Hi,

due to popular demand I added a (rudimentary) keyboard mapping to the current BETA version.

It allows you to specify which keys you want to use when playing with a keyboard instead of a game controller.

Side note: Natural Soccer plays way better with an (analogue) controller, so do yourself a favor and use a game controller instead of the keyboard controls. If you happen to have problems using your controller, please post to the forums what the problem is and what controller you use.

But now on with the keyboard mapping:

For now there is no user interface to change the keyboard keys. Instead you create a text file containing the mappings you want to use.

To create a custom mapping, please create a file called "keyboard.txt" in the data folder of Natural Soccer in your user profile.

The full path to that file would be:


A popular request is to switch the D and S keys. To do so please copy and paste the following to the newly created "keyboard.txt" file:


I hope the file itself is self-explanatory. Please note that everything in there is case sensitive!

The available keys to map are:


If you have any more questions, problems or feedback please reply to this post.

Enjoy Natural Soccer!

~ Thorsten

Hi,

due to popular demand I added a (rudimentary) keyboard mapping to the current BETA version.

It allows you to specify which keys you want to use when playing with a keyboard instead of a game controller.

Side note: Natural Soccer plays way better with an (analogue) controller, so do yourself a favor and use a game controller instead of the keyboard controls. If you happen to have problems using your controller, please post to the forums what the problem is and what controller you use.

But now on with the keyboard mapping:

For now there is no user interface to change the keyboard keys. Instead you create a text file containing the mappings you want to use.

To create a custom mapping, please create a file called "keyboard.txt" in the data folder of Natural Soccer in your user profile.

The full path to that file would be:


A popular request is to switch the D and S keys. To do so please copy and paste the following to the newly created "keyboard.txt" file:


I hope the file itself is self-explanatory. Please note that everything in there is case sensitive!

The available keys to map are:


If you have any more questions, problems or feedback please reply to this post.

Enjoy Natural Soccer!

~ Thorsten

I am very happy to announce that the "goalies vanishing" bug, that boggled a few a you, seems to be finally fixed with this release!

Thanks A LOT to those who helped me hunting it down!

I am very happy to announce that the "goalies vanishing" bug, that boggled a few a you, seems to be finally fixed with this release!

Thanks A LOT to those who helped me hunting it down!

I'm very pleased to announce 1.4.6, containing the following features developed over the last few BETA versions:



You can now optionally turn off the game's auto-switching of the player you control and manually switch players by pushing the left shoulder button (you might have to re-run your controller setup to assign the new left button properly).



Besides slowing down the game a bit, you can now also speed it up with the new 105% - 125% game speed options.

125% game speed combined with the HARD dribbling mode make for a nice "Kick Off"ish feeling ;-)



Due to popular request, I greatly enhanced the audience sound by adding new chants and cheers.

• You play against up to 10, increasingly stronger, teams.
  
  
• For each match won, your score increases by the level's multiplier times the match's goal difference - the higher the level the more points per goal.
  
  
• For a draw, you gain no points and the challenge continues with the next level.
  
  
• If you loose a match, the challenge is over.
  
  
• Reaching the final level and winning the match, gains you another 300 points win bonus.
  
  
• You compete against other Steam players all around the world and can check your ranking on the leaderboards.

Further improved AI for a more realistic, bit toned-down passing and more clever actions in general.


Really hope you like the new version :-) !

~ Thorsten

I'm very pleased to announce 1.4.6, containing the following features developed over the last few BETA versions:



You can now optionally turn off the game's auto-switching of the player you control and manually switch players by pushing the left shoulder button (you might have to re-run your controller setup to assign the new left button properly).



Besides slowing down the game a bit, you can now also speed it up with the new 105% - 125% game speed options.

125% game speed combined with the HARD dribbling mode make for a nice "Kick Off"ish feeling ;-)



Due to popular request, I greatly enhanced the audience sound by adding new chants and cheers.

• You play against up to 10, increasingly stronger, teams.
  
  
• For each match won, your score increases by the level's multiplier times the match's goal difference - the higher the level the more points per goal.
  
  
• For a draw, you gain no points and the challenge continues with the next level.
  
  
• If you loose a match, the challenge is over.
  
  
• Reaching the final level and winning the match, gains you another 300 points win bonus.
  
  
• You compete against other Steam players all around the world and can check your ranking on the leaderboards.

Further improved AI for a more realistic, bit toned-down passing and more clever actions in general.


Really hope you like the new version :-) !

~ Thorsten

Hi,

it's update time again :-)

This new BETA version features:

* (Hopefully) fixed the freezing problem described in the beta forum
* Further improved, more realistic AI for passing and play-by-play
* Updated underlying frameworks and libs to most recent versions

Please note that this release features quite a lot of new code and as such might contain (even ;-) ) more bugs than usual - if anything does not work for you, please post it to the BETA forum, thank you!

I want to thank some AWESOME guys who helped me out (hopefully) tracking that nasty bug down and are of invaluable help constantly - you know who I'm talking to ;-) THANK YOU!

Hi,

it's update time again :-)

This new BETA version features:

* (Hopefully) fixed the freezing problem described in the beta forum
* Further improved, more realistic AI for passing and play-by-play
* Updated underlying frameworks and libs to most recent versions

Please note that this release features quite a lot of new code and as such might contain (even ;-) ) more bugs than usual - if anything does not work for you, please post it to the BETA forum, thank you!

I want to thank some AWESOME guys who helped me out (hopefully) tracking that nasty bug down and are of invaluable help constantly - you know who I'm talking to ;-) THANK YOU!

Hi,

it's time for another BETA release:

* fixed newly introduced crash when starting new leagues.

* toned down passing succession of AI for more realistic and "less mad" passing of the CPU players

As always, please tell me what you think at the BETA forum - and if there is a crash, please let the game send in the crash report.

THANK YOU!

~ Thorsten

Hi,

it's time for another BETA release:

* fixed newly introduced crash when starting new leagues.

* toned down passing succession of AI for more realistic and "less mad" passing of the CPU players

As always, please tell me what you think at the BETA forum - and if there is a crash, please let the game send in the crash report.

THANK YOU!

~ Thorsten