Fëanáro Míriel

Something I never really understood is how certain attributes take effect if the roles don't require it. Like I want to play a trequartista and my options are a player with 10 work rate and a player with 18 work rate, lets say everything else is identical. Treq is a role famous for not tracking back and doing defensive work so does that 18 work rate just goes to waste ? If I play the 10 work rate guy as a SS and the 18 one as a Treq will the SS still press more ?

I take this back lol I advanced 2 months and we have 7 injured with 3 of them out for at least 3 months... and Im pretty sure none of them happened in a game.

I don't really have an issue with injuries. My problem is hitting the posts too much, we have hit the top post 28 times in 8 league games and hit a post 52 times in total. thats 6-7 times a game thats too high no ? If we take 10 shots a game inside the box 4 of them comes of a post, 5 of them gets blocked and we sky the other 1. It feels like the keepers are only there to collect the high balls that defenders deflected. I like everything else so far its just the shooting thats annoying me rn.

I can't believe it's actually here

I have been fantasising about a new save for a month now I can't stay calm anymore I NEED TO TEST!

Yes but why say that here. May as well lock the thread with a message saying it will be out when its ready then. We are literally here to speculate and throw dates around, obviously we know it will be released when its ready but if that was enough we wouldn't be here to begin with, so saying stuff like when its ready goes against what the thread is about.

Ngl these are the least helpfull comments... how is stating something obvious is gonna do anything but annoy people.. everytime someone tells me to be patient in a speculation thread i lose even more patience.

Nobody would pay for a db and competitions update when you can simply download one for free.

We still don't know, i play a lot of games with active communities never have i saw people speculating and debating WHEN will a patch come. Usually the talk is about wheter or not certain things will be fixed or if new stuff will be added. In this game everything about patches are a mystery.

A lot of people keep saying the reason developers keep things quiet is toxic community, but as far as i can tell this one of the tamest communities in gaming. Every year all people want is a better match engine, even though it can't be perfect and please everybody, they want to see it being worked on and it comes down to the way they update the game. The way thing are right now might be working fine for the developers but it annoys players because we have to wait sooo long between patches. Some minor updates here and there would go a long way to calming people down i think.

I've been saying this for years, as much as i hate companies like EA and 2k for how they approach their games with greed, no other company is worse than SI when it comes to communication and how they maintain a yearly game. I love the game and i will buy it next year too but is very annoying that there are only a few patches in a year, you don't know when they will come and what will they contain until they arrive( for the day one patch you never learn whats in it). It can't be too hard to send a tweet saying this year's winter patch will not be available in february. Also I will never stop saying there should be a mid-late summer update(not transfers) when the new games come out late november, i hate how they let the games die half way into a cycle.

This is really what i don't understand, in real life most teams that play for the top half of their league play with wingbacks and offensive midfielders, most of the 4-3-3 playing teams only really leave 2 centre backs and a dm behind, im leaving 2 centre backs 1 dm and 1 wingback behind with two hard working midfielders that track back when we lose the ball, i get that the front 3 are pretty much useless being on attack duty but it makes no sense to me that im getting countered so much while leaving 4 men back without a high line. And i started with a high line but over the top balls were killing us thats why i changed it to standard. I agree with the last point, i started with a high line so i kind of forgot to adjust the pressing after i changed it.

I don't care about the lack of scoring right now, we are 9th for xga and 4th for most goals conceded (we are 10th with 3 games to go but our defense in line with the bottom of the table). In our last two games, we conceded 3 goals from a 18th place Bochum in OUR home, and 2 from a 16th place Stuttgart at away. All were from open play, 1 was a over the top ball, 2 were from the wings and 2 were from them just passing through my midfield like they don't exist. How ?

I love this game and enjoy it a lot. I don't need, want or expect a perfect engine either. I just don't understand why they can't release a patch in late july for example, i guess i did seem a little salty but my point was the game kind of gets stale being the same for so long, a july-august update would go a long way in keeping things fresh for another 3-4 months until the next game comes out. Right now it feels like they abandon that years game half way through it, thats what i don't like.

I'm not saying the first 2 is useless they still fix a lot of stuff but if there are big problems like wide players shooting from byline or a LOT of over the top balls for 1on1s or passing percentages being too high or IFs not cutting inside it does take until may. It's not unplayable before may but the significant improvments come with that third patch. If there were 2 more patches between may and the new release i would be happy tbh. And every game is complex, SI are hardly an indie company with not enough resources to keep working on the current title without delaying the next, i just find it weird that after all these years they still get away with releasing the last patch half a year before the next game comes out.

So you are saying 3 patches, last one being in may, for a game that comes out every november is enough ? And you are telling me that major problems gets fixed before may every year ?

This is a very complex way of saying just wait until the third patch in May, and if that doesn't work wait another 6 months for the new game.

Yeah that was a stupid question... For some reason i always forget there is indiviual mentality in the game. Thanks.

I'm kinda confused about the cm role, the difference between the cm(su)-cm(at)-cm(de) is just one instruction, like if i add get forward to cm(su) then it is the exact same role as cm(at) ? Is there actually any difference between them apart from the one added instruction or is there really no point to having three different options ?

The game is what it is not much we can do about that but what i don't understand is how do they get away with 3 patches a year... ME again has issues which is expected, like pressing doesn't seem to work as intended and if that is the case then it is VERY likely we will have to wait until march, which is ridiculous. Back in 19(18?) we had a whole year of wingers shooting from the byline. Why not release patches more frequently ? I don't think there is any other yearly game with so few patches in a season.