Ok, happy new year for everyone of you, I have some news to share with all of you guys that have been enjoying my mod. First of all, don't you fear, as I am still working in a new version. Before anything, I should explain why I have remained silent for so much time long (a month since my last message), what's been of me in all this time, and why I haven't uploaded any update since last one on 22 of November.
To start with, last year I've spent 7 months working in a foreign country, and I returned at the beginning of December. After coming I had several issues, then Christmas came, and festivities have been a thing, as you can imagine. Seeing friends and all of this, have not helped creating a rutine for me, and the few time I had left from social interacting, I left it for looking for a new job in my homeplace (so I had not to flee again to other country), working on the mod, or more likely starting building a team with another person (will expand on this topic later in this post), or simply relaxing playing other videogames besides FIFA. There have been also some other issues and worryings that have made me more distracted from here, the evo-web. This has not helped to create a rutine where I can fit modding and community communicantion in a ordered way.
Anyways, thing is I've been looking for people to create a modding team, and good news is I've managed to create a team with another person, and I have a third one (that has actually posted in this very thread) interested into helping aswell, so good news in this sense. But obviously, creating this link to latelly exploit it, has slowed down the modding itself. Now, let's expand and be more concise on this topic, and what we've been aiming for the mod.
I am working with another guy, Spanish like me, so now it is the two of us working in the game, but because is now two of us, the exigency has gone really up, and we are not doing public updates until we are satisfied with the result. The good news is that we have the same focus, and the fact that we share the native language, makes communication much easier.
I am personally working in a new ball physics with the aim of making ball controls and feeling of the game still more realistic, and he's been looking aswell into that, but mostly in understanding to the core the work of FIFA engine, which is quite... twisted, let's say. A lot of trial and error and a lot of testings.
Our main concern, besides the ball physics themselves, is game tempo and the so called "CB Jockey/Jogging" bug, where, with a slower tempo match, CPU controlled centerbacks won't follow any enemy player getting into the area without the ball when the ball is advancing through the wings past the defensive line height, and instead will remain jogging back. While we have made progress with markings, and we've been able to make CB Jockey appear less in a match, we are still not satisfied with the result, and want even a better CB behaviour and mark pursuing in counterattacks, so we are still
I would need, aswell, find how to change minutes per half to 45 instead of 20 (and therefore have 90 minutes match), as the game itself might solve automatically certain issues related to that, based on how long matches are (is a possibility I need to test), and that would be an amazing feature for sure. My suspects is that this can be made through InitFS editing, so if anyone knows anything, it is welcome to help.
Last, but not least, inform you that we are in need of more people to help even further with InitFS investigation and Database editing, so any of you that can do something in that sense, you're welcome to help.
So now, you know what's been of me and why this few interacting with you guys. I hope you can understand all of this and why I have seemed to be unactive this whole month, and not a single update has come in 2 months. I wanted, however, to make you know that I haven't given up on FIFA, and I am still actively working on it. Also, my other teammate has bought EA FC24 (me aswell) so it is very possible that a new update ends up coming for this game aswell (yet I don't like it too much, tbh). Within this month I will have more information to share with you guys, and I hope that we can find some result that we are ok with soon enough as to publish a new update.
Hope you've had some good festivities, and keep kicking it! We see ourselves in the pitch!
Best regards from Hels and the recently created Pure Football Team!