Patch Notes – Season 9 (v1.9.1.0)
Season 9 is here! Below you’ll find everything new, improved, and fixed in this latest update. The Khorne team enters the pitch, redraft becomes official, and a brand-new Community Event awaits… Ready for the carnage?
🆕 New Content
- New Team: The Khorne team is now available!
- Eternal League: Dive into a brand-new solo experience.
- Redraft System: Start fresh and build smarter—redraft is now available.
- Community Event: The Bloodthirst Challenge is live. Will you dominate?
- New Pitch Rule: The Underworld Denizen pitch special rule has been added.
🧱 Official Ladder Changes
- Redraft enabled: In Season 9’s Official Ladder, teams must redraft every 20 matches, with a budget cap of 1,300,000.
- TV Cap disabled: No more restrictions on team value.
- Matchmaking update: The system has been revamped for a better competitive experience.
🎯 Arena Mode
- New tiering system introduced for Season 9.
⚔️ Match Improvements
- Major AI update for a more challenging solo experience.
- Friendly match rules options added.
- Grid customization: You can now change grid color and thickness in the settings.
- Skill icon updates: New icons for Iron Hard Skin and Defensive skills.
- May 2025 Errata:
- Tentacles now trigger before any other effect during a move.
- Helmut Wulf: If Old Pro fails, it can now be retried in a later turn.
- Hit and Run: The movement is now taken after resolving the Block action.
🏆 Competitions
- Added a button to create a new team when registering for a competition.
- You can now inspect your opponent’s team directly from the competition summary screen.
🧠 Team Management
- New tab order: Inducements now appears between Recruitment and Customization.
- Teams can now be sorted by most recently used.
- Special rule icons have been added to team management screens.
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Fixed a softlock issue when an opponent concedes at specific moments.
- Fixed a visual issue where the timer reset to 7:30 after reconnecting.
- Fixed a bug where planned sequences were canceled when using Pogo Stick or Hand-Off.
- Wizards can now be used right after a touchdown.
- Improved player search function when too many players have similar names.
- Multiple interception candidates are now correctly highlighted.
- Fixed rare softlocks during interception sequences.
- Fixed scroll issue in the Prayer to Nuffle tab.
- Bombardier players no longer auto-throw bombs when ordered to move.
- Fixed bouncing behavior with Frenzy: the ball now bounces after the first block, before the second.
- Plague Ridden no longer activates on crowd surfs.
- Pogo Stick no longer triggers Diving Tackle.
- Ivar Eriksson’s Raiding Party rule can no longer target rooted players—except himself.
- Fixed bomb explosion affecting players when thrown outside the pitch.
⚠️ Known Issues
- Special actions may not be usable during the Blitz! kick-off event (May 2025 Errata).
- Leaving a spectated game may not be possible if the match is paused during a cutscene.
Workaround: close and reboot the game. - Softlock after confirming an upgrade too quickly: Pressing the Confirm prompt immediately after selecting a characteristic increase may cause a freeze.
Workaround: close and reboot the game.
That’s all for today’s patch. See you on the pitch Coaches!
