We can’t wait to show you the next huge update. But we won’t do it until it’s polished.

Meanwhile, I want to tell you about modifications.

Steam Workshop allows creating mod collections. If you want to remember all mods you like or select the mods by some criteria, you can create a new collection and save there all needed mods.

Just go to the Collections screen and press “Create Collection:”



Now, press the button “Add to Collection” under any mod you like:



However, collections not only help you to save the mods you like. They have one important feature - you can share your collections.

One of our players, @Nexxus Drako, shared his wonderful collection which contains the best mods of every country allowed in Football Tactics: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=954423609

The mods contain real club names, real club emblems, real kits.

Subscribe to every of these mods. start a new campaign and enable the mods into the game. After that, you will be able to play with real teams. And when you reach continental cups, you will meet the real teams from other countries.

To subscribe to the mod, press the green plus:



To enable the mod in the game, at the start of a new campaign select the modification instead of the default league. The default leagues are marked with white color, and the modifications are marked with green color.
You can also click the button “Assign to all”. After that, the game will select a modification for every league there is a mod subscribed.



Play, have fun and don’t forget to write a Steam review. Because it allows our game to be more visible on Steam. And the more players purchase the game, the more possibilities we have to continue improving it.

We can’t wait to show you the next huge update. But we won’t do it until it’s polished.

Meanwhile, I want to tell you about modifications.

Steam Workshop allows creating mod collections. If you want to remember all mods you like or select the mods by some criteria, you can create a new collection and save there all needed mods.

Just go to the Collections screen and press “Create Collection:”



Now, press the button “Add to Collection” under any mod you like:



However, collections not only help you to save the mods you like. They have one important feature - you can share your collections.

One of our players, @Nexxus Drako, shared his wonderful collection which contains the best mods of every country allowed in Football Tactics: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=954423609

The mods contain real club names, real club emblems, real kits.

Subscribe to every of these mods. start a new campaign and enable the mods into the game. After that, you will be able to play with real teams. And when you reach continental cups, you will meet the real teams from other countries.

To subscribe to the mod, press the green plus:



To enable the mod in the game, at the start of a new campaign select the modification instead of the default league. The default leagues are marked with white color, and the modifications are marked with green color.
You can also click the button “Assign to all”. After that, the game will select a modification for every league there is a mod subscribed.



Play, have fun and don’t forget to write a Steam review. Because it allows our game to be more visible on Steam. And the more players purchase the game, the more possibilities we have to continue improving it.

While Early Access is famous for the many games which are unfinished, buggy and very raw, our rule is to release only polished and fun versions of Football Tactics.

That’s why we haven’t released the next update yet. The main mechanics work perfectly, the game is fun. But there are still too many unpolished parts. Temporary graphics, not translated texts, no animations etc.

Despite this, many of you were asking us to open the access to the update early. So firstly, we ran the closed Beta, where a few players helped us to find the most important problems. Many thanks to them!

And wow we open access to the Beta for all who purchased the game.

However, before you decide to play the Beta, we want to make a few warnings and give additional information.

- Most of the new mechanics are made with temporary animations.
- All tutorial messages are in Russian. In one week we are going to translate them. Other languages will appear later.
- Tutorial is old. We will fix it later.
- Specialization screen is made of the old graphics.
- You CAN”T continue the old save files.

While the tutorial messages are not translated, the basics of the new mechanics you can read in this document.

There are so-o-o many big and, especially, small changes comparing to the Steam version of the game, that we decided to write the final changes list only after releasing the Update 10.

Click on Football Tactics in your Steam library with right mouse button. Select “Properties”. In the appeared window open the last tab and select “beta - update 10”.



If you have a feedback, comments or problems regarding the Beta, you can write about them in the special thread on the forum: http://steamcommunity.com/app/375530/discussions/0/1474221865179379268/

Even though the beta is not polished enough (it’s the Beta, after all, right?), it’s allowed to record youtube videos and make streams. For us, it’s not only the possibility to gather new players, it’s also the possibility to improve the game. We can watch how do you play, what problems do you have, what is understandable, what is not, etc.

So even if you are not a professional youtuber/streamer, we anyway will be glad to watch your videos about Football Tactics.

We are very proud that we were able to improve Football Tactics so much. And we really hope you will have fun with the game (even though it’s not in the final stage).

While Early Access is famous for the many games which are unfinished, buggy and very raw, our rule is to release only polished and fun versions of Football Tactics.

That’s why we haven’t released the next update yet. The main mechanics work perfectly, the game is fun. But there are still too many unpolished parts. Temporary graphics, not translated texts, no animations etc.

Despite this, many of you were asking us to open the access to the update early. So firstly, we ran the closed Beta, where a few players helped us to find the most important problems. Many thanks to them!

And wow we open access to the Beta for all who purchased the game.

However, before you decide to play the Beta, we want to make a few warnings and give additional information.

- Most of the new mechanics are made with temporary animations.
- All tutorial messages are in Russian. In one week we are going to translate them. Other languages will appear later.
- Tutorial is old. We will fix it later.
- Specialization screen is made of the old graphics.
- You CAN”T continue the old save files.

While the tutorial messages are not translated, the basics of the new mechanics you can read in this document.

There are so-o-o many big and, especially, small changes comparing to the Steam version of the game, that we decided to write the final changes list only after releasing the Update 10.

Click on Football Tactics in your Steam library with right mouse button. Select “Properties”. In the appeared window open the last tab and select “beta - update 10”.



If you have a feedback, comments or problems regarding the Beta, you can write about them in the special thread on the forum: http://steamcommunity.com/app/375530/discussions/0/1474221865179379268/

Even though the beta is not polished enough (it’s the Beta, after all, right?), it’s allowed to record youtube videos and make streams. For us, it’s not only the possibility to gather new players, it’s also the possibility to improve the game. We can watch how do you play, what problems do you have, what is understandable, what is not, etc.

So even if you are not a professional youtuber/streamer, we anyway will be glad to watch your videos about Football Tactics.

We are very proud that we were able to improve Football Tactics so much. And we really hope you will have fun with the game (even though it’s not in the final stage).

Hi to all!

The development of the main features of the next update is ended. We can release it even now. However, there are many small issues which do not allow us to sell the update in its current state.

For example, it misses explanations of how the new features work, it misses the indicators of the classes, some screens are made with the temporary graphics, many texts are missed, no localizations. Polishing all of it will take some considerable time ;(

At the same moment, we understand that many of you can't wait to try the new possibilities. That's why we decided to open the access to the Beta.

Now we are working on making the open Beta as accessible as possible. So on August 30-31, we are going to make the game available to all.

Follow the news!

Hi to all!

The development of the main features of the next update is ended. We can release it even now. However, there are many small issues which do not allow us to sell the update in its current state.

For example, it misses explanations of how the new features work, it misses the indicators of the classes, some screens are made with the temporary graphics, many texts are missed, no localizations. Polishing all of it will take some considerable time ;(

At the same moment, we understand that many of you can't wait to try the new possibilities. That's why we decided to open the access to the Beta.

Now we are working on making the open Beta as accessible as possible. So on August 30-31, we are going to make the game available to all.

Follow the news!

Modifications support is one of the very important parts of Football Tactics. However, there were two problems which decreased the fun of using the modifications:

1) You weren’t able to set up the important footballers’ details (change attributes, select skills etc) because it might break the game’s balance

2) You always started in the Amateur league even you chose Barcelona. All your footballers’ data were dismissed to keep the game balanced.

In the next update, all these problems will be solved.



Earlier you could change only four footballers’ settings: name, age, shirt number, face.

Now, we will add much more:
- footballer’s specialization (class)
- attributes
- level
- skills
- level of the specialization



Also, now you will be able to add more footballers to the teams. So now the teams can have up to 32 footballers.

As always, we pay a lot of attention to the usability of editing the teams. And we understand that when a footballer changes the club, it might be tedious to reflect these changes in the modification. So we added a great feature: copy/pasting the footballer’s settings. It will allow you easily move the footballers between clubs in few clicks.



If you want to get the most from the downloaded mods, you should start a new campaign in the “Higher leagues” mode.



It disables the achievements. But! It loads all information from the modifications: age, attributes, skills etc.

So you will be able either create and play with realistic leagues and clubs or experiment with something unique. For example, create all teams equally weak or strong and see how they are developing.



We are going to start a closed beta-test of the new update in around 2-3 weeks. We have enough players who will be given the access to. But if you are an author of a modification, and you would like to upgrade it before the update is released, write me in Discord. I’ll contact you when the beta-test is started.

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If you do like the new features, don’t forget to say it in the comments ;)

Modifications support is one of the very important parts of Football Tactics. However, there were two problems which decreased the fun of using the modifications:

1) You weren’t able to set up the important footballers’ details (change attributes, select skills etc) because it might break the game’s balance

2) You always started in the Amateur league even you chose Barcelona. All your footballers’ data were dismissed to keep the game balanced.

In the next update, all these problems will be solved.



Earlier you could change only four footballers’ settings: name, age, shirt number, face.

Now, we will add much more:
- footballer’s specialization (class)
- attributes
- level
- skills
- level of the specialization



Also, now you will be able to add more footballers to the teams. So now the teams can have up to 32 footballers.

As always, we pay a lot of attention to the usability of editing the teams. And we understand that when a footballer changes the club, it might be tedious to reflect these changes in the modification. So we added a great feature: copy/pasting the footballer’s settings. It will allow you easily move the footballers between clubs in few clicks.



If you want to get the most from the downloaded mods, you should start a new campaign in the “Higher leagues” mode.



It disables the achievements. But! It loads all information from the modifications: age, attributes, skills etc.

So you will be able either create and play with realistic leagues and clubs or experiment with something unique. For example, create all teams equally weak or strong and see how they are developing.



We are going to start a closed beta-test of the new update in around 2-3 weeks. We have enough players who will be given the access to. But if you are an author of a modification, and you would like to upgrade it before the update is released, write me in Discord. I’ll contact you when the beta-test is started.

- - - - -
If you do like the new features, don’t forget to say it in the comments ;)

Two months ago I told about new classes system: http://steamcommunity.com/games/375530/announcements/detail/590375319499622407
After some time we have understood that described system isn’t deep enough. Football Tactics is not only a tactical but also strategical game. It’s the game where your decisions affect the way your club develops.

So we changed the system. We made it much deeper. In the current game, the footballers have the overall level and the levels of the skills. In the next update, there will be a new element - Specialisation level.

For any footballer you can choose where to specialize his development: either on skills, or attributes or even on the beautiful game which attracts fans and sponsors.

Here’s a screenshot of the new system (don’t pay an attention to the graphics; firstly, we prototype the systems, and only when we see that they are fun, we make them beautiful):



Initially, the footballer should choose the class he is good in. The footballer will earn Specialization XP based on the actual positions he plays in the matches. After learning the whole “Specialist” branch, other branches become available.

You can learn the abilities from different branches, but if you learn all abilities from one branch, the footballer or the club will earn a one-time bonus. For example, after learning the branch “Experienced”, the footballer’s general level will instantly increase on 5.

Some effects are added together with other footballers effects. For example, if you have 4 Crowd Favourites in the team who also attract sponsors, the sponsors’ conditions will give you 20% more money (instead of 5% for one footballer).

Now imagine how wildly you can experiment with your club development ;) What if all your footballers attract sponsors?

Btw, pay attention to the branch “Experienced”. You can learn the abilities which allow your footballers to spend all three points to the selected attribute. Want +3 Accuracy every level up? This branch is for you.

Work is in full swing. There is still a lot of polishing and improvements. However, we hope that at the first days of June we will give the access to the beta-version for few selected players.

Two months ago I told about new classes system: http://steamcommunity.com/games/375530/announcements/detail/590375319499622407
After some time we have understood that described system isn’t deep enough. Football Tactics is not only a tactical but also strategical game. It’s the game where your decisions affect the way your club develops.

So we changed the system. We made it much deeper. In the current game, the footballers have the overall level and the levels of the skills. In the next update, there will be a new element - Specialisation level.

For any footballer you can choose where to specialize his development: either on skills, or attributes or even on the beautiful game which attracts fans and sponsors.

Here’s a screenshot of the new system (don’t pay an attention to the graphics; firstly, we prototype the systems, and only when we see that they are fun, we make them beautiful):



Initially, the footballer should choose the class he is good in. The footballer will earn Specialization XP based on the actual positions he plays in the matches. After learning the whole “Specialist” branch, other branches become available.

You can learn the abilities from different branches, but if you learn all abilities from one branch, the footballer or the club will earn a one-time bonus. For example, after learning the branch “Experienced”, the footballer’s general level will instantly increase on 5.

Some effects are added together with other footballers effects. For example, if you have 4 Crowd Favourites in the team who also attract sponsors, the sponsors’ conditions will give you 20% more money (instead of 5% for one footballer).

Now imagine how wildly you can experiment with your club development ;) What if all your footballers attract sponsors?

Btw, pay attention to the branch “Experienced”. You can learn the abilities which allow your footballers to spend all three points to the selected attribute. Want +3 Accuracy every level up? This branch is for you.

Work is in full swing. There is still a lot of polishing and improvements. However, we hope that at the first days of June we will give the access to the beta-version for few selected players.