stevemc

January 27, 2023

1 hour ago, pedrosantos said:

I missed that Tnahk you. Can you please share how to edit transparency % ?

https://community.sigames.com/forums/topic/568508-fm23skin-football-manager-2023-base-skin/

Instructions in the first post.

January 26, 2023

On 25/01/2023 at 13:33, coop76 said:

Ive tried to download Stadiums but i now keep getting pop ups all the time and Sky Shield tried to block it, Any idea why?

I believe this is your parental controls with Sky, you'll need to login and change them.

On 25/01/2023 at 15:31, pedrosantos said:

My problem with backgrounds this year is that most skins seems to not support transparency (dark). Does anyone knows how to change this or know about skins that support transparency and backgrounds ?

I posted the skin I use which supports these, further up the thread^^

January 24, 2023

15 minutes ago, Sanel said:

You sure its not due your using a custom skin?

Possibly in my instance, but I've seen this pop-up in YouTube videos too.

January 24, 2023

Another UI bug, circled in red, showing two different pieces of information for the same outcome (face and the heart).

I've seen this a few times, and it corrects itself after half time.

January 24, 2023

I wouldn't be against a yearly subscription model option (not limited to) for this game if it came with regular communication, support and more smaller updates throughout the calendar year, Alpha/Beta logins for pre-testing and pre-feedback ahead of feature rollouts etc - could be a viable option for the hardcore FM audience.

January 23, 2023

28 minutes ago, ostkiz said:

Dying of success, It's really necessary for football manager have competency, zero effort on listen the community , zero self-criticism and of course zero fun playing this game.

SAD

The bizarre thing is the majority of the FM community really want the best for the game and want to help things to improve, to have that at your fingers tips from SI's point-of-view is amazing and should be positively tapped into - but it's just becoming a negative space due to the lack to responses back, feels like it's all one way, then SI do whatever they want anyway despite raising feedback and populating the bugs forum for years, or in some cases people actually having direct conversations with SI.

The big FM YouTubers are all over this too now, this is the second video DoctorBenjy has hosted regarding FM23 and FM in general - the lack of FM content this year on FM23 from DoctorBenjy and Zealand is so quiet it's almost deafening. Without serious improvement, this negative social cloud which is just beginning to bubble up is going to grow over the coming FM releases, now is the time to react.

Some great feedback and thought provokes in this vid:

January 23, 2023

27 minutes ago, Sunstrikuuu said:

Another example of something that has been reported in the bug tracker, and in the old bug forums before that, which is part of why people complain about it so much.

Very true. SI are aware of all of this stuff, but nothing appears to get done, despite the amount of times it's reported, which is so frustrating

January 23, 2023

Another example here too, of odd pointless, interactions.

Jan Oblak, apparently not happy at his playing time and should be starting more games.

He's transfer listed. Has been for two months. He's listed because he was warned about his poor form three times, he disagreed so I put him up for sale and immediately dropped him, this was a conversation within the game with him.

I'm guessing this is just simply linked and coded to his playing time being set at "First Choice Goalkeeper" rather than him realising the actual situation that's going on around him, which breaks immersion.

Pointless asking Koke, although he could simply say "you're on the transfer list mate, you're up for sale".

What's even odder is when I go in and have the conversation with him, the option is there for me to say "I'll look to sell your for the good of your career" to which he responds with "I don't want to leave boss, I just want to play, I'll show more patience in future".

He's already up for sale, what's he not understanding?

January 23, 2023

Here is the perfect example to back up my argument that staff interaction is somewhat flawed, and doesn't matter how good staff attributes are as they go away and do whatever they like.

Here is Andrea Berta suggesting a recruitment focus for AM(R) as we are weak in this area, according to the assistant manager, who's on the touchline for every single game.

I don't play with AM(R) or AM(L), never have, my formation is 3-4-1-2.

His suggestion is pointless, and in real life this idea wouldn't even be brought to the table for discussion, certainly not from someone as good and experienced as Andrea Berta.

Andrea Berta is one of the best Director of Football appointments you can make, look at his attributes - but he's not joined up with how I'm managing the club, so what's the point?

Might not seem like a biggie, but the FM is littered with these inconsistencies which just begins to grind down the immersion.

January 23, 2023

You could probably copy & paste my feedback from FM22 for FM23 and it wouldn’t be far different to this, and I could go on and on regarding points we’ve all raise over the last 3-4 years but it feels it doesn’t get recognised and worked upon but here we are, posting again.

Players, Staff & Interaction

Most of this area needs re-writing for me, some strange interactions in the game and your captain has become almost pointless in resolving any issues with team mates in FM23. There’s so many tasks to take care of, which I enjoy the most-part, but some I don’t trust to leave to staff - which I would do if the features work correctly. Director of Football and Technical Director offer daft contacts out, you can’t trust them to hire/fire staff, or bid for the correct type of player you want, even selling players they struggle with them - what’s the real point in hiring them?

Then Loan Managers, trying to loan players to clubs as a “fringe” to sit on a bench - why would that be good for development? Yes, you can pre-set this but that’s not how it’s intended to work.

Yes, you can sub-task to your staff, but there’s two issues I have with that;

1. If I let staff take control of so many areas, I might as well just play FM touch

2. I don’t trust the staff in the game, some of their decision are poor (no matter how “elite” they may be)

The full-fat version of FM should be immersive enough for the user to want to use most of those full-fat features you've icncluded, sub-tasking them to staff because they’re bugged, or not immersive, is simply not good enough. Interaction is bugged, there’s no two ways about it, there are odd interactions buried throughout. Press Conferences are so repetitive it’s boring, it’s the SAME questions over and over again, some questions are asked at incorrect times, but you can’t give them to your assistant as it negatively effects your profile for future job interviews.

Interaction I think can be solved and improved, but Press Conferences is a real tough one to make immersive and I do sympathise with SI on that.

Repetition Throughout the Game & Matchday

Something I brought up last year was how repetitive FM has become, arguably chore-like, and is becoming more bloated, and I know that’s difficult because it’s replicating real life but it all feels “samey” regardless of what country or level you manage in. Matchdays are all the same, the only thing I really do like is the broadcast licenses, like CL, EL, EFL etc, it’s great and offers differentiation from other match days, but I think that could go further too - all the popups and widgets in game should be branded too, branded Inbox messages etc. The Social Feed has been the same for years, please someone re-design it and make it feel like actual social media, same with the News screen. Stale.

Stadiums need work, we all know this, lower league stadiums are out of proportion, higher up the ladder they all feel the game, with odd graphical placement of things - match days need to feel different, maybe try and attain stadium licenses, even if it’s just for big national stadiums, like Wembley, then cup finals can feel like a real event. Even a basic stadium editor would help the community add immersion. Matchdays are a biggie for me, they need real improvement in terms of stadiums, pitches, weather, lighting, match day widgets - no two matches should really look and/or feel the game. At the minute, a PL match feels no different to the EFL Cup final.

Improvements

The Squad Planner feature is a good idea, but it doesn’t work properly, it changes when it feel likes it and changes between the two views you can switch between - surely that’s a bug? Feels like a half-hearted addition. There’s a lot of odd things about the game in long-term saves, most highlighted already but we shouldn’t have to download Daveincid realism packs to achieve what the game should actually be like from day one - and don’t give me “resource” issues, he literally does it all on his own - why don’t SI just hire him to sort it out as by the sounds of it the conversations with dev’s go nowhere. AI squad building is still iffy in long-term saves, AI don't look after youth players, reputation issues etc - I think that ties into my point above on poor staff. The new Scouting System still needs improvement, again, feels half hearted. The new Manager Timeline, in all honestly, I barely use or look at.

There’s also tons of poor UI and bugs littered throughout the game, too many to highlight, and also odd animations in match which need improving along with the graphics, it’s 2023 for God-sake, look at the tech that’s available! The skin could do with a few tweaks and tidy up’s to make certain information more readily available in the journey, and improve screenflows.

Set Pieces have been the same for years, and are STILL bugged. International Management has not been touched for years and needs an overhaul. Big YouTubers have highlighted these and for me they cannot be ignored for FM24, too many people have highlighted this for at least 2 years now - missing these will hammer home people's thoughts that SI don't actually listen to their user base's feedback.

I could write for hours on improvements, but SI will already know them as everyone posts them in here, but the proof is in the pudding, if/when they start to listen to this feedback? Curious to see if SI have focus-groups on this sort of thing. I love this game, and have done for years but it feels like it’s out growing itself now and is getting out of control in terms of being able to fix errors and bugs and becoming stale.

PRO’s:

UEFA licences - brilliant - MORE LICENSES PLEASE! I hope for FM24 SI can add the Premier League license as the UEFA is a brilliant execution. These do add immersion and differentiation throughout the game, which is badly needed.

CON’s:

Game is littered with bugs (some really silly too) that have been highlighted year-on-year and are still in there, arguably getting worse as more features are layered on top. Fix them, and improve the features you already have. Graphically still way behind what I’d expect from a game in 2023.

So far I’d give it a 6-7 out of 10, but hoping the Winter Patch will push forward some improvements, but FM24 needs BIG improvements for this to progress, and I’d start by really fixing what’s already under the hood.

January 22, 2023

Any idea what the goalkeeper is doing? Seen better animations on Sensible Soccer in the 90s.

https://www.veed.io/view/47db462e-4189-4f7f-9e55-6bc2c55276ed?source=compressor-sharing

January 22, 2023

Sick to death of players arguing back when I'm confronting them for playing poorly, or continuously playing poorly when the facts of match ratings back up they ARE playing poorly, there's no two ways about it. Me going for the interaction in the first instance IS based on fact.

Then they get the hump.

And repeat.

January 21, 2023

Spamming the thread with a few more from me, I've left Newcastle United and joined Atletico, so been newgen shopping in the summer

Carlos, came through the youth system:

Javier Lastra, came through the youth system:

Yaya Djimé, £28m signing from Valencia:

Luca Di Giacomo, £16.5m signing from Juventus:

Mlungisi Motloung, £500,000 from Sundowns:

Raúl Liñares, came through the youth system:

Mettin Zijm, £1.7m from FC Volendam:

Juan Ondo, came through the youth system:

Santiago Tadmor, £7.25m signing from Boca:

Timur Hamzic, £39m signing from Atalanta:

January 20, 2023

18 hours ago, BadAss88 said:

Looks like a nice rebuild! Perfect next plan in your 'Glory Hunter'-save!

Yeah will be, don't think there's any threads on here that I can post it in though

January 19, 2023

3 hours ago, kopfan1977 said:

Atletico would make for an interesting challenge.. Especially if they have little money

£11m and a very ageing squad

January 17, 2023

On 16/01/2023 at 12:44, Hoarau said:

Slightly off topic.... are you using Newgan for the newgens faces?

Some absolute gems there.

Yeah from The Managers Seat on YouTube.

January 15, 2023

Newcastle United: Season 6 (27/28) - Complete (Premier League)

Previous post^^

Season 5 done, very good season overall again - CHAMPIONS AGAIN

Premier League:

Topped the league with 89 points, 96 goals scored from this young team - losing five games. We started poorly but I swapped to a 3 at the back set-up due to the quality of defenders I had available which made us much tighter and tougher to break down, which I enforced with some January transfers.

Alexander Isak and Benjamin Šeško scored 33 goals each but Haaland took the golden boot with 40 goals.

Community Shield:

Started off with a a comfortable 3-1 win the Community Shield against Chelsea:

Emirates FA Cup:

WINNERS! Scraped past Manchester City 2-1. having been 0-1 down, dubious penalty decision went our way and set up off on a win.

Carabao Cup:

WINNERS! Very comfortable win 3-0 against a good Arsenal team, red card after 36 mins was the nail in they coffin.

UEFA Champions League:

Runner's up to Liverpool, game was quiet but exploded in extra time where it just passed up by, too many under performers in the final, really disappointed.

Season Review:

After turning into a Glory Hunter save, I've now won everything in England, unsure whether to give Newcastle United one more season for a crack at the Champions League, or move abroad. The Atletico Madrid job is available, but they're seriously skint with an ageing team...

January 15, 2023

On 13/01/2023 at 11:34, the_hoyle said:

I have solved the issue and it was nothing to do with the images or what I downloaded. In my wisdom when trying to make the backgrounds work with Tato's skin before I was able to find a client object browser.xml that allowed backgrounds on the skin, I had copied and pasted the original comp folder into the skin files and this was taking precedence with the images.

I have deleted the folder and now the correct backgrounds show though!

User error for me...

Glad you got it fixed mate :thup:

January 12, 2023

1 hour ago, the_hoyle said:

@stevemcI have tried updating a few of the backgrounds (including adding the one above you have posted for the corrected FA Trophy photo) but they do not update in the game. Do you know what will be over-writing the new file? The old one is either replaced or renamed so it should not be pulled through in the config

You shouldn't need to touch the config file, if you are overwriting images like-for-like.

You just drop the image in the folder, it overwrites, and it reflects in game.

January 12, 2023

I've never been a fan of these pop up screens during the game, I think they're hideous to look at, not designed well or considered, small font, too much space/gappy, nothing lines up - they look worse then there are multiple games going on:

But you have the EFL branding, so why does that pop-up not look more like this and more in keeping with the branding?

For me, those are the sorts of details that will help differentiate between different types of match days and tournaments.

January 12, 2023

Couple more January pick ups...

January 11, 2023

1 hour ago, Reflection86 said:

As it's 2028 in your save I assume he's 33? If you go into club vision and look at your boards visions, do they have a restriction of maximum one year contracts for players over the age of 32? I have this restriction in my current save. If that's the case, that will be why you can't activate the extension, as your board won't allow 2 year deals for someone his age.

Yeah that's the case, that makes sense then - had the same issue with Ward-Prowse last season.

January 10, 2023

John Stones contract expires in 6 months - but in his contract I have the option to extend for 2 years - however, I can't seem to activate it - is this a bug, or me being thick?

January 10, 2023

On 08/01/2023 at 17:49, HeartOfMidlothian said:

Question on playing time happiness…

Do sub appearances count towards a players playing time happiness or is it just starts? I know in theory subs should count but not sure on the algorithm.

Someone on a YouTube video (can't remember who) mentioned it's competitive starts of 60 minutes +

January 10, 2023

4 hours ago, Razor940 said:

Jeez... this thread is really a rather one big ****** negative circlejerk.

From everything that's wrong with the game, there's a lot of people in these last pages nitpicking things like they are big deal when they are not, crying for "breaking immersion" and saying they are giving up on the game because of the most mundane crap.

Most of you might chalk it up to low standards, but the press conferences were always like that. Been playing the franchise for a minute and I don't remember not being like this ever. Like any other heavy player I just don't care about the most boring part of the game (as it is in real life with poorer questions btw) and tbh I never saw a player care too about what my ass man said. It's not important at all.

You guys should be talking about all the features that completely missed the mark like the the mess it's the planning one or the scouting center this year. Looking just at the scouts, way more important how the scout ratings are too confusing by the standards being too low - it feels like every crap player can get a 18 evaluation and everyone with and their mothers get 15, the minimum available to setting up in the preferences -, also unless you cut the player completely from the scouting center archiving it will make the guy pop up again and again every day until you just press X (unlike past iterations), scouts keep suggesting inactive focus' players, it's a **** show this year.

It's like you are eating dog poop with rice and all you guys are talking about is how the rice is kinda al dente. You have bugs? Report them, but don't cry this river of overblowing things.

The Feedback Thread is exactly the right place to be flagging things that may "break immersion" no matter how big or small, as these are not bugs to be raised, but feedback on how the end users feels that detaches them from the game, this is exactly what this place is for - people raise these because they care about the game and want it to be the absolute best it can be, for everyone's benefit. A feature or area of the game you don't care about, someone else might love and play heavily because they game can be played in many different ways - some bugs or breaks in immersion you may never see because of the way you personally play the game. Just because press conferences were always like that doesn't mean we shouldn't stop raising it, interactions are a large part of FM, and you not caring about the most boring part of the game proves the point that they are not good enough to engage the user. Immersion and imagination is a huge part of FM, it's a safe place alot of players like to escape to from normal everyday life.

I've posted positive and negative comments in here, for many years, sadly for FM23 they're more negative because I've come across more negatives throughout the journey in this iteration of the game so far (my highest rated post in here was actually a postive one), I've also reported bugs in the past, so I've covered both off - even though some of those bugs never got fixed - because I care about the game and want it to be the best it can be. I'm still enjoying FM23, just disappointed as it could have been much better, feels like user standards are getting much higher now too, both inside this forum and outside (YouTube, Twitter/Social Media etc) which is why you'll see more negative posts, so it's on SI to improve it for FM24 onwards - the mad thing is there are so many quick wins that SI could go after and fix instead laying another "feature" on top of a complicated buggy foundation base.

There's no doubt FM is a quality game, there's also no doubt it couldn't be vastly improved and tightened up, this is the place for users to get that feedback across, without this it'll spill out negatively into social media, and that's where SI won't want it.

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