Football Manager 2012 Announced!

[FMtillidie]

any news on the release date?

[Fabio MVP]

any news on the release date?

Still nothing regarding release date.

[Eugene Tyson]

It's usually Novemberish

[tigerhgrrrrrr]

Will the Juve v Notts Co friendly be coded in. You could never arrange that fixture from the Notts Co side in game due to reputations but its "real life" so be good to see it in the game. Would probably lead me to trying a County save.

[Born2killzone]

I guess I'm the only one who wants dynamic rivalries in next years FM? There was some rumbling about that a few months ago before I left for deployment, now it seems the community is fine with the static rivalries.

Please S.I. can you add dynamic rivalries, that way whenever the player brings up a club from the lower echelons of a league system they can have new rivals to challenge the player on sells/buys or trophies. I don't think Liverpool or Man Utd envisioned Chelsea as one of their rivals but they probably do now since Chelsea got taken over and challenging for all honours also.

Yeah, rivalries grow and fade irl. Long term saves with lower league clubs really need this.

[FMtillidie]

at least i will get the game early, the sisters fiance works in gamestation

[pirategas]

Manage Anywhere, Anytime – the ability to add or take away playable nations in your saved game as often as you want. Manage in that country at the start of the next season- meaning you don’t have to stay in the nations which are chosen by you to be playable at the start of your career.
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The most importnant feature that I am looking forward too. Will love teh ability to swap continents at ease once you have conquered one. I usually only have Europe and the Argentinian and Brazilian leagues selected as playable to save time.

[Eugene Tyson]

Yeh going to make for a dynamic career. Might do a Wenger and manage over in Japan for a while. Do the old switcheroo then. Eventually I'd like to end up back in Europe with the familiarilty of it all, but the biggest stumbling block before was only being allowed a certain amount of leagues (due to computer being not good enough lol). This feature will definitely open up the world of Football Manager.

[Blanchflower1]

What is the minimum specs required to run FM 2012?

[FMtillidie]

What is the minimum specs required to run FM 2012?

ashume it wont be too much different to FM11,

[Eugene Tyson]

Specs haven't changed that much over the years.


2009 Specs:
Minimum requirements (PC)

Windows XP / Vista
1.4GHz processor for XP or 2.0 GHz for Vista
512MB RAM for XP or 1GB RAM for Vista
Graphic Card - 128MB Nvidia FX 5900 Ultra, ATI Radeon 9800, Intel 82915G/82910GL or better.

Minimum requirements (Mac)

Intel Mac
Mac OS 10.5.5
1GB RAM
Graphic Card - Nvidia Geforce 7300 / ATI X1600 Radeon



2011 Specs:

Windows OS System Requirements

* OS: Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7
* CPU: XP : 1.4GHz or Faster, Vista/W7 : 2.0GHz or Faster
* RAM: 512MB for XP, 1 GB for Vista/7
* HDD: 2 GB free disk space
* Graphics: 128 MB Graphics Memory
* Sound Card: DirectX 9 Compatible
* DirectX: Version 9.0c

Supported Graphics Cards: Nvidia FX 5900 Ultra or greater; ATI Radeon 9800 or greater; Intel 82915G/82910GL or greater.

MAC OS System Requirements

* OS: OS X version Leopard 10.5.8, Snow Leopard 10.6.3
* CPU: Intel 1.7 GHz
* RAM: 2 GB
* HDD: 2 GB free disk space
* Graphics: 256 MB Graphics Memory
* Sound Card: DirectX 9 Compatible
* DirectX: Version 9.0c

Supported Graphics Cards: Nvidia Geforce 7300 GT or greater; ATI Radeon X1600 or greater

[tom_numbers]

From twitter;

@milessi Miles Jacobson
I also wrote thousands of words about FM12 for blogs. Now just need them approved, translated, screenshots taken, videos done & approved, which is all out of my hands. Hopefully they'll be able to start in a week or so.

[Fabio MVP]

What is the minimum specs required to run FM 2012?

They will be announced when the demo is out.

From twitter;

@milessi Miles Jacobson
I also wrote thousands of words about FM12 for blogs. Now just need them approved, translated, screenshots taken, videos done & approved, which is all out of my hands. Hopefully they'll be able to start in a week or so.

Nice. Thank you for that.

[pigfacemonkeyman]

Really looking forward to working out the tutoring system again.

[Sunderland AFC]

all the new features look brilliant and will ad something extra. The only problem i have with FM is when you play as a wigan or swansea and lost against manchester united and the fans are concerned.

New game looks top notch

[Rub Rub]

Regarding the demo, you used to be able to do one league, english, spanish etc, and then get to 6 months and it would stop, and then be able to carry on the save once you have the full game but be restricted to the quick start league you picked, my question is, will we be able to do that in FM 2012 and then carry on, and then be able to change leagues still?

[Tobias Funke]

Yeah, quick starts are just regular save games

[Coentrao]

From twitter;

@milessi Miles Jacobson
I also wrote thousands of words about FM12 for blogs. Now just need them approved, translated, screenshots taken, videos done & approved, which is all out of my hands. Hopefully they'll be able to start in a week or so.

Great.. hopefully we'll get more screenshots and information soon.

[DeadPanda]

Transfers & Contracts – significant changes to the transfer and contract systems, including loyalty bonuses, better implementation of amateur and youth contracts, an improved transfer centre and the ability to lock areas of the contract negotiation when you aren't prepared to budge. This helps you to manage your budgets and gives you flexibility in what you offer money hungry players, or agents, as incentives.

I'm glad about improvements here, hope they work out as well as we all hope. I would love to see a transfer centre tab that shows something similar to this below. Would make deadline a bit more interesting I think:

[Keyzer Soze]

I'm glad about improvements here, hope they work out as well as we all hope. I would love to see a transfer centre tab that shows something similar to this below. Would make deadline a bit more interesting I think:

Where did you find this image?

[Rhazmuz]

When do you guys think we can expect news regarding a release date? A month before or something like that?

[Eugene Tyson]

I'd say we'd get a release date around early October, demo might be out then too.

[FDmatty]

Hope the game is released around the end of october. Got a weeks holiday then.

[Jason the Yank]

FWIW, FM '11 was released first week of November, and that date was announced in mid-September.

EDIT: And FM '10 was released at the end of October (right about Halloween)

[Eugene Tyson]

Well I'm waiting to hear when it's out - then I'm taking 2 weeks off work.

[adamc81]

i was hoping the goal celebrations might have been worked on a little instead of players just running then standing next to eachother, yeah its a little thing but im a perfectionist :-)

Also saw a listing for the 22nd of October, so presuming it will be within a couple of weeks of that.

[Eugene Tyson]

You mean like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHpAY...eature=related

Fav at 2.30

[Wanson]

Well I'm waiting to hear when it's out - then I'm taking 2 weeks off work.

Wish I could too.

[Eugene Tyson]

The quality of the screenshots from the OP are pretty poor. http://www.footballmanager.com

Any larger screenshots?

[Scab]

http://www.footballmanagerwiki.co.uk/index.php?title=Screenshots_(FM12)

Click each screenshot, then Full resolution.

[Eugene Tyson]

Thanks

[DeadPanda]

Where did you find this image?

Made it myself - it's a mock up of sorts. It's just the sort of thing I would like to see in FM and I reckon it would be easily - comparitively with the other features already in FM - to implement.

[Vector]

I hope you added the posibility of organizing friendly matches in neutral grounds (This kind of matches only happen at the begining of a save, then only the World Cup and the continental cups, but those are not friendly). And...maybe it's not that important but, when a country is hosting an international tournament (World cup or continental cup) the team should be recognized as local, and not neutral like the other teams.

[Keyzer Soze]

One thing i like to see implement is, on international management, you should be given the option to choose a pitch size for home games.

[Eugene Tyson]

If they do anything with international management it should be able to assign preferences to what players you call up.

I.e., I can mark players with a "1" and the next international I'm asked if I want to call up those players.

Of course I'd have players marked in "2" also.

So if a player isn't available you can go to your number 2 choices and see.

Just make it easier.

[Kanukki]

Regarding the demo, you used to be able to do one league, english, spanish etc, and then get to 6 months and it would stop, and then be able to carry on the save once you have the full game but be restricted to the quick start league you picked, my question is, will we be able to do that in FM 2012 and then carry on, and then be able to change leagues still?

I suspect that this will be possible, but the real limitation will be the starting database size. The demo comes with a very limited database IIRC, and as I understand the 'Manage Anytime Anywhere' feature, adding leagues will simulate player histories from the starting database. So adding if you add a new league, there would not likely be any real players but only fake players or regens.

[Mooki3]

The aspect of the game I'd like to see changed most would be really simple and would create a much better game for everyone;

Simply; add a box to the 'new game screen' that says something like "play with 'b' teams as 'reserve teams'", so basically the 'b teams' become reserve teams that you can control the squad & transfers & training etc.

Just so I can finally play a game in Spain. It's the best league in the world, but I can't use it on FM because of the stupidity of the 'b teams'... Now some people may like a management simulation where you don't actually manage all of you team, but not me.

[Eugene Tyson]

That's how the Spanish league works. It's nothing to do with any "stupidity". Spanish managers don't control their B teams. That's how the league is structured.

Had someone explain it to me before, I'll see if I can find the thread.

[Eugene Tyson]

There you go

http://community.sigames.com/showthr...n+eugene+tyson

[GaIatasaray_35]

Although I am waiting for FM12 to be released as soon as possible, I have to admit that I cant see the regular pre game hype that used to surround the forums in previous editions of the FM games...

[Eugene Tyson]

That's cos I feel a lot of them are prima donnas that seem to think that SI or Sega owe them.

I'm excited about the game.

[Keyzer Soze]

Although I am waiting for FM12 to be released as soon as possible, I have to admit that I cant see the regular pre game hype that used to surround the forums in previous editions of the FM games...

Just wait a couple more days untill the blogs start up! Then you will see the usual hype!

[becherovska]

Any chance to have enhanced stadium ambiance with hymns and chants in FM12 ?

[Eugene Tyson]

You can hum along yourself.

[sidanger]

Any update to the regularity of team specific chants?

[pigfacemonkeyman]

Any update to the regularity of team specific chants?

Please tell me that awful 'tune' that's played when certain teams score isn't coming into the game.

[Vector]

Please tell me that awful 'tune' that's played when certain teams score isn't coming into the game.

What awful tune?

[Scab]

I'm guessing he means music that plays in certain stadia when the home team scores.

[DeadPanda]

I'm guessing he means music that plays in certain stadia when the home team scores.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wKEO7LMYtI

OTBC.

I would play FM just to hear this everytime I score as Norwich <3

[pigfacemonkeyman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wKEO7LMYtI

Argh! Burnley, Wolves, et al. Aaaarrrrggh!

[bigdanio]

Play.com are taking pre-orders and state the release date as 21st October.

I know there's nothing official, but they have picked this date based on something.

[pigfacemonkeyman]

Play.com are taking pre-orders and state the release date as 21st October.

I know there's nothing official, but they have picked this date based on something.

Probably to get people excited so they immediately order from them.

[themadsheep2001]

Probably to get people excited so they immediately order from them.

exactly, had the same thing last year, they all turned out to be wrong

[milnerpoint]

yeah its just a ploy to get you to part with your money quickly, they have no idea when it will come out, and when the date comes and goes they will fall back on blaming SI for pushing the date back, when in reality that date was never a release date at all, but no one will buy something when they have no idea what date they will receive it.

[masticator]

so no new officail announcements in nearly a month. is that a good or bad thing?

[Kriss]

It's a normal thing when there's something to announce it'll be announced here first.

[pigfacemonkeyman]

yeah its just a ploy to get you to part with your money quickly, they have no idea when it will come out, and when the date comes and goes they will fall back on blaming SI for pushing the date back, when in reality that date was never a release date at all, but no one will buy something when they have no idea what date they will receive it.

So you haven't pre-ordered it then!

[milnerpoint]

no need to pre-order when you use steam, otherwise being the fanboi i am i would have it pre-ordered already haha

[Kedzierz]

http://cdn.medialib.computerandvideo...mb_wide940.jpg

Can i know what font it is?

[DeadPanda]

http://cdn.medialib.computerandvideo...mb_wide940.jpg

Can i know what font it is?

I asked this too... Would be nice to know it straight.

[Snowy]

I gotta start this post with I love the football Manager series since it first came out, This season I have been looking forward to it even more since Swansea have reached the premiership, but I really can't help being disappointed with the game, it just seems that they update the teams and give the press conference more options every year and every other thing seems irrelevant to the game, and its just put there to make it seem even more like a new game. I really hope that something new comes to this game to bring something fresh to the board because at the moment I can't help feeling that the game is getting very stale.

[bolulu]

I would just like the ability to delete all scouts reports with one button, instead of having to do it individually. There are sometimes 20+ players scouted at one go!
Because of this waste of time I no longer use scouts to check other Divs., countries, etc. because it takes too long to delete the results. You can tell from the stars shown who you are interested in, the rest; one button delete please!

[noobie12]

Something I would like is the player value having the ability to go higher than it is now, without buying them, it seems to be locked at £36m.

[DeadPanda]

I would just like the ability to delete all scouts reports with one button, instead of having to do it individually. There are sometimes 20+ players scouted at one go!
Because of this waste of time I no longer use scouts to check other Divs., countries, etc. because it takes too long to delete the results. You can tell from the stars shown who you are interested in, the rest; one button delete please!

This already is possible. highlight one player, shift click to another in the list, right click and clear scout reports.

[pigfacemonkeyman]

I would just like the ability to delete all scouts reports with one button, instead of having to do it individually. There are sometimes 20+ players scouted at one go!
Because of this waste of time I no longer use scouts to check other Divs., countries, etc. because it takes too long to delete the results. You can tell from the stars shown who you are interested in, the rest; one button delete please!

Don't know if FM11 is the same but, in FM10 you can remove groups of reports done through assignments; Scouting>Highlight Scout>Highlight Assignment>Click Remove Button.

[TheInvisibleMan]

HMV says release date is the 28th of October. Probably just a guess, but they do have links with SI and FM.

[Matteo3champions]

HMV says release date is the 28th of October. Probably just a guess, but they do have links with SI and FM.

also last year the websites tried to guess the release dates. i remember that a lot of them said 29 october, and then was 5th november. the period will be the same, not before 20th october, not later 15th november.

SI last year revealed the release date on 18th september. this year could be similar...

[jim morrow]

No new video or screenshots from FM 2012 ?

[Kriss]

There is NO release date as yet, you'll hear it here first.

[bigdanio]

They don't have release dates for many unreleased games so I would be curious as to where this date has come from.

For example, the handheld version has no date.

[pigfacemonkeyman]

I wonder if SI wil release a date for when they will reveal what the release date is.

[Kriss]

I heard a rumour that they'll start a rumour based on total conjecture, (no date for that yet though)

[Keyzer Soze]

Theres is a rumor already about the starting date of that rumor!

[gazzamark]

Can anyone confirm if the bug where you get a new stadium and the following year the name has vanished from the game been fixed for FM12?

[EnriqueZove]

http://www.footballmanagerwiki.co.uk/index.php?title=Screenshots_(FM12)

Click each screenshot, then Full resolution.

Didn't knew we had a wiki for this also. Would have spent some time there. thank you for bringing it out

[insai]

so any ETA on a demo ?

[FrazT]

so any ETA on a demo ?

See post 670

[FM CHELSEA]

The Match engine looks the same and all, but don't affect my passion for this brilliant game.

[Jason the Yank]

so any ETA on a demo ?

"When it's ready" [/standard SI response]

[Matt_no_7]

A few things i'd like to see put right....

1. Now there is just one award (fifa ballon d'or) rather than the old two awards (world player and world footballer which in real life would be the ballon d'or and fifa world player of the year) so i would like to see that in addition to adding awards like world manager, best goal (fifa puskas award). Perhaps also have available the option to view past winners of the awards no longer being used (seeing as it's one new award the past winners of the previous awards will disappear.)

2. The european awards (such as striker, goal keeper and so on) are awarded at the wrong time, these awards are essentially the uefa club awards given out during the champions league draw so i'd like to see that made accurate with the stats used i.e. the champions league only and the timing of the award to match that of the champions league draw (yes i've tried with the editor but it simply does not work).

3. Lower league awards, such as in the championship, don't have awards for young player and team of the year (that i've seen anyway). Tried to add them but again they won't work.

4. Placing of the away fans and perhaps even being able to choose what stadium model your team plays in.

5. The intelligence of the board. Examples being Arsenal and Man Utd. Every single game i have played, as soon as Wenger and Fergie retire it all goes down the tubes for both sides. Now don't get me wrong, Man Utd mid-table is nice but i'd rather be able to fight them down to the wire. The board make stupid, very stupid choices for manager. Man Utd hired Mike Phelan as manager after Fergie..... Good assistant manager no doubt but he sure as hell isn't good enough to manage Man Utd.

6. Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. The two stand out players of our generation, notching 40 odd goals a season........ Never seen it happen in FM. I have no doubts that i could get 40-50 goals out of Messi and Ronaldo if they were in my team but they struggle to find 20 goals when left to the AI. I wanna see these two at their devastating best come FM12, have a real challenge knocking Barcelona off their perch!


That's all i have for now, no doubt i'll remember more to keep the Si bunch on their toes lol

[laBOMBA]

During a 3d match:

crowds - tick
players - tick
refs - tick
benched players - tick
physios - tick
manager - ....?

Why is there no manager in the dugout?
It would be fun to see a manager shouting instructions during a game.

[metisse]

Regens should be better distributed by countries like Portugal (i have seen about 2 or 3 good ones; never seen a good WINGER!!!), England, Africa, etc. There aren´t enough attacking fullbacks, wingers (there are a lot of CM´s with winger atributes), number 10's and maybe defensive midfielder´s; on the other hand there are some really fast DM´s with great dribbling skills (not sure why). In my opinion there is a lack of medium skilled regens, they are either really good or crap, a lot of national teams get filled with brazillians because of this.

I have to agree with this, since it was the issue that got me itchy from the very first fm2005. I doubt this will get the attention it needs this year, but that is the reason i can't play 4 or more seasons.

[pembo3000]

looking forward to the game as always

[phnompenhandy]

I asked for that last year, and the year before.

[Mystz0r]

Am I the only one a bit disappointet at these changes? I'd at least like to see a major overhaul of the network - both online and offline - options. A lot of flaws/areas that needs to be looked at here.

[Wizard boy]

So the game will be out on oct 21. not long to wait then just need to save up now.

[MAINBOY]

It's brilliant the game is coming out this early.

[sdb4884]

Yeah I'm stoked that it's coming out on October 21!

[Wizard boy]

Doubt i`ll buy it then though going on past releases which have been very buggy. might wait till christmas to get it.

[luton]

Now we know the release date, do we know what the system requirements are

[Matt_no_7]

Doubt i`ll buy it then though going on past releases which have been very buggy. might wait till christmas to get it.

I second that notion. Wait until the patches come out and the price comes down.

[Wizard boy]

just seen new one on shopto for 19.85. its download only though but still cheapest so far.

[Vesselin]

I remember a few years ago when the release date was announced a few online shops offered some extras when preordering the game, is there such thing this year?

[aliken]

21st October good.
Now give us the demo to kill time

[phnompenhandy]

'Ang on. SI haven't announced most of the changes yet. Be patient and wait for the blogs.

[TJJESSE]

Well i have to say thanks si cause october is great. Last year it came out in november and that was annoying atleast this year it will come out during my half term.

[gkay83]

i will buy this! the 3d mode looks much better!

[Sharinel]

During a 3d match:

crowds - tick
players - tick
refs - tick
benched players - tick
physios - tick
manager - ....?

Why is there no manager in the dugout?
It would be fun to see a manager shouting instructions during a game.

There better be a massive Ray Winstone head in the stands as well, blocking the view of half the punters...

'Alright lads?'

[SiNZ]

During a 3d match:

crowds - tick
players - tick
refs - tick
benched players - tick
physios - tick
manager - ....?

Why is there no manager in the dugout?
It would be fun to see a manager shouting instructions during a game.

That explains why you have to give the game 10 minutes of match time to make a substitution and can't change your mind before the sub has been executed even if the score has changed.... we're managing the game from outside of the stadium. We don't even realise the score has changed between issuing a sub request and the sub being made!

[derfinsterling]

Probably won't happen, but since I *just* started a game, like three seasons ago, it would be majorly awesome if there was a save-game converter that allowed you to continue a game that you started in 2011. I know, there's a whole bunch of new features, but reputations, player stats, manager stats and so on haven't really changed all that much. I have no qualms if that came with some caveat, like "only a savegame that's saved with July 1st will be convertable"... or whatever.

Secondly: There will be a non-Steam-version again, I hope?