OOTP 26 Public Beta Patch: 26.5.66

[Matt Arnold]

Happy BBQ Season! As baseball gears up towards the All-Star game, it's time for our next patch. We've been gathering a lot of pieces, and are ready to put the next update out.

This patch, 26.5.66, will go out now as a public beta. We hope this will correct many of the reported issues, balance a few items out, and also includes many other tweaks and improvements.

Use this at your own risk! Please back up important league files before loading them in this beta.

Changelist 26.5.66

• Added option for talent influence on minors results
• Fixed some cases of players missing from rosters
• Fixed some in-game camera movements
• Fixed Facegen “upon player creation” setting to create photos for draft, IAFA players
• Fixed start date of draft combine in games when there is a short time between pool reveal and draft day
• Adjusted minor league bonus for high talent players
• Adjusted morale calculations for players with no expectations
• Roster updates (Adds hundreds of new 2025 draft prospects, adjusts ratings for many others. Also adds around 300 new DSL players to the 2025 rosters)
• Added option in preferences menu to hide some commish actions in right click menus (delete, clone, retire, etc…) Options are still available on player pages
• Adjusted player loyalty to teams they have recently played on (lower player demands from teams they were just on when they are in FA)
• Adjusted splits on player creation to be less aggressive
• Increased manual scouting on draft eligible players
• Added player drag & drop to team combine scouting screen
• Fixed draft combine not populating in games created after draft pool announcement
• Fixed off-season challenge mode start
• Fixed division leader list on WC page
• Fixed seeding in historical exhibition tournaments
• Fixed AI adjusting majors roster when minors over limit
• Adjusted scouting potential display for players in 26-30 age range
• Fixed foul catch animations
• Development/Aging balance:
• *Slightly increased Stuff development
• *Slight increase babip/avoid K development
• *Slight slow avoid K aging
• *Adjust control development (some faster, some slower)
• Fixed players incorrectly appearing on military service list
• Updated contract counter offers, negotiation mood, etc..
• Fixed missing minor league historical stats import
• Online Leagues: Fixed some issues with contract offers appearing out of order in history
• Online Leagues: Fixed issues with team assignments
• PT: Fixed clubhouse shop column display
• PT: Added banner display
• PT: Added timer for clubhouse shop items that expire
• PT: Reworked IAP items display
• PT: Fixed clubhouse shop refresh/crash
• PT: sorting by release will now sort by name as secondary
• PT: hovering over the saved tournament field will show a hint
• PT: Sorting of “Add to variant boost” options
• PT: Added new IAP error messages
• PT: added banner for theme weeks
• PT: Added saved tournaments, title extra field, and release date to list view as options
• PT: Variant Boost page now includes information about players on saved tournament rosters
• PT: Added pbabip and release date to card shop sort
• PT: Fixed tag to variant boost option selection and colored the text
• PT: Disabled tag to variant boost option for cards that are on the active roster
• PT: Added warning before submitting a mission if a variant is included
• PT: Fixed clubhouse card list creating endless buttons
• PT: Fixed clubhouse card list expanding variant and non variant cards at the same time
• Misc roster updated, misc bug fixes, UI fixes

Important info for online leagues: This patch should be compatible in online leagues. Once the commissioner has updated to the patch version, all league members will need to update to continue.

How to access the beta on Steam:

• Quit OOTP 26 if it's running.
• Open Steam client -> Library
• Right click on Out of the Park Baseball 26
• Click on "Properties" at the bottom of the menu
• Click on the beta tab. Here, enter the following code: ootp26betapt
• Click on "Check code"
• Open the beta pull-down and select "publicbeta".
• Close the Steam client (Steam menu -> Exit)
• Open the client again. It should then download the beta build.

Update Info for our webstore customers: To apply the update, simply download the setup file and install it over your current installation. There is no need to uninstall or unlicense your current copy! However, you should quit the game before installing it, of course. Updates always contain all the changes from previous updates. Saved games are compatible between different versions.

Download link for Windows PC (Fastspring Webstore Version):
Main server: PC Installer
Mirror Link: PC Installer
Here's a PC installer (Fastspring) that installs into a single folder, which is useful for external HDs for example. Or for creating a second test install of the game, so you can try the patch out without the risk of messing up your main install of the game if something is wrong in the patch:
PC Single Folder Installer

Download link for MacOS (FastSpring):
Main Server: MacOS Installer
Mirror Link: MacOS Installer

Thanks,
Matt + The OOTP Team

[jpeters1734]

This patch is not backwards compatible

[Matt Arnold]

Originally Posted by jpeters1734

This patch is not backwards compatible

You can load old games on it, but once you have updated to it, you cannot load them on the previous version, no.

[Torgonius]

I'm in the Manage Cards screen, right clicking on cards to add them to a boost, and they are not accepting that tag.
When I go to the actual boost page, they are not selected to be used in a boost attempt

[cwhitman]

just want to give huge props for the PT QOL update: these are huge, especially for variant levelers, and definitely took a lot of community feedback on these.

[cwhitman]

Originally Posted by Torgonius

I'm in the Manage Cards screen, right clicking on cards to add them to a boost, and they are not accepting that tag.
When I go to the actual boost page, they are not selected to be used in a boost attempt

oh yes I can confirm this. will reach out (to devs) with more info

[jpeters1734]

What does "Talent" mean?

[jpeters1734]

Originally Posted by Matt Arnold

Important info for online leagues: This patch should be compatible in online leagues. Once the commissioner has updated to the patch version, all league members will need to update to continue.

Question about this. If a league member exports using build 65 but the commish is on build 61, will it import correctly?

[Matt Arnold]

Originally Posted by jpeters1734

What does "Talent" mean?

We use talent and potential somewhat inter-changeably. We will likely tweak some of the text on the new option added, to be more consistent.

[Matt Arnold]

Originally Posted by jpeters1734

Question about this. If a league member exports using build 65 but the commish is on build 61, will it import correctly?

That should work correctly, yes.

[jpeters1734]

Originally Posted by Matt Arnold

That should work correctly, yes.

Thanks, I posted a bug report regarding this

[jpeters1734]

This is a really great patch btw. Lots of nagging issues fixed!

[Braden]

Has the legs through the wall in the Great American Ballpark been fixed?

[shakturi101]

I am opting into the beta on steam properties but when I load the game the build is not updating to 65. It still shows 61. This has never happened before, is anyone else having a similar problem?

[spartacus007]

Where is this PT banner display, exactly?

[raymck1963]

Originally Posted by shakturi101

I am opting into the beta on steam properties but when I load the game the build is not updating to 65. It still shows 61. This has never happened before, is anyone else having a similar problem?

I am too. Thanks for posting.

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[Matt Arnold]

Sorry, should be updated now. You may need to log out/log in, or opt out/opt in again to pick it up.

[Schmenge]

Originally Posted by shakturi101

I am opting into the beta on steam properties but when I load the game the build is not updating to 65. It still shows 61. This has never happened before, is anyone else having a similar problem?

It's working now.

[shakturi101]

Originally Posted by Matt Arnold

Sorry, should be updated now. You may need to log out/log in, or opt out/opt in again to pick it up.

Thanks for the update. And just to confirm, the asterisk next to a few of the development related updates denotes that it is required to begin a new save for those updates to go through, correct?

[Rain King]

Originally Posted by shakturi101

Thanks for the update. And just to confirm, the asterisk next to a few of the development related updates denotes that it is required to begin a new save for those updates to go through, correct?

Pretty sure those are just sub-descriptions of the Development/Aging balance bullet.

Shouldn't need a new Save for those adjustments to be utilized going forward.