Yeah, I just tried to take Salah on trial and was rejected too.
Is everyone having this non-development bug or is it just a few people?
Few people on a Discord said it and I had Shoretire develop his technicals well first season at United. Went up 2 in dribbling, first touch etc.
Tbf they may not improve much beyond that as only dod a season but it's known in FM AI development is gash so wouldn't be surprised if its just their side that's bugged.
I've joined clubs before and had DCs training corners etc.
If my own development is fine then I’m not arsed. I’ve seen a fair few screenshots of Endrick in the future and he has Haaland type physicals, multiple 20s for his mental but not a single technical stat over 15.
Interesting. Will keep an eye out to see if thats floated about on the SI thread.
I did have that on mine too, some very weird focuses when I started.
Last year it was regens stopping appearing after 5 years. I did a 20 year holiday save and literally no regens were appearing from any leagues you didn't have loaded so was swamped with just English regens.
They fuck something majorly every year.
The code must be an absolute mess, it's still exactly the same engine as 08 essentially. Just add one line and ten things break.
I didn't get the trial thing on mine, tried to have a look at Sunderland's entire first time just before they were coincidentally due to play us. They all said no and then beat us 2-1 for the insolence
Yeah didnt work for me but half of twitter said it did. Fuck knows.
Currently trialing sending my GK and every singe player forward on set pieces. Already got me 3 FK goals and a corner in two matches.
Wonder if the non-development thing is deliberate as a soft cap on how many seasons people can play the beta for.
They aren’t that intelligent.
There'd also be no point as you need to buy the full game to get the beta anyway.
There was no point limiting the beta to one season by the same logic but they still used to do it.
Unless the beta was free back then I suppose, I honestly can't remember.
It just looks like they've misplaced some of the values for development.
The images I've seen have mentals and physicals going up way too quickly. Some 18/19 year olds with the mental attributes you'd expect of a 30 year old model professional.
Probably flying up to account for the ceiling on technical attributes. Have to reach that potential somehow.
Unless I'm doing something wrong, scouting seems utterly fucked. I can't find out how to do a normal scouting assignment (unless a recommendation for one for a competition appears in my inbox) and setting up a recruitment focus pretty much returns fuck all.
Same.
Thankfully my main (only?) save will be with TTH where I won't really need to scout, but it would be nice if it actually worked so I could generate a little money making loan factory like Chelsea.
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Loads of posts on SI forums saying as I said before, human development of players is fine. Seems AI training is bugged or summat.
After numerous aborted saves I've finally got into one with Milan. Just after the transfer window and we're hammering the league:
We lost the super cup match to Inter which was annoying, but have Fiorentina in the Semi's of the Italian Cup and RB Salzburg in the Champions League last 16.
Players In
Players Out
Slowly getting rid of the shit and fleshing out the core of fantastic players Milan have. The usual suspects remain excellent, but Charles De Ket is a superstar in the making.
That Norwegian left winger you signed looks good.
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Yeah, high hopes for him. His stamina and strength are a bit wank, but the rest of his stats are shit hot for an 18 year old. Scalvini looks like he could be the bollocks too.
He’s one I have seen people raving about. Be interested to see how he turns out once they fix dev
Indeed. I'd like to say I found him through the revamped scouting, but given that doesn't seem to work it was from a Work The Space video.
I saw that one too. That Turkish kid had me wondering why his technicals didn’t improve but it never twigged it was bugged
Oh and I've not played long enough to judge properly, but I think DS is probably right about your own player's technical stats improving. A load of my players have arrows on their technicals indicating they're improving.
I'll start a new game when the problem is patched either way, but I reckon I can live with it for the beta. Not that it should have ever happened mind.
Milan’s core team are ridiculous on FM. Keeper, Kululu/Tomori/Hernandez in defence, Tonali in midfield and Leao up front.
That Roony Bardghji looks obscene as well but the little cunt won’t join me other than on loan.
Can someone explain how Touch compares with the full-featured game? Does it feel really mobile game-y (no thanks) or is it more just FM-lite (yes please)?
I tried to sign him but signed too many under 21 year old foreigners so he fucked off to Italy. Most annoying rule in history.
Update is out fixing development issue. Save game compatible.
Joachim Low was in charge of Roma (Mourinho got sacked last season) and he jumped to Spurs who fired Conte last season and Bielsa a couple of weeks ago.
They interviewed me and I didn't think I'd be offered the job as I asked for a much larger transfer budget (they said £800k and bumped it to £2m) but they did offer me the job. I am not planning on accepting it.
However, as they offered me the job Leicester City (who fired Rodgers last season and Koeman this season) have interviewed me:
If they come knocking I'm jumping ship.
Settled on my final beta tactic:
Devastating.
Touch will hit Apple Arcade on the 8th of November.
I can't sort out a defence for love nor money.
Had a test season with Asane in Norway for one reason and one reason only. We'll get to that... We were predicted to come 11th out of 16.
My tactic:
Final table:
Lost in the playoff semi.
But yes you saw right. Morten Gamst Pedersen. He absolutely ripped it up.
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Set BPDs to Cover and put pressing at max. That is the best you will get.
Defence is just fucked though regardless.