Sociable Soccer 24 News

Hello Sociable folks!

With a big summer of football about to get underway in Europe, we thought it was a good time to introduce another set of fixes and improvements. Here's a few of them…

• Improved goalkeeper behaviours and adjusted some goalkeeper attributes (including adding variation between different goalkeeper difficulty levels)
  
• Fixed a bug where reserve players are stuck in a squad, preventing changes to team and formation
  
• Changed the method of relegation from top league to be more forgiving
  
• Improved halftime behaviour to make it more realistic
  
• Fixed bugs in substitution system
  
• Added a delay before the start of a penalty shootout
  
• Fixed some problems with Steam achievements
  
• Stopped the in-game team tactics panel from applying the user default formation
  
• Fixed the misleading text on pre-match controller screen
  
• Fixed the Arabic sprites not rendering correctly in some screens
  
• Fixed low chip shots being difficult to save
  
• Made improvements to after touch
  

Why not check them out? ⚽

Hi everyone!

Barely a week after our last update, we have another set of improvements for you to get your studs into.

In this update, we have introduced a new PvP meter to help bring players together at the same time for online play. The meter ticks down every 15 minutes and when the meter is active, it's time to head online and get matched up with opponents for some online friendlies!

You can now also choose the difficulty for friendly matches and world mode competitions.

• Adjustments to new goalkeeper behaviours introduced in the previous update.
• Difficulty selection now available in friendlies and world mode.
• New PvP meter. The meter counts down to a PvP Party every 15 minutes.

See you on the pitch! ⚽

Hi everyone!

We have another exciting update, bringing the game up to version 1.2, featuring significant improvements, particularly to the controls, AI and goalkeepers.

The virtual hoardings and banners are now also proudly promoting two UK games industry led charities; Planet Play and Safe in our World.

• Improved ‘aftertouch’ giving more power and bend to shots.
  
• Goalkeepers can now tip the ball over the bar and around the post.
  
• AI does chip and pass slides and headers are more varied.
  
• Goalkeepers obey back pass rule and don’t stray outside of box.
  
• AI goal kicks, ball bending and shooting is much more varied.
  
• Reworked header and deflection logic for both player and AI.
  
• Improved goal line clearances for AI.
  
• Player has more control of slide tackle direction.
  
• Improved idle animations.
  
• A huge new variety of emergent gameplay on the pitch.
  
• Fix for team formation not resetting on next game in friendlies.
  
• Added more player photos.
  
• New charity banner art and animating charity hoarding animations.
  
• Allowed access to tactics menu during goal-kicks.
  
• Fixed ball collision with outside of goal nets.
  
• User can now sub on previously subbed players.
  
• Various minor bug fixes.
  

See you on the pitch! ⚽

1.1

• Fixes to the in-game chat system. More variety of chat options after scoring and conceding goals.
  
• Fix to chat send button also kicking the ball at the same time.
  
• Added end of day club clash messages showing; club clash results, club group tables.
  
• Improved goalkeeper animations.
  
• Improved goalkeepers ability to save high and low shots.
  
• Improved goalkeeper ability to gather the ball on the floor.
  
• Bug fix for menu errors when a user reaches manager level 10 before receiving a club clash opponent.
  
• Enabled trophy rewards at the end of each week; club captain, club group honours, club world ranking honours.
  
• Improved camera sweep at the start of matches.
  
• Varied AI shooting and slide tackle response times.
  

Improvements from previous patches:

1.0.3

• Fix for matches exiting while attempting to kick off in online PvP
  
• Minor tweaks to new chip values
  

1.0.2

• Fixes to a couple of gameplay exploits
  
• Further improvements to overhead cameras
  
• Increased strength and variance of chip
  
• Other minor gameplay tweaks and balancing
  

1.0.1

• Fixes to league difficulty. There is now a larger difference between easy, medium and hard difficulties in career mode.
  
• Added a second overhead camera. More zoomed out with no horizontal panning in 16:9 aspect ratio resolutions. Some small panning remains in 16:10 and 4:3.
  

Hi folks,

We have had some reports of crashes while attempting to start PvP matches. After some time investigating we have found the cause of the issue and have applied a fix in the latest patch.

• Fix for matches exiting while attempting to kick off in online PvP
• Minor tweaks to new chip values

See you on the pitch online! ⚽