What's new in Beta-3.1 // Part 1 (Patreon)

Hi there! It's time to lift the veil on the future update of the game.

The new version will be called Beta-3.1. Since we are now in the off-season, we decided to work on features that are not global in themselves, but that are also important for a full-fledged gameplay and biathlon atmosphere. In this post, we list some of them (this is not all, there will be a second post).

1. New completed career screen

At the moment, after you click "end career" after the end of the next season, you are shown the results of only one last season. This clearly does not reflect your athlete's career way. A new screen will list all of the player's athlete's major achievements throughout his career. Achievements will be listed for each league, which will allow you to remember all the way - from junior to elite. 

2. Career restoring

This innovation follows smoothly from the previous one. We decided to give the opportunity to resume an already completed career. You can do this from the new completed career screen. At the same time, the characteristics of the athlete will obviously worsen, since the process of ending / resuming a career is equated to missing one biathlon season. At the same time, the rest of the athletes continue to compete, and when the career resumes, the situation in the leagues will be different, not similar to the one that was at the time the athlete left the sport. The possibility of resuming a career is interesting because after some time it will be possible to return to an already completed career in order to try to conquer the podium for your athlete again in new conditions.

3. A new system for the formation of relay races in a career

Now the generation of relay lineups in the career will occur in a more advanced way. If earlier the system took into account only the rating of biathletes (which remains constant for one season), now the scores of athletes in the overall standings of the Cups will also be taken into account. Therefore, the player's athlete will need to work hard to get into the relay team if his teammates are strong enough. In addition, all relay lineups can now be viewed before the race in the ski and suit selection menu.

4. New system for generating athletes in a career

In order to maintain balance in the national compositions of the career leagues, we decided to change the system for generating new athletes so that instead of an athlete who completed his career, a new athlete from the same national team in the minor league appears. This will allow to maintain a sufficient number of relay teams, as well as a variety of career teams.

This is part of what's planned for Beta 3.1. We will tell you about other innovations, as well as the release date, in future posts.