To opt into the beta:
1) Right click War on the Sea in your Steam library, go to properties/betas and you should have new tabs listing other available versions.
2) Password to access the beta is: warontheseabeta
Use the pulldown to select the beta version.
It should then begin to download.
3) When you run the game the version number should read this latest version.
11 Aug 2021 (BETA)
Further Bomb Damage Model Improvements
Bomb hits to a destroyed compartment are always considered to have penetrated armor
Armor penetration required to set of a magazine explosion from a direct bomb hit
A flooded magazine is 50% less likely to explode
Re-balanced bomb damage using:
"bombDamageParams":[40,0.5,0.2]
"bombNonPenetrateDamage":0.2
"bombCAnormalize":[0.7,0.8]
config.txt added new variable "bombNonPenDisplacementFactor":90 to better scale bomb non-penetration by ship displacement.
Modified (increased) mmArmorPen for the following bombs:
bomb_ij_250kg
bomb_ij_250kg_ap
bomb_ij_500kg
Added Weapons tab in Unit Viewer to view aircraft weapons and ordnance including torpedo and bomb characteristics
language/dictionary/weapons added display names for all aircraft payloads
language/dictionary/weapons added RefArmorPen
Modified all language/english/unit/air/ aircraft files to specify payloads to be displayed in Weapons tab of Unit Viewer
default/unit/sea/mountData.txt revised 6in47Mark16 armor penetration characteristics
default/unit/sea/cleveland.txt revised armor
default/unit/air/wildcat.txt modified speed and range to reflect the F4F-4 model
CAMPAIGN
All released ships now enter repair queue
Releasing undamaged ships places them into the REST & REPAIR queue for at least baseRepairTime specified in setup.txt
default/english/dictionary/general renamed variable CSummaryRepair=REST & REPAIR to reflect not all ships entering queue require repairs
default/english/dictionary/campaign_message modified UnderRepair to clarify not all released ships require repair
Campaigns saved during combat now correctly reload back into that same combat engagement
Added support for removal of individual ship names/instances from existing campaign save files
default/english/dictionary/general added new variable UnknownShipName to display if instance of a ship no longer exists
For existing Campaign and Custom Battle saved files:
- ship names that no longer exist still will remain as they were on the campaign strategic map until sunk/released
- ship names that no longer exist labelled as ??? ShipClass in Rest & Repair, and Losses lists
- ship instances that no longer exist labelled as ??? ShipClass in saved Custom Battle scenarios
- removal of ships may cause some "shuffling" of display names for other ships in the same class
default/english/unit/sea/cleveland.txt removed erroneous ship names/instances to bring class to 27 actual Cleveland ships commissioned
Added Destroyer_Escort and Light_Carrier unit subtypes to the lists for AI to select from