[DMC with Attack duty]

To the best of my knowledge, given the new Wide Centre-Back role, there is now only one position on the pitch that cannot have an Attack duty: the central defensive midfielder.

To either side of the DMC can be a Segundo Volante. Directly behind them can be a Libero. But the DMC is given Support or Defend duties only.

My suggestion would be to allow the Roaming Playmaker to have an Attack duty. If the Advanced Playmaker can have this, why not the Roaming Playmaker?

It would add some great tactical possibilities for a playmaker who drives from deep. Like a Libero but sitting a little further forward defensively.

["Allow player who has scored 2 goals to take penalty" not working]

Unticking the "Allow player who has scored 2 goals to take penalty" instruction doesn't work. Players on a hat trick still take penalties over the chosen taker.

[Missed penalties]

Same here. IRL the very best penalty takers score around 90%. In-game, it's 60% at best. Also, penalties seem to be missed/saved mostly in cup games, for some reason. Is there some code specifying that cup games are higher pressure or something?

[Football Manager 2020 Feedback Thread]

18 minutes ago, kuru said:

Also (and again, apologies if this have been a long time known issue), but everyone else having the problem of their fullbacks getting caught offside too many times for it to be realistic in a single game?

+1

["Allow player who has scored 2 goals to take penalty" issue]

+1. Same here.

 

Annoying when your lumbering centre back who has smashed in two goals with his face then decides to blast his penality into row Z when you've explicitly told your team not to do that.

[Football Manager 2020 Feedback Thread]

Played a few games with the new patch. Huuuuuge improvement. Wide play problems resolved, as far as I can see. Nor (so far at least) does the AI, when put under pressure, just resort to kicking my players until they have 2 or 3 (or, on one occasion, 4) players sent off.

True that there are a lot more long balls over the top, even from players who 'Play short simple passes,' etc. Not a problem for me as I've been playing a direct tactic anyway and previously the problem was with not getting bogged down in midfield congestion. Will try dialing directness settings back a bit and see if it becomes a bit more balanced.

[Club Vision Ideas?]

I noticed Barca not having that set. However, the responsibility for club vision seems to mostly come from the Chairperson/President. Different options are available on a person's Club Vision compared to the section in the club profile, too.

[[FM20] E20 - England to Level 20 - 454 playable divisions]

8 hours ago, Dan BHTFC said:

There is an issue at the moment where I can't edit how many teams get relegated from the default leagues, with this it means I cannot verify the database, I don't know if there will be a fix for this or it is only editable in the Advanced Editor (which I never use), once I know more I will let you know

I had this same issue and assumed it was a result of my own ignorance. Kind of wish it was… Hope SI get this changed. It'd be a strange thing to take away on purpose.

[More flexible 'swap positions' instruction]

The 'swap positions' option in tactics is fun but extremely limited. It only allows players swap positions if none of them have individual instructions set. If they do have individual instructions, they just swap once (after about 13 minutes) and then never swap back. It would be great if swap positions and individual instructions could be set at the same time.

[PPM: 'uses both feet' (for set pieces, etc.)]

Truly two-footed players are uncommon. However, you may have seen the young Mason Greenwood using both feet to take free kicks and penalties. Impressive! In FM2019, his stats are 'left foot: 20' and 'right foot: 18.' However, in the game, even a player with 20/20 left/right foot will never alternate which side they use for set pieces. A player with 20/20 left/right will always act as though they are right-footed, by default.

A PPM that makes them alternate between left and right depending on the circumstance (perhaps mediated by their 'decision' stat) would be very cool. Particularly if Greenwood fulfills his promise and we see this skill on our TVs more regularly. But also, academy players are so well trained these days, this kind of skill may be becoming more common. The highly skilled playmaker whose other peg is only good for standing on has itself become somewhat unusual. By contrast the two-footed wide forward who can drive towards the goal or to the byline with equal comfort has become pretty much standard for most top level teams.