v0.83.0: New locker room, custom games, party/lobby/postgame chat, fixes

Strikers Club v0.83.0

NEW

• Introduced a new locker room
• Added a custom games lobby system: You can now wait in a pre-game lobby and choose your team before starting the match
• Added party chat, lobby chat, post-game chat

Improvements

• You will no longer backfill into matches with less than 1 minute to go OR a 3 or larger goal difference
• Backfills are limited to 10 per match total to avoid a ship of Theseus or backfilling people into faulty matches
• Improved matchmaking search
• Reduced AFK kick timer to 1 minute
• Added a "Purchase Tokens" button in outfit/appearance since it was not easily found before
• You'll receive a warning if the Steam overlay isn't enabled when you try to purchase tokens
• Improved some automated moderation for several languages
• Improved performance of our internal back-end servers to handle more players
• Improved our server-side anti-cheat in general

Cosmetics

• Added R9 and Mohawk Dreads hairstyle
• Added Speedster shoes
• Added Arch eyebrows

Fixes

• Fixed Y Axis inversion on gamepad not working online
• Fixed red card during Extra Time benching you indefinitely
• Fixed servers being hard capped to 16 people, you can now play 11v11
• Fixed several incorrect translations
• Fixed matches getting stuck in throw-in mode for no team on rare occasions
• Fixed backfill activating again if Extra Time goes over the max time to backfill
• Fixed a bug that let you cancel slide tackles with jockey dash
• Fixed maintenance popup showing mid-match when the game goes into maintenance

Next focus

• We're working on a better positioning system where you select a position before the match
• We've identified several high value performance improvements we can make and will work on
• Remaining bugs in ⁠known-issues and other issues that come up

Enjoying Strikers Club?

If you're enjoying the game, please consider purchasing the Supporter Pack or Pro DLC and leaving a review on Steam. For those that already have, thank you so much for the support!

Please keep in mind we are a team of 3 developers. One person (me) programming and two artists. We're working as fast as we can!

GLHF,

Oddshot Games