Development build (21-05) of Old School Football Coach is now publicly available! Notable changes include:

New Features / Improvements

• In career mode, recruits can now have a new interest: “Recent Success”. In other words, if recent success is important to a recruit, you can influence them more towards your team if you’ve been doing well lately. This interest is also different from the other ones because the recruit’s feelings can change on it week-to-week depending on how your team is doing. Your positive influence might turn into a negative influence if you start losing a lot of games!
• It’s now possible to separately select offense, defense, and special teams skill when generating new team rosters. This gives a little more variety because it’s now possible to end up with teams that have, for example, a really good offense but bad defense.
• Additional variety has been added to player images.
• A little polish was added to the team selection screen before a game. It now shows a preview of what each team’s uniform looks like.
• AI coaches no longer call user-created plays. This prevents the ability to make broken plays that the opposing team might try to run occasionally and always fail.
• It is no longer possible to delete built-in plays. This helps prevent getting into a state where all plays have been deleted and need to be recreated.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where, when players were manually added to a team’s depth chart, they might always be assigned as a QB instead of the desired position.
• Fixed an issue where the game would become temporarily unresponsive if new teams were being mass generated. The “Generate Random Teams” dialog will now show progress as new teams are being made.
• Fixed an crash that could happen while editing the roster of an existing team in the League Management menu.
• Fixed an hang that could happen when a custom league had fewer teams than what was needed to fill the playoffs in career mode.
• Fixed a crash that could happen when generating a league with 20+ conferences.
• Fixed a crash that could happen when creating a new team and assigning a non-number to the school’s enrollment field.
• Fixed a scheduling bug in career mode that could result in too few conference games being scheduled for a team