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AI does that because it keeps calling only center backs an left/right backs to the banch, its an average of 5 defenders out of 9 subs per game. Im tired too, I went to general discussion forum and posted a ridiculous thing that happened in the first season game on a new save I created post patch and I was accused of moaning by other users. The current state of the AI its unbelieveble, Im done trying to help with opening bugs, the last post I did was that one in the general discussion, and yes maybe I was a litle bit stressed, but its hard to see things like that keep happening patch after patch so I will never again open a bug for this FM edition. Im really consediring if I should buy the 25 since all I see is useless new features keep being addded instead of SI try so solve the issues that are present for so many years.

And whats wrong with that? It is a crime to change the opinion about something? When I started to play the beta version, there were so many issues I didnt notice that later came up in my save that i qualify as a game breaking experience. Whats wrong about having an opinion and then after some time realize that I was mistaken? Again, you can praise this edition as long as you want, I did a mistake earlier by consediring this edition better than before, only to realize that are some issues that take away the fun of playing it. If you never changed an opinion before in your life, congratulaions, you are the best person in the World!!!

If i didnt open many bugs about that I would not be here complaining about something that I think shouldnt be hapenning. Dude, im not even continue to argue with someone that doesnt see something so obvious as you. I payed 50€ for something that was advertised with an headline feature as "better AI decision making" and I have the right to post my opinion and how I feel about the current state of the game. I feel like I was decieved by SI and i couldnt care less about what you think of my post. If you want to play and win easely, thats on you. Im not forced to have the same opinion as you and others about AI not using enough youth players. For me, it is a priority that a football simulator like FM SIMULATES what happens in real life, like it allways have done. Im a developer so I get really well what is a computer game and a set of instructions, and again in my opinion, the set of instructions must have priorities. The first one must allways be "AI must try to win the game and pick the best players". If you want a kids footbal game, go play Fifa, im not intersted in winning championships easy just because you and others where upset that the AI didnt pick 10 youths in every match and now Im playing a youth simulator where I win the championship with no dificulty. You have your opinion, and i have mine, if I think ths is the worst FM of all time and if you dont like my opinion, just scroll down and praise everything in the game.

What part of " first season match " and "They are just playing again in next saturday" did you not understand? As i can see, in your opinion, it is normal for managers in real life to rotate the team in the first league match, is that right? What are they rotating for? pre-season matches? If the manager of your team, in real life did something like that, what would be your reaction? I never saw a manager "rotating" the team in the first league match, and I am 31yo. What I see in real life is managers playing full streangth in the first match to start the season well, Specially, if the next match is one week after.

Im really disapointed with SI this year.... Just started a new Save because I thought the fixes would be in this new patch, so as I do every year, Ive created a save in Portugal managing Benfica. In the first league match of the season, Sporting, one of the contendors to win the title just lost 3-4 at home against Moreirense, a team that just went from the second division. I checked the match to see how this was even possible ( despite it can happen irl, its really something unusual ) and what i found was that the "Better AI team selection" advertised with the new patch is just bullsh..... Im sorry but I have to say it like that. As you can see, there are many players missing from the team selection in Sporting squad page. Why? Because AI decided to call youth players from the u23 team, leaving players like Pedro Gonçaves, Gyokeres, Sebastian Coates, Paulinho and Morita out of the match. Those are key players for Sporting, not just IRL but in FM too since they are some of the best players in theyre squad. Its REALLY, REALLY amazing how bad the state of this game is in an year that was supposed to be the most complete version, with headline features like AI squad building and team selection being advertised before the release date. This kind of AI team selection decisions would only be understandeble if they had another match two days after this one, but guess what?? They are just playing again in the next saturday, so AI was not rotating the team, it was just a case of AI poor decision making. This makes me loose any kind of joy to play FM for the first time in my life... Whats the fun to be Champion when your rivals are so bad??? Its an easy game, there is no difficult at all to beat the best teams since AI cant make decisions so simple as "Pick the best players to play and ocasionally some youths to evolve them over time". We could argue about how in real life a player may not play because so many factors, but 5 Staters not playing in the same match??? What is the excuse for something like that to happen? They are not even in the banch.... Im sorry if I may seem rude but I play this game since it was named Championship Manager, and today i really can say that this veriosn of Football Manager is the worst of all time. The only thing that is the best in years, and maybe the best of all time is the ME, its really good and like it so much. But with the current state of the AI, its impossible to have some kind of good experience playing it.

how is the situation of player development? didnt see any reference about it in the patch notes. anyone can confirm that it improve?? its just a few hours, maybe its too early to question about it

You are playing the same version of the game, nothing changed after the beta. The bugs and issues will be fixed after an update release that they will launch in the next weeks/months

Never mind, I found it

how can i set the detail of the league?? My save has 20 leagues loaded, but im managing a club from the Portuguese league. If I check the stats of the top 5 leagues, players like Mbape or Halaand score too few goals. Is it possible to set the detail of some of my loaded leagues in a save that is currently on 2032???? And if so, where can i change the detail level? I play FM for years and ive never noticed something like that ever existed

I didnt ask a timeline, I know what it is when we are talking about fix something that i bet its not easy to. I requested a different answer, more like "We know this is wrong and its something we will try to fix", more or less what you did now. I understand what you said about the player base, but i must say that I have limited time too. Im a software developer of 31yo, I know what it is to code and how hard it can be to fix something thats hidden behinf so many lines of code, I play this game since I was 7 and the game was called Championship Manager. Do you think I cared more about realism when I was younger? I bet anyone who is pointing this issues related with player development and realism are the old players, not the young kids or the content creators that try to exploit any kind of bug to take advantage of it. As you can see, this is my favorite game, the limited time doesnt stop me for playing FM, I play this almost every day and that doesnt mean im someone that dont have a life, This is my favorite game for years and it really makes me sad to see that we are trying to help you,, in a tool that you give us to point possible issues in a pre release game, and the answers we get are not on a direction that i think it shoul be, sometimes almost offend us, even if it wasnt on purpose. We are trying to help you, thats just what we want, and speaking by myself, all i do in this forum is just to help you on deliever something flawless, to deliver the best football game that exists in the market.

Im sorry Michael but this isnt about being unhappy when a situation persits. Its about being unhappy about an headline feature that was highligted before the beta release by you guys and its not present in the game. Take a look at my last comment made today on this thread and tell me if the AI did anything even a litle bit realistic.... Did you read t and saw those images? Good. (Im being naive, you are not going to but ill try to continue this) Now take a look at what you guys published before the beta release: Is that kind of AI inteligence and better decisions that you guys were talking about???? To have 5 center backs in the banch and not even a single winger?? not surprising that AI just did 2 subs at the minute 91, it didnt have much options in the banch to make something diferent and try to change some things in the field and try new aprouches to win that game... If that team was loosing what could they do? well maybe sub a winger by one of the 5 center backs...... Also how can an attacking player evolve if he isnt even called for a match? This realy explains some parts of the problem with AI players development. Im really disapointed guys, its like you said something would be better and somehow it isnt and you cant even say something like "we are sorry, this shouldnt be like it is, we will fix this as soon as we can because this feature is important and thats why we higlited this feature before, it was no just becuse we want to fool you and make you intersted to buy the game". You are just basically saying "Oh are you not happy?? Too bad, if we bother one day we will fix this for you".

The first match of this image was played today, with the full game downloaded and installed. Its an AI match. 2 subs made at the 91st minute.... Look at this banch...... 5 defenders, 4 of them are center backs, not even a single winger. The 9th sub that is missing in this image but we can see in the match statistics its just a joke A 15 YO wonderkid, yet... another defender, making a total of 5 center backs out of 6 defenders in a banch of 9 players... this is just pathetic SI im sorry to tell you, the ME feels so good and then this takes away any kind of joy for players that like realism, specially if we talk about AI Managers.

subtitutions keep happening late and just 2 or 3 subs are made .... AI keeps calling just defenders to the banch so it cant subsitute attacking players,,,, im really disapointed because it seems the same game that we played so far. Hope this happens because today was just to make the full release of the game in order to be available for everyone and theyre planning to do a release with a huge update in the next weeks with the bug fixes....

Hi Zachary, Thank you for providing an update to us, Its good to know that we dont loose time when we try to point some issues that we think that shouldnt be happening. Im happy with what you said and I agree with you about the topic of how you think transfers should occur over time, but, about the substituissions issue, I really hope you dont let pass this other one that Ive opened in another thread. I know you have put it under review, and even if you guys can fix the substituition issue, please make it look like if it was a real manager changing the players. It doesnt matter if substituitions happen or not if AI just replaces defenders by other defenders when its loosing. Substitutions have to work, but, it has to make sense. AI managers need to have (or at least try to have) options in the bench for every position in theyre system and should prioritize attacking players like a real manager does in real life, because those are the players that get off of the match most of the time. If AI looks for players in the transfer market that fit like a glove in theyre tactical system, the bench needs to have the same logic, needs different players that are ready to play in any position in case of an inury, by one of the starters playing bad, it doesnt matter, even if the the only attacking player available to be in the bench is a 17yo, AI must call him to the game, thats how youngster are unvealed many times in real life, by an unexpected opportunty. What it doesnt need, is a bench like Man City in one of the images i attached, Hope the issue is related to mine and all goes well when the full game is released.

unfortunately thats exactly how the majority of people think and we are the annoying ones.....