Hi everyone
This update sees the addition of a new Supporter Club feature - The Challenge Cup. Within the ‘Competitions’ Menu there are now extra options that allow you to play Challenge Cup matches.
The Challenge Cup is a new feature designed to give extra gameplay for Supporter Club members. Many users in the game play a huge amount of friendly matches each month, and this is designed to give an alternative option with a competitive edge! Some users finish their competitive matches early each quarter as well, so this will offer some competitive action for these users too as they wait for the next quarter to arrive.
The feature allows users to take on the challenge of beating as many bot teams as they can in a row without losing. There are a series of cups of increasing difficulty. Win 10 matches in a row and you are promoted to the next level and your progress is saved. Lose a match and you have to go back to the start of the level. Your progress is saved after each win (so don’t worry - you don’t have to try and complete it all in one session!), but just one loss, and it’s back to the start of that level.
The feature is deliberately very difficult and it isn’t expected that any users will be able to beat all of the bot teams. However, you can have as many goes at it as you wish, so the challenge is there to be taken on! The Challenge Cup Leaderboard will show who has made it the furthest that month.
Additional information:
- To ensure that senior and youth fixtures are completed to schedule, the Challenge Cup option is disabled during the final day of each weekly league period for any teams that have league matches still to play.
- Challenge Cup matches are treated as friendlies so players can not get injured, and you can use injured players in the matches. Results are shown in the Friendlies tab.
- There is a separate Challenge Cup for both Senior and Youth teams, so users can test their squad’s mettle in both and try to get a place on the leaderboards!
- The Challenge Cup is a monthly competition. Users restart each month to battle for the top spots on that month’s leaderboards!
Match Engine Update:
There’s also a match engine update that includes some improvements and balancing changes. These changes are listed in the changelog below.
Full Changelog
- Added Challenge Cup feature (new item within Competitions Menu, Supporter Club feature)
- Improved attacking off the ball movement
- Improved playmaker role/s logic in regards to teammates looking to pass the ball to them when they are in inferior attacking positions to the player who has the ball
- Balancing changes to roles that have instructions to dribble less (they now dribble less then before)
- Balancing changes to fouls, in particular more chance that fouls will be called inside the penalty box (i.e. overall increase in amount of penalties during matches)
- Balancing changes to shooting accuracy (improved shooting accuracy of poor finishing/shooting players)
- Balancing changes to penalty taking accuracy (improved shooting accuracy across the board for all players)
- Balancing changes to match stat ‘clear cut chances’. More chances are now counted as being these
- Balancing changes to average fixture difficulty (increased fixture difficulty in lower divisions)
- Fixed squad bar position plates not showing outline on initial load
- Added Training League info in place of promotion/relegation requirements for training league progress
- Fixed blank circle on training options
- Updates to staff images on title bars and tutorial pop-ups
- Full palette of team colours now available to all users whether they have a Supporter Club Membership or not