FIFA 15: Career Mode Details

[evanreyes]

I don't like the global transfer network thing. I'm really glad that the progression is being fixed. In FIFA 14, in my third year at Portsmouth, I sold my top 3 players, then signed Bakkali. He scored most of my goals, almost one a game (I played every game), he went up by 3. Not even an 80. I won the domestic cups so the competition was good.

[Edi286]

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Futhead posted a career mode impressions page, a guy played about 3/4 of a season in Fifa 15 career mode, if you want to read about changes being made.

http://news.futhead.com/posts/fifa-15/29150-fifa-15-career-mode-impressions

[Zac]

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Futhead posted a career mode impressions page, a guy played about 3/4 of a season in Fifa 15 career mode, if you want to read about changes being made.

http://news.futhead.com/posts/fifa-1...de-impressions

Good read, thanks for posting it.

[JHedges2]

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Couple of n00b questions here...

1. Will FIFA 15 have a 'World Cup' mode? (Or, will the WC be integrated into the career mode when applicable (i.e. summer 2018)?)

2. What is the point of having different 'lineups'? I am new to soccer so, I don't completely understand it when I see teams 'sitting' their stars (for w/e reason). Seems these 'sheets' mentioned is a huge addition, any info would be appreciated!

Thanks!

[Murph]

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Couple of n00b questions here...

1. Will FIFA 15 have a 'World Cup' mode? (Or, will the WC be integrated into the career mode when applicable (i.e. summer 2018)?)

2. What is the point of having different 'lineups'? I am new to soccer so, I don't completely understand it when I see teams 'sitting' their stars (for w/e reason). Seems these 'sheets' mentioned is a huge addition, any info would be appreciated!

Thanks!

1. There will be a World Cup in Career Mode, but in non-World Cup years, they call it 'World Championship' because of the lack of licenses. Since they're bringing back 'Custom Tournament', maybe you can have a separate World Cup mode there.

2. Clubs will often use bench or reserve players for Friendlies or Cup matches, while using their top players primarily for league games. That's why separate, saved team sheets (line-ups) will be very handy in FIFA 15.

[OneDrop]

Re: FIFA 15: Career Mode Details

Couple of n00b questions here...

1. Will FIFA 15 have a 'World Cup' mode? (Or, will the WC be integrated into the career mode when applicable (i.e. summer 2018)?)

2. What is the point of having different 'lineups'? I am new to soccer so, I don't completely understand it when I see teams 'sitting' their stars (for w/e reason). Seems these 'sheets' mentioned is a huge addition, any info would be appreciated!

Thanks!

1. Most likely, however, it won't have the right presentation etc. It'll just be an international tournament.

2. Being able to have different lineups is huge because in domestic cup games you want to play your secondary goalkeeper and players who don't get a lot of gametime amongst some of your regular first team starters. In the past it was a hassle changing formation, changing the players etc. it was an annoyance. It's also handy because you can set up a defensive line-up and an offensive line-up. If you're Newcastle United and you're playing against Arsenal at Emirates you can easily field the defensive line-up without spending too much time on it. But then, you're down 2-0, you can easily switch to the attacking line-up without having to spend 5 minutes in the menu changing formation, tactics and players. It makes the manager experience better and fielding your team won't be as annoying as it was in the previous games.

[Number999]

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As someone who has Career Mode as what he plays the most in FIFA, not too shabby.

[LousyJackRanga]

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No mention if it, but I'd like to see the option to turn off the GSN at the start of every career.

[mfp]

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I actually didn't mind it. It made the transfer market a whole lot more realistic and gave transfers some 'boom or bust' potential. In previous FIFAs you could go out in the market and just looked for teenagers with 70+ overall and automatically know that he's going to be a star. This brought a different dimension to transfers which made it more enjoyable in my opinion.

Thing is, the problem of buying high potential youngsters and easily building a fast growing team of superstars had little to do with being able to see player OVRs. The problem you're discussing had to do with unrealistic transfer mechanics.

So the GTN introduces a mechanic of hiding player OVRs but does NOT fix the problem. For example, I can easily look up player ratings online and do exactly what I could've done in FIFA 13.

Ultimately, the GTN did NOT make the transfer market mechanic any more realistic. All it did was introduce a gamey, unrealistic, tedious scouting element to the process that in no way mimics the process of squad building in real football.

[mfp]

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That is not what makes it bad. But that is not how I see it either. What makes it a terrible system is how its managed. You lose reports after 60/90 days. Why in the world? Who would throw reports away for someone on your shortlist. Meaning you have interest in them.

You can't search for specific positions. If you want a CAM you have to search for CM which includes CMs, CAMs and CDMs. Cluttering up the results. This is when you are searching, not using a scout. When using a scout you choose midfield or attacker. So it gets even more grouped together.

Scouts don't give you the proper reporting of the players ability. Which is no the bad thing. Its how they relay it that is the problem. This garbage of stat ranges is dumb and most of the time highly accurate. OVR means nothing. I only care about key stats for each positions. So it should be based off a scoring system. What does the scout think of his crossing ability, poor, below average, average, above average or good. I would much more prefer that. And each of those could have wildly different stat ranges in them based on the position and the scout. Don't show me all the numbers. Hide them all. Showing me the numbers makes me go nuts when scouting players. I spend way too much time on it. And I can always find the best player doing so. I have not had a bust pickup since my first season using it. It doesn't work as intended. Which just makes the whole thing feel busted even more. Basically lower level scouts need to be wrong more often. I haven't had a bust as you say in forever. The system is too easy to find gems.

Also let me compare scouted players side by side better. The current compare view is terrible. And it should be smart enough to compare only keep areas for that position. I don't need to see defensive stats for a striker.

Another problem with it is fact that the scout will run out of people to scout. Really? You mean in all of Italy you could only find 3 players? And now your giving up. What? There are surely more than 3 players in the entire country that meet my measly criteria. Which leads me to the next thing.

Scouts need to have traits and personalities. Every scout is exactly the same in the game, and I don't feel the need to spend the big money on a highly rated scout. Because I can do the same thing with a 2 star scout for much less money. That is how broken the system is. Scouts need to be widely different in decision making, ability to find talent, etc.

Maybe I want too much out of the game. But I spend a lot of my free time playing FIFA. And I would like a better overall experience in my CMs. I find this system so broken I don't even use it anymore. I just use the youth program to bring 3-4 a players a year (which is also pretty broken). And if I need a transfer I use the search system to find the players I want. I don't bother scouting anyone anymore. You can tell how a good a player is based off his value and wage. Why bother scouting when I know a player with a value of 7million and a wage of 50K that the team is asking 15 million for and is crucial to their squad, will be 75 rated or higher and be good at his position.

This is exactly spot on. The concept of the GTN isn't terrible (though it's not what was needed to begin with), but it's implementation is.

Like you said, it doesn't really make building a team more difficult, it just makes it more tedious.

[Entiae]

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Can we turn Firings off?

I guess the answer is still No, and I'll have to try to find another workaround. I'd rather spend those hours actually playing the game.

I'm still very excited about the game, however.

[Wavebird99]

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Im pretty pumped to hear about the six seperate team sheets (with names!) so that I dont have to re-do my lineup before every match.

Also excited to hear that the young player progression has been fixed. That futhead guy played 3/4 of a season with United and Zanazaj grew jumped 4 points. Need to see alot more of that.

Also impressed to see that they realized the AI needed an overhaul from last year. Games quite honestly grew stale, especially when 95% of the time the AI was determined to either play a "good" game or a "bad" game, regardless of the quality of the team. I got sick of 14's CM much earlier than I did with other additions.

GTN is ok, but I need to see better results for my searches. I often found the players that popped up werent what I was really looking for. Hopefully thats addressed for the better.

[woody2goody]

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One simple fix would make career mode better for me, getting a guaranteed youth intake every year like on Football Manager.

You can still go scouting around the globe for talent, but 90% of your youth players should automatically come from the country that the club is based in.

This way, you might only get a couple of real superstars through but it would add a more realistic element to the long term game, as each club would still retain the majority of it's national identity through its playing squad.

[half-fast]

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My initial reaction is that "Storylines and Presentation" sound like the same old news updates from the past 2 or 3 iterations. However, I am optimistic about a better model for player growth, youth academy growth in particular if it extends to that. Hopefully we'll now know BEFORE we sign a youth prospect what his work rates are. Very few things are more annoying than frothing at the mouth over a 70-74 OVR, 90-94 POT CF only to have him come in with L/L work rates.

I actually really like the news stories. The more they add, the kess often you see the same ones, I think theyre great.

[mfp]

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Im pretty pumped to hear about the six seperate team sheets (with names!) so that I dont have to re-do my lineup before every match.

Also excited to hear that the young player progression has been fixed. That futhead guy played 3/4 of a season with United and Zanazaj grew jumped 4 points. Need to see alot more of that.

Also impressed to see that they realized the AI needed an overhaul from last year. Games quite honestly grew stale, especially when 95% of the time the AI was determined to either play a "good" game or a "bad" game, regardless of the quality of the team. I got sick of 14's CM much earlier than I did with other additions.

GTN is ok, but I need to see better results for my searches. I often found the players that popped up werent what I was really looking for. Hopefully thats addressed for the better.

I'm curious to see what they do to player growth. I see criticisms like yours that players don't grow, but I see loads of player growth... probably too much. In my current CM, my two star team became a three star team in one season. I've got 8+ players who grew 3-4 points in a season. And I'm playing on Legendary.