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The Reserve Team of a Bundesliga Club has to be a U23 Team and has added the roman numeral "II" to it. The Reserve from "FC Bayern Munich" thus would be called "FC Bayern Munich II". They can play in leagues below their main team but not in the same league (would mean forced relegation) or higher than in 3.Liga. Players in the U23 can be all Players that are not older than 23 at the start of the season plus a very view (up to 3) older ones that have a mentor role in the team or recover from injuries, get matchfitness etc. Sadly the U23 in the Bundesliga is usually realized as affiliated club so you have only that affiliated access option which is rather cumbersome and best automated by delegation to staff members - it should really be changed to work like U19 Team within the club and direct control. A few Bundesliga Teams have given up on their U23 and shut it down trying to work with other clubs and playerdevelopmentcontracts to no success and some have gotten back on their dumb act and reinstated the U23 but have to climb the tiers from the starting tier and a few got excemptions and started where they left. All in all the U23s usually are very unattractive for the other clubs as they bring rarely any publicity or fans with them and while they handle their share of TV Money to the non-U23-Clubs its that miniscule it makes not up for the loss of matchday income. And they tend to amass in the 3.Liga in the Football Manager Series bcs of the reputation based promotion mechanic in unplayed leauges while in reality most of them play Tier 4 bcs its cheaper (and i dont know if this has changed lately). And yeah, a "II" Team blocked my third promotion in a row by 1 goal difference in the promotion playoff and it was the same as in FM22, the HSV II from the established 2.Bundesliga team Hamburger SV (be damned :P).

So, its already 2023... Well, i still have not played enough and not high tier enough to have any criticism about the tactical side of the match engine. I rarely see stupid errors and usually they are bcs of the team or player cracking mentaly and doing stupid stuff. I still have not run into exhaustion isses aside of probably 1 match that was the 3rd match in 5 days where i stood on chance with little quality to substitute tired marked players. All in all i am quite happy so far! The 3d game presentation is nothing short of sprectacular, with so much better smoothness and variety in the ballplay that looks so much more natural now. I had very recently a fantastic attack move when my CMa slipped through a gap in between the CBs and the mildy high through ball passed to him came down at his back and he heeled it over himself to catch it with his chest to let it drop down to his feet all in one fluid move to do the shot while the ball was still in the air (sadly he missed and the ball went over the left triangle). Also the little variety of dances after scoring gives more life to the game. I really dont feel you need FIFA level of grafics as long you achieve that with the means you have and keep the game available for a broad range of Hardware. Honestly is FM one of the games that uses the least energy and as long term game with energy prices soaring almost 60%-100% and no sign of relief gaming on low energy devices will become more prominent as inflation leaves less in the pocket overall. I like the Stadiums - some say they change to little per year but in germany we have Stadiums that have not changed for the last 50yrs and if any the decay of old Stadiums is not visualized enough! I dislike the trend to dark mode UI only, an equivalent light mode should not be that hard as some Mods have trouble with UI scaling!, pls bring back UI light mode! Happy New Year!

I honestly have no clue what this whole steam thing with these items is about. I have them from several games i guess in several types and it is beyond me what it shall achieve...

I thought one of the troubled GPUs was GTX760 or something like that?

Could be the GPU is about to giving up its existence and alerts you to be prepared? Does it get to hot? At that age the cooler tends to be very dirty and the paste is old and probably drycracked. Try maybe lower the game FPS by a/the Limiter or via MSI Afterburner or something lower the freqs of your GPU if it gets better... Also reinsert the GPU into its Slot and reinsert all cables! Maybe something is a little coroded...

SK - WB,CD,CD,WB SK - Support CD - Defend WB - Attack My best CD has a 7,6 the worst a 6,8 the WBs are between 7,2 and 6,8 also, the SK is at 7,2 while the Backup is, aah, he has not yet played and only a 6,8 from internationals. High defense, pressing, trap inside, stop crossing. WBs are very fast - CDs especially supreme in the Air and quite fast. The only place i use sometimes a single slow player is in the midfield when he is a very good captain (mostly bcs they are of age and have slowed down). People underestimate the role a good captain plays in the success of a team and the midfield is an excellent position for a captain bcs there he is involed in any phase of the game and able to do the "captain things" as i call them. The things above and beyond the normal capability of a player that sometimes decide between become a champion or a runner up...(or stay in the league).

Currently in Tier 4 in germany i get constantly good ratings above 7 for my CDs. Ofc not every CD, some are at 6,8 (the squad players) some (first team) are at 7,5 avg. I have wondered how even spread the good ratings are in FM23 compared to older FMs and only the Strikers and some Midefielders stand out for having most goals and assists - even my Goalkeeper is above 7. Albeit i am in the Top places of the league so success plays for sure a role here.

Sometimes the game lets you lose a match no matter what. That happened to me after sucessful (all arrows up) Teamspeak sessions. I lost matches against vastly inferior opponents despite my team reacting extremely well to the teamspeak and it happpened twice in a similar situation. The played the matches as if they never had played ball in their life...gladly it was not cup matches but league matches that would have concluded promotion for me though it happened anyway. Sometimes its better to keep status quo... But when mentals overwrite tactic there is little you can do especially when they are always low and you enter the downward spiral - then it becomes a mental issue and not a tactical issue. The only way out is to make friendlies you will sure win (and expect a painful 1:0 against a beer league team) and then go all in when you meet a team in your league that also has low moral and thus mental issues and turn the spiral from downward to upward!

I guess that from the FM22 graphical application of the setting in the tactics menu where defend wide shows a channeling to the center and defend narrow shows a channeling ot the wide areas graphically via some shading of the color. And i use stop crossing with trap inside to a very good result with good defnding of the wide areas - ofc it may also depend on the tactical shape and the player roles etc.

I found that my outside defense was inadequate without the "defend cosses" setting enabled. Also i guess trap inside means defend wide and trap outside means defend narrow?

In my first season which i used the make the settings and model my avatar etc i had a penalty coversion rate of maybe 10%. They got all over the place but almost never into the goal. In my first serious season fortunately it is now the oposite and around 80% of the penaltys become scored goals.

Try defend crosses - it should do the job.

I play the german lower league from Tier 6 upward and so far i enjoy the ride. The scouting budget is no trouble, simply move the max of it to the transfer budget and only scout in the transfer windows and disable scouting outside of it. Also get rid of any youth player that is unable to play in your first team (if there is any good 15yr old you can keep one or two of them). Spend no more than ~1000k p.a. on any staff member, ~500€ on Scouts and around ~600€ on Physios (per job). You can use the second job contract clause also and make coaches scouts etc as training has not that much effect in the lower leagues for a lack of training sessions. Speed and athletics is King, then technical ability and then mental ability. Its all about not getting bancrupt on your way up so loan as many good players as you can for as little to no wage as possible - i had sometimes players stay 4 years on loan with me (via 2 season loans and prolonging). Grab in the first season as many good players as you can as early as you can or you lose the "team ability reputation race" which either gives or prevents access to better players if you beat other team in good transfers or they beat you - its all about getting stronger compared to your competititon and good players flock to good players! Reap the rewards!

I have no experience with bigger Databases than 18k players even with all leagues enabled but only germany playable (all other view only) though i think it grows over time and probably the bigger it is the more it grows and the more computing time you will need. Also i would look deeply at the SSD if there is any issue with it as a stalling SSD can bring the fastet PC to almost a full halt (and i guess quite some PC issues that poeple think are other issues relate to stalling SSDs). Sorry i can not give any better hint but i am as much in the dark about the issue as you and curious about the outcome. Hope it will be fixed!

What are statistic in football good for? Having a good laugh!

Funny thing is i am allways "accused" of playing possession football by the game. Yet possession is not a factor in any of my thougts but constructive defending and attacking - possession is only the result of it and the strenght of my opponent and i win games with or without possession majority (aka dominance). My goal is not dominance but confidence in any situation with and without ball!

Yeah, there is a big discrepancy about what the game ai thinks is "good" and what i think is "good"! That is why i never adhere to ingame staff hints or let scouts automatially search players bcs they come up with stuff that does not help and in quite some cases would make it worse. The only trustworthy ingame message from the staff is about injuries be it inmatch or over the week. Player exhaustion seems less an issue that in FM22 which baffles me but then i am in tier 5 now so cant tell for higher tiers. My tactic is pretty much the same with the minor adjustments to the new items and rolechanges to 4 midfield player roles who seem to make a HUGE difference. The 3D presentation is again most entertaining and quite more informative than ever b4 - i like that very much!

The Skin looks great! Unfortunately i play on a 4k screen with 125% UI scaling and the top portion of the UI is then expanded to much and leaves to little room below so there is to much info pushed outside from the screen. At 110% UI scaling there is no issue but the UI is then to small for me. But yeah, i like its look way better than a dark skin! Happy Holidays!

First full season played - got promoted by a hair - points like FM22 but goals up to 4.5 vs 1.5 per match which is insane. Center attacks with balls through/over the defense line are killing it the moment there is any space. Dont know if it is a league issue and changes in higher tiers albeit i was quite successful in the cup against higher tier clubs also. Visualy i have seen some wonderful attack moves also that never ocurred b4 - really fun to watch! PS: Thx for the Light Skin hint - i will test it out!

Imho the 3D Match presentation is better than ever (presentation the key word - how smooth it looks, more animations etc.). As i only started recently its to early to have any conclusions about realism etc. I use the realism pack, names mod and the german lower league mod and start in Tier 6 - as Semi Pro Team with a pay per play Team and no contracting ability in this Tier 6 it is ruthless playergrabbing. I dont know the state of CaC, it stopped working with mods a few version of FM ago and i have to use the ingame editor for my colours and kit, stil can not use another generic Club-emblem while the editor is quite more expensive this year. I do not try the stand alone editor anymore since it never worked for me and messed up data and languages badly so i have given up on that one and not tested it ever since. I had to this date no crash whatsoever. I miss a "Light Skin" very badly but Mustermann has a data format in displaying player stats that is to spaced out - i like the classical one more as it gives me anything on a glimpse in a smal area and not spaced out over the whole screen. Dark Skins mess up my eyesight after a short while and exhaust me early. Pls bring back the Light Skin!

I came up another quality of live convenient issue and that is that the U19 which i use to give my payers matchfitness most often play the day b4 the regular team and it would be a massive improvement if there was an option to make these U19 friendlies the day after the regular first team matches bcs then you know who played how much as substitutions impact that. So pls make an option: make U19 friendlies the day after the regular first team matches. I dont use a B-Team as the handling of a B-Team is such a convoluted mess of non-intuitive and counter-productive options and things that are out of your control bcs these teams work like affiliate teams instead of U23/B-Teams that are controlled by the club like the U19 team. In this way B-Teams are simply a waste of time and not helpful and i use the U19 as my make up B-Team that is under my full control.

Well, i have another "issue" and that is snow in the 3d match when the green is covered with all this tiny pixels of snow. I dont know if its a 4k issue as i play in 4k but as long the game is static everything is well but as soon there is movement of the green the snow starts to flicker quite bad and it is almost like a strobe light effect. It is really ugly and exhausting to look at and it would be very nice if there was an improvement possible.

I have started a new run in my lower league journey to the top, as i switched my CPU from a Ryzen 3600 to a Ryzen 5600. Its already a good improvement for quicker calculation times in FM albeit i bought it bcs it was on sale and a pretext to getting a better GPU in the coming months. Set my Windows 11 up from the scratch this time instead of upgrading as it had become quite convoluted and i wanted a clean start. Got some trouble but it turned out i had to reslot RAM and GPU as some of it probably had some contact issues and absolutely no trouble since then. # Yeah i had to remake my Manager Man, but i got it even better this time...Realism mod, Lower Leagues mod and Names mod freshly installed. I can say FM can really make dramatic stories as i got final matchday promotions in both seasons since i started and the last one really was not possibly happening i tought. The topteam was so far ahead, like 12 to 15 points from the pack of runner ups behind it but it seems the Cup Final exhausted them so much the lost 3 of the last 5 matches and did not win any which opened a window of oprtunity and somewhere around minute 60 in the last match of the season i got my promotion secured - it was by all means an unexpected and dramatic turn of events for sure! And a reminder that exhaustion is real...less real in a single match but real over a couple of matches! I really like the 3d engine - it is much more vibrant in showing tricks and treats of the players and what they do than the past ones and overall the game has the right challenge at least for me. To me it looks the matchengine is very sensible in you need to get the right players in the right places with the right teammates to become successful. Imho FM22 is the best one of the series - the outstanding FM so far! Thx for the game SI and all the best for all you! PS. If there is any critique it would be the Highlights that either show to much or to few scenes depending if you chose Key Highlights or Expanded Highlights - in expanded highlights there are so many dead moments displayed where nothing mentionable happens while in key highlight you may not get a single highlight the whole game (if its a draw with no goals).

Depends on the improvements, FM22 is pretty top notch to me - i would not buy it until the last patch anyway, i spend to much time with the game to start over after patches and RL money is currently drying up very hard.