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Update 3.2 Preview: Improving The Friends List & Chat
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.
Update 3.2 Preview: New Multiplayer Lobby, Game Modes and Leaderboards
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.
Update 3.1 Patch Notes
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.
Update 3.1 Preview: Now on Facebook
One of the things that we’ve been working toward since the dawn of QUICKHIT was getting the game launched as a Facebook application. This dream is about to come to fruition as part of our launch of Update 3.1 later this week.
The Facebook application will offer the entirety of what’s available on QUICKHIT.com plus some benefits of being on FB, such as making use of their various features regarding adding friends and their chat, which should make it easier to communicate with friends outside of the game environment to schedule out games and find friends that are up for quick game.
Everything about the game will be pretty much the same as what’s on our Website and coaches will be able to play games against each other whether they’re coming from FB or QH.
Update 3.1 Preview: The Stadium Tiers
With Update 3.1 set to be released within the next few days, I wanted to give a sneak peek at the new stadium tiers that will soon be available. Keep in mind that these are completely empty and don’t have any fans, lighting, the Jumbotron or scoreboard.
Small Stadium 1 (Default):
This is the default stadium that everyone starts off with.
Cost: FREE
Max Capacity: 10,000 fans
Max FP Bonus: 10% FP Bonus
Update 3.1 Preview: All-New Team Hub, Custom Stadiums & Fans
The big new feature in Update 3.1 is undoubtedly our complete revamp of the team hub, the addition of customized stadiums and our all-new fans mechanic. The new hub will give coaches significantly easier access to important things such as adding new friends, challenging existing friends to games, and accessing the stats and stadiums of both the user’s team and all of his or her friends.
Here’s a look at what the new hub will look like:
Update 3.1 Preview: Gameplay Tunes
There’s not much planned for gameplay enhancements in Update 3.1, but a few things have been fixed that should appease the masses anywhere from 0.5% to 1.36%. Here’s a quick bullet list run down:
- Improved the blocking on punts and field goals to reduce the number of players that have a shot at blocking the kicks.
- Decreased the fair catch threshold to increase the number of punts that are returned.
- Reduced the max kicking distance for Level 100 kickers from 70 to 65 yards on FGs.
- Tuned down the chase distance for lead blockers to reduce the chances of them going after a guy far off his path.
- Increased the time that offside pursuers stay in their rush gap to help reduce the offside defensive end or blitzing defender chase down runs.
- Added new offside pursuit behavior to give defenders a proper pursuit angle on plays to the other side of the field.
Update 3.1 Preview: Coach Search
Falling into the category of “long overdue”, we will finally be offering users a chance to search for other coaches as part of Update 3.1. At the top of each screen will be a search box where one can enter the name or partial name of a coach and we’ll return all the matches.
And here’s a sample of what will be returned if a user searches for a coach with “steelers” in his or her name:
Update 3.0 Patch Notes
Enhancements
- Increased membership incentives to 50% FP bonus, 500 QC and 5,000 CP
- Hovering over your team rating in the top navigation bar will present the user with a breakdown of their team rating
- Drop down filter in trophies page, now has functionality.
- Clicking the reset button on 4th down should now close the “Go For It” button in the 3D client
- Offensive Line blocking during special teams situations was tuned slightly
- The top navigation bar will now highlight your current “Active Link”
- Offensive Lineman stats have been abbreviated in the 2D and 3D client for better readability
- The 3D client now has a “Go For It” button on defense
- Play icons in the lower left of plays were made more visible
- AI playcalling in late game situations has been improved
- Voiceover has been added to more events
Bugs
- A sound effect is now played when trying to boost with not enough currency
- Users should now correctly receive “Games Played” and “Multiplayer Games played” trophies when requirements are met
- Updated Cleveland Browns end zone colors
- Punt and Field Goal formations have been updated with the new NFL formation rule
- Randy Moss has been adjusted to reflect his current team
- FP meter and FP amount should now display the same information in the 3D client and 2D Client
- The 3D play filter lock now functions as designed, like the 2D client
- The 3D client no longer displays incorrect penalty yards on the pop-up
- Miscellaneous camera issues fixed for the 2D client
- The play info button in the 3D client now functions as a global toggle for each play
- Cleaned up player trainer to better reflect new features
- All NFL logo-flipping problems are now resolved
- Play filter should no longer reset when timeouts are called
Hotfixes
- Fixed a bug where when a punt was recovered by the kicking team, there were two change of possessions resulting in the kicking team getting the ball back
- Fixed a missed FG crash bug where the new spot was where the ball was kicked from. If the ball was kicked from the endzone, the next team started off with a TD and the game crashed
- Fixed a crash bug with the Steelers AI team
