So after over 1500 hours of FM22 I have some feedback. I don't think I have to list everything that is positive; it's Football Manager, a brilliant, addictive, classic football management game. I love it most of the time. One thing I do not like, however:
The UI.
I don't know what happened to FM22, but there are some really infuriating things going on. Seemingly small things, but you encouter them so often they get under your skin. The tick button to the left on every player list is broken, multiselecting players is a nightmare. Everytime I go to my shorlist the player at the top is always selected for some reason, sometimes you tick several players and suddenly the game unticks them for you. I've lost count of how many times I have made players angry because I've sent them to the U21-team by mistake, or removed a player from my shortlist because of this. A nightmare.
Not to mention the jumping confirmation button on the scout reports. It was reported as a bug years ago, was fixed, and now it's back again. Or the expanding [INF]-icons that stays expanded until you click somewhere. It's tiresome when it happens everytime you look at a screen where they are present. And then there are the fixture list that refuses to show you the current fixture. It has been like that for years now.
Also, there should be a way to completley turn off all these things that expands, pop up, and drop down when you hover the mouse over them. They are so annoying. The Transfer Value in your shortlist is a great example. It pops up when you hover over it by mistake, and you have to click somewhere to get rid of it. If I want to see something, I can click on it.
I also think the injury module needs some reworking. I can play an entire season with gegenpress and I have hardy have any injuries at all, but when I do get an injury, it's crazy stuff like broken legs and out for 6 months.
Also, the Austria leauges looks lite they need some love. I'll post in the dedicated thread when/if I get the time, but: the AI do not recruit staff to the b-team as per instructed, and when I take control of the recruiting, the staff I recruit - if foreign - gets stuck waiting for a work permit forever. And I bought a norweigan player for £2.6m, loaned him back to his norweigan team for the rest for the season as he wanted, and immediately when he got back to my club I started to recieve transfer bids of £1.6m, and those weird "loans" where they sneak in future transfer fees. I, ofcourse, declined, and the player got unhappy?
But,. again, I love this game. Most of the time. I am back to the good old "just one more click on continue before bedtime"-days.