Football, Tactics & Glory News

We continue working on the big update which is going to add revolutionary improvements to already great Leagues Editor.

Today, I want to tell you about one more feature which we started working on.

Soon, you will be able to edit weather in any country. Do you want to create eternal winter? Want to change the frequency of heavy rains? Want to change an existing country with an average weather on a new one with hot weather?

It will be possible soon:



Eventually, we want to give you the same possibilities we have ourselves when editing leagues. But at the same moment, we want to create a very useful interface. Also, we are changing the data structure so the game can take the outer data from the modifications.


At the moment, we are still developing the new features I have told you the last week.
In around 1-2 weeks we are going to update the Beta with these two features.

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On this week we didn't update the Beta because there were quite hard features to develop.

But I want to tell you a bit about these features. I'm sure that players who love developing and editing the leagues will be glad to hear what we are working on.




We want players to be able to edit the number of teams in every league. The minimum number of the teams will be 8 (10 for Premier league). The maximum number - 20.

Now, it will be possible to create more realistic championships. Also, there will be a space for experimentation with league formats.

However, the general rules of the tournaments will stay untouched. I.e. no matter how many there are teams in the leagues, the teams will continue to participate in the Prestige, National and continental cups.




Many players asked us about that. And finally, we have decided to do it.

The main complexity is in taking to account all the forms different languages can use the tournament names in. So we remake all the texts, search for tournaments names, and create special editing sheets for every language. It will be very easy for English, but significantly harder for German or Russian, for example.

But when we finish this features, you will be able to rename every tournament. I'm sure it will make the playing experience much more realistic.

Btw, when testing this feature we used some weird names for the tournaments just to be sure that everything works as expected even in the weirdest cases. It was very funny to see how these names in the game. Just look at the screenshot:




We really hope to release them into the Beta in around 2-3 weeks. Despite they are partially working in the internal builds, we don't want to release them not finished.

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We continue working on the Autumn update. Its main goal is to make our modifications support significantly better. It is very powerful even now. But new features and usability improvements will give you much more possibilities.

You can see what's already done by changing the branch to Beta. We are updating the branch once per 2 weeks.

Today we have launched the new Beta update.


TL;DR:
- now, you can copy/paste the whole teams;
- now, you can generate the teams with a set power;
- in the single-player campaign, we added the descriptions of what happens when the ball is spinning.

LEAGUES EDITOR

• Added the possibility to copy/paste the whole teams. Now, you can copy a team from some modification, and paste it to another modification.
  
• Now, you can see the power of the teams in the League Editor.
  
• Now, you can see the power of the teams in the Team Editor.
  
• Added a new tab where you can generate the team of set power. IMPORTANT! The changed power can be experienced only in the Sandbox mode.
  
• When you are editing any characteristics, you can press TAB to jump to the next characteristics. It allows for significantly faster editing.
  
• The first click on any characteristics selects the text of this characteristics. Therefore, the following typing of any character clears the previous text. It allows you to edit the characteristics faster. Because earlier, you had to delete the old data first, and only then - add a new data.
  

QUALITY OF LIFE IMPROVEMENTS

• When FTG makes any calculations players see a spinning ball. We added the textual explanations of what happens at these moments. So now, you will know what the game is doing.
  
• In the slot of the last played campaign we added an Info button.
  

BUGS

• Fixed the font problem in with some characters in the Romanian names.
  
• Aggressive tackle didn't increase the Tackles counter. Fixed.
  
• In a very rare situation, when a footballer scores a header after intercepting the opponent's lofted pass, the game counts it as a Header. It used to be just a goal.
  
• Fixed the crash which happened after editing the birth date in the already published modification.
  

If you have a feedback, comments or problems regarding the Beta, if you like or dislike something you can write about it in the forum: http://steamcommunity.com/app/375530/discussions/

Also, you can discuss the Beta in our Discord channel: https://discord.gg/JeFSG4s

If you create a unique modification with the new features, don't hesitate to write about it. If there will be 3-4 such modifications, I'll mention them in our news.

Is there something in this update you were waiting for?

In the previous news I have told that we are going to add the possibilities to make the modifications more unique.

Today, we open the Beta access to all who want to see these possibilities. Also, there are other improvements which you might like.


Click on Football, Tactics & Glory in your Steam library with the right mouse button. Select “Properties”. In the appeared window open the last tab and select “beta - autumn update”.




TL;DR:
- Many new possibilities in the Leagues Editor;
- Improved 60 and 90 actions modes;
- Added 3 new countries. Updates the clubs from the most famous European leagues + USA.

LEAGUES EDITOR

• Updated the design of all the screens of the Leagues Editor. Now, it looks much nicer.
  
• Now, you can change the flag of the country. It will allow you to create new countries or regions.
  
• Now, you can upload the text file with the list of the names. It will allow you to make your country more unique. You won't depend on the names which already exist. You can add more.
  
• Now, you can edit the clubs' abbreviations which are shown into the matches. Moreover, you can change them not only on the Leagues Editor but also in the already started campaigns.
  
• Now, you can change the footballer's day and month of the birth in the Team Editor.
  
• Now, you can rotate the face of the footballers in the Team Editor without opening the Faces Editor.
  
• Now, if your modification contains changed flags, it will be tagged "Flag" in the Steam Workshop. If you uploaded the new names, it will be tagged "Names". It will allow an easier search for such modifications.
  
• Fixed the problem which appeared when you subscribed to 50+ modifications.
  
• The Faces Generator learned to generate eyes within the wider range of settings. As a result, there will be a bit more diverse faces.
  

QUALITY OF LIFE IMPROVEMENTS

• Added the messages when there is not enough Money/Glory for a purchase/contracts etc.
  
• Added the possibility to see the energy and change a class on the following screens: Contracts, Training, Specialization, Specialization in the subs.
  
• Now, if a cup match ended with the series of penalty, we show the penalties results on all the screens where you can see the match results (earlier, you could see only the match results).
  
• Now, when you switch the tabs in the Management screen, the list of footballers tries to keep its position (earlier, it automatically scrolled to the top).
  
• Added the possibility to change the class before starting the Online/Hot seat match.
  
• In the Specialization screen after the match there wasn't a possibility to scroll with up/down keyboard buttons. Added.
  

BALANCE

• Now, in the 60/90 actions modes, other clubs play the matches with the higher number of actions as well. As a result, the match results will be less realistic, however, there will be more competition in the top-10 lists. Now, your club will earn the full amount of Glory for having the footballers in these lists (removed the penalty which has been added in the previous updates).
  
• Increased the probability of appearing the universal classes from the Youth Academies (in your team and in the AI teams).
  
• Now, if you purchased a footballer, you won't be able to sell him in the same transfer window.
  
• Now, the cup finals happen in the neutral stadiums. The clubs earn the half of the ticket sells.
  
• Now, at the start of a campaign, players get younger footballers.
  

COUNTRIES

• Added new countries: Peru, Colombia, Paraguay.
  
• Updated the teams in the following countries: Germany, England, Italy, France, Spain, Netherlands, USA.
  
• Added many new names to the Slovenian names.
  

BUGS

• Enabled the sounds of kicking the ball in the Main menu (where the footballers are passing the ball to each other).
  
• One of the musical tracks has being stopped in the middle. Fixed.
  
• Fixed minor AI bugs in the matches.
  
• Fixed the problem with saving the changes of the names/attributes of other clubs in the already started campaigns. Earlier, if you renamed the club and left the game, it might not save.
  
• If a player opened Select a Sponsor-->Tables-->Team-->Kit Editor, the game crashed. Fixed.
  

The current beta version of the Autumn update is almost final. The only thing it lacks is translation to all supporting languages.

However, there is one feature we really want to add. It's a possibility to change the names of the leagues. For example, you could change the name from "Premier league" to "Serie A" or "Galactic league" :)

The problem is that the names of the tournaments are "baked" into mails, messages and interfaces. Moreover, the names are used in different cases which is almost no problem for English but very problematic for other languages. Therefore, currently, we are trying to figure out how we can solve the problem.

Currently, we think that it's fine to give to the players to change the leagues' names in different cases. For example:
- Galactic league
- [in] Galactic league
- [from] Galactic league

We didn't decide if this feature will be done. Therefore, if you love to change the leagues by your tastes, write, please, if you 'd like to have this possibility.


If you have a feedback, comments or problems regarding the Beta, if you like or dislike something you can write about it in the forum: http://steamcommunity.com/app/375530/discussions/

Also, you can discuss the Beta in our Discord channel: https://discord.gg/JeFSG4s

If you create a unique modification with the new features, don't hesitate to write about it. If there will be 3-4 such modifications, I'll mention them in our news.

And finally, the traditional question: what do you like the most from the new features/improvements?