Hi guys, first time poster, just thought I'd share a few things I've experienced in my first season of FM13 using Arsenal FC. I'm running a Macbook Pro and purchased the game through Steam if it makes a difference and already played a full season and finished 6th with up and down form. I'm really glad some of the players stats have been updated and that Cazorla has the 13m fee that we paid for him and not the 16m the media made up!!
- The short cut keys stop working half way through the game occasionally.
- As people have already covered there needs to be major tinkering of the game engine.
- The graphics look okay and some of the movement is cool but also needs a lot of work.
- Fullbacks are always out of position and players double team when asked to back off.
- Defending team becomes unbalanced (3 attackers, 6 defenders and they have a man free on the post?!)
- The game freezes a lot when left on for a long time so save frequently till the full release is out.
- Team talk is too random. Occasionally at home they get angry for critcising a 0-0 draw to bottom sides.
- I really miss the use of "huge" database and wish they would bring this back or something similar.
- WPs are bullshit for countries like Turkey who are impossible to gain even for U21 wonderkids.
- Too many injuries, too many injury prone players and too many red cards.
- Is it just Arsenal or does the board accept everything you ask for???
- Players who are unhappy are also all happy to wait 12 months to be sold. This was never the case in FM12.
- "Coaches" tab in Training is really ****** annoying. I hope someone makes a good skin to change it.
Opinion wise?
- There needs to be more potential in youth sides (like the - one where it only moves up if they play or train... it doesn't make sense to have everyone at such a low potential level from such a young age). In the older, much older, versions of the game and even the previous regime of CM it felt like you could sign a player who wasn't as famous and have all their stats up to scratch or at least competitive with the top players and their consistency rating would/should be moved up to make it more realistic. Sick of using regens after the 5th season and shouldn't be an issue till the 10th or 15th personally.
- Needs a new skin ASAP as you can barely distinguish the numbers.
- Do not uninstall FM12 like I did :'( I finally got around to signing Neymar with Inter Milan and was having a great season when FM13 came out and I thought "it can't be that bad can it?". Yes, yes it can.
Fingers crossed the full version is a lot better and that we don't have to wait for another update after that. I've found that with the FM series it isn't until .2 that it usually improves but lets just hope they have their **** together this year considering so little was upgraded in the grand scheme of things (it's very similar to FM12 with a few addons so lets hope it's at least perfected in it's gameplay).
