Three new patches have been released in the past few days which continue to fix and improve the game and get AFC2020 closer to a full release!
This doesn't fix everything, so please post if your game crashes at any point. A couple of the crashes fixed this time around would happen relatively frequently, so hoping things calm down.
The next big push will be to work on defensive positioning - too many goals are being scored because a player wins a 1-on-1 and then runs the ball into the goal untouched due to differences in acceleration/speed - and also to work on time on ground, as there appear to be a few issues there as the game currently focuses too much on fatigue/stamina and not enough on skill when determining who should rotate on.
Resolution is also an issue for many users, which is difficult to handle but will be a focus next week. If your screen size is 768 pixels high or you use a high resolution monitor, the game already supports a fix, but you have to hack the game's Settings.txt file to make it work. The work next week will make sure that it's easier for you to handle resolution issues.
Here are the change logs for the previous patches:
VERSION 0.5.9
- Fixed bug: Players would sometimes sit on the bench without interchanging properly
- Fixed bug: Team > Statistics screen now displays the correct player when you click on them
- Fixed bug: League > Player Statistics now displays the correct player when you click on them
- Fixed bug (2020 version only): Two players with the same name, one had all of the stats for both players, the other had none of the stats
- Fixed bug: Team List Management injury list displayed oddly
- Fixed bug: Coaches are now hired for their proper role
- Fixed bug: Hired coaches now receive a salary
- Fixed bug: May not have eliminated it completely, but you should see far fewer notifications that a player wants to renew their contract when they don't want to renew
- Fixed bug: Retired players were getting and signing contract offers from teams
- Fixed bug: Some players no longer have leading spaces after their names
- Fixed bug: Trade notifications were only being displayed for one team, blank for the second team
- Fixed bug: User could accept/reject trades, but accepted trades weren't removing themselves and rejected trades didn't always match
- Fixed bug: Trades were saving/loading, but not associating team information properly, leading to blank trade screens after load
- Fixed bug: Leading goalscorer award now awarded immediately following end of home-and-away season so finals don't influence the result
- Fixed bug: Transactions were going in reverse after game load
- Fixed bug: Scouting reports screen
- Fixed bug: Scouting reports screen made wider for easier player addition
- Fixed bug: Game would crash when resolving a trade if a player had been delisted after the trade proposal was initiated
- Fixed bug: Game would crash when trying to save if a team didn't have a head coach or list manager
- Fixed bug: Game would not change its save game name if copied on the hard drive
- Improved: Can now click on players from scouting reports screen
- Improved: Can now click on players from shortlist screen
- Improved: Can now removed shortlisted players directly from shortlist screen
- Improved: Players now display as retired instad of unattached on player screen
- Improved: Changed some player attributes
- Improved: Better scouts won't make hyperbolic assessments of young players potential
- Improved: Team Best and Fairest award now appears in coaching news and the top five players should display now
- Improved: Not user-facing yet, but started programming the code to make a functional back button
+ Added: Ball trails
+ Added: Made background image wider/more stadium-like, so you can now see interchange players, and increased focus on the pitch
VERSION 0.5.8
- Fixed bug: Career stats actually save
- Fixed bug: You can't add injured players to your team selection anymore, and selected injured players are automatically removed from team selection after each game
- Fixed bug: Upper right hand corner coaching wins/losses indicator now uses team ladder position, not draft position
- Fixed bug: Teams in zoned player leagues were not displaying the zoned players in the coaching screen
- Fixed bug: Extra periods were a little bit too long (knock-on effect from change in version 0.4, not noticed until now)
- Fixed bug: Notify delistings and retirements didn't check for team and crashed (did not test the fix so may still crash but may be okay now)
- Fixed bug: Players must play for a team to be eligible for the mid-season draft
- Fixed bug: Changed ruck positioning
- Fixed bug: Injured players would sometimes remain on the pitch/get interchanged back onto the field
- Fixed bug: You can now accept/reject AI offered trades again
- Improved: Scouts are now automatically assigned different leagues on game start
- Improved: Removed numerical security indicator
- Improved: Allowed the screen to display better on larger monitors (not fully implemented, this still requires a hack)
- Improved: Made drop-downs in tables more obvious
+ Added: You can directly add players to shortlist from scouting report screen
+ Added: Labeled substitutes on selections screen
+ Added: You can now clear your player selection
+ Added: Deleting user messages now automatically selects the next message
+ Added: Variable quarter lengths (you can change these on the League>Editor screen during league offseasons)
VERSION 0.5.7
- Fixed bug: Scouting should now work (though you will have to manually update your scouts at the start of the game, this will be fixed tomorrow)
- Fixed bug: Fatigue no longer starts at ~52% in-game
- Fixed bug: Stadiums with a roof now block out inclement weather and temperatures
- Fixed bug: No scouting reports were showing since the function to update the scouting reports table never got called anywhere
- Fixed bug: A player who suffered a career ending injury could still be selected if you didn't take him out of the team
- Fixed bug: Players should no longer randomly wander off of the field
- Fixed bug: Clicking on a player on the team stats page now filters by year and /should/ return the proper player
- Fixed bug: Career stats were not loading/saving at all
- Fixed bug: Trades were saving but not loading
- Fixed bug: Contested marks were not saving
- Fixed bug: Match stats would occasionally appear duplicated
- Fixed/improved: Some player skills/minor data issues
- Fixed/improved: Players were getting time-on-pitch for periods when the clock was stopped
- Fixed bug: Game was not saving team points, meaning points were only recalculated when a team won/drew a game, leading to issues with finals
- Fixed bug: A typo was causing the transaction log date to not load properly, leading to blank dates in the transaction log
- Fixed bug: Game would occasionally crash when you selected "Free Agents" on League > Player screen
- Fixed bug: May have fixed Free Agents display on display screen
- Fixed bug: Players who have re-signed now display statuses properly instead of crashing the game
- Improved: Player fatigue now a function of both fitness and stamina, not just fitness, and should be generally improved if not complete
- Improved: Added indicator if player is injured in the middle of the game
+ Added: Players can now improve skills through playing in a game