The Final Update is out!

This one has quite a bit of changes and content and I haven't released patches in more than a year, so brace for some bugs and hotfixes in the coming days.

GOG version and demo version will be updated as soon as no critical issues remain.

Changelog:

• Added UK BG Campbell - FV-432-focused regiment

• Added West German Arbeiterkampfbrigade Leipzig - FDR Rebels regiment

• Added Polish 30. Pułk Zmechanizowany - balanced mechanized regiment

• Added East German KG "Kaspar" - mixed motorized/heliborne regiment

• Added Soviet BTR-D/RD/ZD serie of vehicle

• Added UK Puma HC.1 - which means UK airmobiles are now split between ATGM-heavy small platoons in Lynxes and big para platoons in Pumas

• Added UK FV120 MCT anti-tank vehicle

• Added Polish Hibernyt AAA vehicle

• Added Soviet and CSLA 2S7 Pion - only in a single Task Force per nation. It's out of scale, but well, we had the model available and it's the last patch

• Added West German F-4F Guided strike Tac Aid

• Added Steam achievements - they will automatically pick-up your progress in Operations, but not for Warpaths as there was no reliable data saved in previous versions

• Added Skirmish options persistence - all settings would be remembered for next sessions

• Added Move to Contact behaviour - when Attack Move command is issued to unarmed platoons and platoons in Hold Fire mode, they will move until they spot a target

• Added mech squad survivor transfer: there's a 45% chance for each trooper to survive the loss of their transport and regroup with a nearby squad (if they have unfilled position)

• Added helo-specific retreat behaviour: helos will retreat to closest map edge or retreat zone, trying to avoid AA platoons

• Added last-known-position marker that stays for some time after losing LOS to enemy platoon: fades out fast for mobile targets, stays for several minutes for entrenched ones

• Adjusted "recon by artillery": wrecks will be hidden until spotted, dead soldiers and floating points won't be displayed for enemy units killed outside of line-of-sight.

• Added ability to select same-side opponent in Warpaths

• Added maps "Crucible", "Blumenthal", "Wasteland" to Skirmish

• Added alternative map variants from Winds of Change to Skirmish

• Adjusted half a dozen existing maps that weren't setup for Warpaths

• Added slogan decal system to UK units

• Adjusted TFs to spread out new units, rebalance some outliers, reduce Belgium spamminess

• Adjusted Air Patrol TacAid: increased delay befor next run if the plane was suppressed or paniced during the current one

• Adjuted tracked APC platoons prices to match those of wheeled APC platoons in Operations and Warpaths

• Adjusted garrison platoon sites and (Rear) AI platoons to be infantry-only, added slightly more troops to compensate

• Fixed AI helicopters always wasting last ATGM due to early low-ammo retreat

• Fixed artillery behaviour when it receives a new artillery attack command during an existing fire mission

• Fixed napalm and cluster TacAid strikes always reporting a miss

• Fixed unit follow camera twitching in some cases

• Adjusted Hellfire missile textures on AH-64, courtesy of Phlogis

• Fixed Mi-8T decals

• Fixed AMX-13 DCA turret shape

• Fixed Nona-S model

• Slightly reduced the noise values of infantry ATGMs and recoiless rifles

• Adjusted Skirmish random atmosphere selection to select only daytime atmospheres

• Optimization passes and bugfixes

Hotfix 1.5.1:

• Fixed BTR-D related crash in newly generated Warpaths

• Fixed DLC content being available to everyone

• Minor localization fixes

Hi all, long time no see!

It has truly been a long time, so it's worth to recall where we've stopped.

After the 1.4.5 patch back in September ’24 I promised to release the Final Update after a short rest. But frankly I was burned out after working on Regiments almost non-stop since 2016, so the hiatus went much-much longer. I had to figure out things going forward, and try out some ideas for the next project.

While I'm mainly focused on said next project, it felt wrong to not give Regiments a proper send-off. After some deliberation, I've decided to focus on the promised final update.

Better late than never, right?

This is what can definitely be expected:

• Several new units. Some will patch up the gaps in the existing rosters - like the BTR-D line of vehicles for VDV forces, - while others are more 'flavour' additions like the Polish Hibernyt.

• At least one new regiment

• Steam Achievements

• Male announcer voice as an option

• Smarter retreat logic for both transport and combat helicopter groups

• Mechanized infantry that have lost their transport may now reinforce the surviving squads in their platoon

• A wealth of balance adjustments and fixes based on the feedback received since the last patch

I'm currently aiming for mid-April (but you know how these things may go).

There are probably a lot of questions, but the project is still in very early stages of development and it's not possible to talk much about it. It's not Regiments 2, but still tangentially related and will feature a lot of familiar hardware.

That's all for now!