I think PES 2015 could be a great game if the following is improved/fixed through the patching process:
- Input lag. Noticeable delay between pressing the button and the player actually releasing the ball.
- Stamina, in any mode, on any setting, under any playing style, depletes too quickly. Forces me to makes subs to replace the most exhausted players rather than for tactical reason.
- Nowhere near enough fouls by the CPU.
- The delayed yellow card system still doesn’t work properly.
- Most tackles by the user, no matter how minor, are automatically a booking or worse.
- Lack of injuries.
- Shot velocity needs to be toned down a little bit.
- CPU doesn’t shoot from distance.
- Player switching is unreliable at times.
- Strikers on a breakaway all of a sudden slow to a crawl when approaching the box.
- Editing mode is a shadow of its former self.
- Goalkeeper positioning and animations still need work.
- Keepers punch too many crosses, a lot of which go straight to a CPU player at the top of the box for an easy volley.
- Attackers are too often pretty unresponsive and useless on loose balls in the box.
- Too often, teammates shy away from the ball when building an attack.
- Still too much reliance on super-cancel, especially when receiving a pass.
- Shadows on some pitches are still too dark.
- Still way too many insignificant cutscenes during gameplay.
Totally agree! In addition to these I would also like to point out few very critical problems:
- Too few camera options. Right now the only playable setting is "Blimp" which shows both sidelines. It's the only setting where you can coordinate attacks and pressing tactically. However, "Blimp" is unnecessarily too much zoomed out and its very hard to shoot accurately with manual shooting because everything is so small. There should be something between "Blimp" and "Wide".
- You can't change direction of pass/shot after powered up. This is a very big problem for manual players, but not so big problem for assisted players.
- Manual heading is broken from corners or crosses. I have tested even heading with L2 (manual arrow). It always goes wide by the near corner even I was aiming to the far corner. However, it depends little bit where you kick the corner, near or far post.
- Intercepting passes is sometimes hard. Too many times the defenders will just stand and watch the ball roll slowly about 0-1 meters away from them even they could easily get them. Also many times when the opponent makes the pass and the ball goes directly to my defenders feet, my defender will make the "reach animation" to the ball, so the ball just rolls under defenders testicles.
- Goalkeeper doesn't come out with Y/triangle if my defender is too close to the opponent's through ball, because my defender starts powering up the through ball pass. There is a workaround on this with super cancel, stopping my defender running, and then pressing the Y/triangle again. Sometimes it's too late for this and the opponent attacker reaches first.
- We need 120hz mode for this game. It will help with the input lag. This 2014, not 2009.
OK so many of the problems I found out is noticed in the full manual gameplay. For example all of my friends play with full manual, because that's what makes this game really football and not ping pong. I feel this game was made for assisted players, not for manual players, which is a real shame.
