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IOSoccer Update - 18 May 2026

HUD

Join menu:

- Reworked join menu

- Positions now show horizontally instead of vertically

- Cards are now shown instead of shirts

- Header has a scoreboard with match timer

- Team names are displayed prominently

Scoreboard:

- Reworked scoreboard

- Events moved from default view to a separate category

- Default statistic now shows: Goals, assists, passes, interceptions and saves

- Tabbed statistic categories now show: General, Attack, Defence, Keeper, Discipline, Events

- Key team statistics shown near the bottom of the scoreboard

- Spectator and bench players moved to the bottom of the scoreboard

- Bench players now sits on the side of each team

Stamina and shot bar:

- Stamina and shot bar colours are now customisable. This can be done through Customize -> Visual

- Stamina and shot bar are slightly wider

Keeper:

- Diving reach is now an ellipse instead of rectangle. Well placed shots into the corners now beat the keeper more often

- Diving reach increased in all directions to compensate

- Dives follow your mouse direction instead of locking

- Rebounds get directed away from goal. Central shots go up and out. Side shots go toward the wings

- Fingertip touches lift the ball over the crossbar or wide of the post

- Backward dives are now catchable if the power is soft enough

- Standing now parry powerful shots instead of always catching them

- Throws are now stronger

Gameplay:

- Player speed reduced, except for sprint

- Player box has been reduced from 22x22 to 18x18

- Topspin only allowed during free-kicks, effect and curl buffed

- Charged shot increased, this time even more than the previous time

- Charged headers now hit at full power regardless of aim angle

- Charged headers power now weaker to compensate

- Ball spin reverted to pre-7th May update

- Ball rolls a bit more

- Ball lose more speed after hitting post or crossbar

- Ball damping added, so the ball does stop a bit sooner on short passes

- Offside tweaked in a way that players level with the last defender are now onside

- Slide reach now uses a ellipse shape

- Bicycle kick power increased

Misc.:

- Shots on the post or crossbar will count as shots

- Crosses do not count as shots

- Bench players can now obtain captaincy

- Injury time can now only go max +15, the multiplier has been slightly reduced

- Kick-off panel only shows up for 3 seconds instead of 5

- Removed 'Use team color for player info HUD' from settings as it's the only thing since 7th May update

- Removed 'Draw field walls' from settings as we stop supporting it. However you can still activate it by using cl_drawfieldwalls 1

- Fixed a bug where ball halo didn't render correctly

- Scorebar will only show maximum 5 characters per team (was 7).