New
Watch your own game. There's now a WATCH button on the game preview, between Quick Sim and Take the Field.
Take over whenever you like. A TAKE OVER / SIT BACK toggle in the sim control rail hands the call sheet back and forth mid-game.
Crowd striping. A sold-out rivalry or a playoff game may now have crowd striping -- alternating colors by section
Universe editor
The editor opens the high-school layer. All 2,400 schools and their rosters are editable, not just the college and Pro tiers
High schools ship in universe packs. A pack carries its own high-school layer, so a universe you publish to the Workshop arrives with the schools you edited rather than falling back to the base set
Publishing uses far less memory. The Workshop listing's team/player/coach counts are read off the pack itself instead of decoding the finished pack back into a second copy of the universe
Fixes
Jersey numbers respect the position again. Just under a quarter of shipped college players were wearing a number their position would never wear. Each position now falls back through the bands real numbering rules still allow.
The booth waits for the accept/decline before calling a flag enforced. When declining was right, the caption told you a penalty had been assessed while the play log, the drive header and the change of possession all correctly showed the interception.
A failed onside kick says who recovered it.
Escape closes the coach card, like the player and team cards already did.
Punts, touchbacks, fair catches, downed balls and missed field goals are no longer logged as fumbles. Team fumble totals were always right — this was the per-play record, about a dozen phantom entries a game.