Slitherine

Today we are releasing the new update for Order of Battle: World War II, bringing the game to version 5.2.9.

You can download it from the Members Area.

Furthermore, it's time for the Tournament to begin!

You will be contacted and sent an e-mail containing all the info you need to know to start playing. We're really looking forward to see the outcome of this first round. Good luck!

Changelog:

• Shader fixes
• Waffen SS II description fixed to reflect its effect
• Tweaks to some unit costs and stats
• Updated Engine version and renderer
• Missing railroad links fixed
• Rising Sun, Guadalcanal scenario missing event picture added
• US Pacific, Leyte campaign fix for Japanese fleet spawning
• Panzerkrieg scenario fixes now actualy implemented in patch
• Fixed bug where music would not play
• Fixed the duplication of Specialisation units
• Battle of Britain mod compatibility fixed
• Snow effects on attacker and defender on some terrain types corrected
• Fixes bug that could cause all units' strength or experience to be reduced in certain scenarios
• Fixes to Panzerkrieg scenarios Kharkov, Operation Zvezda/Star, Voronezh and Stalingrad
• Missing sharp turns in railroad textures added
• Fixed a bug in the Field Medics specialization that could prevent importing a core force from the Boot Camp into the US Pacific campaign.
• Several unit stats tweaked or fixed (Flammpanzer III, Il-2M3, T34 series, Ki-15, ...)
• Missing destroyed textures added for Bohler 47mm gun and 20mm Flak 36.
• Added 41-45 versions of the "canoe version" of the British SBS units.
• Disbanding aircraft inside a hangar will now corrected change the strength points of that hangar - or remove it entirely.
• Core units can only be disbanded if they have not yet moved or attacked in the current turn
• Texts in campaigns fixed for non-English languages

Thanks for the hard work.

Folks, it's the usual arrangement. You need to be logged in first, then follow that link. You may need to click it, log in, then click it again to see this page:
Pay careful attention to PC vs. Mac and 32-bit vs. 64-bit. For PC, version 5.2.9 is a patch; the original game installers for 32-bit and 64-bit are at the bottom.

It can also just be updated on the game itself also, right?

robertahyuk wrote:It can also just be updated on the game itself also, right?

Yep! Both via Steam and the button on the Game Menu

The Game Menu button worked for me on Win7 not-Steam. I noticed specialisations.csv has been updated to return "marine_corps" to the "Radar_I" specialization, eliminating the edit needed for the "Scrambling" prerequisite. So far, so good!

Outstanding! I updated and will try out Panzerkrieg now that things are fixed. Thank you!

I'm logged in and keep getting told I don't have permission to download.

Also, the MAC version doesn't show an option to update the game in the game.

Is BoB broken again with the new patch? For me it gets to the loading bar and stays there. The loading bar never fills and the game doesn't start. I'm on a borrowed laptop, so it could be me, but other scenarios load for me OK.

steevodeevo wrote:Is BoB broken again with the new patch? For me it gets to the loading bar and stays there. The loading bar never fills and the game doesn't start. I'm on a borrowed laptop, so it could be me, but other scenarios load for me OK.

Yes, I reported it in Tech Support. BoB does not start as a campaign but I could start the individual scenarios. There again, I only started them; I did not play them much. But yes, BoB remains broken, I'm afraid.

I know that something will go wrong. This is common after updates

So far, for me, everything seems to be working fine. Just finishing up the Rising Sun campaign and haven't noticed any problems. Some of these issues I see reported on here seem pretty minor to me. Campaigns load just fine. So, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that everything continues to work.