Whats new and Spotlight
Removing the whats new and spotlight sections for a cleaner menu

Tools
You will need the:
Whats New
Up in the top right hand corner there is a UI element showing off the new elements of the game. The assets for the UI element are located in the games rpack files which we dont have access to, however we can remove it since the game is no longer receiving updates.
To remove the UI element you will need to unpack englishclient_frontend.bsp.pak000_dir.vpk
and edit the file \resource\ui\menus\panels\mainmenu.res
.
Find the WhatsNew
section in the file:
WhatsNew
{
ControlName RuiPanel
ypos 380
wide 740
tall 125
rui "ui/whats_new.rpak"
visible 1
pin_to_sibling PinFrame
pin_corner_to_sibling TOP_RIGHT
pin_to_sibling_corner TOP_RIGHT
}
Set visible to 0:
visible 0
You can now repack your VPK and you will no longer see the Whats New UI element.
Spotlight
On the right side of the screen you will 3 UI elements grouped together:
News - Frontier News Network: Operation Endeavor
Rendy Gaming fires away in his Kraber G100 Montage.
Check out the latest weapon skins
To remove these elements you will need to unpack englishclient_frontend.bsp.pak000_dir.vpk
and edit the file \resource\ui\menus\panels\spotlight.res
.
There are 3 sections in this file:
SpotlightLarge
SpotlightSmall0
SpotlightSmall1
To hide each section set visible
to 0
visible 0
You can now repack your VPK and you will no longer see the Spotlight elements.

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