Gameplay
- Movement
- Improved movement responsiveness, including sprint execution and overall fluidity.
- Removed post-pass stun for more responsive player control.
- Refined pass recoveries and movement transitions.
- Passing & Trapping
- Improved ground pass targeting with better passing lane detection and player selection.
- Increased pass speeds and improved first-touch behavior, especially on slower passes.
- Reduced lofted pass dispersion and refined through passes.
- Improved trap execution and fixed several first-touch and trapping issues.
- Shooting & Goalkeepers
- Reduced shot dispersion and the frequency of shots hitting the post.
- Improved low-powered shot animations.
- Nerfed goalkeeper rushing to make aggressive rush-outs less effective, while rebalancing positioning and reactions.
- Fixed rare goalkeeper animation issues.
- Physicality & AI
- Increased resistance to physical challenges while on the ball.
- Standing tackles now scale more consistently with player attributes.
- Tackles from behind are no longer allowed.
- Disabled AI-initiated passive barges, reducing "auto defending" and placing more emphasis on manual defending.
- Reduced AI overtracking, resulting in more natural defensive positioning and support.
- Improved offensive and defensive positioning, run tracking, and support.
Match Experience
- Shortened match introductions to get you into gameplay faster.
- Added crowd reactions to fouls, yellow cards, and red cards.
- Improved free kick audio.
- Improved second player press indicator.
UI
- Added buzzer beater visuals to the radar.
- Improved HUD animations, card event transitions, and menu polish.
- Improved character requirement displays.
- Fixed various UI alignment and navigation issues.
Online & Stability
- Improved Steam login, reconnect handling, and overall online stability.
- Improved movement cache reliability and backend systems.
- Fixed several crashes and platform-specific issues, including on PS5.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed incorrect possession statistics.
- Fixed tournament progression and substitute spawning issues.
- Fixed multiple gameplay, passing, trapping, movement, and animation issues.
- Various stability, performance, and telemetry improvements.