I have been playing this game a lot recently and really do enjoy my ML with Stoke City.
You probably won´t believe this, but AI plays very agressive and in one game I had 9 fouls by the AI.
On one day, I had 5 matches in a row and on two of them I was granted a penalty.
AI gets a lot of yellow cards either.
Then this one thing happened:
I use the player Adams as a winger and sometimes as a striker. His rating is 77 and even I like playing with him, he´s not on the first squad...he´s more of a substitute player. But then he has that period where his stats keep developing dramatically and he has that blinking blue arrow, so I put him on the 1st squad.
Match after match he performs well and keeps developing.
And then in one match...he gets tackled hard by the AI and needs to be substituted at once.
After the match I get the news, that he is out for 2 months!!!
What the hell?! But hey...that´s how I love ML cause that adds depth and passion and I frigging felt sorry for Adams.
Plus, I can´t remember when that has happened the last time.
On another match, AI shoots a long range goal where the player took the bouncing ball volley, realizing that my keeper was standing in a bad position. I was like "whaaaaat?" (saved it and gonna upload it soon).
You´re probably wondering how all that is possible? Now I don´t know how many of you are following the edit section in this forum, but this is happening with the gameplay mod.
Firing this game up on the PS4, I´m shocked how limited it is and actually has been kept.
It´s obvious that we need sliders for this and cam settings with a much wider range!
Meanwhile there are tons of gameplay files out, so many for individual likings, which don´t make the game perfect, but make it a lot lot better!
That´s why sliders are the solution for offline console players, as in those files users adjusted physicality, ball speed, keeper agility, AI agression etc.
Btw, those impressions up there and many more happened on full manual, a lower patched gamespeed (feels very realistic) and difficulty regular, but AI is hard on that one, due to the gameplay patch and lowering the difficulty puts the scripting down. I don´t win every match, lose a lot and have draws.
I got kicked out of the FA cup against Man City (that´s another cool thing...big teams actually play better than weaker teams), am struggling on the 16th place in the premier league but reached the knockout phase in CL.
My point is not to hype PC version "master race this and that...", no no, forget that.
My point is that sliders are indispensable for an offline player for this game.
But (please don´t move it to the PC section) if you are an offline player and have the chance to get a decent PC, I recommend you to get that game and mod the hell out of it.
A lot of flaws are still in, but it kills and narrows down so many of them.
Like I said, once in a while I play it on PS4 and feel very sad for the limitation.
KONAMI is cutting down it´s own product, how sad is that?
