HALFTIME Manager · published · build 25399866
The biggest update so far. Three systems are new or rebuilt from the ground up, and all 26 languages are complete for the first time.
The old research system is gone. In its place is the Merch Lab: six sliders instead of three focus areas, a prototype takes one week.
The lab learns as you go. Audience knowledge, suppliers and lab experience make tests cheaper and the estimate sharper.
Your four fan groups now have an attitude. Six things move it, from signings and departures through a change of manager to the ticket price. Families react hardest to the price.
That attitude pulls on fan growth, willingness to spend and attendance, and every group has its own home in the ground: the terrace stands, the collectors sit in the box.
Fifteen decisions land on your desk uninvited. Each one has a deadline, and if you let it run out, the game decides for you.
The consequences really reach the squad, right down to the captain's armband. You write your own in the workbench and share them through the Workshop.
Instead of fixed presets you save whole weekly plans and let them rotate, each week with its own intensity. The week navigator shows you what it does before you commit.
Players can be dragged instead of clicked, in the list and on the pitch. The bench holds nine, and the strength column shows what a player actually plays, not what he once learned.
The campus is alive: a tram, a bus station, road traffic. The ground visibly grows with the sections you build.
Comfort and seating upgrades take roughly 70% less time.
Negotiations run in two stages, with sell-on clauses, and selling is now negotiated too.
The Youth Academy is rebalanced: rare talents, uncertain reports, and the youngsters draw a wage. AI clubs keep twenty men, eleven plus nine, same as you.
All 26 packs carry the same 5,310 keys. Bulgarian had been laced with Russian from the start and has been rewritten completely.
"Appearances" read as a military deployment in 17 packs. The 127 national cups are no longer called "France - National Cup" everywhere.
Tell me what you notice.