Sunday Rivals News

I'm ecstatic to announce that Season Mode is finally in the game!

In the v.16 update, pick your favorite team and battle your way to the SRFL Bowl, with full support for custom teams and a handful of options to customize your league and schedule. Check out the full breakdown here, or read on below for the highlights:

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Before you hit the field, check out the pregame screen which gives a complete breakdown of positional ratings and statistical leaders to help you prepare for your team's game:



Afterwards, see the top performers at every category in the postgame screen:



Along with typical league standings, there's also a full league ranking system:



Every stat in the game is tracked, sortable, and viewable per-team or via top-10 league leader lists:



You also have full access to every game on the schedule. Play it, sim it, whatever you want:



There's a lot to play with in Season Mode right now, with plans to improve and expand every aspect of the mode going forward. Future updates will integrate directly into the mode, including team strategies, playbook expansion, lineup options, awards, and much more. I look forward to sharing that progress in the upcoming months!

As always, I'm open to all your suggestions and feedback, let's make Season Mode something you want to play for years to come! Full patch notes below:

Game Modes

• Added Season Mode
  

Customization

• Added the ability to swap player positions from the edit team screen
  

Rosters

• Updated many default rosters defensive players to be in the correct positions again
  
• Updated default custom leagues to have all fields correctly filled out
  

Bugs

• Fixed a bug where helmet 3 wasn't loading correctly in game
  

While I'm currently hard at work on adding Season Mode to the game, I wanted to patch in a few small changes that can make their way into the mix now. Going forward, you'll be able to change the quarter lengths of your games from the 'options' menu where you setup your teams



I've also renamed the defensive positions to better reflect where they actually line up on the field, as well as normalizing those positions across all formations.



An unfortunate side effect to this change will impact custom rosters, as some of your players may not be in the positions they were before. I'm hoping to come up with a solution for this in the next major update.

As I mentioned before, Season Mode is coming along strong and I'm looking forward to you all getting a chance to try it out in the near future. Thanks for your support!


Gameplay

• Added 'quarter length' to the game options popup for all modes
  

Playbook

• Changed DL & LB position names to better reflect their actual field positions
  
• Normalized where DL & LB's line up across all formations
  

Misc

• File format updates for future releases
  

Hey yall, I wanted to share two devlog videos I made recently to better outline the upcoming year of Sunday Rivals!

First up, I shed some light on planned features heading towards the v1.0 release, as well as answering some questions from the community:

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Next up, check out a fantastic custom college football league made by community member Jackrabbit JB, along with Part 2 of Community Q&A, including some thoughts on a potential Franchise Mode:

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I appreciate everyone's support and feedback and can't wait to share all the work being done on Season Mode soon! As always, let me know your thoughts and fire away if you have questions of your own, either in the forums here or on Discord!

Bugs

• Fixed an issue where the up man would play the snap before the punter, breaking punts
  

Hope everyone is enjoying all the catching and gameplay changes from the last update! The v.15.1 patch fixes a number of bugs that showed up recently as well as adding some quality of life features to the game including a more useful power meter:



Check out the full patch notes below:


Gameplay

• Removed severe blocking imbalance on kicking plays
  

UI

• Added a meter to visualize the time it takes for a player's power moves to recharge
  
• Added an animated banner to the playbook screen on 4th down and extra points
  
• Added timeouts to the scoreboard portion of the playbook screen
  
• Added potential field goal distance to the playbook screen special menu
  
• Added a possession marker to the playbook screen
  
• Playbook scoreboard correctly shows extra point details
  
• Plays of less than 1 yard that result in touchdowns / first downs are rounded up to 1
  

Bugs

• Potential fix for a rare issue where a receiver will be tackled by no one immediately after catching the ball
  
• Potential fix for a rare issue where a running back will not catch a toss
  
• Fixed a number of issues causing players to be facing the opposite direction they were running
  
• Fixed an issue where non-kick returners would face the wrong direction once they caught the kickoff
  
• Fixed an issue where stadium scoreboards wouldn't update after scoring when time has expired heading into halftime/final
  
• Fixed an issue where QB's would not be able to toggle back to passing mode until their power meter fully recharged