Demo Update: Five-Season Careers, Card Finishes, and Club Experience Improvement

Hello everyone. This update is compared with the September 5 All-Star Weekend hotfix currently available on the public Steam branch. Candidate builds uploaded since then but never published are not treated as the baseline. Here are the main changes players will receive when updating from the public Demo.

Five complete playable seasons

The previous public Demo allowed up to three seasons. You can now manage a team through five complete seasons, including the regular season, playoffs, offseasons, signings, and long-term development. After the fifth season, the Demo preserves the final report and autosave so you can review the full summary before returning to the main menu. The full game is not limited to five seasons.

Three new star-card finishes

Card packs can now produce Rainbow, Pearl, and Sparkle finishes. A finish belongs to the individual collectible, persists with it, and affects its graded collection value, instant-sale value, and listing estimate. Buying from the normal market, winning an auction, or completing a set cannot generate a finish from nothing.

All three pack tiers use the same per-card finish odds. Standard, Premium, and Vault packs now differ only through their Base, Rare, Epic, Legendary, and One-of-One rarity structure; paying for a more expensive pack no longer raises the separate finish odds.

Updated club home and management screens

The club home now includes new arena and campus scenes, changing weather, and visitor activities. Sidebar navigation is grouped by management activity and clearly indicates the page currently open. Roster, rotation, training, tactics, recruitment, and sports bureau screens also have revised layouts and information hierarchy for clearer tables, controls, and details.

Reworked match layout and complete animations

The score, live commentary, animation area, key players, statistics, and match controls have been rearranged to address obscured text, incomplete background coverage, and inconsistent controls. Match clips now play at their original speed and complete duration instead of being interrupted by shortened fragments.

Expanded player profiles and long-term careers

Players now have persistent birthplace information, with regional affiliation and birthplace presented together in their profiles. Career Averages updates as games are played, letting you compare the current season with previous years in one place. Some domestic players can automatically enter regional sports administration after retirement, building records of appointments, promotions, disciplinary action, and departure without manual nomination or role assignment.

Additional fixes

Post-match comments now consistently contain five entries: three randomly selected personalities and two fixed personalities. Tutorial step 16 now appears after three minutes of game time. This update also fixes shifting sidebars and focus states during scouting, negotiations, and page refreshes, while continuing to improve bilingual screens and save-flow reliability.

Thank you for your feedback and for playing the Chinese Basketball Manager Demo. Please keep sharing any issues you encounter during a full five-season career.