After more than 50 days of no updates v0.9.0 is finally out! This version took a lot of time and did take much more than expected. While this version was supposed to be v0.8.6, I changed so many things that v0.9.0 is a better fit.

The main feature I worked on this version where red cards and player injuries. I knew that it won't be easy, but I could never foresee that this creates so many edge cases. Many parts of the game needed a complete logical redesign. Mainly the match engine, that always expected 5 players on the field. But also all formation related UI elements, like the formation settings screen.

Persian and Khmer are the 2 latest languages added to the game. It supports now over 16 languages, that are translated at least 60%!
Thanks to all translation contributors!

Please report bugs!
This version has been delayed so much, because I always found new bugs and edge cases while testing. While I spent a lot of time to make sure everything is working, something must have slipped trough. Therefore if you find bugs, crashes or simply find something does not make sense, let me know! 1.0 is supposed to be released this year, so lets smash those bugs together :-)

Finally I want to say that from now on I will use feature branches to work on new features. This should prevent long update periods like this and allow me to release critical bug fixes fast. This version fixes quite some bugs, that could have been fixed much faster...

And here the full changelog, as usual.

Added

• Gameplay

  • Player injuries

  • Player red cards

  • Simulate matches directly from dashboard

  • Show live stats and events during fast simulations

    • In simulations form the dashboard and during matches

  • Player list: add nationality filter

• UI

  • Add search bar to option buttons with more than 12 elements

    • Example: nationality button at manager setup screen

• Match Engine

  • Substitutes go first to change zone, before player change happens

• Match UI

  • Add suggest lineup button

  • Show planned changes

  • Show red card penalty timers for team and single players

• Editor

  • Show newly copied or created data packs in different color

• Languages

  • Add Persian and Khmer languages at 100%

  • Add Khmer font

Fixed

• Editor

  • Fix crash when generating players with new and not yet saved data pack

  • Fix player birth date changes not always saving correctly

  • Keep data pack version of copied data packs

• Match Engine

  • Better field positions of players

  • Fix goalkeeper running into field to interpose ball

• Android

  • Fix stuck on loading screen for some devices (ex. moto g20), with Godot 4.7.2 update

Changed

• Gameplay

  • Allow to bring less than 14 players to a match

  • Rename youth team to second team

  • Change position for some formations

  • Universal players can now play in all field positions

  • Improve suggested formation logic substitutes choices

  • Improve shirt number assignment, by taking player position (more) into account

  • Make 202 and 121 preferred tactic for other teams

  • Player list: merge free agents filter into transfer state filter

  • Set minimum amount of players for team overall and lineup to 8

• Match Engine

  • Reduce missed passes

• UI

  • Formation: always show player position in field

  • Style: add panel backgrounds to overview and email view

  • Instant theme and font size changes, without delay and loading screen

  • Transfer offers: use "reject other offers" checkbox instead of reject button

• Match UI

  • Make simple match graphics default

• UI

  • Move restore default settings button to top left

Code Contributors

• Simon Dalvai (dulvui)

Translation Contributors

• Catalan

  • Enric Pagès i Gassull

• Chinese (Simplified Han script)

  • jacky8848

  • pyccl

  • 管威

• Dutch

  • Marco Meijer

• French

  • W. C.

• German

  • Ettore Atalan

  • Tobias Markus

• Indonesian

  • fatadhewe2012

• Italian

  • Simon Dalvai

• Japanese

  • Yoshi_Paris

• Khmer (Central)

  • SeyhaLite

• Persian

  • Parsa Ghazipour

• Ukrainian

  • Dan