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Patch Notes - 22nd - 25th August

Patch Notes 22nd - 25th August


Racing

In Racing, the rings would disappear on the final stage "Nitro Burn - Final Straight". This would happen when a user was in battery saver mode.

Rackets

Quiet Operation & Front Business were giving near identical sources in the display but working differently backend. Backend was true and the display was false - this is now corrected.

Tutorial

Rebuilt from scratch. A 58 stage tutorial that is no longer forced to complete each phase step by step. Gino added as one of the end rewards and gifted to all current player base.

Performance Fixes

Push notifications were blocking on synchronous curl caused from attacks. Mobile users were affected because a notification was being stored that the system couldn't push because they was already online. Fixed with deferred queue and tightened timeouts.
New tutorial needed further optimizing and was a cause part of additional lag/render issues.

Careers

Removed dropdowns for each family and created tabs. Smoother & less scroll.

Arena

During a fight, you can now "Skip to outcome".

Street Intel

Page would refresh after an Intel causing opened drop downs (Mastery etc) to collapse. Resolved.

Bank Interest

Panel did not sum all bonus sources but paid the correct values. Bank log would be titled at the old 0.2% but would also pay correct values. Both resolved - interest continues to pay daily divided by your weekly %.

Forge

Using the "Equipped only" filter would be knocked off after 2nd enhancement. Filter now sticks.

Achievements

Multiple sources of achievements were fixed on August 23rd due to not tracking. These now track and all players were already backfilled.

Profiles

Active badge now removed as it was an orphaned V1 feature linked to the old achievement system. Added "The Record" that now displays a players crimes mastered, highest district unlocked, achievement count & family roster rank. Additional design improvement tweaks.

Landing/Login

Desktop/Browser version has been tweaked. Login/Registration also now renders in a pop out model.

Family Merge

New feature - see previous gazette post for full details.

~Rułer


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