Okay I am more or less back, seventh season has been started yesterday, which is crazy, I usually play five seasons of Master League at best. Maybe ML without player development is better? Or at least goes on longer. In PES5+ once you grab top talent player it just takes two or three seasons for them to grow and become great. It's fun to produce new great players, especially if its someone unlikely to become one, but takes a bit from team building challenge.
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The stars! We have four now!
Anyway, let's have a look at what went down in Season 6:
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Yep, this happened. I am so mad about those two losses! And they happened one after another too...first we've lost 0-2 against Westfalen, well they were pretty damn good at the time so I can't blame them. But another loss was against Weser and this was a game full of shit! Comfortable 2-1 lead, then Dudek,
the guy who does the things he does just for the fun of it and it never works out lets in two absolute baboon shoots, and we end up losing. But hey, we've won all games ever since and ended up going on a 16 league games win streak, the second best in Eastern League's history. Record - 17 league wins in a row - belongs to 1971-1972 Stadhuisplein, but they are in Division 2 now and of no consequence so no one talks about them. Dutchies are bad, real bad. All their teams got relegated to D2, damn they're bad!
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Back in the day 90% of my goals in MLs would be scored by one singular person who I wanted to become top scorer of everything. How times changes! I've scored 78 goals in 26 games and everyone got to slip a few in. Hyypia, Kaladze and Ignashevich scored some headers from corner kicks. Scholes got only three or four goals total, but usually they were extremely important equalisers in a desperate times. Every attacker, except of Kemar who is total shite and ended up playing nothing, got a lot of goalers in. Bemar was king of the league scorer, Keznan got the golden boot in D1 Cup and WEFA Champs. Even with Dudek guy in goal, there was hardly any worry since we'd usually score so many goals losses at the back hardly mattered
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Third year in a row, we've met Ruhr in D1 Cup Finale. This time it was a no-nonsense game, 6-0 to Commonwealth and we defend the least important trophy of all without breaking a sweat. Respect to Nord though, they've managed to not lose our second leg. Not that a 2-2 draw helped them, they've lost first game 1-4 anyway
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There is, however, a stain on Commonwealth's honour this season, as we have lost our title of #1 Best Football Team in the World. Let me explain.
@Anjin , that is a hell of a table, no contest at all for you in PES 5. What difficulty setting are you playing at and are you signing any real life player you can afford ?
Reason I ask is you clearly are like the kid in the arcade back in the day who would get an hour of game time for ten pence and nearly burn out the arcade cabinet.
The ultimate gaming challenge awaits you, my main men @miguelfcp , @mattmid and I are all attempting the PES version of playing Deep Blue and IBM in a chess grand championship at the same time.
After rough group stage, we went against Lombardia fully knowing they are danger men. And they were, for first twenty minutes. We win 8-1 on aggregate and easily go through, to meet our ultimate rivals of the last season, Merseyside Red in the semis. Fear and panic sets in after Commonwealth ends up losing first leg at Polski Stadium in Poland 0-1 thanks to some sort of Virota guy's header. That however, was not enough to break us. Rematch at Enfield's Ground ends with a devastating 0-4 blow dealt to Englishmen with Keznan and Hakan Unsal destroying our former goalie, Kuszczak, in his own goal place.
I wanted a huge final against the best team I've ever met in Europe, Chamartin, but anti-footballers from Cataluna somehow managed to eliminate them, coming back from 0-1 defeat in leg #1 and winning their rematch 2-0.
I was playing the final in the midst of madness. It was a terrible Saturday, some rough irl stuff happened. I am sorting this out now and it looks like it's gonna be okay (no need for details) but that Saturday was really, really bad. I was already tired of playing, somewhat boozed, had enough of it. Saviola quickly banged one in, and we went absolute panzerfist on them. Rustu Recber (remember that guy!) had a time of his life between the posts. Eventually Keznan squeezed in the equaliser, but game went into extra time, and then penalties. Rustu stopped Keznan in the first series of PKs, and that was enough. It ends 4-5 and Grand WEFA Trophy is getting packed into a nice box and sent from Poland to Catalonia. Damn this sucks! T'was a terrible day for Commonwealth indeed.
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But now it's Season 7. League start was a bit slow, we've got two draws with Valdai and Lisbonera but otherwise we continue to beat the everliving shit out of everyone. Our WEFA Championship group consisting of Lombardia, AC Milan and Merseyside Red has been crushed. Six wins, twenty one goals in six games. We lead in the league, waiting to start D1 Cup...bussiness as usual.
There was only one transfer, we've exchanged trashy man Kemar with Azur for Russian Danger Man Titov, he's slow and bulky too but already scored a few in, definitely an improvement over big bald man - which is sad I really wanted to like him
Despite being mega overpowered at this point, I love this team so much. Winning is still satisfying and enjoyable, having all that power at your disposal allows you to do some crazy stuff. Your team grows with you and you don't want to stop, you just wanna keep going and enjoy your creation.
This is what Master League has always been about. Best game mode in history of video games.
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This is one hell of a post. Again, I thank you all for your presence, it just makes my life that one bit easier and happier
@papinho81
You can edit some camera properties with PES 3 kitserver. I moved my camera far, far away and can see a lot of the pitch. I should consider turning radar off for extra challenge
@slamsoze
This is fantastic idea! Especially in PES 3, where players don't age so you could keep your danger man forever. Once I move to Italy in PES3, I definitely want to build my team around Enrico Chiesa, I've faced him once in WEFA Champs, seen his stats - he's legendary!
Talking of Mbappe, it reminds me - did you guys know Aubameyang(?) is in PES3? He's in AC Milan I saw him in WEFA Champs and was mightly surprised he was already around back then, unless it's just a coincidence.
@miguelfcp
Excellent stuff on teamwork, it's really important stuff and I started treasuring it a lot too. Having a few players in 90+ teamwork and some around 60 if not less, I can sometimes tell there's a difference in their behaviour even in PES 3. As it turns out all those things were doable ten, fifteen years ago - what now?
What a time to be alive, only thing that keeps me interested in new PES game is...licenses

Gameplay won't change much, but I'd love to give Denmark, Switzerland or Scotland a go.
Loving all the ideas and stories going on here. For the next ML, I guess I'll get some sort of index going in my signature so it's easier to follow the entire story. Ultimately I'd love to just record some games live but it's impossible at the moment and it will stay that way for quite a while.