Overview
The primary new feature in this update is the ability to create custom draft classes, and then pull them into your franchise to use that draft class. There are other bug fixes and improvements in addition to this. One that's definitely worth calling out is the trade block - you can place players on the trade block to indicate interest in trading that player. You can also see what players other teams have placed on the trade block.
Changes
Gameplay
- Fixed a math overflow bug that could cause players to run out of bounds for no reason occasionally
- Fixed a bug where reboounding was not accounting for player momentum and caused them to go out of bounds after rebounding near the sideline
- Added a setting to allow players to have the original demo's arcade-style scoring feedback
Franchise Mode
- Added the ability to use custom draft classes in franchise mode
- Refined CPU trade offers, allowing CPU teams to trade with each other (if setting is enabled)
- Created a trade block screen, where players and teams place players they are interested in trading
- Created Trade Rumor news stories when a player is placed on the trade block.
- Create Trade news stories when a trade is made
- Added the ability to feature news to stories only about your own team
- Added the ability to mark all news as read
- Added notification icons throughout franchise mode to show the player when they have unread news, unread messages, pending trade offers, or scouting report updates
- Fixed a bug that prevented the user from changing coach height using a gamepad during franchise setup
- Changed Game per Team to a horizontal slider when choosing Custom scheduling instead of a textbox with +/- buttons
Modding Support
- Added the ability to create custom draft classes
- Added the ability to import teams and players from CSV or JSON files.
- Fixed a bug where Workshop preview images were not showing the browser
- Fixed a bug where teams in a user-created mod could not use images from the default league (or other installed mods)
- Fixed a bug in importing previous version mods where player contracts or incomplete teams were not being imported correctly
General/Technical
- Fixed a bug that was causing windowed mode to display incorrectly on monitors running 1920x1080 or lower resolutions.