Hi everyone, with a mere one day to go before the release of Graveyard of Empires, it is tradition that we provide you with the Release Notes. The usual disclaimer applies; this list is comprehensive, but not necessarily complete. Any items we add will be placed in a separate spoiler underneath the main list. (Checksum isnt final yet and will be added before Release.)

Graveyard of empires

• Added focus tree for Iran
• Added focus tree for Iraq
• Added focus tree for Afghanistan
• Expanded focus tree for the British Raj
• Added numerous 3D models for Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and the Raj
• Added 8 new music tracks
• Added Voiceovers for Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and the Raj

Gameplay

• British Burma now exists from game start as a British subject
• Mandatory Palestine now exists from game start as a British subject
• Jordan now exists from game start as a British subject
• Kuwait now exists from game start as a British subject
• Lebanon now exists from game start as a French subject
• Syria now exists from game start as a French subject
• Added new tactics and modifiers for city combat
• Added Burma namelist and oob
• Removed Prince Henry as leader for Palestine

Balance

• Siam now joins the Co-Prosperity sphere on historical
• Added a port in Phuket
• Added a supply hub in Hat Yai
• Siam starts with army of Siam spirit
• Extra shared slots don't get removed when flipping state owners anymore
• Added railway line to Archangelsk
• Added some resources in Pakistan area (Peshawar 3 Steel, Baluchistan States 3 Oil)
• Updated Siams AI to produce more units and streamline production
• Increased Siams building slots

UI

• Reliability and Torpedo upgrades no longer overlap for Torpedo Cruisers

Modding

• has_artillery_ratio, has_cavalry_ratio and has_unit_type triggers now also consider support units

Bugfixes

• Fixed a Crash To Desktop (CTD) when loading games with prepared raids
• Daily Army, Air and Naval XP gain can no longer be negative
• Prevent a rare Out Of Sync (OOS) related to operative mission names when using different languages
• Swedish national spirit "Hungerskld" is no longer removed too early
• The Netherlands can once again Placate the Germans through their Gateway of Europe Decision
• Without Gtterdammerung, there can be only one Fascist Advisor in Belgium
• Fixed an issue where Germany's Operation Panzerfaust would result in Hungary getting puppeted and having their war reset, resulting in teleported divisions
• Dutch East Indies no longer starts with only 10% democratic support
• "Expansion Pass 1: Supporter Pack" is no longer included in save game compatibility checks
• Fixed a rare random OOS in AI truck production
• Fixed rare Out of Sync in character name generation
• Fixed UI Crash when reordering items in lists

Performance

• AI is now more performant when upgrading equipment
• Weather updates are now more efficiently parallelized
• AI plans naval invasion in parallel (drastically reduced spikes on multi-core CPUs)
• Refactored a number of decision systems to improve performance
• Optimized AI diplomacy calculations
• Optimized how reinforcements are computed
• AI is now more performant when selecting which doctrines to upgrade
• MIO attributes are now computed faster across the board
• Naval supremacy is now better parallelized