Football Manager Handheld 2014 Official Feedback Thread

I reserved the 00.00 - 00.10 time frame for this download so if everyone else can stop it would be much appreciated

Interesting. When I click the android play store link, I get to the page. When I click purchase, an error message pops up that the item couldnt be found.

You were right. It now works.

Judt started my career game unemployed. Didnt have to wait long for Stockport coming knocking my door. The new UI is gorgeous. Even the font looks polished and better but I can be mistaken. But, but, but, I find it unfortunate that the confirm button is in the upper right corner. Now my hand has to move in order to click whereas I was able to hold the tablet and click confirm at the same time under FMH13

I got a 9.7 incher. Maybe for people with 7ers, it is different. Only playing 10 minutes but it is quite a bother.

I'm playing game on iPhone 5s, game very slick, runs so smooth, as has been mentioned the UI looks great!

Loving the fact you can save to iCloud..........now, where did I put my iPad!

Yeah, either it is my imagination or game runs even faster. Thinking of rather playing it on my phone since the hand shifting is bothersome on tablet.

By any chance do you have a relatively 'low' grip on your tablet (i.e. right at the bottom corners?)

My hands are not exactly large but also not small. When I hold my tablet, the thumbs line pretty much up with the center of the tablet's edges. FMH13 I just pointed the tip of my right thumb down to the right hand corner in order to press continue/confirm. Now my whole hand has to shift half way up in order to accomplish the same. A detail only but it is quite noticeable.

Btw, loving match day UI. Match and match stats on one single page. And font def. is different. Overall looks are a lot better this year. It feels more like a PC game of old rather than handheld. In my book this is a plus.

Loving match analysis. But what am I doing about "slow to close down opposition players"? Seems parts of the game have improved in areas where the match engine cant keep up with.

Loving the new look of the game. Defiantly feels more like the PC version. Only complaint is no formation view in Squad view. Other than that its making my nightshift a whole lot more enjoyable!!

Is the game not available on kindle fire this year?

This still hasn't been decided yet, any news on the subject and we'll post it here.

Ok any idea on when this will be decided

Hm, at half time I had set my team to pressing. Surely, it would help to get advice from inside the game what has to be changed in order to solve the issue. Still, I am missing opposition instructions. That again is down to the match engine.

Is there a club history such as all-time top scorer,record signing etc

I've just downloaded the game, but haven't had a chance to have a look around the new features as yet (it may be a step up for me, as the last version I have is FHM2012. A club history as suggested by the post above would be awesome.

Just a bugbear of mine but it seems to be happening as much in this version as FMH13. I mainly play with Non-League sides and the merry-go-round of Non-League managers is very unrealistic. Not only that they're sacked extremely quickly when, on average, they're given more time than their Football League counterparts, but they also jump into each other's jobs!

The amount of Conference North/South managers that leave to join another CN/CS team is just strange. You rarely see it in real life, with clubs taking a punt on a young ex-pro or a boss from lower down the Pyramid.

I have just simmed a season on my iPhone and these clubs have different managers than they started with, who they recruited from another Conference North/South side.

CN

Altrincham (Ian Allinson, from Boreham Wood)

Gloucester City (Alex Pike, from Gosport Borough)

Hednesford Town (Mark Goldberg, from Bromley)

Bradford PA (Tommy Warrilow, from Tonbridge Angels)

Harrogate Town (Tommy Widdrington, from Eastbourne Boro)

Oxford City (Danny Cowley, from Concord Rangers)

Solihull Moors (Johnson Hippolyte, from Maidenhead)

CS

Maidenhead (Carl Heeley, from Worcester City)

Eastbourne Boro (Marcus Bignot, from Solihull Moors)

Gosport Borough (Paul Holleran, from Leamington)

Concord Rangers (Carl MacAuley, from Vauxhall)

Hayes & Yeading (David Mehew, from Gloucester)

Bishop's Stortford (Mike Ford, from Oxford City)

Sutton United (John Deacey, from Bradford PA)

Boreham Wood (Steve Housham, from Gainsborough)

Tonbridge Angels (Billy Heath, from Bradford PA)

Bromley (Darren Edmondson, from Workington)

Seems an abnormally large amount to shift from one division to the other (no inter-division moves either...). Has this been looked at in the past?

Also, Altrincham always seem to be put into Conference South in the second season, regardless of who gets promoted/relegated. I presume this is a bug? Pretty sure it happened in FMH13 as well.

If you mean 'during' the match then it was a specific choice to make the analysis post-match, what I didn't want was players feeling they were just getting instructions and following them - rather the aim is to try and give advice to people on what might be going right and wrong and hopefully help them improve their management potentially ... I expect/hope this feature will evolve and improve over time now its in and appreciate your feedback

(I do however agree it might be a good idea for me to expose opposition instructions to human users in the future)

Certainly advice should be post match but half time feedback might be useful especially if there is no log of match events. In the old days one would keep an eye on match text commentary to see repeated events indicating an issue e.g. like certain players having too much space and taking regular shots etc.

where is the love for the amazon store ....... gutted its not able to be played on the kindle fire like '13 is !

PLEASE Swap the Tactics and the Settings buttons on iPad...... :-()

Does anyone know if the game will make it to the windows store? I've got a surface RT and have no idea if the handheld version will be available. Seems a shame if it doesn't as the tablet is pretty powerful and would be able to cope just like a newer tablet.

So far, I must say that I love the new features! My club is great, the player progress is awesome! However, i feel that the new interface plays great on the iPad, but not so great on the iPhone. The news on the iPad is a joy to use, while on the iPhone the only change was to move the news button to the left, making it inconvenient for those of us who were used to the previous years where the button was on the right.

Other thing that doesn't feel great was moving the continue button to the top right, as mentioned before. The action menu button also was moved. I'm unsure why change things that people are used to, and that worked well. Imagine if Microsoft decided that windows should now be closed by a button on the bottom left instead of the usual top right. There would be chaos!

All in all I think that the core changes and additions are great: large database, my club, progress reviews. However, the new interface had some changes that were unnecessary and just bring inconvenience to those who were already used to the franchise. This problem is more pronounced on the iPhone than the ipad. The ipad actually had a lot going on for it as the overall visuals look much better than in the iPhone. Basically the feel I have is that FMH13 was designed for the iPhone and did not use the extra screen size in the ipad at all, while fmh14 looks great on the ipad, but rather cluttered in the smaller screens.

It is a great game as usual, just thought I would share what I think that can be improved!

Thanks for the feedback King Costly. I think it's mainly down to the number of managers we store in the database is much fewer than perhaps say the PC game, so we don't really have room for managers who are that low down the footballing pyramid. This means realistically the only managers who are available are other non-league managers - creating the "merry-go-round" effect.

No problem. I thought that might be the reason for it, thanks for the reply. Really enjoying the game regardless!

On the new UI, the fact the CM9798 style has gone has killed a bit of my soul.

On a more serious note, it is quite busy on my 4.7 inch phone, I imagine it will look a lot nicer on the 10" tab later.

Delighted to hear the transfer system has been worked on, the area most in need I felt.

Edit: One thing which is always a shame is that you can't use the player search to filter by nationality - as I like to keep my 'domestic player bias' high.

Guys, thank you so much for this! And with an earlier release more tied in with the "fat" version.

As somoeone who owned every pc version since CM2 up to FM12, (now life means I cant give time to full PC career) this has been my diet for the past couple of seasons.

Loving the revamped nature of the game!

Im always worried about Facebook integration - but wouldnt it be great if when creating a club you can select real facebook friends to add to the team (instead of typing names out) and their profile picture becomes the player picture... with potential notifications sent to the person that they are in your team etc... probably a lot more difficult to do in reality... but I love the idea of this!

It's an interesting idea - I'm not sure how well it would slot with the ethos of FMH and would be a fair bit of work but something that we'll discuss internally

the app "flick cricket" has this feature- your cricket team made up of facebook friends... but i imagine itd be a lot more messy and lots of work for a complex app like FMH ... but thanks for the reply!

best version yet!

Just wanted to ask one thing, I have the note 3, and the version I downloaded means I need to stretch game to fit the full screen, this make the text slightly blocky and not as polished as I thought it would be on a new HD Screen.

I just wondered if I could download the tablet version and downscale, or do I keep it the way it is?

This isn't a complaint and it's my fault for having an awkward size screen, just would like some feedback.

Thanks in advance

Sam

No plans at present to release on the Surface RT I'm afraid - simply put there aren't enough of them out there to make it a compelling business case.

is that the same reason why its not out on kindle fire ?

I bought it an hour ago and I love it! My Club is a great new feature!

Still learning how to play properly, with all the tactics and the transfer system.

Quick question, how different will this be to the Vita version?

Hi Alari

Thanks for that, thought it was just me, no need to apologise! It's a great game and it won't effect my enjoyment, would be nice to be fixed at some point thats all

The Vita version will be an adaptation of the FMC mode in the PC game.

Great to hear you're enjoying the game by the way!

I might stick to the iPad version, only because I will play for several hours at a time and the iPad has the better battery

I put the iPad version through its paces, and it's absolutely fantastic. I'm so glad that the UI is now more like the desktop FM experience.

For transfer bids, I can't find the option to offer clauses like monthly payments, after games, after goals, etc.

Has this been removed? If so was it because that was sometimes used to make successful transfers with little funds available?