Mar 8, 2019

Football, Tactics & Glory - _K_o_S_

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?

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

WANT TO DISCUSS?

Forum - the main hub for the discussions
Creoteam's page in Steam - subscribe to get news about all FTG news directly in Steam
Twitter - here, we publish short news, screenshots etc
Discord - good place to discuss the game
Facebook - only news
Youtube - our videos
Reddit - news and discussions

Feb 1, 2019

Beta Update #6 - Beautiful Pitches

Football, Tactics & Glory - _K_o_S_

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?

Jan 9, 2019

New year's Beta update

Football, Tactics & Glory - _K_o_S_

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?

Dec 14, 2018

Beta Update #4 - Edit the weather for every city

Football, Tactics & Glory - _K_o_S_

Now, in the beta version, you can change the weather conditions for any country and in every city.

It's not just a cosmetic change because the weather affects gameplay.

HOW TO EDIT THE WEATHER?

THE WEATHER IN A COUNTRY
After you selected the country you are going to edit, click on the button "Edit Weather".

In the opened screen, you can set the weather which will prevail in every month.

Setting time of the year (Winter, Summer etc) affects how the stadium looks in the chosen month. For example, if you set "Winter" for March, it means that you will see snow around the stadium in March.

Also, for every month you can set how often there will be an abnormal weather (heavy rain, snowfall, heat). The number means the probability of the abnormal weather.

THE WEATHER IN THE CITIES
Many of you wrote that they would like to see the weather to be different for every city, not the same for the whole country. Because, for example, North and South of Italy or France have different weather conditions. In some regions, there aren't snowfalls, but in some - there are often hot days.

Therefore, now, you can set the weather not only for the whole country but for every city (club) as well.

Go to the "Weather in cities" tab, set the weather conditions and give a name to this preset. For example "Eternal heat" or "no anomalies". After that, you can use this preset for other cities as well.

Now, you will be able to make the weather more realistic for every country. In some cities, there will more rainy than in others. In some cities, there will be hotter or snower. And that's all inside one country.

Btw, could anyone say in which countries which exist in our game, there are most of all different weather zones?

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 - autumn update”.

HOW DOES IT DIFFER FROM THE DEFAULT VERSION?

WANT TO DISCUSS?

Nov 23, 2018

Update of Beta #3 + Vote for us!

Football, Tactics & Glory - _K_o_S_

UPDATE OF BETA

Today, we have updated the Beta-version of the upcoming big update which will significantly improve our Leagues Editor.

The main addition to the Beta is the editor of the tournament names. Currently, it supports only three languages: English, Ukrainian, Russian.

You are allowed to change the names for all in-game tournaments: leagues, domestic and international cups.

It would be interesting to know if it's easy for you to find the button which opens the screen of renaming tournaments. We believe it's pretty obvious but we'd rather listen to your feedback.

You can edit the names in different languages. Therefore, if players play your modification in one of the supported languages, the tournament names will be understandable for them. Otherwise, they will see the default names.

The main idea of this and other new features which we are currently working on is to give you the possibility to create realistic football leagues. We are sure that changing the names of the tournaments will increase the immersion.

Additionally, there are the following improvements:

Added hints to all elements of the Leagues Editor.
Sometimes, when you generated a team with some power, the resulting power was half-star higher or lower. Fixed.
Great guys from the studio "Only Sound" started experimenting with the UI sounds. We added some new sounds to the game. It's only a first iteration so there will be changes to them.

VOTE FOR US!

Steam started the Autumn Sale and its traditional Steam Awards event.

Many of you wrote to us that Football, Tactics & Glory became your favourite game (or one of the favourite games). For us, It's a big pleasure to know. Because it means that we created something valuable and unique.

We would be grateful if you vote for FTG in any category which you think the game fits in. I personally nominated it to the Game of the Year. Despite developing it for many years already, I still have a lot of fun playing it.

You also can nominate our team in the nomination Best Developer award. Just write Creoteam in the search field which appears after the nomination.

Btw, if you don't want to miss the news about our game, subscribe to Creoteam's page in Steam.

Write "+1" in the comments if you nominated us ;)

WANT TO DISCUSS?

Nov 16, 2018

Editing weather in the modifications

Football, Tactics & Glory - _K_o_S_

We continue working on the big update which is going to add revolutionary improvements to already great Leagues Editor.

Today, I want to tell you about one more feature which we started working on.

Soon, you will be able to edit weather in any country. Do you want to create eternal winter? Want to change the frequency of heavy rains? Want to change an existing country with an average weather on a new one with hot weather?

It will be possible soon:

Eventually, we want to give you the same possibilities we have ourselves when editing leagues. But at the same moment, we want to create a very useful interface. Also, we are changing the data structure so the game can take the outer data from the modifications.

Current status of the development of the new features

At the moment, we are still developing the new features I have told you the last week.
In around 1-2 weeks we are going to update the Beta with these two features.

Want to discuss?

Forum - the main hub for the discussions
Twitter - here, we publish short news, screenshots etc
Discord - good place to discuss the game
Facebook - only news
Youtube - our videos
Reddit - news and discussions

Nov 9, 2018

Two big features for the Leagues Editor

Football, Tactics & Glory - _K_o_S_

On this week we didn't update the Beta because there were quite hard features to develop.

But I want to tell you a bit about these features. I'm sure that players who love developing and editing the leagues will be glad to hear what we are working on.

Changing the number of the teams

We want players to be able to edit the number of teams in every league. The minimum number of the teams will be 8 (10 for Premier league). The maximum number - 20.

Now, it will be possible to create more realistic championships. Also, there will be a space for experimentation with league formats.

However, the general rules of the tournaments will stay untouched. I.e. no matter how many there are teams in the leagues, the teams will continue to participate in the Prestige, National and continental cups.

Changing the names of the tournaments

Many players asked us about that. And finally, we have decided to do it.

The main complexity is in taking to account all the forms different languages can use the tournament names in. So we remake all the texts, search for tournaments names, and create special editing sheets for every language. It will be very easy for English, but significantly harder for German or Russian, for example.

But when we finish this features, you will be able to rename every tournament. I'm sure it will make the playing experience much more realistic.

Btw, when testing this feature we used some weird names for the tournaments just to be sure that everything works as expected even in the weirdest cases. It was very funny to see how these names in the game. Just look at the screenshot:

When will it be possible to test the new features?

We really hope to release them into the Beta in around 2-3 weeks. Despite they are partially working in the internal builds, we don't want to release them not finished.

Want to discuss?

Oct 26, 2018

Beta Update 2

Football, Tactics & Glory - _K_o_S_

We continue working on the Autumn update. Its main goal is to make our modifications support significantly better. It is very powerful even now. But new features and usability improvements will give you much more possibilities.

You can see what's already done by changing the branch to Beta. We are updating the branch once per 2 weeks.

Today we have launched the new Beta update.

WHAT'S NEW?

TL;DR:
- now, you can copy/paste the whole teams;
- now, you can generate the teams with a set power;
- in the single-player campaign, we added the descriptions of what happens when the ball is spinning.

LEAGUES EDITOR

Added the possibility to copy/paste the whole teams. Now, you can copy a team from some modification, and paste it to another modification.
Now, you can see the power of the teams in the League Editor.
Now, you can see the power of the teams in the Team Editor.
Added a new tab where you can generate the team of set power. IMPORTANT! The changed power can be experienced only in the Sandbox mode.
When you are editing any characteristics, you can press TAB to jump to the next characteristics. It allows for significantly faster editing.
The first click on any characteristics selects the text of this characteristics. Therefore, the following typing of any character clears the previous text. It allows you to edit the characteristics faster. Because earlier, you had to delete the old data first, and only then - add a new data.

QUALITY OF LIFE IMPROVEMENTS

When FTG makes any calculations players see a spinning ball. We added the textual explanations of what happens at these moments. So now, you will know what the game is doing.
In the slot of the last played campaign we added an Info button.

BUGS

Fixed the font problem in with some characters in the Romanian names.
Aggressive tackle didn't increase the Tackles counter. Fixed.
In a very rare situation, when a footballer scores a header after intercepting the opponent's lofted pass, the game counts it as a Header. It used to be just a goal.
Fixed the crash which happened after editing the birth date in the already published modification.

FEEDBACK

If you have a feedback, comments or problems regarding the Beta, if you like or dislike something you can write about it in the forum: http://steamcommunity.com/app/375530/discussions/

Also, you can discuss the Beta in our Discord channel: https://discord.gg/JeFSG4s

If you create a unique modification with the new features, don't hesitate to write about it. If there will be 3-4 such modifications, I'll mention them in our news.

Is there something in this update you were waiting for?