⚔️ Update 1.1.0

📜 Update notes for Countryball World 1930 version 1.1.0

Major content expansion with two new campaigns, historical events, new units and cosmetics, better progression systems, and many critical save/combat fixes.

🌟 Features

• Added two new playable campaigns: 1943 and 1949, with updated maps, countries, and splash art.
• Added expanded historical timeline support, including 1933+ era event chains and improved scenario flavor.
• Added Historical Mode option to enable timeline-based world events.
• Added cinematic world-event popups (TV/image style), including major WW2-era events and faction changes.
• Added country power display on country selection, based on campaign starting data.
• Added campaign quests panel on main menu with rewards.
• Added challenge unlock progression with newly obtainable countries through campaign milestones.
• Added 9 new cosmetics (weapons, hats, and outfits) and balanced their stats/prices.
• Added Japanese and Chinese weapon trees with new units and progression.
• Added/expanded unit trees for Japan, UK, China, and PRC.
• Added more countries/countryballs, including PRC, West/East Germany, Nepal, Bhutan, South Africa, Argentina, and Chile.
• Added move-panel behavior when selecting sea movement with playable countries.
• Added improved splash art for the 1930 and 1939 campaigns.
• Added new campaign music track.
• AI turn animations now play at 2x speed automatically, with the hold-skip button boosting to 8x.

🛠️ Tweaks & Enchantments

• Updated progression: standard mode defaults to free play while conquest is premium.
• Reworked resource balance: gold is the main economy, iron for soldiers, oil for vehicles, and steel for generals.
• Removed the extra coal resource to keep the economy cleaner, more readable, and easier to manage.
• Increased single garrison cost to 2 gold instead of 1.
• Updated generals economy: generals now use steel as their primary resource instead of food.
• Improved AI behavior to be more consistent, focused, and relation-aware in warfare.
• Adjusted early-war pacing so countries are less likely to finish wars too quickly before meaningful growth.
• Campaign music now advances to the next track when the current one finishes.
• Added better war variety and flow tuning so AI follows less repetitive conflict outcomes.
• Rebalanced treaties: reduced duration and improved treaty-end flow/notifications.
• Updated tax economy for better territory income pacing and overall progression feel.
• Increased multiple training reward values to improve progression pacing.
• Tuned campaign startup balance by adding/expanding deployment setup support in live campaigns.
• Added loading tips and broader localization coverage for new content/events.
• Reduced year length to 3 turns (from 4) for faster pacing.
• 1939 campaign now starts without an immediate war declaration; it triggers via world event.
• Countries no longer prioritize border defense against rebels.
• Rebalanced diplomacy AI so puppet requests and non-aggression pacts are not accepted too easily.
• Added clearer Steel Mill instructions for inputs and outputs.

🐞 Bug Fixes

Critical:

• Fixed major save/load corruption where diplomacy, factions, treaties, or soldiers could disappear after loading.
• Fixed frequent “target is moving” softlock that blocked combat/turn actions.
• Fixed missing land oil resources issue (only gold/iron spawning previously).
• Fixed major campaign save reliability issues where manual save sometimes failed.
• Fixed cases where dead countries respawned incorrectly on capital and became unclickable.
• Fixed severe turn/combat blockers that could prevent ending turns or initiating valid attacks.
• Fixed multiple save-state inconsistencies related to factions and treaty restoration.
• Fixed win screen wasn’t showing on second campaign finished in single session.
• Fixed cases where AI countries did nothing and could stall the turn indefinitely.

General Fixes:

• Fixed sound mixer issues where SFX volume did not mute correctly and some sounds were routed to music.
• Fixed duplicate soldier/rebel spawns on load, including rebels stacking on top of each other.
• Fixed historical mode toggle behavior so disabled mode no longer triggers historical events.
• Fixed tutorial flow issues (shop/recruit progress, star points update, auto-enter territory behavior).
• Fixed standard/conquest mode mismatch between UI selection and actual gameplay mode.
• Fixed multiple UI state issues in shop/research and inventory deactivate behavior.
• Fixed campaign-specific startup issues (including inability to start 1943 in affected cases).
• Fixed post-construction pricing bug where later constructions could become free.
• Fixed edge cases where loaded campaigns could show incorrect rebel/soldier state.
• Fixed several Steel Mill interaction issues (button feedback and amount handling at zero resources).
• Fixed shop/research affordability color-state issues that persisted incorrectly after selection changes.
• Fixed sorting/visibility edge cases in save slot ordering and UI layering behavior.
• Fixed missing localization strings and mislabeled diplomacy/treaty popup texts.
• Fixed minigames not spawning.
• Fixed secret countryballs appearing bugged.
• Fixed spawned countryballs not showing as the correct target countryball.
• Fixed actor movement clashes that could misplace units.
• Fixed initial localization not applying correctly based on user region.