♫ Premier League!? You're 'avin a laugh♫!
The Football season is back, and so are we! We've got a nice update to bring you:
What's new:
Added Premier League and Serie A Teams!
The first of many new teams have been added, with roughly up to date squads and kits (we will update according with the transfers).New Tournaments!!
Along with the teams, you can relive last seasons magic of Leicester winning the PL, or take Palermo to their rightful place of top of Serie A! At the moment there is still no load and save, but that will be added within the following weeks, so you can actually have a bit of a single player experience outside of one marathon sitting.Improved online handling
We've only gone and written our own server for SAF! This means that we now have full control of the online handling, so if for some reason the servers drop, we can fix it much quicker than if we were with a third party. We've also optimised for LAN games, so if you are playing at work or school, it should feel super smooth.General bug fixes!
More to go
Whilst we have your attention, we think now is a good time to present our plan for Super Arcade Football, and what we think needs to be added before it's out of Early Access. It's a high level plan, with no specific dates, but we just want to give you an idea of what we are working on, and also to get your feedback!
The Plan (in order):
Add Team management!
Now we have our team data system all working (and the data to go with it) we will be adding in substitutions, formations, team picking etc. This will also include gameplay changes such as energy, injuries, and red/yellow cards carrying over from matches in tournaments.Create your own team!
Not to be mistaken for Career Mode (we'll get to that later). This will allow you to create and customise your own team(s), and use them online.Big Round of Gameplay Improvements!
Improving AI, Goal keepers, Referee, better physics...basically the game. As well as adding in all that good stuff we've been talking about for ages, like way more modifiers, weather, celebrations and more.Super Polish and Visuals Overhaul phase!
Create new and varied player models (with more detail). Upgrading the Menus and animations so they are more polished, as well as more sounds (anyone else fed up "AFC WIMBLEDON....AFC WIMBLEDON"?). Basically bringing the game to the next level in terms of quality.Career Mode!
The big momma. This will take a lot of testing and work, so we think it's best to move it nearer the end of the project, so that we can focus on it completely. We have a good idea of what we plan to include, which we will present to you lot nearer the time. This phase will also focus on the online progressions aspect of the game.Final Polish!
Fix all the bugs that career mode will bring, and get the game to a gold standard.
So, there it is.
Now that we've built the structure for online and the data, we can really move full steam ahead on SAF. So, big thanks to everyone who's been giving great feedback, positive and negative, we are super pumped to get this game to the level everyone wants! And thanks for spreading the word, it really helps to increase the community, and to find some newbs online!
Wow that's a long announcement.