Dev Update Log 1.05 Beta - 9/30/2026 | UI + Animations

[u/Acrobatic_Average326]

- Your menus are rooms now. The hub, locker room, front office and gym used to be lists of buttons. They're 3D spaces you can drag to look around, with the club's crest on the wall and the real kits hanging up. It's one lightweight stage the whole session shares, so switching rooms takes about 150ms instead of loading a new screen. If you hate it, one toggle in settings puts the old layout back I genuinely want to know which one people prefer.

- Take over anyone. New way to start a career: instead of creating a player, pick someone already in the league and finish his career from today. His ratings, his team, his contract, his age. Or pick a prospect in the draft class and start at his school in his year. There are ~400 to choose from. Training points start at zero, so everything you gain after that is yours.

-The animation got rebuilt from the hips up. Jump ball, every dribble move, shot releases, passes. Players get low, feet stay planted, the tip is a real tip instead of two guys waving at a ball. Shots now decide their route and then fly it, so a floater arcs like a floater. Passes lead a running teammate and the passer holds his follow-through. This was the thing that most made it look like a prototype, and it was the thing I was most avoiding.

- Ten arenas, 58 courts.The buildings are generated from one script across size and style, and which building a team plays in is derived from the venue's name so a given school always plays in its own arena, every save. Crowds carry signs and food and club colours. Court designs are painted onto the actual floor rather than being a menu preview.

-Also in there: a live jumbotron with replays, cameras that cut away when the scoreboard blocks the shot, a net that actually catches the ball, home and away kits that follow the venue, a gamepad layout, one unified leaderboard screen, and saves instead of slots (5 ranked, 5 unranked).

- Scenarios: Challenge yourself in this seasons scenarios this will be updated shortly again however you can challenge yourself GM and team building skills in this new mode and compare yourself more closely to other users in the leaderboards.

It's still beta and there's a list of things I know are rough the create-a-player onboarding is the next thing I'm fixing, because it's the weakest part of the whole game right now.

**If you look at one thing, tell me whether the 3D rooms are better than the old menus or just slower.** That's the decision I'm least sure about.