BEFORE THE HIGH-HORSE RIDERS WANT TO BASH ME, i'M NOT FM/MATCH-ENGINE BASHING
Common guys, it isn't 1st April XD Works - JML Tweak 4-5-1 in 13.3.3 / 4-5-1 rock in 13.3.3 / Mr Hughe in FM2010 , Fm2014 is full clown with his away matches when u playing Barcelona agnist Chelsea/Bayern/RM and losing about 0-5 all the time , doesn't matter if diavolo , nezza , unreal ... Anyway, He try by himself and will going to see how circus maximus is 2014 , and realize the best place for this s..it is shelf.
Too right mate.
Like i said...plug and play is gone. Thank god.
But that's silly. Away games are
too hard even with a good team.
I'd be all for "studying the opposition" but the match reports your scouts give you are **** poor and only give a small amount of stats and tendencies to work with.
Not to mention you can't actually exploit them (truly) without 'cheating' (FMRTE and 100% tactics) because you're only given 3 tactics slots.
It's sill. EVERYTHING is stacked against you.
And for a game about micro-micro managing everything, the team reports are useless so that for those that cannot find the right tactic to "plug n play", you can't read into anything about the other team either and truly SMASH them.
Everything (or most) is luck.
Don't believe me - I've tried saves where I maxed my keeper to 20s and frozen him, and cxhanged game plans to contain/defensive, and teams still score too often for such a system.
What chance does that give to the person that TRULY wants a bus-style system? Or if I wanted an
"all out attack/don't care if i concede as long as I score more!" ? NADDA! Because even if you overload your system, there's nothing that says you WILL score even with good players! (e.g. winning 6-4 or whatever).
Seriously, I've experimented as much as I've played, and a lot of it is either blind luck or blind randomness.
And for something that's a simulation, that's bad....
FlLing your apologists poo at me all you want, but you know it to be true.
TL;DR: SYSTEM IS BROKEN. EVEN IF YOU WANTED TO PLAY BY THE RULES AND CREATE YOUR OWN TRUE STYLE, YOU CANT DUE TO RANDOMNESS.