I'm serious. I spent the last 2 weeks modifying stats. Look at ball winning for example. It doesn't make the player less able to tackle the ball, nope. It makes no difference. Try it. Put it on 40 and see how their ball winning ability makes zero difference, other than the overall.
PES stats used to mean something. With the exception to values like explosive power, passing, etc. there is a huge amount that are layered now to null effect, except only to affect the overall.
I think PES stats do matter, until the CPU decides they don't matter anymore and the scripting kicks in.
I had been playing on Top Player for a while until I couldn't take no more. I was feeling so much anger inside. Players become unresponsive all of a sudden or throughout an entire (important) match. AI getting every lose ball. Scoring (amazing) goals from distance. And whenever I scored, it would take them about 20 seconds to score back. I went back to Professional.
How Konami can't see this and make harder difficulties more reasonable and more human it's beyond me.
c'mon, using hazard or lukaku feels completely different.
All of these statements are true!
I definetly feel a difference between Mbappe and Ibrahimovic, between Messi and Beckham, between David Luiz and Umtiti and so on and so on...
But then I also remember those videos with the running stats where there was not a big difference between fast and not so fast players. It probably depends what mode is being played. Maybe in training mode stats aren´t relevant no more...I can´t say.
In my ML games the difference (speed, agility, dribbling, shot power etc) is very much noticeable.
I think stats DO matter, but not all of them.
Kept playing a lot of ML games the last days and there was one thing, which...well...was quite a downer.
You know, on the tactic screen before every match I check on my player´s stamina and form, just to decide who´s gonna play and who won´t. For example if Huddlestone (playing with Derby County) doesn´t have a full power bar on the screen, I choose another player taking his place and so on.
But then I think, that it probably wouldn´t take much difference, which is a bummer.
Proof was, when I had an FA cup match going on. Score was 0:0 and it went to extra time.
Been in the second half of extra time and had used my 3 substitutions already. Then I had my LB named Anya.
He had space and I controlled him to run up forward.
Well, his stamina was on 0....nothing....not even a green dot, but he ran and felt like he just came into the game.
Not a single tiny indication of inertia.
This had put me off a little bit and I tried to ignore it, just because of the reason that I really enjoy that game most of the time.
That one and probably a few others don´t have much of an effect - let alone any effect.
Also form arrows....I´m not sure if it really takes an effect or it is just for me and my feeling like "Oh, he´s got bad form...don´t let him play" or "damn...great form...he need to be in the starter team", because so many times I had no choice and had players with a bad form on the pitch, who scored volley shots and stuff...which made me wonder.
If all of those indicators and values really really had an impact on every single player and situation...I can´t imagine how much I´d enjoy the randomness and freedom of the game...which is there already...to some extent.
For example
@Matt10 ´s video with the keeper dropping the ball....brilliant! Now if he had a bad form arrow....more brilliant!
But I can enjoy the game for what it is.....but the stuff mentioned above....let stats and form have more impact on the game and get out that damn AI scripting.
Even I really enjoy my ML campaign, I have to hope before every match starts "Don´t let it be a shit game, with AI boost, ping pong pass crap".
Very very rarely, when I concede a goal and watch the replay, I can say "Yeah...my fault because of bad timing/positioning of my defender".
It´s so often that, when AI attacks and I feel like they probably gonna score, I can do whatever I want, but AI would have 2, 3 accurate passes, shot, goal!
This is on professional...full manual. It doesn´t happen EVERY game but maybe like every 2nd or 3rd.
This really bugs me.....despite all that.....I really do enjoy it!
