Dear Cleon, THOG and other people who know what they are talking about and the match engine inside out.
I am struggling like i've never struggled before in this game, 30 years old, been playing fm since CM2 and I've never had so much trouble as I have over the past 2 years, especially this year. I appreciate all of your detailed posts and guides in this forum, It's obvious how much work and effort has gone into it, but to put things frankly, I just cannot keep up with the information. The game is incredibly difficult for me to play these days, I've tried reading the fluidity thread, but I work 11 hours a day and only have weekends to play the game and I feel that reading mountains of guides to even try and understand positioning and basic team functions is too much work for what is essentially a game.
My question is I come across advice from you and others along the lines of "Why would you hassle opponents while your line is already high, the default is already very aggressive" or something like "your defense line will wander forward if you have fluidity set to high, set fluidity to a more rigid style" but then I read the 12 step guide and because I don't like using specialist roles, It's not smart for me to use rigid mentalities or something?
Basically what I'm getting at is that the game is extremely difficult, from what I can understand I need to know almost off by heart all the roles and how they effect forward runs, marking, tackling, positioning on the field, how often they will pass, cut inside etc... but on top of that also know what the in game shouts will do as well as the mentality and philosophy... and it just overwhelms me. When you guys say stuff like, "I use a high line with a defensive mentality to make a higher deep line", it sticks and just confuses me when I want to do anything on my own.
I've spent maybe 3-4 hours reading all the stickies and am confused to hell basically... all I want to be able to do is set my team in a nice 4-5-1 counterattacking where the team sits back and when in possession quickly transitions play to the wingers who will cut inside and try to score... but because I'm worrying about how to attain this with what fluidity, or mentality or individual instructions, I can never seem to come up with a tactic that I ever want to do, if anything does work, it's basically pure luck and as soon as the tactic loses it's effectiveness and I need a new one, I mess up, then I lose morale and I can never fix things.
I'm not saying make the game easier, but I just wish things were more open, I'm frankly amazed at how you guys will look at a formation screenshot and go "yeah you have no cover for the forwards, there will be gaps, and your full backs are crossing over inside leaving space on the sides" or such... Please help me understand how I can get into the grove of things, I have read the stickies, but it's just so dense and full of information, most of it just confuses me to hell... I'm not saying that I want to win every game with minimum effort, but currently, the game seems to be exceptionally difficult, and I'm lost, I'd be happy if my team were playing the way I wanted them to, but they don't either.
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Dear Cleon, THOG and other people who know what they are talking about and the match engine inside out.
I am struggling like i've never struggled before in this game, 30 years old, been playing fm since CM2 and I've never had so much trouble as I have over the past 2 years, especially this year. I appreciate all of your detailed posts and guides in this forum, It's obvious how much work and effort has gone into it, but to put things frankly, I just cannot keep up with the information. The game is incredibly difficult for me to play these days, I've tried reading the fluidity thread, but I work 11 hours a day and only have weekends to play the game and I feel that reading mountains of guides to even try and understand positioning and basic team functions is too much work for what is essentially a game.
My question is I come across advice from you and others along the lines of "Why would you hassle opponents while your line is already high, the default is already very aggressive" or something like "your defense line will wander forward if you have fluidity set to high, set fluidity to a more rigid style" but then I read the 12 step guide and because I don't like using specialist roles, It's not smart for me to use rigid mentalities or something?
Basically what I'm getting at is that the game is extremely difficult, from what I can understand I need to know almost off by heart all the roles and how they effect forward runs, marking, tackling, positioning on the field, how often they will pass, cut inside etc... but on top of that also know what the in game shouts will do as well as the mentality and philosophy... and it just overwhelms me. When you guys say stuff like, "I use a high line with a defensive mentality to make a higher deep line", it sticks and just confuses me when I want to do anything on my own.
I've spent maybe 3-4 hours reading all the stickies and am confused to hell basically... all I want to be able to do is set my team in a nice 4-5-1 counterattacking where the team sits back and when in possession quickly transitions play to the wingers who will cut inside and try to score... but because I'm worrying about how to attain this with what fluidity, or mentality or individual instructions, I can never seem to come up with a tactic that I ever want to do, if anything does work, it's basically pure luck and as soon as the tactic loses it's effectiveness and I need a new one, I mess up, then I lose morale and I can never fix things.
I'm not saying make the game easier, but I just wish things were more open, I'm frankly amazed at how you guys will look at a formation screenshot and go "yeah you have no cover for the forwards, there will be gaps, and your full backs are crossing over inside leaving space on the sides" or such... Please help me understand how I can get into the grove of things, I have read the stickies, but it's just so dense and full of information, most of it just confuses me to hell... I'm not saying that I want to win every game with minimum effort, but currently, the game seems to be exceptionally difficult, and I'm lost, I'd be happy if my team were playing the way I wanted them to, but they don't either.