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Steam News7 August 202612d ago

Devlog: College update refinement

Here's the latest. Still trying to get balancing perfect. Content Updates Did a full rewrite of the How the Play section to be more complete, incorporating college details Added an end-of-career archive screen for the c

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Full Track Star update

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What changed

4 fixes1 addition4 changes0 removals
  • Gameplay
  • Balance
  • Performance
  • Events
  • Fixes
addedAdded an end-of-career archive screen for the college arc, showing a full record of your college career. This was always in HS version and needed to be brought up to par.
changedBalance & Tuning
changedRaised the high school performance ceiling slightly to reduce results bunching up at the fastest/farthest possible marks.
changedWidened performance ranges for the 100m, Long Jump, and High Jump, with qualifying standards retuned to match.
fixedFixed short sprints and field events clustering at the same minimum times/marks instead of spreading out realistically.
changedRebalanced conference-level competitor difficulty to compensate for a side effect of the ceiling change above.

Track Star changes

addedAdded an end-of-career archive screen for the college arc, showing a full record of your college career. This was always in HS version and needed to be brought up to par.
changedBalance & Tuning
changedRaised the high school performance ceiling slightly to reduce results bunching up at the fastest/farthest possible marks.
changedWidened performance ranges for the 100m, Long Jump, and High Jump, with qualifying standards retuned to match.
fixedFixed short sprints and field events clustering at the same minimum times/marks instead of spreading out realistically.

Here's the latest. Still trying to get balancing perfect.

Content Updates

  • Did a full rewrite of the How the Play section to be more complete, incorporating college details

  • Added an end-of-career archive screen for the college arc, showing a full record of your college career. This was always in HS version and needed to be brought up to par.

Balance & Tuning

  • Raised the high school performance ceiling slightly to reduce results bunching up at the fastest/farthest possible marks.

  • Widened performance ranges for the 100m, Long Jump, and High Jump, with qualifying standards retuned to match.

  • National-tier college competitors now improve realistically from freshman to senior year instead of staying flat.

  • Fixed short sprints and field events clustering at the same minimum times/marks instead of spreading out realistically.

  • Rebalanced conference-level competitor difficulty to compensate for a side effect of the ceiling change above.

  • Fixed freshman college athletes sometimes topping national rankings ahead of upperclassmen who should still be ahead of them.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed relay leg splits not adding up to the total race time.

  • Addressed some other minutiae not even worth mentioning!

Source

Steam News / 7 August 2026

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