Feb 19 (Build 86) Patch Notes

New Features

• "This Week in MMA" has been completely rebuilt with a tabbed interface (Events, Free Agency, News, Your Promotion) showing activity across the entire MMA world, not just your promotion. Fighter info cards throughout the screen use a new full-bleed portrait design.

• The alerts panel now sorts notifications into Priority, Notice, and Info tabs with count badges. Clicking an alert opens a detailed view with fighter cards, event info, and clickable navigation. New alert types cover weight class changes and training progress with per-fighter stat improvement breakdowns, and repeated alerts from multi-week sims are grouped into a single notification.

Improvements

• Fighter retirement logic has been overhauled. The system now evaluates the full career picture — age, loss streaks, win rate, trajectory, damage taken, and fight volume.

• Smart Fill now prefers matchups between fighters already on your roster before pulling in free agents.

• Regional fighting style and state modifier bonuses now affect the hype of every featured bout on your card, not just the main event. Higher-billed fights still get the biggest boost.

• The fighter profile has been reorganized: fight history has its own dedicated tab, the scouting report uses a cleaner 3-column layout, star power shows tier names instead of raw stats, and fight history rows now show the opponent's record at the time of the fight.

• The dashboard layout is tighter with a smaller event poster, scrollable alerts list, and hopefully no vertical scrolling.

• The round timer now counts down from 5:00 to 0:00 like a real broadcast clock.

• Promotion abbreviations can now be up to 10 characters (previously 4).

• SVG icons (flags, UI elements) render at higher resolution for sharper visuals.

Bug Fixes

• AI promotions now properly factor in fighter records when making signing decisions.

• Fixed issue where default fighter image could be assigned to a fighter.

• Fixed a race condition where pressing keyboard shortcuts during Sim to Event could corrupt game state by running two simulations at once.

• Fixed a crash during event completion when using Sim to Event.

• Fixed a crash when clearing fighter slots in the bout editor during card building.

• Fixed a crash on the milestone celebration screen that could cause it to skip ahead before loading.

• Fixed a crash that could occur during certain scene transitions.

• Fixed the tutorial spotlight getting out of sync if you navigated away while a step was loading.

• Fixed double-clicking the Book button on a suggestion adding the same matchup twice.

• Fixed the fight restarting from the beginning when switching commentary modes mid-fight.

• Fixed the inactive fighter alert count capping at 3.

• Fixed unaffordable contract options being clickable on the post-event screen. Token balance is now pinned above the scroll area.

• Fixed missing space in clinch strike names on the finish display.