@Klash: I have to bother you with a few questions relating to the tactics screen.
1. Do you know if and under which conditions the AI uses the tactical presets 2-4 in game? I assume preset 1 is default and the others are used when ahead or behind in score.
1. Yes! But i must explain
This is what the CPU use in different situations IF you set custom 2/3/4 to have a preset of 'Possession Game/All out attack/All out defence/Long ball/Quick Counter'
Preset 1: is default,
Preset 2: is an alternative strategy
Preset 3: is used when the team is losing and needs to score, or if the team is playing vs a weaker team and wants to use a aggressive attacking strategy to win.
Preset 4: is used when the team is either winning and wants to hold onto the lead and defend or if the team is playing vs a team which is significantly stronger.
If you set them all to custom, the CPU will only use preset 1 and will change their formation at 60 minutes or if something extreme happens in the game before that.
Now you need to be careful which ones you use for the CPU teams because the CPU like to use Quick Counter and Long Ball much more than they use the other strategies, so i avoided using these two much, infact i rarely gave a team quick counter at all.
I usually gave teams a Custom strategy for preset 1 possesion game/all out attack for preset 3 and sometimes all out defence or maybe long ball for preset 4.
2. Are the strategies you can activate like Quick Counter or Possession Game OFF from PES 2011 gone and team style is just defined by the 1-20 sliders now?
2. Each preset has a given set strategy, so for example you could set them out like this:
Preset 1: Custom
Preset 2: Possession game
Preset 3: All out Attack
Preset 4: All out defence
This is better than 2011 because the strategies used to contradict the team sliders from 1-20, they work better in this method.
3. Is there any way to copy/paste/save/load tactics with the ingame interface? It'd be really frustrating if there wasn't, it was sooooo useful in WE9LE.
3. yes, you can use up to 3 slots in saving a teams tactics so you can copy them over to other teams. I think its 3 slots per user, so if you use all of the 'Data' slots upyou have 3 times i dunno, 35? but tis 3 per use.
4. Does your World Cup patch have tactics of good quality assigned to many teams?
4. Errrm, i will have to check but I tried to sort out 2014-2002. I didn't do all of them but the majority of the big teams, going back later i don't think i gave them strategies yet to suit how they played because i simply didn't have the time, creating all the players was time consuming enough.