Dear Managers,
We are thrilled to announce the release of the first major update for We Are Football 2024, bringing a host of exciting new features, improvements, and fixes to enhance your football management experience. It's packed with enhancements across various aspects of the game.
Some of the highlights included in the update:
- Over 1000 new scenes added for increased match variation
- Improved 3D player models for a more realistic on-pitch experience
- Enhanced stadium visuals to immerse you in the atmosphere of match day
- Refinements to fouls, tackling, dives, and challenges for smoother gameplay
- Goalkeeper improvements including saves, catching crosses, and punching the ball
- Goal cheering and anthems to celebrate every thrilling moment
- Upgraded weather effects and night game visuals for added realism
- Better visibility of the transfer list and youth scouting for improved player management
- New staff position: Psychologist, to support your team both on and off the pitch
- Additional AI faces for increased diversity and realism
- Introduction of 20 new sponsors and suppliers to expand your club's partnerships
- Several UI improvements for smoother navigation and management
We want to sincerely thank our passionate community for their invaluable feedback and support. Your input continues to shape We Are Football 2024 into the ultimate football management simulation.
Update your game today and lead your club to glory in We Are Football 2024!
Best regards,
The We Are Football 2024 Development Team
The game requires a lot of memory for large user databases. If this is not available, the game may crash.
We therefore recommend:
- Be sure to increase the size of the Windows pagefile, our suggestion would be 16 GB
- Instructions on how to do this can be found pinned at the top under "Discussions", it's straightforward
- Make sure that there is enough free disc space available
- For fast gaming: The larger the DB, the more RAM should be available
- Switch off countries that are not required if possible
But now have fun with the new features in the update:
Match
- 3D match: More than 1,000 new scenes
- 3D match: Fouls, tacklings, dives and assaults
- 3D match: Distance shots for counterattacks from very far away
- 3D match: Goalkeeper improvements for catching crosses and punching the ball
- 3D match: Goalkeeper saves to the post
- 3D match: Cheering after goals (ok, just a bit of cheering for now)
- 3D match: New player models with more polygons
- 3D match: You can create and add your own shirts to the game
- 3D match: Scoreboard updates (result, minute, time)
- 3D match: Improved attendance, now also with backside
- 3D match: Improved stadium pitch
- 3D match: Improved goal nets
- 3D match: Goal anthems (optional), with the option to add your own songs (see guide)
- 3D match: More flags and better distribution
- 3D match: Animated camera crane in oval stadiums
- 3D match: Improved weather effects (rain, snow) and better-looking night display
- 3D match: Improved shadows of the stands/roofs
- 3D match: Better positions of the action boxes
- Real instant calculation via button before the start of the game
Stats
- Comprehensive stats package (more than 40 new stats screens, including grid, team and map screens)
- Update of existing stats (e.g. option to look at transfers of previous seasons)
- Additional statistics on player development in the player profile under "Career", including goals, appearances, etc.
- Additional screen with record players and record goalscorers in the club profile
Transfer market
- Display of an optional transfer list during the week highlighting the new players
- Option to open the transfer list from the home screen
- Display of the potential of the character traits of scouted players
- Youth player scouting (youth player profiles of youth players from other clubs become available)
Other game sections
- New staff member: Psychologist
- Player nicknames (will show up in the player profiles as soon as certain criteria are met)
- More options when founding a club regarding stadium size, starting capital, etc.
- Many new AI player faces
- Over 30 new sponsors and suppliers
- Long club motto is also used on ad boards
- Seat color can now also be changed in-game
- New screen "Overview of international title holders" at the end of the season
- Various visual improvements for the club grounds
- Lots of little things (e.g. derby note for ticket prices, the tooltip for club reputation)
- Editor: New button for adopting the home jersey style for the away jersey
- Guide: First English version with some of the most important chapters translated
UI improvements
- New optional line-up background with zones
- Marking of substituted players on the pitch of the substitution screen
- Pitches in the UI replaced (are now green)
- In-game music can be replaced and expanded (see guide)
- POS1: Plays last song again, END: Skips the current song
- ENTER jumps one screen further
- Right-click on the main menu item to jump back one tab
- The middle mouse button opens wing menus (like TAB)
- Information on fitness and tactics when selecting the training week at the start of the week
- Training groups: Injured players are now colored red in the list
Fixed bugs
- Tuning: Number of cards reduced, referee toughness effect reduced
- Tuning: Winning matches has a stronger effect on board popularity
- Tuning: Match affects Fitness for top teams with many international matches improved
- Match: Counterattacks in short scenes start directly with a counterattack, not with a reference to the previous attack of the opponents
- Match: VAR: No longer yellow-red card instead of the yellow card displayed after handball
- Match: Display type (long/short scenes) now saved after restart
- Match: Selection of matchday conference no longer selects all games automatically
- Match: Goal but display of "Just missed" fixed
- Match: Wrong text for 2nd half before extra time
- Match: The "Card" display partially above the roof was corrected
- Match: Black screen except for the overlays during a certain type of attack fixed
- Match: Crash during a certain scene fixed
- Match: Crash in "None" mode during European Championship qualifiers with a certain score fixed
- Match: Camera partly out of place during reaction/conversation overlay at the end of the game
- Match: Unnecessary yellow cards too often with low-effort fixed
- Match: Only improved marks for saved penalties (no downgrade for goals)
- Match: Corrected scoreboard directions
- Match: Various improvements of match scenes
- Match: Improved xG calculation for counter-attacks
- Club info: Stadium name of the 1st team is no longer displayed for the 2nd team
- Club info: Title is no longer deleted if a club is relegated from the last available league
- Youth: Display of injuries now change when browsing through players
- Youth: Date limit for poaching can no longer be bypassed
- Personal life: Cheating no longer continues automatically
- Personal life: "In relationship" event with previously entered partner removed
- Personal life: Help no longer empty
- Personal: Tab switching with arrow keys added
- Personal: Family: School events now match the age of the child
- Persönliches: Reoccuring events during the week removed
- End of season: Crash fixed if no scout (0) was set
- Player info: Different number of goals compared to the media summary corrected
- Player info: The size of tooltip for Socialising increased
- Player info: Character changes during the game fixed
- Player info: Motivation: Players who move up a level are no longer immediately dissatisfied due to underpayment
- Player promise: Reset after breaking them once
- League info: Crash when clicking on 3rd league Austria on matchday fixed
- Manager contract: The signing fee is now paid
- Good/bad: Budget information/request to spend now works
- Transfers/Renewals: The screen is only displayed during the transfer period
- Ad boards: Extreme income with multiple extensions prevented
- Stadium: Seat color is now working properly
- Internal cup: "knockout round play-offs" instead of "intermediate round"
- Transfers: Preliminary discussion corrected: an unassigned player can no longer imagine a "transfer"
- Line-up: Rule-based line-up: All priorities are taken into account
- Line-up: Error after drag+drop with 21:9 display fixed
- Statistics: NT Competitions No historical data for record player/record goalscorer NT fixed
- Audio: Sound no longer continues after Win+L
- International Supercup: Scheduling corrected
- Cup: No extra time in one case in Spain fixed
- European Cup: Qualifying for the European Cup as 2nd in Slovakia but no participation problem fixed
- Museum: Graphic error table football fixed
- Match start: Championship and relegation rounds no longer count as a league for simulated countries
- Media summary: Comment on player sale fixed
- Lightmode: Buttons under "Youth" and "Local" are now visible
- Manager tasks: Remaining time bar turns no longer green instead of red
- Manager tasks: Reward for additional budget on "Transfers for next season" fixed
- Player contracts: Problem with the club's extension option fixed
- Personal: Crash after looking at potentially interested clubs fixed
- Scouting: Potential crash with an extreme number of scout orders and scouts fixed
- NT: Naturalisation: Tooltip info now displayed if buttons are disabled due to lack of APs
- NT: EC 2024 (in the separate EC mode) now works
- "Congress League" final match and the draws are now shown in the calendar