UPDATE HIGHLIGHT:

CO-OP

Co-op fully working. Play with up to 8 players locally or with remote play.
AI improvements to mark unmarked players (necessary for Co-op).
Selected human players obstruct each other.

PARTY MODE

Play a tournament with your friends.

TECHNICAL RELEASE NOTES:

GAMEPLAY IMPROVEMENTS:

• Offside rule! (necessary for Co-op).
  
• Replay for offside.
  
• Kick forces are balanced (the players kick more powerful than before when charging).
  
• Minimum speed, rotation and acceleration increased for players with zero stats.
  
• Goalkeeper crouch and forward diving to get the ball from the opponent.
  
• Traditional style controls and PCS style controls help screens.
  
• Controllers settings can be accessed for the options, pre-match screen and in game.
  
• Controllers settings and gameplay options can be configured for each controller.
  
• Difficulty levels (easy / normal / hard).
  
• The game asks for difficulty and control style the first time it is run (can be changed in the settings).
  
• AI improvement to avoid players to stand still for a long time.
  
• AI improved when running with the ball and must kick to the goal (most advanced player).
  
• Balanced the marking / dribbling resolution when fighting for the ball.
  
• Goalkeeper AI can walk with the ball in hands before passing or kicking.
  
• The players with zero stats now have more control of the ball.
  
• Wind force reduced.
  

OTHER IMPROVEMENTS:

• Player size was increased a bit to improve readability of team colors.
  
• Snow weather now looks better.
  
• Improved the visuals of the snow/rain/storm weathers.
  
• De-saturation of the field to help readability of team colors.
  
• Australia & Wales included in the Global Cup.
  
• Changed the controls preview pre-match screen to display an image of one of the connected joysticks and its currently selected control setup and corresponding glyph.
  
• Added animations for camera-folk looking north.
  
• Added a button within joystick configuration that opens the Steam controller config directly.
  
• Changed the random tournaments option to not be random by default. Instead tournaments will start with their predefined brackets and participants.
  
• Added a build number display at the Main Menu for easy identification of current release version, specially on gameplay videos you use to report bugs.
  
• Changed the in-game HUD to accommodate for Co-Op player indicators, names, stamina bar, etc...
  
• Changed colors code for the Locked and Unavailable icons at the skills menu.
  
• Implemented the Offside Law and immediate camera replay for offside.
  
• Implemented a choice to start your subsequent career slots without the Situations mechanic. You can also disable the situations for an existing career save slot. Beware that this cannot be re-activated once disabled.
  
• Changed the looks of the input text fields.
  

BALANCE IMPROVEMENTS:

• Changed the initial career players skills: Now up to 9 players in your roster will start with a Ball Control skill and there is a 70% chance that for all 30 players that they will also have one of the nine 0-stars skills.
  
• Implemented a new difficulty selection screen at game start. This gives you the choice for three presets that can tailor your game experience to match your expertise with soccer games.
  
• Front slide tackle foul/yellow cards balance (less chances of foul).
  
• Goalkeeper reaction time balance (more saves if kick from a far position).
  
• Fast kick (kick button tap) now kicks the ball high only in the defensive half of the pitch.
  

BUG-FIXES:

• Solved the kick off bug, preventing starting the game.
  
• Fixed a bug causing the kick particle to remain visible.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some Back buttons to return two menu levels back instead of one.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the speed of the texts at the How To Play screens to change with the render frame rate.
  

DISCLAIMER:

- As we've mentioned before, WE DO NOT OVERWRITE your custom teams, therefore if you want to use Batovi's team design, you must use the Reset Teams Database option, under Gameplay Settings.
- The new import team options will overwrite your existing team when successful.