Re: PES 2014 Discussion Thread (NO PIRACY TALK, YOU WILL GET BANNED!)
I've got no idea what game you're all playing but this PES 2014 isn't what I expect PES to be. Where's the difference between the teams?
Why does EVERY single team play the same style regardless of what is set?
Why do they always hit the long ball to the striker, who chests it down and knocks it down regardless of being Stoke or Barcelona?
Why does every team play the long through-ball?
Why does every team harass and fly into tackles and not stand off?
I said this a few pages back, the game is rather easy once you get to grips with tactics.
Most teams have Possession game or Quick counter, few sit back using Long ball.
The Long Ball through the middle can be very easily avoided to an extent, just play a deeper backline.
I've played twogames with Rennes vs Lille and Lyon away from home, both teams where better so I had to use a more defensive minded formation. Luckily before I looked at my team and decided i needed some muscle in the middle of the pack to keep things tight, i had brought N'Zonzi from Stoke since he had the right physicality to break things up in the middle of the park, great signing was man of the match vs Lille.
My gameplan is to attack using the pace out wide with the two widemen in Pitropa and Alecsandro whatever. I brought a new striker because I had no faith in Mevlut Erdinc holding the ball up well.
I beat Lille 2-1 and drew vs Lyon, (conceded a late equalizer

gutted) Both teams had possession game, both played the same way, both had more possession than me, especially Lyon, at half time they had 65% of the possession.
I used all out defence all game, soaked up pressure and defended well throughout. The goals they scored where very good, and needed to be because I wasn't going to give away shit.
Now regardless of how you change your tactics there is an Defensive AI issue in which defenders just blindly follow any runs from attackers and pull the defensive line all over the place. This needs sorting out, it happens to both us the player and CPU, thats why it's not hard to sit back, defend well and you know you will get at least one 1 on 1 chance against them.
This explains why the AI always do the same ball, it's because the striker is always open because of this error.
Why does EVERY team I choose always play the same high defensive line and not use the teams actual setting? Because the CPU defensive line certainly is never so far up the pitch so it does look at the tactical instructions when it wants.
The D-Pad actually regulates you teams defensive line ingame so if you press it towards you goal they will drop deep, push it up they look to play offside trap.