Changelog

Stats up to 99, faster early levels, a cleaner My Team and Get Points Back.

• Every stat now has a cap that rises with the player's level, so overall climbs steadily and only level 30 reaches 99. Points above the new caps come back to spend as the caps rise.
• Off-role stats cost the same as main stats (1 point), but stop at a cap that rises with the player's level. Extra points paid for off-role stats before come back.
• My Team explains upgrading: a dot on MY TEAM when there are points to spend, SPEND POINTS on the level-up card, a clear points line, and a + on every stat that says why when it can't be used.
• Hucks near the end of a thrower's reach miss long or short (often floated), so weaker arms complete fewer and the AI hucks a little less.
• The player holding the disc stays planted when run into, and a layout into someone stops there (they stumble, and the diver can't catch).
• Tutorial: your partner always catches a good throw, so a lesson can't fail by bad luck.
• Level 30 ends exactly maxed: levels 21-30 give the points each player still needs, so a fully spent level-30 player is 99 with nothing left over.
• Players moved down by the 99 update are now a few matches from their next level.
• Phones: the main menu, PLAY cards, first-launch screens and LOCKER are bigger, with every button at least thumb-sized. More screens follow.
• Settings is redesigned: clear sections and bigger switches. ENTER FULL SCREEN only shows where it works.
• New setting: turn off the move icons over players' heads (in matches and replays).
• Stats now go up to 99: a fully maxed player is 99 overall. Your players keep their overalls (high-level players move down a few levels to match the points they've had).
• Levels come faster at first (about one a match early on) and slow down near the top.
• My Team is cleaner: + buttons only when you have points, the build is chosen on MOVES, a 7v7 / 3v3 switch on the lineup, and simpler player rows.
• UNDO takes back point buys, and Get Points Back (1000 coins) returns a player's points so you can rebuild them any way you like.
• My Team's STATS page shows the six stats that matter, with per-game numbers.
• Report a bug or request a feature from the link at the bottom of the website.

Player levels, move trees and specialties, smoother online play, bricks with a pixel wipe and your own 3v3 picks.

• Gamble defense (Ball Hawk, All In) now gets more blocks than Contain, counters hit harder, and Break Thrower and Quick Hucker are evenly matched.
• Player levels 1-30: matches earn XP, levels give stat and trait points, builds unlock at level 10 and specializations at 15.
• The MOVES page is redesigned: full-width trees, clear locked and unlocked moves, and a detail card for each move.
• Level badges, an XP bar, a level-up card and a short guide at level 5.
• Hucks look more natural: players run under the disc facing their run, glance back over the shoulder, and turn to it as it comes down.
• New players: the first campaign team and the EASIER opponents are gentler until you've won 3 matches.
• Builds are permanent: each player picks once (players you already have get one free pick).
• Big Pull is removed, and its coins are back in your team's account.
• Move trees: choose each player's build, then grow their moves through four trees (Throwing, Footwork, Layout, Defense).
• Masters earn specialties, with green and red matchup arrows in Match Preview.
• New moves: Quick over the tops, Quick Hucks, Jump Cut+, Bait, Layout Frequency, Mark, Close Out, Jump the Lane and All In.
• Coaching presets show which specialties they suit, and the computer coach plays the matchups too.
• Online is smoother for the joining player: no juddering player or disc, and dives, moves and catches match the host.
• No more lag spike late in the stall count on phones.
• Goal highlights show the whole celebration.
• Bricks: a pixel wipe sets up the restart, and you tap to check the disc in.
• New opponents after every match (PLAY AGAIN still gives a rematch).
• Settings: turn the names over players' heads off.
• 3v3: pick which 3 players take the field and who you play as.
• Skying someone for a catch now makes a highlight.
• Jump-catch goals land before the drop and celebration.
• The disc stays under a diving player, fixed in their hands, until they stand up.
• Beat a campaign team in a party with mostly your own players and it counts for your campaign.

Coaching, smarter defense, redone moves, and the campaign unlocks the game.

Gameplay

• Online lobby: READY is at the top for guests, so it's never hidden.
• Ratings now top out at 94 instead of 99 (players play exactly the same).
• A caught disc stays in front of the diver and tucks under the body when it should.
• Computer players use their throwing moves, with the move's icon over them.
• The High Release backhand flies on a lower arc.
• Layouts are back to their earlier look, and the disc never jumps.
• The Deep Threat build is now called Playmaker.
• High-level free agents cost much more.
• A little more time after a score to get up and celebrate.
• Dragging to turn your player in the LOCKER works again.
• MASTER campaign: beat all five teams again, much stronger, for star belts with a trail.
• Each build has its own stat limits and a signature perk when maxed.
• Top-end upgrades cost more, and specialists beat even spreads.
• Layouts are smoother, with the disc caught right out of the air.
• Drag your player in the LOCKER to turn them round; flick to spin.
• Highlights fit their play instead of a set length.
• Bricks are walked or tossed in to the mark.
• Stadiums look full on tall screens during the pull.
• The changelog is easier to read.
• Layouts carry their speed through the catch and slide to a stop.
• Free agents are a little weaker and cost more; ones with moves are closer in price to ones without.
• Match Preview offers three new opponents after every match: easier, even and harder.
• Players earn XP more slowly.
• Layout Ds knock the disc down more often instead of catching it.
• Campaign: you're always matched up with the other team's superstar.
• Moves redone: Layout, Layout D and Lockdown each feel different.
• Defenders play real principles: the force, taking away deep, help and switches.
• Ratings matter more: weaker teams turn the disc over more, and computer players can fumble (you never do).
• New COACHING in My Team: choose how your team plays, or pick a preset.
• Matches play the same on every device.

Looks

• High layout catches stay in the air until the disc is caught.
• Blocks look like blocks: a flash, then the disc tumbles down.
• Three kinds of dive: a low skim, a normal layout and a high sky dive.
• Players face where they run, and turn to the disc only when it matters.
• Layout catches look like real catches, in matches and replays.
• Replays show the stadium they were played in.
• Headbands are now karate belts, earned in the campaign; arm sleeves and the armband are gone (refunded).
• DOWNLOAD ALL's quick video is made faster.
• Scorers hold the disc, drop it, then celebrate.

Getting started

• 3v3 is the first mode on the PLAY page.
• New front page with a gameplay clip and a big PLAY button, a loading screen with tips, an Install button, and NEW marks in the changelog.
• Your home field is now picked in the LOCKER, and My Team's ? button sits by the title.
• 7v7 opens when you beat the first campaign team.
• Modes now open by beating campaign teams, for every profile; nothing you own is taken away.
• Campaign coin bonuses are smaller.
• Campaign teams wear karate belt headbands; beat a team to earn its belt.

Campaign mode, four venues, highlight reels, Quick Release and a welcome for new players.

Getting started

• A new PLAY page, led by the campaign, with a card for each mode.
• New CAMPAIGN: beat five teams in a row, each led by a superstar; wins open new parts of the game.
• Campaign rewards: coins, jersey patterns and a trophy on your team card.
• Four venues: the Park, a Big stadium, the Beach and an Indoor dome.
• New players get a welcome and pick their controls.
• You start with 3v3; 7v7, the LOCKER and Highlights open as you play.
• The tutorial comes in two parts: 3v3 basics and 7v7.
• First-time guides show the key buttons on each screen, and a ? button shows them again.
• Up-to-date menu tips, worded for your controls.

Throwing and catching

• Hammers and blades are thrown like the real thing.
• Throwers face where they're aiming.
• Players look more side-on, with throws that swing out from behind the body.
• Layouts swing the arms like a real dive.
• Smoother pickups and goal celebrations.
• The stall count shows as ticks on the grass around the thrower.
• Throwers step out with their throws, like real players.
• New backhand and flick animations, released low from the stomach.
• The disc has a new look: a rim in the team's colour and sparks on a catch.
• The disc hides behind a player who carries it facing away.
• Catches facing away from you look right.
• Fixed players' heads flickering when they face away.
• Players stop looking around frantically.

Matches

• The offense keeps its shape better: cleaner clears, quicker cuts and a ready dump.
• Pulls are less exact, and out-of-bounds pulls are handled like the real rules.
• 3v3 points start with a throw instead of a pull.
• Less text on screen during matches.
• Match Preview: pick from three opponents, easier, even or harder.
• A pixel-art coin flip.
• Far fewer blocks right off the thrower's hand on open throws.
• Smoother matches, especially on phones.
• Better computer throwers read the field faster.
• Players walking the disc up walk round anyone in the way.
• Defenders learn your favourite cuts, and each team defends in its own style.
• Marks no longer dive at throws; layout Ds come from downfield.

LOCKER

• New move: Quick Release (replaces Laser Huck): throw faster right after a catch.
• Moves show as small icons over your player.
• New celebration: Finger spin.
• A new hair style: Braids.
• Long hair looks much better.
• Your player stands still in the LOCKER preview while you customise.

Online, highlights and the website

• Highlights is one scrolling list, with a scroll bar.
• DOWNLOAD ALL saves all your favourite clips as one video.
• DOWNLOAD ALL works on iPads.
• MAKE A REEL builds a highlight reel from your best plays, ready to save as a video.
• PLAY ONLINE: one button to make or join a party.
• Goal celebrations show in online matches.
• Scouting a friend's team shows their own jerseys.
• MAKE A PARTY opens your lobby straight away.
• Fixed a party lobby hint showing one letter per line.
• Highlights has two pages: LAST 30 and FAVOURITES.
• New Phone setup page: add UltiMax to your home screen.

The LOCKER, finer-pixel players, and discs that stay live after a tip.

Gameplay

• Movement has balance: steady players react quicker, sprinters carry momentum.
• Computer players clearing the stack stay out of cutters' way.
• Pass totals in the stats add up after a tipped pass.
• Loose discs land, roll and skip like real ones.
• Blocks knock the disc the way you'd expect.
• Tipped discs stay live: anyone can catch them before they land.

Players

• Catches look natural, with no double catches.
• New catching animations: two hands, one hand at full stretch, or a scoop.
• A new pick-up animation.
• Shorter noses in side view, and skipping a goal clears the celebration.
• Players are redrawn with finer pixels and every animation redone.
• A new layout animation.

Field and highlights

• A fresh field: crisper lines, brick marks and corner cones.
• Calmer grass so players and the disc stand out.
• Online games save highlights too.

LOCKER

• A new colour picker; every LOCKER colour is free.
• New GEAR: hats, sunglasses, wristbands and gloves.
• New celebration: The worm.
• My Team's LOOK tab opens the LOCKER on that player.
• New LOCKER: change your players' looks, your team kit and goal celebrations.
• Team jerseys with colours, shorts, patterns and numbers; clashing opponents switch kits.
• Goal celebrations, some free and some for coins.
• The LOCKER preview keeps your player in view.

Online

• A new party lobby with everyone's own player, READY ticks and one settings panel.
• Quick emotes in the lobby, and a 3-2-1 START countdown.
• Online throwing practice with friends.

Friends and phones

• Give a friend's team your own nickname (only you see it).
• Phones: aiming near the screen edge no longer flashes the view.
• Phones: HAMMER is now OVER THE TOP, with hammers or blades by dragging.
• Phones: aiming near the edge no longer scrolls or zooms the page.

Your team

• Lockdown: your teammates help more while you mark.
• Layout and Layout D change how throwers treat you.
• New move descriptions and previews in My Team.
• Spin move fools a close defender.
• Laser Huck: long flat throws fly faster, and a deep cutter goes early.
• Computer overheads are easier to read, and High Release throwers set up a pocket cutter.
• LOCK up to 3 free agents to sign later.
• RESET TEAM is gone from My Team, so you can't wipe your team by accident.
• An easier-to-read throw line.

No more computer stall-outs, fewer hammers, smarter defenders and reworked moves.

Offense

• The computer almost never gets stalled out.
• Far fewer hammers and blades from the computer.
• Throwing ratings shape what the computer tries and how well.

Cutting and diving

• Downfield cutters make bigger cuts.
• Dives reach a little farther, and receivers lay out for long hucks.

Throwing

• Throws are less accurate, especially hucks, so Throw Accuracy matters more.
• Less skilled throwers wind up a little slower.

AI AIM

• The AI AIM spot moves smoothly and shows the throw sooner.

Defense

• Defenders lay out for under cuts much more often.
• The Defense rating makes defenders smarter, not just closer.

Your team

• TRY IT on the MOVES tab: practise any move for free.
• Moves reworked: no random firing or wear-out, just a short recharge.
• New move: High Release (replaces Floaty), a short throw lofted over the mark.
• Jump cut and Spin move now do different things, each with its own animation.

Practice

• ADD DEFENDER in Throwing Practice to practise breaks around a mark.

Behind the scenes

• New tools for the game's admins (nothing changes for players).

Instant replays and highlights, moves replace traits, and XP raises your stats.

Menus

• AI AIM is on by default.
• A cleaner home screen: PLAY, MY TEAM and HIGHLIGHTS.

Movement

• Players speed up and slow down more gradually, so momentum matters.
• Turning back is quick again.

Your team

• All moves are in: Jump cut, Spin move, Floaty and Laser Huck.
• Opponents and some free agents have moves too.
• Moves replace traits: buy, level up and equip them in My Team.
• Players who had traits get matching moves free.
• Try a move in a short drill before you buy.
• Every stat is worth upgrading now.
• Players earn XP in every match.
• Stat upgrades cost XP instead of coins; coins go to free agents.

Throwing

• Hammers and blades are harder to pull off.

Rules

• No more point-block Callahans.

Replays

• Replays wait for the end of the point.
• Instant replay after goals and big plays (skippable, or off in SETTINGS).
• HIGHLIGHTS: watch your saved plays again and star favourites.
• Highlights keeps only the cool plays, tagged with why.

Offense

• Better 3v3 opponents play smarter and safer.
• Receivers and throwers use open space, with more curved throws.
• Standing in the passing lane no longer shuts the computer down.
• Teammates no longer cut to the same space.
• 3v3 cutting works like the real thing.
• Teammates come back for your short throws.
• Receivers catch lead passes in stride.

Online, everyone plays as one of their own players.

Online (beta)

• Online you play as one of your own players, picked in the lobby.
• Co-op against the computer: the host picks the opponent, and everyone earns its coins.

Parties bring up to 8 friends into one online match.

Matches

• AI AIM in SETTINGS shows where a computer thrower is looking.
• The disc sits in a diver's hands on a layout catch.

Sound

• The game goes quiet while you're in another window or tab.

Online (beta)

• PARTY: make a party for up to 8 people and share the code.
• Everyone in a party plays their own player, on either team or together.
• The party lobby shows who's ready; the host sets up the match.
• Invite friends, join late, reconnect after a drop, and REMATCH.
• Fixed a guest's player snapping to midfield online.
• Online throws fly the same on both screens.

Online play with friends, unique starting teams and a calmer camera.

Opponents

• The Bandits play to 3.

Your team

• Every new team is different: its own players, names and looks.
• RESET TEAM gives you a new random team and keeps your unlocks.

Online (beta)

• Stay signed in to several accounts on one device.
• Friend invites show in FRIENDS with ACCEPT and DECLINE.
• CHALLENGE a friend online or SCRIMMAGE their team.
• Play online with a friend: against each other or together vs the computer.
• Invite a friend or share a join code, then meet in a lobby.
• Online wins go in your record against that friend.
• Connecting says what's happening, and blocked networks go through a relay.
• FRIENDS and online play share one page.
• A dot shows who's free, in a match or offline.
• Invites pop up on any screen with a countdown.

Controls

• Buttons feel better to press, with clicks and a shake when locked.
• TRACKPAD controls for laptops.

Sound

• The disc is quieter in the air.

Camera

• 3v3 shows the whole field.
• Pulls show the whole field.
• A calmer 7v7 camera.
• Aiming toward the screen edge widens the view.

Phones

• Matches are saved as you play, so a reload picks up where you left off.
• Much less memory on phones, so iPhones reload far less.
• Locked buttons on phones no longer cover their names.

Website

• Screenshots for Oct 15 and 16 on the changelog.

Unlocks, a friends list, player archetypes and a phone-friendly game.

Unlocks

• Modes, opponents and My Team features open as you play: about half an hour from the tutorial to everything.
• Locked buttons say what opens them, and match results show what you just unlocked.
• Existing teams keep everything they've already earned.

Phones and tablets

• Thumb-sized buttons and readable text, with touch-and-hold help.
• You can always move after a point: a finger lifted during a pause no longer stays stuck.
• Swiping down on the game no longer refreshes the page.
• Phones stay in landscape, and the game pauses when held upright.
• Touch ways to do the actions that used to need a keyboard.
• Smoother matches on phones.
• A closer camera on phones; on every screen it leans toward the disc and leads downfield.

Friends and accounts

• A friends list: sign in, find friends by team name, send requests and challenge their teams.
• Team names are unique: renaming your team anywhere checks other players' teams, and a clash found later asks you for a new name.
• FORGOT PASSWORD? emails you a link to set a new one, and you can delete your account (and its cloud save) from ACCOUNT.
• From FRIENDS, TEAM opens a friend's team: their lineup, each player's build, ratings and traits.

Player builds

• Five archetypes: Pure Handler, Hybrid, Deep Threat, Defensive Specialist and Speedster.
• Opponents and free agents are built from archetypes, and your starting team is reshaped into them.
• Players you already have follow an archetype too, at the same OVR.
• Archetype icons and labels on screen.
• The AI plays to each player's build.

Modes and rewards

• PLAY MATCH lets you pick the mode: 7v7, 3v3 or Endless.
• Coins by format: 7v7 pays the most, then 3v3, then Endless.
• 3v3 is first to 3.
• Resuming a 3v3 match brings it back as 3v3.
• Leaving a match keeps its stats.

Look and menus

• A clipboard look for the menus and match screen.
• Every screen fits phones, tablets and small windows.
• The main menu keeps its layout while you pick a mode.
• The score bar keeps its target in the middle.
• Skippable waits and tips for new players.
• AUTO OFFENSE CALL skips the offense card.
• Tutorial text follows your control settings.

AI and feel

• Throw timing depends on the team and the handler's movement.
• 3v3: the player who isn't throwing or the dump always cuts.
• 3v3: quicker deep cuts, and the dump is picked by position.
• Jumps look as high as before but reach less.
• A softer disc sound in flight.

Website

• This changelog page.
• What's new can show the changes day by day or update by update.

Biggest daySound, an announcer, 3v3 and Endless, a daily bonus and box scores.

New modes and rewards

• 3v3 mode: a smaller field, three-player lines and a seven-count.
• Endless mode: no final score, with coins for every point depending on the opponent.
• Daily login bonus on the main menu, with a streak.
• Coins for goals, assists and Ds by the player you control.
• Resume a match you left, straight from the main menu.

Sound

• An announcer with recorded voices and rebuilt sound effects.
• Crowd cheers, and a new SOUND section in Settings.
• Fixed sound being silent on the website.

Stats and players

• Advanced player stats: a box score page after matches and career totals in My Team.
• New trait: Pull Specialist.

Controls and feel

• Control settings on every device, with presets and custom keys.
• Better catching and a redone layout.
• Dives drawn with the player's own pixel sprite.
• A slightly slower disc.
• Throws curve to the open side, and break throws bend around the mark.
• No accidental throws right after a catch.

AI and rules

• Vertical stack: cutters who finish a cut cycle back in at the front.
• Horizontal stack: diagonal cuts and lane cycling.
• Out-of-bounds pulls rest a moment, then come to the middle.
• Practice: out-of-bounds discs are brought back to a spot you can reach.

Website

• The website was restyled to match the game.

LaunchUltiMax launches on the web, with accounts, phones and progression.

Progression

• Coins, upgrades and free agents; player traits like Hammer Ace, Cannon and Layout Legend.
• A ladder of opponents to unlock, up to The Fooligans.
• Opponents become new teams after every match: new names, kits and strategies at the same rating.
• Drag-and-drop defensive matchups.
• Your starting team begins at 67 OVR, and match length depends on the opponent.

Online

• The web version: play in the browser at this site.
• Optional accounts with cloud saves.
• The UltiMax app icon, link preview image and loading splash.
• Anonymous visitor statistics for the site.

Phones and tablets

• Touch controls: the throw type, pump fakes and layouts are picked for you.
• Fullscreen that works on Android, iPhone and iPad, and adding the game to your home screen.
• Typing your name and signing in with the phone's keyboard.
• Move during end-zone walk-outs; tap a second finger to cancel a throw.
• Fills wide phone screens, with a bigger PAUSE button.

Polish

• Floatier catching passes in the tutorial.
• Match Preview fits on the screen, with padlocks on locked opponents.

New nameThe game becomes UltiMax, and the AI learns the force, breaks and stacks.

Offense

• Horizontal stack, and calling your offense before the pull.
• Handler roles and a stack setter.
• The force, break throws, jab cuts and throw-and-go.
• Smoother throws, and new player stats.

Defense

• Person-to-person defense on autopilot for your player.
• Defenders react to what they can see and play tighter coverage.

Other

• Renamed from MAXIMATE to UltiMax.
• Restart and throwing fixes.

Your teamPlayer ratings and My Team arrive, and the menus get their look.

Your team

• Saved player ratings and the My Team screen.
• A bench, roster management and stat tooltips.
• A Match Preview against rated opponents.

Gameplay

• The field and players are 15% faster.
• Offense lines up in a centered vertical stack, with coordinated cuts in the right directions.
• Passing takes players' ratings into account; the AI no longer stalls on offense.
• Throwing ratings matter, and pulls float.
• Hammers and blades blend smoothly into the release.

Interface

• A pause menu and PAUSE button during matches.
• Player initials over every player.
• Restyled menus.

StadiumA real stadium, a main menu, overhead throws and throwing practice.

Throwing

• Overhead throws: hammers and blades, with matching disc angles in flight.
• Polished throwing animations and disc flight.
• Aiming guides: dashed lines that show a throw's height and curve.

Modes and menus

• The main menu.
• Throwing practice mode.
• Running pulls, without stall counts.

Look and AI

• New stadium visuals: stands, benches and a clean field.
• Better AI positioning and throwing; clearer turnovers.
• Fixed walk-ups and pull positions.
• Maximizing the window goes fullscreen.

First buildThe very first build: seven-on-seven ultimate on a pixel field.

• Two teams of seven, a disc, end zones and scoring.
• Throwing, catching and a stall count.
• A scoreboard showing who is on offense.