Hello everyone,
guzzla is very busy on trying to tweak nxt 7 to the new patch, but it seems to be a lot more difficult than intially thought. Looking at the patch notes, there are not a lot of things that changed, however, they have apparenty towned down/nerfed finishing which makes it a lot harder to actually score. The result is that there are a lot of shots in nxt 7 with the new patch, but the ratio of the shots being actual goals is very very low.
This is not an issue with the tactic itself but an issue with the latest patch. It also does not seem to be because of the fact that the goalie's improved, but because of the fact that finishing itself has been tweaked down (probably because of the people complaning about a lot of games with a lot of goals).
This is currently an issue that has been mentioned by a lot of people in the offical SI games forum:
Official Football Manager 2015 Feedback Thread 15.2.0 - Page 5
Things people are saying:
- More close range chances missing the net or being saved, sometimes double saved when the keeper is on the ground.
- More long range shots although not noticeable in the examples given. This may be more to do with some teams dropping deeper though.
- Crosses not as accurate and when they are players now seem to head free headers over the bar.
- Wide play is being punished at the moment, playing with fast wingers does not seem to work
- Finishing. It does seem to have gone a tad awry since the last patch. Same as crossing which now seems like every cross ends up being cleared by a defender or goes straight into the keepers hands
- http://imgout.ph.126.net/38998341/lol.jpg
Screen from guzza testing nxt 7 showing the current problem:
Image - TinyPic - Gratis foto's delen en afbeeldingen & video's hosten look at the blocked shots for exmaple
Therefore I think nxt 7 will be postponed either until a next patch or until it will start to move back to it's original pre-patch form. Untill then you have a few options
- Trying nxt 2/3 which seems to work for people
- Trying nxt 5/6 that for some people is still doing well after this new patch.
PS: There is also a bug in the game now that gives female names to newgens like "Anna" and "Poppy" ^^)