I just had one of the best matches ever!!!
First of all my settings:
20 mins, game speed -1, full manual, stadium cam (0,10,1), difficulty: regular
Mods: klashman´s tactics, Holland´s H8 gameplay exe and a dt from Inca, specially made for difficulty regular (see link below).
Plus...cosmetic stuff, such as stadium server, ball server, scoreboard etc...
Now, I´ll stick with regular and won´t go up to professional no more. The reason is those equalizers from AI right after you scored where you literally can´t do anything. These happen too many times on professional which annoys the hell outta me.
On regular I hardly ever have that. Yes, some games are a bit too easy, but matches against stronger teams like Milan, AS Roma, Lazio (that damn Immobile!) are still challenging.
And specially EL, CL and cup games are awesome!
Just had one against Barca in EL group stage and since I haven´t won much, I had to get draw at least to stay in the game.
Barca scores two goals with Suarez...but what beauties!
One of them was a cross from the winger who out dribbled my defender beautifully to get space to cross and Suarez hammers it in volley.
A few long shot attemts from Suarez been very thrilling either.
I could equalize with two nice goals in the 2nd half. Barca plays offensive but leaves gaps which I could counter.
Then I had that one situation where I though "hmmm, let´s try it".
Ball has been at my CB. I see my middle striker in good position, so I hit the circle button and perform the perfect high pass to him, who´s able to receive it, takes it volley, but the AI goalie can parry it. Great situation!
It has been a draw, so the last group stage match has to be a win.
With these settings and the magic of Holland and Inca, I´m in love with this game.
Sure, fouls or ref calls is still an issue, but the fun factor rose with the factors named above.
And also in the league games....there are matches that feel easy, but once in a while...specially against big teams it´s very challenging.
Juventus for example...I can´t beat them on regular. And I also lose matches quite much.
Regular doesn´t completely erase ML scripting, but tones it down that much, that I don´t see it or that it doesn´t bug me.
Sometimes....like every 4th or 5th game I think "hmmm....that was a bit too easy", but honestly....I rather take that, than being frustrated with AI attacks that can´t be stopped by any means.
That Barca match actually didn´t feel like an ML match...more like one of league mode.
I enjoyed the randomness of AI attacks and those dribblings.
AND...very important...they do slide tackle but not ALL THE TIME, which is also a big factor to me.
Specially on the wings, defenders run along and try to cover my space or anticipate the pass I am about to perform.
Sometimes when they see the chance, they slide tackle but aren´t doing this all the time.
I hated that in higher difficulties.
Btw, haven´t updated yet, so I´m talking about the former version in connection with above named mods.
Here is that dt from Inca for regular difficulty:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/nm6o1efuydqcive/dt18_all_again_medium.rar/file
Sider version:
1 - put the folder in livecpk;
2 - add this line: cpk.root = ".\livecpk\dt18_all_again_medium" to your sider.ini
3 - delete (or rename) dt18_all.cpk in Data folder.
Whaaa? Why would they do that?
