The Victory Road Season 1 Online Tournament Begins

• ● The official online tournament, Victory Road Season 1, introduced the following features and adjustments:
  • ・Added 120 Seasonal Players for Season 1
  • ・Updated the Tournament Shop lineup
  • ・Changed the Qualifiers so that players can advance to the Main Round by earning a certain number of score
  • ・Changed the Main Round so that score increases or decreases based on match results and the difference in score between opponents
  • ・Updated Practice Match to include matches against both bots and other players

Added Hyper Moves to the Spirit Market

• ● Added the following moves to the Spirit Market:
  • ・Mix 'n' Match: Big
  • ・Mix 'n' Match: Zeta
  • ・Mix 'n' Match: S Gene

Build Rank Adjustments

• ● Tension Team Build
  • ・Rank Up condition changed to: Use 60% of Max Tension: Rank +1 (50% → 60%)
  • ・Rank Down condition changed to: No Tension used for 40 sec (45 seconds → 40 seconds)

Shot Block Adjustments

• ● Adjusted the behavior to prevent players from immediately entering a Focus Battle when Focus Guard activates after a successful Shot Block.

Counter Shot Adjustments

• ● Adjusted the attributes used to calculate Counter Shot power, as successful Counter Shots were stronger than intended.

Disconnection Penalty Changes

• ● We've changed disconnection penalties as follows:

• 1st disconnection	Warning message
  2nd disconnection	5-minute ban from online matches
  3rd disconnection	15-minute ban from online matches
  4th disconnection	30-minute ban from online matches
  5th disconnection onward	Online match ban duration increases with each disconnection

  • *Your disconnection count resets after 1 hour without a disconnection.
  • *These penalties apply to both Ranked Matches and Tournaments.

• ● Swapped the home and away goalkeeper kits for Guardians of the Queen.

• ● Fixed an issue that could cause the game to crash when entering a Lobby Match under certain circumstances.

• ● Fixed an issue that could cause the game to crash when performing certain actions with a specific team lineup in the Story Mode Match Simulation System.

• ● Fixed an issue that could cause the game to become unresponsive if a communication error occurred during online 4-player matches.

• ● Fixed an issue in online matches where players sometimes wouldn't gain Tension after knocking opponents away with Rough Build's Power Dash, even when the conditions for gaining Tension were met.

• ● Fixed an issue that could cause the game to become unresponsive when opening Bond Links for the final team while setting up Bond Links for all teams in Team Dock.

• ● Fixed an issue in the Kirkwood match on the GO1 Route in Chronicle Mode that could allow the match to continue with Enemy Boost still active.

• ● Fixed an issue where Offensive Synergies and Defensive Synergies sometimes failed to activate despite their conditions being met.

• ● Fixed an issue where pressing "Next" in the dialog that appears when you exceed the Spirit limit during consecutive battles could prevent the next dialog from appearing, blocking further progress.

• ● Fixed an issue in the Chronicle Battle against the Golden Oldies where the game could become stuck after the special move animation if Aitor Cazador (Masaki Kariya) used Hunter's Net to block a shot during the History Check "Win a Focus Battle with a special move as Aitor."

• ● Fixed an issue that could cause the controls to become unresponsive when using the Advent Calendar or claiming Bonus Content from the Information menu.

• ● Fixed an issue where changing a character's chosen path on the Abilearn Board could result in an incorrect number of special moves after a Mode Change.

• ● Fixed an issue where Arion Sherwind's (Tenma Matsukaze) dedicated kit would not always display when he was playing as a goalkeeper while wearing the Revolutionary Raimon Kit.

• ● Fixed an issue where a Shot Chain could sometimes be performed after a Counter Shot even while not having enough Tension.

• ● Fixed an issue where bots could sometimes perform a Counter Shot even while not having enough Tension.

• ● Fixed an issue where avatars would not display when filtering the Player Bank by avatar gender appearance.

• ● Fixed an issue where the following players had only one Hyper Move Slot at Fabled rarity:

  Clifford Chillard (Toyoji Fukita)	Yakumo Kitani (Adovis Albleicher)
  Barney Snellman (Korekiyo Takabashi)	Maynard Giddings (Togoro Itagaki)
  Lether Penderick (Umezane Sugakata)	Windell Balding (Taisaku Batten)

• ● Fixed an issue in online matches where the ball could sometimes fly out of bounds after hitting an opponent's Castle Wall instead of resulting in a Direct Shot.

• ● Fixed an issue where Power Evolution could sometimes be disabled when returning to Team Dock after using Power Evolution on the Abilearn Board under certain conditions.

• ● Fixed an issue where the cooldown gauge would not appear while Focus Field was on cooldown.

• ● Fixed an issue where the commentator would not say Bête Noire (Benigiku)'s name when they were playing in a match.

• ● Fixed an issue where offside detection did not work correctly for direct passes in the Zone.

• ● Fixed Claire Voyant's (Saeka Menuki) portrait icon.

• ● Fixed the description of the special move Maximum Fire.

• ● Fixed an issue where being hit by a Focus Field while using a tactic that prevents Focus Battles could force a Focus Battle to occur after the tactic ended.

• ● Fixed an issue where the player model would disappear at the start of the animation when Snowstorm Leopard was selected during a Shot Chain.

• ● Fixed the voice played when Dmitri Pianov (Victor Sedowa) activates a special move.

• ● Fixed an issue where the right glove on the Dragon Link Kit would appear white.

• ● Fixed an issue where the ball could sometimes pass through the net when it entered the goal near the edge.

• ● Fixed an issue where the commentator would mistakenly refer to Nelly Evans (Natsumi Endo) as Raimon.

• ● Fixed an issue where Coach Dave Quagmire (Osamu Saginuma) of Mount Olympus appeared in the original Raimon kit on the Spirit screen.

• ● Fixed other issues.