s you know, the teams at the studio have been working hard to address issues raised by the community since the launch of FIFA 12. A number of updates have already been rolled out to servers, and that will continue as will work on a range of things not included in this particular update - but we can now bring you details of a new client-side game update for PS3 and Xbox 360.

First of all, thank you for your patience while we have worked on this, and thanks again to all those who have helped us out as we investigated the roots of some of the problems.

When will it arrive?

The patch is now live on PS3 in the EU and North America. The update will become available on Xbox 360 between 11am and 2pm GMT today (18 October).

Patches for PC and Mac have already been released. Find out more about those here: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

Whats in the update?

Goalkeeper control in online matches: We asked for your feedback and we got lots of it. After reviewing that and our own telemetry, we decided that enough people were abusing this feature online to negatively affect the experience of the majority. So we have decided to remove the ability to press Back/Select and play as the goalkeeper, allowing the CPU to defend, in all online matches. The function remains available in offline matches.

Fixed a situation that would see the user in an empty FUT Store without button functionality.

Fixed a FUT crash when using custom tactics.

Fixed a hard lock that would occur when applying a Manager Contract after purchasing a Bronze Premium Pack in FUT.

Fixed a situation that would see some users being disconnected from FUT after five seconds of connectivity.

We have optimized the FUT server to speed up transactions.

Fixed a situation where the game would hang when downloading a Game Face.

Fixed a situation that would allow an online team to be controlled by other player.