MACH-XNew
- A RAID BOSSES plate on the hangar start screen takes you straight to the raid setup (it used to hide behind Take off > world map > Gunship Alley). A lamp lights up while today's daily raid is still open; the plate stays locked until you down your first boss.
Saves & Play Games
- Your progress is saved to your own Google Play Games account only. The copy/paste save code in Settings > About is gone; the hidden on-phone safety copy that guards against lost progress stays.
- When a cloud sync fails, Settings > Account shows a "Sign in to Google Play Games" button and Google's error code.
- Signing in to Play Games starts a cloud sync right away.
- The Play Games project is now published, so every player can sign in, not only testers.
Interface
- Black Market, Challenge, Records and Rankings are redesigned with the numbered plates of the hangar and Settings, fill the screen in portrait and landscape, and use two columns on wide landscape screens.
- The MACH-X wordmark no longer has a dark band behind it; the speed lines left of the M are amber in the hangar header.
- The base map's fullscreen button has a new stencil icon that shows whether it opens or closes.
Performance
- Hangar, Base, Barracks and Codex tabs light up as soon as you tap them; the screen follows right after.
- The base map's buildings are prepared in the background instead of on your first tap (first visit to Base about 1.1 s to 0.4 s on a slow phone), and Codex plane pictures are made only when needed (0.74 s to 0.17 s).