Without beating the same drum...
Just picked this up for a game after about a month, then quickly remembered why it had been gathering dust for so long. 2-0 up and coasting, then after about the 65-minute mark suddenly the AI (a two-star team I hasten to add) picks off every single one of my passes, closes down the space, executes inch-perfect tackles and frankly becomes nigh-on impossible to dispossess.
Eventually culminates in a *sigh* low cross into the box, *sigh* two backheels which I can't get anywhere near and then *sigh* the striker putting it into the top corner without me given the slightest chance of putting a tackle or a block in. Rinse, repeat and I end up drawing 2-2, conceding two goals that a) I had no chance of preventing once it got to a certain point and b) have never, ever been scored in the history of football in real life.
Whoever implemented the scripting in this needs firing or shooting. It's not subtle in the slightest. It's literally like a flip of a switch. It's the kind of careless, rushed, nonsensical, half-arsed approach that sadly I've come to expect from Konami now.
Also, the person a few pages back who mentioned that EVERY defensive clearance the computer makes goes inch-perfectly into the path of their forward stood on the halfway line is absolutely spot on. It's ridiculous and kills the attacking momentum time and time again. So, so unrealistic.
And the reasons above are exactly why I'm skeptical of the patch that they're putting out next week. Yes, minimal praise for acknowledging the most blindingly obvious flaws over a month after it came out, but they are renowned for promising the earth and not delivering. I've had my fingers burnt by them pretty much year on year for god knows how long now, so I'll only believe it when I see the supposed changes in action. And even then, I hope the changes they will apparently incorporate aren't to the detriment to the rest of the game. With RDR2 coming out at the same time, it means it'll have to be something extraordinary to pick it back up again.
All Konami care about these days is online and micro-transactions - which is pretty much confirmed when you consider that since putting that announcement out, it's been drowned out on social media by MyClub nonsense. It's pretty sad really when you think about it. All my best memories of PES come from playing through the Master League, and now that has just been tossed aside - in fact I can't remember them making a single reference to it since the game was released.
