Better coach retirement:
I've made a few changes that should help retirement in Coach Career mode feel less anticlimactic. First of all, now you can retire on your own terms, instead of only when turning 80. There's a 'Retire' button during the Coach Leveling phase, which you can use to call it a career early. Plus, once you retire, you can now choose to continue as a specific school to use as a School Dynasty save, or continue a Coach Career by taking over as another HC. There's also a nice retirement dialog to celebrate your career.
New scheduling options:
There are also new scheduling league settings, which allow you to change what weeks OOC games are played on. By default, these are weeks 1, 5, and 9, but now you have options to move those earlier or later in the season. But the best option is a new "fluid" setting, which will randomly move the 2nd and 3rd OOC week around each season. This should help add some variety over longer save files.
Signing day commit limits:
This is a feature suggested by some community members, and I really liked how simple it turned out to be. Now, you can limit how many commitments of each position to accept on signing day, instead of solely relying on the priority order. For example, if you're recruiting 2 QBs but only want one to commit, this lets you only accept one, leaving space for other positions. This configuration can be found on the "My Targets" tab of recruiting in the targets by position header, and only applies to Signing Day.
Team summary tooltip:
One last feature I want to highlight is the new team summary tooltip, which is shown when hovering over teams for a specific year. This tooltip will show the important vitals of the team, like offensive/defensive talent, PPG, prestige, and school level, but also the head coach and scheme they are running. This is super helpful to get a glance at upcoming teams on your schedule, or when browsing team rankings.
There are also lots of smaller improvements and bug fixes, which you can read below!
Features:
- Enhance coach retirement - can now choose to retire when you want, and takeover either a different HC in the league in 'Coach Career' mode, or a different team in 'School Dynasty' mode
- New scheduling options - can now change when OOC games are played, with options to move the weeks up, down, or make them random each year
- Add signing day position commit limits to have more control over what recruits are accepted on signing day
- Add 'Team summary' tooltip when hovering over team links, showing basic team info like talent, PPG, prestige, head coach, and scheme
Minor improvements:
- Balance game plan strategies, nerf primary pass targets when only some are set
- Change coach carousel logic so a fired HC won't always take his staff with him if he gets a different job
- Save fullscreen setting in preferences, preserve setting on game start
- Add jersey number to RB tag dropdown (for 3rd down back, short yardage back, etc)
- Change advance button text to "Advance BYE week" or "Advance game week (vs ALA)" so it is more clear
- Add slight prestige bonus for low prestige schools making a bowl game (3 prestige or less)
- Add more sorting options for recruit priority list (by rating, overall, potential)
- Show bookmark in recruit priority order list
- Show recruit priority number in recruit table, and in recruit dialog
- Hide 'recruit' column in preseason training table if smaller screen size
- Improve Game Settings UI layout
- Add back tabs to depth chart behind a preference toggle
Bug fixes:
- Fix RB tags being applied incorrectly in formation overrides UI
- Escape no longer exits fullscreen to avoid clashing with Steam overlay
- Fix practices not saving if `game-data` folder did not exist for the save yet
- Fix tagged RBs being inserted even if they have major injury and 'Bench players with major injury' is set
Thanks for playing!