Football Superstars

The new game patch is now live! This patch includes a number of changes, but two of the biggest are the changes to Stamina burn and the new Player Profiles

PLAYER PROFILES

When you look at your inventory, you will now see the option to “Go Pro.”

This allows you to purchase three new match setup profiles. These three profiles relate to defence, midfield and attack, and you can equip items and skills to these profiles which will give you the best benefits in that area.  

When you enter a match, the game will know which position you are in and then select your items accordingly.

Important points

• Equipping an item to a profile does not remove it from your inventory.  So you can equip the same item to all three profiles if you wish.
• If you Go Pro, make sure you set up each of your profiles, even if it is with the same items, otherwise you might find yourself walking onto the pitch without any boots on!
• Durability works as normal so keep that in mind when if you equip one item to multiple profiles.

STAMINA BURN

Professional footballers are a fit bunch.  They are pro athletes and they’ve trained to be able to work at peak performance for an entire match. However, even the very best will soon tire if they push themselves beyond their limits.

As such, there is a slight change to your stamina bar. If you sprint to the very end of your stamina bar, then you are pushing yourself beyond your limits and will suffer a small penalty and will lose a small percentage of your max stamina for the match. Each time you sprint until your stamina is drained you will lose a small percentage.  33% of what you lose is refreshed at half time.

So, if you’re somewhat heavy handed on the sprint button, then make sure you keep an eye on your stamina bar or you may soon find yourself with only half the stamina you had at the start of the game!

Important Points

• You will never lose all of your stamina.  The penalty is always a percentage of the stamina you have available, so you will never be able to lose all of your stamina for a match.
• Only draining your stamina bar by sprinting will apply a penalty.  Running with the ball or skill usage won’t have any effect other than to drain your stamina as normal.

The full features from this patch include:

• The ability to disable the football feedback (shift M) - this is in response to forum feedback regarding performance issues when these slide across the screen.
• Bug fix for mini offside flag being seen in top left hand corner of the screen on sub in.
• Stamina burn cost - If you sprint your player so that he cannot sprint anymore then this will cost you a small percentage off the top of your energy pool. This will replenish 33% at half time.
• Bug fix for players subbed on after another player had been red carded that was causing that player’s name to be displayed red.
• Bug fix for voted off player’s name remaining on the screen.
• Keepers more likely to distribute long now - this is in response to forum feedback.
• Player profiles - purchasable functionality that will let you set up your character items and skills for defence/midfield and forward.