[2023] War Effort - Operation Cockpit [1.12.12 OPEN BETA]

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

Hello there Generals!

We have begun the final preparations for Operation c*ckpit! Below you will find a set of patch notes that are now live on an open beta branch. Feel free to give us feedback on these planned changes in this thread, or in our Discord![discord.gg]


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# Balance
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- Canadian Focuses 'National Steel Car' and 'Send in the Zombies' are no longer mutually exclusive. If Great Depression has already been removed, the focus on "War Fuelled Economy" and "Reactivate the Farmers Unity League" will grant a significant temporary construction speed boost.
- Canadian focuses regarding the repatriation of Newfoundland are now available to the recently added Communist path
- Divisional Commanders: XP requirements for level thresholds and for gaining an aptitude trait have been reduced across the board by 20-50%
- Divisional Commanders: XP gain from combat increased by 33%
- decreased HIT_PROFILE_SPEED_FACTOR from 2 to 0.5 this will make ships speed affect hit profiles less
- Air accident base chance increased from 0.05 to 0.1, accident chance multiplier increased from 0.5 to 1, accident effect multiplier increased from 0.005 to 0.01 ace death chance increased from 0.003 to 0.005
- Air wing XP game from training per day increased from 3 to 7 since Air accidents are more common, air exercises XP adjusted to match
- increased supply per transport plane to 0.01 from 0.002

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# UI
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- Now the discord and the Instagram tooltips will have correct localization.
- Added link to Instagram and Discord to the in-game menu.

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# Bugfix
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- Fixed the Portuguese Great War tank not appearing in the tech tree without NSB.
- Re-introduced many tank icons for most countries that were screwed by No Step Back. Tank icons in the non-NSB generic tree will now appear in the Tank Designer with NSB.
- Improved the way country-specific tank icons appear in the tank designer, based on tech.
- Turkey will no longer be able to ask again for investment to a country until the country has accepted the portfolio and finishes the decision to invest in Turkey.
- Fixed issues with equipment bonuses to Carriers provided by Italian focus Refit Civilian Ships.
- Fixed issue with Italian focuses Standardization and Specialization so that they provide bonuses to aircraft as promised.
- Fixed issue in which Australian designer c*ckatoo Docks and Engineer was not providing any real bonuses to Heavy Cruisers.
- Super Heavy Battleship armour now reduces Torpedo critical chance instead of increasing it
- Fix for Flying Tigers without BBA
- Remove duplicated delimiter in focus-tree tooltips
- Fixed wrong positioning of British focus "Embargo The Soviet Union" when hiding obsolete branches and Global Defense focus has been taken.
- Fixed disappearing icons in the division designer when NATO symbols are used
- Names in trade views are now updated when the country changes ideology
- Soviet Marti Class cruiser will now have the minelayer role.
- The Linguist trait should now work
- Fixed wrong naming of peace conference after load game during the peace conference.
- Fixed issues with misplaced focus branches in UK and USA focus trees when the Hide Obsolete Branches custom rule was set as "Show".
- Fixed a few Czech Designers having their icons broken when Death or Dishonor DLC was not active.
- Fixed a Dutch Designer having its icon broken when Man the Guns DLC was not active.
- removed erroneous leader trait XP stats from the engineering school's army spirit. It now grants a global initiative factor
- Fixed issues with dynamic textures on DX11 with older drivers / Windows releases
- Fixed handling of X1R5G5B5 and A1R5G5B5 textures on DX11 when not supported by graphics drivers or older Windows versions
- Added Black Sea cores missing from the Polish Fascist branch after selecting the national focus "Decide Post-War Borders".
- Added checks to Hungarian focus "Renew the Rome Protocols" to make sure Austria and Italy exist and are independent.
- Made it harder to do the Anschluss swap exploit.
​- Fixed localization for poland.26 event.
​- Series of bug fixes focused on Interface and Localization.

Thank you all for sending in bug reports & suggestions, there is more of this on the horizon, now have an amazing easter!

/Katten