k_19
League 2
- 6 August 2003
I've now gotten used to World Class difficulty, and having a blast right now. As you all know (and has been mentioned a few times already), professional is a bit too easy and World Class can seem a little unforgiving sometimes, but I've now found the right tactics to compete with the higher level teams with a lower level team. I have pass and shooting on semi and everything else on manual.
To test it out with a lower level team, I used Korea Republic (who are three stars, not great, not terrible), and faced various higher ranked teams like Turkey, Poland, Italy, Germany, etc. With standard tactics where defense is put to "cover", these teams absolutely demolished me as they would get behind my defense line with ease and time their runs perfectly. And I could not dispossess them no matter how hard I tried. So I fiddled around with a few tactics and found a perfect match; playing high pressure with offside trap as the defensive tactic. This made the CPU forwards more hesistant in making their runs forward and give them little time on the ball. Their defense would also not press forward as much, giving more midfield action in general. Of course, CPU will time their runs right once in a while and hit you in a counterattack but now the game is much more even. With cover or man marking tactic, they just run circles around you at will and time their runs with ease, so don't bother. Playing these tactics, I once held out Germany to no shots at halftime, so it seems to click in frustrating the CPU offense.
And for anyone that is struggling on headers, try to hold RT, RB, and A (I guess R1+R2+X on PS3) at the same time as you time your jump. I'm pretty sure RB doesn't do anything, and that it is just hold RT, but with that combination I'm winning a lot more headers in the midfield and defense now.
There are still problems at the World Class level, such as the CPU having WAY too many shots on target (and scoring lot of unrealistic cheap goals in the process) and through ball glitch seemingly happening more often. But if you are having at World Class difficulty right now, give my tactics a try and see if it works out better for you.
To test it out with a lower level team, I used Korea Republic (who are three stars, not great, not terrible), and faced various higher ranked teams like Turkey, Poland, Italy, Germany, etc. With standard tactics where defense is put to "cover", these teams absolutely demolished me as they would get behind my defense line with ease and time their runs perfectly. And I could not dispossess them no matter how hard I tried. So I fiddled around with a few tactics and found a perfect match; playing high pressure with offside trap as the defensive tactic. This made the CPU forwards more hesistant in making their runs forward and give them little time on the ball. Their defense would also not press forward as much, giving more midfield action in general. Of course, CPU will time their runs right once in a while and hit you in a counterattack but now the game is much more even. With cover or man marking tactic, they just run circles around you at will and time their runs with ease, so don't bother. Playing these tactics, I once held out Germany to no shots at halftime, so it seems to click in frustrating the CPU offense.
And for anyone that is struggling on headers, try to hold RT, RB, and A (I guess R1+R2+X on PS3) at the same time as you time your jump. I'm pretty sure RB doesn't do anything, and that it is just hold RT, but with that combination I'm winning a lot more headers in the midfield and defense now.
There are still problems at the World Class level, such as the CPU having WAY too many shots on target (and scoring lot of unrealistic cheap goals in the process) and through ball glitch seemingly happening more often. But if you are having at World Class difficulty right now, give my tactics a try and see if it works out better for you.
and never tried it in 08. Wouldnt the problem be that your opponent is not gonna wait while you sit and save the replay of your goal.
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) It's great playing as teams from different countries/divisions, getting different types of matches each time as well as playing with semi/manual controls and playing proper football.
