v4.8.1 Patch Notes

New Features

Defensive play style support — added engine support for defensive batting/fielding play styles.

Improvements

• Field animation engine overhaul — refactored the field map animation engine, including
• updated color handling, sprite rendering, and stadium visuals.
• Crowd animation — added animated crowd sprites to the field map for a livelier match view.
• New field map base image — replaced the base stadium image used by the field animation engine.

Internal / Engineering

Added cross-platform AppBackHandler and AppLifecycleEffect (Android, iOS, desktop) — groundwork for the mobile port.

Added CcResponsiveLayout and BallAnimationEvent supporting files for the animation/UI system.

Expanded MatchEngine and animation test coverage.

Added mobile port planning doc and a 2000-player sample database generator/dataset for testing.