The Power said:
Here we go:
A nice L1 +
pass from midfield near the penalty box to henry who make a great shotlob over dida.(on 5 stars) The trick is: You must pass at the right time(when the striker run forward)....so the pass come near the penalty area and not in the penalty area.
http://rapidshare.de/files/4143570/L1.avi.html
Nothing is inpossible
the problem is, the passing is acurate, but always further away. now, it can be a good pass only if there is no oponent player in front of your player.
but it IS a flaw of konami. try passing with L1+/\ from wing side of penalty area, the ball will go out or will be catched by keeper.
the AI should pass it right to where the reciever can recieve the ball clearly,
just like the real passer think. but it is not. and it is certainly a flaw.
drekkard said:
1)

issues:
- If I choose MANUAL, give me MANUAL. Selecting players is worse than before. Sometimes the game just changes the selected defender ignoring you completely. That is very sad.
agree. i have been complaining it since WE8. i want total manual. it is a stupidity to invent semi auto 1st level when the manual method is semi auto.
2) TACTICS: That ANNOYS me a LOT.
- Sidebacks just aren't there most of the times!!!! Just like in WE8. They just disappear. It's time they solve this!!!
sidebacks are not in the side while defending. i just don't know how to make them stay in touchline coz the opponent's winger is there all the time. i'm not talking about man marking, but without man marking my SB should be more wingey than CB. but they are not.
I know it's impossible to have all things right, but it's 3 years without decent sidebacks (don't tell me I have tu put him on man mark. I want a sideback that plays as sideback BY DEFAULT.
agree.
3) RESPONSIVENESS:
- Impossible to do a first time

+

because pressing

before having the ball just changes selection. Aaaaargh.
- I'm still unable to do first time shoots in the area most of the times when the ball comes from a deflection, even if I pressed the button way before. The player tries to control and waste the chance.
total agree. i have been complaining it too since the beggining of PS2.
the solution should be: cursor will be change on release of L1, so when u hold L1 (and then pressing the other button) the cursor stay there.
4) PASSING: One of the key FLAWS of the game. Being a slower game and being a game based on accuracy and passing, one should expect some decency and accuracy in the passing system. It's not like that.
- As other people have mentioned, LOTS of passes go to the wrong direction. It's not a matter of accuracy, but direction!!!! That totally kills my experience, as I'm a big passer in the game.
- Besides, it's so stupid and unbalanced that you can pass straight to the feet of your striker who is 30 meters away but you can't pass properly to a 5 meters away player and you won't know why.
very agree. wrong person. i now know the method konami used. they pass to the closest player. no mater that your player in 45* position, but if 0* player is nearer, your X pass will go to the 0* player.
- There's another thing that fustrates me a lot. It's ages since they say that double taping

makes a lower cross to the first post and only tapping

makes a farther cross. That's a LIE. You NEVER know where the cross is going and have almost no control over it 80% of the times. You see one player in the first post totally unmarked, you double press

and it goes to the second post!!!! I really don't understand how it works, really, only seems to work sometimes. Against CPU, it always go to the head of a defender, it's totally "scripted".
now the cross can be aimed. press up/down/left/right on the dpad.
5) SHOOTING:
- In 1 vs 1 situations, sometimes your shot goes the wrong direction and they should have balanced better the shoots relative to the position and balance of the player. It's highly unrealistic having those 90º shots that go in, it' almost impossible in real life to shoot like that without breaking your hip.
agree. after recieving a cross from right wing with X or /\ and shooting 1st touch, i always aim in right (coz the keeper in WE8LE always go predicting it left). but now it goes left no mater how i aim it to the right.
Concluding, they talk about more control BUT the result is,to me, a LESS
That's all. I know it's been sooooooo long to read, but I felt like I had to put all that properly here in order to show how the game is being stalled because of scripting movements and events.It's still the best footy game ever, but the main flaws are NOT solved from one year to the next, and that's a worrying sign.
good game is not about difficult control. good game about having comfortable (easier) control, but chalenging gameplay
and WE9 has ruined it all.