PERSONAL COMPUTER SOCCER by David Minayo · published · build 26363089
One of our biggest updates yet is here! Here's everything new since version 0.9812.
- Your saved games, manager career and MY GOALS are now backed up to Steam Cloud. Access them on any PC using your Steam account.
- If you load a save that uses a patch not installed on that PC, PCS will let you know so you can install it.
### 🛠️ STEAM WORKSHOP
- **EDITOR › STEAM WORKSHOP:** Publish your changes to the PCS Workshop with a title, description, countries, content and cover image. The first time creates a new Workshop item; subsequent uploads update it.
- **OPTIONS › Steam Workshop:** Find the patches you've subscribed to on Steam, ready to INSTALL, along with a BROWSE WORKSHOP button.
- Patches are now compressed: a patch that simply renames a club has gone from 17 MB to less than 1 MB. Older patches can still be installed as before.
### 🏆 PCS AWARDS: THE DECEMBER CEREMONY
- Every December 18, an awards ceremony celebrates the previous season with four trophies: BEST PLAYER, TOP SCORER, BEST GOALKEEPER and BEST YOUNG PLAYER (aged 21 or under).
- Winners are selected through a points system, with no randomness: average rating, goals, assists, titles, Man of the Match awards and league strength.
- The ceremony features three different presentations, a top 30 ranking for each award and a complete winners' history.
- Award winners increase in market value, gain morale and have their achievements recorded in their player profiles.
### 🧤 GOALKEEPER KITS
- Every club now has its own goalkeeper kit, in a colour that stands out from its outfield shirts. It appears during matches, in player profiles and in photos.
- If the goalkeeper's kit clashes with the opposing team's colours, it changes automatically.
- In **EDITOR › EDIT KITS**, you can switch between OUTFIELD PLAYER and GOALKEEPER to customise the goalkeeper's kit colour.
### ⚽ MATCH IMPROVEMENTS
- **PAUSE › TACTICS:** Change your PLAY STYLE, ATTACK, PRESSING and MENTALITY during a match. Your changes take effect from the very next play.
- New **MARKING** options: ZONAL, MAN-TO-MAN (each defender tracks an assigned opponent) or STAR (one player closely marks the opposition's best player, excluding defenders). The AI can use these tactics against you too.
- DIRECT passing now genuinely looks for long balls, while attacking through the CENTRE or down the WINGS makes a much more noticeable difference.
- Speed (SP) now has a much greater impact: fast players can leave slower opponents behind.
- A striker through on goal with no defenders ahead will run towards the goal.
- Full-backs now follow their attacking instructions.
- Goal kicks are taken from the edge of the six-yard box.
- A third defender provides support near the penalty area, while the defensive midfielder covers the central channel.
- **TV CHANNEL LOGO:** The broadcasting channel's logo now appears in the top-right corner during matches. You can disable it in MATCH OPTIONS.
### 🏟️ LEAGUES AND CLUBS
- All 62 leagues now have their own logos, displayed in league tables, results, menus, champion screens and profiles. Logos can be changed in the Editor.
- More realistic **TICKET PRICES:** Raising prices excessively no longer generates unlimited money. Attendance decreases as prices rise, and each division has maximum prices for both match tickets and season tickets.
### 👤 FACES AND PHOTOS
- 965 new faces (Japanese, Arab, Asian, African and Latin American), greatly reducing the number of repeated faces.
- Player photos with cropped or missing body parts have been repaired or replaced.
- The badges of all 639 European clubs in the reserve club pool now have clean, refined edges.
### 🔧 BUG FIXES
- Players without the ball no longer slide across the pitch with their legs frozen.
- Players used out of position now perform according to their ability in that position: putting a striker in goal no longer turns him into an unbeatable goalkeeper.
- Players retain their skin tone and hairstyle when changing positions or shirt numbers.
- The game instructions have been updated to include all the latest features.
- Various display issues have been fixed in LEAGUE TABLES, MATCH PREVIEW and the Editor.
Thank you for all your bug reports and feedback! Many of these improvements came directly from your suggestions. Keep them coming! 💙