Fabregas_04

I don't think any offence can be taken when he was asking for a deliberately "boring" skin that is inconspicuous.

Possibly to deflect from the fact he gave away the 8PM release? May as well join in all this hype malarky

Nice of you to declare your opinion fact. Ignored.

For the love of God, someone fix defensive headers!!! *Ball harmlessly floating out of play for a goal kick* Result - Defender heads it off the byline to an opposition player to score *Ball aimlessly lofted forward, defender has 10-15yards of space around him to control it or nod it back to keeper* Result - Defender aimlessly heads it backwards to the opposition *Corner/set piece cleared to wide area* Result - Defender heads it right back into the mixer under no pressure Don't get me wrong, things are massively improved since the patch but this **** breaks any immersion totally!

I did some checking myself and noticed the same with the base skin and other mods and it's the same for all so must be an SI bug.

All my scout recommendations in the scouting overview show a knowledge level of 5% regardless of the actual knowledge as shown on the report.

FYI, I updated to the latest version and whatever the issue was seems to have resolved itself. Might have been some random glitch on my end.

Yes, doesn't matter which team I select I get the away team's heatmap

Skin looks to be fantastic from the little bit of use I've had with it so far though I've maybe encountered a bug in the match analysis on the tablet as the home and away heatmap options both show the away team. Great work GIMN!!

So, one minor update during the course of this "beta" is all we're going to get? What the hell is the point in even pretending that this is a beta? Absolute waste of everyone's time.

In summary then, you would happily pay more for the game despite them already having a huge annual turnover because that will encourage them to invest and work harder??? Or maybe they'd happily take the extra money, keep pumping out the same stuff and as you suggest, have modders do all the actual work for them while paying for the privilege..... This is not some small, indie, resource starved company we're talking about here!

Yes, lots of improvements but brace yourself for the all too common defensive cluster****s that will have you ripping hair out. I really hope they get this sorted for release, or sooner because this ME really feels like there is potential.

You're missing the point. They've got no real selling point other than it's meant to be a bit better than the last and given the reviews, it isn't, it's worse.

Seems odd to highlight the positive review score when it's down from FM22. For a game that barely changes from year to year and drives sales with annual incremental improvements, any drop in review score should surely be very damning?

Can confirm, I've seen a player score their 3rd, 4th and 6th goals of the season with 3 goals in a game. You would imagine counting would be an easy part of the game. Makes you wonder if the stats can be trusted at all.

No analysis options during games from what I can see so I assume SI have decided that those of us with less free time on our hands deserve to be punished for not watching games in full!

Is there a way of making the in-match analysis available throughout the entire match rather than just half and full-time or have SI locked this away?

Apologies, I made an assumption you were one of those "it's your tactics" types. These forums definitely wouldn't make a fella cynical.....

Is there an instruction for "ignore opposition players and the football"?

I feel tactics are an irrelevance for the issues I refer to and comes down to players consistently making ridiculous mistakes. Tactics in your case may simply be stifling the game to a degree that masks the problems.

The more I play the more angry and frustrated I get with defensive play in general. It feels like the only viable way of playing successfully is to go all out attack and hope you get fewer defensive **** ups than the opposition.

You're not understanding the issue clearly. This is not players waiting for movement, this is players chasing a ball for example, touching it then stopping dead. Not realistic.

Already very tired of watching defenders touch the ball and then stopping moving. It's almost like their next actions just haven't loaded into the ME and by the time they come back to life the nearest attacker has already got the ball and scored/started a now unstoppable attack. Also not noticing any significant improvement in the finishing of one on ones.

How could Steam have possibly foreseen such an eventuality?