Goal celebrations, a daily shop and pitches that look played on
13 goal celebrations to collect and wear, a shop with new stock every day, rarer kit, better match pay, country flags and pitches that look played on.
Goals get celebrations, the shop gets new stock every day, kit gets rarer and matches pay more. Every pitch now looks like it's had a season of football on it and you can fly your country's flag. Flags came first in 0.1.25 on 2 October and everything else came in 0.1.26 on 3 October.
Goal celebrations
A goal celebration is a new kind of item, worn in its own slot next to your shirt, pattern and number. If you're wearing one when you score:
- Run wherever you like, then press your ability button (E, F or the middle mouse button) to celebrate right there. If you don't, it starts by itself after 2.5 seconds.
- The ball waits until you're done, and the match clock stops while you celebrate.
- Everyone on the pitch sees its name under GOAL.
All 13 celebrations
| Celebration | What happens |
|---|---|
| Blown Kiss Common | Kiss the fingertips, blow it to the stands. And one for the camera. |
| Knee Slide Uncommon | Drop to your knees and slide all the way to the fans. |
| Take a Bow Uncommon | A spotlight, three deep bows, and roses from the stands. |
| Shush Uncommon | SHHH. The other side goes quiet. |
| The Airplane Rare | Arms out, a banked lap of honour, contrails and all. |
| Selfie Rare | Say cheese: a flash, and the picture to prove it. |
| Backflip Rare | A double backflip. The judges hold up their cards. |
| Salt Sprinkle Epic | Shades on. A pinch of salt for the keeper, with a flick of the wrist. |
| Fireworks Epic | Rockets from the turf and a sky full of colour. |
| Raincloud Epic | Sunshine for you. A little raincloud for each of them. |
| Golden Statue Legendary | Turned to gold on a marble plinth with your name on it. |
| Abduction Legendary | A saucer comes for the keeper. They send him back. |
| Explosion Legendary | Push the plunger. The net blows up, and everyone but you goes flying. |
The rarity shown is the lowest each one comes in: in a rarer colour, a celebration can be rarer too.
- Celebrations come in every colour. They drop from match and challenge rewards, sell in the shop and trade like kit.
- The locker has a new Celebrations tab that plays them, and their item cards play them too.
- About half the bots wear one.
The old goal blast
Since July 2022 every goal set off a blast that threw the players back. Now a goal by a player who isn't wearing a celebration just goes back to kick-off, and the blast is the Legendary Explosion celebration instead.
A shop with new stock every day
The shop in town now has eight pieces a day, new at midnight UTC. The sign over the counter counts down to the next stock.
- The best ones stand at the back: a featured piece that's Rare, Epic or, one day in ten, Legendary, and next to it a Rare or Epic, a Rare and an Uncommon. At the front there's another Uncommon and three Commons.
- Everyone can buy each piece once. A piece no longer disappears when someone else buys it.
- Everyone sees the same pieces on the same day.
- You can't buy a piece you already have.
Rarer kit, and matches pay more
The higher rarities are much rarer now. Out of every 10,000 pieces of kit:
| Rarity | Now | Before |
|---|---|---|
| Common | 7,030 | 5,547 |
| Uncommon | 2,104 | 2,810 |
| Rare | 670 | 1,251 |
| Epic | 167 | 320 |
| Legendary | 28 | 72 |
The prices have moved with them, in gold:
| Rarity | Shop price | Sells for |
|---|---|---|
| Common | 300 was about 320 | 40 was 50 |
| Uncommon | 1,000 was about 1,760 | 120 was 150 |
| Rare | 5,000 about the same | 600 was 400 |
| Epic | 15,000 was about 10,900 | 2,000 was 1,000 |
| Legendary | 40,000 was about 20,000 | 6,000 was 2,500 |
Shop prices vary by up to a tenth either way.
- Matches pay 25 gold for a win, 12 for a draw and 6 for a loss (it was 20, 10 and 5). Games against bots pay 10, 5 and 2 (it was 8, 4 and 2).
- Free kit is rarer: you get a random piece every 20th win and every 50th match (it was every 10th and every 25th).
- Each challenge star pays gold once, 20, 40 and 60 on level 1, rising to 60, 120 and 180 on level 5. The third star of level 3 adds a piece of kit (Uncommon or better), and the third star of level 5 another (Rare or better). Gold and kit from challenges and bot games still can't be traded.
Country flags
Since 0.1.25, a flag can sit before every player's name, under their token, and on their profile.
- Automatic is the default and shows the country you're playing from. The privacy policy has more about how that works.
- On your own profile, press Change (or Add your flag) to pick any of 256 flags, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland included. A flag you pick never changes on its own.
- Or pick No flag and none is shown.
- Bots fly the flag of a football nation.
Sharper names, a new number, your token on your profile
- Player names under the tokens are sharp at every zoom (they were blurry when you zoomed in, and faint), and a long name stays on one line.
- The number on your shirt has a new outline: light round a dark number and dark round a light one, so it reads on any shirt, with a soft shadow.
- Your profile shows your token, in the same kit, pattern and number you play in, instead of a shirt.
- A player who wears no pattern no longer gets a faint grey stripe on the pitch.
Pitches that look played on
- Pitches wear where the game is played hardest. The grass thins out in the goalmouths, with the soil just showing through, and out towards the penalty spot. The centre spot is worn and the centre circle a little dried out, and the grass is a touch tired along the touchlines and in the corners. No two pitches wear quite alike.
- Every line, ring and spot is now painted on the grass, so it's sharp at every zoom and wears with the ground under it, which means the goal-box line and the penalty spot are scuffed into the goalmouth. The strip between the touchline and the timber kerb has been repainted to match.
