The new interface is to slow....It hangs up almost constantly, at times taking >10 minutes to load a page. Hence, I get booted from every game (with >7000 games played and a <3% boot rate, it isn't me). At it currently is, I can't play warlight / warzone any more. I play from my desktop with high speed and very reliable internet, so that is not the problem. I play within Chrome. Never had these problems until the new interface yesterday.

Chasmisties

Here's an example:

Ahh you're right, the coins page isn't mobile friendly. I'll fix that in the next update.

I can't open games on the app by clicking on the link on a browser. No matter if i use flash or unity.

Thanks for letting me know. I'll fix this.

The colours are messy. A clean black or white would be really appreciated.

Maybe you could throw together a mockup showing me what you'd like?

the picture that I've used makes the PostTbl and consequently the whole page overflow.

I just deployed a fix for this, sorry about that.

Georgia army cap template is doubled in QMs

It's simply because two were submitted. Maybe we should enforce that all QM templates have different names.

Open tournaments are so well hidden

I agree, this is one of several things about tournaments that need improvement.

Did you do something with the width of forum posts?

They should fit to the background now.

Giving them a game that's different than 99% of all open games is not newb friendly.

The expectation is that most new players will play quickmatch first, and probably only venture into open games once they're far more experienced. I know that's backwards from what most players are used to now.

Fizzer, how do I send you screenshots and video's as you ask?

fizzer@warzone.com

Thanks everyone for all the feedback, keep it coming!

@TBest I have suggested 5. Fizzer added a link to contact underneath Help when I mentioned it.

I am not sure if it is already named (didn't have the time to read everything), but it is not very practical that you have to make two klicks to see the board behind the fog using the history button now, usually you need that feature every turn :)

The performance problem is real. Literally unplayable in webgl

i'm a member so I can use the standalone client which runs alright but i feel bad for those who doesnt

@DanWL, I just meant renaming the drop-down item in Help from 'Contact' to Support, since it is really a Support page. Of course this being a one-man-show, contact and support are basically the same. But Support is a better descriptive name in my eyes, it sounds more professional.

I like the drop down bar at the top. Though with the renaming of warlight to warzone I hope you know what you're doing fiz, I assume there are alot more hits infront of warlight for different games when searching for that (ios app store, google etc).

Only real criticism is that webgl unity is slow for me, hopefully flash sticks around long enough for some small updates to help that out.

Here is my feedback:

1) Website design
Don't be that hard to yourself, I think all in all it is solid and something fresh. Wait for players to adapt to it.

2) Unity
I am having issues of unity loading very slow (if I play via Browser).

Maybe it helps you:

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I am using Chrome Version 62.0.3202.94 (64-Bit).

I have switched to flash for now.

3) Interface
a) Coin Wheel
On mobile I am annoyed by the Coin Wheel. I do not want to spin it and watch videos, but it pops up every time I want to play. Btw. it happend once I couldn't spin the wheel after I watched the video.
b) Chat on mobile
If I maximize orders or players, the chat window is very small. In don't like that somehow.

4) Quickmatch
I hate Small Earth and I think the template choice of the first templates is horrible. People will get bored and driven away of warlight. Give them a usual and popular template to play and not something like Small Earth with autopick or something like that.

First of all I want to thank you for all the effort you put into warzone :)

Beside the questionable background color :P I am really happy with the current performance and look. Well done :)

I really love the android app but there are 2 things that could be improved.

1. would it be possible to make the hitbox of the refresh button on the multi player tab bigger? I keep clicking on the game underneath.
2. could you fix that the app keeps automatically turning eventhough I disabled the function on my phone. It is so annoying because it already reactes to slight turnings :/

warzone is forcing emails on me even i have them all set to off android app was uninstalled because of this

Few problems occurs in browser version using Unity, I have mailed you more details on it :)
The color combination is kind of bad, black background was kind of better imo and apart from that, Warzone is nice and thanks for your efforts :)

I really like RT Quickmatches , and new features of Unity, chat or play card or see teammates' orders.
I second the idea of having strat MME being the starting template, but I see no harm with it being the 4th template and having auto-pick small earth as starting isn't too bad for newer players.

The performance problem is real

Are you talking about the startup time of the WebGL version? If so, then yes, I agree with you, and this is something I've been quite disappointed with as well. I've talked to the Unity team extensively about this, and done a lot of research into ways to make it faster.

There is good news: it's only going to get better. There are several things coming that will improve it. One is cached webassembly, which will allow the app to start up very quickly on repeat loads. The Unity team is working on implementing this now. Another feature is called streaming compilation, which will allow the app to start compiling while downloading which will speed up the initial load dramatically. Browser vendors (Mozilla + Google) are working on adding this to their browsers now and they should start including it in new versions soon.

Further I'm working on a new secret feature that might make for some dramatic speedups, but I can't talk much about that yet.

Don't be that hard to yourself, I think all in all it is solid and something fresh. Wait for players to adapt to it.

Thanks! I know change is hard.

I am annoyed by the Coin Wheel. I do not want to spin it and watch videos, but it pops up every time I want to play.

I'll make it back off for much longer. Thanks for the feedback.

it happend once I couldn't spin the wheel after I watched the video.

Ick, that's really bad. I'll look into this and give you some free coins now, please let me know if you see it again.

I hate Small Earth and I think the template choice of the first templates is horrible

Personally I quite enjoy it. The problem is, for every template in existance, there's someone who hates it. So no matter what template we put here, someone will have this opinion.

would it be possible to make the hitbox of the refresh button on the multi player tab bigger? I keep clicking on the game underneath.

Sure, I'll fix that.

could you fix that the app keeps automatically turning eventhough I disabled the function on my phone

Unfortunately Unity doesn't obey the Android orientation lock, which I was disappointed when I found out, too. I am surprised to get this feedback so often, I think only 2 people mentioned it during the last 8 months of testing the app. Then suddenly upon launch everyone is up in arms about it. Unlike most apps which get this feature for free, Unity apps have to code it in manually. I'll look into it.

warzone is forcing emails on me even i have them all set to off android app was uninstalled because of this

The only thing that was changed about the email system is that emails come from DoNotReply@warzone.com instead of DoNotReply@warlight.net. Emails are sent with the same frequency.

Also, uninstalling the app won't change email delivery at all :)

Perhaps you had a rule set up that was filtering emails from warlight.net, which needs to be updated to warzone.com?

Thank you for all your work on Unity, Fizzer! With Flash crashing left and right, it is a welcome update. :)

A few issues I wanted to adress:

1/ The width of several pages is too small in my opinion. https://www.warzone.com/Play for example, or the public profiles.
On Unity, I scroll down a lot, to access content that could be put on the empty left and right sides of my screen.

2/ It takes me 1 minute to load Unity on Firefox. I'm fine with it, but if I try to open a second game in a new tab, Unity loads again and I have to wait another minute. Is there any way to avoid that or is it a Unity thing?
Ctrl+G works if I want to open the second game in the first tab, but I'd like to have multiple games in multiple tabs at the same time.

3/I feel like the community side and the game side are now completely disconnected on Unity. It has become really difficult to browse through a tournament, or the ladders, and to check a few games. Like I said in 2/, I have to copy/paste/Ctrl+G a game link if I don't want to load Unity again. Is is possible to include the community side inside Unity? Or to have them more linked perhaps?

My only real issue is that its INCREDIBLY slow. It's easily 10x slower than the old flash version. It takes 30 seconds just to start up, and then a solid 15 seconds to transition from game-to-dashboard. I know many other people are experiencing similar issues. I'm told there's a standalone version that you can download to your computer, and apparently that runs fine, so it might be a good idea to make that more readily available.

deleting the app has definetly worked cause it stopped the emails from comming

PSA: YOU DON'T HAVE TO PLAY IN THE UNITY VERSION on your PC browser. Click your profile name on the upper right, then click Switch to Flash.

The standalone version is for members only.

Edited 11/14/2017 23:44:47

Another small issue:
On mobile scrolling through the games is a bit slow. Would be nice to scroll a bit faster through the games.

Also I clicked on a game accidentally more often. Maybe change it to a double click.

The old Warlight

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The old Warlight color scheme was elegant, clean and easy on the eyes, one could describe it as 'calm'.
It mainly made use of a limited amount of colors (shades of red, blue and gray).
The solid dark colored background with the light text colors was beautiful.
The interface was made form boxes with straight defined borders which made it look very clean.

The new Warzone (Unity)

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The interface looks flashy, aggressive and messy, in German one would say "Klickibunti".
It makes use of various colors (green, blue, red, yellow...) which are used inconsistently.
The Backgrounds of the Multiplayer tab, the orders list and so on look like dirty sheets of paper with ragged edges, these combined with the green camouflage parts are probably the main factors which make the interface look messy.
Excessive "eye candy" compared to the old version with the deployment slider as the best or should i say worst example is another factor why the new interface does not look elegant.

Suggestions

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* Solid dark gray backgrounds
* Limited amount of colors (e.g. going with the new logo: bordeaux red, gold, silver)
* Clear straight borders of different interface elements
* Less eye candy (e.g. the old efficient deployment slider)

Unfortunately Unity doesn't obey the Android orientation lock, which I was disappointed when I found out, too. I am surprised to get this feedback so often, I think only 2 people mentioned it during the last 8 months of testing the app. Then suddenly upon launch everyone is up in arms about it

I am not surprised at all. I play a good amount the mobile phone. A lot of people play only the mobile version. I assume most of the 8 month beta testers were playing on the standalone version. I did complain about this. But you replied along the lines of "Nothing I can do, that's how it is in Unity," and others stop complaining.

The commit button is going to be a big issue for a lot of people. You'll start hearing A LOT more complaints, because the way the commit button is right now loses games. A majority of people will start clicking "commit" by mistake, then everyone will get up in arms about it. But I did get up in arms about it, and people like Mike were telling me "It's probably a matter of time. In the meantime you should lower your voice when you address to Fizzer, he's not your employee. "

Well, here's the result. I lowered my voice. But now you'll receive lots of complaints.

https://www.canvasflip.com/visual-inspector/

This might be worthwhile for anyone (on Chrome) who wants to try out screenshots of proposed UI changes. You can just pick elements on the Warzone site and fool around with them on your machine. I haven't really found anything myself that I'd be willing to suggest on the UI front but it might be helpful to others.