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Sports Interactive has now confirmed the Data Update for Football Manager 2023 is now live on all platforms, complete with updated squads.
Sports Interactive has officially confirmed the Data Update for Football Manager 2023 (PC/Mac) is now live, complete with updated squads following the winter transfer window.
Last week, the development team announced they had started rolling out FM 23 updates across all platforms, but stated that the timing of the releases may differ for each platform.
Eventually, Sports Interactive confirmed that the update had been completed and is now live for players to enjoy and resume their challenges.
A statement read: ‘The Main Data Update is also now live on FM23 Console (Xbox, PS5), FM23 Touch (Apple Arcade and Nintendo Switch™) and FM23 Mobile (iOS/Android).’
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Football Manager 2023 Winter Update
Sports interactive also confirmed that over 3.7million database changes have been incorporated within the Winter Update, including alterations to the Current Ability levels of thousands of players around the world based on their real-life performances in recent months.
The update also contains bug fixes and improvements across multiple areas of the game.
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However, players will need to begin a new save game to take advantage of the winter updates.
FM 23 Winter Update Features
Changes in the 23.3 update include, but are not limited to:
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• Stability and crash fixes
• Fixes to reduce mistakes from bad touches in certain areas of the pitch
• Fixes to defenders not preparing correctly for crosses in certain situations
• Improvements to defender reaction to long through balls
• Tweaks to make attacking players move quicker to support counter-attacks
• Improvements to how AI managers use different midfield role combinations
• Improvements to central defender and defensive midfielder positioning from long goal kicks
• Improvements to how attacking wide players track back when defending
• Fixes for defending wide indirect free kicks at the edge of the area
• 'Header won' statistic now only counts contested headers
• Improvements to the Recruitment Focus logic
• Fixed cases of reserve or youth team tactics appearing blank in the Development Centre
• Tweaks to development loans for AI teams
• Improvements to fixture scheduling, particularly the frequency of consecutive home or away games
• Updated substitution rules across various competitions
For a more detailed list of changes, fans can visit the FM23 community forum, while also noting that the update may go live at different times on each platform.
How to get the FM 23 Winter Update
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You can manually check for updates on your Xbox console by heading to your Football Manager 2023 title, pressing the menu button, navigating to 'Manage game and add-ons' and selecting 'updates'.
On your iPhone and iPad, apps that you download from the App Store are automatically updated by default. If there's an issue, you can update an app manually.
For FM23 Mobile players on Android, it is also expected that the game should update automatically.
However, you can update manually by opening the Google Play Store App and tapping the profile icon. From there, tap ‘Manage Apps and Device’. Apps with an update available are labelled 'Update available'.
For FM23 Touch (Nintendo Switch™), if you’ve enabled the Auto-Update Software option, the update should automatically install. If not, you will need to ensure that the console is connected to the internet and then from the home menu, select the FM23 Touch icon to update it.
Football Manager 2023 is now available on PC/Mac, Xbox, PS5, FM23 Touch (Apple Arcade and Nintendo Switch™) and FM23 Mobile (iOS/Android).
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