · AT Guns now no longer have any movement capacity (Henk, Luke) -the teardown and setup time to move them would not be realistic in our scenario timeframes Bugs · Bug: senior command…
Features AT Guns now no longer have any movement capacity (Henk, Luke) -at the time scale of Burden there is not enough time to gear up and move such weapons. Yes some day we need trucks and jeeps towing :-) Bugs Crash: “Too many values to unpack” (Luke)- related to unusual state of save games folder. sentry
Bug in recent SR1.1.4: -crash when loading save game: "cannot access local variable 'cam_descrip' where it is not associated with a value" Be sure to exit steam and restart to get 1.1.5 to update.
Features · QOL IMPROVEMENT: spurious too fast mouse clicks or key strokes in Interactive Fiction Ignored (Luke) - a repeated QOL complaint has been that sometimes folks inadvertently double click (or double keystroke)when doing interactive fiction and therefore miss a screen. A delay has now been introduced so too fast clicks are ignored. If you need to move through IF fast (previously seen) yo…
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Features · More explicit iconic signaling that vehicle is in motion (Luke) - the rotating wheel now besides tracks animation.I.e. Vehicle might be stationary in hex but is still in state of moving (hard to hit but can’t fire back). Bugs · “Follow me” could lead subsequently to assaulting squad being unselectable (Luke) · “Out_of_bounds arg must be iterable (Luke) sentry · Three Nations: Meyers…
C06 - Streets of Casablanca: Issue with variables involving officer death fixed. (Allen) · 3n - Steel Rain: Fixed issue with Artillery firing again before completing barrage. (Allen) · C02 - Red Beach:Bad Start (Luke) - sometimes the game would act like the player was starting a fresh campaign rather than having just completed bootca
3n Meyers Hill - Reminded players that bazookas are attached to their leaders. (Allen) · 3n Benouville - Reminded players that PIATs are attached to their leaders. (Allen) · 3n Benouville - Reminded players that their squads are below strength. (Allen) · Updated version to 1.1 from 1.0 - to reflect Three Nations release (Luke)- this will also block certain errors for trigger for public (as oppo…
Bad dog! Opps BAD BARK!!! More seriously bark fix that was getting a few folks in Pegasus Bridge: - Pegasus bridge: Crash due to a lack of a parenthesis in a bark. (Allen) - Pegasus Bridge: Issue with flower gathering adjusted. (Allen)
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Free Retroactive AI Brain refit (if you dare ;-) )! Cottonbalers difficulty interface now has a checkbox. The mouse over explains why it is optional: Specific AI Improvements · Better use of terrain when dealing with enemy fire - AI will use cover (any level) where it can when dealing with enemy targeting hexes but is not smart about optimizing for maximum cover. But what it does do is avoid ru…
Always fun doing a major update, never know what new wrinkles will emerge :-) :-() Crash: Invalid pointerize request per above warnings; stopping run.(Luke)
Armor 2.0 · Summary: Cottonbalers campaign was infantry focused so armor was given less love. Many changes for armor 2.0 in support of forthcoming DLC. Applies to Cottonbalers as well. While we aren’t Combat Mission or Steel Panthers yet in our armor modeling we think we now have a reasonable model ;:-) Let us know! · no more annoying you take the first shot with your tank yet they end up firin…
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Fixes a bug in SR1.0.95 "name 'teaser_p' is not defined · Most other changes in support for playtesters for "Three Nations" DLC ;-) (news coming soon on that :-) )
Features · Flamethrowers are now weak on assault (Luke) - glass cannons in that they are still devastating direct fire weapons..Before they were extremely difficult to assault. Bugs · "calc_traversal_edge_n_from_map_xys: can't calc for same map_xy’ (Luke) - sentry · The squad vs leader banners had gotten misaligned (Luke) - inside the hex. Visually fixed.
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