I don't believe this game reflects a player's tactical abilities.
One of the reasons we play this game is obviously to test ours. I like to think myself as a person with at least some talents but the way the game reacts is nowhere near realistic. One simple thing can change the entire tactic.
In reality there isn't that much variety of tactics. Most teams play almost always similar to their average character. Of course they play whole differently in matches against bigger teams, or when they don't need the win or something. But that's a different thing. A team can fail miserably or do wonders in real but tactic isn't THAT game changer.
In this game you can almost win every match with "right" settings. I'm not saying one can win every match like this, I'm just saying there is at least one combination to win a match against any team. This is not realistic. Tactics should, of course, have effects and should change things but they should not be that much sensitive.
No matter how much you like to think "you can't just buy players and expect to win everything" that's the way it works in reality. I don't reject there are other factors I reject tactics are that much important. In real, matches are won with in-game changes, in the game shouts don't have that much effect. You do whatever you want against a team with explosive wingers you can't stop them. Or you can't prevent conceding even with all worldclass defenders.
In real, with "only some" ability, any team with loads of money can do anything. If you don't take City and PSG as a sample I don't know what to tell you.
I actually think the game insults to my (and most of our's) abilities. I don't mean to praise myself here, I'm just saying where one thing I do suppose to work wonders, it reacts horrendously. Ruins everything. It's like going in a sanctuary and peeing everywhere. I don't expect everything to work super well, but I expect SOME things to work. But nothing works. When a reaction to a creative thing is not valued in it's worth, you feel treated unjustly.
And you can't call me impatient. I played 4 or 5 seasons in FM12 with much less success than you'd expect. And with FM13, i'm at my 2nd season and it's going about the same. For me, it's always the same. I find a tactic, I use it, it starts with half familiarity yet it starts from the first second as a wonder and goes on for like 10-15 matches and then it starts to screw up out of nowhere. This is not realistic. If it got better I'd understand but the whole mechanics of this game is totally pointless actually. Familiarity means nothing. I've seen tactics that annihaletes the opponent even when applied DURING a match, in the half-time or something.
The most obvious sign that the game is unbalanced is the ridiculous goals from crosses. Always a player comes from back and the medium-speed low ball just passes half meters away from each three or more defenders and the attacker rushes and scores in six yard box. I stopped counting how many goals I conceded this way. Actually, in the same way, right now my keeper just dropped the ball from his hand in the most uncanny way... I remember one goal I conceded that the keeper actually spinned like a log while trying to get the ball. How can a game with this much of ridiculousness be fair in any way?
Or what about enormous level of differences between patches? How is it normal for it to change this much? Any tactic can hit top and rock bottom between any two patches. Tactics does not change. This is not realistic.
Stop saying the game reacts the AI in the same way it reacts to you. It's just random and it can be in anyone's advantage. And since the AI literally reads the ME, it knows exactly what to change in micro level. It just reads raw mathmatical data and reacts the best way possible mathmatically within it's ability. But a player has no chance of doing that since every bit of change is nowhere near what we take them as.
If AI had a sense of understanding of some ideologies of tactics and the appliance of it differed, differed vastly, in occasions, then it would've been fair. But this is not the case.
I'm actually surprised more people are not complaining about the game. Or maybe they are, I'm just not seeing.
You've bascially done the classic "its not me, its the game excuse". When you consider that lots of people are having success at all levels, that doesnt really hold up, does it?
The game does react the same way. That's a fact, and thus I refuse to stop saying it. If you dont like it, thats your problem. I'm not interested in backing down when I'm stating something that is factually correct.
Long worded, but still ultimately flawed for the very same reasons I pointed out to Simon. You have confused game design with some of the bugs that are in the game. I have no interest in repeating myself, especially when I've said is backed by those who make the game, unless of course you are calling them liars.
We all play the same game, and there are plenty of people who are very successful, and get their team playing exactly how they want.
Shouts do work in game, very well when used properly.
You are also incredibly selective in your arguments. You choose PSG as an example and ignore they didn't even win the league.
You decided to reject so many things that are patently true in real life as well, as pointed out by the user below. You can continue to blame the game and keep losing, while the rest of us carry on succeeding or failing, keep learning and getting better
The fact that you reject the notion that tactics matter in real life, when its patently true, is ridiculous.
At the end of day, its up to you. I have no interest in going over the same notions, so if you want to stay frustrated thats your cause. My only interest is in helping those like Kenny Peeters, and also SimonP, who are trying to get back into the game and are finding it difficult.
