Jul 15, 2019

Football, Tactics & Glory - _K_o_S_

In the process of preparing the console version of the game, we are adding all the improvements made to the Steam version as well.

In this and previous updates, we fixed a huge number of rare bugs, and also added new types of socks and shorts to the kit editor.

But the biggest new feature is the official gamepad support. Now, if you connect a gamepad, the game recognizes it and you can continue playing with it.

We tested the game with the Steam Controller, Xbox360 and one of the Logitech controllers.

To configure the gamepad during the game, press Shift + Tab, and in the upper right corner, click on the Controller Settings link. In the opened window you can reassign buttons.

There are two settings that I would recommend for you to customize:

1) Stick Response Curve - the more you tilt the stick, the faster the cursor moves. But you might want the dependence on the tilt is non-linear. I personally chose the option 'Wide'. Thanks to this setting, the cursor will move fast only with very large stick tilt. The weak and medium tilts will move the cursor much slower.

2) Dead Zone Inner - defines the zone in which the gamepad will be insensitive. If your gamepad is old, and its stick is slightly tilted, which leads to an automatic cursor shift, increase this area a little. For myself, I set a zone of 0.100.

The screenshots below show how to find these settings.

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WHAT IF YOU HAVE A PLUGGED IN GAMEPAD BUT DON"T WANT TO PLAY OUR GAME WITH IT?

Steam allows disabling the gamepad support for individual games.

Right-click on Football, Tactics & Glory in Steam Library. Click Properties. There's a setting "Steam Input Per-Game Setting". Switch it to Force Off.

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Have fun!

P.S. Do you play PC games with a gamepad? If so, what gamepad do you use?

Jun 17, 2019

Creative Freedom Update - Now Available!

Football, Tactics & Glory - _K_o_S_

For almost a year we worked on a huge free add-on that would significantly expand the possibilities of editing the game, give new tools for modders, improve the graphics.

In addition to all this, we added a very detailed hotseat mode, created a new penalty mechanics, redrawn the match interface, making it more comfortable and beautiful, revamped sounds.

The update will be automatically installed when you try to launch the game next time. You can continue your campaign without any problems.

Players who played the Beta version should go from Beta to the main game. We will no longer update the Beta version.

========= WHAT"S NEW IN THE UPDATE? =========

IMPROVEMENTS OF GRAPHICS AND SOUND

Added 3D grass.
Redraw the match interface.
Completely revamped the game sounds.
Improved the proportions of the footballers.
Made more diverse photos of the team.
Remade the kick off animations so you'd better see the footballers' faces..

LEAGUES EDITOR AND MODDING SUPPORT

Reworked the design and usability of the Leagues Editor.
Added the ability to change the flag of the country. If you change the flag, your country will be named after the modification's name.
Added the ability to change the weather in the country. You can also customize the individual weather settings for each city.
Added the ability to customize the type of faces that is generated in the country.
Added the ability to change the number of leagues in the country from 1 to 5.
Added the ability to change the number of teams in the league from 8 to 24 (in the Premier League - from 10).
Added the ability to upload your list of names for the country. Use a text file with Unicode or UTF-8 encoding.
Added the ability to rename the tournaments. Moreover, you can type the names of tournaments in different languages (if you want your modifications to be played by players from other countries).
Added the ability to specify the abbreviation for any club.
Added the ability to customize the strength of the teams.
Added the ability to copy and paste entire teams.
Added the ability to specify the birthday of football players.
Added display of tags on the main screen of modifications. Tags are automatically assigned to the modifications depending on what you are editing.
Added new face generators to the Face Editor. Also added the ability to select a random hairstyle and beard without changing the face.
The interface of the Kit and Logo editors has been redesigned.
The number of colours increased from 10 to 100.
Increased the number of jerseys from 30 to 82.
Increased the number of logo designs from 36 to 109. Also added a few new shields.
Added the ability to customize the goalkeeper uniform.
Added 4 new hairstyles.
Improved face generator. Now it generates more diverse faces.

NEW MECHANICS

Reworked the penalty mechanics. Now you select 6 zones instead of 3. Also now you can miss the goal.
Added Hotseat Tournament mode. Customize any tournament and play with your friends a whole season on one PC.

GAME WORLD

Added the ability to specify the starting year of the campaign.
Added the ability to customize the ranking of countries before the campaign.
Added the ability to change the number of countries before the start of the campaign. You can even leave only one country in your campaign.
Updated logos and team positions in almost all countries.
New countries added: Peru, Colombia, Paraguay, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore.

BALANCE

The probability of the appearance of universal class players from youth academies is slightly increased.
Now you won't be able to sell a footballer in the same transfer window in which you bought him.
Now the finals of cup tournaments are held at neutral grounds. Profit is shared by both finalists.
In 60 and 90 actions modes, the results of matches of the opponent clubs are calculated on the same number of actions as you play. Amount of Glory given for the best players in these modes is reduced. Now the competition for getting players in the top 10 will be more interesting.
The age of the footballers in your starting club is reduced.

QUALITY OF LIFE IMPROVEMENTS

Fatigue is now displayed in substitutions on the specialization screen. Also, added the ability to change the class and substitute a footballer on this screen.
Same functionality added to the following screens: training, specialization, contracts.
Added a separate display of the penalty shootout results (previously it was not displayed).
When scrolling the list of players and switching to another tab, the position of the scroll will be remembered (with the exception of the Opponent screen).
Added messages about the lack of resources, if you do not have enough Money or Glory to make a purchase.
Added the ability to change the class of players who possesses several classes, before an online or hotseat match.
Added the informational descriptions near the spinning ball, which inform about what the game is currently doing.
An information button was added to the 'Continue' button in the Main Menu, allowing you to find out information about the campaign.
Now on the Opponent’s screen, the tactical view will be turned on by default. It is very important to learn how to "read" the tactical icons.
Removed the second squad from the substitutions screen.
Made lighter pluses in Mogul mode.
Now we show the aggregate score in the second cup match.
Added the ability to scroll the list of footballers on the screens after the match using the up / down arrows on the keyboard.

BUGS

Fixed some glitches of AI in the match.
Fixed incorrect display of the second cup match results in the Calendar.
After changing the logo or other characteristics of the bot-teams, the changes were not saved. Fixed.
Fixed a crash on the sponsor selection screen, if you entered the tables and viewed T-shirts of other clubs.
One of the tracks was stopping playing after a certain time. Fixed.
Aggressive tackle did not increase the tackles statistics. Fixed.
If a footballer received a pass from a partner, moved and scored a goal after that, the assistant's statistics were not added to the partner. Fixed.
Fixed a bug in which not all modifications were displayed in the game.
After the free kick goal the celebrations animations did not start.
Fixed some inaccuracies in Footballpedia.
When promoting from the group in the Continental Cup, the draw could have given you a team from your own group. Fixed.
There was an exploit which allowed you to earn almost an infinite number of specialization points. This was fixed, Now, after you performed the skill against a tired footballer, his motivation is increased.
Fixed game crashes in some rare cases.

========= WHAT"S NEXT? =========
Now we are working on helping our partners to port the game to consoles. We really hope that the game will be launched by the end of the year.

After that, we plan to start working on large additions that will significantly affect the gameplay.

Follow our news here:

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

========= ACKNOWLEDGMENTS =========
We did a lot of difficult and routine work so that in the end you could enjoy new game features.

However, we did it together with you. Many of you have contributed to making the game better. We are very grateful to everyone who participated in the discussions, wrote reviews on Steam, reported bugs, sent crash reports.

Thanks to everyone who shared their impressions while playing the Beta, who helped us to find tricky bugs, who supported us with the kind words.

Special thanks to those who helped us to translate the game into other languages!!!

========= YOUR FEEDBACK IS IMPORTANT FOR US =========
If you like the update, we will be happy to read about it at any of our social networks. Btw, if you haven't written a Steam review yet, now is a great time to do it. Because more players will see how good our game is.

If you do not like something in the update - write about it on the Steam forum or Discord. I check your messages every day and in case of problems I try to help.

Have fun! : cannonshot :: cannonshot :: cannonshot:

And by the way, which of the new features pleased you the most?

Jun 7, 2019

Beta Update #9 - New penalty mechanics

Football, Tactics & Glory - _K_o_S_

For about 9 months, we have been working on a huge free add-on that expands your editing capabilities of game countries, leagues, teams and football players. On June 18th we will make this add-on available to everyone.

In the meantime, we are releasing the latest beta update. It includes quite a lot of significant improvements.

MAIN IMPROVEMENTS

New penalty mechanics!
New match interface. You will have to get used to it for some time, but then - you will like it. It's not only more beautiful, it also contains some tiny usability improvements.
Now you can edit goalkeepers' kits! (You asked us for this for a long time)
Now you can remove the countries from your continent at the start of a new campaign. You can even leave only your only country. It's very useful if you play the modifications like this: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1677999082 But it's also helpful if you want to create a series of the modifications where you change only a few countries and play only with them. So you won't depend on the number of countries which already exist in the game.
Translated the game to all supported languages (thanks to everyone who helped us with the translation!!! It was a big help:cannonshot:).
Added a big amount of new elements for the crest editor (increased the number of images from 36 to 109).

NEW PENALTY MECHANICS

We have not had time to add tutorials and update footballpedia for the new mechanics, so I will briefly explain it here:

Now you choose from 6 zones instead of 3.
Now there is a chance to miss the goal.
When performing the penalty you will see the probabilities of hitting the goal.
The probability will depend slightly on the Control attribute. Therefore, the game will automatically choose the players with high Control.
When you play as a goalkeeper, you will see the forward's probabilities of hitting the goal. They will be shown by the forward's back.
The goalkeeper-AI tends to jump into those parts of the goal where the attacker is more likely to hit.
Similarly, the forward-AI tends to kick in the zones where his chances to hit are better.

In this add-on, no additional changes to the penalty mechanics are planned. But in the future will consider the possibility to add the choice of a penalty taker.

ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENTS

CREATING AND EDITING

[New] Revamped the interface of the kits and crests editors. Now they look like the face editor.
[New] Added two new haircuts. Here's one of them:
[Improved] If you edited the kit in the leagues editor, the footballer who demonstrated the kit was random. Now it will be a footballer from the edited team.
[Fixed] If you remove all footballers from the team, and then start adding new footballers, the button "Remove" disappeared.
[Fixed] When you uploaded the list of the names for the first time, the list didn't save.
[Fixed] When you uploaded the list of the names to Australia and Canada, the names didn't appear in the leagues.

MATCH

[Fixed] Informational panel didn't appear after pressing Ctrl.
[Fixed] Removed the second squad from the Specialization tab in the substitutions.

HOTSEAT

[Improved] - In the substitutions screen we added the possibility to make subs for both teams (earlier only active team might substitute footballers).
[Fixed] - the game crashed in some cases after choosing a team for hotseat.

SINGLEPLAYER CAMPAIGN

[Improved] - significantly improved the poses of the footballers in the team photo. Now the photos will be more diverse.
[Improved] - a small "plus" which added money in the Mogul mode is made brighter (more visible).
[Improved] - for many countries we updated the logotypes, kits and colours. Also, changed the positions of the top teams in Premier league.
[Fixed] - sponsors didn't pay money for promoting from the league and for taking the first place in the league.
[Fixed] - after promoting from the group stage in the continental cup your next opponent might be the team which played in your group. It wasn't realistic.
[Fixed] - if you changed the kit for the home team before a match, the stadium and fans changed their colours as well. It wasn't realistic.
[Fixed] - if a footballer possesses several classes, his colour in the substitutions might not correspond to the colour of the currently selected class.
[Fixed] - in some cases, universal class AI-players might learn the same skill into different slots.

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We plan to release the Beta to the official release on the 18th of June. So if you haven’t launched Beta yet, it’s best to wait until the big launch.

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

Apr 12, 2019

Beta Update #8 - New colours and shirts

Football, Tactics & Glory - _K_o_S_

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?

WANT TO DISCUSS?

Mar 8, 2019

Beta Update #7 - Hot Seat Tournaments

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?

WANT TO DISCUSS?

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?