In the last update, together with good features, some nasty bugs sneaked in the game :( The whole weekend and the start of this week we worked on fixing the bugs. Thanks to everyone for the reports, crash files and screenshots with detailed descriptions. It really helped.

As there were many bugs with the visualization of the specialization xp, we decided to improve this system overall. Earlier, the specialization xp animation blocked all following actions. So while the numbers were flying, you couldn't do anything in the match. The pause wasn't big, but still, it decreased the match dynamics.

Now, we made this animation working parallelly to the animations of the actions. So no unnecessary pauses in the game. And so we were able to make the numbers fly longer and to be more noticeable.

Here are other things we improved:

- The probability of injuries is increased a bit. After the update #10, it was too high. So in few days after that, we decreased it significantly. And now I see that it was decreased too high.
- Now, the speeding up the skills for fame works correctly. You won't be able to speed up a skill for 0 fame :)

- Now, the animation of the specialization xp is slower, more visible and doesn't block all other animations
- Now, the diameters of the passes at winter is blue

- After promoting or relegating, there was a bug which randomly changed the rating of the teams. It affected the cup tournaments to have wrong calculations. Fixed
- The substitutions after injuries were broken. Fixed.
- After a free Tackle, the goalkeepers were able to make one more action for free. Fixed.
- Now, the booked footballers earn the xp proportionate to the playing time.
- Now, the footballers won't earn the specialization xp of not an appropriate class (for example, CDs won't earn CF class xp).
- Fixed the bugs which affected the specialization xp wasn't shown in some situations or showed the sum of the previously earned xp.
- The specialization xp wasn't given on the last action of the matches. Fixed.
- Fixed the transition of the specialization xp to the next match.
- Fixed some of the situations where defending players didn't visually jump after unsuccessful interceptions of the crosses.
- Fixed some of the situations where attacking players tried to finish the cross with the legs (instead of heads)

Thanks for your feedback and support!

- - - - - - - - - - - - -


This night we released a wrong version of the game which destroyed the schedule. In few hours we fixed it. But the players who played this version had some problems.

If you didn't play this version, it's great. You can continue playing without problems.

If you played it, you will see strange results of the matches the whole season. But after this season, everything will work fine. The problem will last only one season.

If you played this version and your save file disappeared, it should appear again.

We are really sorry for that problem :(

In the last update, together with good features, some nasty bugs sneaked in the game :( The whole weekend and the start of this week we worked on fixing the bugs. Thanks to everyone for the reports, crash files and screenshots with detailed descriptions. It really helped.

As there were many bugs with the visualization of the specialization xp, we decided to improve this system overall. Earlier, the specialization xp animation blocked all following actions. So while the numbers were flying, you couldn't do anything in the match. The pause wasn't big, but still, it decreased the match dynamics.

Now, we made this animation working parallelly to the animations of the actions. So no unnecessary pauses in the game. And so we were able to make the numbers fly longer and to be more noticeable.

Here are other things we improved:

- The probability of injuries is increased a bit. After the update #10, it was too high. So in few days after that, we decreased it significantly. And now I see that it was decreased too high.
- Now, the speeding up the skills for fame works correctly. You won't be able to speed up a skill for 0 fame :)

- Now, the animation of the specialization xp is slower, more visible and doesn't block all other animations
- Now, the diameters of the passes at winter is blue

- After promoting or relegating, there was a bug which randomly changed the rating of the teams. It affected the cup tournaments to have wrong calculations. Fixed
- The substitutions after injuries were broken. Fixed.
- After a free Tackle, the goalkeepers were able to make one more action for free. Fixed.
- Now, the booked footballers earn the xp proportionate to the playing time.
- Now, the footballers won't earn the specialization xp of not an appropriate class (for example, CDs won't earn CF class xp).
- Fixed the bugs which affected the specialization xp wasn't shown in some situations or showed the sum of the previously earned xp.
- The specialization xp wasn't given on the last action of the matches. Fixed.
- Fixed the transition of the specialization xp to the next match.
- Fixed some of the situations where defending players didn't visually jump after unsuccessful interceptions of the crosses.
- Fixed some of the situations where attacking players tried to finish the cross with the legs (instead of heads)

Thanks for your feedback and support!

- - - - - - - - - - - - -


This night we released a wrong version of the game which destroyed the schedule. In few hours we fixed it. But the players who played this version had some problems.

If you didn't play this version, it's great. You can continue playing without problems.

If you played it, you will see strange results of the matches the whole season. But after this season, everything will work fine. The problem will last only one season.

If you played this version and your save file disappeared, it should appear again.

We are really sorry for that problem :(

Before starting to work on the next big update (transfers), we decided to make you a gift to Halloween ːcannonshotː So we released an update which adds different improvements you asked us frequently.

The main improvements are about usability. But also there are new features.

USABILITY
- Now you will see how much specialization xp you a player have when you hover a cursor on the xp bar. //Very useful if you want to know precisely how much xp you need to the next level up
- Now the substitutions screen shows also the opponent's formation. //Very useful if you want to improve the tactics in the middle of a match
- Now if your player knows several classes, you can change the class on the substitutions screen. //Now, the players with several classes have a bit more advantages
- Now you can drag and change the players on the specialization screen. //Very useful when you plan to develop your amateur players
- Now, on the specialization tree screen, the attribute a player trains is highlighted with wight color. //Useful for deciding what abilities to choose
- Now, on the specialization screen after a match, you will see not two biggest xp bars, but two bars which earned the most specialization xp. //Very useful when a player has big bars of some not important class, and you don't understand what class he was learning in the match

NEW FEATURES
- Now, the calendar randomly generates at the start of a new season. //It's not important in the lower leagues, but it is very good improvement for Premier league where you played every year against same teams in same order
- Now, you will pay for speeding up the skills training proportionally to the time left. //The possibility we were asked for a long time
- Now, when your player gets a red card, the substitutions screen opens. //It will allow you to evaluate the situation and decide what to do
- Now, Goalkeeper's Tackle is a free action. Earlier, it was an exception from other actions. //We did it to standardize mechanics
- After intercepting throw-ins, the ball had a high probability of flying back behind the sideline. We decreased this probability because it was unrealistic.

GRAPHICS
- Fixed crashes after Alt+Tab. //it was a big problem for the players who worked on modifications. And in general, it frustrated. Now, switching works fine
- Added VSync for the windowed mode. //It was asked a few days ago on the forum. And it happened in the very good time - when we fixed the graphical subsystem with alt+tab :)

BUGS
- Fixed the appearance of the hints while Footballpedia is opened
- Fixed wrong earning the specialization xp after substituting different classes (for example, defender substituted a goalkeeper)
- Now, Trainer assistant won't send you a message that some footballers don't learn skills when they actually learn them or even already left the club
- Fixed the stopping stamina regeneration for the opposing teams when there is more than a week between matches
- Fixed a bug which appeared when you planned a substitution but this footballer was booked
- Fixed the bug in which the AI used Aggressive tackle even his motivation was ended
- Fixed the bug in which CD didn't automatically tackle the ball on the last action of a half
- Now, the system understands offsides when the ball bounced from a goalkeeper to the forward staying in the offside
- Fixed the animations of running on 3 and 4 tiles

Before starting to work on the next big update (transfers), we decided to make you a gift to Halloween :cannonshot: So we released an update which adds different improvements you asked us frequently.

The main improvements are about usability. But also there are new features.

USABILITY
- Now you will see how much specialization xp you a player have when you hover a cursor on the xp bar. //Very useful if you want to know precisely how much xp you need to the next level up
- Now the substitutions screen shows also the opponent's formation. //Very useful if you want to improve the tactics in the middle of a match
- Now if your player knows several classes, you can change the class on the substitutions screen. //Now, the players with several classes have a bit more advantages
- Now you can drag and change the players on the specialization screen. //Very useful when you plan to develop your amateur players
- Now, on the specialization tree screen, the attribute a player trains is highlighted with wight color. //Useful for deciding what abilities to choose
- Now, on the specialization screen after a match, you will see not two biggest xp bars, but two bars which earned the most specialization xp. //Very useful when a player has big bars of some not important class, and you don't understand what class he was learning in the match

NEW FEATURES
- Now, the calendar randomly generates at the start of a new season. //It's not important in the lower leagues, but it is very good improvement for Premier league where you played every year against same teams in same order
- Now, you will pay for speeding up the skills training proportionally to the time left. //The possibility we were asked for a long time
- Now, when your player gets a red card, the substitutions screen opens. //It will allow you to evaluate the situation and decide what to do
- Now, Goalkeeper's Tackle is a free action. Earlier, it was an exception from other actions. //We did it to standardize mechanics
- After intercepting throw-ins, the ball had a high probability of flying back behind the sideline. We decreased this probability because it was unrealistic.

GRAPHICS
- Fixed crashes after Alt+Tab. //it was a big problem for the players who worked on modifications. And in general, it frustrated. Now, switching works fine
- Added VSync for the windowed mode. //It was asked a few days ago on the forum. And it happened in the very good time - when we fixed the graphical subsystem with alt+tab :)

BUGS
- Fixed the appearance of the hints while Footballpedia is opened
- Fixed wrong earning the specialization xp after substituting different classes (for example, defender substituted a goalkeeper)
- Now, Trainer assistant won't send you a message that some footballers don't learn skills when they actually learn them or even already left the club
- Fixed the stopping stamina regeneration for the opposing teams when there is more than a week between matches
- Fixed a bug which appeared when you planned a substitution but this footballer was booked
- Fixed the bug in which the AI used Aggressive tackle even his motivation was ended
- Fixed the bug in which CD didn't automatically tackle the ball on the last action of a half
- Now, the system understands offsides when the ball bounced from a goalkeeper to the forward staying in the offside
- Fixed the animations of running on 3 and 4 tiles

We were often asked why we do not release Football Tactics from Early Access. Because the game is already good. We answered: “We don’t want Football Tactics to be a good game, we want it to be a great one”.

The newly released Update 10 is proof of our ambitions and a huge step towards making the game great.


In the previous version, after 40-80 hours you could understand the basic tactics that work in most cases, and use only them.

In the update, the variability of tactics is so diverse that you should prepare your team for each match. Because for any tactic there is a counter tactic.

From this article, you will learn about some key features which make the game much more fun.



Previously, the game had 4 classes: forwards, midfielders, defenders, and goalkeepers. Each of these classes had its own characteristics.

However, over time, we saw that 4 classes do not create enough variety in tactics and the game as a whole. The flanks did not work, the players did not differ much from each other, some tactics were obviously universal.

Therefore, we went further and created a system of classes similar to real football, where players are responsible for some zones on a pitch. At the same time, we retained the idea that some players can be useful in the whole field, not only in their narrow zone. So there are 4 universal classes, 9 special classes, and 4 amateur classes.

Each class has its own unique abilities. For example, the Attacking midfielder may perform a false kick. The defender of the opponent seeks to intercept the 'kick' and leaves his position. As a result, you can use the open space for your attack.



Or let’s take a Sweeper. If he stands alone on the last line of defense, he automatically tends to take a position opposite the ball. This allows you to cover the main directions of the attack.



At the same time, you always have the opportunity to prevent the enemy from using his clever tactics, if you realize in advance that he plans to use it. There are always counter tactics to everything opponent can come with.

In the previous version of Football Tactics, players received experience for playing in matches, raising their overall level. In the update, the footballers also have a separate specialization level. It determines the uniqueness of the player.

Footballers earn specialization experience depending on the zone they play. If you want to make a novice player a right forward, place it on the right flank of the attack. If after that you want to make him also a right midfielder - put him to play on the right flank in the middle of the field.



When a footballer has learned to play at his position, earning the specialization XP allows you to develop the player in the direction that is important for you.

For example, you can focus on learning skills, on increasing the attributes or on making the player to be fans’ favourite. When fans love the footballer, they are more interested in attending your matches, and the sponsors are ready to pay more for fulfilling their conditions.



In the screenshot below, the sponsors increased payments by as much as 20% due to the fact that your team has 4 fan favourites.



Such (RPGish) leveling gives you the opportunity to plan ahead the development of your club. With some players, you will score goals, and with some - attract fans and sponsors.

By the way, the specialization screen is an example of how we plan to remake our entire interface by the release of the game from Early Access.

As soon as we released the game in the Early Access, the players asked us to add the head play. For a long time, we worked out how it should work in the whole tactics, how to make it a full-fledged part of the game. Initially, we thought it’s enough if the head play is a part of the lofted passes.



But over time, we realized that it's not enough. It should be a part of something bigger. In real life, a good performance on the wings is important for successful headers. After all, the ball flies to the attackers from the flanks.

Therefore, we postponed the implementation of the head play until we decide how to implement the flank play. And the flank play was postponed until we decide how to implement the new classes. And after we saw the whole picture of how classes should work, the puzzle was solved - we understood, how to implement both flank and head play. Such was a long way of head play from idea to implementation.



I want to recall you that in order to perform a cross, a footballer with the ball should stand in one of the four corner tiles on the opponent’s side. Teammates having the Head play talent can be positioned in the opponent’s penalty area, or in rows two and three opposite the penalty area. When all the conditions for availability are met, select the footballer with the ball and a tile on the opposite side of the goal will be highlighted. Click on that tile to perform a cross. Also, you can perform crosses from the corners.



Football Tactics - might not look like a serious game. But inside, there are a lot of hidden mechanics which start to live when you start a new campaign.

So if earlier we could limit ourselves to dozens of coach’s notes, in the new update, the amount of information that would be useful to take into account overstepped the limits of the “not so serious” game.

Therefore, we have added footballpedia which explains practically all aspects: what are abilities of each class, what you need to know about each game action, the details of performing the skills, how the players' transfer value is formed, what hidden characteristics of footballers there are, etc.



We also advise everyone, including veterans of the previous version of Football Tactics, to play the game with the 'Tutorial' option enabled. You will receive information from the old coach who will try to get acquainted you with all the main features of the game.

You are the central hero of the game. You are a football manager who leads the team to the top of the world football due to your brilliant mind.

But apart from you, there are other characters in the football world: your assistants, the president of the club. Previously, they were hidden behind abstract-looking messages. Therefore, you had to force yourself to believe in the game world.

In this update, finally, you get to know the characters closer. Now, each message contains the date, subject, name, and photo of the sender.



And while your assistants’ role is only to inform you about your progress and the situation in your team, the president of the club and the old coach show more character and attitude towards you in the letters.

If you wanted to see their faces closer - you have a chance to do it now ;)



Remember, how you wondered, why there is no choice in the skills learning window? Now there it is! Moreover, this choice is interesting. Footballers have different affinities to different skills, so you have to decide if you want to learn any skill as fast as possible or maybe take some time for more important skill.



We always try to make the game more pleasant and comfortable for players. We watch the let's plays on Youtube, read your feedback and try to understand where you have the biggest difficulties.

In this update, we added one of the most anticipated features to improve the comfort in the game - it is the opponent viewing screen.



Remember how you had to go to the opponent's screen before and turn his team upside down in your imagination to understand how to better build your tactics. Now, you can study the enemy in details and prepare the optimal tactics for the next match in comfort.

By the way, tactical icons also appeared only in this update. They make it easy to understand the positioning of every class.

Another big step forward is 3D arrows for lofted passes and visualization of the diameters for all types of passes.

Many times we have seen how players don’t understand why the lofted pass is accessible, but the pass is not. Now you can see the distances for all kinds of passes.



There are a lot of other improvements that I would like to tell you about. It’s the opportunity to start the game directly from Premier League, and the possibility to customize every detail of the footballers in the editor, and many fixed bugs, and greatly improved AI, and really hard difficulty mode, and the ability to kick out the ball, and the opportunity to throw it in :)



We put our souls into the game, trying to make it as interesting and deep as possible. Hope everyone has found something which made him be happy after the update ;)

A more detailed list of changes you can read here:

The beta version is not updating now. To continue playing, you need to exit the beta. After the release of this update, we will fix some bugs, improve some game elements, add some translations. All updates will be now only in the main version of the game.

If you see small updates to the main version, know that it's fixed bugs and crashes. If there is something valuable, I'll write in the news section.

Expect the next big update in few months.

This all would not have been possible without you, without your comments, feedback, participation in the beta, the purchase of the game.

Thank you very much for your help!

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
To finish this on a fun note, just want to remind you a little about the developing history of this update in screenshots and gifs.

It is how the screen of footballers specialization looked like during the prototyping period.



And now it looks like this:



It is how the animations of crossing looked like during the prototyping period and how they look like now:



And for those who are with us starting from the old versions of the game I just want to recall how our footballers looked like at the beginning and how they look like now ;)

We were often asked why we do not release Football Tactics from Early Access. Because the game is already good. We answered: “We don’t want Football Tactics to be a good game, we want it to be a great one”.

The newly released Update 10 is proof of our ambitions and a huge step towards making the game great.


In the previous version, after 40-80 hours you could understand the basic tactics that work in most cases, and use only them.

In the update, the variability of tactics is so diverse that you should prepare your team for each match. Because for any tactic there is a counter tactic.

From this article, you will learn about some key features which make the game much more fun.



Previously, the game had 4 classes: forwards, midfielders, defenders, and goalkeepers. Each of these classes had its own characteristics.

However, over time, we saw that 4 classes do not create enough variety in tactics and the game as a whole. The flanks did not work, the players did not differ much from each other, some tactics were obviously universal.

Therefore, we went further and created a system of classes similar to real football, where players are responsible for some zones on a pitch. At the same time, we retained the idea that some players can be useful in the whole field, not only in their narrow zone. So there are 4 universal classes, 9 special classes, and 4 amateur classes.

Each class has its own unique abilities. For example, the Attacking midfielder may perform a false kick. The defender of the opponent seeks to intercept the 'kick' and leaves his position. As a result, you can use the open space for your attack.



Or let’s take a Sweeper. If he stands alone on the last line of defense, he automatically tends to take a position opposite the ball. This allows you to cover the main directions of the attack.



At the same time, you always have the opportunity to prevent the enemy from using his clever tactics, if you realize in advance that he plans to use it. There are always counter tactics to everything opponent can come with.

In the previous version of Football Tactics, players received experience for playing in matches, raising their overall level. In the update, the footballers also have a separate specialization level. It determines the uniqueness of the player.

Footballers earn specialization experience depending on the zone they play. If you want to make a novice player a right forward, place it on the right flank of the attack. If after that you want to make him also a right midfielder - put him to play on the right flank in the middle of the field.



When a footballer has learned to play at his position, earning the specialization XP allows you to develop the player in the direction that is important for you.

For example, you can focus on learning skills, on increasing the attributes or on making the player to be fans’ favourite. When fans love the footballer, they are more interested in attending your matches, and the sponsors are ready to pay more for fulfilling their conditions.



In the screenshot below, the sponsors increased payments by as much as 20% due to the fact that your team has 4 fan favourites.



Such (RPGish) leveling gives you the opportunity to plan ahead the development of your club. With some players, you will score goals, and with some - attract fans and sponsors.

By the way, the specialization screen is an example of how we plan to remake our entire interface by the release of the game from Early Access.

As soon as we released the game in the Early Access, the players asked us to add the head play. For a long time, we worked out how it should work in the whole tactics, how to make it a full-fledged part of the game. Initially, we thought it’s enough if the head play is a part of the lofted passes.



But over time, we realized that it's not enough. It should be a part of something bigger. In real life, a good performance on the wings is important for successful headers. After all, the ball flies to the attackers from the flanks.

Therefore, we postponed the implementation of the head play until we decide how to implement the flank play. And the flank play was postponed until we decide how to implement the new classes. And after we saw the whole picture of how classes should work, the puzzle was solved - we understood, how to implement both flank and head play. Such was a long way of head play from idea to implementation.



I want to recall you that in order to perform a cross, a footballer with the ball should stand in one of the four corner tiles on the opponent’s side. Teammates having the Head play talent can be positioned in the opponent’s penalty area, or in rows two and three opposite the penalty area. When all the conditions for availability are met, select the footballer with the ball and a tile on the opposite side of the goal will be highlighted. Click on that tile to perform a cross. Also, you can perform crosses from the corners.



Football Tactics - might not look like a serious game. But inside, there are a lot of hidden mechanics which start to live when you start a new campaign.

So if earlier we could limit ourselves to dozens of coach’s notes, in the new update, the amount of information that would be useful to take into account overstepped the limits of the “not so serious” game.

Therefore, we have added footballpedia which explains practically all aspects: what are abilities of each class, what you need to know about each game action, the details of performing the skills, how the players' transfer value is formed, what hidden characteristics of footballers there are, etc.



We also advise everyone, including veterans of the previous version of Football Tactics, to play the game with the 'Tutorial' option enabled. You will receive information from the old coach who will try to get acquainted you with all the main features of the game.

You are the central hero of the game. You are a football manager who leads the team to the top of the world football due to your brilliant mind.

But apart from you, there are other characters in the football world: your assistants, the president of the club. Previously, they were hidden behind abstract-looking messages. Therefore, you had to force yourself to believe in the game world.

In this update, finally, you get to know the characters closer. Now, each message contains the date, subject, name, and photo of the sender.



And while your assistants’ role is only to inform you about your progress and the situation in your team, the president of the club and the old coach show more character and attitude towards you in the letters.

If you wanted to see their faces closer - you have a chance to do it now ;)



Remember, how you wondered, why there is no choice in the skills learning window? Now there it is! Moreover, this choice is interesting. Footballers have different affinities to different skills, so you have to decide if you want to learn any skill as fast as possible or maybe take some time for more important skill.



We always try to make the game more pleasant and comfortable for players. We watch the let's plays on Youtube, read your feedback and try to understand where you have the biggest difficulties.

In this update, we added one of the most anticipated features to improve the comfort in the game - it is the opponent viewing screen.



Remember how you had to go to the opponent's screen before and turn his team upside down in your imagination to understand how to better build your tactics. Now, you can study the enemy in details and prepare the optimal tactics for the next match in comfort.

By the way, tactical icons also appeared only in this update. They make it easy to understand the positioning of every class.

Another big step forward is 3D arrows for lofted passes and visualization of the diameters for all types of passes.

Many times we have seen how players don’t understand why the lofted pass is accessible, but the pass is not. Now you can see the distances for all kinds of passes.



There are a lot of other improvements that I would like to tell you about. It’s the opportunity to start the game directly from Premier League, and the possibility to customize every detail of the footballers in the editor, and many fixed bugs, and greatly improved AI, and really hard difficulty mode, and the ability to kick out the ball, and the opportunity to throw it in :)



We put our souls into the game, trying to make it as interesting and deep as possible. Hope everyone has found something which made him be happy after the update ;)

A more detailed list of changes you can read here:

The beta version is not updating now. To continue playing, you need to exit the beta. After the release of this update, we will fix some bugs, improve some game elements, add some translations. All updates will be now only in the main version of the game.

If you see small updates to the main version, know that it's fixed bugs and crashes. If there is something valuable, I'll write in the news section.

Expect the next big update in few months.

This all would not have been possible without you, without your comments, feedback, participation in the beta, the purchase of the game.

Thank you very much for your help!

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
To finish this on a fun note, just want to remind you a little about the developing history of this update in screenshots and gifs.

It is how the screen of footballers specialization looked like during the prototyping period.



And now it looks like this:



It is how the animations of crossing looked like during the prototyping period and how they look like now:



And for those who are with us starting from the old versions of the game I just want to recall how our footballers looked like at the beginning and how they look like now ;)

• New mechanics of the classes (football roles). Now, there are the amateur, universal and special classes. Every class has its own special abilities. It makes the tactical part of the game much deeper and diverse.
  
• Head play. Now, footballers can score headers after the crosses. Also, when you are going to perform a lofted pass to your teammate, you have to take into account where the opponents stay. Because they can fight in the air for the ball.
  
• Development tree for footballers. Now, only you decide how to develop your players. Either throughout the skills, or attributes, or the beautiful play. Your decisions affect not only your players but your club’ development in general.
  
• Footballpedia. Now, every game mechanics is described in the huge footballpedia. If you don’t understand how something works, just click on the help icon in the top right corner.
  
• Narrative. Now, if you start the game in the tutorial, you will find out how you became a football manager of an amateur club. Further, in the game, you will get the emails from your assistants and other characters. Everyone has its own face and style of talking.
  
• Start in the higher leagues. Now you don’t necessarily start in the Amateur league. You can start in your team’s league. Did you select the club from London? Welcome to Premier league.
  
• Possibility to edit any footballers’ detail. Now, in the Leagues editor, you can edit not only the names and faces. Now every footballer’s detail as available for editing: attributes, levels, skills, classes etc. Together with previous point (Higher leagues), it allows to create realistic leagues and play them directly along with the other top clubs.
  
• Active development of the opponents. Now, the opposing teams won’t just stay and watch how you develop and get stronger. They also actively develop, earn XP in the matches, train skills, get the new footballers etc.
  
• High Difficulty mode. Earlier, it was Hard Start mode. However now, the game will be hard not only at the start of the campaign. All costs in the game are increased and other teams get 2x XP comparing to default campaign.
  
• 17 new achievements. New mechanics which appeared in this update, are represented in the new achievements.

• Added inner tabs in the management. It will allow you to easier manage the new possibilities.
  
• Added the “Opponent” screen which allows you to compare your tactics to the formation of the opponent. Now you don’t have to rotate the opponent’s formation in your imagination :) The preparation to the next match became more tactical.
  
• Added the visual calendar to the main screen. The calendar allows you to estimate how time passes between the matches.
  
• Improved design of the pitch in the management screens.
  
• Added the tactical view of your formation.
  
• Added mini-pitches which allow you to quickly understand where the footballer stays on the pitch.

• Now, you can see the radius of all kinds of the passes.
  
• Now, the ball can fly out of the pitch. Footballers learned to perform throw-ins.
  
• Added 3D arrows for the lofted passes.
  
• Added the new actions: Switch positions, Kick out, Break in, Cross, False Kick.
  
• Significantly remade and improved AI.
  
• Now the footballers earn the motivation with the same rate for any level. So weak players earn motivation as fast as powerful players.
  
• Motivation in the home matches is earned twice as faster than in the away matches.
  
• After kick off, the first action should be a pass or lofted pass.
  
• Now, Pressing not only decreases the attributes of the opponent but also decreases the potential of the skills and doesn’t allow the opponent to move.
  
• Increased the penalty to Accuracy for kicking from the big distances.
  
• Now, Aggressive tackle gives +20 to Defence (used to be +15).
  
• Now, the unsuccessful Aggressive tackle will always end up in a foul.

• The length of Layoff Pass is decreased from 4 to 3 tiles.
  
• Now Cannon Kick can’t be used from the center of the pitch.
  
• Now, Rainbow Feint can be used only on the neighbor tile (used to be 2 tiles).
  
• Now, after performing Nutmeg, the footballer gets a bonus +10% to his Accuracy and Pass.
  
• Now, Olympic Kick can be intercepted by the field players if they stay on the ball’s trajectory.
  
• Added two new talents: Throw-ins and Head Play.

• Implemented the new mechanics of learning skills. Now, you can choose one from 3 available skills/talents. However, footballers have different affinity to every skill/talent available, so the speed of learning is different.
  
• Removed the option “Penalty for other positions” because with the new class system doesn’t make sense anymore.
  
• Now the best players in the matches are rewarded also for draws and loses.
  
• Changed the cost of players on the transfers. In general, the prices are decreased. However, the high-level players became more expensive.
  
• Decreased the speed of coming in/out the new fans depending on your success.
  
• Completely rewrote the logic of setting the formation by the opponents. Now AI knows all strong sides of the classes and individual power of any player. And it uses this knowledge to prepare the formation.
  
• The more the opponent is “afraid” of your team, the more defensive tactics it chooses.

• Now, you can set up the sound in the match.
  
• Added the separate option for the crowd’s sound.
  
• Now, you can enable the music in the match.
  
• Now, you can disable the kick-off animation in the match.
  
• Added the antialiasing option.

Also, there is a huge amount of other less noticeable improvements and fixes which improve playing experience.

• New mechanics of the classes (football roles). Now, there are the amateur, universal and special classes. Every class has its own special abilities. It makes the tactical part of the game much deeper and diverse.
  
• Head play. Now, footballers can score headers after the crosses. Also, when you are going to perform a lofted pass to your teammate, you have to take into account where the opponents stay. Because they can fight in the air for the ball.
  
• Development tree for footballers. Now, only you decide how to develop your players. Either throughout the skills, or attributes, or the beautiful play. Your decisions affect not only your players but your club’ development in general.
  
• Footballpedia. Now, every game mechanics is described in the huge footballpedia. If you don’t understand how something works, just click on the help icon in the top right corner.
  
• Narrative. Now, if you start the game in the tutorial, you will find out how you became a football manager of an amateur club. Further, in the game, you will get the emails from your assistants and other characters. Everyone has its own face and style of talking.
  
• Start in the higher leagues. Now you don’t necessarily start in the Amateur league. You can start in your team’s league. Did you select the club from London? Welcome to Premier league.
  
• Possibility to edit any footballers’ detail. Now, in the Leagues editor, you can edit not only the names and faces. Now every footballer’s detail as available for editing: attributes, levels, skills, classes etc. Together with previous point (Higher leagues), it allows to create realistic leagues and play them directly along with the other top clubs.
  
• Active development of the opponents. Now, the opposing teams won’t just stay and watch how you develop and get stronger. They also actively develop, earn XP in the matches, train skills, get the new footballers etc.
  
• High Difficulty mode. Earlier, it was Hard Start mode. However now, the game will be hard not only at the start of the campaign. All costs in the game are increased and other teams get 2x XP comparing to default campaign.
  
• 17 new achievements. New mechanics which appeared in this update, are represented in the new achievements.

• Added inner tabs in the management. It will allow you to easier manage the new possibilities.
  
• Added the “Opponent” screen which allows you to compare your tactics to the formation of the opponent. Now you don’t have to rotate the opponent’s formation in your imagination :) The preparation to the next match became more tactical.
  
• Added the visual calendar to the main screen. The calendar allows you to estimate how time passes between the matches.
  
• Improved design of the pitch in the management screens.
  
• Added the tactical view of your formation.
  
• Added mini-pitches which allow you to quickly understand where the footballer stays on the pitch.

• Now, you can see the radius of all kinds of the passes.
  
• Now, the ball can fly out of the pitch. Footballers learned to perform throw-ins.
  
• Added 3D arrows for the lofted passes.
  
• Added the new actions: Switch positions, Kick out, Break in, Cross, False Kick.
  
• Significantly remade and improved AI.
  
• Now the footballers earn the motivation with the same rate for any level. So weak players earn motivation as fast as powerful players.
  
• Motivation in the home matches is earned twice as faster than in the away matches.
  
• After kick off, the first action should be a pass or lofted pass.
  
• Now, Pressing not only decreases the attributes of the opponent but also decreases the potential of the skills and doesn’t allow the opponent to move.
  
• Increased the penalty to Accuracy for kicking from the big distances.
  
• Now, Aggressive tackle gives +20 to Defence (used to be +15).
  
• Now, the unsuccessful Aggressive tackle will always end up in a foul.

• The length of Layoff Pass is decreased from 4 to 3 tiles.
  
• Now Cannon Kick can’t be used from the center of the pitch.
  
• Now, Rainbow Feint can be used only on the neighbor tile (used to be 2 tiles).
  
• Now, after performing Nutmeg, the footballer gets a bonus +10% to his Accuracy and Pass.
  
• Now, Olympic Kick can be intercepted by the field players if they stay on the ball’s trajectory.
  
• Added two new talents: Throw-ins and Head Play.

• Implemented the new mechanics of learning skills. Now, you can choose one from 3 available skills/talents. However, footballers have different affinity to every skill/talent available, so the speed of learning is different.
  
• Removed the option “Penalty for other positions” because with the new class system doesn’t make sense anymore.
  
• Now the best players in the matches are rewarded also for draws and loses.
  
• Changed the cost of players on the transfers. In general, the prices are decreased. However, the high-level players became more expensive.
  
• Decreased the speed of coming in/out the new fans depending on your success.
  
• Completely rewrote the logic of setting the formation by the opponents. Now AI knows all strong sides of the classes and individual power of any player. And it uses this knowledge to prepare the formation.
  
• The more the opponent is “afraid” of your team, the more defensive tactics it chooses.

• Now, you can set up the sound in the match.
  
• Added the separate option for the crowd’s sound.
  
• Now, you can enable the music in the match.
  
• Now, you can disable the kick-off animation in the match.
  
• Added the antialiasing option.

Also, there is a huge amount of other less noticeable improvements and fixes which improve playing experience.

The depth of the new features in the new update is so deep that it looks rather like Football Tactics 2 than an average update. That’s why it took so much time. However, the polishing is going to its end. Finally, we can tell you the release date: 20th of October, Friday.

On the weekend after release, you will be able to dive into exploring the new classes, specializations, new abilities, new mechanics etc.



We still have two weeks to polish the released version. And we need your help.

On the course of development the game in the Early Access, some players helped us to translate Football Tactics to their native languages. And we very grateful to them.

But after few updates, some of the players weren’t able to find free time to translate the game. So we can’t support these languages.

However, if you want Football Tactics to be playable on your native language, and if you can help to translate it or you know people who would do it - write me, please. The translation process is very simple, you only have to know English and your native language.

My email: kos @ creoteam . com [delete spaces]

The people who translated the update will get a free game’s key + their name in the credits.

We need help for the following languages:
- German
- Italian
- Spanish
- Portuguese-Brazilian



For the next update, we remade the tutorials because there is much more information players need to be able to make strategical and tactical decisions. It is very important for novice players.

However, we (developers) and the players who played beta-version are not new to the game, we are not sure how the new tutorial will be perceived by those who play Football Tactics for the first time.

So, if you know any streamers/youtubers (not necessarily popular) who would be able in the near time to record playing the campaign in the beta-version, give them my email. I’ll add them a free game key.

If you didn’t play beta, are you going to continue playing your old campaign after the game updates? If so, how old is your club? It would be interesting to look at the screenshots of your teams.

The depth of the new features in the new update is so deep that it looks rather like Football Tactics 2 than an average update. That’s why it took so much time. However, the polishing is going to its end. Finally, we can tell you the release date: 20th of October, Friday.

On the weekend after release, you will be able to dive into exploring the new classes, specializations, new abilities, new mechanics etc.



We still have two weeks to polish the released version. And we need your help.

On the course of development the game in the Early Access, some players helped us to translate Football Tactics to their native languages. And we very grateful to them.

But after few updates, some of the players weren’t able to find free time to translate the game. So we can’t support these languages.

However, if you want Football Tactics to be playable on your native language, and if you can help to translate it or you know people who would do it - write me, please. The translation process is very simple, you only have to know English and your native language.

My email: kos @ creoteam . com [delete spaces]

The people who translated the update will get a free game’s key + their name in the credits.

We need help for the following languages:
- German
- Italian
- Spanish
- Portuguese-Brazilian



For the next update, we remade the tutorials because there is much more information players need to be able to make strategical and tactical decisions. It is very important for novice players.

However, we (developers) and the players who played beta-version are not new to the game, we are not sure how the new tutorial will be perceived by those who play Football Tactics for the first time.

So, if you know any streamers/youtubers (not necessarily popular) who would be able in the near time to record playing the campaign in the beta-version, give them my email. I’ll add them a free game key.

If you didn’t play beta, are you going to continue playing your old campaign after the game updates? If so, how old is your club? It would be interesting to look at the screenshots of your teams.