Funny how you post my formation and make fun of it, but only share the essentials that work with any formation later.
I wasn't conspiring to first show your formation and then later sneak in your footballing wisdom. The gameplan screen got a lot of reactions, so I thought it only fair to give a fuller account of what you sent to me. That's actually a nice thing to do, isn't it? Not to be backhanded. But you see it for what you want.
In any case, I wasn't primarily highlighting the formation so much as the high-rated and high-form players. Let's face it – it's an imposing squad, and an especially imposing back line.
These are the key factors. Btw. show me one, only one(!), twitch streamer or youtuber who does these 3 points - I wait.
As for this – I think it's been received wisdom for about as long as people have been making guides for PES on YouTube: use your midfielders to run back into space and don't break the back line. Like, the number one most common piece of advice, and it applied to older games as well. (In anticipation: yes, you will say it matters more on eFootball than on PES because something-something realism and 5th division German football, etc.; still, it's old advice.)
As for which YouTubers might have specifically said this about eFootball, I don't know. Most YouTubers had the good sense to recognise it was a terrible game until v1 came out, so maybe they haven't given that advice yet. By dint of that good fortune, then, you could even be the first! Another feather in your cap (have you any room left on it?).
Also
suggesting that all my 80+ games with only 9 goals conceded were against 80 rated teams is laughable. I am only at division 5 currently with no losses still, and I am facing teams with even more legends and higher rated players than I have. Here are another 200 matches from before v1.0 (no dream team) where I played the same:
https://www.efootball.review/player/Mazen2022
This isn't a suggestion I made. I pointed out that in the specific video you shared, when the opponent did break the back line with their comparably weaker attacking players, your defenders were very capable at retrieving the ball, which is what I would expect in those sorts of moments. Maybe if other, stronger teams also broke your back line, the odds of retrieval were lower. But still, with 96 rated CBs, I'd say you've maximised your odds.
Regarding pre-v1 form: it serves no use in this discussion, other than demonstrating your long commitment to a terrible video game.
But I guess the haters want to hate. Nothing has changed since v0.9.0. for these people. Why even bother joining eFootball discussion
Yes, it's all and only about hate. Spot on.
Oh one more thing @janguv : Since you play from Germany, might you tell me your ig name? We have a German community with about 300 players that record games to analyze and share tactics, there must be someone who has you on record. So I can see myself if you played like this already, because like I said before - nobody did before my video.
I appreciate you've used strikethrough editing on it, but you have left it there for me to read. Perhaps you still mean it. I will say this about it: I have literally negative interest in some penis-measuring contest, where having given you my username you find that some of your disciples have played me so that you can expose me for having a
shorter penis worse record in eFootball or something. Or for you to analyse my terrible play and therefore think you can prove something. You've half-retracted this request, but your making it in the first place and letting it half stand there, like the faint whiff of a bad fart, tells me everything.
Nevermind
I remembered why I even send you the video, because you claimed the AI is too dumb to keep the defensive structure in tact. Which means you didn't play like me at all - What a joker!
Unfortunately, you remember incorrectly. You offered to send this video after claiming to keep not the defensive structure intact but the whole team shape, since, in my
original post, I complained that the AI do not stay compact to form a congested midfield like we see in real football matches (from the German 4th division upwards). Your exact words in reply:
I keep this shape all game long, no issues. Just don't press with your last line.
I even clarified in my subsequent reply what I was talking about, dubious that you could mean the same thing:
You do not stay that congested along with the opponent's team all game long.
Undeterred, you sent the video. And nobly, now you have given us all access to it.
Here is the video for everyone, the sharpy drawings are understandable by everyone:
So now everyone in this thread can assess whether indeed you manage to stay that congested in your eFootball wizardry (
he doesn't, not even close).
There's a pattern of your replies to people who have made complaints about the game in one respect or another. It's not a new pattern; it's been on these threads for years. Somebody complains about a gameplay issue in the game, and you reply by implying that the problem occurs not in the game itself but in the player; this response is a variant of "just git gud". Frankly, it's obnoxious, and it's laughable when the complaint itself is about something as out of the player's hands as AI programming.
I'm not sure what compels a person to defend a game at all costs, which you have been doing throughout this thread, but perhaps this strange drive made you misread my initial criticism in the first place (despite me reiterating it), or perhaps this drive is strong enough to convince you that really eFootball doesn't have any of the problems others allege of it. One can only wonder at the potential mechanisms of self-deceit here. But again, it's a time-honoured tradition in PES threads.
I don't know if this exchange is worth continuing. You could consider taking an L at this point, though it might stain your unblemished record.