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I was playing around with PES2018 some more and something really funny happened, it's probably not that funny actually, but it gave me a chuckle and it's an interesting thing overall about the game.
I mostly play as the club I support in real life, my local club, and I enjoy playing friendly matches against our local rivals, I love an epic derby every once in a while and it's my 1st choice when deciding what match up to do, so whenever it's time to do some testing to see if the overall experience can be improved, my local rivals are the main victim.
Recently my settings have been Professional difficulty, 10min matches, FUMA controls, -1 Speed and starting the match on -1 Attack/Defence levels.
So, I was doing some editing on my local club, nothing to do with stats, just some player faces, stadium picture, manager picture, kits, and then I also decided to edit the rival setting, it was empty and that's not right, so I selected our rivals for the sake of accuracy really.
After that I did some more friendly matches and suddently I couldn't beat them once, they were much more efficient, scored in every match, and had a compact defense that was difficult getting around and scoring on, I felt puzzled, but decided to shake it off, maybe I'm just not playing well today, my mind must be playing some trick on me. I went for another rematch after losing a few times, because I wanted to beat them at least once, and then in their 1st play of the match they pass the ball incredibly and cross it into the edge of my box, somewhat low, and their player hits a volley perfectly, it hits the post and goes in, at that point I was seriously confused, how did my copy of PES2018 suddently change so much?
Then it came to me, it was that one setting, I felt like an idiot for not realizing sooner and instead thinking that my game was broken somehow, I'm kind of dumb sometimes, but yeah, making the game recognize both clubs as rivals made it so they're much stronger when facing them, on one hand I like this because it's more challenging without being as robotic as Top Player/Superstar/Legend, it feels organic mostly, on the other hand I dislike this because there are moments in which it does get a bit more robotic than I'd like and it also bothers me that a rival setting like this would be the perfect time for more aggressive matches with more slide tackles and fouls, but this doesn't happen, it's a wasted opportunity, I get the same number of fouls that I usually get with PES2018, which is still low.
I mostly play as the club I support in real life, my local club, and I enjoy playing friendly matches against our local rivals, I love an epic derby every once in a while and it's my 1st choice when deciding what match up to do, so whenever it's time to do some testing to see if the overall experience can be improved, my local rivals are the main victim.
Recently my settings have been Professional difficulty, 10min matches, FUMA controls, -1 Speed and starting the match on -1 Attack/Defence levels.
So, I was doing some editing on my local club, nothing to do with stats, just some player faces, stadium picture, manager picture, kits, and then I also decided to edit the rival setting, it was empty and that's not right, so I selected our rivals for the sake of accuracy really.
After that I did some more friendly matches and suddently I couldn't beat them once, they were much more efficient, scored in every match, and had a compact defense that was difficult getting around and scoring on, I felt puzzled, but decided to shake it off, maybe I'm just not playing well today, my mind must be playing some trick on me. I went for another rematch after losing a few times, because I wanted to beat them at least once, and then in their 1st play of the match they pass the ball incredibly and cross it into the edge of my box, somewhat low, and their player hits a volley perfectly, it hits the post and goes in, at that point I was seriously confused, how did my copy of PES2018 suddently change so much?
Then it came to me, it was that one setting, I felt like an idiot for not realizing sooner and instead thinking that my game was broken somehow, I'm kind of dumb sometimes, but yeah, making the game recognize both clubs as rivals made it so they're much stronger when facing them, on one hand I like this because it's more challenging without being as robotic as Top Player/Superstar/Legend, it feels organic mostly, on the other hand I dislike this because there are moments in which it does get a bit more robotic than I'd like and it also bothers me that a rival setting like this would be the perfect time for more aggressive matches with more slide tackles and fouls, but this doesn't happen, it's a wasted opportunity, I get the same number of fouls that I usually get with PES2018, which is still low.