viktoristus
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- Joined
- 1 January 2009
What I do is in tactics menu, choose "Quick setting" and then "all out attack". Then, I change all players individual defensive arrow to normal, not the smallest, not the biggest. Like you said, the medium one. I might leave one attacker alone, to work as a reference for quicker attacks.
To test this, I start a new cup with only 3 teams, then I choose my team and an edited one for my next oponent. In cup games CPU is more agressive. If you try in friendlies it won´t have the same result.
There´s still a problem with CPU´s sidebacks positioning, can´t say for now if there´s a way to improve that.
Played 4 halftimes* (6 stars, 10 min., Exhibition**) with both teams set to your recommended tactics.
*I prefer to play only one halftime when testing tweaks, since the game seems to pick between various "scenarios" for each match, sometimes it is a bit more challenging (like in the RM - FCB match), but more often it is quite weak. So with one halftime I have time to try playing in more "scenarios" rather than stay "closed" in one type for the whole length of the match.
**I always play Exhibition when testing tweaks. If Cup is the hardest competition, then CPU should be at least somehow challenging also in Exhibition to make the gameplay even more enjoyable (difficult) in other modes.
Home – Away // Player // Shots on goal, Shots on target, Possession, Score: HT // FT // ET1 // ET2 // Penalties
ACF Fiorentina - Juventus FC // home // 2:3, 1:1, 52:48, 0:0 // :, :, :, : // :, :, :, : // :, :, :, : // :
Italy - Netherlands // away // 0:5, 0:2, 42:58, 0:0 // :, :, :, : // :, :, :, : // :, :, :, : // :
Real Madrid - FC Barcelona // home // 4:7, 2:5, 48:52, 0:2 // :, :, :, : // :, :, :, : // :, :, :, : // :
ACF Fiorentina - Juventus FC // home // 7:0, 4:0, 56:44, 0:0 // :, :, :, : // :, :, :, : // :, :, :, : // :
In two cases, CPU did not even take a shot on goal. I managed to be beaten in the RM - FCB match, but my defenders were totally out of position during those moments, so I might test now with a different tactic for me to see if something like that would happen again.
At least the CPU succeeded in keeping clean sheets in all the matches so far.
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One of the few tweaks which helped me a bit was to set Aggression, Mentality and Teamwork to 99 for all. At least then could CPU properly tackle and cover spaces and sometimes go into the attack. I did not have these tweaks when playing those matches, just pointing it out as a side note. However, I do not like drastic general attribute tweaks, so I hope some of the tactical tweaks could be proven effective.
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