Whats new and Spotlight

Removing the whats new and spotlight sections for a cleaner menu

A screenshot of the main menu showing the Whats New and Spotlight elements

Tools

You will need the:

• Titanfall VPK Tool
• VPK renamer / move (Optional)

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.

A screenshot of the main menu with both Whats New and Spotlight removed