Finished 2nd in my first a-league season on World class with the Nix. Bloody hard to score crosses and fitness is a real problem. The transfers are much more realistic but make it much harder to build your team. Bring on the playoffs.
Loving it
Blimmin 'eck. It's only been released a few days and already you've completed a season?!!
a) How did we go (I assume you were playing as us- so 2nd behind who)?
b) Did you ever get outside and see the sun in the last four days?
c) Which pizza delivery service did you use and favourite topping?
Gangsta - do you mean in the PS2 FIFA 10 or 09 versions?
I've got FIFA 09 PS2 and it is definitely in there. Will be massively disappointed if it isn't in FIFA 10 (that is if I get round to buying it. Might be a Christmas present).
1) The Manager Mode freezing bug (where you can�t progress without your console locking up) is still there. One person has suffered from this and noticed that in his last save before this occurs, one of his strikers has no name and next to the form icon it says �-10118�.
2) It has been reported that transfers �lock� altogether after a certain amount of seasons (being linked to a disc problem).
3) All teams below the Premier League have their tactics set to all-70s. Applies to other leagues/teams as well, see Australia, Brazil and others.
4) All assists are credited to the goalkeeper.
5) Players you loan out can be sold by the clubs you loaned them to.
6) Newly signed players vanish from your squad with no warning. They just disappear, and then if you look them up they�re playing for someone else.
7) When trying to sign a second loan player, sometimes I am told by the game that I already have two � when I only have one.
8) When signing two loan players, I then tried to (permanently) sign two free agents, and I�m told I can�t sign them because I �already have two players on loan�.
9) 90% of matches in England are played at night in the rain regardless of stadium choice. I�ve yet to see a match played in the daytime with sunny weather.
10) Seasonal changes don�t seem to affect the weather. So in England, in the summer, you will see rain and even snow with no games being played in sunshine.
11) Signing players is practically impossible, even when offering maximum wages and maximum bonuses, even if you can get their interest level up to 85%+. (Even if you start out as a manager with no reputation, you should be able to sign really poor players with no reputation who aren�t getting first-team football elsewhere.)
12) Signing your own players is just as difficult, regardless of how well the team is doing. They refuse to sign even when you offer the maximum wages allowed. But if you wait until the end of the season, you get the same screen you get in FIFA 09 where you can just tick a box to re-sign a player and they will sign for peanuts! Strange one!
13) The board sack you even if you occupy first place. You can expect to be fired at the mid-way point of the season if you lose a cup game, even if you�re in the top four of the league, especially in the Premier League. Even in the lower leagues, I�ve seen situations where games are won 6-0 every week for months and suddenly you�re fired the moment you draw 1-1.
14) When playing against teams who are better than you, your board always expect you to beat that team. I mostly play as a League 1 team, and if I�m beaten by a Championship or Premier League side I get a board comment that states I was �expected to win the game�, and occasionally you will get the sack for this. This may be because teams aren�t recognised in their correct division; for example, when losing against a team from the league above you, you will occasionally get a message that says you should have done better against �lower league opposition�.
15) The assistant manager, even when turned off, will sometimes swap your players around.
16) The assistant manager AI is terrible. It will choose players with no fitness (10%-20%) to play out of position, over players with 100% fitness who can play in that position. See below for more info.
17) The AI management of other clubs is terrible. Examples; Chelsea play Terry at LB with Cole at CB in the same match, Man Utd play Vidic and Ferdinand as LB/RB with Brown and Evra as CBs in the same match, Giggs gets played at LB occasionally, etc. etc. etc.
18) The effect of form is far too severe. It makes your team go up/down by a whole star rating within a few games, so with a 3 star team you can yoyo to 2 star and weeks later 4 star.
19) The form system seems to be totally random. I can win 2-3 games in a row by 2-3 goals and the form will get worse. A striker can score six goals in a game and his form will DROP!
20) I�ve seen one injury in two seasons; Marcel promised this lack of injuries � and especially this lack of SERIOUS injuries � was fixed for FIFA 10. This is simply not true.
21) Injuries don�t last for a long enough period of time. For example, a hamstring injury should keep a player out for a month � in FIFA 10 it�s a week.
22) When playing in the snow the ball used is white, which is incredibly difficult to see, and you can�t change the ball yourself.
23) Only 5 benched substitutes are allowed in FIFA 10 below the Premier League. All English league and cup competitions now allow 7 substitutes in reality.
24) Friendly games should allow 12 substitutes on the bench (and also you should be allowed to use all 12). Currently it�s restricted to 7 on the bench (with only 3 substitutions allowed).
25) Friendly games include matches against teams in your own division. This doesn�t usually happen in reality.
26) FA Cup games are all played at night when they�re only ever played in the daytime now, including the final.
27) The shortlist was supposed to allow up to 20 players to be stored, but seems to only allow 10 players.
28) The overall rating of a player changes before/during the game. So if one of my strikers has an overall rating of 83 (including his form), when I pause the game and go to Team Management his rating can drop by 10+. What value is actually being used by the game? The pre-game rating or the paused-game rating?
29) Form should never affect physical attributes. For example, a striker who is on hot form wouldn�t see his strength increase.
30) Playing as a League 1/2 team, you have literally no fit players left after 3-5 games of the season. I don�t care how bad your fitness coach is, a group of professional players would have enough players fit to start a game after 3-5 games of the season. (You�re forced to spend �1m to upgrade your fitness coach to a realistic level.)
31) The league table that shows up at the start of each game is never correct (same as FIFA 09). It always shows you in 6th-9th position regardless of whether you�re in the top half or the bottom half of the table, and your opponents are shown in an incorrect position as well.
32) When simming games instead of playing them, two things to note. Firstly, the level of your fitness coach isn�t taken into account, so the players lose 25%-75% more fitness than they should. Secondly, when simming, you actually get to see some injuries! Plus they last for a decent period of time (e.g. metacarpal fracture, player out for four weeks)!
33) When you have a player injured, the game forces you to remove him from your team before going to the pre-game screen. You don't want to remove him from your first-choice team, you want to remove him at the pre-match team management screen, like in FIFA 09. But now you can't do that.
34) Often you are not told why a player has refused to sign for you. No explanation is given on the Negotiation History screen for these players and it seems that they are never permitted to sign for your club, for no apparent reason. You never get an explanation for the affected players.
35) Sometimes when trying to sign a player they�ll say e.g. they get a �bad vibe� from your current players. Try to sign them again next week and they�ll sign for you. Doesn�t make much sense.
36) You can list a player for sale/loan who is garbage, e.g. 42 overall when the rest of the players in your squad/division are 60+, and instantly you get offers from the top teams in your division/country for him. Sometimes even top-flight teams from other countries make an offer; they have no possible reason to loan in a player who is literally twice as bad as any other player they have. It seems that every player you ever list you MUST receive an offer for, even if they are terrible, and it�s always a good team that has no need for a poor player which shows interest.
37) As a manager with a reputation level of half-a-star, you sometimes get comments from the board that �a manager of your calibre should be performing better�.
38) You lose respect with the board when losing a game on penalties. You should be given the same increase/decrease you would be given for a draw rather than a win/loss in these circumstances.
39) The leader of the assist list seems to be the player who keeps the most clean sheets.
40) Players who are substituted show no ratings at full-time. So if my striker gets a hat-trick and I substitute him, his rating is blank after the game. (Yet substituted players can receive Man of the Match awards, so a rating must be getting calculated by the game? I presume they�re just not being displayed?)
41) Goals/assists that occur in cup competitions, e.g. the FA Cup, aren�t counted in the player�s statistics.
42) When scouted players are presented to you for purchase, they are always said to play on the opposite side to their preferred foot. For example, a left winger will always be shown to prefer their right foot. Yet if you buy the player, most of the time, they will actually prefer the appropriate foot.
43) Some players will sign for a club and then the next week you�ll get a notice on the transfers screen that they�ve signed for that same club. Again.
44) Some players will sign for a club and then the next week they�ll have signed for somebody else!
45) When searching for players their form ratings are displayed, rather than their actual ratings. This means you have no idea what the player�s actual ratings are.
46) When selling a player, the whole squad gets moved around. Player roles are also moved around.
47) When buying a player, they are given a squad number already in use, and it messes up the squad numbers for the entire team. Why can�t they be given a number that isn�t in use?
48) Stadia never fill up with people. I can play a Champions League match against a five-star team and all stands will still have large empty sections.
49) Player search parameters constantly reset when searching for a player. So if you search for e.g. a defender rated 60-70, then you want to search for a midfielder with the same rating, the parameters have been reset meaning you have to input them again.
50) Occasionally the wrong stadium picture is displayed pre-game. For example when playing at the Emirates a picture of (what looked to be) the training ground was displayed.
51) Creating a player (not a Virtual Pro) to sign in your Manager Mode career seems incredibly difficult/buggy. If you create a player and assign him to the free agents pool, the game freezes. If you assign him to a national team, he doesn�t show up as a free agent in Manager Mode. If you assign him to a national team and THEN move him to the free agents pool, you won�t be able to find him anywhere but in the �Created Players� section and you�ll see that his assigned team is referred to as something like "team1932as12309" � you can�t then find this team/player in Manager Mode to sign the player.
52) Commentary gaffes happen every 1-2 games, e.g. �5 minutes to go and they lead 1-0� when it�s 1-1, �I have to say he�s on one of the worst runs of his career� when he�s already scored in the match you�re playing, etc. etc. etc. and also, when playing as your Virtual Pro, you find the commentary refers to you scoring your 20th goal every time you score once you�ve reached that point. So for example when you score your 21st goal the commentator will say it�s your 20th, etc. (not sure if this only applies to Manager Mode or other modes as well).
NEW ONES:
53) People playing as League Two teams (e.g. Bury) are reporting that they are not entered into the English league cup competition.
54) Sometimes strange things happen with the amount of transfer funds, one person reported going from having millions to spend to being 2.5 BILLION in debt.
55) For the new season you're supposed to receive new transfer funds, new wage budget to reflect new income for that season, people are reporting they start the new season with the same money they ended the last one.
Buying the game tomorrow, whats the transfer situation in manager mode like for those doing the a-league. Buying players is always one of the best parts for me but in 09 it was impossible to sign anyone outside of the a-league. I like to start off with a lower league first as I find it funner to build on the team and performances they are currently using but I think i'll start off with Tromso IL in the Norwegian Tippeligaen instead of the Nix first time up.
they have reportedly made plenty of improvements to manager mode.
from what i can tell just having played it and without researching it properly:
it's more realistic, i.e in premier league hull don't win the league and chelsea don't get relegated - this kinda thing happened to me alot in 09. In my EPL season the top 7 are your expected top 7. Also, random teams from the dutch 2nd division can no longer buy Cristiano Ronaldo. Those players have had their valuations upped and non-user clubs have the same budget as they would if the user was managing them. No ridiculous transfers.
you no longer have control over player growth, i.e you can't make a 'keeper the best striker in the world anymore..the growth is done based on form and is calculated by the game. Yet to finish a season to see how well this works but it sounds better in theory. Also player form affects their overall week in week out. i.e if a player has a shocker their overall drops and fluctuates based on form - has seemed to work so far.
dealing in the transfer market is also much more realistic. Take too long to explain but its no longer a one step process..And also , my biggest annoyance with MM in 09 was when you bid for two players on deadline day to be safe but only really needed one of them..this is now fixed as aftere the player accepts your conditions you then get asked if you want to finalise it.
there is a lot more but i feel the above is all to do with realism and doess add to the fun of MM
cheers francsernal, I think this new form idea is great and the amount of times a really poor team would sign a star a player i always found strange. can't wait to play it!
I think 3's pretty bad. On the database all the A-League team's build up, passing etc are all chosen by the editors and reviewers but they didn't come out that way in the game
Whitby that's fine as it doesn't give any "secret" info away.
Luis you won't know how hard transfers are till you play FIFA 10. In the game it would of been impossible to sign a player like Ifill or Greenacre but in RL we got them.
Here are some ones that I have experienced from that list that really piss me off:
4) All assists are credited to the goalkeeper. This one really annoys me despite them all going to Paston
11) Signing players is practically impossible, even when offering maximum wages and maximum bonuses, even if you can get their interest level up to 85%+. (Even if you start out as a manager with no reputation, you should be able to sign really poor players with no reputation who aren�t getting first-team football elsewhere.) This really annoys me as once I offered a goal bonus and the interest went down??? They have screwed up this interest thing.
19) The form system seems to be totally random. I can win 2-3 games in a row by 2-3 goals and the form will get worse. A striker can score six goals in a game and his form will DROP! Yeah this is bad I find. Not totally random though. For example Paston and my defence has conceded two goals in 9 games yet only Sigmund has increased while the rest decrease. Ifill gets millions of assists (Not accredited to him) yet his form drops.
20) I�ve seen one injury in two seasons; Marcel promised this lack of injuries � and especially this lack of SERIOUS injuries � was fixed for FIFA 10. This is simply not true.
21) Injuries don�t last for a long enough period of time. For example, a hamstring injury should keep a player out for a month � in FIFA 10 it�s a week. Disagree with the first part, in 9 games including Friendlies I have had 3 injures, however they are all only 1 week and include things like hamstring injuries. Diego actually got a broken finger after a slide tackle on him and he was clutching his leg lol.
25) Friendly games include matches against teams in your own division. This doesn�t usually happen in reality. Not true in the A-League though
28) The overall rating of a player changes before/during the game. So if one of my strikers has an overall rating of 83 (including his form), when I pause the game and go to Team Management his rating can drop by 10+. What value is actually being used by the game? The pre-game rating or the paused-game rating? Yeah this is annoying. Pre-Game Greenacre had a Green arrow upwards 68 however in the middle of the game he had a green arrow upwards 59. How is this possible considering his rating is usually 62???
30) Playing as a League 1/2 team, you have literally no fit players left after 3-5 games of the season. I don�t care how bad your fitness coach is, a group of professional players would have enough players fit to start a game after 3-5 games of the season. (You�re forced to spend �1m to upgrade your fitness coach to a realistic level.) They said they would fix this so I don't understand why it hasn't been, it isn't even that hard to fix! My African signing also had a stamina rating of 85 (I am guessing highest in the Nix team by far) and is always the third or fourth most tired player behind Bertos and Lcohhead (Who meant to be our fittest player??).
Another error that it doesn't tell you is when you sub an injured player out say to the bench as it forces you to, it will ask you to forfeit your next game as you don't have a complete team. Then you go there and your entire team is there but you have on injured player who is on the bench. Surely the AI could figure out that you can just put a reserve in place?wellyphoenixfan2009-10-07 17:42:29
