MACH-XNew
- Rank Field: your rank now climbs the full ladder of 29 army ranks, from Private through the sergeants, the warrant officers and the officers up to General of the Army, each with its real insignia on your service record.
- Every promotion raises a new piece on the Rank Field, a parade ground just west of your base: a pup tent with a campfire, a foxhole, a field radio, a jeep, a searchlight that sweeps the night, a field kitchen, the unit colours, an honour guard, a radar trailer, an observation balloon, a staff car, a howitzer, light and heavy tanks, a fighter on display, a bronze soldier, a victory arch and, at the end of the avenue, a five-star obelisk with two eternal flames.
- Ranks you have not reached yet stand as bare pads with their rank plaque, and the next one waits under a tarp. Tap the Rank Field sign on the base map, or open Records, to see every rank, its piece and the XP still to go.
- The promotion ceremony now tells you which piece just arrived in your base.
- Co-op: the host picks the map, the mode and the heat right in the lobby. Endless, campaign and the other modes all play in co-op, and the guest sees the choice before pressing READY.
- Heat per map: every world keeps its own heat, in every mode, so each map can be pushed further on its own.
- World Rankings rows now show the run's mode beside the heat.
- Hangar shop: a Buy all key buys every offer you can afford, cheapest first. The first tap shows how many items and the total, the second tap buys.
- Co-op lobby: tap a pilot to see its bonuses (stats, trade-offs and perk). Paint and pilot picks are shown by name.
- Settings: a separate explosion volume slider, so blasts can be quieter or louder than the rest of the effects.
Improved
- Co-op for the guest: the guest now calls its own hits, so you are no longer hit by bullets you dodged on your own screen. The world is drawn closer to real time, and lost pieces of the battle state are resent, so enemies no longer jump.
- Leviathan: the airship has a full 3D cel-shaded hull with curved ribs, shaded engine gondolas and a dorsal fin. Its dodge is now an Engine Boost, a forward surge, instead of a barrel roll.
- Fortress: the enemy base no longer lands over a river or a road. It sits on a bulldozed apron with tank tracks, two rows of dragon's teeth, a fire trench, a red and white gate boom with machine-gun nests and a row of fuel tanks.
- World Rankings key: a neon-blue globe that turns, now neatly in line with the other keys.
- Planes in co-op can fly as far apart as they like.