v0.78.0: Added penalties, advantage rule, extra time, jockey mode

Strikers Club v0.78.0

NEW

• Added penalties when fouls occur in the penalty box
• Added a jockey mode (defaults to CTRL / left bumper) to focus on the ball during defence (focus is a toggle in settings) and defensive blocks
• Added the advantage rule, allowing scoring opportunities to continue if in favour of the fouled team
• Added Extra Time. It kicks in when the score is equal after regulation, which turns the play into golden goal
• The kickoff taker is now placed at the ball directly
• Added previews for cosmetics in appearance
• Added game credits in the main menu (Escape -> Credits)
• Added a setting to invert Look Y Axis for controller
• Added the ability to purchase Tokens (premium currency)

Gameplay

• You gain input control back faster when using roulette (0.8s->0.7s)
• You can now steal the ball from behind with poke tackles
• Improved passback handling, goalies can no longer pick up balls they just dropped
• Body hits no longer clear offside
• Default regular jump button has been rebound to "F" to avoid accidental jumps with rush
• Jump and goalie jump inputs have been separated for more rebinding freedom

Other / Improvements

• Removed the "mouth", "chest tattoo", "back tattoo" and "nail polish" slots in customization because they lacked visibility
• Removed the demo shop and demo jersey claim
• Improved server orchestration for faster server starts
• The custom lobby password popup now shows as a proper popup
• Added the ability to rotate your character during customization by dragging across the screen

Cosmetics

• Added bolt cleats, surface cleats, nitro cleats
• Added WaveBack cargo shorts

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that could get you stuck at a specific movement speed after netcode rollbacks
• Fixed a bug where poke tackling during someone else's kick would kill all ball momentum
• Fixed localization for the region filter causing filter issues in other languages
• Fixed leaving a custom match without selecting a position not clearing your match association correctly
• Fixed poke tackling the goalie during a drop kick avoiding goalie interference checks
• Fixed "alt" not locking your camera correctly anymore
• Fixed error notifications showing raw errorcodes instead normal text
• Fixed the matchmaker tick halting during back-end cache node rotation
• Removed a denoiser plugin that caused issues with new "AI Boost" CPUs

These changes will be available at release on July 17th!

GLHF,

Oddshot Games