Football Manager 2022 Patch Available Today - Improvements For Gameplay, UI, Animations & More - Patch Notes

Sports Interactive has released a new Football Manager 2022 patch on Steam, Xbox and Nintendo Switch. Check out the patch notes below.

• Stability and crash fixes
• Optimization improvements
• Fix for Macs launching game without correct zoom display settings
• Sound ‘Test’ button fixed within Preferences

Match Engine 22.3.0.0

• Near post corners made less effective
• Various fixes in different areas to defending teams keeping possession too well and inflating possession stats to unrealistic levels
• Fixed goalkeepers not being marked during attacking set pieces
• Tweaks to throw-ins
• Number of other improvements to overall engine balance

Gameplay

• Tweaks to the rate of young player development
• Tweaks to the rate of older player decline
• Tweaks to newgen staff generation at game start
• Improved distribution of newgens in inactive nations
• Player knowledge to remain for a longer period of time once player trial finishes
• Logic work to stop players complaining about lack of playing time despite starting nearly every game
• Deadline day experience added for top division in Norway and Denmark
• Improvements to loan demands and negotiations
• Improved logic distribution of preferred formations for AI managers
• More realistic job security pressure for newly appointed international managers
• Fix to board illogically becoming concerned about playing time of new signing
• News item no longer incorrectly states player wants to join club because they’re a bigger club when they’re not a bigger club
• Squad registration fixes
• Fixed issue in Argentina, Romania and Denmark where Club Vision wasn’t being recorded correctly
• Manager morale no longer incorrectly displayed as abysmal
• Positive reaction from an interaction now always shown correctly
• Fantasy Draft improvements to initial budget options, how continue waiting is displayed and auto pick
• Number of other improvements and fixes

Competitions and Rulegroups

• Croatian Second Division number of matches correct from 2022/23 onwards
• Fix for Turkish Newgens now appearing as HG players for registrations
• Using auto select no longer incorrectly counts as new registration changes in China
• Canadian team qualification added for 2024+ NACL
• Canadian team qualification added for NAL
• MLS DP and YDP rules now assigned correctly
• Number of other fixes, updated rules and scheduling changes across numerous nations/leagues

Art & Animation

• Fixed multiple issues with players sliding/teleporting during animations in the 3D Match Engine
• Fixed player names not always appearing in the 2D Match Engine
• Multiple kit clashing issues fixed
• Multiple 3D background environment fixes, including team boardrooms and kits/badges
• Improvements to how hairstyles and eyebrows are chosen for newgens

UIUX

• Fixed issue where action buttons on Scouting Meeting Inbox items would overlap or be cut off on some resolutions
• Fixed issue where scrolling the Player Search list with keyboard arrow buttons would cause the highlighted item to reset to the top of the list.
• Fixed issue where dugout notifications regarding substitutions were not showing player shirts
• Fixed issue that caused the player transfer values to be difficult to read on some screens
• Fixed issue in Data Hub where analysis pop-ups would close unexpectedly when highlighting certain items
• Fixed issue in Set Piece creator where the instruction marker would obscure the player position
• Fixed issue in Staff Search where the Realistic Hire checkboxes would sometimes not function
• Fixed issue where resizing a custom column containing a player’s transfer value could make the value unreadable.
• Fixed issue where training individual panel would reset to the top of the list after selecting a player
• Fixed issue where team stats view on touchline tablet would reset between matches
• Added a counter to show remaining entries in a scouting update
• Resolved errors in displaying numerical units in Korean currency
• Opposition shirt icons now appear consistently after a substitution
• Cut off on Club Info > Profile now has a scrollbar
• Loan Match Report now shows the Monthly Fee instead of ‘valued at £0’
• Morale icon no longer showing for non-players
• Number of other improvements and fixes

Pre Game Editor

• Start dates now appearing for basic rules files made with Pre-Game Editor
• Unassigned created players now appearing in edited databases
• Fixed ability to add lower division cups and divisions in certain nations
• Number of other editor specific improvements and fixes