It was always going to happen - the first day after release was set aside for troubleshooting as AFC2023 made its way to far more than just beta testers. Thank you to everyone who submitted feedback, and even if you didn't, thanks for picking the game up on launch day! It's been encouraging hearing how people are enjoying the game so far. The average play length is already almost two hours, which has to be a good sign?
That being said, there were some issues which needed patching, and the game is now on version 2023.1.2.
The biggest issue was that the game would not go past 31 December, which was a bug caused by one line of code. If you've hit this wall, it's now fixed and won't have any further impact on your game. A couple other crashes were fixed as well, including the game crashing when some players asked for a contract of zero years, and another new line of code crashing the game whenever you were unemployed has also been sorted. 2023.1.1 also fixed an issue with the new U-19 leagues not simulating.
Some gameplay elements were also changed. The key player weights the AI uses were modified again, and the AI will also now value younger players more heavily in the national draft. Previously code just down-weighted players by age, now it actively up-weights younger players.
Several questions related to player potential were received, and potential probably needs to be explained better by the game's scouts. AFC2023 does not include an actual potential attribute that can be edited, instead using a more complicated system using several different variables. Scouts then interact with these variables, so one scout may tell you something completely different about a player's potential than another scout, and even good scouts can be wrong sometimes! Since there were a couple queries around player potential it's something which will be looked at, perhaps too many youngsters aren't making the grade.
Coaches were the big gameplay tweak and the available staff are now sortable and more diverse in their salary requests. If there's something that's not sortable that should be, please post here or on Discord - each sort has to be manually programmed and it looks like some columns may have gotten overlooked. Selection table sorting was not complete, either.
Finally work continues on the game's database - the last big update was a couple months ago, and some things have changed since then. Some players have had their skills changed, some players have been added, retired, or un-retired, and one team in particular was down-weighted. There was also a typo in team IDs causing a "trade" between two different teams. Work on this will continue into the next patch.
A bug with post-game news articles saying was also fixed, and small improvements made there.
What hasn't been fixed?
- There appear to be a couple problems with interchanges, which are complex and couldn't be fixed/added in a day
- There's been reports full screen mode isn't working - if this is happening to you please send a screenshot if you could, this sort of got replicated in testing but then sorted itself on the next launch.
- There's been a report inactive leagues have come to life after a load, which couldn't be replicated.
- Sometimes the game resolution doesn't adjust for things properly. There's a workaround which involves editing the game's settings.
- Apparently you can launch the game on Steam Deck but not really play it. The fact it worked on Steam Deck at all was news here at "AFC2023 studios" but if this can be sorted it'll get sorted...
The next update will probably be more minor bug patches but hopefully a feature or two can sneak in as well!
Thanks again for a great launch day, and keep posting your suggestions and feedback! Hope you continue to enjoy AFC2023.