The newest season for eFootball launches in the present day, together with a shock contribution from PlatinumGames.
Model 6.0.0 of Konami‘s free-to-play recreation is rolling out in the present day, to mark the beginning of the brand new 2026/27 season.
It contains new options together with a Customized Event mode, and new gameplay enhancements. The total patch notes may be discovered on the finish of this text.
One of many extra distinctive additions, nonetheless, is a brand new every day mini-game created by Bayonetta and Nier Automata studio PlatinumGames.
The sport, which known as Each day Tremendous Play, may be performed as soon as a day, rewarding the participant with bonus content material in the event that they’re profitable.
Every day, the mini-game chooses a participant at random from a particular participant checklist, and runs an animation of them scoring a memorable aim.
Gamers must press a button (or faucet the display screen on the cell model) in time with an icon on the display screen, just like a rhythm motion recreation, as a way to correctly carry out the transfer.
The instance proven throughout Konami’s eFootball Join broadcast exhibits Lionel Messi dribbling the ball previous 5 android-like gamers, earlier than scoring a aim.
The brand new mini-game may be seen at round 5:30 within the beneath video:
Up to now few years PlatinumGames has seen quite a few personnel modifications, with influential director Hideki Kamiya leaving in 2023 and no less than 5 different administrators – Abebe Tinari, Takahisa Taura, Yusuke Miyata, Kenji Saito, and Masaki Yamanaka – leaving the company after this.
Since then, the studio has been collaborating extra with different builders. Final 12 months’s Ninja Gaiden 4 was co-developed by Platinum and Team Ninja, whereas the studio additionally did further work for Closing Fantasy 15 and created a mini-game for Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater.
The studio can be engaged on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Final Ronin, which is ready to be revealed by PlatinumGames and seems to be changing a beforehand introduced The Final Ronin recreation introduced by Embracer Group in 2023.
The total patch notes for eFootball model 6.0.0 are as follows:
eFootball Season Replace 6.0.0 patch notes
Function Addition and Adjustments
- Added the Customized Event function permitting customers to create tournaments and play them collectively.
- New mini-games have been added to the Each day Sport.
- Added new results to the cinematics performed when signing somebody from a Particular Participant Record.
- Added “Dynamic Volley” as a brand new command.
- Added the brand new Group Playstyle “Overload”.
- Taking part in Kinds have been divided into “Attacking Taking part in Fashion” and “Defensive Taking part in Fashion”. Every participant is now assigned both an Attacking Taking part in Fashion, a Defensive Taking part in Fashion, or each.
- Quite a lot of new Taking part in Kinds have been added, with a give attention to Defensive Taking part in Kinds.
- Added “Fluid Formation” as an possibility in Sport Plan.
- Added “Prioritize Base Group” to the “Auto-Decide Gamers” perform in Sport Plan.
- “Attacking” and “Deep Line” have been faraway from [Individual Instructions] within the [Game Plan].
- When utilizing a Place Token, gamers will not be capable to be taught the place that’s already listed because the Registered Place on their participant playing cards.
- When filtering gamers by place, gamers with excessive Place Proficiencies at the moment are included along with those that have that Registered Place proven on their playing cards.
- Stats from the presently set Sport Plan will now seem throughout Participant Development and on gamers within the Reserves.
- Elevated the utmost variety of Backup Participant Slots to 900.
- Elevated the utmost variety of supervisor slots to 100.
- Added a perform via which the Login Bonus may be checked whereas inside Missions.
- As a measure launched to strengthen protections offered to minors, a dad or mum or authorized guardian could now be required to make use of k-ID and supply consent to permit a consumer to play eFootball™, if that consumer has chosen a sure nation/area.
- Made modifications to the ability names and Taking part in Fashion names in some languages.
- Substitutes will now seem in an opponent’s Sport Plan.
New Season Knowledge Updates
- The workforce constructions of the next leagues have been up to date with knowledge from the brand new season.
- English League
- English 2nd Division
- Spanish League
- Spanish 2nd Division
- Ligue 1 McDonald’s (France)
- Ligue 2 BKT (France)
- Italian League
- Italian 2nd Division
- VriendenLoterij Eredivisie (Netherlands)
- Liga Portugal Betclic (Portugal)
- Belgian League
- Scottish Premiership (Scotland)
- Swiss League
- Trendyol Süper Lig (Türkiye)
- Danish League
- BYD SEALION 6 LEAGUE 1 (Thailand)
- 2026/27 MEIJI YASUDA J1 LEAGUE (Japan)
- 2026/27 MEIJI YASUDA J2 LEAGUE (Japan)
Updates and Additions
- In-game belongings and different knowledge will likely be carried over when enjoying for the primary time after the model replace.
- Added the Moroccan League.
- Up to date licences.
- The next knowledge have additionally been up to date:
- Strips
- Emblems
- Boots
- Gloves
- Balls
- Cinematics and animations
- Stadium graphics
- Media backdrops and nook flags
- Bibs
- Promoting boards
- Participant photographs, graphics and knowledge
- Music
- Commentary
- Stadium bulletins