This appears to elude them hard. Not long ago, when Suff was active in the PES scene, he was advocating heavy stats work in the future PES titles... Assisted play in PES is dreadful, disgusting and to be completely frank a "No-No".
All the assisted levels paired with the abysmal difficulties, everything below Professional must be eradicated from the franchise ASAP, make the game so straight forward and braindead that only the so called "gaming journalists, reviewers and youtubers" can appreciate.
I have no idea what KONAMI are smoking, but if they think they are gaining sales from FIFA buyers, because they made the game a defensive horror show with enough space to add 2-3 more players to both teams and still feel "the space". I really don't know what to say at this point, If I wasn't a PES fan and I was looking for a more mature footie title, this demo is just not cutting it. YES, it is fun. YES, you will experience amazing sh*t during your first several hours, but I really don't see myself playing ML if the A.I. is just as dreadful in the full release even after tweaking hard with tactics and playing on this
6 star difficulty which is presumably only for the best of the best...
RANT:
I made over 40+ hours on the Online Beta and during my time with the game, I lost only once and that was because I felt like playing at 3 am on a work day. I am not saying here that I am an amazing player or anything like that, but my games were so dreadful and boring on PA1, I was winning with 2-3 goals difference every game with a bunch of games resulting in disconnects after the third goal. So I said f@ck this and I switched to full manual and oh boy, oh boy did my experience change, people were covering space, they were trying to hold possession and they were also taking their time with passes, no one was rushing any decisions. Sure, there were a few matches where people were trying to play full manual as they were playing on PA1, but those games were just a few. Full manual is just a better choice if you want to experience the best out of PES. If the majority of PES players are like the ones that played the beta, no wonder PES is at this stage, FIFA obviously ruined a lot of generations.
There is no power in this world that can force me to play on any of the assisted levels in PES, every pass becomes just a button press, every shot is a scripted mess, every moment in the game becomes repetitive and boring. No wonder people are complaining about shots being op, passes being laser guided and ping pongy. Combine this pile of disgust with the idiotic defensive A.I., that currently functions as a constantly loosing power android bot trying to learn how to walk in a University somewhere in Soviet Russia. When you are dribbling, the A.I. is just a choppy running mess, they have no idea whats going on when you are speed dribbling with the ball, they are always trying to contain you and they are never pushing aggressively on your position, its like they are playing the pretend game, where they are supposed to be football players, but in reality they are all either IT's or Plumbers. There is absolutely no urgency in their actions they are so chill, it depresses me and when we add the hundreds of acres of space, we receive I really have no clue what, but it sure isn't a proper football experience.
P.S. I had a lot of draws in my full manual games, 0:0, 1:1 mainly and every single draw felt amazing and satisfying.
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is soooooooooooo overpower and scripted
