Rematch Patch Notes

Patch Information 1.203.000 S3.0 Beta Date: March 12th, 2026 S3.0 Release Date: March 25th, 2026 Hi everyone! Season 3 is an important milestone for REMATCH. We are starting to reach our stride, and improving our processes is showing results. Our velocity for introducing new features and changes to the game is still not quite where we want it, but we are comfortable adding more and more thanks to our overall stability. We are introducing a first batch of Social and Progression features, to improve the overall experience of playing Rematch, and also starting to implement more impactful changes to the Core Gameplay. These are the first steps of a long-term strategy to get Rematch to its full potential, and we are very grateful to all our players, from the most casual to the top of the elite, for giving us the chance to keep improving the game. The Sloclap Team Progression & Social Features On top of the considerations of core gameplay, there are systems that we are aiming to improve extensively in the future patches and seasons. Among these are the topics of Progression, Social, FTUE (first time user experience), UX improvements, and Moderation (Reporting). In Season 3, we are introducing three new features that are only the first part of this long term plan. Periodic Challenges Weekly and daily challenges are now available. Complete periodic objectives to earn Battle Pass tokens. 1. Repeatable challenge: Play 5 matches to earn 1 token. Once completed, this challenge is repeatable. 2. Daily challenge: Each day, complete a new challenge to earn 1 token. The daily challenge refreshes at 23:59 UTC. 3. Weekly challenges: Each week, complete a new set of challenges to earn 2 or more tokens. Weekly challenges refresh on the same weekday the Season started, at 23:59 UTC. Details - Tokens can’t be earned by gaining XP anymore. - The daily win bonus is no longer available. Progression mechanics and features are essential for players to feel like their time in the game matters. Periodic challenges are a modest first addition to make sure that you can end a session while being reassured that you accomplished something (and that you didn’t just yoyo between two divisions in ranked mode). We are currently hammering in final design decisions to add more extensive, polished and rewarding progression mechanics addressed to all of our players. Team-up Ever had a great experience with your teammates and wished you could play together again immediately? You can now request your teammates to squad up directly at the end of a match at the press of a button! If one or more players choose to team-up, a new squad will be created with the first player to ask for the team-up as leader. “Team-up” is a recurrent request from our players, and is an obvious addition to Rematch. Outside of competitive gameplay, a lot of players engage with Rematch as a cool experience to share with friends or others, and we want to lean into and encourage that aspect of the game. This requires features that foster a positive social environment, as well as others to discourage negative behavior (which we have planned to deliver soon). End-of-match screen We’ve reworked the end match screens to condense progression information in a single summary page (profile level, battle pass periodic challenges and ranking information are now on the same screen). The MVP can now also come from the losing team. With the addition of more progression mechanics, we wanted to take the opportunity to make the “end of match” screen feel more complete and rewarding. We are currently working on a few more improvements to make it more comfortable to read the stats at the end of a game. Limited Time Mode 1v1 will be back during season 3 ! April 3rd to April 13th. Over time we want to add more game modes to the game to create more variety and events to look forward to. Look out for new modes to arrive during 2026. Matches / Core Gameplay Improvements As we discussed in previous communications (Mini dev Update#5 https://www.playrematch.com/post/mini-dev-update-5-september-12th-2025), we needed to improve the overall stability of the game to be able to deliver more impactful changes to the gameplay and metagame. We are getting there, and season 3 is the first step of a strategy of improvements to the core gameplay. There is a lot of debate around the strength of defense vs attack, as well as the place of “dribbling” and “dribbling techs” in the game. Our strategy has not changed since that dev update: keeping emerging and high-level mechanics as much as possible, but removing egregious examples of the ball teleporting, and unnatural and unreadable player movements. Season 3 will see core gameplay changes on: 1. Goalkeeper pass back rules 2. Defensive Abilities 3. A targeted change/nerf to “Vexis Dash” 4. A few stamina values 5. Extra effort animation The overall objective is to make all parts of the gameplay more refined and rewarding, while pushing the balance in the right direction. From a bird’s eye view, the balancing of the game is acceptable. Games are often very close, going down to the wire and being decided by a single decisive action. Goals are rare enough to “feel like football”. In that sense, you could argue that goalkeeping and defending are in the right place, or even “too strong”. We do agree that having slightly more goals would be better for the game in a general sense. But that is a bit of a surface analysis, and there are a lot more levels of depth to the current situation. Passive defense today is strong, while active defense is often unrewarding. In the same way, defending as a group in the box is easy enough but putting pressure alone higher up on the pitch is a bit more haphazard. In a sense, “emergent mechanics” are necessary for dribblers to beat defenders, but their existence restricts our ability to balance defensive abilities; which means more legitimate dribbling abilities have a hard time finding their place. Overreacting and buffing ...