Hi all!

We've cool new features for all who aren't participating in the beta. There is a lot of players who decided to stick with the older v0.5, which was faster and more stable than v0.6 for some time. Until now, as we've decided to push this new version to all players. The game should run very fast, actually smoother than ever. If your monitor has high refresh rate, then the game will render at this rate. Please report if it's not on the Kopanito's forum. If you're participating in beta, then the latest changes are listed at the end of this news.

Freeze super-move

This is the fifth super-move in the game. It allows you to freeze players in radius (except goalkeepers) around the current controlled player. The longer you hold the super-move button (E key or LT button), the bigger is the radius of freezing. Note that you may also freeze your teammates too. Frozen players wont participate in the game for some time (depending how close they were to the freezing player). This super-move can be used both offensively and defensively. You can freeze opponent's defenders to make it easier to score a goal for example. The ball can also be frozen or, actually stopped, even in mid-air. It's a good method to cancel opponent's shots, including super-shot. Try it for yourself :) You can also slide tackle a frozen player to defrost him faster.

Action replays

They activate automatically after goals, but can be started manually from the pause menu. It's a side-product of online multi-player, where game state recording is needed. Since we're recording a match, we though it would be great to able to replay it. Up to last 8 seconds are recorded and can be replayed back. Note that replays aren't exact, pixel-perfect recreation of a given situation, but rather a very close approximation. This means that sometimes things may be broken during a replay (we'll fix this in future).

GIF generator

This feature allows you to create a GIF animation from an action replay. This was inspired by the first GIF animation uploaded by FUDO. We think it will be great feature to share all cool and funny stuff you do during a match. Note: This feature is very experimental. It's good, but not perfect. GIF generation takes up to a few minutes to complete, so please stay patient. Generated animations are currently heavy (5-8 MB) and not so smooth. This will be improved in future assuming players' interest. We encourage you to share your GIFs here on the Artworks section of the Community Hub or anywhere else you like around the web. Example GIF animations:




Legend AI

This fourth difficulty level was previously hidden. We've decided to show it, but leave locked. Unlock condition is visible when starting a new cup or league.

Online multi-player

When? Possibly at the beginning of June 2016 alpha testing will start.

Full list of changes between v0.5.2 and v0.6.6

• Improved a little appearance of the stadiums available in the game. Grass is more bushy, prominient, colors have been adjusted. Fans are now closer to the pitch. Other small changes were made too, hope you like them!
• Resigned from inverting swerve direction when targeting the left goal. Many players requested this, so now you have it and we'll see how it goes.
• Improved rendering of the clock's digits during a match.
• Increased speed of the camera to follow the ball better.
• Fixed error when loading the game in some rare cases "ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '**/messageformat.js'" (thanks Renzo via email).
• Preserving leaderboards statistics when player's profile is reset (thanks Bro).
• Fixed truncating replay buffer after each goal "Cannot set property 'elapsed' of undefined" (thanks MonkeyJug and pimmey).
• Fixed unwanted whistle sound after a replay and restarting cheering sounds (thanks FUDO).
• Fixed invalid camera zoom after replays.
• Fixed invisible in-game menu at match start (thanks Skaery, MonkeyJug and FUDO).
• Fixed crash when an unsupported language was specified in player's profile.
• Fixed players dropping the ball during throw-ins.
• Fixed not resuming match after a replay in some cases.
• The Beginner AI doesn't increase its playing level when losing. Now it should be easier for newcomers.
• Fixed time slowing down when passing to own goalkeeper (thanks kusmierek).
• Moved the achievement notification to the left side of the screen.
• Fixed AI level icon on the match summary screen.
• Playing whistle sound on goals (thanks FUDO).
• Fixed the supershot achievement "Cannot read property 'receiver' of undefined" (thanks Skaery).
• Fixed the double slide hit challenge.
• Fixed rare crash during gameplay "no ball here".
• Fixed creating a texture in the fans module before renderer is created.
• Added gameplay options menu with ability to toggle goal replays, goal celebration and AI indicators.
• Players can now "collide" with goal's net.
• Fixed left side of the leaderboards screen flickering when the table on the right side is scrolled.
• Changed labels on the draws button in the friendly match settings menu from "On"/"Off" to "Draws Allowed"/"Golden Goal".
• Fixed always activating keyboard in the practice mode. Now the controller last used in menus is activated by default.
• Displaying most important keys at the bottom of the screen in the practice mode.
• Limited number of players to only one in the practice mode to simplify things (so we could display only one set of most important keys).
• Fixed extracting dynamic libraries to the OS temporary directory, which prevented the game from running in some cases (thanks mr_auer).
• Corrected the Super-shot achievement to better detect scored goals (thanks Skaery).
• Corrected typo in the Team Work challenge description (thanks Monkey Jug).
• Small accuracy improvements in AI shooting with the precise shot.

Changes between v0.6.5 to v0.6.6 (for beta participants)

• Added walking, by default Ctrl key and RB button (suggested by MonkeyJug).
• Sped-up GIF generation, using all CPU cores for this task (f you have 4 cores, then a GIF should generate 4 times faster).
• Improved grass colors of some stadiums, reduced brightness, increased contrast.
• Fixed missing labels on buttons in high resolutions (thanks H.o.W-Umbrella and others).
• Better collision detection between goal's net and ball during replays.
• Fixed crash when disconnecting controllers (thanks MonkeyJug).
• Improvements in camera movement.

Known issues

• No Steam Overlay. It stopped working on Windows (it still isn't working on OS X and Linux too).
• Incomplete translations. We've decided to not bother our translators until the game is complete to simplify things and reduce costs. Please use english language for now.
• In rare cases there may be no fans on the stadium, only empty seats. If you experience this, then please report on the forum.

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