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"Updates" card in the News page #438

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Fichom opened this issue May 22, 2023 · 2 comments
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"Updates" card in the News page #438

Fichom opened this issue May 22, 2023 · 2 comments

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@Fichom
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Fichom commented May 22, 2023

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
After every patch release, players should be notified of the actual update, as well as its contents. Currently, the transfer of information is reliant on either the dev team making a news request to have the patch notes be posted as a news item, or, the player opening a game that opens the lobby.

The first usually happens too late, and for the 2nd, players that play exclusively via matchmaker won't actually ever land in a lobby.

Describe the solution you'd like
I'm not sure how automated the 'popup' window with patch notes in the lobby is, but if it is, my idea is we could simply have a dedicated "card" in the client landing page that holds info/links for the latest updates. A split card, where one half holds latest patch, and the other half latest balance patch, would be even more nifty.

Depending on what is possible and easily achievable, a kind of highlight for the particular sub-card title could be nice (notice the ugly-yellow below, it could be golden or whatever feels appropriate). I'm thinking it would be ideal the highlight stays on until the user presses on the sub-card, which would link to the actual web/github/wherever update notes.

Alternatively, the highlight could be active for a day after the player first logs in after patch update, or if that's a lot of work to achieve, for a few days after the update is published.

If it's possible that this gets auto-updated when the patch rolls out, this would reduce the foresight strain on the dev/balance teams.

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Describe alternatives you've considered
The alternative exists, and it's the news hub, but that requires the foresight of the dev/balance team to actually make it ahead of time. They never do. And I understand, their goal and focus is to actually update the game, not spread news about it.

Wanna have the feature added quickly?
With next patch would be lovely.

@Sheikah45
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This page is entirely driven by the website so I will transfer the issue

@Sheikah45 Sheikah45 transferred this issue from FAForever/downlords-faf-client May 22, 2023
@JaviTrek
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The news page needs an overhaul, it needs to be greatly simplified, specially the bottom. Right now it's such a mess. Would be better to just re-design this and make a simple UI for news staff to be able post news through the website than using the godawful UX wordpress is

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