Hi,
As the title suggests, the AI are not using substitutions this season and it is killing the game for me. Having massively enjoyed Football Manager 2023 on Game Pass, I decided to pre-purchase Football Manager 2024 from Steam to get early access, having been sold on all the promises given for this game. Now 13 days after full release, I am still not playing the game since the AI do not make substitutions which is affecting the realism of the game and giving myself an unfair advantage.
Even as I pre-ordered this game for early access, I expected to face bugs early on - which has become expected of each release for this game, but I did not expect such a game-breaking bug like no AI substitutions to remain past early access.
I feel cheated having pre-purchased the game and not even playing it to this day. Right now I am frequently searching for patch notes hoping for this bug to be fixed, and with every update, I test a game to see if the issue has been resolved and to no avail.
Attached is a test match PKM for a test save to see if the latest patch 24.1.1 (from 13th November) has resolved the issue, which it hasn't. This is from a new saved game I created on 19th November to see if the issue was only occuring from a early-access saved file, but turns out it is affecting both saves. The opposition made 0 substitutions in a friendly match, which in previous games often sees plenty of substitutions to improve player fitness and test performance. This was played with comprehensive hightlights and is not based off of a Football Manager 2023 save. This was also based off of the Your World game mode. setting.
Thanks.
Aldershot v Solihull Moors - No Subs Bug.pkm
So I like to take control of individual training for players under the age of 24, but leave the rest to the assistant manager. In order to do so, I delegate the individual training to staff, but set individual training for all my players under age 24. To do so, I change the additional focus, and I receive a pop-up message asking if I want to take control of individual training for all players, for just this player, or for this player for 1 month.
What I do is choose the "take control of individual training for just this player". The problem is, after I do this, there is no toggle to hand over this player's individual training back to staff. What this means is, once I take control of this player's individual training, I am stuck with setting his additional focus for the rest of his career in my club.
I feel like I've checked every menu, button and right clicks, and cannot find a way to revert individual training for this player back to staff. I know on the console/classic versions, there is a toggle on the player's training menu, but not on the PC version. I've also noticed a few posts on other forums asking this same question but with no resolution, so I know I'm not the only one facing this issue.
Thanks for reading and looking forward to your response!