Football Manager Series

So, SI were actively developing a FUT-style game on the side of FM (managed by the guy who is head of their mobile game development, Marc Vaughan), in order to generate some extra money - using a pseudonym. 100,000 people played it, and (from the sounds of it) didn't particularly like it...

This is a really (long, but) interesting read.

SortItOutSI: Sports Interactive's Secret Game

It used Unity for the match engine - you'd imagine this will have been used as the base for FM25/26 work...

You didn't expect to read this one day ! Don't be surprised if you feel that the PC users are no longer the first target.. they wouldn't bother their release with unity if they want to stick with PC users
 
Looks like the guy that brought the match engine mod has teamed up with other modders for something "special". This will be interesting to follow.

The big reveal here is the launch of this website with different match engine mods... fmtweak.com

Good luck to whoever wants to try them, but it's not for me. My eye was drawn to the "lower league" one (slower, tougher, more error-prone games), but think about it - what happens when you play as/against decent teams who wouldn't play that way or that poorly? There's no "poor team vs more technical team" version. So you're applying a mass over-simplification to all teams/matches... How is that good?

It's a massive fad for people desperate for a new game IMO. Playing with general values like this is just a bad idea.
 
The big reveal here is the launch of this website with different match engine mods... fmtweak.com

Good luck to whoever wants to try them, but it's not for me. My eye was drawn to the "lower league" one (slower, tougher, more error-prone games), but think about it - what happens when you play as/against decent teams who wouldn't play that way or that poorly? There's no "poor team vs more technical team" version. So you're applying a mass over-simplification to all teams/matches... How is that good?

It's a massive fad for people desperate for a new game IMO. Playing with general values like this is just a bad idea.
After reading their website, I think you can use the Match Engine Manager to change back to the basic engine when you play matches such as your example (poor vs technical). But I agree, I think this is a big placebo effect.
 
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