Sunday Rivals News

Hey yall, quick patch to address a few issues that came up in awards, plus a couple of handy features, including postgame sim stat leaders, the ability to manually progress through single-game sims, and a couple nagging bug fixes!



Oh, you can also press B/Circle/6 to go 'back' on most UI screens now. Makes my life easier, hopefully yours too! Full release notes below:

SEASON MODE

• Sim games now show stat leaders at the end of the game
  
• Sim games can now be manually progressed through without leaving the sim game results screen
  
• Added the player's team name to various awards and Hype screens
  
• Decreased return yards impact on winning awards
  

UI

• Pressing the B/CIRCLE/6 button on most menus will go back to the previous screen
  

BUGS

1. Fixed an issue where an eliminated team appears to make and potentially win the playoffs
   
2. Fixed an issue that kept 'UI Text' customization option from saving correctly
   

Hey yall, I'm excited to announce the addition of Season Mode Awards in the v.18.0 Awards Update! Going forward, your players will have a chance to be recognized as Offensive & Defensive Player of the Week, Offensive & Defensive Player of the Year, MVP, and Playoff MVP! There's even Coach of the Year, and an All-Star team for top players at each position!



To help tell the story of your team's success and give you insight on how the rest of the league is doing, I've also added a new section to Season Mode called 'Hype', which helps track how players are progressing towards winning awards, including recaps of the Player of the Week's performance and ongoing weekly lists of the top players in the league.





This update also includes some improvements to sim game results and a couple of bug fixes. Unfortunately, it will also reset any existing seasons in progress so that awards can be properly tracked, apologies in advance.

Check out the complete patch notes below and good luck trying to bring home that MVP!

SEASON MODE

• Added Player of the Week awards for offense and defense
  
• Added end of season awards for All-Star Team, Offensive & Defensive Player of the Year, Coach of the Year, MVP, and Playoff MVP
  
• Added Awards section
  
• Added Hype section
  
• Added Awards cinematics
  
• Made improvements to sim engine to better utilize secondary on passing plays resulting in more deflections and interceptions across the position group and impact of defense overall
  
• Teams with a sizable 4th quarter lead will run more to use the clock up in sim games
  
• Stat leader screen now lists player's first name initial and position
  
• Improved post game stat summaries to use all available stats
  

CUSTOMIZATION

• Updated character model and default pose
  

SRFL ROSTERS

• Assigned a proper KR for San Diego
  

BUGS

• Fixed a bug where interceptions were listed as touchdowns in the 'postgame' screen
  
• Fixed a bug where no kick returner was credited with sim return stats when the role was left unfilled for a team, now defaults to WR1
  

Hey yall, bit of a tiny, unscheduled patch here but this one fixes a critical bug that popped up as well as making some additions to improve the feeling of 'home' games, with a crowd that boos and reacts appropriately to the play on the field (and a few other details). Full notes below:

CROWD

• The home crowd will now appropriately react to plays made by the away team
  
• Added new cameras for end of game
  

ART

• Stadium art improvements
  

BUGS

• Fixed a critical bug where the game would softlock when the QB scrambles for a TD
  

In this update, I'm adding more customization options for your teams, giving you the ability to (finally) pick your punt and kick returners!



I've also added a new Lineup screen in Season mode, which lets you quickly swap players within position groups to take advantage of mismatches or just try out players in different roles.



I'm especially excited for what the Lineup functionality will bring in the future once playbooks expand (coming soon!), giving you even more options to create interesting game plans for your Season Mode opponents! More info on that in the coming months, for now check out the full list of changes in this release, including some scoring adjustments to HeadHunter, in the patch notes below:

CUSTOMIZATION

• Eligible players can be assigned as kick and punt returners when editing a player
  

SEASON MODE

• Added the Lineup screen, allowing players to be swapped within position groups between games
  
• Kick and punt returners can be changed between games in the Lineup screen
  
• Added player scouting reports to the Lineup screen
  
• Sim games better utilize kick returner's ratings
  
• 'Run after catch' stat is now tracked and sortable
  

HEADHUNTER

• 'Tackle For Loss' scoring bonus renamed to 'Tackling' and includes all tackling plays, increased scoring bonus threshold to 90
  
• 'Turnovers' scoring bonus renamed to 'Pass Defense' and includes deflections and touchdowns, increased scoring bonus threshold to 25
  
• 'Points Allowed' scoring bonus threshold increased to 80
  
• 'Tackle For Loss' record category renamed to 'Total Defense' and includes all defensive stats
  
• Cleaned up in-game HeadHunter scoring summary to remove zero-value stats
  

GAMEPLAY

• Pressing the trigger buttons on defense will toggle controlled player in and out of 'scrape' mode
  
• Holding down the trigger buttons on offense will no longer rapidly toggle passing mode
  
• 'Run after catch' and return 'Long' stats are accurately tracked in game now
  
• Default rosters have been updated with new kick/punt returners
  

ART

• Stadium art improvements
  

Hey yall, quick update to address a handful of bugs players reported recently, along with some minor housekeeping. Full patch notes here:

General

• 'Practice Game' has been renamed to 'Single Game'
  
• Custom League utilities are no longer accessible for the default league
  
• Lowered the default mouse speed to 3
  

Bugs

• Fixed a critical bug where the roster auto-patch would get stuck in a loop
  
• Fixed a bug where the auto-patch would run on leagues that have already been patched
  
• Fixed multiple bugs causing the wrong league to be loaded at startup
  
• Fixed a bug that would show incorrect OVR's and team names in the pregame coaching preview
  
• Fixed multiple grammatical and spelling errors in coaching dialog