Roadmap

Current Work

• Ability for users to edit existing loadouts
• General housekeeping

Recent Updates

• Further profile fetcher optimisations to speed and storage across the front and backend
• Logged in users can now choose to display their profiles and loadouts with a custom theme as well as add in urls for their Twitter, twitch, and Youtube profiles.
• Backend upgrade to Dot Net Core 3.1 and various API changes
• Fixed some UX and backend issues around the create loadout process
• Rebuilt site structure for Hero, Schematics, areas
• Style tidy-up, removed a lot of old stuff, brought in more consistent page layouts

Past Updates

• Decouple profile/item database functionality from website into a separate API project
• Do another pass on the profile fetcher to squeeze out as much performance as possible!
• Enabled winter/christmas theme
• Swipe support for navigation toggle in mobile
• Added filter to heroes & schematics pages (as well as the corresponding tabs in the profile viewer)
• Bought heroes page inline with schematics (tabbed by class)
• Optimisations to loadouts viewer
• Optimisations to the way profile data is saved and fetched (the initial fetch is still slow due to the vast amount of data that's fetched, and then processed, from the endpoint)
• Fixed level calculations on heroes/schematics in the profile
• BR Store/STW Store integration
• New missions page layout with more filtering options
• Bolster error handling for schematic problems in profiles
• Started banner ads trial integration to help with running costs
• Add functionality to see weapon upgrade perks on Profile > Schematics page
• Public profiles featuring STW progress and site loadouts/activity
• Separate Search and profiles page for searching/viewing STW Profiles
• Improved STW name matching/checking to properly handle cases where no user exists at all.
• Mapped and implemented full Schematics database
• Moved images to CDN
• Updated filter on loadout creator to also search heroes/perks based on description
• Add override option to hide STW name
• DB optimisations
• Reset Password functionality
• STW API changes to account for new authentication process in Epics backend
• Bolstered news fetcher
• Ability for users to generate an image of their loadout and supporting info for use on external sites
• Created Discord channel and bot that will post mission alerts and news updates, the channel can also be used to get in touch, and post bugs or feature requests.
• Improved form validation UX
• Fixed vBucks detection due to distinction between founders and (future) F2P profiles.
• Added options to change site account password and associated STW profile name
• Fixed incorrect Perk mappings for some Heroes in the loadout creator
• Misc style fixes for mobile
• Implemented news feed
• Added ability to change password for logged in users
• Added ability to change Save the World profile name for logged in users
• Improved UX for profiles that don't have Save the World data associated to their name
• Added entries for Save the World Retro Sci Fi Heroes
• Implemented further caching techniques
• Added loadouts to hero page that lists loadouts the hero has been used in
• Improved Ux of navigation menu on mobile devices
• Complete missions alert are marked on the missions page for logged in users
• Improved caching performance profiles around certain pages
• Added 'Missions' card to front-page
• Added 'Database > Hero' section to site which lists all heroes and their associated stats
• Revamp menu to integrate dropdowns to help keep things tidy
• Updated event currency icon to summer variant
• Fix some issues around registration > login process
• Rolled out initial profile page which will pull in the in-game data from Save the World that matches the display name used during registration
• Updated Mission Tracker logic for new in-game alert system
• Add resources for Season 9 Heroes/Perks/TeamPerks
• Fix perk filter in 'Create Loadout' page
• Backend changes to mission monitoring due to Twine Peaks mission scaling changes