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Since 1.9.0 a lot has changed under the hood. On top of that, there is something you can hear: a commentator on matchday. Commentator Your matches are now commented live, with a voice. 601 lines per language for 135 situations, from a chance to an injury to the final phase. Goals
Version 1.4 never came out, so this covers everything since 1.3.0 in one go. It is the biggest update so far: the matchday is now a real 3D broadcast. Matchday in 3D The old 2D view is gone. Stadium, crowd, floodlights and weather are now built in 3D. You choose between the TV di
2.0: End of Early Access on November 1 Hi everyone, as you have probably noticed, the pace of updates and patches has slowed down a little over the past few weeks. There is a good reason for that: the game has reached a level of maturity I am very happy with. Many systems fit tog
The biggest update so far. Three systems are new or rebuilt from the ground up, and all 26 languages are complete for the first time. Merch Lab The old research system is gone. In its place is the Merch Lab: six sliders instead of three focus areas, a prototype takes one week. Th
This one is about a question the game never asked before: why should a good player stay at your club of all places? Players make demands From strength 65 a player looks at what your club has. Nine demands, rising from the medical department to the players' lounge. Between 65 and
Almost everything here comes from your feedback Training The readout showed only half the week : "+7.7 fitness" was the training plan, the -8 to -16 points a match costs appeared nowhere. Now the whole week is there, net. Hard training made players fitter instead of tiring them:
The biggest update so far. The world is now really the world, the game speaks 28 languages, and player development has been rebuilt from the ground up. The whole football world 53 countries become 128 , and two shipped worlds become six: next to the two European ones there is now
Almost everything here came out of the forum. Thanks for reporting, that is how you find what is missing. Squad Players out on loan were invisible to you. They sit in the squad of the club that borrowed them and showed up nowhere in yours. The new Ins & outs tab lists them: w
The biggest update since launch. At the centre: a game world covering all of Europe, and an economy that fits the division you play in. All of Europe Alongside "Small Europe" there is now a second world: 52 associations, 199 sections, 3,064 clubs, 55 competitions . Real league st
Two of the fixes below come straight from the Steam forum. Thanks for reporting them, that is how these get found. World and fixtures If you play a tier with several sections, season two merged them into one giant league: 30 matchdays became 94. The season rollover built the fixt
Some Minor Changes and Fixes A board sponsor now delivers exactly the benefit printed on it. Before, the second partner from the same trade counted only half and the third a quarter, and nothing anywhere said so: a main sponsor and a board with +6% TV money each came to 15 instea
This one is mostly about things that were already there but never quite worked. And about a question from the forum: how much of the match do you actually want to see? Matchday Four levels instead of one: the stadium as before, a flat top-down view with 22 discs, dressing room on
This one is about the bank. A loan used to be a single number, and rebuilding it turned up a few things that had been wrong for a while. The bank You make a request, five lenders answer : with an offer, with less money, or with a refusal and a reason. One request per week. You pi
This one is almost all matchday: we analysed three real games with tracking data and measured the broadcast against them, instead of tuning it by feel. On top of that, a rebuild of the youth setup, where the AI had taken an advantage for itself. Matchday Who gets the pass is now
Transfer market The weekly cost of a free agent is now stated correctly. Free agents add 35 to 75 percent to their wage, because no transfer fee is due. That did not apply to expired contracts, even though both sit in the same list and look the same. Now they ask for the same. UI
World builder The structure is now hierarchical: world, region, country, tier, division . It used to be a flat list in which "1. Liga" appeared six times, with the cups sitting next to it with no connection at all. A world you built yourself now carries its own id. Before, the bu
Today's update comes with a few larger changes. Club statistics New Club statistics tab: numbers for every club in your league pyramid, split by league, cup and European competition. Cup The final is now played on neutral ground . Main round matches are now shared out more evenly
This time it is almost all about things that were already there but never really worked. Crests and world The crest you pick now actually shows up in the game. Before it just vanished, and you could not change it either. 787 symbols to choose from, plus colour, size and position.
Youth Academy Training now takes 36 instead of 84 weeks (tier 1) UI adjustments for better clarity. "End training" now shows the consequence: the expected rating against your squad average, and the weeks that cancelling buys you back. AI clubs only take on graduates who come clos
Kick-off for HALFTIME This is it: HALFTIME Manager is available in Early Access as of today. To celebrate the launch there is 15% off for seven days. I built this game because something was missing for me. The management gems of the 90s were fun because they got the complexity ex