Patch Notes
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Football Manager 2011 v11.2.0
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Crash Fixes
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- Fixed pre-match attendance news item crash on load.
- Fixed crash on start of matchday if a human manager has a touchline ban and has no players picked currently.
- Fixed a potential award crash with custom leagues.
- Fixed crash when processing retirements when a staff has no nation set.
- Fixed crash when processing retirements when a player has no club.
- Fixed a potential crash after a player is removed from a shortlist.
Match
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- Fixed assistant feedback on players being played out of position when using wingbacks.
- Fixed issue where replay of last disallowed goal in last 5 minutes of match shows the whole last 5 minutes.
- Fixed issue with one goalkeeper kick from hands animation not playing correctly.
- Fixed issue with players fading out at the end of a highlight when another highlight starts immediately after.
- Fixed issue where match would sometimes freeze until the user goes to a pitch view or changes screen.
- Physio and stretcher bearer colours improved.
Finances
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- Added extra restrictions on fees, bonuses and clauses for Israeli 19-21 year olds to reflect their wage cap.
- Adjustment for English lower league finances.
- Adjustment to Spanish lower league expenditure
- Increased chance of AI teams improving stadia.
- Fixed discrepancy in wage amounts that can be offered.
General
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- Tweaked attendances in later stage cup competition matches played at neutral stadiums.
- Adjusted the effects of setting a player to "Rest" training schedule.
- Adjusted second nationalities to ensure foreign newgens don't require work permits when created.
- Improved code to select city of birth for foreign newgens.
- Adjusted Swedish attendances especially for rivalry matches.
- Renamed "Movement" individual training to "Off the Ball" to match the player profile attribute naming.
- Fixed bug where starting squad numbers are not set correctly for certain teams.
- when a coach leaves a human team, only the coaching categories left without a coach get assigned a new coach without affecting other assignments.
- When a specialist (GK or fitness) coach joins a human team, he is automatically assigned to the two related categories rather than one.
- For consistency, vacant national team positions will now appear in the job centre, even if the human cannot apply for them.
- Fixed training ground injuries potentially being inflicted by a co-owned player who is not currently at the club.
- Adjusted non-player progression.
- Improved game performance when processing retirements on game update days when database has a very large number of players.
- Bosman transfers can now be registered after the transfer window closes (for nations which allow this)
- Adjusted learning rates of match preparation when using similar tactics.
- Stopped human teams in some leagues getting the same referee for every match.
- Agents now retire at the end of season for the league they work in rather than on the 1st of January.
- When players retire they get removed from their agents client list.
- Added "Throwing" individual training for goalkeepers and re-arranged the sorting order of the dropdown to better match player profile attributes.
- Stopped teams transfer listing the whole team when the team is relegated.
- Fixed issue where player got an additional 3 match ban for being sent off for 2 yellow cards.
- Issuing a player with a warning no longer stops you being able to fine him for a week.
- Fix some issues with incorrect starting days to gain nationality, will be fixed with new games using 11.2 database.
Conversations
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- Danger man comments no longer always pick out the same player for each game.
- The correct topics are now displayed if you go to chat with a player if you are both a club and international manager.
- Reduced the time between able to chat to players about tutoring.
- Added an option for the user to back out of tutoring conversations if the player reacts badly.
- Conversation about a player disliking a team-mate no longer ends without the player giving a response.
- Allowed more players to be tutored.
- Disabled transfer listing conversations for co-owned players.
- Disabled conversations that shouldn't be available if the player is away from the club on loan e.g. place in reserves.
- Improved the conversation flow for when players are unhappy about not wanting to leave the club.
- Players who agree to a contract termination now don't then wish to chat about been unhappy about the contract termination.
- When a player has agreed to a contract termination or go on the transfer list they no longer say they are looking forward to more positive talks in the future.
- If you make a promise to give a player a chance in the first team during the off season or near the end of a season they only expect the promise to be fulfilled the following season.
- Improved players morale reactions to conversations.
- Fixed issue that could cause board to not find any international loan link feeder clubs.
- Fixed removal of preferred move conversations.
Interface
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- Fixed issue where selecting 'Accept All Loan Offers' and then changing asking price of a player would result in 'No instructions' being incorrect selected
- Added missing 'Tactical Knowledge' column to Mental Attributes view on a team's staff screen.
- Fixed issue with dates being disabled wrongly when arranging tours.
- Fixed Winning a youth competition not being displayed in a player's history achievements.
- Fixed training news item not linking to the correct sub-tab
- Fixed [Home] key not selecting the top news item when it jumps back to the top of inbox
- Fixed incorrect date in greyed out widget for Amateur player contracts
- Enabled editing of custom training schedules in player profile training levels section.
- Selling team proposals should not appear in the selling team's transfer centre until the buying team has actually made an offer.
- Fixed issue where friendly proposal can be rejected but stays on the fixtures screen.
- Fixed custom views having "Custom: " prefixed after matches.
- Fixed custom views not being kept when creating one and immediately using quick flicks to change the team.
News
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- Fixed player being described as not playing well last term when he did.
- Fixed news item referring to the player's contract club when a player vows to help his team "currently under-performing in the league" when they aren't.
- Teams should receive the appropriate "New [league] season draws near" news item for the division they will be playing in next season.
- Fixed code in news headline about player feeling they are been forced out due to their wage.
- Fixed news item referring to a player having problems settling in a country using the wrong nation.
- Improved occurrence and content of fans' view of match news.
- Ensure team can renew loan deal before adding button to news item.
- Players who aren't playing games are no longer picked out as danger men.
- Fixed matchday round-up news wrongly stating 'x goals were not enough' in rare circumstances.
- Managers no longer complain about the state of the pitch when they are the hone team manager.
- Fixed code appearing in transfer bio news item.
- Fixed erroneous record news items for leagues that have opening and closing stages.
- Fixed an issue where the number of games listed in the Manager of the Month news would be incorrect.
Press Conference
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- Stopped 'injury hits team hard' question, despite finishing the season.
Network
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- Player nicknames now get used in the match on network clients.
- Fixed issue where a match might get stuck if a manager has a player sent off, confirms without making changes and has another manager who is watching the match.
- Removed code from conversation strings on the interaction screen when playing a network game.
- Other players can no longer respond to another managers players transfer request news item.
Backroom Advice
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- Action button for squad status changes advice for B team players now work correctly.
- Conversation based advice is no longer generated if the user has already spoke to the player on the same day.
- Correct player is linked when chatting about tutoring.
- Stopped inappropriate advice being generated for co-owned players who aren't at the club e.g. tutoring.
- Scouts who are away on assignments will no longer offer you scouting recommendations.
Board Requests
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- Fixed the incorrect completion date been shown for the relaying of the pitch on the board request progress screen.
- Removed inappropriate second conversation phase options for the new contract and give more time requests.
- Transfer income percentage no longer drops so soon after the request has been approved.
- When rejecting a contract offer you have requested you no longer keep getting offered a new contract each day.
- User can no longer request to improve the teams training and youth facilities if an upgrade is already in progress.
- The planning end date is correctly updated when further times is needed when the board is planning on building a new stadium.
- Previous completed board requests no longer appear to restart once a new board request in progress.
Squad Management
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- Added code to help try and reduce inflated French squad sizes in future years in the game
Contracts
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- Prevented agent from demanding a lower wage after x appearances clause than the basic wage when the user has upped the squad status
- Stopped players with impatient agents from going straight to min demands when negotiating contracts
- Reduced the time period before agents will re-enter contract talks with human following previous talks having broken down
- Fixed contract end date not matching the contract offer screen end date
- Stopped human user form being able to negotiate his own contract down to £1
- Fixed staff members negotiating contracts when in fact they just don’t have any interest in joining you
- Reduced massive signing on fees for very high earning players
- Prevented user from being able to bribe the agent so much the players doesn't actually get a wage himself
Transfers
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- Fixed approach to sign for players based in England when user is managing in England
- Reduced the willingness of high-ish profile out of contract players from dropping down a division
- Ensured transfer listed by request players asking prices are higher if they are important first team players
- Stopped human managers from having an unfair advantage when applying for job due to their attributes being really high
- Prevented really top players from being touted around for really low values
- Fixed clubs offering you players that aren't interested in joining you
- Fixed some issues to make it easier to offload players via the use of offer to clubs
Player Happiness
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- Improved AI managers handling of unhappy players.
- The reason the player is unhappy is now displayed for players who aren't at the managers club.
- Reduced the number of players reacting to feeling a teammate has been treated unfairly.
- Spaced out players getting unhappy about the club under achieving.
- Stopped players saying they don't want to be transfer list in a conversation and then request to be transfer listed afterwards.
- Players unhappy at B teams underachieving no longer want to talk with the A team manager about this issue.
- Players who are transfer listed by request now request to come of the transfer list once the unhappiness is removed.
- Players who have been promised first team football no longer claim the promise has being broken and request a transfer listed when they have been played regularly.
- when a player is transfer listed the player can no longer be unhappy about not being transfer listed.
- If a player has a future transfer arranged then they will no longer get unhappy about not wanting to leave the club.
- Fixed happiness string indicating a players doesn't want to leave the club but he actually does
Confidence
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- Fixed confidence news item post-match stating fans went home in a buoyant mood after being knocked out by a late equaliser (away goals).
- Fixed an instance of the board thinking the user was doing really well when in fact he was only mid table
- Altered match confidence stating fans are slightly concerned following a well fought out draw away to title rivals
Social Networking
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- Improved upload progress for YouTube videos to make progress on state of upload clearer
- Removed in game hang when uploading a video so can now cancel while video is uploading easier
Editor
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- Fixed Portuguese end of season date for when divisions are added to the nation.
- Fixed an issue with duplicating people.
- Champion playoffs now work correctly for lower divisions.
- Fixed some issues with adding new levels for Hong Kong.
- Playoff stages for custom reserve/youth competitions are now shown in the Stages menu in the game.
- Fixed bug where home-grown rules for a competition were being ignored.
- Fixed some issues when more than 1 editor file with new people added are used together in a new game.
Competitions
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- Fixed League Cup press conference/news item describing teams having got through the Preliminary round.
- Fixed bug where team is asked if they want to participate in a reserve league which doesn't exist.
- Fixed the competition rules screen to display the adjusted money for a position/match prize instead of the default value as this varies
going though the years in the game based on the league reputation.
