Football, Tactics & Glory News

Some players have previously complained that the new tracks in the DLC differ in volume from the music from the base game. I checked the tracks and they were properly balanced, so no corrections were made.

But yesterday we found out that the volume of the new tracks was accidentally changed in the game's code, resulting in an uneven sound.

We fixed this small bug and updated Football Stars and Manager's Journey.

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This week, there will be several minor updates released. They won't include any fixes. Instead, we will better collect information about game crashes that occur due to optimization. So far, we haven't found the cause of why the game may crash during the simulation calculation for some players. After these updates, our reporting system will provide us with more detailed information about crashes.

We've made a very small update for all versions of the game that fixes minor bugs that can cause the game to crash in some very rare cases. The ad display code was also slightly optimized.

Additionally, fixed a rare bug for Manager's Journey that would lead to a crash during a match if a strong AI didn't know what to do with the substitutions in the first half (there are different AIs for the opponent teams: average and strong one; average don't bother if there are some hard situations because it can make non-optimal decisions; but the Strong one tries its best to make a very good formation; therefore if there happens very rare combination of footballers/match situation, it breaks; fixed).

Thanks to our electricians, the energy system of Ukraine has recovered a little. The Armed Forces of Ukraine very effectively repelled the last missile & drone attack. So we had a little more time with electricity to work on fixing the bugs.

• If you go to the footballer's profile from the Transfers screen, and click Buy, then the scouts' discount did not affect the footballer's price. Fixed.
  
• If the country ratings are changed at the beginning of the campaign creation, the other countries' strengths will not change according to the rating. Fixed.
  
• In one of the recent updates, the achievement "Sweet Promises" was broken. Fixed.
  
• Inexplicably, it was possible to upgrade the trainer skill "Fast-track skill learning" from level 4 to level 5. This then led to the crash of the game. Fixed.
  
• In some situations when the AI ​​changed formation, the player was not prompted to change formation as well. Fixed.
  
• When the player toggled the option from Easy to Normal when setting up the campaign, the randomness mode did not switch from Expected to Normal. Fixed.
  
• In Turkish names, you could sometimes see a football player named "Çığ or Çiğ". Fixed.
  

This is the last update of this year. Our team wishes you a Happy New Year! We wish you victories not only on the football pitch but also in life! ːnationalcupː

• Disabling banners was not saved if exiting the match. Fixed.
  
• Disabling banners did not work if ads were disabled in settings. Fixed.
  
• Fixed a rare crash that occasionally occurred when entering the transfers screen.
  
• Fixed a rare crash that occasionally occurred after the end of the transfer window.
  

The banners are fixed only for Manager's Journey. When we have electricity again, we will also update vanilla and Football Stars (within 24 hours).

[h3]Usability Improvements[/h3]

• In the match, in the graphics menu, an option has been added that allows you to disable banner animations. If your game crashes when changing banners, you can turn off the animations.
  
• In the match, in the graphics menu, an option was added that turns off large banners in small stadiums.
  
• Added a save point before talking to the president so that it is not possible to load the game if the conversation failed.
  
• Changed the language icon to a more universally understandable one.
  

[h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• Weather effects may not be displayed in the Weather editor. Fixed.
  
• If the game crashed during the match, and the footballers had motivation, then when the game was loaded, the footballers could have this motivation in the next match. Fixed.
  
• Fixed small inaccuracies in the code of some achievements (in some special cases, achievements could be obtained not fully deserved).
  
• Small corrections in the French localization.
  

[h3]Crashed during the match[/h3]
Recently, we have received reports from some players about the game crashing during a match when changing banners. After examining this part of the code, we did not understand the reason for the crashes. The only thing that is clear is that the problem mainly occurs on weak computers. This is a memory problem. It arises during management, but it manifests itself in the match.

We did not find this bug and did not fix it (although we allowed to turn off the animation of the banners). It would help us if someone recorded the process of their game 10-15 minutes before such a crash. A few such videos would give us an opportunity to explore where _before the match_ the memory goes bad. It is possible that players do some similar actions that lead to a problem in the memory, which then leads to the crash in the match.

[h3]Crashes between matches[/h3]
Some players have reported that the game may crash after a match. We suspect that this is related to the optimization code. But so far no problems have been found in the code. Therefore, a collection of additional technical information about crashes was added to our report system.

Now, when you send us a report, we'll have more data on what happened at that point in the game.

[h3]How quickly can we respond to problems[/h3]
Living in Ukraine, we work on the game during the rare hours when there is electricity. Sometimes 2-4 hours a day are available to us. And it happens that there is no electricity for 16-36 hours (immediately after massive russian shelling). Therefore, we cannot respond very quickly to your comments and bug reports. But we try to look for possible problems and fix them as soon as possible.

Only the electricity/internet appears, I read messages from players, reply, check information about possible problems, and try to help. Yes, updates are less frequent, but we keep working because we want players to enjoy our game.