PES is dirt easy on Professional. Literally a through ball fest. Defensive AI is so damn buggy when dealing with through balls, defenders just going to wrong direction or just stopping, I've lost count of the number of goals I've scored this way.
Yeah delete this post too motherfucker, cause I said the truth again. Truth that you don't like.
That might just be your death warrant signed and sealed...
On a different note, we had our PES Demo 2 Lads Night 2-Player Playtest last night and my findings were alot different from Demo 1's last week.....
Firstly, the game is so, so, so much tighter on Top Player, 2-Player. The scores from the first demo were 3-3, 4-3, 4-2 etc, pretty much high-ish scorelines. Last night's scores were completely different- 0-0, 1-0,0-0,0-0, 1-0, 1-0, 0-0, 2-1, 3-1. The Ai seemed alot more organised this time around, and we really needed to genuinely earn any chance created. There were no gimmes at all, nothing even close. I remember scoring the only goal in a 1-0 win against my brother that had me punching the air, and the goal was nothing special either. A decent passing move saw Montenegro(sp) slip the ball out wide to an over-lapping full-back who whipped the ball in with R2 control for a powering header. That was it, but due to the lack of chances and goals, it felt like a World Cup Final winner.
Also, in my opinion, the heading animations are by far the best I've ever seen. So varied and relevant.
We are were all utilising the off-the-ball defending, and playing on Pass Assistance '0'. So it was anything but easy with the Copa Teams. I've never known a game of PES be so hard to break down in 2-player since PES 5. I truly mean that.
There were a couple of issues though that still need to be ironed out, namely the appearance of the 'Pass to the wrong player bug' that happened a few times. More annoying than anything else, as I'd somehow not experienced that during my limited PES 12 Demo 2 play-testing in single player mode.
The one thing I did realise last night though, and it was clear as day, is that the individuality for the passing is at it's most prominent when playing on 'Zero' Pass Assistance. There is no question about that, infact, I'd go as far as to say, it was the most prominent I have ever experienced in any PES game to date. Firstly, there is no such thing in PES as completely Manual, even on 'Zero' there is obvious assistance, but that is highlighted to the extreme due to the fact the lesser players have very little assistance, where as the better passers have what they need. This makes the individualism shine through quite dramatically in this regard. We played with the Copa Teams for the most part last night, we love that level of team, and they are the most well-matched with regards skill-sets. But it was D'Alessandro and Montenegro for Inter and America's that truly ran the show for their respective teams. And is was their influence in every match that produced the results.
D'Alessandro could seem to pick that ball over the top, or on the deck, or a little one round the back. His passing range was simply off the map compared to the rest of Inter. The same went for Montenegro. In order to be successful on 'Zero' Assistance, we truly needed to get these players on the ball, these players were the difference in every game without exception. And it was all down to their range of passing skills. Even to the point where they were splitting 3-4 players with a deftly weighted pass. The other players, in contrast, had so much contextual error in their passing, it just defined Monte and D'Aless even more so. Even with all the hours I had put in to the PES 11 Demo with Inter, and all the nice passes that D'Aless was making for me last year, it never came close to how he felt pulling the strings last night on PES 12 Demo 2.
There were points at the beginning of the session where I had considered switching to Pass Assistance 1, mainly because that was how I played Demo 1 and loved it, and because I was making alot of passing errors. The reason I didnt change in the end was because of this pronounced individualism in the passing from D'Aless and Monte. Also, it felt so rewarding when you could pull off a great passing move, knowing you fully deserved it. It was the same for appreciating what my opponents were doing, when my brother cut me open with some fantastic triangles, I appreciated completely what he had just done, because I knew how hard it was was to complete what he just pulled off before my eyes. Such a great sense of satisfaction.
We didnt see many issues with the keepers last night, and to be honest, most games ended with stats like 4(1)-6(2) in the shots on goal/target ratios. True midfield battles with very little give or clear-cut chances. This was so far removed from the week before and Demo 1.
As we concluded our session last night, the words that were uttered as everyone left echoed the very same sentiment - 'Fuck, that game is hard'.
On console you can edit very well. For me it's enough.
