Greetings all
CS Manager 1.08 has now been released. It brings new features and a slew of changes in responds to the community feedback. The community vote for which large feature to include next has also started!
Patch headlines
The data editor has been expanded with both tournaments and sponsors, the community has already uploaded databases with new setups to the Steam Workshop! The match engine AI has gotten significant improvements, and several QoL including camera movement in the match engine, email filters for your dashboard is also in. Balance changes are also included that should make it more of a challenge to reach the top of the circuit, including a nerf of academy players. And certainly not least, Simplified Chinese has been added as an available language. Huge thanks to the community translators!
Community voting
As laid out on the road map, the first community vote has started for which large feature to include next. A more detailed description of the options availables on the Discord, but here they are in short:
1) Players drop weapon/utility on death
2) Deeper fan mechanics
3) Hardcore mode
4) Principal sponsors
5) More tournament formats
Cast your vote and decide what to add next on the CSM Discord!
https://discord.com/invite/H5ZGpVeAFF
Full patch notes
📢 Are based on feedback/reports from the community
Major
Added tournaments to the data editor
Added sponsors to the data editor
📢You can now move the camera in the match engine by dragging the mouse while holding left click
📢Added Simplified Chinese as an available language!
Freezes/Crashes
Fixed a rare crash that could happen in post plants in the match engine
📢Fixed a rare crash that could happen in longer careers
Dashboard
Added limits to how much you can upgrade your facilities as an amateur team
Increased the costs of upper levels of the branding center
Performance improvements to time passing and several pages, most notably the scouting page
Added smoother transitions to several interactive elements
Rebalanced the amount of points tournaments gives, to make lower tier tournaments less powerful
Rebalanced seasonal goals for ranking points
Improved AI behavior regarding tournaments to attend
Improved loading times when starting a new career/loading games running on custom databases
Rebalanced some sponsors
Fixed that online tournaments gave LAN warnings in invite emails
Nerfed the max potential of academy players
📢Added dynamic travel and accommodation costs for LAN events, and a tooltip that shows the breakdown as well as a breakdown in related emails
📢The AI is now much better at acting on good offers/opportunities on the transfer market
📢Skills of older players past their prime now regress faster
📢You can now change the name of any player by clicking their name on the player page
📢Added an email filter for tournament invitations
📢Added an email filter for sponsor offers
📢Fixed that the owners contribution could drop very fast after a season of bad results
📢Fixed that colors of ratings would not always be consistent on the player pages
📢Reduced number of excellent regens on career start
📢Fixed that career statistics on the staff page would refer to maps played rather than matches played
Match Engine/Match Simulation
Improved attacking AI logic in low time situations
Improved AI logic for the CT that will try to defuse a planted bomb
Improved AI logic in situations where they have to navigate smoked positions
Fixed several illogical AI behaviors caused by pathfinding issues
📢Fixed AI rush logic, before it would sometimes stop in the middle of a rush, and sometimes get stuck when rushing mid
📢Fixed that the IGL would often say B when the actual play was going on in mid
📢Fixed that the smoke sound would play with sfx turned to 0
Data editor
You can now upload a thumbnail to your Steam Workshop item: Put a PNG image in the folder of the database that you are uploading. The name of the image must be “thumbnail”
📢You can now set the potential of players in the data editor