Release 5.3.1
Online lobbies now run on dedicated servers, with votes, rejoins, rematches and your own kit for every match. Plus full controller support across the site, fighter builds, league settings and a batch of fixes.
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Play the whole site on a controller#
Plug in a controller and every screen follows it, not just matches.
- NEWThe d-pad or left stick moves around the page, A presses, B closes or goes back, the shoulder buttons flip tabs and the triggers step through a career's sections.
- NEWMenu jumps to the page's menu and View opens settings.
- NEWA hint bar shows which buttons do something on the screen, in your controller's own button icons, and the mouse pointer hides while you use the pad.
- FIXCards, rows and tab strips that only worked with a mouse can now be reached with the keyboard and controller too.
Dedicated servers#
Online matches no longer live on the host's computer. Each lobby gets its own server, close to everyone playing in it.
- NEWEvery lobby runs on a server placed in the region nearest all its players, for football, car ball, the shooters and the fight sports alike.
- NEWThe lobby owner can still choose Direct to host from their own device, and a lobby falls back to it if no server is free.
- NEWPing is split into your connection and your computer, so you can see where lag is coming from.
- CHANGEThe match keeps running when the host hides their tab or steps away.
Online play#
Lobbies that hold together when people come and go, and a match everyone moves through together.
- NEWShared votes: kickoff, a fight's walkout and introductions, and a rematch wait for everyone, with a countdown on every screen.
- NEWReload and you get your seat back. If the host leaves for good, another player takes the lobby over on the same code.
- NEWThe AI covers a player who drops or goes idle, and gives them back their player when they return. You can also forfeit, block or report a player.
- NEWDesign your side's kit on a live 3D player, or play as a real club from the lobby's world with its crest, colours and players.
- NEWFighters pick their kit for each match: their own design, the team kit, or their design with the shorts in another colour. Sides are Blue and Red.
- NEWOnline fights are one shared bout. Each fighter steers their own walkout, and emotes reach every screen.
- NEWMap pickers show each map's size and tiers, and the goal replay shows how many players have asked to skip it.
- FIXWorlds and clubs that cannot field a full lineup are greyed out instead of crashing the lobby.
- FIXA player sent off in football takes over a teammate instead of losing control.
- FIXOnline fighters wear their own kit, not the side's name on the waistband.
- NEWEvery fight rating is its own number. Training, drills, age and knockouts each move the ratings they touch, and the six skills follow from them.
- NEWFighter builds: Balanced, Speedster, Tank, Grinder and Glass Cannon. Pick one when you create your MyPlayer fighter or your online fighter.
- CHANGEEvery fighter has the basic punches and kicks, whatever their style.
- CHANGEYour fighter only dodges when you press defend, and the stick picks the move: in ducks, away leans back, sideways slips.
- CHANGEEvery miss has a cause you can see, and every hit lands where it is drawn.
- NEWFight shorts move as cloth over the legs, with fitted and high split cuts in the kit designer.
- NEWTurn your league's yearly draft on or off for each career.
- NEWAs commissioner, put one club's front office on hold, or every club's, so only your moves change their rosters.
- NEWTeam Deathmatch can be simmed in careers and added to arcade worlds.
- NEWDesign football and basketball kits from templates, with new patterns, collars, lettering and socks.
- NEWStats and achievements tabs on your own profile, and a More row in the sidebar for pages you visit less often.
- FIXSports fixtures play one game where the sport has no series, instead of a best of five or seven.
- FIXSports playoffs use the sport's own knockout format instead of double elimination.
- FIXAdvancing a week as commissioner records every league game in player stats.
- FIXSeason awards are reachable in leagues with playoffs, and sports leagues no longer get shooter awards.
- FIXOlder saves read their settings from their own world, so regional leagues keep the right number of games.
- FIXStats are filed under the division of the club a player actually played for.
- FIXA regional league only offers the picked region's groups.
- FIXPlayer profiles count seasons correctly.
- FIXQuadball players no longer hog the ball, and beaters throw at a sensible rate.
- FIXFootball referees reach the player and show the card.
- FIXA slow connection no longer signs you out, and desktop sign-in works from any screen.
- FIXSigned-out visitors can see a profile's verified mark.