Dev Diary, News - By Dave - February 22, 2011 - 9:52 pm -
Our friends list widget has been a bit of a mess since we initially launched it and hasn’t made simple things such as accepting friend invites or just knowing you have friend invites as easy as it ought to be. As part of Update 3.2, we’ve re-arranged a few things that should greatly improve the usability of this widget.
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Dev Diary, News - By Jeremy - February 22, 2011 - 6:40 pm -
The next update to QUICKHIT NFL Football has some excellent news for those who like a head to head battle after dinner. Or before dinner. I just don’t want you gaming on an empty stomach.
Hit the break for more details and a bonus screen shot.
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News - By Dave - February 8, 2011 - 6:46 pm -
The second-ever QUICKHIT Tournament for the “Groovy Bowl” ended in a great battle between my two tourney favorites, Jeremy “I’ll Boost If I Want To” Stein and Mike “Wolfman” Meagher.
To get into the finals, Meagher had to do battle with his Flash cohort, Jim “Found A Major Multiplayer Crash Bug Today” Heys, who had just beaten Geoff to make it into the semis. Meagher took down Heys after several failed attempts to play the game that helped Jim find and fix a multiplayer crash bug that affects games where either one or two of the players are using the 2D client.
In the other side of the bracket, Jeremy toppled the never-say-quit (at least not until she’s hungry and wanting to get lunch) Denise 27-24 after she essentially lost hope and did a Tom Brady-esque time-consuming TD drive in the 4th to bring her within three points, before Jeremy got the ball and was able to run the last minute off the clock after a couple of first down runs. Her explanation for why she just let the clock run on that drive was that she gave up and just wanted to get lunch.
In the championship, Stein, who had failed to level during the tourney because of a bug at the end of the game, came up with a bunch of big runs to take down Meags, 28-18, thanks in large part to left over QC he used for play boosts and the fact that Mike showed his hand a bit by using HB Draw as his only play out of the Ace package. It was a great finale and tournament that will hopefully help spawn many more in the months to come.
News - By Dave - February 7, 2011 - 12:42 pm -
In what’s sadly only the second-ever QUICKHIT Office Tournament, the race to the “Groovy Bowl Championship” is a little more than halfway complete (the first tournament never had a crowned champion as Brandon Justice and myself were in the finals but never played the game — though, in our first multiplayer game played since the tournament Justice took me down in the LFL).
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News - By Dave - February 6, 2011 - 1:13 pm -
My record picking against the spread for this year’s NFL playoffs stands at a fairly impressive 5-1. I nailed both conference championship games and got 3 out of 4 correct in the divisional round. The only pick I’ve gotten wrong so far was the game between the Jets and Patriots and I’m going to chalk that one up to being over-hyped by the Patriots-infested office at QUICKHIT in Foxboro.
That said, my previous success hasn’t raised my confidence in picking the outcome of Super Bowl XLV between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers. This game could easily go any way and it should be an epic and exciting battle.
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Dev Diary, News, Patch Notes - By Jeremy - February 4, 2011 - 5:07 pm -
New Features
- The new Team Hub and customizable stadiums headline Update 3.1
- Fans turn your Friends in to people in the stands and a Fantasy Points bonus for your team. Earn up to a 50% FP bonus. Fan bonuses are on top of the 50% Membership bonus.
- The Friends Leaderboard on the Team Hub displays how you stack up against your friends. The highest-level players rank at the top.
- Customize and upgrade your stadium by purchasing items in the Stadium Store. Add lights, increase the seating capacity or make other customizations — including a JumboTron or Luxury Box.
- Check out your stadium in your Team Hub and in 3D games. Visiting your friends pages and see what their stadium looks like.
- Bigger stadiums allow you to get the most out of your Fan FP bonus. Make sure your stadium is big enough to fit all your fans (and give you all the FP bonus possible).
Bug Fixes
- Fixed Intermission disconnects which caused the game to crash.
- Users can now repurchase dropped players that were purchased from the store.
- Boosting crash should now be fixed. Please report further instability to our Customer Support Department.
- We now check for a more version-specific flash player. This will catch users with Flash 10.0 and require 10.1.
- The blue pre-loader has returned to help debug users loading into games.
- For long returns, players are now being credited the correct FP. Play by Play text has also been adjusted to display the return correctly.
- Fixed a pagination bug in the Leaderboards, resulting in too many pages being displayed.
- Friend leaderboards should now display you on them, with your rank amongst friends, if you have over 20 friends.
- Fixed leaderboards filter option functioning as a toggle. Should function properly now.
- User Win-Loss-Tie-Quit record will now reflect properly on their record.
- Fixed field goal announcement to display “No Good” notification when the ball lands.
- Pulled an ad which was covering up game action with a drop-down.
- Play by Play text (PxP) will now display “Conversion is Good” or “Conversion is No Good”, after attempting a 2pt conversion.
- Fixed issue where users were prompted to install a game mode.
- Audio has been tweaked to not clip off commentary.
- Fixed potential AI takeover exploit.
Enhancements
- We now have a game guide up on our blogs page.
- Every level now prompts users to brag to their friends.
- Implemented a new CAPTCHA.
- Delay of Game penalty now has a display time in single player games.
- Added a Facebook Like button on coach pages.
- Game Invite screen now shows who challenged you!
- Improved performance on multiple applications, including the Player Trainer and Depth Manager.
- The home team in single player games will now be generated randomly.
- We’ve added new art for game mode pages.
- Prevented users from creating accounts with apostrophes in their coach name, resolving MP lobby connection problems.
- Edited the text of the objective for adding a friend to make it more descriptive.
- Unity prompt is now present in the single player lobby.
- Game MVP should be taking the winning team into account more often.
- We now auto-add friends when invited through email.
Gameplay Tunes
- QB Sneaks were toned down some with adjusted blocking assignments.
- Rushing defenders have been tweaked to not stuff the HB every time.
