Hello everyone, and welcome to a new DD for After the End: Old World. This one is a shorter one and focuses in particular on taking a look to the important changes to the map we have made for the next release version, 0.2.2. But first, a reminder that, as this version has map changes, it will not be compatible with your current games. When it releases, be careful with your save files.
MOUNTAINS
First, our mappers have added many new impassable regions. This means that now you will likely have to plan out a lot more which regions you should invade, where to place your armies in defense or even where you will place your capital.
The best example for this is the region of Tajikistan, Kashmir, Punjab and western Tibet, where you can notice you now cannot cross directly from the former to the second and third, without first passing either through Tibet or all the way around. On an aside, I will point out the shape of Kashmir and Tajikistan have been modified.
Not all changes have been as major, but you see new mountains appear from Anatolia and the Caucasus to Morocco.
RIVERS AND SWAMPS
The rivers Po, Oder, Rhone, Tigris, Euphrates and Neman have been made navigable, meaning that now you will have to worry about raiders in many more places than in the old map.
Swamps have also been used to scatter some impassable terrains throughout Europe. For example, the Agro Pontino in central Italy is now back into being the swamp it was before the 20th century.
MAJOR REWORKS
Somalia and Abyssinia have been a major center of this map rework, wit the addition of both impassable terrain and more importantly many new provinces, enough to make Somalia its own kingdom rather than just a duchy.
Iran has also received a rework of provinces, making them more numerous than they were before, to properly represent the home of one of the longest lasting Empires in history. Of course, new impassable mountain chains are also present in the reworked region.
Finally, we also added many new provinces in the region of Poland. This makes Poland a stronger kingdom that can better hold its own against Lithuania and Prussia.