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How's it going? I finally get to say my hellos to everyone through this developer blog.

I am Desperado, the Planner for the Combat Arms team.

I'm here to tell you about the Usability Revamps that are being added in October.

The purpose of the Usability Revamps at this time is to review the overall usability of Combat Arms and provide better information to the users, along with making improvements.

The revamps are mainly small changes to new information that is being added. Also, these revamps were made using the suggestions users have made through various channels and internal research.

The small changes include Wait Room List filtering, map list re-ordering, and a safety measure for item deletion.

To explain, the Wait Room Filtering will include filters for rooms available for play, and things like Wait Rooms without passwords and such. These options can be used to sort the Wait Room list to find and connect to a room faster.

Currently, the Map List in the Wait Room is arranged according to the time it was added, so it makes it difficult to find the maps you want. To help this situation, changes has been made to put the map list in alphabetical order. So, if you know the name of the map you are looking for, it will be easier to find.

Lastly, when an item in possession is deleted now, a notification is shown but one wrong click can cost you an item you want to keep. So, as a safety measure against item deletion, we are implementing a check where a special phrase has to be entered to delete an item.

Although the above changes were very small, we took into consideration many suggestions and lots of research to make sure these changes would not hinder any smooth game play.

For a larger change, we are adding a User Blacklist and Shop/Inventory List Method changes.

For the User Blacklist, we have added this to take measures against adverse effects of communication.

We know there are times when someone will continue to pour on insults or take actions that make things uncomfortable for you unrelated to game play. So, a Blacklist has been added to the Other Tab in the Options so that people who bother you can be managed by yourself and communications from those people can be blocked off.

We made it possible to add or remove users through a user click menu or through a chat command.

Lastly, there is a change coming to the Shop/Inventory List. Several hundred items are currently being sold in Combat Arms. So the Combat Arms UI is presented to the users as a list based on text to make it easier to look at the items.

Of course when clicked, item information is provided in a separate detailed space towards the bottom. I know there are users out there who want to see the items as an image without a click on the text, so that they can see it right away. So both the text and image methods will be provided with an option for user to select what they like.

The above information is only part of the revamp and more information will be provided in the patch.

The Combat Arms team is always working hard to collect the suggestions of our users and we hope that this revamp will make the game easier to get into.

Thank you.

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