DP

How have you been playing the game like that when you know about the face and logo packs? They make the game so much easier on the eye.

It's not this as keepers can get injured. It's lack of a collision engine.

It's impossible for a keeper to be sent off in FM17. The engine doesn't allow for it. You may see it in games/leagues that are not on full detail but you'll never see in a match or a full detail sim. It's genuinely impossible. If anyone wishes to refute that and show evidence please go ahead.

The way they look is also a problem. All the eyes appear to be the same making it feel there is little difference in the overall look from one to the other. Wonder if this is being tweaked further in the upcoming patch? It's an odd one as they looked great last year.

Arsenal

Ha. Of course they never. Amd that's the problem.

How do you know it's dragging the ball wide of him? how do you know this isn't the player dragging the ball wide of him rather than properly rounding him?

Apart from the match engine ten years where goalkeepers could be sent off? Let's not pretend the ME doesn't require lots of work (probably in future versions now) to allow it to represent real world football adequately.

If only the animations were as good.

Is there a different 3rd party doing the face gen for regens this year?

I don't even think this is the case anymore. Match engine has now been tuned to the point where it cannot happen. Unless you have an example in fm17? Last time I saw this was about fm13 I think.

Which begs the question, do you actually get a more realistic game world if you turn the full sim off? this game ffs. Sigh.

Trust me there's still reason to put one on the bench. I was using my reserve keeper in a CL quarter final as my regular was injured and thought there's no way I'll get another keeper injury. Wrong. Reserve keeper went off injured in the game and I lost 6-1 with my defender having to play 40 odd minutes in goal.

It's because the animation purely doesn't exist. See also players attempting to lob the keeper from outside the box and red cards for keepers. They just can't happen.

It has very little impact on loading. And for me and many others it adds a lot more immersion and gives the players more character. Not everyone plays the games as a spreadsheet. We like to see some character and colour.