The fleet was in reverse
For two days, one of the most basic things in the game was backwards: press W to ring for flank ahead, and your ship crawled astern instead. Every warship, every tank, for anyone who’d never touched their settings. It’s fixed — W is full ahead again, no matter how you fly.
All stop when you rang for flank
If you took the helm of a battleship recently and pushed W, you watched your dreadnought inch backward across the Brick Sea at a crawl while the telegraph said ahead. Tap S and it surged forward. The whole fleet had its gearbox in reverse: forward was back, back was forward. It was worst because it was so fundamental — the very first key you press to get moving did the opposite of what it should, and the HUD’s own “back up” banner only added to the confusion.
The cause traced back to a recent change to how aircraft pitch works — a setting that let pilots choose their elevator direction. That choice leaked into the ships and tanks, where it has no business: a captain’s throttle isn’t an elevator, and W should mean “ahead” whatever a pilot prefers in the cockpit.
W is ahead again
The helm and the throttle now read W and S straight — W ahead, S astern — completely independent of your flight controls. However you like your elevator set up, ringing for flank on a ship or flooring a tank drives you toward the enemy, the way it always should have. Warships make proper way, tanks pull hard off the line, and the recovery banner only shows up when you’re genuinely stuck on terrain.
Flight school stops hazing the rookies
The training range had a nastier version of the same “this isn’t fair” problem. The Bust the Column lesson kept killing straight-and-level students seconds after the briefing — the run-in spawned you already inside a quad-flak half-track’s guns, pointed at even more of them, dead before you’d done anything wrong. Now the run starts head-on from a safe distance, and your spawn shield holds while you read the briefing card and drops the instant you pull the trigger — so the drill still bites exactly when the lesson begins, not before you’ve had a chance to fly it.
A hidden throttle, back in reach
On phones, the air theater’s throttle lever had quietly lost its top: the upper end of its travel was tucked behind the stack of gauges, so full throttle sat under a row you couldn’t reach with your thumb. The lever now has room to run its whole range, and the touch controls are back to being fully reachable — full throttle is a thumb-slide away again.