Well this update has produced a lot of controversy. When I was introduced to a game you had open access to all tactics. Now you can’t do much without learning about a tactic, e.g. you can’t man mark unless you’ve learnt how to do that.
The other big change is to injuries they are now realistic and now not having a squad is going to be a problem.
Tactically I tend to just play around with defensive line and zonal / man marking, maybe a few other things but not much else. These basic things are fairly quick to learn and a few hours later I remained unaffected by the change.
I did consider downloading some tactics from the internet and importing into FM Live but thought that was a bit cheap so didn’t. Now you can’t do this either without a lot of research.
Having started the game with a squad strategy e.g. cover for every position from around 15 players, this backed up with extensive youth policy then the injury issue is a welcome change. Although it resulted in my best player Arda getting sidelined for a day.
This is great though as I’ve a left winger who’s been bouncing at U21 and he’ll now have a chance at a higher level. It’s logical with more injuries for more of the players from the database to be used, and I would assume logical that the average price of a player will now fall…
A point of debate is if the amount of injuries is realistic, personally I’ve three out from a total of 50 (mainly less than one day). This actually seems, to me at least, about right.
Naturally those with small squads are going ballistic, toys out of the pram, ‘I’m not playing anymore and taking my ball home’ quite common routines!
Meanwhile Match Engine v674 was also released.
- Tweaked choice of default opponent further to make wide midfielders take more responsible against narrow formations.
How simply delightful! I have always struggled against teams with narrow formations, I kind of had a way of countering this by playing two DM’s and high defensive line but should the opposition have quick strikers I’d be done for.
I knew there was something wrong and couldn’t put my finger on it. I didn’t want to seem like a moaner but thought that this narrow tactic was unrealistic and overpowered.
In the real world you’d be slapped about silly playing a narrow formation by wingers and whilst it doesn’t go that far it does put us on a more level playing field.
A lot of people haven’t twigged to this change yet and may see a change of fortunes. If you have downloaded tactics from Internet, have a small squad and play a narrow formation this was an update from hell.
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