PATCH NOTES 2502-19

++++UPDATE++++

Attention Commanders!

This update introduces key changes to missile balancing, with specific adjustments to overkill mechanics and counter-missile units. Alongside these adjustments, we've implemented several visual improvements, performance optimizations, and quality-of-life fixes aimed at refining the overall gameplay experience. These updates focus on enhancing the counterplay, aligning combat results more closely with combat ratings, and ensuring better balance for high-skill play. Additionally, we've made several UI updates, including improved hover effects for armies and progress bar enhancements to streamline the user experience across all platforms.

Changes:

• Overkill System Balancing: 

• Overkill settings have been reduced by roughly 25%. This feature, originally introduced to help beginners and smaller stacks by capping damage, has now been adjusted to improve high-skill play and better align combat outcomes with combat ratings.
• We’re gradually reducing its effect to align combat results more closely with combat ratings and improve the overall combat experience. These adjustments are part of a broader effort to phase out overkill and better balance the game. We'll continue monitoring and rebalancing as needed, as some units may become significantly stronger as a result.

• Missile attack damage vs Ships adjusted as follows:

• ICBM damage from: 400/425/450/475 to 175/200/225/300.
• Ballistic Nuclear missile damage from: 250/260/275/315/325/375 to 70/90/100/120/130/140.
• Ballistic Chemical missile damage from: 20/20/20/30/30/40 to 5/5/5/10/10/20.
• Ballistic Conventional missile damage from: 80/90/100/120/130/150 to 35/40/45/60/65/80.
• Cruise Missile Chemical missile damage from: 15/15/15/20/20/25 to 5/5/5/10/10/20.

• The following units have been balanced to counter missiles (cruise missiles - CM, Ballistic Missiles - BM and Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles - ICBM):

• Cruiser damage vs Missiles from: 1/1/1/1/1 to 1/1/1/2/2.5.
• Aircraft Carrier damage vs Missiles from: 2/2/3/4/4/5 to 3/4/4.5/5/5/7.
• Frigate damage vs Missiles from: 2.5/2.5/3.5/4/4/4/4 to 2.5/3.5/4.5/5.5/6.5/7/8.
• Mobile SAM damage vs Missiles from: 2/2/2/3/4/5.5 to 1/2.5/3/3.5/4.5/5.5.
• TDS damage vs Missiles from: 12/12.5/13/14/15/16 to 12/13/14/15/16/17.
• Elite Frigate damage vs Missiles from: 2/4/8 to 4/6/9.

• The following Ballistic Missiles, ICBM and Cruise Missiles have their splash damage radius adjusted and traits:

• Tier 1 Ballistic Missiles removed Storm Position trait, now starting at Tier 2.
• ICBM splash damage radius from: 50/50/50/75 to 25/25/25/45.
• Ballistic Missile Nuclear splash damage radius from: 25/25/25/30/30/35 to 10/10/10/15/15/25.
• Ballistic Missile Chemical splash damage radius from: 25/25/25/30/30/35 to 10/10/10/15/15/25.
• Ballistic Missile Conventional splash damage radius from: 10/10/10/15/15/15 to 5/5/5/10/10/15.
• Cruise Missile Nuclear splash damage radius from: 10/10/10/15/15/20 to 10/10/10/20/20/30.
• Cruise Missile Chemical splash damage radius from: 10/10/10/15/15/20 to 10/10/10/20/20/30.
• Cruise Missile Conventional splash damage radius from: 5/5/5/10/10/10 to: 5/5/5/10/10/20.

• Added a "Queue" button on mobile, enabling players to queue a unit or building while another construction is already in progress.
• Improved visual effect for armies when hovering over them.
• Improved Progress bar visuals on mobile to better help players track their progress.
• All units of the armoured branch now cost components instead of supplies to research. This has been done to give a diversification option to players over-investing in supplies.
• Speed in foreign territory has been buffed back to 66% from 50%, except for the National guard that stays at 25%.
• Production of cash/manpower in conquered provinces has been buffed back to 33% from 25%.

Fixes

• Fixed errors when using “back” command on browsers.
• Fixed issues with aircraft animations.
• Fixed issue with rush function not working properly on WW3 4x Scenarios.
• Fixed issue with ASF attacking the drone operator after the Sabotage drone is eliminated.
• Fixed issue with error popup when confirming construction cancellation.
• Fixed issue with war declaration pop-up not showing when attacking a province with a warship.
• Fixed issue with end game popup not being displayed on Nuclear Winter domination.
• Fixed issue where Cruise Missiles could target Aircraft Radar Contacts.
• Fixed issue with season leaderboard ranking not updating after changing seasons and causing an error popup.