[*Official* Football Manager 2022 Feedback Thread]

14 minutes ago, JordanMillward_1 said:

The match engine doesn't distinguish between the AI and the player manager's teams. There's no benefit to making the game cheat to beat you because it'd just make people angry and stop playing.

That's exactly how I feel right now. Dominating every match and losing / drawing without explanation. And pretty sure player's team gets different treatment in the MI.

[*Official* Football Manager 2022 Feedback Thread]

I have a feeling SI felt the game was too easy (maybe it was) and decided to bring the difficulty up by handicapping the player's team in the match engine.

It's okay to get FM'ed, it happens in real life, but the xG really makes it naked obvious when it happens. And it is constantly happening to me. I need a xG of 1.50 per goal, while the other teams usually score one or two if the xG is at 0.50.

I'm not going to bring screenshots because I'm not complaining about a game or another in particular, it's just the whole season, it feels like I'm swimming against the current every game. But I have to admit this rant comes from coming from 1-0 at HT against the runner up in the league to losing 1-4, while having 1.90 xG vs 1.10, with 65% possession.

Corners is a great example. Yes, near post corners were OP, my 1.98m center back had 9 goals in 10 matches before the update. But since the update, this player has scored 1 goal only - from a tap-in after a free-kick. 1 season and a half have passed. Meanwhile, every 2-3 games, the AI scores against me on a corner, with a 1.65 Full Back heading it in.

Does anyone else feel like the scales are tipped? I'm okay if SI makes the AI better, I don't know, introduce more tactics, better transfer planning, but this in-game handicap starts to make me miss FIFA's momentum...