[Football Manager 2020 Feedback Thread]

I don't think anyone has been saying the game is too hard now, in fact I think people are finding the opposite!

[Football Manager 2020 Feedback Thread]

10 hours ago, marcus72 said:

5. Is it only me? I find top teams (ex Man City) way too strong. I come with my second placed Newcastle with high morale, excellent fitness and successful tactics (in 8 games before) to play Man C (1st place) and after less than 25 min it is 4-0. Their players (Sterling, Aguero, …) just run through my defs and score. Finally it ends 6-1. I have seen this scenario in my former saves as well very often. It can happen, but here it seems almost a rule. They even don't create much more chances than my team, but they are just unstoppable individually.

This is the biggest point for me. I manage Arsenal and we've gone from decent top four side to world beaters since the patch. Unless I'm facing another top team 9 out of ten I'm going to smash four or five past whoever I'm playing.

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41 minutes ago, thiagoanjo said:

Arsenal, 5th season, with the right transfers you will beat even international teams on world cup final, not a parameter to say the game is easy

Whilst true I'll be the first to admit I'm not very good at the game! I'm an Arenal supporter but I also pick them because they are still a challenge for me usually.

Also the change in my team had nothing to do with signings or anything like that. The patch dropped for me mid-season, I didn't sign anyone or change tactics or anything but my team went from just about hanging on to Liverpool and Manchester United's coat tails to soaring past them. I went from winning games usually by the odd goal or two to scoring at least three in the first half and rarely conceding despite having a two star young goalkeeper. I'm manager of England on the save as well and the same thing happened with them.

If I had made a bunch of huge signings in the transfer window and suddenly changed things around I would asgree but I deliberately didn't do that. The closest IRL comparison I would say is my Arsenal were a bit like Chelsea are. A young team who could get great results but also really disappointing ones. Now they are playing like last years Manchester City.

I actually like a lot of how the match engine works now. There's been some great goals and everything feels a touch more realistic from before the patch but the game is far, far too easy.

[Football Manager 2020 Feedback Thread]

I don't know if I'm alone but the update seems to have made the game far too easy.

I've been playing with Arsenal and am five seasons in. Each year I've been finishing somewhere between 3rd-6th although I got two Champions League wins in that time but they were very much outliers for my good but not great side. Maybe it would be better to say my side were pretty great on their day but there were usually teams consistently better than mine.

Since the update the game seems to have become much easier. I used have a goal difference that would be much lower than the teams around me but now it's soaring. In the first game after the update I was 5-1 at half time against a decent Everton side. I've now played about 30 games and am undefeated in all of them with about 25 of those being wins. If I'm not against another of the very top teams it is an easy win and I've found I can play a bunch of youth players in most games and still win.

Perhaps my tactics just concidentally work really well with the new patch but it's taken all the fun out of things.

["Detail Level"]

You are correct, I was thinking of the "Add/Remove league" option which I somehow missed despite it being right above "Detail Level"!

Thanks!

["Detail Level"]

In the options in game I see the "Detail Level" page. I've been looking around but can't quite work out what exactly it does.

I understand that the more leagues I run and the more detail I ask for the slower the game will run. Is there any benefit to having more details in leagues outside the country you play?

I've heard in the past that if you run more detail in other countries they will generate better players and teams thus making everything more competitive but I don't know how true that is.