I have some silly questions.
I was playing PES3 and enjoying it, but felt like something was missing. Switched to PES5 and a lightbulb went off in my head - it was like I'd travelled back in time and I was "upgrading" from one to the other, and I was sat there going... "It's more responsive! The ML is better! The tactics are insanely deep! Konami, this is amazing!"
Really odd moment - I was honestly transported back to that moment when A) Konami never disappointed us, and B) I booted it up with my dad, and we were both just sat in awe, saying ridiculous things like (actual quote) "how could they possibly ever make a better game than this?" ...how right we were.
Even now, I'm looking at the tactical setup and I think to myself - it's just perfect. It's deep enough that your changes make a huge impact on positioning, but not so deep that you're looking at a page of tick-boxes for each player, having to change their weekly training and give up changing things after a few days.
Anyway.
I've recreated Gareth Southgate's 5-3-2 system for my starter ML team (Castolo's crew), because it's a terrible team but with decent wing-backs who will bomb forward if you edit the tactics to give them "forward arrows". Every game is a 0-0 (how realistic). But I'll take it.
In the tactics screen, there's a section that says "back line", "counter attack", "zone pressing" and "offside trap". Next to each of those is a letter selector - A/B/C, with A being "often" and C being "rarely".
What exactly is "back line"? Is it the height of the defensive line? Is that not controlled by your att/def level and your formation positions?
And while I'm here... Has anyone ever actually used this screen? I didn't use it back in the day, and I'm not using it now - should I be?