Price of the game will go up by 20% on the next monday, 7 March. If you didn't buy the game yet, then now might be a good time to do so.
We know that no one likes this (unless you've already bought the game), but this was already planned since game's launch in Early Access several months ago. An excerpt from Kopanito's store page:
“The game's price is based on current set of features and as more features are included, then price will gradually rise.”
Kopanito has been updated to v0.5.1. This is a bugfix-only release with no new features, no online multi-player yet, no replays and no new super-moves.
Frame-rate issues
Hopefully this issue has been fixed in this build. Game is not running faster but should be a lot more smoother. We thought that we've fixed this in previous versions, but apparently we've been wrong. Please report if the game doesn't run smoothly for you or does degrade performance over time in a match. We'll be grateful for any feedback.
Match challenges and achievements
Fixed the slide score challenge being marked as completed even when a scorer was sliding without the ball (thanks MonkeyJug).
Fixed the supershot from penalty area challenge/achievement (thanks MonkeyJug).
Fixed the clean slide tackles challenge/achievement (thanks PoDuHa-MaTb 3oBeT).
Other fixes
Fixed no one celebrating when a goal was scored using the ball magnet super-move.
Professional and Legend AI better steal the ball when an opponent is shooting using the precise shot.
Added ability to pick stadiums and balls in custom tournaments. Added new stadium choice "team stadium" which picks stadium based on selected teams' continents.
Slightly increased clock's font size to improve readability.
More randomized matches in group stages and leagues (thanks MonkeyJug).
Better way of hiding mouse cursor when starting the game (thanks Keenic).
Tweaked menu scrolling (still not perfect, but more stable and a little better).
Changed default custom tournament match time to 4 minutes.
Fixed number 1 being applied to field players sometimes (thanks MonkeyJug).
Changes height of progress bars in the trophy room.
Corrected medal for the legend mastered achievement.
Updated AI icons in the friendly match settings menu screen.
What's next?
We're working on online multi-player. First fruit of this work will be goal replays and it should land in a week or two from now. We're also preparing some new super-moves (there was freeze available in the BETA branch), but you'll need to wait for them some time, please be patient.
As always, please report any feedback on Kopanito's forum here on Steam.
Here's a little sneak peak of a new super-move which will be available in the next update. If you can't wait and want to see it in action now, it's available in the beta branch. Keep in mind that this is still work in progress and probably has lots of bugs to squash. We're looking forward to reading your opinions and suggestions on the forums.
After the updates in the past few months (AI levels, leaderboards, achievements, etc.) our top priority now is online multi-player. This is a big thing for us and we'll require probably 3 months for this, details will come out in a few weeks. Game's release is planned on May 2016 with online multi-player built-in. Early Access has extended (was planned to end in December 2015), but we believe that's a good thing.
You'll be able to play online friendly matches with your friends or unknown players on Steam. Possibly mixing local and online multi-player. So for example 2 players at one PC could play against other 2 players over the Internet. Matches 5 vs 5 should be possible too. That's the plan, hopefully will be realized fully and in time. You'll be notified about any progress soon.
Note, that we'll develop other features and fixes too in this time, but these may be published less often from now on. Possible features are new super-moves, as these are relatively 'cheap' to implement and goal replays as a byproduct of online multi-player.
In the meantime you can talk about Kopanito with your friends, try local multi-player with them, maybe organize a tournament during a party. This way you'll be able to post better feedback to us and promote the game a little, which is important too.
The Trophies screen is now available (previously disabled). On this screen you can admire cups and medals you have won and see other stuff you achieved so far.
Note, that number of Steam achievements is pretty high: 225, but also note, that most of the achievements are quadruple (bronze, silver, gold and platinum). So for example winning Oceania Cup on the Legend difficulty level gives you 4 achievements (one per difficulty level). There are 70 unique achievements.
Party Mode On!
This is a perfect thing for parties with friends. Each friend controls one national team and you organize a cup for them, eg. World Cup, European Cup or Champions League. This is basic, but you can also do more crazy stuff, as there may be more than one human per team.
Custom Tournament can be started in one of the three formats:
league (round-robin) with 4-16 teams,
knock-out stage only with 4, 8 or 16 teams,
group stage with knock-out stage with 12-32 teams.
You can specify number of human and AI teams participating and decide how well AI will play. Progress of the competition will be saved, so you can also make longer session or more parties!
AI gets circled
When you control a player, there is a color circle underneath him. When you play a local multi-player match, there are other circles of other players too. Pretty obvious thing! We decided to try something not so obvious, to give AI similar circles to:
indicate AI level by color of the circle (white = beginner, black = legend, like in karate :)),
let you forget that you're playing with an AI and pretend that it's more human-like.
Let us know if you like or don't like this feature, does it help or disturb you during play.
New Match Challenges
New challenges will appear in tournament matches:
Knock-down 25 opponents in a single match.
Score a goal from a super-shot launched from your own penalty area.
Score a goal without losing the ball (starting with your goalkeeper or from a kick-off).
Each one is also an achievement too (actually each challenge gives 4 achievements, one per difficulty level).
Other changes
AI goalkeepers are now easier to beat on the Beginner and Amateur difficulty levels.
AI teams adjusts its level when losing or winning (plays better or worse).
Added ability to perform super-shots with your goalkeeper.
Changed Northern's Ireland flag (thanks MonkeyJug)
Improved AI passing and shooting. Previously AI didn't use ground passes in many cases (e.g. goal kick), now it should.
Ball's shadow fades out when the ball is mid-air.
[OS X] Allowing to close the game with CMD+Q (thanks kusmierek).
Slightly improved game's startup time.
Corrected Guyana name in russian (thanks PoDuHa-MaTb 3oBeT).
Fixed AI not shooting in 100% situations (thanks kusmierek).
Fixed big hairs and face elements during a match.
Fixed players celebrating own goals.
Fixed extended slow motion during a match.
Fixed duplicate audio on startup.
Other minor fixed and improvements (like always).
New features also mean new bugs, so please report anything on Kopanito's forum, so we can fix them.
Match Challenges is a new feature in the game, added in v0.4, few weeks ago. These challenges activate only in tournament matches and give you additional fame points for performing some specific tasks during a match (more fame = better position in leaderboards). Some challenges are easy, some are hard and there are nearly 30 of them already and more will come in future.
Example challenges already included in the game:
Obtain 30% slide tackle accuracy
Dribble for at least 15 seconds without losing the ball
Hit at least 2 opponents with a single slide tackle
Score a goal by dribbling past the goal line with the ball
Cancel a shot using the ball magnet
Many more...
They work similarly to achievements (in development), require doing something non-trivial, but also not something extra-tricky. They need to be feasible in higher difficulty levels too.
If you have any ideas for any new challenges you can share them on Kopanito's forum prefixing discussion's title with [Challenge]. The best ones possibly will be featured in the game in future.
You might probably have heard about Le Monde, famous French newspaper. We are happy to announce, that we were picked as a game worth checking out in 2016!
The other games that were picked were non other that famous Far Cry, Uncharted, Street Fighter – guess you don’t have to be big to get noticed!
You might probably have heard about Le Monde, famous French newspaper. We are happy to announce, that we were picked as a game worth checking out in 2016!
The other games that were picked were non other that famous Far Cry, Uncharted, Street Fighter – guess you don’t have to be big to get noticed!
Bugfix release v0.4.1 available
Hi, this is Kopanito's dev team! We've made many bugfixes since previous feature update with leaderboards and challenges. In case something didn't worked for you before, you may check again now.
(Almost) Full list of changes:
Reduced accuracy of Amateur AI when doing precise shots, as it was near 100% accurate
Made the dribble distance challenge a little easier, 20 meters requirement was too hard, reduced it to 15 meters
Fixed the clean sheet match challenge to fail after an opponent scores a goal
Made the "score 3 goals in 25 seconds" challenge a little easier by extending time to 30 seconds
Fixed video settings background when there was no match playing in the background
Improved handling of gamepads on Linux (especially Ubuntu 15)
Displaying AI level and human players in the match summary screen
Displaying league rank in the bottom left corner in menu
Updated AI icon in the friendly match settings menu
Fixed reseting goal counters in the player portraits after first half
