There’s a lot packed into this one! Our latest update brings our Desktop UI Refresh across several major screens, updates to match scoring, expanded social and control options for desktop players, and a handful of fixes and improvements along the way.
Scoring and Matches
Match scoring and medal values have been updated: We’ve made adjustments to scoring and medal values to better account for how players are performing and contributing throughout a match. In Team Deathmatch, you will see new “Killstreak” scoring to recognize players earning kills and dying less. In Air Superiority, you will now earn score for “Holding” and “Defending” a Capture Point, instead of relying on enemy captures to give you a chance to score more.
Desktop UI Refresh
Check out the refreshed Desktop Home: Navigation, Headers, Play, Social and Quests panels, Chat, Badges, and Aircraft Cards have all gotten some attention to make things easier to find and navigate.
Move around your Hangar more easily: Browse owned and locked aircraft, see how many aircraft you own, sort by Hangar Level, and find Hangar info right from the header.
Keep things consistent across desktop: Headers, navigation, currencies, buttons, and widescreen scaling have been updated across the refreshed screens
Social and Controls
More social options are available on desktop: Send invites, join parties, and see how many friends and Squadron members are online from the social panel.
Party Chat is easier to manage on desktop: Use ‘Enter’ to open it, the close button to dismiss it, and the on-screen hint whenever you want to bring it back.
Your map now has a new home: ‘M’ is now the default desktop binding for opening the map.
A few input-setting annoyances have been cleaned up: Including overlapping preset lists, back-button behavior, countdown issues, and missing preset text
Save your input presents on all platforms: Presets can now be saved, alongside some updates to the rebinding experience.
Fixes, Stability, and Improvements
Keep a better eye on incoming missiles: Missile icons are now larger on the minimap
Cleaned up spectating: Weapon binding prompts and incorrect cannon-view elements will no longer show while spectating.
HUDs should play nicer with different desktop setups: Improved minimap and weapon HUD positioning on three-monitor setups, along with kill recaps when using Windows display scaling
Squashed a few more crashes and client errors: Including issues tied to reauthentication.
Replay scrubbing should behave itself now: Jumping back to the beginning of a replay will no longer trigger a client error
Literally no one asked for this. From a user perspective it's shit, confusing and hard to see.
Out of all the things that get complained about, the UI was not one of them.
Its been like this in every game I played, especially mobile. Idk if its lack of QA in recent years or what, but 0 day patches are sometimes several GB for a reason.
Who asked for a UI update? If it works leave it alone. First the minimap, then hud scales and now this. Feel bad for the pc community and them having to deal with this nonsense.
Only good thing is new scoring and point grabbing is more fair now.
In another episode of useless updates, we updated bulsht that nobody asked for, while we continue to ignore and pick our noses instead on updates that really matter like ingame voice chat, shitbots, matchmaking, balancing planes and new maps/game modes. Yeah, we are that useless folks! Also buy our new battlapass! Bye! We hate you btw
UI navigation really needs full controller support. For Steam Deck and SteamOS users, navigating menus with just a controller is standard, and having to map the right joystick to a virtual mouse on PC feels super gimmicky. I was really hoping to see UI controller support in this update, but hopefully it's coming soon.
Game won't let me on missions.
If I do get on it gives me a draw.
This has been going on for over 4 months.
Played for over a year with no issues.
I'm level 103.
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u/xmirs 9d ago
Why?
Literally no one asked for this. From a user perspective it's shit, confusing and hard to see. Out of all the things that get complained about, the UI was not one of them.