If it was added as a sub-page instead of replacing the information you’re looking for I might agree.
What’s next - Relationship status? Photo album with picture of the kids?
Honestly the entire Player Profile UI change feels like it’s either aimed at making everything mobile friendly, or else just a change for the sake of having an update to put out.
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Best part?
You can’t pick the mode to display for that favorite vehicle.
And it seems based on matches played.
So, if you ever flew a plane in a mode with average match length of 5 minutes, it’s impossible to make it display for modes with average match length of 90 minutes as your favorite mode with it. It’s amazingly well implemented!
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It might be “cool” if a player could actually “customize” their profile, but currently, selecting your favorite mode and/or vehicle is it, and even that is dodgy. Before, if you wanted to see what mode a player played, it was 3 clicks - Arcade, Realistic & Sim . . . it was/is all laid out for anyone to see. Wanna see what vehicle(s) they play the most? - Service Record - select most played mode . . . you can see it ALL, not just one little thing. Wanna “showcase” a vehicle?? … . you didn’t have to, the stats highlighted all that for you . . . . simple, efficient and as far as looking at stats go, it was no unpleasant to look at, not at all.
Now I get trying to make things look better, more “up-to-date” on par with other games perhaps or just to be hip to what the Kewl Kids are doing . . . that’s fine.
But removing vital information, totally screwing up the functionality of a great deal of our Profiles . . . yeah, that is not a good thing in any way, shape, form or manner.
The Q&A said that it is a WIP, ok, I’ll give them that . . . no biggie. Also said that there will be further additions in future Updates . . . ok, WIP seems ok(time frame for this and some transparency woulda been cool) and here we are, first Update, and they add another “feature” no one asked for that literally serves very little purpose at all and not one thing that was removed was returned to our profiles.
I don’t know how they go about making these decisions or doing the work, but . . it is pretty obvious that there is a huge disconnect between those making the changes and the players. I have no idea if they play this game or not, or how much or any of that. But it seems pretty clear they are not in tune with the player’s wants, hopes & wishes for this. I have read a LOT of comments about this here in the Forum, in game chats and a couple Discords and you are the only one I have seen making a positive statement about the new Profiles.
I’m not gonna make up some number to make it seem like everyone is totally against this for all the players, but anyone can plainly see it’s a huge 2 thumbs down.
Honestly, I don’t care that much what it looks like, as long as the info is there . .
Function over form . . . pretty basic. And I also realize, no matter what we do/say about it, chances are very good they will just blow us off and do what they want . . . full steam ahead. But as with most things in this world, apathy and saying nothing is seen the same as approval . . and while I realize my approval is not required . . . I still don’t . . . . approve . . . not yet anyway.
There have been some very good suggestions about the whole thing . . none acknowledged/replied to . . . seemingly ignored . . . oh well
C’est la Vie
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What’s funny about this in particular, is that rollup would have been a great place to put the player stats in that particular vehicle. Battles Played, Deaths, Air Targets Killed, K:D, WR %, Etc.
I would LOVE to see what a creative and competent UI/UX team could do with this game.
Could have put anything there and it would be more useful, stats would have been actually interesting, but now you’re forced to navigate to the stupid service record thing that looks like it was made for a mobile game, select the right mode and apply a bunch of filters to find that vehicle if you happen to remember what rank that vehicle is.
But why add something useful when you can just repeat the same information again and completely waste the space, so that paired with the useless backup information you have wasted 50% of the available space with absolute garbage.
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I agree that the modern guided missiles have no place up against WWII torpedo bombers. I would rather not lose the Cold War Missile boats and ships but I would like Gaijin to realize that these need a very much higher BR than what they are willing to grant. Okay, a guided missile destroyer or guided missile patrol boat doesn’t have a chance against a battleship. It never did. Trying to force them down so they aren’t decimated by battleships and heavy cruisers. However, they basicly eliminate the possibility of aircraft engaging warships and that is even farther off the mark.
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I disagree. Someone definitely need to lose their job over this crap. If no one loses their job, the admins will continue and escalate their destruction of the game with no penalties whatsoever. What’s worse is it will drive more veterans away from the game, Gaijin’s profits will drop and they will start laying off the new guys who had nothing to do with the horrifying projects they implemented. No, the person(s) responsible for this action need to be fired so they will recognize there are consequences for bad behavior, like ignoring the player base!
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Now that they made a change to this, I’ll repeat myself yet again, but much much simpler and in fewer words, maybe that will work: Gaijin, THE MEDALS. FRONT, PAGE, MEDALS, ribbons, whatever. First click, FRONT page profile, BIIIIG. Okay?
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Just how difficult is it to just put it TF back the way you found it?
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Are these two things actually related? Does anyone actually check other peoples’ stats in the middle of a match?
Yeah.
Useful in ARB when it’s only 4vs4 or so to make target prioritization easier.
Also useful in Air sim EC to try and asses if a lobby you joined is mostly zombers or a fun one.
I also liked checking stats of people I had repeat fights with in ASB to see how much they flew the plane in question. Did I win that duel because they didn’t know how to use their plane, or am I improving (however slightly)?
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Sure, sometimes my own stats to see what my winrate is looking like, sometimes I feel like I have won or lost a lot in a vehicle so I check to see what the numbers are, or check my earnings relative to other vehicles.
For other players just to get an idea of their experience… see if their top player is really good and has a ton of experience or just got lucky and racked up a few kills, see if they bought their way to the top or not…
One way or another every air game is a lot of time doing literally nothing, and especially as they are trying to further develop the player cards in order to monetize it, it would make sense if they are actually not more dangerous to view during a match.
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can we just have option to show medals on screen like atomic ace fav tank/ship/jet please
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WE NEED THE OLD PROFILE BACK, how long is it going to take?
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I want the old profile back, it is just objectively better. The new one has excessive amounts of wasted space, and the style just doesnt remotely match the rest of the game; it feels cheap.
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You can forget about it.
The player profile has simply become a dumpster for premium content.
The only thing that can save us is the ability to modify the game interface as is the case with the hangar.
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I wish we could use our skins on Favourite vehicle, would look fire
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Here’s an idea: JUST STICK FIXING THINGS THAT ARE BROKEN
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Its called Profile for a reason.