Gameplay:
- Added the Castle-class corvette.
- Added the Heinkel He 177 Greif level bomber.
- Increased CAP size for carriers and airfields with fewer fighter flights.
- Airfields will not attempt to launch fighters against overwhelmingly superior enemy squadrons.
- Fighters will not attempt to engage targets over enemy territory unless ordered to do so.
- Reduced the default spotter range for new ships and airfields.
- Added option to skip all tutorials on a new campaign.
- Added descriptions to the different difficulty levels.
- Added a toggleable automatic resupply feature for patrolling fleets.
- Resupplying landing craft takes time, and requires enlisted personnel.
- More landing craft are lost during landing operations.
- Forces cannot automatically retreat from combat when aircraft are still in enemy AA range.
- Frigates and destroyer escorts are available to commission in shipyards.
- Added current construction information to shipyard and airfield counter tooltips.
- Allowed issuing orders on the minimap when in first person view.
- Allowed queueing of turn and depth change commands during combat.
- Allowed assignment of control groups using ctrl + number keys.
- Prevented simultaneous panning and zooming on the minimap.
- Axis fleets will avoid routing through the English Channel when possible.
- Adjsuted ship and aircraft steering response to a direction change.
- Adjusted objective completion criteria for infrastructure destruction.
- Grumman F6F Hellcats will not carry torpedoes unless assigned to do so by the player.
Visuals:
- Added an option to toggle off motion blur.
- Updated minimap last known position markers.
Bug fixes:
- Stopped the ship flight resupply tutorial from getting stuck when the player had too few resources.
- Prevented squadrons in a column formation entering a state where ships would stop moving.
- Submarines cannot use radar underwater.
- Prevented US and Canada from instantly launching convoys in the mid-ocean, and improved their criteria for creating them.
- Prevented fleets being displayed more than once on the squadron list.
- Ship name usage is cleared between custom games and new campaigns.
- Ensured minimap uses the correct orientation in air raid combats.
