ALRIGHT BOYZ...FOOTBALL MANAGER 2015 ANNOUNCED

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by bulletsponge

hey yea your right. i dont know where that is

Bug was reviewed - they're aware of it. Not system-related, seems to have occurred for others as well.

[djsatu]

Anyone figured out the training yet? Playing all my preseason games and my workload is on very high and more than half my team is complaining about one on one time etc. I have tried hiring more staff to have 2 people training each section but I can't even do that.

[DaddyTorgo]

Finished top of my group over Real Madrid thanks to that win (lost 2-1 in the return leg at the Bernabeau though). Draw for the first knockout leg is held...Juventus vs...AJAX!!!

Too funny!!!

[TroyF]

Woo hoo, fire the game up. Psyched up. Screw Wenger, I'm going to finally get that DMC we so badly need. Gonna raid Dortmund for Bender. He comes in and I hold my press conference telling the world he's going to help lead this side to glory.

Go in and tweak his training. Can't wait to play him in my final exhibition game in a couple of days.

Get email: Sven Bender set to miss 4 months due to a torn muscle.

ADLFJKADLFKJALKJFALKJGLKJGLKJGLKFGJLKFJGLKJRGLKRJGK!!!!!!!!! Ooops, I hit the X and don't save.

Hey, it's the beta, it isn't my full fledged career, leave me alone.

[DaddyTorgo]

Yeah, injuries need to be tweaked down - they're ripping me apart.

[Grover]

Started a game as West Ham, had about 8 injuries for 3-4 weeks each in the first team throughout the pre-season.

[TroyF]

Originally Posted by Grover

Started a game as West Ham, had about 8 injuries for 3-4 weeks each in the first team throughout the pre-season.

I reset and Bender got hurt again before his first gam (3 weeks) I've played 2 full regular season games:

3 injuries the first game, 1 of them a 3 month injury.
3 injuries the second game, 1 of them a 6 week injury

Between the injured players I already had as Arsenal, 12 of my 25 man roster is now injured. 8 of them are gone for 6 weeks or more.

I'm going to fight through it so I can get comfortable with the UI, but if this isn't just a random fluke, there is no way in hell I'll be able to play the game long term.

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by TroyF

I reset and Bender got hurt again before his first gam (3 weeks) I've played 2 full regular season games:

3 injuries the first game, 1 of them a 3 month injury.
3 injuries the second game, 1 of them a 6 week injury

Between the injured players I already had as Arsenal, 12 of my 25 man roster is now injured. 8 of them are gone for 6 weeks or more.

I'm going to fight through it so I can get comfortable with the UI, but if this isn't just a random fluke, there is no way in hell I'll be able to play the game long term.

Calm down Francis - I'm guessing it's an already reported bug.

[TroyF]

Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo

Calm down Francis - I'm guessing it's an already reported bug.

I'm calm. Just making a statement. They've always done a great job, I expect them to now.

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by TroyF

I'm calm. Just making a statement. They've always done a great job, I expect them to now.

[Flasch186]

Perhaps the game hasn't been able to discern that when a player goes down like he was shot, he hasn't been.

[flere-imsaho]

You're playing as Arsenal and complaining about injuries? Have you had a chance to catch up with their experiences in real life, vis-a-vis injuries?

[Grover]

Originally Posted by flere-imsaho

You're playing as Arsenal and complaining about injuries? Have you had a chance to catch up with their experiences in real life, vis-a-vis injuries?

Zing.

[DaddyTorgo]

Hey...hey yo



Now normally I've been playing with a 4-3-1-2, but for the matches where I'm more of an underdog I dropped back into a 3-5-2, more defensive/counterattacking.

[Scoobz0202]

Anybody having any trouble with the match engine and defenders and goalies? I am playing Chelsea so I have one of the best goalies in the world. I am tied for first in the Premier so the results are not bad, but every match the goalies do things that are just really dumb or odd. I have also seen time and again where the defenders just stand around, especially on deflections off the goalie. Or they just trot after a ball while a striker blows right past them to score.

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by Scoobz0202

Anybody having any trouble with the match engine and defenders and goalies? I am playing Chelsea so I have one of the best goalies in the world. I am tied for first in the Premier so the results are not bad, but every match the goalies do things that are just really dumb or odd. I have also seen time and again where the defenders just stand around, especially on deflections off the goalie. Or they just trot after a ball while a striker blows right past them to score.

Yes and yes.

Assuming they are all being reported on the SI forums and will be fixed in patches. Typically GK and D AI needs tweaking every year.

[Scoobz0202]

Cool. I know it's technically beta so I might just hold off until an official release patch or whataever.

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by Scoobz0202

Cool. I know it's technically beta so I might just hold off until an official release patch or whataever.

Yeah - I usually hold off on a longterm game until it's maybe 1 big patch in.

[Grover]

Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo

Yeah - I usually hold off on a longterm game until it's maybe 1 big patch in.

+1

Waiting for the actual release next week. The defending is so bad right now. Fullbacks seem to tuck inside way often, letting overlapping runs by opposing fullbacks destroy them. No matter what I do tactically, I'm finding my teams are viscerally ripped apart by teams exploiting the flanks with an overlap.

Very frustrating so far, but it is a beta.

[Flasch186]

+2

[TroyF]

Originally Posted by flere-imsaho

You're playing as Arsenal and complaining about injuries? Have you had a chance to catch up with their experiences in real life, vis-a-vis injuries?

Which was part of the joke with my first post.

I get it, I'm playing with an injury prone team.

[DaddyTorgo]

My favorite - and I can't count how many times this has cost me, is the defender who's going back for a ball over his head and running with an attacker coming up behind him. He beats the attacker to the ball and takes a long-touch TO THE INSIDE and the attacker runs right onto the ball and scores.

It's ludicrous.

[Grover]

I cannot complain enough about how impossible it is to get players to cover fullbacks right now. It's ridiculous.

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by Grover

I cannot complain enough about how impossible it is to get players to cover fullbacks right now. It's ridiculous.

Indeed. Maddening.

[bhlloy]

It wasn't great last year either - I could get any full back with decent pace to average a 7.5 rating at least in my system with them set to attack and get further forward. I haven't played this year so I don't know if it's much worse...

[Grover]

Originally Posted by bhlloy

It wasn't great last year either - I could get any full back with decent pace to average a 7.5 rating at least in my system with them set to attack and get further forward. I haven't played this year so I don't know if it's much worse...

Much worse. Defensive fullbacks have a tendency to tuck inside leaving the flanks horribly exposed for the overlap. Man marking and always closing down the fullbacks seems to have little to no effect.

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by Grover

Much worse. Defensive fullbacks have a tendency to tuck inside leaving the flanks horribly exposed for the overlap. Man marking and always closing down the fullbacks seems to have little to no effect.

Yeah - it's massively comical at the moment. So much open space on the flanks.

[Miller Time]

This is the first year since way back in the CM days that I have no purchased straight away.

I did not enjoy FM14 and hearing about these ME issues has caused me to hesitate.

Can anyone tell me if press conferences have improved? More out of curiosity.

Also, I have been playing a lot of CM01-02 lately with the old rosters. I believe Eidos has released it as freeware. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to take a trip down memory lane.

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by Miller Time

This is the first year since way back in the CM days that I have no purchased straight away.

I did not enjoy FM14 and hearing about these ME issues has caused me to hesitate.

Can anyone tell me if press conferences have improved? More out of curiosity.

Also, I have been playing a lot of CM01-02 lately with the old rosters. I believe Eidos has released it as freeware. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to take a trip down memory lane.

Match Engine always gets patched up. Don't freak out about that.

Press conferences and player interaction have improved IMO.

[SirFozzie]

Is there interest in the American Premier League mod I did for FM14 being updated to FM15? Let me know.

[lighthousekeeper]

Do you have a link to the FM2014 version?

[SirFozzie]

Steam Workshop :: American Premier League 0.1

[Grover]

Halfway through a West Ham season. The club sits at 13-3-3, 1 point behind Chelsea.

Enner Valencia leads the Prem in goals (13) and assists (10).

We just drew Chelsea 1-1 at the Bridge when John Terry scored an own goal in stoppage time. So beautiful.

[Grover]

Can't they make the FA Cup ball a different color!?

[Miller Time]

Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo

Match Engine always gets patched up. Don't freak out about that.

Press conferences and player interaction have improved IMO.

Glad they improved them. Looking forward to at least trying the demo.

Is the NASL in the boxed game? Or do I have to add a mod to activate it?

Would like to play a career with my Ottawa Fury, who were new to the NASL this year.

[HerRealName]

Originally Posted by SirFozzie

Is there interest in the American Premier League mod I did for FM14 being updated to FM15? Let me know.

I enjoyed your mod a lot on FM14. I played well into the 2020's with the San Antonio Scorpions.

[bulletsponge]

Originally Posted by Miller Time

Glad they improved them. Looking forward to at least trying the demo.

Is the NASL in the boxed game? Or do I have to add a mod to activate it?

Would like to play a career with my Ottawa Fury, who were new to the NASL this year.

no NASL.

[Grover]

It's good to see headed goals from corners have seemed to decrease dramatically.

[SirFozzie]

beta patchlist is up:


STABILITY & PERFORMANCE


- Improved general performance
- Improved trackpad performance
- Fix for issues affecting 10.6.8 NVIDIA Macs
- Fix for crashes during processing and going into a match
- Fix for crash on quit


MATCH ENGINE


- Improvements to goalkeeping
- Improved goals from direct free kicks
- Fixed consistently, unrealistic high scorelines in lower leagues
- Fixed skin tone issues
- Fixed headed backpasses leading to goals
- Reduced own goal levels
- Hundreds of other changes to match AI
- Further polish to animations


TRANSFERS & CONTRACTS


- Fixed issue where selling a player for a large fee would reduce the users transfer budget
- Fixed issue where users could sometimes not offer a contract to a player they had made an enquiry for
- Fixed issue in contract negotiations where including the ëOne year extension after X league games would prevent the user from agreeing terms with the player
- Fixed issue in contract negotiations where selecting Use Existing Terms would prevent the user from removing some competition bonuses


INTERACTION


- Improved balance of the ease at which a player can be talked around when they are unhappy
- Improved balance of the amount of teammates who support players in their unhappiness
- Fixed issue where players would ask to leave for first team football before they simply asked for more first team football
- 'Request Tutoring’ option has been added to increase the amount of tutoring options the user has
- Fixed the ability to offer continent-specific tournament football to players not playing in that continent
- Fixed rare instances of promises to accept a bid for a player being broken when no bid was made
- Balanced the regularity at which players will request new contracts
- Fixed board meetings being generated harshly and the ability to set yourself multiple points targets from within a board meeting


COMPETITIONS


- Amended Champions Cup seedings for 2014/15 season
- Improved Liverpool Champions Cup Quarter Final scheduling
- Fixed drafts not being scheduled correctly
- All A-League matches are now on TV
- Fixed players not coming off DL6 at the end of their stint
- Fixed Re-entry Draft Two pick duplication
- Fixed issue where Young Designated Player contract logic was being applied incorrectly at times preventing User offering a contract to a player
- Fixed issue where Free Agent retained Season Ending Injury status meaning they couldn’t be registered
- Fixed NYCFC manager job becoming Insecure when they join MLS
- Toned down NYCFC trade activity before they join MLS


MEDIA & NEWS


- Fixed AI managers being incorrectly questioned and talking about the user struggling
- Fixed Team of the Year player in incorrect position
- Fixed not enough nations available to manage
- Fixed subscription selections being reset on save/load
- Fixed results in League Cup counting towards club’s Highest Scoring League Game record
- Fixed English Premier Division Top Goalscorer Record is Sheringham with 1 goal
- Fixed view Incident button on controversial penalty incident news item doesn’t show the foul
- Fixed completely blank news item


MISC


- Adjusted Dutch wages in both Eredivise and Juplier League
- Fixed an issue where a player would retire immediately after signing as a Player/Coach
- Fixed an issue where a player would retire without giving the correct reason
- Adjusted coaches training workload
- Fixed an issue with transfer budgets after adjusted season expectations mid-season
- Fixed the issue of a users profile changing unexpectedly


FMC


- Various skin fixes
- MLS now be playable in Challenges

If your game version doesn't immediately update (the game has to be closed for it to update), please try closing and restarting

[Grover]

I hope they've fixed it so Kouyate is a natural DM and at least accomplished at AMC.

Though I've been playing a 4-1-1-2-2 to great effect. Valencia has 17 goals at left wing, Amalfitano with 12 on the right. Sakho with 13 up front and Zarate with 17 up top. We're in early March.

I should probably restart the game with each subsequent patch though.

[DaddyTorgo]

Good list of Match Engine changes and player interaction changes.

[Shepp]

Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo

Match Engine always gets patched up. Don't freak out about that.

Press conferences and player interaction have improved IMO.

The problem is that its the same merry-go-round every year. The game is typically a hot mess at release and then gets incrementally better, with the occasional step backward thrown in for good measure, until the following February/ March. Even then its not uncommon for problems to linger until the next version which introduces its own set of issues.

I still end up playing FM more then anything else. But I can't help but wonder how good the game would be if there wasn't the yearly push to work on the next version and soak another $50 out of me.

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by Shepp

The problem is that its the same merry-go-round every year. The game is typically a hot mess at release and then gets incrementally better, with the occasional step backward thrown in for good measure, until the following February/ March. Even then its not uncommon for problems to linger until the next version which introduces its own set of issues.

I still end up playing FM more then anything else. But I can't help but wonder how good the game would be if there wasn't the yearly push to work on the next version and soak another $50 out of me.

I think it's usually long-term playable after the first two patches IMO. Not "perfect" at that point, but good.

YMMV though.

[flere-imsaho]

I don't believe, personally, that the yearly schedule is revenue-driven (though I'm sure it has to be a part factor of some kind). I think it's probably a combination of a) wanting to have a game each year due to numbers (i.e. 2014, 2015, etc...) and b) wanting to have the discipline to actually produce a new game with new features each year. The latter is, in my experience, a very good goal for any software shop.

I'm not generally concerned that most iterations of FM ship with a bunch of bugs and, as DT says, it often pays to wait for the 1st or 2nd patch. It's gotten big enough at this point that the team probably can't realistically achieve the same test coverage that's accomplished through the 2-week "beta" or even the first few weeks of release. The responsiveness (good responsiveness) of reps during this time period on their forum kind of indicates, this, to me.

The one thing that has concerned me is that this is two expansions in a row with similar issues regarding fullbacks, goalkeepers, and stupid defenders in general. It seems to me there's an underlying issue going on there, and I'd hate to think that SI haven't been able to find the root cause, and are coding over it instead.

But it's still far-and-away one of the best yearly franchises out there, well worth the money, to me.

[DaddyTorgo]

Yeah...my cost/hour played far eclipses anything else in my life.

[Grover]

Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo

Yeah...my cost/hour played far eclipses anything else in my life.

+1

When I'm averaging 1,200 hours per year at $50 per year, well worth the money.

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by Grover

+1

When I'm averaging 1,200 hours per year at $50 per year, well worth the money.

Exactly.

[Flasch186]

true

[McLovin]

It's out, where are you guys? I'm liking it so far, still have a lot of injuries and the tactic screen is still a mess but overall it's a success.

[korme]

Is that instant result thing a FMC feature only?

As much as I like to watch games, sometimes I really just want to advance through a season, especially in a rebuilding year. It'd be great to skip through games.