Hi everyone
We are delighted to announce that the new Match Engine will be added to the game on 1st February! All matches from the February season onwards will be using the new Match Engine.
This is going to provide a very different experience. It fully simulates and graphically represents the entire match from a top-down perspective so you can see exactly what your players are up to at all times! Viewing the entire match enables managers to make informed decisions in real-time based on how the match is unfolding in front of them to try and take advantage of their team’s strengths and any opponent weaknesses that they might be able to identify.
The new Match Engine is many times more complex and engaging than the current Match Engine (and indeed any match engine in any online football management game that we are aware of). We expect that the completely new match experience with this amount of depth, options and opportunities will immediately create some changes in the meta-game. For example, it may be that certain attributes have more value in the new match engine than the old one and vice versa. This will inevitably mean that prices for players will fluctuate inline with how much value the userbase places upon their attributes. It is also likely that the importance of different attributes will change as many managers will naturally gravitate towards tactics/players that take advantage of these imbalances whilst we continuously strive to improve the balance in subsequent updates. So in short, please be aware that the meta-game, which has been extremely stable for a very long time, will be changing regularly in the coming months!
A big thank you to everyone that has stuck with us over these past months as we have been developing this. As many of you know, we are a very small team, and for a few reasons it has taken us longer to get it into ‘live’ than we had initially foreseen. The most notable reason being increasing the scope of what we wanted to achieve with the first release of the new Match Engine to ensure it has more chance of fulfilling more users hopes and expectations and thus is more positively received overall.
We really appreciate your patience and understanding. Hopefully you’ll agree come February that it was worth the wait! We will be releasing some more details in January along with an accompanying podcast.
We believe this addition will lay the foundations for us to take the game forwards as a truly unique proposition/gameplay experience that even further sets 90MF apart from everything else out there in the online football management game genre.