AI Improvements
Rebalanced Easy and Medium for more consistent and challenging rallies.
Strengthened comeback behaviour when AI falls three or more goals behind, improving its accuracy and reducing hesitation.
Improved shot placement and defensive skill timing on Medium and Hard.
Added personality-based movement between returns and during the opening countdown.
Preserved imperfect reads, late corrections and occasional mistakes.
Gameplay & Fixes
Fixed Mirror Mode to swap the court horizontally instead of turning it upside down.
Fixed Solar Yellow appearing oversized during matches.
Standardized paddle artwork sizing across gameplay modes.
Fixed Training counting some edge contacts multiple times.
Made eligible random events equally likely.
Improved ball spawn animations.
Unified ball sizes across arenas while preserving the original Soccer, Hockey and Basketball designs.
Visual & UI Improvements
Redesigned No Goal barriers and connected them seamlessly to the arena walls.
Added themed illustrations to the singleplayer mode selection.
Added decorative flags around the World Cup screens.
Improved goal countdown indicators, including multiplayer.
Fixed Risky Shot visuals appearing only on the original ball during Echo Shot.
Fixed the music progress bar starting ahead of its actual playback position.
Removed unnecessary menu, campaign and shop text.
Audio
Improved menu button sounds.
Added a cash-register sound for successful skin purchases.
Added a new loading completion sound.
Controller Support
Added initial native Steam Input integration.
Added controller-specific button prompts and glyphs.
Improved controller navigation in menus.
Separated local player controller bindings and added Player 2 faceoff support.
Added disconnect pause handling and Steam virtual keyboard support.
Technical Cleanup
Removed unused legacy gameplay scripts, scenes, effects and addons.
Updated references to use the current gameplay and inventory systems.
Prepared separate standalone and Steam demo export profiles with isolated saves and settings.