Striker Path v2.2.5 — the national trophy stops being farmable
🏆 The national trophy goes to the people who earned it
A player showed us how to steal it: switch your country to one with nobody in it, take National Champion at the weekly reset, switch back, keep the trophy. Do it somewhere else next week. Every time, it came out of the pocket of someone who had actually played for that country all week.
Two things stop it now. Changing your country has a waiting period, so nobody hops between them week to week. And the weekly trophy no longer counts anyone who changed country during that week — arrive on Thursday and you are not that country's champion on Sunday.
If you have never changed your country, none of this touches you. Nobody loses a trophy they already have.
💬 Chat reads like a conversation
Send three lines in a row and they now sit together, with your name and face said once instead of three times — the way every chat you already use works.
Messages from another day now carry that day's date next to the time. Scrolling back through a week of a club chat no longer makes every message look like it was sent this evening.
⚽ Matches feel a bit more like matches
Six behaviours were written into the match engine long ago and never switched on. They are on now, measured over hundreds of simulated matches first: the referee decides fouls rather than only cards, away sides concede a few more, home advantage reaches individual duels, and form and sendings-off count in them too.
What you will notice: about an eighth more fouls and a few more shots per match. Goals are unchanged, and home wins moved by well under a percentage point — matches had been producing far fewer fouls and shots than they were supposed to.
🪙 The career bonus is paying
The FAQ has been promising more gold once you pass level 21 for a while. The setting behind it had never actually been switched on, so it paid nothing. It is on, and it has been paying since the start of the month: a level-40 player now earns roughly twice the base amount from training, missions and daily rewards.
It never pays less than before, so nobody's income went down.
🧹 Smaller things
- The list of clubs you can challenge no longer gives away the result of a friendly you have not opened yet. It was showing your record against them, which is the result written differently.
- Auto-NPC fills an empty slot and leaves the stand-in already there alone. It used to quietly re-rate them, so pressing it was a free upgrade.
- A league fixture played by the club whose place you took is now marked as such, instead of looking like a match of yours that never counted.
- Your club's weekly goal is translated. It was in English for everyone.
📊 One OVR, on your profile and on the table
A player asked which of their two ratings was real: one number on the leaderboard, a higher one on their own profile. Both were — the table showed what you have trained, the profile was adding gear, form, body and club chemistry on top.
They match now, and the trained number is the one kept. Form is why: it regenerates for every player daily, so a table ranked on it would reshuffle itself overnight with nobody having played.
Your profile still shows every individual stat with its boosts, so a boot that lifts your finishing still visibly lifts it. Your headline OVR will read lower than it did — it is the same figure the leaderboard has been ranking you by all along.