Career Mode beta is now live!

This is the first version of the new Career Mode. In this mode you can create your team and start playing in League D, playing the season and gaining player experience to improve players stats and skills

IMPORTANT NOTES:

• We are releasing this version as a "beta version"
• The idea of this release is to show you the development progress of the game, to give an idea of the future features and to show where the game is going to
• We need your feeedback to improve the game and make it the best retro soccer game possible!
• From now on, we will be updating this beta version weekly (usually on Fridays)

HOW-TO DOWNLOAD:

• Right click the game on your Steam Library
• Click on "Properties"
• Select the "Betas" option from the list
• Select the "careermodebeta" branch from the drop-down menu

(If you are not seeing the "careermodebeta" branch listed, you may need to restart the Steam client first)

DISCLAIMER:

• As you'll see, there still are and there will be details to work on. We wanted to show you that we are working on delivering new features and improvements in a timely fashion
• The game is NOT balanced. We are still within a development process. It is being constantly improved and new features are being added every week
• The game will have BUGS. Please report them if you can afford the time

NEW IN THIS UPDATE:

• Career Mode (work in progress)
• Team Editor
• Added three preset controller configurations:
  1. WASD + JKL (pass/kick/skills)
  2. Arrows + BNM (pass/kick/skills)
  3. Arrows + ZXC (pass/kick/skills)
• Gameplay balance and improvements
• Tons of polishing details

TECHNICAL RELEASE NOTES:

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Implemented a Kick/Pass power bar. (work in progress)
• Goalkeeper improvement (more bounces)
• Implemented an option that allows for tournaments to be created using random team groups or a preset format
• Implemented stun animations and logic
• Implemented yellow card and injuries accumulation logic for Career Mode
• Implemented a Display options menu for change of resolution and/or fullscreen mode
• Implemented a Change Controls options menu that allows for preset selection
• Implemented a Skills customization menu
• Implemented a Stats customization menu
• Implemented a Coach customization menu
• Implemented a Team Editor that allows the customization of the teams shipped with the game
• Implemented the Events screen to visualize the different parallel tournaments the player has during their Career experience
• Implemented the Previous Seasons screen to visualize the different results achieved by the Career Mode team
• Implemented a screen that allows to reset the teams data in case of data corruption so it can be recovered with the original teams
• Implemented a Strategy screen that is used to staff main team and substitute players, that also allows to save your extra players to the reserve
• Implemented On Screen Hints UI
• Implemented new art pieces for the Club Management screen
• Added 4 new progressive stadiums for your team to evolve their facilities
• Added an orange ball for Snow climate
• Added an stamina indicator
• Added a shot strength indicator
• Create new tournaments and teams belonging to those: League D, League C, Liberty Cup, Club World Cup
• Enlarged a variety of texts
• Created +60 PixelArt pieces that were implemented throughout the UI, including new team flags, tournament cups, UI panels, coach heads/bodies/clothing, among others...
• Reorganized a cluttered Settings menu and categorized the options

BUGFIXES:

• Fixed a bug related to camera position during replay that caused the recorded action to be drawn outside the camera screen area in determined situations close to goal
• Fixed a bug where players would get stuck with a zero stamina level even though the player did not have the ball at the time
• Fixed a bug that caused career mode players to be generated as "Name XX" instead of using the names dictionary
• Fixed a bug that caused the particles during tournament celebration to display the color of the previous team that won a previous tournament and no the current one
• Fixed a bug that caused shadows to be drawn backward mirrored in some specific situations
• Fixed a bug that cause the celebration screen not to be shown when skipping the final match regardless if you had the points to win the tournament
• Fixed a bug that was causing every save to be re-written whenever one of the slots needed to be written
• Fixed a bug where Away uniforms where not being applied to the rival AI team on Friendly Match
• Fixed a bug that allowed to spam click the slider for color selection causing a neverending loop
• Fixed a bug that caused the custom career flags not to be loaded on the in-game HUD
• Fixed bugs with the input texts mechanics