BrightLad5

They should take a year off... release a basic DB update next October for a few quid and just work on making a new game that is actually NEW. Yearly Sports games are getting worse and worse... There are ZERO non-sport game that dont take breaks in their cycles to improve their franchise... SI need to re-evaluate things

I do now when Ive just gone onto my phone and see Zealands latest video!

I'll have to check this out! Hopefully some communication and explanation will help... who knew

This must be the first time ever they haven't made ME changes from Beta to Full release, their reasoning doesn't make much sense and seems like a façade, the line "dont want to break things by fixing thing" isn't the mentality they should have considering the amount of major issues they have with defending for example, something that was a headline feature lest we forget...

This is good. Doing this makes sense. But for everything that has already been resolved (between Beta and Full) this should be listed so we know what has and hasn't been addressed. We've been play testing the game for over 2 weeks, and SI, Miles & Football Manager have openly said many times how important it is to get thousands of different people testing the beta out and reporting bugs, something that would be impossible for SI staff to do without thousands of us reporting and "trying to break the game" like they have stated before. We've done that. Many bugs found and reports. Now we should be told what SI have fixed in the last 2 weeks. Its not too late for SI to put out a changelist today...

Yes... but we're all asking why no Change List from one version to the other like every other Game Dev does from Beta to full release. All we had was that SI have never done that so they aren't doing it... Which doesn't explain anything. All we want to know is what has changed in the game from beta to full release, it shouldnt be this big of a request...

Appreciate the response. I do wish that SI would act like other game dev's sometimes

This isnt common practice of most games was my only confusion? Most games do provide Beta changelists/patch notes when they move to full release. Just wondered what the reason was for this not being provided? It seems unnecessarily secretive almost There must be a list somewhere, just thought it would be helpful to the audience to be typed up in user friendly language and published

I'm going to ask anyway: Why is there not a change list? I don't want to keep track of a specific issue and check its status. I'd like to know what changes have been made to the game from Beta to Full Release please

It is, in my save it was very low at the start, only 1 out of 5 and after a season or two it is currently up to 3 out of 5

Rarely. Might do for youth development in my long term save but dont think it will be used by me for potential for signings. I don't really look at star rating for Current ability, mainly stick to looking at attributes

Enjoying reading the posts already from this seasons YACs! I'm going to be starting my own version of this. It is unofficial as I am going to be using the pre-game editor to complete the playing squad and add in the 10 or so missing players from my chosen team so that the club feels more complete. I do have a questions though if anyone can advise me? Do you offer part time contracts to all your players to ensure that you keep hold of them or do you leave the majority as non-contract and hope for the best? I know the wage total ramps up quickly if you offer lots of part time wage contracts so wondered what most people do?

Loving the ME and the Animation engine this year. Still don't think that FM23 should be released or classed as a new game, considering everything new is just an update or polishing of existing features. Sports games are released too quickly. The yearly model is stupid. ME and Animation engine is the saving grace.

For what its worth I had the issue too. I have posted the save game at the time of reporting the bug the other day. Save file is called "No Scouts Allowed" but it is a save file from when the News item is already in the inbox, hope it helps though

Depends how you choose to play. Maybe this is a bug, sounds like one. But there are lots of different ways to play FM

He's pretty well know in the FM Community. Plays FM for a living to be fair I agree with what you are saying though!

Did the same! More chance of a cool kit! But yeah the mystery shirt saves are cool, most sites I believe have an FM thing where the team they provide is guaranteed to be playable in FM instead of being a Nigerian Division 3 team for example

Jeez we were on page 24 when I was last here a couple days ago! I bet it was popping off last night!

Set each scout to 3 or 4 countries. They will cycle through them if you set assignment to "ongoing". For wonderkid hunting Set the criteria to Under 23 years old, potential of at least 4 star. Ideally have the countries boarding each other and from the same region (you can check the countries region in their general info tab) so they arent jetting all over the globe which slows it down. Having your scout speak the language of the county they are scouting helps. Of course if they are from said country they likely have higher existing knowledge too which makes it quicker. If you have say 10 scouts including your chief scout you can scout up to 35 countries in the assignments and leave one scout free to do other assignments (scouting U21 tournaments or scouting contract expiring players etc) This is all based on the FM22 scouting system though and through the tests and simulations we have had over the course of the FM22 cycle. Regional used to be better but Nation is better now.

oh boy! for FM22 how long was the beta release after the Youtuber Videos?

I started a Youth Academy Challenge that year... was gutted!

Yes. If the graphics were say on par with a game like FIFA 08 (from 14 years ago) that would be an improvement, regardless of what the players faces looked like. Cut aways, close ups of players lined up pre match, close ups at corner kicks etc. I would enjoy this more than the current graphics

Nope. There have been a few game breaking bugs in Betas over the past few years. It was in FM20 or FM21 maybe (somebody can confirm this I'm sure), where all Newgens were being produced with terrible hidden attributes so no Newgens for long term saves were usable tbh. This was a bug that required a new game restart. I enjoy the beta as a way to have a fun 2/3 season save with a team to see the new features, but more importantly to give SI time to identify any gamebreakers and get them fixed in time for the full release update