Can we please get a blog on the Match Engine

Specifically addressing:

1v1's

Long Shots

Long Throws

Corner Bugs/cheats

For me, and I hope for a lot of others, this is way more important than seeing weather icons on the fixture list.

I'm sure there will be a blog about the ME, with videos.

Just be patience.

They might be still working on the Match Engine, or having it tested fully. We don't know. A blog appears when it appears. When it's ready. When the time is right.

Was there a match engine blog last year?

Was there a match engine blog last year?

not that i can rememer, to be honest i cant see there being one, not unless they have made huge strides forward with it, but i really dont see that for FM12.

Blog post for FM11

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion/blogs/football-manager-2010/Exclusive-FM2011-blog-with-Miles-Jacobson-day-10-First-view-of-the-all-new-and-improved-match-animation-article598883.html

FM12 Match Engine Vid

http://nextgengamingblog.com/blog/new-football-manager-2012-match-engine-video/

That's all I can find in my 2 minute googe search

Anyone got anymore?

yeah but neither of them address any specific issues the OP is mentioning, they have already shown us the new animations and stuff, but i think the OP was looking more at specific situations that occur in the ME.

Yeh I don't remember any blog about this last year.

I can't find anything else either.

I remember at the start of FM11 you'd have 36 shots and 20 clear cut chances and lose 1-0. But since the last patch it doesn't happen that often. But there's plenty of cases in real life where it does happen. But I haven't had an issue with 1 on 1's for a long time.

Long shots - yeh I have to push all the sliders for midfielders all the way back. Even then they take wayward shots and I have to shout from the sideline to "work ball into box".

Long throws - not sure what that is about?

Corner bug - never experienced this myself.

I'm sure things will be improved on. And then something won't work for the masses as expected

A blog on it would be nice. But I can't find any info for previous releases either.

didn't they do a blog with the changes in the ME?

I remember seeing a list of all the changes in the ME, but perhaps that wasn't a blog... a thread in the forum?

didn't they do a blog with the changes in the ME?

I remember seeing a list of all the changes in the ME, but perhaps that wasn't a blog... a thread in the forum?

They release a change list when they put out patches that have a lot of the ME changes but not them all. Thing is they are not going to release blogs highlighting ME issues from previous patches, they will only give us info on what they are improving not what they have "fixed" so to speak.

Yeh I don't remember any blog about this last year.

I can't find anything else either.

I remember at the start of FM11 you'd have 36 shots and 20 clear cut chances and lose 1-0. But since the last patch it doesn't happen that often. But there's plenty of cases in real life where it does happen. But I haven't had an issue with 1 on 1's for a long time.

Long shots - yeh I have to push all the sliders for midfielders all the way back. Even then they take wayward shots and I have to shout from the sideline to "work ball into box".

Long throws - not sure what that is about?

Corner bug - never experienced this myself.

I'm sure things will be improved on. And then something won't work for the masses as expected

A blog on it would be nice. But I can't find any info for previous releases either.

1v1's: A lot of people have a problem with 'too many of these chances being created and not enough going in' basically. Personally I have Hernandez playing as a 'last man' striker and he misses an astronomical amount of them.

Long throws: They basically don't work. There are a few about it. I have Chiellini 20/20 for throw ins and haven't come close to scoring for 4+ seasons. It's essentially a counter-attack generator at present.

Long shots: well known issue

Corner bugs: there are always a few of them, I'm wondering if there is realistically anything that can be done to stop it.

the problem with the 1 on 1's is not so much the striker missing them but the team creating too many of them with certain styles of tactics that usually inadvertently exploit a weakness in the ME, they will def be looking at that side of things, things like headers being too accurate seem to also contribute to this. I dont think there is one thing they can change to fix the issue it will be a number of different things that all contribute to the situation coming up.

They release a change list when they put out patches that have a lot of the ME changes but not them all. Thing is they are not going to release blogs highlighting ME issues from previous patches, they will only give us info on what they are improving not what they have "fixed" so to speak.

Yep, if its like last year, then the ME feedback thread will be up when the demo comes out, with a list of the changes they have made between 11.3 and FM12

The only big flaw i saw in the ME this years (11.3 version) was the corner bug. In fact with a good header and taking the corner to the first post, you score too many goals.

But that's a flaw that you can prevent... by setting your corners to mixed for example.

Apart from that, i really feel that 11.3 version was very good, and really enjou watching the games.

Haven't they said previously that fixing the corner bug would mean rewriting the defensive code from the ground up, something they are unwilling to do.