Долгожданная заплатка версии 1.2
Хотя вернее было бы пронумеровать её как 1.02 (именно такую версию обретает запускаемый файл игры), ну да разработчикам виднее. Заявлено порядка четырёхсот изменений, исправлений и добавлений.
Зелёный - цвет надежды:
Несколько моментов, показавшихся мне наиболее важными в данной заплатке:
Новшества:
- Добавлен "упрощённый" режим карты - несколько крохотных провинций условно объединяются в одну просто маленькую (удобнее становится строить инфраструктуру и т.п.);
- Добавлены горячие клавиши;
- Добавлено автоматическое регулирование ползунков производства (теперь не надо всё время проверять соответствующий экран);
- ИИ торговли и дипломатии теперь разделены.
Улучшения ИИ:
Армейский:
- Подразделения больше не застревают на нейтральных территориях;
- Исправлена проблема с использованием транспортных кораблей;
- Улучшена реакция на морские десанты и партизан;
- Исправлена проблема с чрезмерным "героизмом" резервистов и штабов;
- Исправлена ошибка, из-за которой ИИ мог атаковать союзника;
- Исправлена завышенная потребность штабов в стратегических бомбардировщиках;
- Исправлены показатели танковых частей, особенно проявлявшиеся для Японии (которая раньше никак не могла уделать даже Китай);
- Исправлена ошибка, позволявшая использовать штаб в качестве гарнизона;
- Улучшена оборона ключевых провинций;
- Улучшен ИИ штабов;
Морской:
- Исправлены попытки морских десантов заведомо недостаточными силами;
- Миноры пытаются только отобрать своё (Финляндия больше не вторгается в США в одиночку);
- Улучшен перехват флотов вторжения;
Воздушный:
- Улучшен выбор целей тактического бомбометания;
- Исправлена ошибка с невозможностью объединения/разделения воздушных частей (о да!);
Национальный:
- Улучшено распределение сил по ТВД;
- Экспедиционные силы больше не отправляются странам-соперникам, даже союзникам;
ТВД:
- При потере всей территории театра, последний корректно удаляется;
- Исправлено распределение театров для Германии и США;
Дипломатический:
- Убраны ограничения для германской агрессии в Востойной Европе;
- Миноры предпочитают присоединятся к наиболее сильной фракции;
- Исправлена торговля;
- Союзники намного охотнее предоставляют права прохода по их территории;
- Эмбарго теперь могут быть корректно сняты;
- Правительства в изгнании больше не могут создавать и присоединяться к альянсам (ну ведь явный бред был);
Шпионский:
- Больше невозможно СМЕРШить собственных марионеток и союзников;
Прочее:
- ИИ теперь точнее поддерживает положительный баланс бюджета;
- Исправлены ошибки с недостаточным производством конвоев;
- ИИ теперь умеет совершенствовать войска;
- ИИ теперь исследует доктрины;
Ошибки:
- Исправлено подчинение палубной авиации ТВД;
- Десант отменяется, если силы вторжения разбиты;
Игровой баланс:
Государства:
- Коминтерн теперь потребляет меньше;
- Выборы и перевороты теперь действительно меняют министров (ура!);
Оккупация:
- Некоренные провинции теперь так же невыгодны, как полностью оккупированные;
- Восстания менее вероятны, зато партизаны усилены.
Дипломатия:
- Влияние тем сильнее, чем страна ближе к вершине треугольника;
- Влияние теперь больше зависит от общей индустриальной мощи государства;
- Теперь невозможно вступить в альянс, если ведёшь войну с членом этого альянса (наконец-то);
- Марионетки не продолжают войну бесконечно;
Карта:
- Реже случаются ливни в пустынях;
- Погода отрабатывается точнее.
Сражения:
- Парашютисты получли задержку к атаке;
- Ширина фронта не может быть меньше единицы;
- Уменьшено влияние недовольства на боевые действия;
- Вдвое усилена ПВО;
- Палубная авиация втрое сильнее при атаке на другие корабли;
- Улучшена передача опыта по командной цепочке;
Подразделения:
- Исправлено потребление топлива и припасов (причём исправлено во множестве аспектов);
- Перк "Logistics wizard" теперь работает;
- Теперь бригады обновляются корректно;
Командиры:
- Командиры теперь корректно несут потери в бою и правильно влияют на подчинённые войска;
- Производство офицеров намного увеличено;
Интерфейс:
- Исправлены многие значки, символы и всплывающие подсказки;
- Названия теперь почти везде появляются мгновенно;
- Добавлена плашка сверхтяжёлого авианосца;
- Добавлены горячие клавиши: 'w', 's', ',', '.', 'l', 'p', 'a', 'd', 'c';
- Добавлены ещё два столбца в список офицеров;
Многопользовательский режим:
- Улучшена синхронизация;
- Улучшен внутриигровой чат;
Стабильность и производительность:
- Исправлена обработка параметров файла settings.txt;
- Улучшены производительность интерфейса, скорость игры;
- ИИ улучшен и в бинарнике, и в сценариях lua;
- Исправлены утечки памяти;
- Исправлены проблемы с сохранёнными играми и некоторые другие ошибки;
Игровой процесс:
- ТОННЫ исправлений.
Уф. Перевёл только самое интересное, а полный список изменений помещаю под спойлер.
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# Changes for 1.2 below
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- New Features
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- Added a simplified terrain mapmode where each province
- The interface now has buttons for zooming in/out without using the scroll wheel, with keyboard shortcuts (pageup/pagedown).
- Added graphics control for distance of visible counters
- Added cancel mechanics for Air Orders.
- Implemeted an option for production slider automation, with selectable priority order.
- Trade is now a separate automation toggle from diplomacy.
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- AI Improvements
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# Army AI
- Fixed some issues with units getting stuck in neutral territory
- Prevented massive overreaction against partisans
- Fixed a problem with puppet areas
- Fixed an issue with transport ship needs and player set objectives
- Several improvements to new threat handling (beachheads, partisans)
- Fixed an issue with front formation for provinces bordering multiple countries
- Fixed a problem with units getting stuck in neutral territory
- Fixed a bug with poor/non-existent build-up of forces on non-front borders
- Fixed a problem with damaged "reserve" units being moved out out of front forts too much
- Fixed a problem with reserves and HQs
- Fixed a bug where it might consider an ally an enemy
- Force needs, adjusted special force needs
- Force needs: Fixed a bug with strat bomber needs being ten times too big.
- Force needs: Improved transport ship need controls
- Force needs: Adjusted to reduce the armor bias, especially for Japan
- Fixed a bug where HQs could be used as garrison forces
- Tweaked to ensure the defense of the supplier province and capital
- Fixed a garrison distribution bug
- Fixed a bug with the objective assignment of child agents
- Lower level HQs should now be able to handle troop distribution in several different areas correctly
- Fixed a bug in the child unit front segment assignment
- Sub-theatre level units with only defensive objectives should now respond to nearby partisans/beachheads
# Naval AI
- Fixed an issue where it would jump the gun and launch invasions with too few divisions (due to a lack of transports)
- Will not even attempt invasions of too well-defended ports
- Additional checks to make sure it does not invade port-less provinces
- Fixed a problem where it would withdraw too many units from fronts to stage invasions
- Minor faction members should only invade to take back lost provinces
- Some work on the sending of exp forces to overseas allies
- Transports are now available for use even if their strength and org are lowish
- Snappier intercepts of invasion fleets
- Naval intercepts no longer worried about absolute naval power vs the enemy
# Air AI
- Improved tactical bombing target choices
- Should be better at basing tactical bombers and interceptors, even when there is no front in the theatre
- Will rebase even damaged or low org units if the theatre currently has no fronts
- Fixed a bug preventing air unit merges
# Country AI
- Tweaked inter-theatre force allocation
- Fixed an issue with premature retrieval of exp forces from allies
- Will not send exp forces to a rival main faction, even if currently allied (UK to SOV etc)
- Fixed some issues with unit allocation on theatre redefinition
- Should now prefer sending exp forces to allied war zones rather than opening up new beachheads under many conditions
# Theatre AI
- Fixed a bug where it would start lots of redundant agents for lower level HQs
- Landless theatre HQs are now properly deleted for players as well
- No more German European mega-theatre
- The USA now have an eastern and a western home theatre
- Immediate HQ validation on theatre redefinition. Players should never see landless HQs in existence.
- Fixed a nasty problem where the controlling AI agent would believe it was for another theatre
# Diplomatic AI
- Removed the date limits on when germany decides to attack western europe. it will now do it when it can and makes sense.
- Countries are now less likely to join factions with bad progress.
- AI should now agree to trade under debt with the needing
- AI should be more likely to do counter influencing when necessary
- Tweaked ai alignment
- Allies now much more likely to give transit rights
- AI much more restrictive with embargos
- Embargos no longer running forever no matter diplomatic changes
- Britain more likely to influence the USA
- Threshold for calling in support to a limited war increased.
- AI will not call in allies during the early parts of a limited war.
- Governments in exile no longer create/join alliances
- Tweaked trade frequency
# Spy AI
- Spies should no longer perform counter espionage on puppets, countries with military access and someone helping you in a war
# Misc AI
- Autosliders try harder to keep a positive money balance
- More shift to keeping some money in autosliders for spare IC
- Fixed a bug with building less than requested convoys
- Fixed a bug with countries getting stuck in a death spiral of ever increasing escort production
- Tweaked ai valuing of stockpiles of supplies so it wont run them too low
- AI should now be doing some upgrading
- Production AI now cleverer in where to put spare IC
- Production AI now tries to always allocate 5% to upgrades if possible
- Auto slider controls will start using up stockpile if approaching supply cap
- Tech AI should now research doctrines
- Improved auto-deployment choices.
# Misc AI Bugs
- Fixed an issue with CAGs being auto-assigned to Theatre HQs
- Ground Attack Order: Overstacking penalty checks added
- Invasion orders will abort if the invading units are no longer in a condition to fight
- Fixed a bug with the end date for sent exp forces in the unit command
- Cut out trades involving small amounts of money (energy/money for example) that rounded to 0 money
# Generic AI Balancing
- Balanced out relation changes between canceling/creating trades to stop slowly lowering relations to trade partners with dodgy economy
- Should be harder to exploit AI by stationing expeditionary forces to get out of supply use
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- Gamebalance Changes
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# Country
- It is now slower for national unity to move the further it is away from the middle.
- Comintern units now use less supplies.
- Pure theory techs are no longer assigned to countries at start.
- Impact on strategic warfare is now depending on countrysize on target.
- Election and the likes will now acutally change ministers
# Occupation
- Non-core territories are now as bad as full occupation territories.
- Increased impact of partisans on supply tax by x5.
- Made revolts less likely, but a fair bit stronger units.
# Diplomacy
- Fixed a bug with proximity capping distance too early with alignment progress.
- Repulsion, threat and revanchism factors at alignment is now only effective if close in the triangle.
- Drift due to threat is now scaled with country IC so a big country (like US) is more concerned with world politics, whereas smaller countries are more concerned with keeping their heads down and wont be as affected.
- Trade should now allways fail if not enough DI is available
- Dissolve alliance now checks for the correct amount of diplomatic influence
- Declaration of war no longer valid against faction members
- It is no longer possible to invite someone to a faction if they are at war with a member.
- Should no longer be able to join faction if at war with faction member
- Countries to peace in events will now get all their puppets set to peace as well.
- No longer possible to send theaters as expeditionary forces
- Threat is now wiped when a country is annexed.
- Influences now automatically stop after joining another faction.
- Embargoed countries can no longer cancel the embargo
- Embargo's now reduce threat when cancelled.
# Map
- Revised calculations to determine which province has which terrain.
- Desert are now a bit less likely to see rain storms.
- Made some tweaks to weather system to have weather patterns more mobile.
# Combat
- Paradropping now gives an attack delay.
- A unit in battle can no longer have an effective combat width of less than 1.
- Dissent impact on combat is no longer astronomical.
- Amphibious penalty can never go below 99% for any unit.
- AA is now twice as effective.
- Cags now give 25% of stacking penalty when attacking at sea.
- Cags now do triple damage bombing ships in combat with another fleet.
- Trickleback now works properly and gives you back manpower lost in combat.
- Aircombat is now a fair bit more dangerous.
- Org damage is no longer scaled by strength of brigade compared to other brigades.
- Scaled leadership experience internally so that it transfers to leaders higher up in the chain better.
# Units
- Improved calculation of actual supply/fuel usage.
- Paradrop missions will no longer progress if the paratroopers are in a delay after an attack.
- Units in Strategic redeployment can never gain org now.
- Strategic redeployment will now give the attack delay to a unit.
- There is now a minimum supply demand for small units so that long distances wont take all the supply tax.
- Airunits operating from a base that is no longer in range (ie carrier) will now abort
- Logisitcs wizard trait now work properly on units below it as well.
- Units will no longer be removed if strength drops to zero from manpower rotation or attrition.
- Airunits bombing will no longer continue moving during the bombing & aborting their bombing.
- Air and Naval units will now reset where they are based if they lose access to their current base.
- Unit stats like speed now updates properly when a brigade is upgraded.
# Officers
- Officers ratio now affects maximum organsiation and recovery of units.
- Officers now take casualties properly in battle.
- Officer ratio now affects attack delay of units.
- Increased officer production significantly.
- Officerlosses in battle is now proportional to unit type.
- Expeditionary forces now drain their homecountry's officerpool when taking losses.
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- Interface Improvements
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- Added day/night overlay to minimap
- Made a day/night icon in province interface, and remade the "clear sky" icon cause the sun looked weird next to the moon.
- Added terrain effect delayed tooltip to province view and to terrain mapmodes.
- Names should now appear instantly if possible. (minor lockups possible at crap cards.)
- Added strenght number to child units.
- Added weight to unitinterface.
- Fixed the display for max strength in brigade details.
- Softness changes from tech is now colorised green when decreasing and red when increasing.
- Remade oil icon to be more clear and visible.
- Added superheavy battleship Icons to navalcombat.
- Trade icons should now blink later.
- Tooltips for org on units will now show daily change as well.
- Fixed a couple of tooltips in outliner
- Fixed tooltip for dissent in intel view
- Tooltips in messages settings should now be correct
- Strength and VP mapmodes will now update more regularly.
- Added shortcut keys to cancel/accept orders.
- Escape now opens the ingame menu if nothing is selected, else it deselects all.
- 'w' now moves the map to the location of current unit.
- 's' now opens up the stance selection window.
- ',' selects all air units loaded on ship.
- '.' selects all loaded land units on a ship or plane.
- 'l' now loads or unloads a unit to a ship.
- 'p' now loads or unloads a unit to a plane.
- 'a' now opens up attachment interface.
- 'd' detaches a selected unit.
- 'c' now creates a new HQ above current unit.
- Alerts for wasted IC no longer shown when using auto sliders
- Fixed rounding error in officer rate
- Added 2 more trait columns in leader ledger page
- Corp/army/theatre now visible in brigade ledger page
- Fixed some more ledgerpages
- Leader experience is now shown as % in the ledger as well.
- Unit arrived message now fires only at final destination
- Expeditionary force declined should now give a message
- Tweaked collision boxes for tanks to try and make it a bit less wacky
- Diplomatic screen should now refresh when a country disappears
- Combat progress in interfaces are now loaded properly from savegames.
- Units changing country will now be properly be deselected.
- HQ's can no longer be merged.
- You can no longer transfer HQ brigades away from a hq unit.
- Cag's can no longer be merged with other airunits.
- There is no longer free diplomatic influnce from cancelling or creating transit rights.
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- Multiplayer
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- Removed several reasons for the game to go out of sync while playing multiplayer.
- Made multiline chatemessages look prettier
- Updating automation in lobby now shows for clients as well
- No longer possible to swith away from save selection for clients in mp lobby
- Mp save counter should now work.
- Moved checksum text and adjusted multiplayerlist in lobby.
- Date should no longer reset when new player joins after save is loaded.
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- User Modding
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- Exported current player tag from gamestate to lua for modding fun.
- Added a "terrain = x" command for provinces, to override graphical logic
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- Performace and Stability
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# Compability
- Added setting in settings.txt to not create 'waves' called _waves_
- Setting trees rendering off will now not create any tree gfx upon reload
- Restructured provincemanager a bit to help reducing startup crashes on some machines.
# Performance
- Optimised interface interactivity.
- Gamespeed and timeprogress have been optimised to provide a smoother gameplay.
- AI optimised, both in lua and the core game, which should improve gamespeed significantly.
- Tracked down and removed several memoryleaks, which made the game sluggish the longer you played it.
# Stability
- Savegames should no longer become corrupted, and previously corrupted savegames might be recoverable.
- Fixed several reported crash problems.
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- Bugfixes
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# Interface bugs
- Game should no longer unpause when clicking in outliner
- Opening main menu no longer closes the outliner
- Country flags should now be localised in triggers.
- Ledgerpage for buildings now handles provinces with the same name
- Fixed prereq graphic bug in Naval background.
- Fixed tooltip bug on Leadership/oil icons in province interface.
- Resized all terrain images so the terrain tooltip doesnt popup inbetween the icons below.
- Fixed the flag distortion on the minishield and the small minishield.
- Flags no longer shown through fog of war after being shown once.
- No more invisible units when armies split from events (like at civil war)
- Fixed issues with incorrectly shown counters
- Fixed lots and lots of typos
- Fixed a bunch of localisation issues
- Fixed unlocalized text in metaserver
- Fixed some non existing tooltip localisations
- Is in any faction trigger now displays correctly for "no" as well.
# Gamemechanic bugs
- Rejecting a NAP will no longer increase relations between countries.
- Faction specific rules are now set immediately after a reload again.
- You can no longer ask/offer transit rights with faction members because you already have access.
- Broken trade deals message now show correct trade goods order
- Returning expeditionary forces should now work
- Government in exiles will no longer wipe out the cash of the faction leader.
- Partisans will no longer stop an entire country to be annexed.
- French surrender will now work properly even if poland starts the war.
- A country being annnexed will now cancel all its trade agreements.
- Offmap resources are now calculated correctly for resource balance values.
- Needed for production is now updated properly from all cases of production.
- Build times/costs are now calculated properly for buildings after each is finished in a serial.
- Fixed mixup of ic and mp cost in brigade build screen.
- Fixed a bug with auto-deployment
- Fixed a calculation error with maximum manpower needed for reinforcement.
- Upgrading units now actually uses resources.
- Cags will now properly detach and attach to correct hierarchy position when rebasing.
- Fixed a problem where it was not possible to split cag units.
- It is no longer possible to deploy or reorganise new cags into units that would make them over the carriers capacity.
- Dissent penalty on ruling party popularity now works properly.
- Fixed a bug where units could still be in combat even though they had moved away.
- Commando trait now properly reduces the out of supply penalty.
- Airunits without fuel will no longer get stuck in air forever.
- Fixed a bug where units could get stuck after reloads.
- Paratroopers can no longer take control of hostile territory while on a plane.
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- Database Changes
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# Technology
- Added Naval, land and air doctrines for all scenarios
- Changed the requirements for Small Warship ASW
- It should no longer be possible to research Super Heavy Tank Brigade more than once
- Added industry techs for: Germany, UK, France, USA, Soviet Union, Japan and Italy
- Added construction practicals for USA, UK, Germany, Italy, Japan and Soviet Union
- Armoured car techs now use mobile unit practical
- Lowered requirements to research helicopters
- Increased build time for escort carriers to 350
- Tweaked naval and construction practicals
- Reduced practicals for AA and radar stations.
# Orders of Battle
- Renamed two duplicated units in the Italian and Chinese -36 oob
- Added a theatre to Argentina's oobs
- Revised and increased the number of historical leaders in the German and Japanese oobs
- Reorganized the Greek oobs
- Updated the -36, -38 and -39 oobs for Finland
- Updated the production queues for Japan, UK, Japan and the US
- Fixed some typos and added Tiger units to the German -43 and -44 scenario
- Moved the 6th Air Force to Saipan
- Moved 12. Juntuan and 66. Jun to Shanwel
- Nagano no longer commands the 37. Hoheishidan
- Replaced most of Shanxi's and Communist China's infantry with militia
- Fixed the Russian cavalry div. that had been replaced by infantry div. in the -44 scenario
- Repositioned some of the Italian planes
- Changed the location of the Enterprise Taskforce and Lexington Taskforce
- Removed some of Australia's transport ships and increased the number of reserve units
- Moved the Yugoslavian troops that had wandered off towards Sinope
- Added historical leaders to some of the expeditionary forces
# Buildings and Units
- Gave Newcastle, Hollandia and Guadalcanal airbases
- Added and adjusted some of the air fields, ports and coastal forts in Finland
- Moved the airbase and anti-air in Palermo
- Added naval bases to Aparri, Legaspi, Lingayen, Shantou, Baoan, Pulau Dolak, San Cristobal and Malaita
- Changed the speed of armoured brigades in mountain terrain
- Moved the industry in Canberra to Melbourne
- Increased Togtoh and Guyang's infrastructure to 3
- Rebalanced support brigade values
- Lowered infrastructure on the east and west coast of Australia
- Moved the naval base in Corpus Christi
- Repositioned the air bases and anti air guns in Cagliari and Tobruk
- Added new pictures for S-P Artillery and Cags
- Moved Argentina's capital to Buenos Aires
# Events and Decisions
- Fixed the "Second Vienna Diktat" so that Hungary gets the proper cores
- Added a second version of the "Bitter peace" event, if Japan isn't at war with the Soviet Union
- The "Ultimatum to Greece" can no longer be triggered if Greece is a puppet of Germany or Italy, or already at war with Italy
- "Japan demands bases in French Indochine" - requires Japan to be in axis instead of alliance
- Added a second version of the "Independent Croatia" decision, in case Croatia is still owned by Yugoslavia
- Tweaked the "Claim Bessarabia" and "Bulgarian claims to Constanta" decisions
- Tweaked the combat events
# Diplomacy
- Tweaked the occupation polices
- The US guarantees Bolivia from -36
- Removed Vichy France as a puppet state to keep them out of the war
- Adjusted the distribution of VPs for Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ireland, France and the Netherlands
- Added a victory point to Kalgan
- Japan still controls the Carolines in -44
# Map
- Revised a lot of rivers in Asia and Australia.
- Removed a duplicated sea zone id
- Added a strait between Jiangmen and Bao'an
- Added "arctic" terrrain to the northern provinces of the Soviet Union, Canada, Norway and Iceland
- Added the Ligurian Sea, Bay of Naples and the Gulf of Iskenderun to the Mediterranean region
# Leaders
- Changed the start dates for Albert Speer, Joseph Goebbels, Karl Dönitz, Franz von Papen and Arthur Seyss-Inquart
- Added new ministers for Xibei San Ma
- Gave Ismet Inönu a new minister type
- Added an image for Hayashu Senjuro
# Text
- Corrected some of the French, Polish, Hungarian and Italian unit names
- Renamed the US "Democrat Party" to "Democratic Party"
- Corrected some duplicated and misspelled province names
- Fixed the erroneous label in the statistics page
- Fixed the tooltip for the "Airborne Assault" order
- Added Canadian party names
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Cкорость действительно возросла.
Утечки памяти ощутимо меньше.
Старые сохранёнки поддерживаются, причём проблема с потерянными авианосцами тоже разрешена.
Проблем всё равно ещё полным-полно.
Краткий вывод: данная заплатка к установке обязательна.
Скачать можно, например, вон там, ну или где угодно ещё.