First off, a huge welcome and thank you to all the new players who picked up Sunday Rivals recently, it's been a crazy month! If you haven't already, be sure to jump into our discord server if you have any questions or want to see what the community is up to: https://discord.gg/Waq2j6UbqC
For folks who've been playing the game for awhile now, you've probably been staring at the giant, gray rectangle in the endzone and wondering when that was going to finally turn on. In v.16.3, that bad boy as well as some of the smaller scoreboards are fully functional now! No longer will you find yourself unsure of whether or not it was appropriate to 'make some noise'. To keep things hyped, I've also added multiple stadium songs blaring over the speakers to ensure the place stays rocking between plays, as well as some new sound effects throughout the game.
In an effort to provide a better player experience on the defensive side of the ball, I've added an experimental speed boost after you've successfully defeated a block, giving you a better to chance to wreak havoc in the backfield or chase down fleeing QB's. Be aware, AI defenders have it too, so keep your head on a swivel out there!
Check out the full patch notes below:
Presentation
- Main stadium scoreboard shows animated text for the home team
- Added additional small scoreboards that rotate through team stats
- Added stadium music playing between downs and after home team scores
- Added fanfare music to cutscenes
- Added sound effects to UI shutters opening and closing
- Offensive play previews now show the OVR rating of eligible players
- Defensive play previews now show the OVR of the selected defender
- Play preview camera can now freelook by moving the left stick
Gameplay
- Added an inverted, ratings based speed boost to players who successfully overcome a block
- Increased lower rated defenders' tackling success
- Decreased pass accuracy and throw quality for lower rated QB's, especially while moving
- Removed button mashing slowdown on kicking plays
- Made blocking kicks possible again
- Changed OVR weighting for TE's
- Rebalanced kick meter accuracy to work with new sliders
Bugs
- Fixed a critical bug where loading into a league would hang the game after finishing a game, returning to the main menu and advancing to playoffs without playing a game immediately afterwards. The game should load correctly going forward.
- Fixed a critical bug where loading into a league would hang if you had previously loaded into a smaller league
- Fixed a bug where quarter scores on the postgame screen were formatted incorrectly
- Fixed a bug where a tipped, intercepted pass on a 2pt conversion would give the ball back to the offense
- Potential fix for rare bug where players will lose the ability to use their controller after entering the pause or halftime menu and returning to game