There are a few off Evo-Web who play online who you could hook-up with. Connection quality is everything online, as you have already stated, the 95% speed is a perfect description. Send me a friends request - GForce1010. We can hook up and play some proper football, I'll be online tonight.
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Happy new year folks!
Send me a friends request - GForce1010. We can hook up and play some proper football, I'll be online tonight.
Hey Jimmy! how you doing M8
Sorry for the slightly off topic but remember a couple of weeks ago when you mentioned your weekly lads night and how with this game you really start to shine and with previous versions things was always tighter against your mates? Well yesterday i played my nephew and like yourself games in the past have been really tight and this used to piss me off no end because he has just a passing interest in football but he,s a decent gamer.
Anyway to be fair it was is first time on 2011 although this was'nt a problem before. So predictably he goes for Man u knowing i will play as the pool and therefore giving him a slight edge. I let everything ride on default formations,game plan the lot, then absolutley slaughtered him! I think because he was man u at old bastard (OOPS! sorry Trafford) the AI helped keep the score respectable with some great goalkeeping but he had 1 shot on goal in 15 minutes of hell (and neither of us could remember it lol). Boy did that feel good, ok with practice he would improve but you could just tell the footballer within me was running rings around Him and it was football that was beating him not just that i was more used to the game.
The next time he comes down i am going to let him be barca and i will be say bolton and see how that goes, there is no more matches to tell from then because he felt so deflated. Also in my moment of glory and big headedness (is that even a word lol) i took a screenshot of the match results.
Right off back to the cave,now i have satisfied my childish urges to belittle my nephew.
I think I've reached the final straw for football games this year. FIFA 11 was horrible, PES 2011 seemed fantastic at first but the more I've played it the less and less I enjoy it. There are just so many problems to overlook, so fair play to anyone who's still enjoying it. I wish I was.
I had a quick couple of friendlies just now against the AI on Professional level, and had the worst experience against the CPU I've ever had. First game, I dominated 70% possession, 15 shots to 2, lost 2-0. The first was, yep, you guessed, a through ball and finish, the second, well, was absolutely atrocious. A low cross came into the box to no one at all, and my defender, completely unchallenged, ran onto the ball and towards his own goal. I pressed the long pass button to clear the ball not once, not twice, not three times, but FOUR frickin' times, and the game just ignored every command until he continued dribbling the ball into his own net. The game sometimes is a total mess.
Second game, I used Man Utd and the default tactics that go with them. No matter what I did, players would be offside in the most stupid fashion. 90% of my attacks broke down because I had players just wandering around 20 yards offside on occasion even with attacking set to just 14, so I had to completely halt my attack to wait for them to get onside, which they often refuse to do, meaning I can only pass sideways or backwards. I'm mindful of timing, keeping the players onside etc, and the AI sometimes makes it impossible to avoid when your team mate inexplicably runs 20 yards offside when the ball is nowhere near him, then refuses to come back. One time I hit a goal kick, only for the whistle to blow instantly for an offside up the other end of the pitch. I then scored a screamer with Nani, wonderful goal from 35 yards into the top corner, leaving me up out of my seat. Then it's disallowed. Why? Rooney for some reason had run totally offside near the corner flag but had nothing to do with the goal. I hit a long range shot and never expected my striker to be chatting to the corner flag up in the top corner of the pitch. It's just absurd. Another great moment ruined by a buggy game.
Then, the best moment of all, the AI defender has a free kick in his own half. He punts the ball down the field, but overhits the ball. It flies over the defenders and attackers, bounces into the penalty area, then slowly, and I mean SLOWLY, rolls past Van Der Sar who stands and watches the ball roll about 10 inches past him into the net. To put it another way, the AI took a free kick, then forgot to make the keeper move. Brilliant. This is the second time this has happened in the last couple of weeks, and I've not even played the game that much lately. I mean seriously, how do football games today pass any kind of quality control? The sporting world has some amazing video game representations these days, yet football, the biggest sport in the world, is dominated by two games companies who can't release a title any more without massive bugs and problems. I'd played that particular match for 75 minutes, then when that happened I just switched it off. It makes me not want to play it any more. Keeper mistakes I can deal with, but this wasn't a case of the keeper spilling a shot, being caught out by a cross, it was clearly bugged AI forgetting to command the keeper to do something. He just froze and let the ball roll past him, from a 60 yard punted free kick.
Aside from this, I've also realised that the AI will 99.9% win all physical battles on the higher difficulties, meaning even with the likes of Nani you cannot outpace the AI, and can only progress by passing and moving using the player run button when releasing the ball. The sheer lack of pace your players display compared to the AI is so artificial. Yes, you can knock the ball ahead, but I've still broken clear with Rooney and knocked the ball on into space, only to be caught, then knocked off the ball, by old, slow defenders. I've also had it with the game one moment making your player pass the ball as soon as the power bar appears on screen, then the next moment you'll kick the ball, the power bar appears, then nothing happens for a good 2 seconds before you get tackled. In short, button lag is still here in abundance. I'm now bored of jogging along with the ball, only to see an onrushing AI defender, then I tap the pass button to play the ball square to a team mate, only for the power meter to charge on screen, then there's a delay of only a second or two, then the AI gets in and blocks the ball or outright takes the ball off me despite me trying to play the pass well in advance. Really poor.
Like I said, it's so annoying. I thought this year we'd have the best football games ever made, instead we've got two totally bugged messes, so no more football games for me it seems
I think I've reached the final straw for football games this year. FIFA 11 was horrible, PES 2011 seemed fantastic at first but the more I've played it the less and less I enjoy it. There are just so many problems to overlook, so fair play to anyone who's still enjoying it. I wish I was.
I had a quick couple of friendlies just now against the AI on Professional level, and had the worst experience against the CPU I've ever had. First game, I dominated 70% possession, 15 shots to 2, lost 2-0. The first was, yep, you guessed, a through ball and finish, the second, well, was absolutely atrocious. A low cross came into the box to no one at all, and my defender, completely unchallenged, ran onto the ball and towards his own goal. I pressed the long pass button to clear the ball not once, not twice, not three times, but FOUR frickin' times, and the game just ignored every command until he continued dribbling the ball into his own net. The game sometimes is a total mess.
Second game, I used Man Utd and the default tactics that go with them. No matter what I did, players would be offside in the most stupid fashion. 90% of my attacks broke down because I had players just wandering around 20 yards offside on occasion even with attacking set to just 14, so I had to completely halt my attack to wait for them to get onside, which they often refuse to do, meaning I can only pass sideways or backwards. I'm mindful of timing, keeping the players onside etc, and the AI sometimes makes it impossible to avoid when your team mate inexplicably runs 20 yards offside when the ball is nowhere near him, then refuses to come back. One time I hit a goal kick, only for the whistle to blow instantly for an offside up the other end of the pitch. I then scored a screamer with Nani, wonderful goal from 35 yards into the top corner, leaving me up out of my seat. Then it's disallowed. Why? Rooney for some reason had run totally offside near the corner flag but had nothing to do with the goal. I hit a long range shot and never expected my striker to be chatting to the corner flag up in the top corner of the pitch. It's just absurd. Another great moment ruined by a buggy game.
Then, the best moment of all, the AI defender has a free kick in his own half. He punts the ball down the field, but overhits the ball. It flies over the defenders and attackers, bounces into the penalty area, then slowly, and I mean SLOWLY, rolls past Van Der Sar who stands and watches the ball roll about 10 inches past him into the net. To put it another way, the AI took a free kick, then forgot to make the keeper move. Brilliant. This is the second time this has happened in the last couple of weeks, and I've not even played the game that much lately. I mean seriously, how do football games today pass any kind of quality control? The sporting world has some amazing video game representations these days, yet football, the biggest sport in the world, is dominated by two games companies who can't release a title any more without massive bugs and problems. I'd played that particular match for 75 minutes, then when that happened I just switched it off. It makes me not want to play it any more. Keeper mistakes I can deal with, but this wasn't a case of the keeper spilling a shot, being caught out by a cross, it was clearly bugged AI forgetting to command the keeper to do something. He just froze and let the ball roll past him, from a 60 yard punted free kick.
Aside from this, I've also realised that the AI will 99.9% win all physical battles on the higher difficulties, meaning even with the likes of Nani you cannot outpace the AI, and can only progress by passing and moving using the player run button when releasing the ball. The sheer lack of pace your players display compared to the AI is so artificial. Yes, you can knock the ball ahead, but I've still broken clear with Rooney and knocked the ball on into space, only to be caught, then knocked off the ball, by old, slow defenders. I've also had it with the game one moment making your player pass the ball as soon as the power bar appears on screen, then the next moment you'll kick the ball, the power bar appears, then nothing happens for a good 2 seconds before you get tackled. In short, button lag is still here in abundance. I'm now bored of jogging along with the ball, only to see an onrushing AI defender, then I tap the pass button to play the ball square to a team mate, only for the power meter to charge on screen, then there's a delay of a second or two, which affords the AI just enough time to get in and block the ball, or outright take the ball off me despite me trying to play the pass well in advance. Really poor.
Like I said, it's so annoying. I thought this year we'd have the best football games ever made, instead we've got two totally bugged messes, so no more football games for me it seems. Why bother wading through a master league and getting to the Champions League final when you never know if the game's going to kick in and make your keeper let in a goal by just standing there an ignoring the game going on in front of him? I'm sure others have never experienced this, but the game seems to have started doing this to me on a fairly regular basis now, and must have happened a good half a dozen times so far.
I just don't understand Konami. Say what you want about the PES games of old, yes they were less sophisticated, yes they were more unrealistic than they are now, but at least they didn't have constant bugs. First there's the corner flag bug, then I have bugged problems with starting a ML with a created team, now I never know if and when the game's going to completely disable my keeper. FIFA's just as bad, the AI in that is totally broken, and the main game modes yet again don't even work properly. Sure, PES2011 has redeeming qualities but overall, compared to many other AAA titles out there in other genres, football games today are a buggy mess.
NEVER clear the ball using the long pass button when your in doubt and when you don't have time at the ball, always use the shoot (clearance) button, it's more responsive, it's instant and it dosen't fuck with you unlike the long ball button
since then i always play safe and hit 
it seems that unfortunatly some ghosts are still in the machine from 2008.
I agree, i stopped using the long pass to clear when 2008 came along. i will always remember it i passed back to the keeper and he stumbled letting the ball past him
Also the other bit from your post that i didnt quote about konami not setting the game up right is also spot on. The game we all want is already there it just needs tweaking here and there.
LTFC said:
. I really don't believe the issues you talk about are game breaking as they are unpreventable etc.. Because like i said, all of this can be sorted 
damn scripting.