inconsistent game

[StayFrostea]

Inconsistent game
Anyone else having issues with how many goals they concede regardless of tactics, players, or team? im something of a cm/fm veteran and have to say that this game is worse than other previous to it

[Alan Partridge]

suck less

[tcraggsy]

Yep,,, top of the league and flying then you play burnley that are struggling in 19th and they hump me 4-0. im using same tactics as just beaten Man city 3-1 away. to random and not consistant with form at all. think this game is a lottery....

[StayFrostea]

that the best you can come up with, suck less? Shame a ♥♥♥♥ like you is using the name of my favourite comedy character haha

thanks for your response too tcraggsy.

[Mark]

Yep AI seems to be able to score with ease im trying a lot of different tactics with different teams in FMC can't get a consistent tactic.

[StayFrostea]

think im going to leave it until they sort it out. back to 2012 i think. have an immense Tromso game to keep me going. upto 2031

[- zordaN]

Yep. 8 wins in a row. Then the other team score a goal at 92 minutes and it's a draw. I left the game to try again (I'm addicted to achievements). Same thing in the next 6 (Yes, SIX) tries. My players became "tards" and they missed every chance or hit the post all the time, they scored own goals, and get hurt. And of course the other team lost every game in the competition.

Did I commented that I won by 4x1 away against the team who was second place?

Sometimes I feel like there's an AI thinking "Ok I need to stop this guy. Let's ♥♥♥♥ everything"

[eel]

you probably need to accept that fm14 is more indepth and more tweaky than previous versions. you need to have different tactics for when u play man city away or a crap team at home as the strategy will be different :-). i had same problem as u as all the old cms/fms where pretty plug n play and u could fly through a season with one tactic ect.once u appreciate that fm14 is like no other version before u will appreciate it more

if u go back to fm12 cos it was easy u will always think the same about fm14
:-)

winning is fun and many people complain that fm14 is broke or strange things happen and say its not as good as oldfer versions but i think many of the old fm/cm players got use to flying through seasons without much thought and winning most of the time, fm14 seems to have more depth and more complexitiy too it. If you get complacent and skip alot of the finer details on fm14 u will come unstuck as where on previous versions u could get away with it and still win most of the time.

[Gh0st_Note-]

Get good.

[iain.widge]

The game does give you 3 tatics for your team to learn I've found if you have a home tactic and a tactic for playing away you do get some consistancy of results takes a bit of time for your team to get used to them and little tweeks here and there does help when playing stronger teams not saying you beat the stronger teams all the time but you dont get ♥♥♥♥♥♥ by them only problem with this game I have are the ridiculous mistakes the players make I know real world players make some stupid mistakes but some of them on the game are WTF was that ?

[Mark]

Originally posted by GODLIKE!:

Get good.

Isn't a skill based game, dumbass.

[Flip]

I have also noticed the rubber band effect (Which I call it when the game decides no matter how good/bad a team plays they WILL equalize) but I have, after having a rather bad start defensivly, found some things that have improved it somewhat.

1.) Form - Sounds simple but some players, regardless of stats will "play" badly, perhaps not in ratings, but from watching the game you will see they will be the ones missing interceptions, blocks etc that lead to goals. Replace them, even with an inferior (statewise) player for a couple of matches. This alone worked wonders for me in tightening the defence.

2.) I actually tell my defence to Close down less. The reason being that then the opposition will usually play it around the box and shoot from outside, usually high and wide :) By closing down, you open space in the box.

3.) Set Pieces - Can do some match training to defend against these but usually I play these defensive, getting tall players to mark theirs, having all back etc as have found that it is common they score a goal from a corner rebound, hence I like to pack the box with bodies to increase the chance it will hit a player and not the back of the net.

Anyways, my 5 cents, hope it is useful.

[StayFrostea]

thanks for all the positive comments :). and blah to the rest :)

[fiddypence2010]

It must be your tactics, because I'm finding it all ok, and so are my online friends. Sure there are very few bugs left in the game, but you being in-consistent isn't a bug I'm afraid.

[nastynick321]

It's the tactics that are used, they have made a pigs ear of it this time round and now a strong defence/middfield is all you need to win strikers aren't that important anymore, i haven't lost any matches and all i've played is 5-4-1 a control fluid tactic.

[KeieiKiten]

A lot of it is pure luck and pre-match stuff as well. The pep-talks and half-time talks have a massive impact now, from what I've seen, and the specific instructions are actually super important when it comes to the other team's specialists now.

The other big one is that ongoing alterations as the match goes on make a pretty impressive difference so long as you take care and don't do the less intelligent suggesstions your assistant comes up with.

Last big one is definitely changing your focus based on the situation. A lot of the time, people tend to just set balanced, or attacking, or some such, and use it to start with every match. pay attention to the match ups though, and play it careful in trap games, especially when you're having to rotate players for fitness. Control is a good solid starting form to use in games you should be winning, and I tend to rotate back into Counter once I've got a lead. It's all instinct though, you have to look at the flow of the game.