People on Reddit mass reporting SI for false advertising over the J-League not being fully licensed in FM24 as promised is pretty funny, if a bit pointless.
People on Reddit mass reporting SI for false advertising over the J-League not being fully licensed in FM24 as promised is pretty funny, if a bit pointless.
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Its not really. Every game dev gets hauled over the coals for missing features that have been promised, its standard. A lot of people were looking forward to managing these.Originally Posted by Baz
SI need calling out in their tedious bullshit, it's been the same for years. There's literally a bug right now where AI won't make substitutions, or if they do it's right at the end of a match. So injuries come flying in if you Instant Result or whatever. Opposition teams knackered making the game way easier as the fuckers barely rotate etc. In my save City bought 13 defenders across 4 transfer windows. They had three midfielders and one winger. Four world class strikers in total but they just played Haaland every minute of every match. AI squad building improvements was a headline feature.
Its a broken fucking mess if you so much as look under the surface, but we all keep buying it at the end of the day. There's nothing else that does what it does. Complacency is a bitch
Oh my, what an incredible own goal. These clubs should be absolutely desperate for the PR, even from smaller creators. How on earth can you be so short sighted.
They're probably going to get even more PR now.
Yeah, but shit PR. The old 'all PR is good PR' is bullshit.
My beloved Peacocks nailed it with Zealand last year - saw they were first on one of those Dial Square posts.
Aye, they were straight on it, as any right-minded club would be. Even Florisdorfer the year before got involved.
I was going to do a beta save and then start again when the full game updated but I've righted the terrible wrongs of last year and got Cov promoted in a distant second to Leeds so here we go, bottom of the Premier League with a record low points total a year after it should have happened in real life
Osimhen averages about 3 VAR offside checks a game.
Less than a month in my first season and we're already playing a game on Saturday and followed up by on Monday. In August. Outstanding.
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It's really boring how every team starts playing a flat back 4 and 2 DMs or a back 5 and 2 DMs against you after half a season of doing well.
I just started a save on the mobile version with Sunderland. I sold Jack Clarke for £23million and Alex Pritchard for £2.2million as we already had enough players in central midfield. I loaned out Chris Rigg to give him plenty of playing time. My Clarke replacement didn't get a work permit so I had to bring in a couple of youngsters on loan to fill the Clarke void.
I was unbeaten in league and cup for quite a while but got beat at Stoke. They played 3 at the back, wing backs, two B2B midfielders, an advanced playmaker at AMC and two strikers. I'm now tempted to try this formation on another save.
Started my proper save.
They look like a top bunch.
With a top ground.
The reason I've picked them is firstly, I had a spell on FM22 in Latvia and fell for the amazing Raimonds Krollis, the star man of the save.
Secondly, I've joked for years about going on holiday to a place I find through FM, and I don't think it'll be hard to talk my wife into visiting here
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Better off visiting Genoa, I thought Spezia was a bit boring. It’s close enough to Milan, Florence and Pisa though
The Latvian living legend (and now sub it seems) doesn’t play for Genoa though.
Good to have the FM Rensie skin back for FM24. It's a thing of beauty:
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone have 4* current ability but for just one role.
Saudi just offered £224m for Bruno Fernandes after my first season. Musiala has £105m release clause so yes please.
About to get intense when it comes to training set pieces. (a reminder at how bad faces are)
Is there a way to autoskip watching the players walk out before a match? I already skip ‘match day experience’ but that’s not it.
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2D classic
Anyone who watches 3D is an odd ball tbf. It's so bad. 2D for life.
I took over at Hertha, replacing Pal Dardai... I'm now the father figure to his 3 sons
2D for the games and you can switch it onto 3D if you have a "what the fuck happened then?" moment.
Spent last night downloading this from gamepass and getting the graphics updated to this year. No idea on where to do a save. I'm not sure if journeyman is the way to go(I've never done one before), maybe a challenge save, or maybe go to something vastly different than your standard European fare.
I’m really enjoying my save. Winning games being the key ingredient.
Already lost one player cos he was on a ‘non-contract’ and chose someone else over me, so now I’ve got Andre “5 star current/5 star potential” Wisdom refusing to sign an actual contract looming over me. The save will take a serious nosedive when he sods off.
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Bayer came in for one of my best players (28yrs old), and he wanted to leave.
I managed to save $32k-a-week on his wages, get potentially $3m in fees, and get him back on loan for 2 season for nothing
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Preach.
I'd probably still stick with text commentary.
Opening league game went well
And the transfer window closed.
Already way into my save! Feels good after not really been too fussed last year.
I'm also really into my Warrington save. Was predicted to finish 22nd so I'm pleased with this on 1st January:
I'm trying to use as much of the original squad as possible, so I know them when I go watching. I did buy Carney's brother, Caleb Chukwuemeka, but he's been garbage despite his stars suggesting he's one of my better players, and I shan't be keeping him.
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Just noticed that one of my young defenders can also play a bit of goalie.
Jagielka.
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Kyle Walker has it as well. Don’t try it, he’ll concede from every shotJust noticed that one of my young defenders can also play a bit of goalie.
Stick him on the bench instead of a second keeper. Sorted.Just noticed that one of my young defenders can also play a bit of goalie.
People have a second goalkeeper on the bench? I don't even bother with 9 subs available to me.
My bench is all goalkeepers. You can't be too careful.
I never did but goalkeepers get injured now. Twice I’ve had a keeper going off injured with a wrist injury (the injuries where they make you sub them off).People have a second goalkeeper on the bench? I don't even bother with 9 subs available to me.
I didn't but I've had a keeper get injured 4 times in matches that had to be subbed off. Another couple with minor injuries which allowed them to carry on.People have a second goalkeeper on the bench? I don't even bother with 9 subs available to me.
And if you put an outfield player in goal they then cry about it and stay unhappy for ages until your promise of not playing them in the wrong position is upheld
I didn't find that when I had to put one of my CB's (who was playing at RB despite not being able to player) in goal.
He was utter turd though and let in a shot that was tame and right at him.
My keeper broke his wrist in a game so I loaned a random lad from Coventry and he was miles better. Forms took a dive since he went home.
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Having played as Wrexham in the previous version, I was looking for something similar but different so Notts County was my team of choice. Until I watched season 2 of Welcome to Wrexham, that is, and became familiar with the history of Dorking Wanderers. I think the club's (short) history makes them perfect for a zero-to-hero sort of save so it was kind of a no-brainer really.
The club was expected to finish 21st, yet the board were gunning for a play-off finish. Fair play I thought, the difference in class shouldn't be that big and if you're not aiming to continue on earning promotion after promotion, what are you doing? The money wasn't there to make any changes, the squad was bloated and there were more pre-arranged signings coming in the future, so I made a grand total of 0 moves in either of the transfer windows. I let some players go, but that was about it.
When we were on fire, we were really on fire. Sadly that didn't happen all that often, leading to a very inconsistent form. I went with a rather attacking tactic, which resulted in us being the league's highest scoring team, but that came with a downside. And that downside was a very poor defensive record (6th worst in the league). That wasn't only down to tactics though. At least not down to our approach. Our defenders were all fairly garbage, with the best of the lot being of "Leading Vanarama North/South" level, and an average of 38 years old. On top of that, a decent if inconsistent goalkeeper who got injured quite a bit and left us with the subpar understudy for a long period of time (missed 3.5 months through 3 separate injuries). And to add salt to injury, defending a set piece seems to be like rocket science for our bunch of donkeys. 22 goals conceded in 46 games, with 10 penalties added on top of that. Hopefully that's something we can address both tactically and in terms of player quality going into next season.
Wasn't all bad of course. Our front 4 delivered the goods with 75 goals between them, although most of that came down to our starting striker Ryan Seager. He's really not that good, but the tactic seems to suit him so long may he reign. Bobby-Joe Taylor also deserves a mention as our set-piece/penalty specialist as he came in clutch many a time.
As for next season, I'm not very optimistic I have to say. A lot of the dross will be leaving, but our wage budget is still very restrictive and I imagine we'll have troubles gathering a 20-man squad, let alone an actual good one. Oh well, that's the challenge I signed up for, so that's where you'll find me.
I’m missing a Ryan Seager at Warrington. Someone who just scores goals.
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I remember giving him loads of games at Southampton the last time I had a proper save on this.
Love FM. I'm Fiorentina. January 2nd. Newcastle bid £45m for Nicolas Gonzalez, my best player. He's worth double at least. I reject, so he gets pissed off, okay let's chat.
He says he wants to play CL football. I say if we don't qualify he can leave, no worries. He fucking loses his nut and now despises me. I'm top of the table, one defeat all season, 17 points ahead of 5th. I'll easily make CL.
Newcastle? 7th in the league and they got knocked out in the CL group stage.
Inverted wing-backs seem completely OP, to the point where they seem almost necessary to make a good tactic. Then again that seems to be almost the case in real football so perhaps I should stop complaining.
Inb4 DS tells me about his tactic with 4 volantes, 3 pressing forwards and no goalkeeper which works without inverted wing backs.
Almost, this is what I use. Central football works incredibly incredibly well this year as WCBs on defend are superb. Sold Dodo to the Saudis for 60mil, he wasn't even playing. They'll buy anything.
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