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There is no difference between AI and User in the match engine. How many times does it need to be said?!
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Weird how I'm sitting in joint 1st in Vanarama North with Scarborough. Game is so rigged against players 🙄
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I do all the leagues I'm interested in. Any major country like France or England gets all leagues loaded. I probably have 90% of the countries loaded worldwide, with many only having the top two divisions playable.
Small database with all national and continental reputation players from Europe.
Around 125k players on load.
I prefer small database as large usually just loads up a bunch of fluff players and staff, and have always found there is more competition for players on smaller databases. 125k is ample for me.
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Try that while playing with Hyde or Forest Green. Guarantee your regens won't be Messi reincarnated 😂
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While not as bad as a few FMs back, it's significant. I find when my team's morale is Good to Perfect a lot more incisive passes and finishes take place. Fewer defensive errors. More robust response to aggressive team talks, etc.
Low morale is when I notice a losing streak develop. So I try to play my tactics safer and mollycoddle the overpaid manchildren a bit until they remember to check their bank balances and cheer up a bit lol
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Only thing it's useful for is quickly seeing squad depth... Which I swear we've always had for a few FMs now in the tactics screens lol?
Meanwhile... In the barren wastelands of media and press conferences that have been untouched for a decade 😂
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3 minutes ago, aj6658 said:
If i wanted to stay a new save - is it best to wait for the update?
Usually day one games are fine. I only wait for it because I want the editor and the licencing fixes to work properly. But realistically if any of the various exploits or bugs annoy you it's best to wait until at least the December fix. If they haven't fixed the supporter confidence issues some clubs will be flat out unplayable.
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SI always overestimates English players so it's not that surprising tbh
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Just an example of confusing fluff making a decent system unworkable. Keep scouting simple:
Set your scouts to focus on a position and age range within certain nations. Every week/two weeks they send a list with star recommendations for CA and PA and links to in depth reports. You know... How it used to be.
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1 hour ago, zindrinho said:
Are you playing FM21 by any chance? After they removed player conversation history I dont get angry responses to training praise anymore no matter how often you praise them.
You cannot possibly be qualified for CL halfway through the season, there's still plenty of points to play for.
Are you sure you can't? I've never had a player come complain to me about not getting enough game time without me being able to say "PLayer X is doing so well, I cant just replace him in the starting 11 because you asked me to"
My recent experience was actually the fm23beta. Praised a 18 year old for development in training after he got solid 8s and 9s while also improving key skills over 3 months. He's very angry with how convo went lol
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Have they got rid of the "confirms player signings" option in responsibilities? I used to give youth recruitment to my HoYD and then if I wasn't happy with their potential just cancel the signing at last minute.
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Big super League table is cool. Current system is washed.
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Wait for launch for editor so my mods don't get rid of club nicknames and for the usual launch day bug fixes - and my Lord are there a few for them to fix this year 😂
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OP has a point. There are loads of things in game I subconsciously do that I wouldn't IRL to beat the algorithm. Press conferences, team talks, training praise, individual training etc. You can't do any of those things organically as praising the kid who has got 9.0 average training rating for 3 weeks gets him randomly angry at me. Putting the midget who has amazing mentals and technical skills onto individual strength training turns him manically depressed. If you don't use calm or no gesture in press conferences with the second from middle response your players get upset. Etc.
Some of this stuff has literally been identical for a decade now. The game is still best in class by a country mile. But it'd be better placed charging a few quid a month to become a game as a service (already does it with game pass now) rather than charging a full price for what is essentially a transfer window update every year.
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The beta is **** easy. If anything it needs to be far more difficult. Smashed Serie A teams in the Coppa Italia with Vicenza in Serie C. Had a 12-0 win in the Serie C against a title challenger. Didn't even need to tweak much in terms of tactics.
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So I've played a few hours more since my initial thoughts post 12 hours of play, and things have improved in my opinion.
I agree that FM19 is more realistic in terms of how I want my team to play - tactics are more logical which is a good thing.
I am still struggling with the interface and things feeling cramped with too much data, or things in the wrong place. I don't understand the need to do things which don't improve the experience - like changing squad view in tactics to right side of the pitch rather than the left side, or limiting the kind of information we can see on the tabs on player attributes pages. It seems to be things are less streamlined and easy on the eye than they were, and I don't know why changes were made for the sake of changes.
But overall, I AM enjoying it more and am glad I'm giving this more time.
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So I too skipped FM18. Actually really loved FM17 it was a good blend of high performance, streamlined gameplay and a decent engine. However... what the hell has happened to FM19?! Let's start:
- The UI is (whatever skin) very unpleasant. There is far too much information on the screen and too much writing now. It actually confuses me and I just end up skipping the majority of information screens because it gives me a headache.
- Scouting: OK it's more realistic, but the menus are cramped and it's, again, confusing and unintuitive. FM17 was much better.
- Match engine: looks worse, much more cramped and laggy than FM17. In fact graphics as a whole seem to be worse. Just looking at my FM17 manager model on the landing screen when you load up the game, the model (while dreadful) at least has crisp edges whereas FM19 looks like a Minecraft character. FM19 seems to be a big step backward on graphics (which isn't why I play but still).
- Training: I have no idea what the hell is going on. Watched a tutorial youtube video. I have no time for that amount of micromanagement.
- Player interactions/press conferences: No improvements, just MORE OF THE SAME ANNOYING RUBBISH. Within 2 hours I set it all to assman only. Improving it does not mean adding more of the same, it means taking what you have and making it entertaining, which it is not. Player meetings, tunnel interviews, media scrums, it's far too much now.
- Performance: I'm playing this on a 16gb RAM, Geforce 1060, I7 high performance processor. I play Monster Hunter World on high settings, Destiny 2 on ultra. Yet this game's menus are 'sticky'/laggy, the match engine as mentioned is less fluid and there seem to be less movements from the players, and the whole optimisation of FM19 is a big step backward.
-Tactics: why is everything so cramped ?! I just want to see what their conditions and playing positions are, yet everything is cramped up on the right, laggy and frankly irritating. Also, I find the tactics revamp very confusing.
I'm honestly not sure what's happened in two years but it seems to have moved away from a fun football sim to tedium. I understand the game is a simulation but the move towards realism shouldn't be at the expense of fun - which is why I play. I was on Discord with a friend while playing FM19 on Saturday and it honestly felt more like I was working than playing a game, and they even commented it sounded like I wasn't having fun (which I wasn't).
I tried enjoying it - I put 12 hours in. But something's been lost and I think it's actually regressed.
EDIT - been playing since 2002. So long time fan here who is genuinely disappointed at this iteration
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FM23 difficulty
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Currently sitting 3rd in Conference North with Worthing. Only using scouted players for loans and free transfers. Simple 442 counter attacking tactic I rustled up. Scoring for fun with a slightly leaky defence. Mirrors my experience with Vicenza in the beta and about 10 hours into a save with Scarborough Athletic. Generally I'm erring on the side of the game being too easy at this point, though I'd have to give it full seasons to really see if that's the case.
Keep your tactics simple if you're playing LLM, be cautious with media handling and don't be afraid of aggressive team talks. Also watch a match on comprehensive. You'll see a lot more patterns as to why your team is struggling.