New Features
- Fighters can now make more specific opponent demands based on title-path opportunities or revenge. These motives also influence whether a fighter is more willing to accept a bout even when they have not formally demanded it.
Improvements
- Autosaves now happen more smoothly in the background, reducing interruptions during normal play.
- Fight weeks and new-game generation should feel more responsive thanks to faster event simulation, matchmaking, rankings, and scheduling work.
- The matchmaking board now shows blocked commitments as review items with clear reasons instead of hiding them.
- Free agency updates after signings and bidding wars should feel smoother, with less list jumping and fewer unnecessary refreshes.
- Champion title-defense reactions are more nuanced. Champions are less likely to hard-refuse questionable challengers outright, and title-defense feedback now better explains legitimacy and risk/reward concerns.
- Free agency division filters now only show weight classes your promotion actually supports, avoiding empty filter results for narrower or single-gender promotions.
Bug Fixes
- Rankings and roster division filters now respect enabled divisions more consistently and keep the selected division valid when switching scope.
- Booking-related milestones now appear at the right time after card finalization, while signing milestones stay tied to signing flows.
- Promised title-shot requests now stay active after a fighter wins the qualifying bout, instead of being cleared too early.
- Fixed cases where milestone celebrations could appear from unrelated actions.
- Startup promotions no longer show misleading prestige feedback, while still showing attendance and venue context.
- Fixed fighter image and poster fallbacks so missing or legacy images resolve more reliably.
- Fixed country flag icons importing at the wrong scale.
- Fixed skill tree glow animations continuing after the UI element is closed.
- Champion callouts, revenge requests, and immediate rematch obligations now route more consistently into proper title-fight bookings when a champion is involved.
- Immediate rematch promises are now honored more reliably after title fights.
- Fighters who lose a conditional title-shot promise are no longer shown as if the promotion broke its word.
- Editing or rescheduling the same bout no longer stacks extra relationship effects, placement sentiment, or title-shot memories.
- Purse sweeteners are no longer charged when a bout is merely confirmed. PC are now only spent once the card is successfully scheduled or updated.
- Interview and callout language has been updated to read correctly across men’s and women’s divisions.
- Event rating grades now display with proper colors and descriptions across the full grading range.
- Removed Smart Fill and Suggest Matchup as these bypass fighter negotiations.