The Making History Website announces the availability of a new automatic patch for Making History II to update this World War II grand-strategy game to version 1.017. Their downloads page offers an updated playable demo, described like so: "Lead any nation in 1939 as the world is about to erupt into war. Demo includes one single-player scenario with all game features." The extensive patch notes follow.

New Features

• Shrank memory footprint a bit
• Improved performance a bit
• Improved animation performance
• Improved texture quality on models
• Added a number of features to prepare for web based multiplayer
• Units being bombed in a region now fire back at bombers
• Added to the options page the ability to determine which notifications will create a popout dialog box
• Changed Autosave functionality so it would precede end of turn processing to fix save errors
• Liberate all puppets of a master nation that gets annexed/puppeted/colonized

Bug Fixes

• Fixed move into port order to validate access before moving a unit group into port
• Disabled setting city bombing order of production/research infrastructure if there's nothing to bomb
• Disabled setting resource bombing order if there's nothing to bomb
• Fix naming and ideology of new nations created by region revolts

UI

• Separate out city production and city research list panels, and added more data including specialty buildings to each
• Merge 2 region info panels into 1 and add actions to region improvements
• Combined access to city and region lists onto a single minimap button
• Moved access to Research Tree to minimap button
• Added ability to merge unit groups via the right click menu
• Update Encyclopedia to show game effects of Units, Region Improvements, City Buildings, and Research Buildings
• Added new notifications
• Region damage from bombing
• Units damaged/destroyed from bombing
• Different region improvements damage from bombing
• Shore Bombardment
• Bombing damage to ships in port
• Bombing damage to city/research buildings
• Added a confirm dialog for dismantling region improvements
• Made button on group bubbles in carrier and transport panels select unit groups
• Fixed issue with group bubble tooltip data
• Change Turn Status summary panel to show nation/username rather than username/username
• Fixed tooltip for resource producers on map
• Add '%' to stability display on nation panel
• Add selected nation name to trade partners tooltip
• Finally fixed Lake Titcaca and Lake Tana
• Fixed clipping problem on Government panel
• Add sorting to Region Statistics panel
• Added RPUs/IPUs to city tooltip
• Added owner nation name to non-controlled city tooltip
• Added maintenance cost to resource producer tooltip
• Decals now have the same tooltip as their unit group
• Added tooltip to map rivers with movement mods
• Added 2 primary combat values to unit group tooltips
• Changed arrow to point to city when bombing cities

AI

• Fix for AI ships with orders to return to port not consistently entering the port
• Fix bug with AI canceling CMLOUnitOrderMoveIntoPort order too early
• Fixed bug that could occur in sea regions with more than one port city

Content

• Increased range for missile units
• Change default river crossing movement penalty to 20%
• Added a 25% land attack combat penalty for attacking across a river
• Fixed Tibetan owned/controlled regions in TGQ to be consistent with other scenarios and history
• Moved Tibetan army out of Chinese controlled/owned region Wei
• Added a Tibetan Army to LDOP (They had none in this scenario)
• Changed ComChinese Nationality Template color to be different than the (Nationalist) Chinese
• Changed Communist nations state religion to "Atheism"
• Added new religion types: Atheism, Mormon & Jewish
• Changed some regional Religion assignments: added Mormon to Utah/Idaho and other minor adjustments in North America, South America & Africa
• Added missing encyclopedia descriptions for Special Forces, Paratroopers and Pref Harbors
• Fix incorrect region for city Johannesburg in all scenarios
• Fixed Nigerian/Nigerien flags being swapped
• Update a number of encyclopedia entries
• Adjusted demographic stability penalties

Launcher

• Improved content updater to deal better with slow/intermittent connections