I thought praise for these fantastic changes deserved a thread of their own and not get bogged down in negativity about chainguns etc.
This is a massive improvement and a huge positive for the game.
I've only looked through it briefly but well done to the devs on this one!
UI Updates
- Strategic Communication Improvements
- Removed blinking map regions
- Capture progress is now displayed on the map
- Ally activity displayed on the map
- Influence pie charts have been replaced with population percentages
- Changed the visualization of enemy activity – activity level coloring is now a gradient of red instead of spectrum of different colors
- Disabled generator/spawn display for facilities
- Secondary objective timer display added to HUD indicators
- Facility icons now visible at all zoom levels on the map
- Map legend added
- Service Ribbons can now be earned for capturing and defending bases
- Improved Item Preview
- Preview is now full screen
- Items can now be previewed on multiple classes
- Loadout Screen Improvements
- Locked gear and weapons can now be viewed and unlocked from the loadout screen
- Quick camo selector added to main Class/Vehicle screens – Allows you to quickly select and apply permanent camos to all classes/weapons/vehicles
- Removed the old class and vehicle landing pages
- The currently equipped consumable can now be resupplied directly from the main Class screen
- Medals are now displayed in the loadout from the main Class screen
- Added a class/vehicle cert button to main Class screen
- Specific weapon attachment slots can now be selected from the main Class screen and weapon selection screen
- Item descriptions added to the weapon selection screen
- Better Weapon Stats shown on weapon selection screen
- Replaced stat bars with numbers
- Added damage-range degradation graph
- More weapon stats displayed
- Muzzle velocity
- Ammunition
- Hip Accuracy
- Aim Accuracy
- Iron Sight Zoom
- Indirect Damage
- New HUD indicator for Ammo Packs
- Added a Bundles category to the Depot
- Added invert reverse steering option for track vehicles
- Bug Fixes
- Loadouts should now unlock properly if players earned enough XP at once to skip the battle rank that unlocked it
- The Squad listing in the social window should now display additional squads when scrolling down