GAMEPLAY IMPROVEMENTS

• Added a Remote Play Together quick access label on the screen.
  
• Increased foul chance.
  
• The goalkeeper selects more intelligently where to stand when the team is defending.
  
• Improved AI of forwards to decide to kick to the goal in some situations.
  
• Improved manual goalkeeper catch/punch skill.
  
• Improved manual goalkeeper automatic save using the skill button.
  
• Polished the different ways to perform a header(pressing X, Y, B, or A, at the moment the ball is hit).
  
• Improved AI to avoid making too risky passes when very close to its own area.
  
• Added a Remote Play Together quick access label on the screen.
  
• The game in hard mode is more difficult now.
  
• The league D of career mode is easier now.
  

DETAILS:

• Improved the first-time user experience with penalty kicks.
  
• In penalty kicks, the camera shows a bit more area.
  
• Improved the help and tutorial for penalty kicks.
  
• Moved the penalty kicks tutorial to the "How to Play" section (Practice Mode).
  
• Added a particle to the ball in a super shot to indicate that the ball is "powered".
  
• Improved readability of some help texts.
  
• Adjusted the laugh animation for board members.
  
• Changed the penalty tutorial icons.
  
• Added more UI animations.
  
• Added glyph for Unassigned controller buttons.
  
• Added a color code for controllers in the settings selection menu.
  

BUGFIXES:

• In very rare cases, the ball hit the pole and enters the goal with a goal kick.
  
• In very rare cases, an offside could be called in a penalty kick.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused a small unrelated flag to be rendered for a split-second.
  
• Fixed a bug that cause the Underdog Champion and Easy Win achievements to calculate the wrong star amount for the team.
  
• Fixed a bug that broke the pause UI when activating Steam Overlay.
  

DISCLAIMERS:

1. As we've mentioned before, WE DO NOT OVERWRITE your custom teams, therefore if you want to use Batovi's team design, you must use the Reset Teams Database option, under Gameplay Settings.
   
2. The import team options will overwrite your existing team when successful.
   
3. You can access the PCS Workshop User Guide here.
   

Finally, the day has come and we are happier than ever!

UPDATE HIGHLIGHTS:

EXTENDED PROFILE FEATURES AND STEAM WORKSHOP INCLUDED

• Implemented the Steam Workshop functionalities within the game.
  
• Implemented the Steam Badges, Trading Cards, Emoticons, and Backgrounds collectibles.
  

GAMEPLAY IMPROVEMENTS

• Four different Super Shots. When a red star is on the player, press (SKILL) to shoot!
  
• Added a white star indicator for Sprinting.
  
• Added a yellow star indicator for the manual skills (overhead kick, dribble, scissor kick, etc.).
  
• Added new animations for the goalkeeper in matches and in penalty kicks.
  
• The goalkeeper kick has more height, to allow for more aerial battles.
  
• Improved goalkeeper position when there is a close opponent with the ball.
  
• Camera movement improvement to better follows the action.
  
• Change in controls: PCS Style and Tradicional style are more similar now.
  
• Added the option to control the direction of the Change Player action using the right stick/analog.
  
• Curved kick/Crossing Skill: The ball can be curved holding the left trigger while moving the directional control.
  
• Changing tactics or attitude is now performed with the D-pad/arrows in your joystick.
  
• Added a more realistic player-body collision with the ball.
  
• The match tutorial hint stays on the screen for some seconds.
  
• Super shot skill.
  
• Resolved a bug preventing the game from continuing in extremely rare situations.
  
• Improved the ball collision with poles.
  
• EuroChamps League.
  
• Matches are now 3 minutes by default.
  
• Particle effects improvements.
  
• Added a small movement on the ball on a throw-in.
  
• Audio improvements on collision with poles.
  
• Goalkeepers now don´t crouch to grab the ball if outside the area or very near the border.
  
• Bugfixes.
  

UI/UX IMPROVEMENTS:

• Controls help screen update.
  
• The radar/mini-map will display which player has the Super Shot skill available. Better ball readability.
  
• Improvements on the career mode intro.
  
• Fixes in font readability.
  
• Violet bars to highlight the player´s team in league screens.
  
• Hint sound.
  
• Texts corrections.
  
• Slider menu navigation can be cyclic.
  
• Improved the first-time user experience for casual players.
  
• Changed the career mode creation screens to save all the info if advancing or going back, avoiding accidental deletion.
  
• Added an option to toggle ON/OFF Super Shots.
  
• Now the club's bus uses the club's colors.
  
• Now the club's kit matches the club's colors when creating a new career save game.
  
• If you try to assign a jersey number that has already been taken, these two players will exchange jersey numbers now.
  
• Video volume is now tied to the FX Volume setting and no longer the Music volume setting.
  
• Fixed the placement of some food carts on stadium backgrounds.
  
• Fixed the pairing of right parentheses and period on the PixelArt font used.
  
• The "Choose Difficulty" intro screen will now allow you to return from the Custom menu and select one of the pre-arranged profiles.
  
• Hall of Fame will display transparent cups or achievements for those you have not collected.
  
• Unified the Friendly Match icons.
  
• Unified the cups/trophies sizes.
  
• Fixed animations for the Team Overview screen.
  
• The career intro and board screen will now fade to black when finished.
  
• The slider will now cycle from the last button to the first and vice versa.
  
• Unified the order in which tournaments are displayed through different screens.
  
• Set the UI speed to level 2 by default.
  
• Unified language in many buttons throughout the game.
  
• Unified the timing for the board's laughs.
  
• Added tournament names at the Standings screen.
  
• Formations now display a generic icon and the formation name at the button. The description is displayed at the bottom of the screen.
  
• Ads in the field for important tournaments.
  
• Fixes in some animations.
  
• Tons of polishing details and bug fixes.
  

DISCLAIMERS:

1. As we've mentioned before, WE DO NOT OVERWRITE your custom teams, therefore if you want to use Batovi's team design, you must use the Reset Teams Database option, under Gameplay Settings.
   
2. The import team options will overwrite your existing team when successful.
   

UPDATE HIGHLIGHTS:

More Goalkeeper Improvements

• Manual goalkeeper: Added skill button to jump automatically.
  
• Fixed the bounces of the goalkeeper saves (more chances for the ball to return to the pitch = more fun).
  
• Goalkeeper balance (improvement: kick from long distance saves)
  
• Goalkeeper animation improvements.
  
• Bugfix: Offside only on the opposite half of the pitch.
  

AI Improvements

• Improved AI decision making when taking free kicks.
  
• AI more difficult (for example using urgent passes if marked) associated to difficult mode.
  
• AI more easy (for example, players stand from time to time) associated to easy mode.
  

MISC:

• New Intro video added!!
  
• Balanced skills for all players in competitions: OlymPixel, Women's OlymPixel,
  
• Fixed some wrong shadows on penalty modes.
  
• Fixed bengal light/flares and bottles being thrown when situations are disabled
  
• Updated all locales to latest language corrections
  
• Implemented first version of PixelArt controller-glyphs
  
• Completed art style unification for coaches.
  
• Build size optimization.
  
• UI backgrounds improved.
  
• Weather audio was added.
  
• Simplified Chinese text now generates at run-time and should not miss any glyph. (Please report if you see one!)
  
• Many small bugfixes and improvements.
  

DISCLAIMERS:

1. As we've mentioned before, WE DO NOT OVERWRITE your custom teams, therefore if you want to use Batovi's team design, you must use the Reset Teams Database option, under Gameplay Settings.
   
2. The new import team options will overwrite your existing team when successful.
   

UPDATE HIGHLIGHTS:

Better AI Decisions

• Improved the AI to perform clean passes.
  
• Improved the AI to run on clear spaces.
  
• Improved the AI to kick to the goal if a clear shoot is possible.
  
• Improved the AI kick decisions.
  
• Improved the AI to use skills (sprint, dribble, chip kick, overhead kick, scissor kick, etc).
  
• Improved the AI of the goalkeeper.
  
• National Teams have different playing styles (NOTE: Teams must be reset, see bottom disclaimer).
  
• Career Mode teams AI balance (playing styles are now more notorious).
  

Steam Enriched Presence

TECHNICAL RELEASE NOTES:

GAMEPLAY IMPROVEMENTS:

• Improved the camera movement of the match.
  
• Added the Referee.
  
• Added the Lineman.
  
• Re-balanced the conditions for players to be stunned.
  
• Improved the area of the soccer formation to avoid players pile up.
  

OTHER IMPROVEMENTS:

• Added numerous new UI hints that explain different areas of the game.
  
• Removed the Follow Formation skill and replaced by Tactic Sense (helps CPU players for better positioning on the field depending on what is happening).
  
• Unified the Art style for coaches.
  
• Adjusted several animations for small UI elements.
  
• Added a team preview screen when starting a new Tournament.
  
• Performance improvements (FPS).
  

BUG-FIXES:

• Fixed the grayscale shader in some screens where it was not displaying properly.
  
• Fixed the team name highlight displaying the wrong size at tournament screens for certain resolutions.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused career mode in-match Birds to freeze after an Offside.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the ball landing spot not to show on some situations.
  

DISCLAIMERS:

UPDATE HIGHLIGHT:

CO-OP

PARTY MODE

TECHNICAL RELEASE NOTES:

GAMEPLAY IMPROVEMENTS:

• Offside rule! (necessary for Co-op).
  
• Replay for offside.
  
• Kick forces are balanced (the players kick more powerful than before when charging).
  
• Minimum speed, rotation and acceleration increased for players with zero stats.
  
• Goalkeeper crouch and forward diving to get the ball from the opponent.
  
• Traditional style controls and PCS style controls help screens.
  
• Controllers settings can be accessed for the options, pre-match screen and in game.
  
• Controllers settings and gameplay options can be configured for each controller.
  
• Difficulty levels (easy / normal / hard).
  
• The game asks for difficulty and control style the first time it is run (can be changed in the settings).
  
• AI improvement to avoid players to stand still for a long time.
  
• AI improved when running with the ball and must kick to the goal (most advanced player).
  
• Balanced the marking / dribbling resolution when fighting for the ball.
  
• Goalkeeper AI can walk with the ball in hands before passing or kicking.
  
• The players with zero stats now have more control of the ball.
  
• Wind force reduced.
  

OTHER IMPROVEMENTS:

• Player size was increased a bit to improve readability of team colors.
  
• Snow weather now looks better.
  
• Improved the visuals of the snow/rain/storm weathers.
  
• De-saturation of the field to help readability of team colors.
  
• Australia & Wales included in the Global Cup.
  
• Changed the controls preview pre-match screen to display an image of one of the connected joysticks and its currently selected control setup and corresponding glyph.
  
• Added animations for camera-folk looking north.
  
• Added a button within joystick configuration that opens the Steam controller config directly.
  
• Changed the random tournaments option to not be random by default. Instead tournaments will start with their predefined brackets and participants.
  
• Added a build number display at the Main Menu for easy identification of current release version, specially on gameplay videos you use to report bugs.
  
• Changed the in-game HUD to accommodate for Co-Op player indicators, names, stamina bar, etc...
  
• Changed colors code for the Locked and Unavailable icons at the skills menu.
  
• Implemented the Offside Law and immediate camera replay for offside.
  
• Implemented a choice to start your subsequent career slots without the Situations mechanic. You can also disable the situations for an existing career save slot. Beware that this cannot be re-activated once disabled.
  
• Changed the looks of the input text fields.
  

BALANCE IMPROVEMENTS:

• Changed the initial career players skills: Now up to 9 players in your roster will start with a Ball Control skill and there is a 70% chance that for all 30 players that they will also have one of the nine 0-stars skills.
  
• Implemented a new difficulty selection screen at game start. This gives you the choice for three presets that can tailor your game experience to match your expertise with soccer games.
  
• Front slide tackle foul/yellow cards balance (less chances of foul).
  
• Goalkeeper reaction time balance (more saves if kick from a far position).
  
• Fast kick (kick button tap) now kicks the ball high only in the defensive half of the pitch.
  

BUG-FIXES:

• Solved the kick off bug, preventing starting the game.
  
• Fixed a bug causing the kick particle to remain visible.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some Back buttons to return two menu levels back instead of one.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the speed of the texts at the How To Play screens to change with the render frame rate.
  

DISCLAIMER:

DISCLAIMER:

UPDATE HIGHLIGHT:

TECHNICAL RELEASE NOTES:

GAMEPLAY IMPROVEMENTS:

• A major new optimization was made, increasing the game's FPS in all areas.
  
• Goalkeeper stun time reduced.
  
• Crossing with a quick button press improved (when aiming at the poles from the sides of the field).
  
• Added a "Selected Preset" option for Career Teams, under Team Manager -> Strategy, for quickly choosing between 3 different team setups. Your starters, substitutes and reserve players.
  
• Changed the icons at the Career Board HUD and implemented animations to emphasize what area is affected by a decision.
  
• Added the "Pass/Shot" charge bars, at the bottom of the HUD. It also indicates current Pass or Shot being performed, as well as the stamina remaining for the current run.
  
• Implemented a Loading Screen. The game has been getting bigger and bigger!! This screen provides visual feedback when the game runs background loading instead of plain black.
  

BUGFIXES:

• Fixed a bug that caused GK's with the Ball Control skill to act like they had the ball under their feet when it was in their hands.
  
• Changed the behaviour of the Edit Club screen, so that the ESC key, acts like Accept button, instead of Cancel, this way you can skip through scenes with your changes saved.
  
• Fixed a bug that cause some long player names to display out of the background highlight bounds.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the game to be stuck at Penalty Kicks when there were objects/obstacles.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the ball to be inside the goal without counting as a goal.4
  
  

DISCLAIMER:

TECHNICAL RELEASE NOTES:

GAMEPLAY:

• FPS optimization. The game now runs a lot faster.
  
• Defensive AI improvement.
  
• Player slippery while running and pass/kick the ball.
  
• Global Cup teams skills balance. The players now have a lot of skills in action. NOTE: Must be reset manually going to Settings | Gameplay | Reset Teams Database.
  
• Reduced the error when kick with error (red ball).
  
• Placed kick to goal skill (pressing [PASS] and aiming to the poles from 0.9s to 1.0s) performs a lob shoot towards the corner of the goal.
  
• Short pass fix. Except in assisted mode, the pass is in the facing direction of the player.
  
• Select player fix: If an AI player touches an opponent with the ball, it is selected.
  
• Chip kick in front of the goalkeeper is now done with the skill button.
  
• Goalkeeper can charge pressing the goalkeeper button ((Y) button / [K] Key) when an opponent has the ball and is not selected.
  
• Goalkeeper now passes with one or two hands, charging using [PASS] button.
  
• Goalkeeper now kicks with a volley kick, charging using [KICK] button.
  
• Goalkeeper volley kick skill balanced to perform a counter attack.
  
• Goalkeeper AI running to the ball improvement.
  
• Balanced the prices and skills for goalkeepers and enabled the possibility for GKs to access regular player skills.
  
• Select player: Improved the player selection logic for "Switch to convenient player".
  
• Added an arrow that shows the next player to be selected when pressing the change player button.
  
• Added an option to turn off the board's voices.
  

BUGFIXES:

• Fixed an issue that happened when winning the last match at Career League while your team is CPU controlled, that caused the game not to count that victory.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the players tracks and footprints to stay in screen when running a replay.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused some tournaments to repeat the first series of 7 rounds, instead of creating the 7 new series left.
  
• Fixed some menus and the pause screen that had the music cut off when navigating.
  

TECHNICAL RELEASE NOTES:

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Implemented a difficulty option to choose between: Easy, Normal and Hard.
  
• Separated the Hint settings for earch Career Mode slot.
  
• Localized new situations and careers texts to spanish.
  
• Improved goalkeeper AI to create more situations where goalkeeper runs towards the ball.
  
• Improved control over the ball while defending with Chest Trap. (Now you can start running without waiting).
  
• Modified Chest Trap height so that it allows for Header or Overhead Kick for example.
  
• Implemented controls to perform better directed Headers. The [KICK] action button will aim the ball lower, [GK] action button will aim higher,
  
• Added music to some screens.
  
• Implemented sound FXs for thunder and lightning.
  
• Added some description texts for better understading of button functionality.
  

BUGFIXES:

• Fixed the Precision Kick to Goal skill accuracy
  
• Reduced the ball's outgoing bounce speed when hitting a pole or the crossbar.
  
• Reduced the chances that your goalkeeper performing a one-handed or two-handed pass would end up in a goal against you.
  
• Music in match is now working.
  
• Adjusted many Sound FXs volume.
  
• Fixed a bug that cause the knockout panels not to display cups and next martch button.
  
• Corrected the in-game HUD positions for consistency
  

DISCLAIMER:

How-To Download:

TECHNICAL RELEASE NOTES:

IMPROVEMENTS:

<*> Career Mode:


• Implemented first version of the Intro Story
  
• Implemented voices for the Board of Directors
  
• Implemented tons of different "situations". These are dilemmas that have you make decisions that affect gameplay
  
• Rebalanced the league teams
  
• Finished implementing the 45 skills. Completely functional, with an XP cost for each.
  
• Added five new skills: Jump Obstacles, Backheel Pass, Wall Pass, Fake Shoot and Front Tackle (rough play)
  
• Stats automatic progression system: Stats are increased automatically with experience points as players advance
  
• Player stats maximum potential: Players have a maximum possible value that their stats can reach, therefore creating room for different player styles and unique stat combinations
  
• Skills manual progression system: skills can be unlocked after a certain number of stars are acquired through XP
  
• Implemented a different playing style for each league team
  
• Implemented many AI improvements. (The AI can now use skills, avoid placing themselves in offside, more precision when jumping and many more...
  
• Implemented many new gameplay elements as consequences of situations: flares, dogs, birds, flood and many more... surprises!
  
• Board of Directors jokes and funny commentary
  

<*> General Gameplay:


• Goal posts are now rounded, the ball bounces more realistically
  
• Bad goalkeepers cause more bounces, generating some panic situations
  
• Modified kicking so that a crossing or a strong kick can be performed with a quick button press
  
• Implemented different Change Player assist modes that can be individually set for each friendly match player or for your career mode, separately
  
• Implemented different physics for different combinations of field types and weather
  
• Implemented controls to quickly change Attitude and Tactics in-game without pausing
  
• Implemented the option to control the goalkeeper manually
  
• The player name is now shown when the player is selected
  
• Added many sound effects for new features as well as new music pieces
  
• Implemented full support of the Steam Input API
  
• Rebalanced chances for foul and cards
  

<*> UI:


• UI completely reworked
  
• Skills & Stats description help screen
  
• New player hints for How-Tos
  

BUGFIXES:

• As the Steam Input API is fully implemented, you should experience no problem with any compatible controller. This includes, but is not limited to: Nintendo Switch Pro Controller, Xbox One Controller, PS5 DualSense Controller, PS4 DualShock Controller, XInput Compatible Controllers and Legacy DirectInput controllers (again, as long as the controller is compatible with the Steam Input API)
  
• We implemented sooo many bugfixes... it is impractical to list them all here. Please be on the lookout for new and unreported issues. All those previously reported have been either solved or are being actively worked on.