[RELEASE] MEGAPATCH 3 for FL25 - The most updated and complete patch for FL25! - The End of the Road
Well people... It's here. Yes, finally. What a ride.
This has been the most exhaustive, complete, one of my hardest projects to take and to give to an entire community... for free! It's the peak and ending of a true passion about getting this beautiful game to be more known to people that maybe forgot about the PES franchise or thought that there aren't good football games to revisit. There are, even when we are in a somewhat "dark era" for football games.
As always, MegaPatch has existed to enhance and to complete the experience for Football Life. Football Life, as stated by SmokePatch team, its a lightweight game to be easily downloaded and played in almost any device, so it includes just the basics. MegaPatch tries to add everything possible to redo almost every aspect of the game, and give it that true premium feeling.
You know that as I always stated, this game has already reached a peak in terms of modding, so don't expect anything new like 2.Bundesliga working, new leagues or UCL new format, animations, celebrations or whatever. This game is 5 years old, accept it, enjoy it and play it to the end.
This marks my personal end on supporting this game, as I want to put to rest one of the games that I've played the most in these past 5 years. A lot of things feel familiar to me, I know what to exploit, what to do and what to expect or not, so I just need to explore new horizons. Those new horizons, yeah, its the only one out there and its EA FC 25, which I'll be testing and trying with some mods to see how it behaves and changes. I didn't touch a FIFA game since FIFA 19 deeply, so it's a new level for me. Yeah, we all know that we are all here because you can't stand EA FC gameplay and I agree, but its the only game that can give you an actual football experience without needing to collect 200 mods to make it pretty.
Also, I want to play other games! I got a new computer back in December so I have enough power to play all my backlog games which is pretty huge (as I came from a i5-3450 and GTX 960 2GB lol) so my activity on this Reddit will be decreasing over the time. I'll still be a moderator, of course, and still giving insights and getting the banhammer out if needed. There are some things still to be released such as new stadium packs and the last version of the facepack with tons of new faces and fixes (yeah, van Dijk, De Bruyne and all those).
Remember, this patch has the essential: entrances, scoreboards, new menus, custom soundtrack, font, enhanced players, etc. No faces, stadiums or adboards are included as they are considered as an addon due its huge size.
There is a saved stream I did yesterday that showcases a lot of things: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2350726388
So no more words, as it isn't a true farewell for now. Let's get it on what does this patch have in detail:
WHAT DOES MEGAPATCH 3 BRING
- Changed overalls, roles and positions for a lot of players. This means that the game has a wider gap between the low tier players versus the elite top players, leading to better differences between them when playing and also more realistic behaviour in the game due to that. Expect huge differences playing with a top tier vs low tier team.
- Transfers made up to 6th January (some later ones too) for all leagues.
- A special 4 min tribute intro video with the best of 23/24 season (video by Colo).
- New classic clubs replacing the FL25 default ones: Real Madrid 04/05, Inter Milan 05/06, FC Barcelona 06/07, AC Milan 88/89, Arsenal FC 03/04, Manchester United 98/99, Liverpool 04/05, Juventus 02/03.
- Rest of assigned important players are into new teams that I created. South America Titans (mix of classic and modern American/South America players), European Gen XY (best of until early 2000s), European Gen Z (best of starting from 2005 until recently retired players), European Gen Mix (mixture of pre-2000s and post-2000s players) and World Classics (mixture of African, Asian and others). There are two unassigned teams "Retired Players" and "Retired Players 2" to avoid them appearing in Master League. They aren't mean to be played.
- The Player Dynamic Model by minhanh150 with better player modeling as a base and accessories on the most famous players, like grip sox, long socks, baggy shirts, etc.
- Football4Life 4.4 Gameplay Mod included. Your favourite one!
- Included some alternative gameplays in a separate folder in case you want to try other ones (DT18 files). Basically are PES 2017, PES 2019 with some tweaks, eFootball 25 and two extra gameplays (eSim and Liberty).
- Klashman tactics applied so each team should be playing differently and not the "long ball" all the time (also with F4L 4.4 mod and the tweak on Long Ranger on a lot of players, it should be less frequent).
- New market values based on Transfermarkt recent updates from December 2024 for a lot of players. It will make good players harder to sign by you and the CPU. Don't expect to sign top players in your first or second season if you're a 2nd division team.
- The 2nd/3rd Goalkeeper choice for the CPU SHOULD be fixed 90% of the times, as the overall changes and reputation changes inside the database affected that.
- Updated lineups for a lot of teams (which means badly injured players will be reserve, such as Rodri, Carvajal, Militao, etc). Mostly for the known teams, as I don't have enough data to others.
- Goalnets updated by FicaBre with better goalnet sounds and post sounds (no more OOOOOOOOH from the crowd on missed chances like in MegaPatch 2.3)
- Updated NT call-ups for a lot of teams, based in Transfermarkt. I know the last matches are a little bit "unrealistic" in terms of definitive National Team Squads, but we are in a period of just friendlies or competitions that aren't that important so there have been some alternative players called up. So no EURO 2024 squads, as there were a lot of retired players since then (Kroos, Gundogan, Sommer, Neuer, Griezmann, Di Maria, Giroud, Luis Suárez, etc)
- New soundtrack with 129 songs that you can listen on Spotify here. All of them are 2024 and 2025 released songs from all genres!: MegaPatch 3 Soundtrack
- New theme and font. There are also 4 menu alternatives with 4 different player showing at the main menu, explained in the TXT attached.
- Boots assigned for more than 300 players with latest models (Adidas F50, Predator, Puma, New Balance Tekela, Nike Mercurial, etc)
- Scoreboards updated and with multiple TV logos.
- Kits updated for most leagues. Also includes a lot of special kits such as Barcelona Coldplay and 125th anniversary, 2026 leaked kits for Barcelona and Real Madrid, Leipzig 4th kit, Aston Villa anniversary kit, Bayer Leverkusen anniversary kit, Arsenal "No More White" kit, etc.
- Also teams that have their different kit versions for domestic leagues and European Competitions, are there (Aston Villa, Bayern Munich, Leverkusen, Dortmund, Sporting CP, etc.)
- Ballpack with more than 1200 balls and assigned to each league.
- Entrances updated and improved for lot of leagues. Ligue 1 has McDonald's one, UCL new anthem and looks, Bundesliga has the balloon at the center of the pitch, Liga Argentina has the arch and extras, etc.
- Goalsongs for most important teams.
- MenuServerMax from Jemp with new look at the prematch screen + gameplan screen for each competition.
- Updated chants for some teams.
- Announcer speaker added as a mod to shout some names, substitutions and extra time in some languages depending on the league you're playing on.
- New angle cameras for Broadcast and Stadium settings with new values designed for a lot of stadiums.
- New PenaltyCam angle for both teams (goalkeeper and shooter).
KNOWN BUGS
- The Player Dynamic Model has visual bugs on EDIT mode. This is something that can't be fixed, but don't worry, it will work fine when ingame.
- Player specific Dynamic Model won't work with generic faces. It needs faces to bet put on. You can download the Facepack V5 here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SPFootballLife/comments/1gkef78/release_face_collection_v5_for_fl25_05112024_the/
- MenuServerMax keeps the latest league background and stays until you go to another screen. It's just a small visual bug but it is how it works.
- Sometimes, soundtrack can be silent. Usually it autofixes when loading another screen ingame.
- Not a bug but the South American Titans is still Zalgiris Vilnius on purpose. You can still edit that team via the internal editor, or the ejogc editor.
- I didn't have any crash on long Master Leagues nor playing normal matches. All related crashes are because you're not probably using the proper EXE, not limiting the game with VSync or maybe related to the e-Cores of Intel processors.
INSTALLATION
BEFORE DOING ANYTHING:
If you have external video adboards, our face collection (SmokePatch facepack won't be affected) or any stadium pack from anywhere, just cut and save the respective folders before installing this! Usually they are:
- Faces in SiderAddons/livecpk
- Ref Faces in SiderAddons/livecpk
- Classic Faces in SiderAddons/livecpk
- Adboards in SiderAddons/content
- stadium or stadium-server folder in SiderAddons/content -> RENAME YOUR STADIUMS FOLDER TO "stadium-server" IF ITS NOT NAMED LIKE THAT
- Yes you need to start a new ML/BAL Career after this.
- Go to your main SP Football Life 2025 (usually located in C:\Program Files (x86)\SP Football Life 2025) folder and DELETE your actual SiderAddons folder (backup first what I said above!)
- Extract all the files that you see inside the MegaPatch 3 RAR over the game folder.
- To make the Player Dynamic Model work, now the main executable will be named PES2021.exe and the way to execute the game is from the "MegaPatch 3.bat" that is given. NOTE:
- Check "MegaPatch 3.bat" file with Notepad to see if the path that contains "C:\Program Files (x86)\SP Football Life 2025" matches your actual path where you have your FL2025 for both Sider.exe and PES2021.exe. Could be that you have the game in another location so you need to change it.
- **INTEL 12/13/14 GEN USERS: Read this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/SPFootballLife/comments/1i2gihs/custom_bat_file_for_launch_pes2021exe_with_intel/
- You can make a shortcut of this "MegaPatch 3.bat" to have a proper launcher. It basically executes Sider.exe + the new PES2021.exe pointing to PES21Hook.
- Put the EDIT000000000 file in the Documents\KONAMI\eFootball PES 2021 SEASON UPDATE\2025\save folder. Overwrite the file.
- FIX: Download the Entrance Fix for Competitions and replace the Entrance.lua in "SP Football Life 2025\SiderAddons\modules" folder. It's a very small file.
- Check the two Alternative Gameplay + Alternative Menus folders if you're interested. They have explanations in TXT.
- Execute the game as an admin always from that new shortcut you made!
- Remember to disable ingame music in Game Settings -> Soundtrack by unchecking the songs to enjoy the soundtrack :)
DOWNLOAD
36 GB compressed RAR, 55GB extracted.
MEGAPATCH 3 (FIXED VERSION) - 12-01-2025 - GOFILE
MEGAPATCH 3 (FIXED VERSION) - 12-01-2025 - TORRENT FILE
ENTRANCE FIX FOR COMPETITIONS - 13-01-2025 (SMALL FILE)
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- Q: Do I need to start a new ML or BAL?
- A: Yes, absolutely. All the work made in database and EDIT requires a new one.
- Q: Will be there a winter transfer update after it ends?
- A: Yes, I want to make one, but probably it will be around February or March to be aligned with American leagues. No promises yet.
- Q: Does it mean that we will have more realistic Master Leagues?
- A: Yup. With more injuries, not so unrealistic transfers, not the top tier teams at the bottom in the first season without nonsense.
- Q: There will be new adboards, facepack and stadiums?
- A: Yes, but after the MegaPatch is released. There will be a new final V6 facepack adapted to it with some of the new classic players added and thousands of updates in the actual ones, more stadium packs and adboards updated, as an addon, not included in the patch.
- Q: How much size it will take?
- A: It's 38,6 GB compressed RAR, 55GB extracted.
- Q: Will you explain how to modify the database to change or add teams?
- A: I'll try to make several streams to show you the ejogc editor to make changes. I already showed it a little on my past streams in Twitch.tv/Gondowan
- Q: What does it require?
- A: Just Football Life 2025 and its update 1.5. Follow the instructions when I'll do the post and you will be fine.
CREDITS
As always, this wouldn't be possible without all the modding community that still supports PES 2021. I suggest all of you to go to their EvoWeb threads and thank them, also every facemaker or kitmaker you see in Twitter/X that does it for free.
As the community is decreasing every year (greed, people jumping to eFootball or EA FC or just no motivation to continue modding anymore) this is really hard to keep up. There are a lot of names, but you know who they are: Hawke, minhanh158, Ficabre, zlac, Holland, jibibi, EDWARD77777, Fallons, NFS_FM, juce, pmalulu24, Tanker01, MeroMero_08, fdseven, Tiozinho, the VirtuaRED and Ultimate Master League teams and many more.
Of course, in case you want to support all my work, you can do it via Ko-Fi here. I'll appreciate it a lot, and also some of this money has been given to some modders to respect their work:
https://ko-fi.com/fl24megapatch
Thank you all again, and enjoy, even if its for a last time! See you in the pitch as always.