Jonthedon26

Hoping someone can help here....Can you change these yourself in the game? Or do you need to download a skin? I have never done it before, never really thought about it but having read this thread I wouldn't mind giving it a go.

Hahahahaha much more accurate!

A big thanks to all the SI staff for releasing the beta today, I look forward to kicking off my annual Birmingham City save after work!

I wasn't going to pre-order this year but I bottled it and ended up doing so. I don't even know why I did as I am currently really enjoying my FM22 Birmingham City beta save that is still going strong!

I haven't experienced any major bugs in this years version. I am still playing my beta save. FM21 there was a huge bug though where I got promoted first season to the premier league with Birmingham City and first season in the league the board wanted me to qualify for champions league and win the FA Cup etc even though my clubs original vision wasn't to even challenge to get promoted to the premier league until about my 3rd or 4th season. I was somehow 7th in about Feb and the board sacked me, I was livid!

This is one of the least played versions of FM for me in a long time, not because I didn't enjoy it, just because life took over. With that said, I started with my team Birmingham City on the first day the beta came out and stuck with them since! Only managed to get through 5 seasons, but got promoted in my 2nd season, then came 16th, 14th and 14th, currently 10th in January of my 6th season. Enjoyed what I have played, just haven't been able to play enough!

Yeah, I am edging ever closer to 40 and with a full time job and family it is a lot more difficult to get a lot of FM time in, however a couple things that I have done to speed it up and get through more seasons is to firstly change the option in settings that limits the number of times the game stops for news articles etc when you press continue, and secondly I save a load of time playing on commentary only. I know this isn't for everyone as they like to see their tactics play out, but I am not a big fan of the match engine and I get on fine from a performance aspect not watching the games, so that has meant I can play probably twice as many games per night/week than when I was watching highlights.

Something I have really enjoyed, and I think could be implemented in FM (probably not what they should improve the most so I am going off topic slightly) is the way Out of the Park Baseball (OOTP) deal with player attributes. There is much more focus on assessing the players data and in-game stats rather than just looking at a players attribute ratings. So whilst they do still have attribute ratings, these are determined by each teams coaching staff rather than being the number the game gives them. So for example my coaching team may rate Salah's finishing as 17 but another team's coaches/scouts may rate it as 19, so whilst you do get an idea of how good a player's attributes are, you have to make your decisions on how they actually perform in the matches. OOTP has a ridiculous amount of stats you can delve into, and I think with the addition of the data hub in FM this year it would be quite interesting to see something similar adopted in FM.