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OPEN GUARD Update 1.1.2 This update improves Fighter Career weigh-ins and makes weight-management risk clear before competition along with other fixes and improvements. Fighter Career Fixed event-week conditioning. Conditioning selected for the week now improves weight discipline
OPEN GUARD Update v1.1: Fighter Career Update 1.1 is focused on making Fighter Career clearer, deeper and more dependable, alongside fixes and performance improvements that benefit the whole game. Existing saves are supported. Fighter Career is now in Beta Fighter Career has move
Open Guard Has Left Early Access - Version 1.0 After a long period of development and Early Access feedback, Open Guard is now moving into full release. Thank you to everyone who played, reported bugs, shared saves, and helped shape the game. Version 1.0 focuses on stability, cle
Open Guard 0.6.3 - The Progression Update Fighter Career growth now works the way it always should have. Driven directly by your feedback. Fighter Career Potential now does what it says. The creator's potential pick always promised faster growth, but career mode was incorrectly r
Fixed New career fighters could get their identity crossed with a simulated fighter. A bug introduced by the 0.6.1 identity fix meant a newly created fighter's ID could be reissued to a fighter generated during the world simulation, leaving some players starting their career in c
Open Guard 0.6.1 A hotfix for issues in Fighter Career. Thanks to everyone reporting bugs, keep them coming. Fixed Fighter identities could get crossed after loading a save. A long-standing save-system bug could hand your fighter's identity to a newly generated one, leaving you p
Open Guard 0.6.0 - Fighter Career A whole new way to play. Stop running the gym. Step onto the mat yourself, start as a nobody white belt, and fight your way to the top one decision at a time. Choose your path A brand new mode. Pick Fighter Career from the main menu and instead o
Open Guard 0.5.3 A major contracts and negotiation update: longer deals, a full performance-bonus system, and a redesigned signing screen. Contracts One to five year deals. Contract lengths now run from one to five years, replacing the old short-term options. Length is a real lev
Open Guard 0.5.2 A polish pass: quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes across the Apex Invitational, contracts, and your roster. Quality of life See the Apex bracket before you fight. On the final advance before your first Apex bout, the bracket now opens up in full: the fiel
v0.5.1 Patch New: Gym Promotion Standards You now set the promotion standards for your gym. Choose from three presets (Elite Academy, Standard, Relaxed) or build fully custom standards. Each belt level has three configurable requirements: an attribute threshold, minimum time at b
v0.5.0 Patch New: Getting Started Guide New players are now offered a Getting Started checklist when starting a new career. Seven objectives walk you through hiring a scout, signing a fighter, setting up training, entering tournaments, competing, and promoting a fighter. Each obj
v0.4.1 Patch Scouting Overhaul: Scouted Tab The Scouted tab now uses a two-panel layout. Select any fully scouted fighter from the list to view their full profile, attributes, record, and potential in the detail panel. All 15 attributes are displayed with stat bars and values, gi
Open Guard v0.4.0 Patch Notes A big one. Custom fighters, a rebuilt save system, and a long list of fixes and improvements. Custom Fighter Creator Create your own fighters from the main menu and import them into any game. Full fighter editor. Set name, age, nationality, body type
A focused follow-up addressing feedback about fighters disappearing from the world. If you like to track and develop talent across the wider world, this one is for you. Thanks for the detailed reports. Fighters no longer vanish on you Shortlisted fighters are protected. Any fight
Open Guard: Patch 0.3.1 A small patch with an interface refresh and two fixes raised since launch. Thanks to everyone sending reports and feedback through these early weeks. Interface Refreshed the main menu and in-game sidebar. A cleaner flat icon set and tidier buttons across b
Technique & Training Update Your fighters can now learn, sharpen, and master individual techniques, and a signature move finally means something. Train specific techniques Development is no longer just about attributes. You can now put a fighter to work on a specific techniqu
Championship Calendar Expanded Each format now has two World Championships a year instead of one. Summer Worlds : earlier in the year and easier to reach, so more fighters get their shot at a world title. Winter Worlds : later, tougher to qualify for, and paying out a bigger priz