retired_DiVerL

I am an old school CM devotee, been playing it since '92 and was one of those calling for more realism and there are many, many improvements which I like in this version. The signing of players is MUCH better now that you can't sign an entire team on Bosmans; scouting is back and it's good; salary levels much more rigidly enforced (although one thing I've been wanting for years is a little screen showing your ins and outs on the same page and giving you a monthly / yearly forecast, i.e. shows whether you will break even or not). Still all these things are good.

Still, there are things on here which well and truly fall into the WHO CAN BE ARSED category.

TEAMTALKS are a prime example of this. Honestly, what a pain in the arse! Still at least you can get your assman to do these - thank god!

TACTICS - this is the biggie. There's a fine line which has to be trodden between realism and gameplay. And, for me, SI have gone a step too far. I've seen similar complaints and for all those of you who reply with "go play FIFA" or something similar, you've missed the point completely. I don't wanna play FIFA, I like managing, bringing players through et al. But at the end of the day this is still a game. I've never been one to want a supertactic and I hated those bizarre tactics which brought success. In the ealier versions I always wanted to play a 442 but it was always rubbish. I'm happy now that 442 is viable at last. Another point, I'm not confusing formation with tactics - obviously player instructions are vital. All I want is a tactic that I have CONFIDENCE in. Normally I have 3 or variations on a tactic e.g. normal, attacking, densive and defend lead, and would adjust these as I saw fit. In 07 though (pre-patch and patch) I have always found the same thing with many different formations. You get initial success and think 'Aha!' and then after about 5 games or so you just go ****! Try a different formation and you get even worse or sometimes you strike upon something decent and win a few and draw a few and then...go ****!
And it's random - get a cracking draw away at Old Trafford and then beat Arsenal at home. Then lose away at errr...someone like Wigan and then get stuffed at home by a team down in the relegation zone. Not just losing 3-0 with them hitting us on the counter three times. But I mean getting slaughtered from start to finish. Can't put two passes together!

And I'm not complaining because I'm doing **** - I'm doing OK. Managed to turn Cardiff into a mid-table Prem team but the sheer randomness of it all ruins it for me. And constantly having to tweak and tweak and tweak and change formation and tweak and tweak and tweak and aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! WHO CAN BE ARSED!

This is a game.

I have some sympathy for SI, after all we have all been complaining for years for it to be more realistic and as I said at the beginning I do like many of the features in this version. This AI cracking of your tactic though is ********. Perhaps SI have done it to prevent the development of a super tactic. But as I said, I don't want one of those just something I can have confidence in and slowly, slowly improve, get the players in place and go from there.

You've always had to dedicate time to CM / FM but this is just ridiculous and, yes, boring.

OK, rant over, I hope that a better balance can be found because I love playing this and don't want to go back to 06 or anything because been there and done that,

retired_elpata

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