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>Essential downloads:
https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-2024/essentials

>Guide to Football Manager:
http://www.guidetofootballmanager.com/

>Tactic and Strategy Guides:
https://community.sigames.com/topic/495115-tactic-and-strategy-guides/

>Training and Mentoring Guides:
https://community.sigames.com/topic/495114-training-and-mentoring-guides/

>Team Talks:
https://strikerless.com/2016/02/19/the-hartman-doctrine-why-the-hairdryer-treatment-works-surprisingly-well/

>Macca's official /trb/ database:
(2015) (embed) (embed)http://pastebin.com/uj27eQhe(embed)
(2016) (embed) (embed)http://pastebin.com/7e3Vv0ap(embed)

https://community.sports-interactive.com/forums/forum/19-tactics-training-strategies-discussion/

FM26 teaser
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD__lhNVBdM

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6564634/2025/08/29/miles-jacobson-football-manager-interview-fm25-fm26/

Athletic Interview. I'll copy paste key parts from last thread:
>Football Manager 25 cancellation explained: Why? Financial impact? What about content creators? Football Manager 25 was cancelled last week — this is what it means for the company behind it, fans and content creators For Jacobson, the decision to cancel FM25 came just before Christmas. He received a build of the game and was going to spend a few days playing it before coming back from his break with notes. The 54-year-old, who has been at Sports Interactive for over 25 years, quite quickly came to the realisation that features were missing from the build. He cites the inability to find his youth squad before adding, “I literally sat there and just couldn’t find things in my own game. It was pretty embarrassing. It was within an hour that I sat there and thought: ‘We can’t release’.”

>>So, what of FM26? “It’s not what FM25 was going to be, because that was a mistake,” Jacobson says. “There is a lot of FM25 in there. There’s also some more FM24 things in there than there were going to be and there are some things that we already had down for FM26 that are now in there.” One aspect of the cancelled FM25 that has been deemed a mistake was the desire to move away from drastic changes to the game’s UI. In Football Manager’s June 2024 development update, they stated that they would be moving away from the email system that had been in the game for over a decade in favour of a ’tile and card’ system. The idea was to replicate how communication in football works in the real world, but Sports Interactive found that the change just did not work in a video game. As a result, a decision was made to redesign and improve the old messaging systems to provide a necessary sense of familiarity. “Whilst the game is a sequel, the best sequels always have nods back to their predecessors,” Jacobson adds. “We got rid of too many of them, trying to be too ambitious. It’s all well and good saying everything’s new, but we’ve been the best football management game in the market for 30 years — why would you throw all of that out? So we brought some of that familiarity back in.”
>The first of these was a result of collective human error, as multiple people forgot about a bug-fixing process that is necessary to publish a game. Jacobson says “that’s completely on us,” before adding, “The second curveball was a legal issue, but with all legal issues, you can never really say what happened. It was an email that came into Sega’s (Football Manager’s publisher) legal team that day that was definitely going to cause a delay in the release.”

https://www.eurogamer.net/the-big-football-manager-interview-series-boss-miles-jacobson-on-what-went-wrong-with-fm25-and-what-to-expect-from-fm26

Plus Eurogamer interview. Miles really felt they could the back/forward button and search bar and think the new UI would be intuitive and have 10,000 clicks

>>2133319
>"On paper, everything looked great," Jacobson says. "The core game was there." The user experience, however, was the big problem. "You couldn't find things in-game. It was clunky. Some of the screens were double-loading. The actual game itself was working - graphically, we weren't where we wanted to be. We didn't have the big leap that we wanted; it was a very good jump, but it wasn't a leap," he goes on. Part of the big, generational "leap" Jacobson is referring to here is down to the shift from the old, proprietary engine Sports Interactive has been using with Football Manager for decades to a new version of Unity, but again that just proved even more challenging than expected.

>The Premier League, for their part, were "awesome to work with," he adds. "It was getting messages of support from them, rather than anything else. And then it was, 'we have to alert you to these clauses…'" he jokes. "Everyone who had to get paid, got paid. We didn't shirk any of that stuff, and all of our relationships are intact with all of the licenses - and there will be more licenses for FM26… which we look forward to shouting very, very loudly about at some point."

Miles truly only gives a fuck about graphics and licenses like FIFA. the underlying game/match engine is probably still the same so keep using gegenpress 4231 with physical beasts while there is a lack of good fullback regens

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70xd5wl00zo

5 paragraph BBC "article" where they get the opinion of some random negress FM streamer over literally anyone else. Specifically about women's football, with the following quote by Miles:
>"At an event, some of [England's] Lionesses came and told me that it would never be commercially viable unless people like us got behind it," he reveals.

pls forgive him. miles is trying so hard
:cry:

Adding women's football is going to be the most kino FM decision for a very long time imo. People grumble about it now due to political/culture war issues, but once it's out we'll all be winning the Women's Champions League and coming up with crazy save ideas combining both sides of the game.

>>2133466
Getting a second set of regens to manage and then getting a second area to put my regens as staff after their playing careers sound great.

>>2133466
i'll only care about it if the graphics are excellent and the models have nice arses to look at

>>2133322
Women's football is the only interesting thing they have tried to do with the game since - I don't even know. The first 3D match engine? Porting saves from year to year is cool as a technical thing I guess

I don't really see what's interesting about adding women's football. it's just the same game but now with a database filled with players I don't know. I could just play with fake names and get the same effect

>we've actually got shills here now
top kek

It really depends if women's football actually plays differently. If it's just the same match engine, what's special about it? They should also simulate periods and higher ACL risk but they won't.

>>2133466
>tfw season ending pregnancy [again]

>cancelled because even Miles realised the new UI was absolute dog shit and couldn't find anything
As expected of SI

I hope you can completely delete women’s football from the game. I’d rather manage an Indian team than a woman’s football team.
At the very least I hope they behave as separate entities a la Bolton women’s team is a separate club to Bolton wanderers

>>2134336
That's already been confirmed.

Underwhelming if true.

>>2134430
out of context is a fucking hack

>>2133313 (OP)
Uhhhhh bros?
Why did they remove all the comments and unlist their latest trailer?

>>2134499
It's been unlisted and comments have been turned off since they published it.

>>2134512
Nuh uh, I remember commenting on it

>>2134430
weird that they've been so far behind on middle eastern leagues in general, especially in the gulf you'd think there are enough FM players/research autists to justify it. It felt like a big hole in the game world even before the Saudis started throwing all that money around

Guess, still no Brazil hm?

>>2133825
Yeah it's a huge undertaking from them, I think a lot of people underestimate how hard it is to implement it. It's not just different players, they've re-done all motion capture with women, they've had to separately weight attributes, they've had to scale down the transfer system, etc. I think it's going to be a hit once it's out.


>>2134544
Yeah I agree, they've been slow with new leagues. I can't imagine the Saudis, for example, were driving a hard bargain for licensing. The lack of Asian teams and only having a single African team could be much improved with little work I feel.

>Now work from home full time
>Much more free time
>Reinstalled FM24
>Download full English pyramid database
>Create a club, create a club for my home town and put other local semi pro teams as rivals.
>Join the pyramid at level 10

Half way through my first season boys. Oh how I've missed this.

Starting out with zero players, zero staff, trying to twist peoples arms to sign contracts for £20 p/w. This is what FM is all about.

>>2135144
Get yourself the sortitoutsi facepack and a logo pack fren!

>>2135156
Am I able to do so with a current save?

>Almost finished first season
>Still undefeated
>Unlikely to get automatic promotion

Should be good to make it through the playoffs. Got a very talented 17 year old keeper who might be a nightmare to keep hold of as he's currently non-contracted and doesn't wish to sign one as we likely can't afford him yet.

>>2135169
Player in question

>>2134884
fuck off shill

>>2135169
Yep, you can add graphics at any time.

>>2134364
Sorry I’m having trouble finding out which bit of my post is confirmed- which bit are you referring to?
I’m genuinely not going to buy the game if I’m forced to engage with women’s football. This isn’t a sexism thing either. Women‘s football isn’t developed enough for me to find it interesting. The skill gap is enormous

>>2135243

You'll be able to play men's football, women's, or both, it'll just be like loading different leagues.

with deadline day finally over, I'll be able to start a new fm24 save.

hopefully the dudes at sortitoutsi keep it going one more year

>>2133466
>we'll all be winning the Women's Champions League
Speak only for yourself, Miles, thank you.

>>2133071
>>2133109
If they remove the pre-game editor it's their loss, modding has become a big part of the community and might signal the advent of some online only/paywalled components too, besides, the retro databases are too kino to not mind not being able to use them.

>>2134430
The fact that South Africa was the only CAF league is bonkers. Considering the continental comp for CAF has always been dominated by Egyptian, Tunisian and occasionally Moroccan leagues its about time they added them

Miles wont add the saudi meme league because it'll completely break the game with having such a big money league with 0 reputation. Considering that league reputation is practically hard coded because theyre incompetent, itll break the game.

>>2134884
>separately weight attributes
And yet they removed weight from a players info... curious!!!

>>2135391
Theres a db updatedd every 3 days through the FM Updates. You just have to suspend your belief around fixtures. There are also mods that add a year to age and subtracr a year from contracts but ive found that janks up a lot of youth player and duplicates them.

>>2135565
Yeah if they kill modding its DoA. Wouldnt shock me if they did now that theyve been found out properly for how the match engine works.

I probably would play the retro database mods if the calendar was set back to when they actually were
I’ll never play women’s tho

>>2135784
You'll fold.

>>2135786
I can’t see it mate, if I wanted to manage a game with lower skill levels, lower skill cap, lower stakes with less growth and a lower global impact than men’s football I’d play rugby manager.
I understand women’s football has grown and in some circles now it’s quite popular but I’d rather that database player count was spent for some random African leagues, random South American leagues or even completing the European leagues. I imagine the game engine might be different and maybe have more interesting games too, but then again that would also be the case if you could manage u13s football too.

>>2135827
Sounds like all my saves desu. Anyone who plays football manager and picks a top flight team is an absolute scrub.

>>2135930
That’s the thing though init lad. You can’t take a Belarusian 2nd division women’s team to the champions league because a Belarusian 2nd divisions women’s team doesn’t exist
Their academies consist of PE lessons in school

Absolute scenes and limbs in the North West Counties Prem Division.

>>2133825
>>2134884
you could not pay me to add female players to any database I will ever run. Waste of my processor

>>2136015
Once you witness the absolute KINO of women's football saves in /trb/ you'll fold too. All will fold.

>>2136007
>6.6 and 7.0 conceding 3 goals
wew

anybody made their youth teams a powerhouse? i assume it's possible

>>2136015
I was thinking about this yesterday because I’ve been posting about this in the thread previously and I think that they have to have women in the database even if you don’t load them as playable leagues. Reason being is that the staff have to be interchangeable amongst womens and mens football and there are already women in the staff database so I don’t think they can separate the two. Hopefully the leagues can be deleted in the game files

>>2136470
If they don't remove the pre-game editor in this edition, someone will make a file deleting every female player. And then they will remove the pre-game editor for the next edition.

>>2136470
I assume it'll just be like not loading a league in current fm. it'll just be greyed out players and no simulated results

>>2136534
this is why i don't understand the outrage, i don't ever get mad that the french leagues are in the game, i simply don't ever load them

>>2136545
I’m not sexist, i think it’s good that they’ve done it, I just hope that you can separate the worlds. If the options are when starting a new save: Men’s football, women’s football or both I will be completely happy. I don’t think this will be the case though because of how the staff database is.
Even if you don’t load a league, results are simulated and it’s going to slow my game down for some shit I couldn’t care less about.
Fyi I play with all leagues loaded so it is a concern for me

>>2135640
yeah I've tried that add a year editor file and it is just borked. I understand where they're coming from, but I have to start a new save without those files.

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1zFaDzMEQA/

Damn that's crazy

>>2136968
BOYS WE HAVE ENTERED 2008 LET'S GOOOOOOO

https://youtu.be/_cDQi5kwuHQ

Graphics have entered late ps2 era. But you can still see it's a lot of the same animations from the old engine ported over. Which is exactly what they wanted to do in the first place

Steam page up. PC requirements. Needing a 2060 for recommended is interesting after what we saw.

>>2137013
grim grim grim

>>2137013
>Graphics have entered late ps2 era. But
No need for "but", the fact they focus on graphics and put them front and center so far is a very bad sign

One of the screenshots from the steam page

Don't worry, I'm sure the animations will be improved next year!

>>2137013
Actually looking great, especially those intricate passing movements. Well done, Miles! can't wait for Women's League preview!!

>>2137013
The moment the release date is official i am putting a week off notice from work

Looks fucking amazing, can't wait to see what else they have for us. FM26 is going to be so fucking good.

>>2137013
The players and crowd are a massive improvement, but overall it's still got all the same janky movement of FM24, utter waste of time

Will you be starting a fresh save or will you be continuing your save from FM24?

>>2137019
>1920x1080
>has the blurriness of upscaled 1280x720
what the fuck are these tards doing over there?
the gay video they released a couple weeks ago also looked low res and blurry as all fuck

>>2137051
Definitely fresh. I have stopped updating fm24 a while ago so it doesn’t ruin the fun for me

more interested in stadium variety rather than how the players look on the pitch desu fämälämä

>>2137026
>>2137040
No browsing 4chan during work, Miles.

shit looks worse than fucking fifa manager 2010
If I was in charge at EA I'd shit out a reskin of fifa manager 2014 just to fuck with SI
the switch versions of fifa use the same engine as the fifa manager 14 so they already have the assets for kits, player faces etc

>>2137051

My beta save will be a women's football team, I'll leave my FM24 save behind.

>>2137070
I barely paid attention to this aside from reading the cancellation a while ago, I thought they had binned miles?

>>2137084
>team of your sons via the players
KINO challenge

>>2137085
No he's still in charge. But he definitely put his job at risk by not having FM25 ready and then outright canceling. It would take multiple successive flops for him to get pushed out by sega.

>>2137049
as much of a sloppy shop as other parts of the series are, especially on the presentation side, it is obviously a ridiculous challenge to build a "match engine" that is supposed to do everything you can see in a football match. Skips and hangups with player positioning and ball positioning seem inevitable to me

>>2137066
this, especially at the lower levels, ridiculous how soulless and samey everything looks

Where would you play him?

>>2137345
Playing him as DLF(a) and he scores a hattrick.
Just taken over as Lazio manager after promoting Perugia from Serie C/B to A in 4 seasons, squad is pretty miserable but this guy seems a gem.

>>2137345
Personally, I would probably try to train him as a AMC and then make use of him as shadow striker or enganche. DLF, as you're using him, is another decent option. He's too slow and weak to be your front line striker or to be used on the wing, but his technicals are too good to be used as a cm, IMO

>>2137345
>that name

>>2137051
>he thinks you'll be able to continue your save
Its a new engine buddy. You WILL play Wrexham women and you WILL enjoy it

>>2137597
The backwards compatible saves was one of their main selling points for FM25.

>>2137345
>9 dribbling
>15 flair
I wonder how it looks like in action

>>2137345
RIGHT WING

>>2137345
i love when people crop out important info and then ask durrrr where would you play hurrrrr

>>2137345
Nowhere, too slow.

>>2137706
AP/DLF don't need speed

>>2137621
antony

>>2134430
>Egypt
about time, let's hope the rest of the nafri leagues come soon
>Lithuania
w/e but it could be cool
>UAE
weird gulf league to start with, probably should chuck saudi/qatar/iran in as well to add more variety to west asia because india's the only league you can play out of there right now

>everyone now realising that a change of game engine is not a change of match engine
oh n-

>>2137816
It's interesting how their Middle East neighbours like Qatar and Saudis were always on the prowl for elderly world star players, from Guardiola and Batistuta to Cristiano Ronaldo, but I think the most starry UAE Pro League ever got was with Vucinic and Asamoah Gyan.

I'm in 2031 and there's 1 singular regen in the top 50 players in the world. It's insane how reputation works in this game.

>>2137920
Either they just didn't care or they were playing the long game with mercenaries (see their national team for a laugh)

>>2137923
>see their national team for a laugh
Yeah, that is funny. Although I remember that Qatar tried to do literally the same like 20 years ago, inviting a couple of good Brazilian players from Bundesliga with next to zero chances to ever play for Brazil national team: IIRC, they were talking about Ailton (back when he almost single-handedly led Werder to winning a salad bowl), Dede from Borussia Dortmund (who had no chance while Roberto Carlos was around, even though he was a better defender) and someone else; but instead they got slapped on the wrist and FIFA actually tightened the eligibility rules. I wonder how UAE did managed to succeed?

>18 appearances and 9 goals
>2 games later it's 20 appearances and 15 goals
Mauricio has been UNLOCKED

>Mauricio scored 2 goals in his next game
So close to a hat trick of hat tricks.

>>2137977
>>2137963
post him

>that development in the past 12 months

>>2137982
I play attributeless, so you'll only see his per90 stats in a pizza/bar graph lol

I could see about switching my skin back just to see how his attributes look for you if you want.

>>2137982
>>2137989
fucking hell he's better than I realised. i just bought him cuz he's 6'6" and had good underlying stats for gremio

this is the sort of shit people savescum because of

>halfway through the season
>signed a new contract a few weeks ago
>currently qualifying for the play-offs in the champions league
>2 points behind PSG and literally about to play them today
>Liverpool manager just got sacked
should I apply?

>>2138043
I dont think I can leave these boys mid-season. Not when they're working so hard for me.

>>2137995
pog, is he a player irl
>>2138023
i'm almost done with my season, the injury page will be a sight to behold.

>>2138066
>is he a player irl
nigga, look at his face

>>2138067
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maur%C3%ADcio_(footballer,_born_2001)
APOLOGIZE almost

>>2138087
>AM or RM
might wanna have a look at the lad again there m80

>>2138087
Use your eyes retard

do these games still massively overrate physicals?

>>2138168
Pace is still OP, yes.

look at this dood

>>2137815
>antony
>9 dribbling
https://youtu.be/LrScvH6Gqmo?si=Ng5iUN2wrAUjWq_f
[skip to:@45 seconds]

>>2138470
>knocks ball past opponent
Well known to aid players with shit dribbling.

i've started doing the boehly approach of just buying every player that even shows a HINT of potential as a teenager. buy them for less than £2m with hopes to profit at least double digits later.

It’s over

>>2138592
Utterly worthless

>>2138592
100% they did plan to overhaul the match engine from the beginning, but then they found out what a mess it is and that they won't be able to make a new one, so they cancelled FM25 and decided to focus only on the graphics engine. 1 year down the drain, and we get nothing but a cosmetic change to the game yet again.
The dreadful match engine trudges on.

The match engine is both incredibly impressive and painfully inadequate at the same time.

>>2138594
>1 year down the drain
They've been working on the shift over to Unity since 2020 (TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY ANNO DOMINI)

did they ever explain why the player is consistently the team who gets hit with the "THAT'S HIS FIRST GOAL IN A BILLION YEARS" type of moments? because it's not normal.

>>2138625
SI try to engineer 'fun stories to tell your friends'

>starting goalkeeper just got recalled for "being played out of position"
He was playing Sweeper instead of normal Goalkeeper. I fucking HATE the way SI has coded this game.

>>2138603
So they are just incompetent?
I'm glad I never gave any euro to these crooks, I pirated every FM I ever played but I stopped after finding out player choice dont matter

>top of the league by GD in January
>Man City are now trying to buy Mauricio on deadline day
I promised him he could leave if they offer £80m and they're already up to £61m.

>board won't give me an extra £1m in order to sign our former-starting gk who got recalled from his loan and left us with only a 1 star keeper to try to finish out the season with
The boards in this game are absolute mental.

>>2138676
Business idea: sell Mauricio and buy that keeper with the money

>>2138680
>sell your star striker for £60m to raise £2m to buy a goalkeeper
alri ed woodward la. my current options right now are to try to sell off youth players quickly or sell one of my starting CBs. we have more cover in that area at least, but the squad is hyper-thin as it is.

>>2138682
You'd have a bit to reinvest into a new striker too surely
Maybe I'm too used to flipping regens for profit, I rarely turn down big money

>>2138689
There's 6 hours left of deadline day. I'd have no time to identify a proper replacement. Plus we're up against PSG. If I'm to have any chance of dethroning them, I need all the firepower I can get. I do like the idea of flipping him for profit (he cost us £13.5m), but I also know that if I can keep him til June, he'll sell for more than £61m, plus we might get into UCL knockouts, plus we might win the French Cup and Ligue 1.

Ended up selling that CB for a cool £26m rising to £30m, with a 35% of next sale's profit clause in there. Which was a nice 16-20m profit 2 years after buying him. Gave up 6m for the piggybank, which let us fund that goalkeeper move. Squad is now a measly 17 players so I might need to promote some youth players to the big leagues and see how they handle it.

>>2138726
>20% of transfer revenue to spend
Grim
Hope you get CL lad

>>2138730
I don't think we'll be winning the UCL, that's for sure. Squad's too thin and not high enough quality to compete with the big dogs, but we'll 100% qualify for next year's. The club's still trying to recover from the fucking insane wage structure it had when I came in. Had to sell most of the aging starting squad who were all on like 200k a week. Now the average is about 60k a week. Club went from £154m in debt, to about £4m in debt over the course of 2 years. So now the last little trick is to try to get us into the green permanently. Which I admittedly have no idea how to do, given we're already running a razor thin team and getting into the UCL etc.

>>2138564
BASED hoarder

>gravenberch is on course for best foreign player award in the league
>gets injured for 6 weeks
>have to play £10m Tino, a player who is fresh back from a season on loan in the Swiss Super League for the team that finished 10th, and who doesnt even get time off the bench really
>comes in and just starts shitting out 10/10 performances
>gravenberch is now the benchwarmer
You'd be fucking fuming if you were Gravenberch.

Also, some good news lads. PSG dropped points. They drew against against FC Sochaux-Montbéliard and now we're 2 points clear at the top of the table.

>scored in the 121st minute to pull a draw out of our arse against Salzburg
>bottled the penalties
I am fucking heartbroken. Cunt who missed the deciding penalty is the one who's been itching to get out of the club all fucking year. Hope he gets fucking murdered.

>>2138874
why's he taking it

>>2138891
Razor-thin squad and Mauricio having a massive fucking 6 game slump of no goals meant he was on for Mauricio at about the 70th minute point. He scored the 121st minute equaliser. Put him on the 5th penalty because he's the second best pen taker and he just went and choked it. The schedule is really catching up to the players now. I dont think we've trained in about 3 months now. Match, rest 2 days, match, rest 2 days, match. The scheduling in FM is absolutely FUCKED.

>>2137995

Guy is a total baller, unreal that he's not playing upfront for Brazil, would be interested to see whose playing ahead of him.

>>2138592

People are totally overreacting to this, they make changes to the match engine each year but they aren't going to re-build it from the ground up. The tactical overhaul this year means the match engine is going to be noticeably different than the previous game considering the huge role changes.

>>2138899
>would be interested to see whose playing ahead of him.
Vitor Roque, apparently. Also there must be a fucking glitch with the transfer value tag or something, because 30 year old Gabriel Martinelli who plays RW for Brazil, has a transfer value of £237m-£258m.

Also, just as a note, some of these players look a little better than they are because some of their attributes are bright green that shouldn't be. That's because the last time I used attributes I was in the South African 2nd division, so I reduced the "excellent" quality down to like 12 or 13 attribute points to reflect the league and obviously never fixed it in the 8 seasons since, because I moved to attributeless.

>>2138899
>People are totally overreacting to this
People aren't reacting to just "there aren't major changes to the match engine this year," they're reacting to "we've slimmed down on changes to the entire game for the last five years and canceled an entire release because of the amount of work that went into changing the game engine so that we could improve this shit. In fm26, though, its the same shit as 24 with ps2 graphics instead of nes graphics, come back next year for the changes we've been promising for a decade. p.s. dynamic youth ratings still don't exist and it would be convenient if you forgot we said they would"

>>2138912
They'll still buy it and play 1000 hours. It'll peter out once the beta is released, people are just frustrated that they haven't had a new FM for a while.

>>2138917
Yeah, there are some morons who will, but I can't imagine the average person doesn't go "this is a brand new engine that's being sold on the promise of new graphics and nothing else — it's probably going to have a bunch of new bugs from the unproven engine and no new content for me to take advantage of (unless you're a real womens game stallwart), so I'll just wait another year"

>>2138918
But there's not "nothing else", they've only released a very short trailer and the matchday experience video so far.

>>2138592
hot take: the current match engine system is good enough
if 1 chinaman can tweak some numbers in 1 file and change how the game looks and is played then si probably hopefully can do even better
they should just focus on adding more features like being able to punch your players when theyre being annoying or random events like points deductions because one of your fans threw a banana at a french player

>>2138899
Match engine has been garbage for at least a decade.
>>2138917
Didn't buy since 2017. What carries them is their unpararelled database and research network

>>2139066
>in 1 file and change how the game looks and is played then si probably hopefully can do even better
haha

>>2139066
The current match engine is pretty good, and we're going to get two years worth of updates to it along with the new animations so I think it's going to be very fucking nice in the next game.

I don't care about defensive football, pressing is dominant in football today and the game should adapt to it.
What I can't stand is you can't play passing football the way you could in FM15, that's why I still play it despite its lack of coherent pressing and its hilariously unrealistic chance frequency/chance conversion
In recent games no matter how short you play your penetration will still rely on a ball over the top to a runner from deep or a cross for a tap-in

>>2139222
What kind of passing goals are you imagining that don't involve a through ball or a cross?

>>2139222
sometimes balls over the top can be kino (this is from fm15, tbf)

>>2139240
look at him go!

>>2139240
>>2139222
Does this count as a ball over the top?

it's not even at all related to what you're saying, you just made me go back and look at my ten year old webms

>>2139240
>>2139243
>karius

>the 11th best wonderkid in the world plays for fucking LARNE
how in God's name?

>32nd best young player in the world has a £1.6m release clause
>our transfer budget is £1.54m
>the board considers this target "unrealistic" and won't up the budget to get him
We're even underspending the wage budget by 200k and they won't just shuffle those numbers across. Evil evil jewish bastards.

>>2139249
>reload like 9 times trying every possible combination of answers to try to get them to accept the request
>finally give up and continue
>the next day the club evaluate my performance, give me an A and up my transfer budget to £8m
absolute fucking trolls.

>>2139249
Would be good if we could kick in 60 grand of our own money in situations like that.
Might make me care about my salary.

>>2139236
Passes on the ground. What you posted is combinations that carve through an open opponent, I want to circulate the ball in the final third against a settled defence *then* to open them up with combinations.
>>2139240
>SK-A
Great role. This is still not the common form of penetration in FM15

>>2139290
Can you think of a goal in real life that fits what you want from the game? I'm assuming something from Man City, but City fucking love a ball flashed across the 6 yard box.

>>2139290
>This is still not the common form of penetration in FM15
Definitely wasn't, but I didn't make webms of the regular goals we scored. Almost all of mine seem to come from a cross, though, tbf, I had two amazing wingbacks when I was making webms
Anyway, here's an overhead backheel goal

>>2139296
City play a crossing game through the flanks, although prime 17-18 City played lots of cutbacks too which are good
This is a decent example. Newcastle are with 10 men here but the key detail is the move starts with all their players behind the ball in their own half
https://youtu.be/EbRtHkEPz8c?t=88

>>2139305
1:28 timestamp

>>2139305
>>2139307
this is literally a cross for a sitter? you specifically said that isn't what you wanted.

>>2139312
On the ground is the key.
Do you notice in this webm that again the defence is not pinned back? I want to play a passing game against a pinned/bus-parking opponent

>>2139312
I'm not him — look at your webm again. the opposition defensive line is pressed up high nearly to midfield and then have to scramble wildly to try and recover as the ball races down the wing for a cross
in the video, newcastle is settled back deep in their own half, there is no scramble for position at the back as liverpool break through with passes rather than sprinting down the touchline after a loose ball
and calling salah's pass a cross seems incredibly disingenuous

im doing an italian players and staff only save, is there any way to stop these tards from showing me foreign players in the recs?

What's the verdict on this site?

>>2139316
>>2139317
Right but that sounds like you're not asking for a particular match engine quirk, it sounds like you're looking for a particular match-up. Man City isn't going to park the bus against Macclesfield or whatever. Worth pointing out that the Liverpool goal that was used as an example is also an example of an overly aggressive press from Newcastle.

>>2139432
>it sounds like you're looking for a particular match-up
I'm looking for it to occur in the match engine when it makes sense. Not at all times, and not for it to be the only applicable game plan, just for it to be possible. Until then I'll keep playing FM15

What the FUCK Mauricio?

>>2139479
>AM actually passes directly forwards to striker
teach me
mine just passes out wide every time

>beat PSG 2-0 in the French Cup semi-final
We've got these lads absolutely on fucking TOAST this season.

>>2139526
The system is a 3-4-2-1, so our wide options are normally behind the play unless we slow the tempo down. I do also have that particular AM on more direct passes and take more risks, which might factor in too.

If PSG drop points in today's match. We've won Ligue 1 with games to spare. So naturally, I have to go attend the match.

And Olympique Lyonnais lead at the half! PSG are 1-0 down courtesy of a deftly dispatched left-footed strike from Rayan Cherki right before the break. PSG with all of the ball and none of the goals. 70% possession and nothing to show for it, with Lyon pinning them back with swift counters that have them second-guessing their every attack.

PSG could be dethroned in just over 45 minutes time.

FORGET THE REPUBLIC. THERE'S A NEW KING OF FRANCE!

After an absolutely unrelenting campaign from the most popular club in France, the old king of France has finally fallen. Many will point to the game against PSG in which they were defeated 2-0 in December by would-be champions Marseille as the moment that the title began its exchanging of hands, but in truth, it looked like it that trophy was only ever going to end up in one cabinet much earlier than that.

This was a club that had been cut to the bone in an attempt to pull itself out of the mires of debt, but whose remaining players realised that it truly was them against the world. And the world wasn't going to win. Between the lethal left boot of the mercurial Mauricio thundering home a record 34 goals in 45 appearances, the ever-present creativity of the Almighty Almada providing 39 goal contributes in 46 appearances, and the sheer brick wall of a defence that rivalled that of even the Château de Carcassonne, this was a team that refused to be beaten. A team that hasn't lost a game since AUGUST of this season. A team that lost 2 games in its opening 4 and said NEVER AGAIN. A team that has earned this victory every step of the way.

OLYMPIQUE DE MARSEILLE ARE YOUR CHAMPIONS OF FRANCE

>>2139624
Pictured is the true King of France.