wazzaflow10

While the gods might have cursed me for the FA cup they certainly smiled at me for the CL quarter final draw. Sometimes when the game follows the script it can work out in your favor! /s

I guess you gotta play someone eventually but this is one hell of a coincidence. I can only guess that if Liverpool would have been in the R16 I'd have had the pleasure of playing them 4 times in 4 weeks.

please ignore the last screenshot. not sure how that got in there. Not relevant.

inverted fullback becomes another centerback when you have the ball. You'd have to reconfigure your tactics a bit but then there would be no retraining of position. I'd suggest going over to the tactics forum as people over there know much more than I do.

Why not just play him as an inverted fullback?

I played 23 on gamepass and had no issues but obviously not in Brazil. Just throwing some things out there to try out. Automated tech support isn't going to get you anywhere unfortunately. Have you tried logging in on a different machine or device? Have you tried logging in on the same machine on a different network? Have you set up any network firewall rules? If on PC have you allowed the XBOX application to communicate on a private network (assuming your network is set to private or home)?

There should be an option to play offline. You can set it to one device to have access to the game offline.

Minor UI suggestion. When viewing a scout by hovering over the little person icon next to their name, could either the history, plans, or staff roles be substituted for a scout's country knowledge so there isn't 10 clicks to find out if a scout is suitable for an area?

ignore/delete/disregard. Somehow a setting changed to turn crowd quality off. I did just update my graphics card but no clue how that would have turned fans off.

HA. its the opposite of what you should do. Something you'd see children do who haven't played chess before.

Akshually its a very rarely used chess position while playing as black. You move your rook pawns to the fifth rank then your knight pawns up to the sixth rank. The key idea here is to funnel the white pieces towards your king while pinning your own queen. Its a very, very sharp position even for grandmasters like Magnus.

Same here. Can put up some big results at home but away has become a bit of a struggle. The discrepancy is a bit odd where that is often the only difference theoretically. It makes me thing that if teams are too passive against me at home and a higher mentality would halt my home form as well. Still thoroughly enjoying this years engine much more than last year with the improvements as well. Its nice to see players move into space as you'd expect given roles and duties.

I think they could go the route of making attributes values based on your scout/coaches JPA/player form etc and hide the actual values. So a 140 CA player might look like a 180 CA player or vice versa. Think it would at least remove some of the "easiness" of buying players you know are good and then brute forcing your way to the top. To me that's the "easy" part of the game that you can definitively know player X is better than player Y. I think it makes scouting and transfer policies much easier to deal with rather than having to decide if your top striker is really replaceable or not when a mega offer comes in. I don't think there's any risk in transfers right now. But as far as the ME goes, manipulating that to view the human team differently than the AI team for "difficulty reasons" is terrible. There'd be 1000 posts a day of ME is cheating even though the player selected the option. This is a wishlist item but it'd fun to see the ME evolve randomly over time - moving between positional and relationalism. AI managers could learn how to exploit different functions or have tactics playing styles that the ME favors. We're a long way off anything like that being implemented but in terms of difficulty you'd have to evolve your tactic as the ME favors different movements and patterns of play and theres no one "meta" tactic you can use.

Hi Zach. Yes can confirm it was resolved in the latest patch. Thanks.

The reason was it was a game the AI manager expected to win handily. The question shouldn't be this should never happen but rather has it happened too frequently. Its not as black and white as SI saying if(first game of season = True) {don't rotate players} else {rotate}. Only the devs know if this was the extreme end of an extreme event or if its the norm which is why the OP should raise it as a bug with the save game attached so they can look at the conditions in which it happened.

First match of the year is just an arbitrary game though. Game 1 counts the same as game 20. Could it be tweaked? Sure, I won't argue with it if we can find evidence that it has never happened or that more people have evidence of it happening frequently. But just because something has never happened doesn't mean it shouldn't be possible. That would mean a team like Luton would never be able to win the Premier League or San Marino win the World Cup simply because it's never happened. Finally and this is always the suggested path, if someone is convinced they found a bug (and not just a result they're unhappy with) then raise it in the forums. Calling the game the "worst FM ever" over such a minor incident is childish at best.

I have to admit I don't think any of these make sense as a screenshot as examples for not playing through balls. The first one is marginal but hard to deny a player the choice to dribble on his own there. The rest appear to be very, very low percentage passes. There's not really much opportunity for through balls when you're on just outside of the penalty area. Do you have any examples of counter attacks or something closer to the halfway line where it'd be a clearer break? In my save at least I don't really see much of an issue playing these kind of passes. Counter attacks could maybe be more direct at times but I haven't seen much to make me think there's an issue. I attached my pkm this event is 45+1 fernandes goal. Man Utd v QPR.pkm

Edit: it needed fixing. Glad to see its not extreme the other way.

Its maybe a bug or something that could potentially be looked at if they raised it as a bug with what they think the issue is in the bug forum. They would have gotten a completely different response and a message from someone at SI if 95% of the post wasn't a childish tirade. But calling the game "the worst ever" and a bunch of hard work "********" is a poor way to get meaningful attention. But who's to say a manager would never ever do that if they had youth prospect they wanted to play? I've done it when I've been strong favorites on the first match of a season. And it seems the only issue is really that the AI rotated and lost a game. If they won would OP have cared? The AI gambled and it didn't work out. Its amazing how many people think that the game has to follow real life 1:1 at every moment in time or do exactly what the player would do. Rare events still need to happen otherwise we'd all be playing the same save.

This is a feedback thread for the game but thank you for the kind review. I'm sure you'll inevitably change your mind when you discover I, like the game, have a few bugs and don't always make the optimal choice. I hope you don't consider me to be the worst person in the world after that.

You went from "First of all I must tell you that this is by far the best Beta version that you have released, congrats to all team." to "Worst FM of all time". I gave you the attention you sought by mistake, apologies.