@Striker What fun do you mean?
@Imperious-Leader The bug with fighters getting stuck no longer happens. Please review the game you’re having a trouble with and check for potential landing options (including moving the ACs to the areas during non-combat move).
If a player is on your team, please use the map notes to coordinate with them.
Hello! This is a know situation, mentioned even in the AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/b65dzh/were_beamdog_developers_of_axis_allies_online_ama/eji7z5r/
Today we’re launching our second full patch for Axis & Allies 1942 Online. Thank you to all the avid strategists down in the trenches sending us feedback on our Early Access game!
Check out the full list of fixes and new features, including AI speed control, streamlined combat, and a brand new starting condition based on Larry Harris’ Gencon 3.0 Variant for Axis & Allies 1942 Second Edition.
We’ve scheduled a brief outage at 2:30pm PDT to perform the update.
PATCH NOTES
AI ACTION SPEED CONTROLS
Control the speed of Computer Players’ turns in your games. Slow them down to learn some basics from the Computer AI, or speed up the turns to get back to the action faster.
STARTING CONDITIONS: LARRY HARRIS VARIANT
Larry Harris’ Gencon 3.0 Variant is now available to play! Simply create a new game to select between the out-of-the-box setup, or Larry Harris’ revised starting condition, which modifies the initial board layout for Germany and the UK. This starting condition is available across all game types and modes.
STREAMLINED COMBAT BOARD EXPERIENCE
This patch reduces the overall number of clicks needed to assign hits and casualties. We’ve also added ways to assign casualties to groups of units, as well as an option to disable the dice rolling animation from the combat board itself. Players can now access a more detailed Roll Log that will show the results from the entire combat instead of just the current round.
Assigning Casualties
Casualties can now be assigned to individual units in a stack without having to manually select them from the slide out panel. Simply left-clicking on a stack of
units will now automatically assign hits to the units within that stack, one at a time. The slide out panel is
still available for aircraft and Battleships, and will appear when those units/stacks are clicked on. Right-
clicking on units with casualties assigned will now remove a single casualty from the stack
Assigning casualties to a stack
Shift + left-clicking a unit will assign as many hits as possible to the selected stack. If this stack contains Battleships or air units, it will assign them intelligently (a single hit to each Battleship first
before assigning a second; assigning hits to lower fuel air units first). Shift + right-clicking a unit will remove all of the hits from the selected stack.
Disabling Dice animations
Players can now disable the Dice Animations using the toggle found under the Attacking Player lane.
Roll Log Improvements
The Roll Log will now show the results for all rounds in a single combat, and can now has some better sorting options for summarization. The new Roll Log will not work with combats retroactive to the update, but will work with any combats and games post-update.
OBSERVER MODE IMPROVEMENTS
When following another player in Observer Mode, any combats the player participates inwill now automatically open up. Players can now control the zoom level when following another
players actions.
GAME LOBBY AND CREATE GAME IMPROVEMENTS
When creating a new game, there is now an option next to the Start Game button that will allows players to have the game auto-start when the lobby is full. This is set to “On” by default.
SKIP THE BEAMDOG INTRO VIDEO
The Intro Video can now be skipped by left-clicking.
MAC TOUCHPAD CONTROLS
More intuitive touchpad controls have been implemented.
BUG FIXES AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS
Big thanks from the development team to the Axis & Allies. org community for your feedback!
@DoManMacgee Larry Harris Gencon v3.0 Variant:
Added UK-DD to SZ 7
Moved UK-Cruiser from SZ 14 to SZ 13
German Bomber in Germany moved to Ukraine
Remove 1 German sub from SZ 5
Added 2 UK Infantry to India
Based on the feedback we plan to introduce an alternate game setup to the out-of-box experience - https://steamcommunity.com/app/898920/discussions/0/1643170903490462635/?ctp=2#c1639794651166372767
@DoManMacgee I watch everything everywhere. The blank screen issue will be fixed (hopefully) by the next patch.
@Imperious-Leader Thanks for the feedback. We launched the game into Early Access so that we could create a game players want based on their feedback. It can’t be done without reports and feedback like yours. We don’t demand from anyone to be a “beta-tester” - even the smallest feedback can greatly help us.
Anyway, here is what our development team has to say about your concerns:
We have a few tracks, but possibly not as much variety as may be desired over time.
Technology and new unit types aren’t faithful to this ruleset (1942, 2nd Ed). We may be able to look at other boxsets in the future. In terms of timer, we’re aware of requests for customizable timeouts, which may help address this concern.
This is temporary. We will address a map that lines up appropriately but wasn’t achievable in the timeframe/with the resources we had.
We have changes planned for our movement system, which may make it easier to assign bombers to raids vs an attack.
We currently don’t allow players to choose movement paths (except for blitzing tanks and transports), but have a feature request logged to address this.
We can log this as a feature request, as we’ve heard this from other fronts as well.
We’re not really sure that this is the best solution for the desired outcome (more competitive AI), but it could be logged as a feature request if you feel strongly enough about it. Please, log it at https://beamdog.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/3
We have plans to add in a chat to the pre-game lobby, but this will be a little while coming.
We released another hot fix yesterday to fix the AI in Online MP. https://steamcommunity.com/games/898920/announcements/detail/1616149305736279171
@DoManMacgee I’ve joined a game which missed a 5th player with douchemanmacgee as another player. Try starting the game if you’re a host there, or let’s wait till the host starts it. Currently, I recommend to use the Discord channel to find players (til we implement a way for communication between players into the game, other than the map notes to your allies).
The issue with 10 games not starting - might be related to the AI in Online MP, see https://steamcommunity.com/app/898920/discussions/0/1643170269568379700/?ctp=2#c1643170903491797024
A big patch rolled out for Axis & Allies 1942 Online, which includes Improvements to Front-end Performance, UX, UI, and more! https://www.beamdog.com/news/patch-1-axis-allies-1942-online/
@DoManMacgee That is about no combat during T1 as a very good solution to “the game favors Axis”. As for the patch, we plan to release a big one today at 12pm PDT.
Just as we’ve promised - we’ve got another Hot Fix for Axis & Allies 1942 Online coming out today. We’ll be implementing some updates that should reduce lag, increase stability, improve networking performance, and return the AI player option to Online Multiplayer.
Note: There will be a brief outage at 1 pm PDT.
I personally passed your extensive feedback (thanks for that, btw) to the dev team, and the communication feature request is top on the list of community feature requests. The devs will triage them.
We will be deploying a hot fix to Axis & Allies 1942 Online later today to address the main concerns of online multiplayer stability and the gameplay speed.
A short outage is planned for this patch at 1pm PDT today. Login to the game will be unavailable during the update.
Thanks for the feedback! We’re reading and listening.