Fgs.... It's a football game not a music album. We should be talking about gameplay...
right, because in real life a player who is very smart on the pitch can't possibly follow tactical instructions
im not getting into this again, its a very simple to understand and ive argued it on here before....
simply: tactics and player abilites go hand in hand.
where is your team shape? you think football is all about where you place your 11 dots on the pitch? that is 20% of the battle... is rest is about player instructons within that system.
this makes no sense. so because we are controlling players that means it doesnt matter what tactics we have?
just imagine having FM like player and team intstructions in PES... then watching the AI vs AI play out those instructions in a barca vs Real match.... how good would that look? to see iniesta and xavi moving into triangles constantly, to see messi roaming about on his own in the middle just waiting around... to see pedro constantly looking for the inside pass.... for benzema to be on the shoulder when alonso has the ball waiting for a long ball.... now let a human control of the teams, AI vs player.... thats how fliud everything should be.. and its all down to tactics
... God damn it . PC users are so screwed .Agree. Lack of injuries is one of my pet hates with the game.
More frequently recurring and longer injuries would add a couple of important elements to the game.
1: I'd have to use my whole squad more in ML to cover for injuries.
2: I could target danger opponents and try to knock them out of the game. Bad sportsmanship but its a real tactic. It wouldn't always work anyway and I risk yellow and red cards.
3: I'd have to be more careful about making all 3 subs too early, with the increased threat of a player getting injured who could not be subbed.
4: Injury rating would become more important when buying players
Konami don't do injuries well:
- Out of 1177 players in the COPA 2012 mode, 1128 were given Injury rating A (players who will almost never get injured). This shows that very little research goes into injury proneness of players, especially for smaller teams. And instead of randomising between A, B and C most players just get put on A.
- Even good teams are not always researched well. Brad Friedel has made 307 consecutive PL appearances but last year Nokami gave him the worst injury rating.
- If you do get an injury it's hardly ever long term, mostly 1 or 2 weeks.
I force myself to get the worst athletic trainer to increase the number of injuries and the worst doctor to increase injury length but this way I miss out on some important benefits of a good athletic trainer.
To those who say injuries don't really happen that often, just look at the last round of Premier League fixtures. In 9 games, 9 players were forced to be subbed through injury. Taking 1 week is a small sample yes, but you'll see similar numbers of injuries most weeks. Currently the 20 PL clubs have an average of 3.4 players injured each.
Hope it will be better this year but of course all we know so far is that you can buy an item to accelerate your player's injury recovery
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