Works on Update 2 are making good progress. Recently BF published a preliminary list of new features and bug fixed in second official Update:New Features Offline Mode:
- various new player pictures (focus on Coca Cola Championship)
- new Hall of Fame player pictures of retired players in the UK (only very few, but will become more in the future)
- new live ticker text
- complete historic league results of the Bundesliga since the very first matchday back in 1963
- additional historic league results for France and Italy
- better handling of widgets in resolutions like 1440x900 (move your mouse pointer over a widget to see it completely)
- pre-selected half-time talks (save some mouse clicks)
- option to switch off the display of song titles in the main menu
New Features Online Mode:
- new "Away from Keyboard" feature
- if you join a running game, you now get the status of the game, that is, at which point of the week the other users currently are (e.g. the main menu or a matchday). This way you can quickly estimate how long it will take you to actually join the game.
- click on a game in the game list to see its participants
- the market value of the next auctioned player is given on the transfer market overview screen
- team levels and the current matchday are now part of the match screen
- the timeline icons (goals, cards, substitutions), already used in the offline mode, will now also be seen online
- you can add another manager to your friend list directly from the respective manager info screen (available by right clicking on your avatar in the main menu)
- option for the host to set the maximum number of humans players
- manager points on friends list
- manager points comparison happens more often
Fixed Bugs:
- 3d match improvements (better and more varied shots, more realistic number of cards, improved passing, improved goalkeepers, defenders react faster, more realistic handballs, improved 1 on 1 against the goalkeeper)
- various tuning efforts (e.g. tactical education, loss of acceleration for older players now slower)
- improved website (e.g. added a second club name to transfer news, manager info if you click on a picture)
- about 140 different other bug fixes in total
- about 40 graphical improvements and screen layout changes (e.g. Player Training Progress)
Some Examples:
- fixed CaC problem in Italy
- fixed "players sometimes end their careers too early" problem
- line-up crash (when saving a player list)
- not displayed goals in highlight mode
- long-term simulation crash
- improved AI training camp selection
- Ups & Downs now work for again for the player manager
- tooltips in replay mode
- more modern German first names
- Player talks/Promises: Level no longer visible in UK version
- Live Ticker: Manager shouts no longer disabled after creating a player manager
- ONLINE: Matchday - sorting of the live table does not work correctly
- ONLINE: Matchday - User receives " 0 actions available" at the beginning of the match
We also found out the plans for Update 3:
- option to display the live ticker sentence by sentence
- option to display the live ticker word by word
- finished matches in live ticker now change their colour
- massive increase of UK player pictures and of Hall of Fame pictures
- many additional city pictures
