Updates to Making History II have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

New Features

• Major changes to unit stacking
  
  • Land and sea units can now be moved around in regions by right clicking in the region
    
  • Right clicking on another controlled unit in a region will create a stack
    
  • Selecting a unit in a stack and right clicking elsewhere in the region will remove it rom the stack and move it
    
  • Air units will continue to stack on the airbase in a region
• Add new “Repair All” nation property
  
  • When set to true on the Military Status panel all damaged units will attempt to repair each turn
    
  • Default behavior is “On”
    
  • Newly created units will now default to repair “On”
• Add ability to upgrade units from the unit list panels (land, air, sea, sub)
• Added ability for player to set which model will be displayed for Unit Groups on the map
  
  • Clicking on a unit in the expanded unit group panel will set the display model
• Improved startup time
• Improved performance
• Shrink memory footprint
• Change to put saves separate from the game install so a reinstall of the game won’t blow away save games
• Updated Game Manual

Bug Fixes

• Fix crash if game was started and waiting for an avatar with no nation
• Fix rare crash bug when interacting with UI
• Fixed an issue with reporting negative money from annexing
• Fix annex booty bug
• game was giving annexer their own stockpiles, not those of the annexed nation
• Fix unit models not changing when they upgrade
• Cancel AccessTicket if war is declared between the group and ticket nation
• Cancel AccessTicket if group nation joins alliance at war with ticket nation and vice versa
• Fix rare game stall when AccessTicket units are trying to go home
• Fixed bug where if a human player didn’t join when a multiplayer game was reloaded the AI didn’t do anything for that nation
• Fixed bug in mouse wheel handling that sometimes made it not seem to work
• Added requirement that a unit be in supply to be able to upgrade
• Fix bug in computing amount of collateral damage to do from engagements
• Add non-zero weights for collateral damage to region improvements so damage will actually happen
• When running a no turn timer multiplayer game on the web only suspend when no humans are connected
• Scale down shots for units based on current health
• Allow air units to rebase across enemy regions
• Fixed bug with air unit combat values when they are on the defending side of an engagement
• Fixed bug that would cause autosaves to reload with the turn ended but not ending
• Fix for nation getting referenced and not going away after rebelling and getting conquered during a single end turn

UI

• Improved texturing on map
• Lowered transparency of mapview layers for Supply
• Fix issue with units being placed too near the borders of regions
• Improve unit positions in mountains
• Fixed a number of places where units and region improvements were overlapping cities
• Add missing land defense column in Unit list page
• Improved quality of decal and flag textures on the map
• Adjusted text sizes in Financial panels
• Fix display names for rivers
• Adding sorting to the military report panels for air units, army units, naval units, sub units and world nations
• Fix missing border between Jaghbub and Farafra
• Suppress the display of the “Exit to Desktop” Main Menu option when started from web
• Resized text on Region & City Selection Panels
• Override ESCAPE key handling and only go to windowed mode if the game was launched from the web
• Fixed sea regions not using all positions for unit groups
• Fixed RC menu to only give set merge order option if unit groups are of the same branch and have the same controller
• Don’t offer RC option to bombard your own or your allies cities
• Fixed bug that sometimes resulted in blank tooltips on units
• Don’t send a “unit destroyed” notification when a 1 use missile is used
• Fix error in unit lists when displaying units on transports
• Fix error in unit lists when displaying air units on carriers
• Added notifications for city and research building damage from missile attacks
• Added smoke animation to cities with damaged buildings
• Add ability to decide whether newly produced units in a region will join existing unit groups or create new ones
• Ocean shader tweak to fix decal and move arrow glitch at coast
• Made all default build displays look like a normal goods order is queued
• Changed region projects list to prevent icon from overlapping project name
• Defaulted research tree zoom level to fullscreen
• Stop sending collateral damage notifications to all nations
• Make field for trade balance amount in Nation panel wider so it fits

AI

• Tune behavior of difficulty levels
• Update relations behavior when nations declare war
• Improve sea invasion behavior
• Added more detail to trade responses, including check for embargoes by third party
• Added AI reaction to ships it sent to interdict trade being sunk
• Improved use of World Market to obtain resources needed for build orders
• Fixed bug that caused AI not to build Textiles/Appliances/Autos as much as it should
• Improve logic for sending air units to support engagements
• Improve logic for sending air units to defend against bombing
• Improved logic for deciding to build air units
• Increased priority for building AA defenses
• Improve logic for when to build specialty units (like Airborne Infantry, Carrier Planes)
• Added a couple of strings for AI canceling an import agreement
• Added TradeAI check for AI to cancel or reduce an import agreement if it has too much
• Fix for research AI not always choosing best composition element to research
• Add PathFind filter for navy to avoid enemies
• Fix for AIPlanSeaInvasion switching compositions after a fleet was already in route (cause of AI Stall)

Content

• Added missing Historical Region claims for Libya
• Modified some terrain types
• Added upgrade tracks for most units
• Balanced upgrade costs data
• Fixed some research errors
• Balanced artillery combat values
• Fixed a number of incorrect unit display names
• Fixed a number of duplicate unit display names
• Tune IPU costs of submarines
• Increased attack power of ShortRangeSubmarines
• Removed DeepDefense from USSR completed research in LDOP
• Updated initial completed research for LDOP
• Added new model for Nuked city
• Tuned escort ship properties to more clearly define their roles
• Lots of cleanup in the Encyclopedia –
• added maintenance cost to city and research buildings, added IPU cost to Units, reordered data to be consistent across categories
• Gave Germany a VehiclePlant and an AircraftPlant in BFW
• Gave Japan research for Early Tanks in LDOP
• Gave Germany an AircraftPlant in TGQ
• Add research to bring Germany/Italy/US/USSR up to BiPlanes in TGQ
• Gave WarIndustries research to Germany and Japan in BFW
• Gave InfantryWeapons3 research to Italy in LDOP
• Changed Tripoli region location to Tripolitania
• Fixed content to generally not give nations units they have not researched yet
• Fixed data error that made Fish Products unprofitable (was not suppose to use oil, just food)
• Tweak costs of carrier planes a little higher to separate from non-carrier planes
• Fixes/balancing to air unit properties to more clearly distinguish roles
• BFW
• added research for Italy to produce EarlyFighter/Bomber
• LDOP
• backed up air units to not exceed starting research
• Fixed default nation descriptions for BFW and LDOP (they were reversed)
• Fix swapped properties for Light Carrier and Escort Carrier

Launcher

• Fixed display of nation names for nation lists
• Allow user to choose location for saved games
• Added beta testers to credits

Source Updates to Making History II have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

New Features

• Major changes to unit stacking
  
  • Land and sea units can now be moved around in regions by right clicking in the region
    
  • Right clicking on another controlled unit in a region will create a stack
    
  • Selecting a unit in a stack and right clicking elsewhere in the region will remove it rom the stack and move it
    
  • Air units will continue to stack on the airbase in a region
• Add new “Repair All” nation property
  
  • When set to true on the Military Status panel all damaged units will attempt to repair each turn
    
  • Default behavior is “On”
    
  • Newly created units will now default to repair “On”
• Add ability to upgrade units from the unit list panels (land, air, sea, sub)
• Added ability for player to set which model will be displayed for Unit Groups on the map
  
  • Clicking on a unit in the expanded unit group panel will set the display model
• Improved startup time
• Improved performance
• Shrink memory footprint
• Change to put saves separate from the game install so a reinstall of the game won’t blow away save games
• Updated Game Manual

Bug Fixes

• Fix crash if game was started and waiting for an avatar with no nation
• Fix rare crash bug when interacting with UI
• Fixed an issue with reporting negative money from annexing
• Fix annex booty bug
• game was giving annexer their own stockpiles, not those of the annexed nation
• Fix unit models not changing when they upgrade
• Cancel AccessTicket if war is declared between the group and ticket nation
• Cancel AccessTicket if group nation joins alliance at war with ticket nation and vice versa
• Fix rare game stall when AccessTicket units are trying to go home
• Fixed bug where if a human player didn’t join when a multiplayer game was reloaded the AI didn’t do anything for that nation
• Fixed bug in mouse wheel handling that sometimes made it not seem to work
• Added requirement that a unit be in supply to be able to upgrade
• Fix bug in computing amount of collateral damage to do from engagements
• Add non-zero weights for collateral damage to region improvements so damage will actually happen
• When running a no turn timer multiplayer game on the web only suspend when no humans are connected
• Scale down shots for units based on current health
• Allow air units to rebase across enemy regions
• Fixed bug with air unit combat values when they are on the defending side of an engagement
• Fixed bug that would cause autosaves to reload with the turn ended but not ending
• Fix for nation getting referenced and not going away after rebelling and getting conquered during a single end turn

UI

• Improved texturing on map
• Lowered transparency of mapview layers for Supply
• Fix issue with units being placed too near the borders of regions
• Improve unit positions in mountains
• Fixed a number of places where units and region improvements were overlapping cities
• Add missing land defense column in Unit list page
• Improved quality of decal and flag textures on the map
• Adjusted text sizes in Financial panels
• Fix display names for rivers
• Adding sorting to the military report panels for air units, army units, naval units, sub units and world nations
• Fix missing border between Jaghbub and Farafra
• Suppress the display of the “Exit to Desktop” Main Menu option when started from web
• Resized text on Region & City Selection Panels
• Override ESCAPE key handling and only go to windowed mode if the game was launched from the web
• Fixed sea regions not using all positions for unit groups
• Fixed RC menu to only give set merge order option if unit groups are of the same branch and have the same controller
• Don’t offer RC option to bombard your own or your allies cities
• Fixed bug that sometimes resulted in blank tooltips on units
• Don’t send a “unit destroyed” notification when a 1 use missile is used
• Fix error in unit lists when displaying units on transports
• Fix error in unit lists when displaying air units on carriers
• Added notifications for city and research building damage from missile attacks
• Added smoke animation to cities with damaged buildings
• Add ability to decide whether newly produced units in a region will join existing unit groups or create new ones
• Ocean shader tweak to fix decal and move arrow glitch at coast
• Made all default build displays look like a normal goods order is queued
• Changed region projects list to prevent icon from overlapping project name
• Defaulted research tree zoom level to fullscreen
• Stop sending collateral damage notifications to all nations
• Make field for trade balance amount in Nation panel wider so it fits

AI

• Tune behavior of difficulty levels
• Update relations behavior when nations declare war
• Improve sea invasion behavior
• Added more detail to trade responses, including check for embargoes by third party
• Added AI reaction to ships it sent to interdict trade being sunk
• Improved use of World Market to obtain resources needed for build orders
• Fixed bug that caused AI not to build Textiles/Appliances/Autos as much as it should
• Improve logic for sending air units to support engagements
• Improve logic for sending air units to defend against bombing
• Improved logic for deciding to build air units
• Increased priority for building AA defenses
• Improve logic for when to build specialty units (like Airborne Infantry, Carrier Planes)
• Added a couple of strings for AI canceling an import agreement
• Added TradeAI check for AI to cancel or reduce an import agreement if it has too much
• Fix for research AI not always choosing best composition element to research
• Add PathFind filter for navy to avoid enemies
• Fix for AIPlanSeaInvasion switching compositions after a fleet was already in route (cause of AI Stall)

Content

• Added missing Historical Region claims for Libya
• Modified some terrain types
• Added upgrade tracks for most units
• Balanced upgrade costs data
• Fixed some research errors
• Balanced artillery combat values
• Fixed a number of incorrect unit display names
• Fixed a number of duplicate unit display names
• Tune IPU costs of submarines
• Increased attack power of ShortRangeSubmarines
• Removed DeepDefense from USSR completed research in LDOP
• Updated initial completed research for LDOP
• Added new model for Nuked city
• Tuned escort ship properties to more clearly define their roles
• Lots of cleanup in the Encyclopedia –
• added maintenance cost to city and research buildings, added IPU cost to Units, reordered data to be consistent across categories
• Gave Germany a VehiclePlant and an AircraftPlant in BFW
• Gave Japan research for Early Tanks in LDOP
• Gave Germany an AircraftPlant in TGQ
• Add research to bring Germany/Italy/US/USSR up to BiPlanes in TGQ
• Gave WarIndustries research to Germany and Japan in BFW
• Gave InfantryWeapons3 research to Italy in LDOP
• Changed Tripoli region location to Tripolitania
• Fixed content to generally not give nations units they have not researched yet
• Fixed data error that made Fish Products unprofitable (was not suppose to use oil, just food)
• Tweak costs of carrier planes a little higher to separate from non-carrier planes
• Fixes/balancing to air unit properties to more clearly distinguish roles
• BFW
• added research for Italy to produce EarlyFighter/Bomber
• LDOP
• backed up air units to not exceed starting research
• Fixed default nation descriptions for BFW and LDOP (they were reversed)
• Fix swapped properties for Light Carrier and Escort Carrier

Launcher

• Fixed display of nation names for nation lists
• Allow user to choose location for saved games
• Added beta testers to credits

Source