Bug fixes, visual improvements and refreshed tutorial.

CapForge is now free. The whole GM game costs nothing to play: no ads, no timers, no premium currency. CapForge Pro is one optional purchase for players who want to rewrite the league with editors, imports, record books and sandbox tools. If you bought CapForge before today, Pro is already yours. Just open the app. What else is new in 1.6: • Weather. Every game is played in its home city's forecast. Rain, snow and wind change how the game plays, and you'll see them on the film. • Smarter sidelines. Trailing teams go for it on fourth down, try onside kicks and go for two. Defenses call coverages snap by snap. • Truer drafts. Late-round gems, late bloomers, and positions taken where real drafts take them. • One more year. Ask a retiring veteran to come back for one more season. Every player's résumé now shows career earnings and records. And so much more. Full notes: capforge.app/1.6

• Plays now start from the left, middle or right hash, and play-callers use the wide side of the field. • More ways to score: end-zone throws, long breakaway touchdowns, Hail Marys and contested catches decided by receiver against defender. • Third downs play out closer to the NFL, and yards after the catch now depend on who has the ball. • Short-yardage and goal-line offenses can bring in a sixth offensive lineman in jumbo sets, with plays built for it. • Training camp: your practice squad opens at CUTS, and the ROOKIES board fills with undrafted camp bodies at the league minimum. • The draft's WHERE THE CLASS IS DEEP shows each position as tiers, and draft stars now say Ceiling. • Dynasty staff: ownership now sets your staff budget from your recent performance, so a struggling club works lean and a winner earns more, and coaches who win with you ask for more to stay. • Running backs' receiving targets now show in their stats. • Awards need a minimum number of games played, and defenders have a real shot at championship MVP. • Contract offers now open at the player's real price, and cutting his bonus or guaranteed years shows how much more salary he wants. • A clearer negotiation read, from WILL SIGN to LONG SHOT, plus a new CONTRACT READS setting: ARCADE shows exact odds and dollar gaps, REALISTIC (the Dynasty default) reads the player in words. • Contract screens show the player's portrait and rating, and what drives his ask: greed, loyalty, ambition, time with your club. • Long careers stay quick: big saves load, save and open lists faster. • Fixes and polish.

* Improved clock management by AI play callers. * Reworked the impact of coaches skills and stats, and enhanced contract options. * Defensive coordinators now matter just as much as your offensive ones. * Now enforces all actual professional rules/logic * Improved historical data backfill accuracy.

Arcade and Dynasty — the biggest CapForge update yet. • Pick your mode: ARCADE for true ratings and kinder money, or DYNASTY for the full GM grind. • In Dynasty, OVR is your staff's read, not the truth. It sharpens the more a player plays for you. Check OUR READ on any player's SKILLS tab, and set how fast reads come in with READ PACE. • New pre-season: sign undrafted rookies and play preseason games before Week 1. • Training camp: run drills, hold tryouts, settle position battles, then make your cuts. • Deeper draft: scouting reads, scout deep dives, FITS and NEEDS on every prospect, a national scout's DRAFT PROFILE, and mock drafts leading up to draft night. • Smarter AI drafting: clubs work from a consensus board, trade up for fallers, and stop doubling up on one position in round 1. • Beat writers cover your league: draft-day write-ups, pre-game previews, game recaps and season columns. • Simpler staff hiring: compare candidates side by side, see why a seat is open, and manage coaches and schemes in one place. • Clearer contract talks: every offer shows how far short it is and why, with MEET to match the ask. • Defense plays truer: elite corners and ball-hawking safeties matter, and zone 3-4 and hybrid schemes play big nickel. • Running backs gain more per carry, and goal-line runs get tougher. • Most career-ending injuries become year-long injuries instead. • Pro Bowl, record books by position group, games started and QB records, award counts by season, and decked-out championship rings and trophies. • New and fixed season goals, including LB tackles for loss, QB rushing and sacks allowed by linemen. • AI clubs hold on to their fresh draft picks, and you can keep your practice squad through re-signing. • Multi-select position filters, an Athletic draft sort, and SCHEDULE now lives under STATS > OVERVIEW with a club picker. • On iPhone, the app tells you when a new version is on the App Store. • Plus plenty of fixes and polish.

Faster, with smarter trades - New leagues build much faster. Simming a week, the end of a season and the draft's AUTO TO MY PICK / SIM REST no longer freeze the screen. - AI trade offers make more sense: a club offers you only one player per position and keeps its young franchise QB. - The locker room shows full player rows, and text on the player card no longer scrolls under its header. - Player portraits and family skin tones are more varied and better matched. - Draft-day starts are fixed: every club sets aside its rookie money and opens without practice squads. - The free agent board shows backup kickers and punters only on the K/P tab. - Fixes: several crashes, other clubs' CHARTS tab, the hub strength bar and calendar line, and NEW GAME ▸ VIEW TEAM is now view-only.

Bug fixes and improvements - Injured players can return in the same game, and standings mark eliminated clubs. - New CHAMPS tab under League Records & Awards, plus a rewritten in-game guide. - Smarter late-game decisions and more realistic game film. - Bug fixes: a draft-day trade crash, an Android draft board freeze, and general stability.

Realism updates, bug fixes and prep for Capforge Pro.

Draft hub, football families, smarter coaches. DRAFT & TRADES • Everything draft now lives in Market > Draft, including a new My Picks tab. • Trade Block and Trades are merged into one Trade Center. • Draft-day trades now show their cap impact, just like in-season deals. YOUR LEAGUE • Football families: sons and younger brothers of players turn up in draft classes as Legacy and Brother prospects. • The weakest clubs start a new league carrying dead money, so rebuilds take time. • Retiring players stay on your roster, marked Retiring, until re-signing. ON THE FIELD • Minor knocks like cramps or a stinger end a player's day, not his week. • Coaches pull a quarterback having a disaster. In games you play, you're asked first. • Play-callers lean on the run when passing isn't working. ROSTER • You can't kick off without enough healthy starters at a position. The game promotes your own practice-squad player before signing a free agent. • AI clubs now fill thin position groups too. LOOK & FEEL • The player card shows OVR in the same rating cube as the roster. • Cleaner club banners.

In-season player growth, and playbooks that actually get learned • Young players now improve during the season, a little each week, instead of only between seasons. Most of a year's growth still lands in the offseason. • The weekly summary after your games lists your players who improved that week under PLAYER GROWTH. A rookie your scouts are still grading shows Improving instead of a rating. • Rookies you draft and practice-squad signings now learn your playbook properly; they start at the level training camp gives them and climb each week, instead of sitting at 0% all season. • A player who knows your playbook now shows a green book on his roster row; one still learning shows how far along he is. • Your schedule names each opponent instead of abbreviating them, and long matchups no longer get cut off. • Opening a player from a trade in his transaction history now returns you to that trade when you swipe down, instead of dropping you back to the list. • Fixes and polish: TAG LATER now names the season a player's deal actually runs through, and the LAST WAVE card on the free-agency screen fits its row.

Team records, a unified market, and fairer contract asks • New team records and a team Hall of Fame tab, with charts that hold up across long league histories. • OPEN THE MARKET now lives in Market > FREE AGENTS — one screen for the whole market. • Extension and free-agent asks now factor in a player's performance, mood and your contender status, and the performance premium widens for lower-rated players. • A benched player who leads the team in stats now gets a grievance. • Trade AI prices draft picks more sensibly, so hoarding picks no longer games it. • League stats and the player card show RB and TE pass-blocking. • Fixes and polish: draft combine ATHL and rank no longer shuffle after the draft, the bottom nav clears the Android 3-button bar, and your play-film zoom is remembered.

CapForge 1.3.4 — Contract disputes that read right, and playoff recaps • Players demanding an extension now look it: their mood tops out at neutral, their contract outlook turns negative, and one banner says what happens next — amber while they ask, red once they sit out. • The player card keeps your club's color in the header — no more colored block showing behind the tabs. • Playoff games your club plays end with a round recap — result, game leaders, players of the round and playoff leaders — and the bottom bar stays through the postseason. • PRACTICE SQUAD has a new actions sheet. • Draft prospects' Injury Prone ratings vary more and match their college injury record, and the draft board's TECHNICAL and MENTAL grades are fixed. • Text fits cleanly at the LARGE and LARGER text sizes. • The Hub's FACILITIES and TRAINING tiles show what's coming, and the portrait pickers point to the subreddit for custom portrait requests. • Fixes and polish: your play-film speed is remembered, punt descriptions are corrected, a player chart no longer hides interceptions in mixed weeks, and the pre-game outlook lists the away club first.

1. Every club wears its own official team color, the same shade everywhere — including a calmer club header and colored text on the matchup screens. 2. Edit your GM's name and portrait from the GM CAREER header, and the GM card shows your current reputation, not where you started. 3. Filter the STAFF market by scheme, grade, age, experience and asking price; each coach's grade now sits beside his ask. 4. Saving is sturdier: auto-save no longer drops recent progress, and mid-draft edits, re-sign undos and pending transfer offers survive a relaunch. 5. The draft room's MOCK tab opens instantly, ORDER shows each club's top needs and highlights your picks, and YOUR NEEDS sits in the banner. 6. Draft-day trade-ups are no longer refused after an earlier trade, and countering an AI offer no longer inflates the price of its own picks. 7. [new] Clubs stop taking a quarterback they don't need at the top of the draft — a team that actually needs one trades up for him instead. 8. [updated] Clubs stop asking for piles of your picks in offseason and in-season trade offers, an offseason club no longer cites a scheme need it doesn't have, and you can trade away the pick you're currently on the clock with. 9. [new] A season goal now fits the player who's asked it — a rookie gets a rookie-sized target, and coming up just short shows CLOSE instead of counting as a full miss. 10. [new] Offensive Player of the Year now recognizes running backs, receivers and tight ends, not just quarterbacks. 11. [new] The franchise tag prices more realistically, and restructuring a contract respects a real salary floor. 12. [updated] Every signing screen keeps its SUBMIT/APPLY button pinned at the bottom. 13. [updated] Fixes and polish: the Hall of Fame POSITION view ranks by Hall points with a compact card, the advance-week OPPONENT READ legend fits small screens, and the FINAL mock draft card no longer collides with the Season End notice.

• Smarter first rounds: tackles and centres now go where they really go. A centre can top the board and still slide to a late-first pick, and clubs no longer reach for a run of cornerbacks at the top. • Clubs draft for real upgrades: a team stops stacking depth at one position when it already has a starter there. • College stats that match the hype: a highly projected prospect's college numbers now read like a first-rounder's, not a backup's. • A sharper scout's take: your scouts tell you when the tape and the numbers disagree, and when a pick is too early for his position. • A cleaner draft board: your recommended pick is marked OUR PICK right beside the reason, so rows stay compact. • New in the draft room: a DRAFT CLASSES sheet shows where each class is deep, and a SQUAD peek lets you check your roster from the market. • EDIT STAFF, reopened: set a coach's skills, personality and position coaches using the same ELITE to VERY POOR words the cards use. Staff contracts now show and edit their guaranteed years. • FILLS A NEED works on a full roster: free agency, TRADE BLOCK and the draft board show who would actually start for you, and a free agent who fills a need carries an arrow on his position. • Offensive linemen get scheme-fit tints and the SCHEME FIT filter like everyone else, and a player's "Thrives in" line now matches what the game rewards. • Contract drama: young stars coming off rookie deals can demand an extension, and a spurned star can refuse to re-sign or sit out. You'll see it coming, and other clubs will come calling for him. • OT, OG and C are now separate everywhere you filter players. • New-game setup adds an ADVANCED step: pick your league's starting year and more. • Press write-ups speak to each position, including a dedicated quarterback storyline. • A cleaner STAFF market board. • Fixes and polish: the last-pick draft card fits small screens, the FINAL mock draft waits for the locked draft order, staff RELEASE no longer hangs on LOADING after a relaunch, starter proposals name the week they take effect, and the staff contract editor fits large text sizes.

1.3.1 sharpens the GM experience across drama, trades, coaches, the draft and play film. • Player drama is now under your control: hear about MY TEAM, ALL TEAMS or turn it OFF. • No-trade clauses are clearer. Players now tell you which clubs they would actually accept. • Coaches now weigh your club’s appeal before taking the job, so winning teams with cap room can attract better candidates. • Custom team names now show correctly across more of the app, including trade screens. • Player cards now show how much a rating has moved this year. • Draft logic is smarter: Round 1 values tackles correctly, top quarterbacks go where they should, and clubs can trade up for a QB they want. • Draft Board and Office filters now help you find FILLS A NEED, SCHEME FIT and WEAKEST POSITIONS. • Retirement cards now explain why a player walked away. • Film view is cleaner: step through a full game’s plays from compact view, with captions that stay out of the action. • Watching a play now holds the pile until the whistle instead of breaking apart early. • Fixes and polish for contract editing, mood settings and long custom team names.

Rivalries are real. The game now remembers every meeting between two clubs — a heated series gets marked HISTORY, RIVALRY, or BAD BLOOD, your next rival opponent is flagged, and a pre-game write-up sets the stakes before kickoff. Your full head-to-head record against all 31 clubs lives on your career page. Make the league your own. Rename clubs, cities, and stadiums, set custom conference names, and pick each club's colors with a built-in color picker — watching your changes update live on the uniform, broadcast bar, and field. You can now also export your league's identity to a file and load one back in, so you can back up or share a full set of clubs, names, and colors. Smarter trades. Offers show each side's value and who's viewing it, dead-cap charges get their own line, and packages are now compact with each player's cap impact shown up front. Accepting a trade asks you to confirm the exact deal before it's final. A smarter draft. A club with a franchise quarterback stops burning a premium pick on a redundant one, and draft-day trades now survive closing the app. Playoffs, your way. Once you're eliminated or sitting out, sim the postseason one week at a time instead of all at once — and a club that missed the playoffs can no longer stall the bracket. Depth matters. Drag players into the order you want on the depth chart, and your team rating now reflects that order instead of a flat roster list. Play visualization, on by default. Watch any finished play — snaps, loose balls, and film synced to the clock all got smoother. Also: season-ending injuries can now end a career (your medical staff affects the odds), free agency reopens for multi-year bids from cap-rich rivals, rival rookies hide their ratings just like yours, and player cards now open as a sheet you can flick away instead of a full page. Plus dozens of fixes: faster saves and loads, a smaller install, consistent rating colors, and a punt now correctly ruled a touchback at the 20.

Countless bug fixes and realism updates

Bug fixes

Your injured stars come back on their own • Healed players come off injured reserve automatically. No more finding a fit starter still on the shelf in week 14. • Simming forward now stops the moment your roster isn't legal, so you fix it instead of playing a man short. • Every club wears its real colors everywhere: schedules, standings, tickers and recaps finally match. • On Easy, guaranteed money finally costs something. Cutting a big contract is no longer free. • Trade counters stop asking for wildly more than the deal needs, and each panel now says whose valuation you're reading. • Your female coaches and scouts are described correctly, and the PAYROLL screen no longer shows two different cap ceilings at once. • Your coaches stop punting games away. Down late or in overtime, when a punt ends it, they go for it instead. • How good your scouts are now changes what you see on a draft prospect: his skill grades, his star ratings and his archetype all come from their eyes rather than the truth, so a better scouting department is worth paying for. • The draft room now asks before your staff takes a pick for you or sims the rest of the draft, so one mis-tap can't hand away a class you spent an hour scouting. • GM CAREER now has a trophy case for what you've won, and the tenure cards carry a season chart you can actually read. • Promote a coordinator straight into your head-coach job in one move. Hiring one away from a rival still works, but now you pay out the last year of his old deal on top of his salary. • Copy cleanups across the app. Your coaching staff got a life of its own • Elite coaches and scouts now hit the open market, so stars won't stay on losing clubs. • Hire a free-agent coordinator straight into your head coach chair: a promotion trumps a losing record. • Asks are personal: loyalty discounts, poach premiums, contender discounts, and the offer screen says why. • Special teams coaching swings the return game, and Playcalling, Play Design and Discipline genuinely move games. • Plus fixes and visual polish.

Bug fixes and gameplay realism improvements

Draft fix, coaching and play calling fixes

UI overhaul Sweeping balance changes and bug fixes

- UI changes and bug fixes - Fixed stuck saves - Fixed division schedules - Lots of other goodies

Player moods rebuilt: stars stop reading unhappy for no reason, and unhappiness builds and fades over weeks instead of flipping overnight. New Locker Room sheet and morale card: see what a player wants; money, a ring, a bigger role, or out and what actually fixes it. A player's face now always matches his story; disputes go public in the first half of the season, plus one exit interview in the offseason, so a year has a few storylines instead of constant noise. Players can now tell you they'd rather test free agency than sign an extension. Stripping the guarantees and bonus out of a free-agent offer is no longer free: a bare-bones deal has to clearly beat the market to win, and a player signed that way stays sore about it. Dual-threat quarterbacks actually run the ball now, and Option is a real QB-run scheme. Scoring pulled down to the real NFL level (~23 points a team per game), with fewer blowouts. Trades: no more refusing a deal over next year's cap, inbox offers vanish when the player is already gone, and the trade screens show your cap swing and the dead-cap rule up front. Records break the week they happen, and the Hall of Fame bar no longer fills off one great season. Deeper in-game box score, with stat columns that fit the screen. Training camp warns you when a position room is covered only on paper. Thirty new lineman portraits, plus skin-tone fixes across the portrait catalog. Fixes and polish: tighter card layouts, cleaner award rows, and an injury now clears a player's goals and ends his contract saga.

Accessibility support, crash fixes and general bug fixes