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In the course of implementing statistics, we realized that changing club by the coach is not a mechanic that would fit this expansion. One part of the statistics shows the game world, and the other part shows the history of your club. And if you often move to other clubs, you will only see fragments of the history of each next club.

Initially, this did not seem to be a problem for us, but when we play the beta version with statistics, we realized that the changing club mechanic would be better replaced with something that would allow for a more interesting development of our club.

But we continued to follow the plan because the expansion had already been announced and we had already created certain expectations.

However, after implementing statistics, the engine has become much more complicated. Therefore, implementing the changing club mechanic became very difficult. We realized that the expansion will not be released until March 2021.

Therefore, we returned to our thoughts about the fact that it would be better to replace the mechanics of the coach's changing club to something else, which will make it more interesting to play with the same club and at the same time would be faster to implement.


For a long time, we wanted to implement the Giftedness mechanic. This is a mechanic that makes footballers more unique in their development. More gifted footballers, for example, can grow to higher levels than less gifted ones.

With the giftedness, the search for footballers on transfers will be more interesting. Assuming that improving your youth academy leads to a greater chance of getting more gifted football players, the value of your youth might increase significantly.

Also in the match, the more gifted players will have an advantage when performing skills. It has long worried us that a level 100 footballer performs Cannon Kick as effectively as a level 10 footballer.

Now, more gifted players will perform skills more efficiently.

Overall, this mechanic will have a pretty big impact on the game, making it more voluminous. You will experience FTG like it's a partially new game.

We'll be writing more details on how this will work in 1-2 weeks. For now, I'll just show you a screenshot.




Since we changed the main mechanics of the expansion, we should have changed its name. It will now be called Football Stars. This name reflects the fact that we show the level of giftedness with little stars.

[h2] What do you think about the changes? [/h2]
To be honest, we were pretty scared to change the plan. But we are sure that this will not only surprise and delight you with quite interesting new mechanics but will also speed up the release of the expansion.

So expect it to be released on November 2020.

[h2]Add the next major expansion to your Wishlist[/h2]
I want to recall you that you can already add Football, Tactics & Glory: Football Stars to your Wishlist.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1293080/

This way you won't miss the moment of its launch.

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We have updated the current version of the game in order to fix minor bugs and some little improvements:

• Extended the length of the contracts of most footballers at the start of the campaign at Normal and Easy modes.
  
• Now, the interactive tutorial shows Help button after 3 unsuccessful attempts (instead of 5). Also, the button pointing to the help is now more visible.
  
• Fixed display of rain and snow in the goal celebration scenes.
  
• Removed the Export button from the face editor (we needed it internally for testing faces).
  
• Improved stability of the 32-bit version.
  

Have fun!

This is part of a series of articles that talk about the many new features that will appear in the next major expansion. You can find past articles there.

Today I want to tell you about several new features which do not add anything globally new but make the playing process much more enjoyable.



We completely remade the career screen to show you more data about the footballer. Despite the new columns like Cards, Injuries and Duration of the Injuries are interesting per see, we believe that the most interesting new possibility is the information about how much the new club paid for the footballer.

Sometimes, you can see quite interesting careers. For example, there's a screenshot of a Center Defender who was grown by the Rome's Youth Academy. He was noticed by the Zagreb's scouts, and the club bought him for quite big money: 12 mln Euro.

For the next 3 seasons, the footballers showed himself so well that Madrid purchased him for more than twice as big sum: 27 mln.



Additionally, we improved the profile screen for the footballers of your team. Except adding a possibility to see their Specialization tree directly from this screen (earlier you had to go to the Specialization tab of your club), now you also will be able to see his general statistics filtered by the clubs he ever played:




We will add 10 new tracks. I'm sure we were able to get even better tracks than currently are in the game.


Earlier, when you scored a goal, the ball was always flying by a direct trajectory. Moreover, no matter how far a footballer stayed from the goal, the time of flying was the same. When a shot was made from one of the corner tiles, the ball always crossed the goalposts.

There's how it looked like:



I believe it's fine for a turn-based game where the match mechanics is the core of the game. However, we try our best the players also have a visual pleasure when playing FTG.

Therefore, in the next expansion, the footballers will send the ball by different trajectories: either in the close or far corners, with a twist or by the straight line.




Earlier, you couldn't get more than 80 000 fans because it didn't have a gameplay sense. Now, we will remove this limit. Also, there will be new gameplay improvements:

1) Now, the number of fans grows slower in general. You will get more fans for promoting to the higher tournament stages and for getting your players in the best team of the round.

2) After reaching some number of fans, the sponsors' payments will be increased. Therefore, even reaching more than 80k fans, this number will make sense for you because it's a part of your economy.

The screenshot shows the screen where you select a sponsor. I have more than 100k fans, therefore, I have an additional 10% bonus.



[h2]Write what you liked most[/h2]
While these new improvements aren't big, they improve the game in general. So we are interested to know what improvement you liked more.

[h2]Add the next major expansion to your Wishlist[/h2]
I want to recall you that you can already add Football, Tactics & Glory: Manager's Journey to your Wishlist.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1293080

This way you won't miss the moment of its launch.

[h2]Follow our news[/h2]
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Creoteam's page in Steam - subscribe to get news about all FTG news directly in Steam
Discord - good place to discuss the game
Email subscription - I will send all the news to your email

While we are working on the next big expansion, we have found some little bugs which we would like to fix for the main game:

• After finishing the tutorial tests, some players experienced crashes if they tried to replay the tests. Fixed.
  
• In some rare cases, the players might not pass some tests from the first try. Fixed.
  
• In the Precision Shot test the image showed the wrong penalty for 4-tiles distance. Fixed.
  
• Slightly improved the image of Argentina flag.
  
• When a footballer got the bonus for finishing the Specialization tree, the specialization icons were skewed. Fixed.
  
• Fixed the wordings in French (in the sentences like `Aujourd'hui, nous jouons _en_ qualifications `)
  
• Changed the name of one of the Indonesian cities
  

Just in case you didn't know, a new big expansion is in development. There are all articles which tell about new possibilities in it.

Also, your reviews really help us to reach more players. So if you still didn't write one, consider, please, to write and tell other players about Football, Tactics & Glory.

Have fun!

This is part of a series of articles that talk about the many new features that will appear in the next major expansion. You can find past articles there.

In previous articles, I talked about the statistics of tournaments, clubs, and footballers. But we decided to go further and start collecting interesting statistics of the matches.


Now, you will be able to see from which tiles you made goal attempts, scored goals, and assists:



Additionally, there will be a possibility to find out from which tiles you conceded goals, where you were booked, and where your players were injured:



Obviously, your style of playing in the Amateur League will be different from how you play in the Premier League. Therefore, all this information can be viewed either for the whole time or separately for each season.


Penalties are performed not often. But for 5-10 seasons, interesting statistics can be accumulated. For example, in which zones you are most likely to score a goal, in which zones you better defended the goal, etc.

We decided that this is also quite interesting information that would be interesting to study. Therefore, we implemented such a possibility:



Also, you can see in which zones you conceded goals during penalty:



[h2]Comment if you were happy to know about new stats[/h2]
As usual, if you were glad to see these pieces of statistics, write about it in the comments. And if you do not care, or not particularly interested - also write. This will make it easier for us to understand your expectations.

[h2]Add the next major expansion to your Wishlist[/h2]
I want to recall you that you can already add Football, Tactics & Glory: Manager's Journey to your Wishlist.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1293080/

This way you won't miss the moment of its launch.

[h2]Follow our news[/h2]
Forum - the main hub for the discussions
Creoteam's page in Steam - subscribe to get news about all FTG news directly in Steam
Discord - good place to discuss the game
Email subscription - I will send all the news to your email