Switching between chat channels in-game (Spec → Team → All → Spec) is now possible via the Tab key

Startboxes are no longer limited to rectangles. Maps can now define startboxes that follow the terrain they're meant to cover, and those start boxes will show in both the lobby and in-game, during placement.

Good morning beautiful people. Today I will be sharing our plans for matchmaking, how we will achieve it and some of the speed bumps we expect to encounter. Hopefully this is the first of many developer posts, be sure to let us known on discord and social media that you like these. Matchmaking was _the_ item I joined the team to implement before I went and Yak-shaved an entire server so it seems appropriate to make my first post about it.

This patch broadens the meta by strengthening alternative AA, reducing T2 fighter dominance, and toning down common open-map staples. Underused bruisers and Gauss units get stronger, while the new slow-transport option temporarily curbs Commander drive-by cheese.

A new tab has been added to the lobby interface for management of user-installed widgets. The currently offered set is an official curation of 40 selected widgets that conform to the game's desired design objectives, like Ping Wheel, Factory Queue, and Pipette Build. Widgets are automatically kept up to date by default, with notifications for every install and update, and the ability to opt-out under the lobby settings tab. Thanks to WybrenKoelmans for the contribution.

Emoji support has been added to ingame and lobby chat. The currently used set is from https://github.com/twitter/twemoji and is licensed under CC-BY 4.0. Thanks to ZainMGit for the contribution.

Now in lobby: Players can right-click a player name and choose Add Player Notes. The note is saved locally in a .json and shown at the bottom of that player’s hover tooltip. Thanks to ZainMGit for the contribution.

You can now disable music tracks you don't like through ingame audio settings!

Lobby UI now automatically scales with Resolution, with 1080p being used as base for which it was designed for.