carlos_fierro
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Let me guess. The keeper palmed a corner in?
o man this is so frustrating!!!
Erm, 4 players were also pressing him. When an opposition player presses mine, they get nervous from a couple of feet away but nevermind.
Ashley Westwood, 5'7 with 7 heading, 8 jumping reach just out jumped my CB at 6'3 17 heading, 16 jumping reach, lol. I'll have hard time believing some things like this.
This game still looks like beta, its unbelievable. This is last time ive bought it, next time ill wait and pirate it just like last 15 years. howgh
I've lost count of the number of times a player on the ball has the ball knocked away from him by his team mate running right past him on a run. It's wrong that should happen so much.
I think the AI defence is incredibly good to. Always defending in numbers despite being on attacking, always 3 or 4 of their players pressing and yet through balls hardly have any impact (if they are played).
I have been a pretty vehement protester of this patch and the game as a whole. I do appreciate that it isn't easy to balance the game to a more "realistic" version, but IMO they have gone way to overboard in making it so hard to score.
The striker constantly shooting directly at the keeper from all situations and angles is the most frustrating aspect. Frankly if just that one thing was changed, I think the game would be much more rewarding. At the moment, if you get a chance and your tactics have unlocked the opposition's defence, it's incredibly frustrating to see a striker with 18 18 shooting composure bang the ball right at the keeper.
Fix that, and the game (for me at least) would be much more enjoyable.
So something I've noticed is that strikers with too many preferred moves and especially with "shoots with power" are TERRIBLE at scoring. "Shoots with power" seems to be an extremely detrimental move - it makes for some amazing goals once in a while but most of the time its either off target or straight into the keeper. I taught a previous top goalscorer (4 stars) to shoot with power hoping to further boost his hot streak, and he ended up undergoing two separate goalless droughts while getting outscored by my rising youngers 2-3 stars with only "place shots" or "round keeper".
Also, I do feel that something is wrong with the heading / aerial ability attribute. As I've mentioned in the past, I do a pretty good job of converting goals from corners (1 in 8 approx). Most of these goals are headers..and so I wanted to see if hiring a 4.5 star striker with 18 heading and 16 aerial would improve my goal conversion. Unfortunately, my 13-14 heading, 13-14 aerial 3.5-4.0 star strikers are heading in way more goals (oh, and they've always been heading in more goals than my 16 heading, 15 aerial CBs, but I previously assumed finishing stat also affected the header)
I'm not sure if it's bugged, but shoots with power generally works better with players with better finishing and technique. A general rule of thumb is using shoots with power for your main striker and places shots for inside forwards and the like.
Bear in mind that heading and jumping isn't the only thing that affects ability in the air, PARTICULARLY in regards to goalscoring headers. Anticipation, bravery, balance, strength and finishing all affect it, and there's probably a few more I've missed.
Also, I don't understand why "Shoots with Power" and "Places Shots into Corner" are mutually exclusive. I think many strikers would become more regular goal-scoring threats in the current ME if they could be taught both.
I also forgot to mention that giving your best free-kick taker "Shoots with Power" basically means you have forfeited any chance of scoring directly from the free kick lol (waste of 18 free kick, 17 technique)
My current top goalscorers this season are two strikers & a free-kick taker with only movement and/or passing PPMs + "place shots"
He's saying a free kick take shouldn't have it. Which I agree with. For some reason it makes them horrible, horrible takersSo, MrBurkes, you're saying strikers shouldn't have SWP or PS?
Your FC/AMC should have shoots with power if he can get it. (right attributes etc). If its someone regularly shooting from wide, give them places shots. On the other hand, if your FC/AMC is your direct main free kick taker, don't teach them shoots with power. This has served me well over the yearsSo, MrBurkes, you're saying strikers shouldn't have SWP or PS?
Why should you be forced to "teach" a professional footballer, who came to your club in a multi-million dollar deal, the fundamentals of finding the net? 16-year-olds, perhaps, would need such basic coaching - although they'd have been playing the game for a decade, and kids would never get into professional clubs if they couldn't hit a barn door.
But an international, multi-millionaire professional footballer? This is obviously not an SI decision, it's just bad programming that should have been fixed, and it utterly sucks that we have to find workarounds.
Perhaps SI should have included "doesn't shoot directly at goalkeeper" as a PPM to make it easier to pick out the stupid hoops people should leap through.
If all computer simulations were as bad as FM2014, Microsoft Flight Sim would have you assembling the engines of a Concorde before you could fly it.
It's got nothing to do with teaching the fundamentals, its a way of influencing a players style. It's nothing to do with a workaround. It's something I started doing after, oddly enough, watching players do it in real life.