Steam now offers a new automatic patch for Commander: Conquest of the Americas to update the naval strategy game to version 1.03. The new version includes bug fixes, balance changes, and new features, all outlined below.

Features:

• Ship highlighting in tactical level
• AI will now build fleets with 1-3 squadrons
• A message is received when colony has a need
• Resource window can now be accessed by clicking the 3D resources and from Colony-founding view
• Morale information now shown in port name tags on strategic level

Balancing:

• Overall autoresolve balancing
• Overall ship balancing (schooner, xebec, brig, carrack, cutter)
• AI has now the possibility to select upgrades to ships
• More damage inflicted when fleeing from autoresolve
• Destroyed fort affects ships' morale less
• Need amounts are decreased
• Smaller visibility range for squadrons
• Increased warehouse capacity (all levels)
• Reduced birth rate
• Reduced damage to crew from grape shots
• Ship upgrade prices are now relative to the ship price
• DLC 1: Colonial Navy overall balancing

Fixes:

• Info text and tiny icon shown over ship icon in shipyard if the shipyard level is too low
• Problem with water showing black with some older graphics card drivers fixed
• AI nations will not make war offers to player anymore, if it is in war with him
• strategic camera scroll tweaked
• Impossible to select "heavier cannons" upgrade if the ship has no cannons
• Soldiers don't shoot from sinking ships anymore
• When Port attack is clicked from squadron interface, it'll show red crosshair on enemy ports, when mouse hovers over them
• No "cannon accuracy" upgrade for ships with no cannons
• Tooltips for upgrades in Shipyard now show full upgrade description
• Graphics and tooltips for shipyard build button improved
• "Build more warships" -mission fixed
• Fixed tax-slider (smoother)
• Now to move trade items from warehouse to squadron also when balance is under 0
• Fleets cannot resupply at colonyspots anymore
• AI doesn't add more colonists than there is space left
• It's not possible for forts to flee the battle anymore
• Problem with squadrons of a larger fleet disappearing when entering a port fixed
• CTD-fix: AI squadron-merge caused a crash on savegame
• CTD-fix: clicking "sell all" in the colony trade view caused a crash sometimes
• CTD-fix: When trying to load a game or trying to return to main menu while in tactical with a fort, the game could crash
• screen edge scrolling fixed for dualscreen & triplehead (triplehead can be enabled from options.txt)
• possibility to lock cursor to game window or on dualscreen to the other screen (can be changed from options.txt)
• Strategic camera problem with low fps fixed
• GUI shows amount of cannons correctly now
• AI will now repair their fleets at port in month change
• Fixed flashing strategic loading screen when loading a game from main menu or ingame-menu before showing the correct loading screen.
• Player can't see AI squadrons in docks/trade/people-windows anymore when in alliance and AI squadron arrives to player port for resupplies.
• New commander created for captured AI squadrons
• Friendly fort not spawned anymore on top of enemy fort when attacking enemy colony after multiple defending colony battles.
• Tooltips for specialist fixed (squadron info window)
• DLC ships used to display wrong icons in shipyard
• Building prices now correct in every difficulty level
• Building prices sometimes didn't fit the designated area
• pressing tab (changing colony) did not hide selected fleet bouys
• rare CTD caused by native raid fixed
• "Buy soldiers" button disabled ( grey ) when no more room for soldiers
• tactical level tip-text removed since we now have a tutorial box on the top right corner
• "Barcelona" is changed to "Sevilla"