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Beta Update #8 - New colours and shirts

We continue adding new content to our huge free update which currently is in Beta stage. Its goal is to significantly improve the editing possibilities.

For a long time, modders asked us to add new colours and new types of shirts. We've heard you ;) In the last Beta update, we've increased the number of colours from 10 to 100, and the number of shirts from 30 to 82.

THE MAIN FEATURES OF THE UPDATE

Increased the number of shirts from 30 to 82. We tried to implement the most used shirt images so you'd be able to recreate your favourite clubs. Few old shirt images were changed to make them fit organically to the new ones.
Increased the number of the colours from 10 to 100. Now, every colour has 10 shades.

ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENTS

MODIFICATIONS AND NEW CAMPAIGN

[NEW] - Added a new screen which allows changing some game world settings before the start of a new campaign. There, you will be able to change the rating of the countries, rename tournaments and change the starting year.
[NEW] - Added a new tab to the Rename Tournaments screen. There you will be able to change the names of the tabs "Leagues", "Cups", "Continental Cups", "Countries". It might be useful for those players who create special sets of modifications where instead of Countries you use regions, lands, states etc.
[Improved] - Added the button "Rename Tournaments" on the main modification screen.
[Improved] - Significantly improved the Faces Generator. Now, there will be more diverse faces (fewer chances of having too similar faces). Some faces in the already started campaigns might change.
[Fixed] - If you changed the starting year, some messages showed the wrong year.
[Fixed] - In some cases, when you changed the power of the teams, at the start of a new campaign the power was wrong.

HOT SEAT

[NEW] - В результатах совместной игры добавили статистику по лучшим футболистам.
[Fixed] - Removed the hot seat message which mistakenly was shown in the single-player campaign when you switched between default and tactical views.
[Fixed] - In some cases, the penalty conditions worked wrongly in the hot seat mode.
[Fixed] - In some cases, in hot seat mode, the logotypes of the chosen teams were displayed wrongly.

OTHER

[Improved] - At the end of a season, you will see the stage you reached in the cup (win, finals) instead of fake place (1st place, 2nd place).
[Improved] - The goalkeeper model is made less "fat".
[Improved] - Improved the heavy rain effect when the camera is zoomed.
[Improved] - Removed rewarding sounds, which were played when you opened Specialization screen to upgrade a footballer. They were annoying.
[Fixed] - In the previous update, money for reaching high stages in the tournaments weren't paid.
[Fixed] - After goals scored from free kicks, the celebration animations didn't start.
[Fixed] - Disabled the celebration animations after missing the goal.
[Fixed] - Removed the demonstration of the yellow cards earned in the previous matches.
[Fixed] - Team photo was saving with the wrong aspect ratio.

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HOW TO START PLAYING BETA?

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 - winter update”.

HOW DOES IT DIFFER FROM THE DEFAULT VERSION?

The access to the Beta is opened for everyone who owns the game.

While default version is polished and without known bugs, the Beta has new features but there might be bugs, crashes, bad or absent translations, other issues. We try our best to keep Beta as polished as possible, but it's Beta after all.

By the links, you can find the features which were added to the Beta:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/375530/announcements/detail/3647245559046609322
https://steamcommunity.com/games/375530/announcements/detail/1687054997710793566
https://steamcommunity.com/games/375530/announcements/detail/1700568333338595218
https://steamcommunity.com/games/375530/announcements/detail/1700568967648348569
https://steamcommunity.com/games/375530/announcements/detail/3408560492357957632
https://steamcommunity.com/games/375530/announcements/detail/1694941371122356873
https://steamcommunity.com/games/375530/announcements/detail/1730974047952472676
https://steamcommunity.com/games/375530/announcements/detail/1789523941895304714

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Beta Update #7 - Hot Seat Tournaments

For a long time, you have been able to play hot seat matches in Football, Tactics & Glory. The problem was that you could just play single matches. If you wanted to recreate the World Cup or any other tournament, you just couldn't do it.

The game didn't give you the possibility to gather friends, create a tournament, choose favourite teams, set the rules, and find out who is the best tactician.

In the last Beta update, you will be able to do all of that.

THE MAIN FEATURE OF THE UPDATE

Now, you can create a hot seat tournament with different rules for any number of players.

WHAT IS GREAT IN OUR HOT SEAT MODE?

You can create different tournament types: a league, a playoff tournament, groups + playoff;
For every tournament type, you can change different settings (for example, 1 or 2 matches, how many teams promotes from the groups etc);
You can use the teams from the modifications;
You can use automatic team selection which allows you to select only the teams of a set power;
You can control any number of teams in the tournament. If you wish, you can control every team. If you wish, you can control only one team;
At the end of tournament, there is an interesting statistics. Btw, we are thinking about adding such statistics to the single player campaigns. Write in the commentaries if you like the idea.

ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENTS

NEW FEATURES

Now, at the start of a new campaign, you can set the starting year.
Now, you can rename already started tournaments. Just press the Gear icon and go to the renaming screen.

INTERFACE

Finished adding new sounds. Now, the game gives you better feedback of clicks, hovers etc..
Slightly improved design of the following screens: Face editor, Club attributes, Team photo.
Added a message about purchasing a footballer from the Compare screen.
In the message about purchasing a footballer, the players were in a white shirt (instead of their current team's shirt). Fixed.
Now, on the Opponent screen, the tactical view will be selected by default.

MODIFICATIONS

Allowed to add a heavy rain at Winter in the Weather editor.
Added the possibility to copy the tournament names and paste them in other modifications. It's very useful if you want to use the same continental tournaments in many of your modifications.
Now, the tournament names in the Tournament Names Editor can be longer on 5 characters.

GRAPHICS

Changed the general look of the pitches. Now, they are more realistic.
Changed the camera in the kick off animations to make the footballers look closer.
Removed some "belly" from the footballers :)

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HOW TO START PLAYING BETA?

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 - winter update”.

HOW DOES IT DIFFER FROM THE DEFAULT VERSION?

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Beta Update #6 - Beautiful Pitches

Despite we the gameplay has a higher priority for us, we also want the game to look attractive. After all, when you see something you can believe in, you feel more connected to what happens in the game, to your footballers, and to your team. Thus, the graphics support the emotions.

Therefore, two years ago we created our very powerful Faces editor. Therefore, one year ago, we created the animations of goal celebrations (which allowed us to show the faces closer). And therefore, the last few months we have been working on creating beautiful grass.

There are still some problems to be solved. For example, the grass is not very correctly displayed on the kick off and penalties. Anyway, now, playing in beta, you can forget about the blurred green texture, which was just ugly.

And most importantly, when we add such features, we do it as a part of some bigger plan. For example, we want you to be able to watch replays, control the camera freely so that you can feel your players better.

Creating faces was the first step to this. Creating 3D grass was the second one. Thanks to your support, we will continue moving forward in making the great football experience which no other game provides.

THE MAIN FEATURE OF THE UPDATE

Now, you can see realistic grass when the camera moves closer to the pitch. Depending on the weather and the level of the stadium, the pitch will be either beautiful, dirty or snowy.

We are aware that some players play on weak computers. Therefore, we have provided an option to disable 3D grass. The picture will look much worse, but better than it was all the time before.

Known issues:
- In most cases, the colours of the grass will differ from the grass you see at a great distance.
- During the kick off the grass looks blurry.
- During the penalty, interface elements intersect the goalkeeper. Also, the grass is blurry.

All of these problems will be fixed in further beta updates.

ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENTS

MODIFICATIONS

Fixed the crash when a player created more than 20 teams in a league.
Removed the possibility to create an odd number of the teams in a league.
Fixed the problem which made the Team Editor show the default faces of the selected country instead of the custom set of faces.

OTHER

Fixed the bug which sometimes affected the AI to return to the default defensive position and therefore to open the space for the opponent's Cannon Shot.
Added new set of sounds for testing purposes. They are not final.

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HOW TO START PLAYING BETA?

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 - winter update”.

HOW DOES IT DIFFER FROM THE DEFAULT VERSION?

WANT TO DISCUSS?

New year's Beta update

If you love to edit the game so it fits your tastes, if you love to create your own leagues, you will love this update. Because it adds great improvements to our Leagues editor.

NEW FEATURES

To the huge amount of currently existing features we add the following new possibilities:

The possibility to change the number of leagues from 1 to 5.
The possibility to change the number of teams in every league.
The possibility to set the face types for every country.

Also, we made the following less noticeable improvements:

Added generators of the faces of different nationalities in the Faces editor.
Added the buttons for a random haircut/beard in the Faces editor.
Added the new Greek names.
Added the possibility to see the modification's tags directly in the game.
Fixed the problem with the modification's flag. Now, it won't skew.
Added three new countries: Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand.
Changed the UI sounds (temporarily).

CHANGING THE NUMBER OF THE LEAGUES AND TEAMS

Now, you can make any league much more similar to the real one.

For example, in English Premier League there are 20 teams but in Championship, there are 24 ones. You can easily recreate these leagues in the updated Leagues editor.

Moreover, if you want to keep only these two leagues in England, you can delete the bottom 3 leagues.

The trash icon (which allows you to delete a league) is shown only on the lowest league. It's important because the connection between leagues should be kept. You can delete all the lowest leagues up to the Premier League. Also, you can add leagues until there are five ones.

In addition to realistic leagues, you can also experiment with other formats, creating your own fantasy leagues. For example, you can create a country with three leagues each of which consists of 10 teams.

Or, for example, there's another way of using the new possibilities:

take the countries from America and change every country to the regions of your own country. Here's what I'd make for Germany:
instead of Brazil you can create Bavaria; instead of Canada you can create Branderburg, instead of Mexico - Bremen, instead of USA - Hesse etc.
in every region you can leave only Premier league which consists of 10-12 biggest cities from the region.
best teams will play in the "continental cups" which you already can rename to Germany cup.

You already have the possibility to upload the unique flag for every region, you already have the possibility to upload the list with the surnames which fit every region, you already can set the power for the teams.

In this way, you can create your own unique world which is interesting to watch for. Once you finished creating the leagues, start a new campaign with these leagues and start playing. The world will live, the clubs will develop.

It's something no other game provides.

SETTING THE FACE TYPES

Despite there are wide editing possibilities, there has always been one limitation which didn't allow you to customize the game completely to your liking.

In my previous example, this limitation would not allow me to create the German leagues. Because, in Bavaria, there would be Brasilian faces, in Bremen - Mexican faces etc.

So, there appears our second big features of the new update - the possibility to customize faces for every country individually.

There are many presets already, therefore, you will have what to choose from.

However, let the names of the presets not limit you. For example, faces from the preset 'Britain' can be used in any other country, because the world is wide and diverse.

Usually, the best way to set the faces is to use many different presets. However, every preset should have its own probability.

Try, experiment!

Can't wait to see what interesting leagues you can create with the new tools.

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HOW TO START PLAYING BETA?

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 - winter update”.

HOW DOES IT DIFFER FROM THE DEFAULT VERSION?

WANT TO DISCUSS?

We got to the list of the top games that left Early Access in 2018!

Steam compiled a list of the best games that left Early Access in 2018. Our Football, Tactics & Glory got to this list!

Thanks, everyone, for your support, purchases, Steam reviews, feedback on the forum! We see that you love the game, and so we continue improving it even though it is already released.

Wish you a very happy New Year!!! ːcannonshotː

PS We really wanted to update the Beta before New Year. There are a few very 'tasty' new features for the Leagues Editor which we finished and almost polished. However, it appeared that there are few critical bugs which we won't be able to fix by the holidays. So we had to postpone the Beta update to January :( Anyway, these new features will bring a new life to the modifications. So it's worth waiting for those who loves creating something new.