Slitherine

Battle of the Bulge, the fast paced wargame simulating the tough battle fought between the Allied and the German forces on the Western Front, has been updated to Version 1.16!

This update greatly improves the multiplayer experience introducing a Real Time System, allowing the players to receive live updates in multiplayer sessions without waiting for a notification to return to the fight!

Together with this feature this version fixes some bugs (like the AI stuck on replacements phase bug) and improves the gameplay in many ways!

As always you can download the patch from here (PC) or here (Mac)

Check the full changelog below!

The game is also available on Steam

Changelog v1.16

Game features added:

- Real Time multiplayer system.
- Notifications in multiplayer system.
- You can now resign from and claim Multiplayer games on the game list menu.
- You can claim victory in games where your opponent has not made a move for 7 days


Game fixes:

- AI improved.
- Fixed a lot of multiplayer desynchronizations that caused the game to freeze.
- Fixed AI stuck on replacements phase bug.
- Breakthrough from 2 different tiles in the same turn should no longer cause unwanted behaviour.
- Overall improvement of game stability.
- Victory Points are now loading correctly in both Single Player and Multiplayer.
- You should no longer be stuck in History / Help menus in iOS.
- Fixed an issue where changing the language to Japanese and changing it back to English could cause the game to crash.

Hi - Sounds good, though I think the link for macs needs to be fixed.

peterjfrigate wrote:Hi - Sounds good, though I think the link for macs needs to be fixed.

Fixed! Thanks Peter

PC link appears broken also, if I right click, can't save the file.

morge4 wrote:PC link appears broken also, if I right click, can't save the file.

Also Fixed! Thanks!

And the iOS version will clearly indicate the correct build version 1.16 in the release notes, yes?

Shards wrote:

morge4 wrote:PC link appears broken also, if I right click, can't save the file.

Also Fixed! Thanks!

Got it ...thanks!

pzgndr wrote:And the iOS version will clearly indicate the correct build version 1.16 in the release notes, yes?

Hi! I think you might have raised this point before?

The iOS version is 2.18. It's analogous to the 1.16 PC/Mac release but iTunes isn't as flexible with it's version numbering..

Shards wrote:
Hi! I think you might have raised this point before?
The iOS version is 2.18. It's analogous to the 1.16 PC/Mac release but iTunes isn't as flexible with it's version numbering..

Indeed I did. And I fully understand about the inflexible iTunes iOS version numbering and your intent to maintain a single build version. My modest suggestion was to mention the Build Version number in the iTunes release notes (which I assume you have some control of), so folks know they are downloading Build Version 1.16 which is what is displayed on the opening screen. Unless they come here to this forum to see what's going on, the iOS version numbering issue is unnecessarily confusing.