Football, Tactics & Glory News

Earlier I was telling how the next major expansion will show detailed statistics for each tournament.

Now, we started working on the club's statistics.


In the current version of the game, you can trace how the position of each club has been changing on the historical chart. It also shows what the strength of the club at the end of the season was and what trophies the club won.

But we decided that this is not the most convenient way to track the historical statistics of the clubs. We want to know more details. Therefore, for the next expansion, we developed a separate club's history screen.


First of all, you can see how many trophies the club has won in its entire history. On the chart, you can evaluate the ratio of the trophies won.

We also decided to introduce a historical scale into the game, which will help to quickly assess the success of the club in different seasons. If the club won a trophy, it will be displayed above or below the scale. If the club relegated from the league, this year will be colored in red. If it promoted (or got into the top 3 in the Premier League), then the selected season will turn green. If the club won a gold double (became the champion of the league and won National cup), then we color it with orange.

When you spend several seasons in the game, it is interesting to go to the screen of the clubs you are interested in and study their achievements: do they have the doubles, what is the highest place they reached in their history, how high they got in the cup.




Separately, we decided to show what important trophies the club won or tried to win. If the club participated in the Premier League, the National Cup and/or any continental tournament, then the game will show what the club achieved in these tournaments.




The strength of the team is seen not only by its trophies but also by the value of all club players. And if we can show this information, then why not to show other interesting data related to the players?

For example, now you can see the average age and level of the club's players, the most expensive acquisition, the most expensive sale, the football player on which the club made the best money.




Over the course of several seasons, each club shows regularities in which opponents it is easier to play with and which ones are more difficult. It used to be unrealistic to track. And the expansion, in a separate field you will be able to see it easily.

The screenshot, for example, shows the rivals of my club Dortmund FC. Surprisingly, the easiest opponent is the league leader Munich FC.



These stats can be tracked for every club. For example, here are the data for Munich FC:




On the tournament statistics screens, we have already shown information on successful and unsuccessful streaks. But when we introduced similar statistics for each club separately, we thought about the following:

Each club has ups and downs. In some seasons, the club will sweep away everyone in its way, and in other seasons, the competition will appear in the league, and it is no longer easy to win. The streaks sometimes represent such ups and downs of the competition, struggle, easy wins to hard losses.

If we can't “see” the streaks visually, then this information is almost useless. It is difficult to perceive.

Therefore, we invented a special way to visually see when the club had the best streaks.

Here, for example, the statistics of the club Munich FC:



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We would like to know what do you think about these stats. What pieces of information do seem most interesting to you?

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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.

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The page of the next big add-on for Football, Tactics & Glory is already available in Steam.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1293080/

While you can't purchase it now, _you can add it to Wishlist_. It will allow you to not miss the moment when the add-on is live.

At the same time, we want to please you with the news that the add-on will include the feature which many of you have been asking us for: cup celebration animations! Now, when you win any tournament, you will see one of the several new animations in which the players you get used to are celebrating the win.

Moreover, you will no only joy together with the team, you will be able to take a photo of this precious moment!



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In addition to implementing statistics, we are also working on the introduction of several features that will allow you to better feel the game world. Today I will talk about two such new features: Man of the match and Team of the round.


Earlier, the best player in a match was determined only in the match in which your team participated. And even then, regardless of whether the team won or lost, each team had its own best player.

Now the game determines only one best player in each match. The game evaluates all the actions of a footballer in a match. As a result, in each match, only one footballer will be the Man of the match.

If your player has become the Man of the match, he will earn additional experience. In the screenshot, this player is marked with a crown icon. Look at the hint above: it shows how much XP points the player earned for becoming the MoM.



Alongside the top-10 tables (best scorers, best assistants etc) there will be a table which shows the best players. At the end of the season, your footballers, who got to the top 3 best players list, will bring additional Glory.




After each match, the game will comprise a team of those players who played best in the previous round. Such a team will be composed for all tournaments.



If the footballers of your team got into the team of the round, then the number of your fans will increase.

If it is your club that becomes the source of most players in the best team of the round, then you will earn bonus Glory points.

Moreover, we also show what the selected players did in the match so the journalists decided to select them to the top-11.



To make the list even more interesting, we decided to track and show some special important factors:

• saving a penalty
  
• scoring a deciding goal
  
• scoring a hat-trick
  

At the end of a season, you will be able to see the team of the season for every tournament separately. If your players get to any of these teams, your team will earn fans and Glory.

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Both of these mechanics do not affect the gameplay significantly. Rather they make the game world more lively and interesting. If I remember correctly, no one asked us for them in the forums. I wonder if there are those among you who wished about having such features to appear in the game ;)

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As I told earlier, now we store the history of all matches separated by tournaments and seasons.

But besides the dry numbers, it’s also interesting to learn about the most interesting matches, the most unusual achievements, the most special players in the history of the tournaments.

For example, you might be interested to know which youngest player scored a goal in the European Cup final. Or, for example, which club scored the most goals in a season.



To do this, we made several screens, on each of which we show analytics both for the current season and for the entire history of the tournament.

For screenshots, I simulated 20 seasons. The screenshots show the analytics of the European Cup. Just imagine how cool it will look with modifications ;) I already played the add-on with the modifications, and it makes the game much more immersive.


Analytics that shows clubs with the most interesting achievements.




Here we show the footballers with some interesting records. If your player once set an unusual record, you will see him on this screen until someone else beats his record.




Most matches are unremarkable. But some matches are special. For example, an underdog defeated a much stronger team. Or the team made an unexpected comeback in the European Cup, losing the first match 3-0. On this screen you will learn about such matches.




Since we collect a huge amount of statistics anyway, we decided to create a separate screen that displays information about the most common indicators such as the number of home victories or the number of goals scored on the road in the tournaments.



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If you have an idea for some historical analytics, which could be shown on the screen and which you did not see in the screenshots, I would be glad to hear about it. If possible, we will try to implement the best ideas.

Also, if you can propose better English terms for the stats we show on the screenshots, it would be great as well.

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A few weeks ago, several players complained that the Steam Cloud did not properly synchronize their saved data.

And since we really want your gaming experience to be as enjoyable as possible, we decided to spend some time and try to understand how, for our part, we can “help” Steam Cloud make better decisions about synchronization.

Yesterday's small update does just that: it improves interaction with Steam Cloud.

Additionally, we have significantly expanded the database of names for the following countries:

• England
  
• Scotland
  
• USA
  

Thanks to Moray Greig for helping us with the names!