Update 287.1 (87730) - New Town and Loadout UI, Access Custom Maps — AirMech News

UI updates! We've added (somewhat ugly) buttons to the screen when in Town to make it easy to access the various functions. But wait, doesn't this defeat the purpose of having a Town area to explore? In a way, yes, but since Town is not well explained or labeled, it's still quite a mess for anyone new to it, both veterans and new players. The goal is to make Town good of course, but this achieves a number of things: giving the veterans who just want a simple menu what they have been asking for, a collection of everything in one place for new players, and a rework of some menus to prepare for better gamepad support. The text will become nicer looking icons, and the order they appear will be tweaked for new players, plus options to hide/show things.

While not beautiful, it is intended to at least be functional, so we are looking for bug reports specific to anything bad happening with them. Please post them in the "bugs" forum area in Discord: https://discord.gg/AirMech

The AirMech Loadout menu has had significant changes to hopefully fix a number of bugs that were there, and sets things up to hopepfully allow AirMech selection during Pregame. The Units menu is in the middle of a rework. If you have 4 Loadouts or less then it looks fine...if you have 5 or more (veteran players only) then you will see the in-progress stuff. The intent is to make it easier to swap around rows of units, and when you start a match you will eventually be able to pick which 4 rows you want to use.

Custom Games and Maps! A small but potentially huge change is making it easier to access Custom Games, though the bot/player setup is still buggy. But Custom Maps have been enabled in Solo, Coop, and Custom games when you pick the map. Look for the new tile in the lower right of the Map select screen.

Balance:

Striker GroundDPS changed from 245 to 250
Striker AirDPS changed from 370 to 380
Striker Carry Capacity changed to 2200 from 2300
Neo Armor Type changed from 70 to 75
Angel GroundDPS changed from 237 to 240
Angel HP changed from 1500 to 1550
Angel Carry Capacity changed from 2400 to 2300
Uber build time increased to 2 minutes
Uber build cost increased to 88,888 credits
Missile Silo build cost increased from 8000 to 15000

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