Biased AI

[Merlin69]

Struggled to get my team promoted to prem and once there the AI makes my team lose every match!

[Centipede]

The AI are almost always biased against you and in fact try to make you lose matches when playing against you!

[Prej]

So, instead the AI should make you win every match?

[Merlin69]

Should let me win sometimes !

[Prej]

Is this a satirical post?

[DeathStroke]

you do realise that being newly promoted to the top division is supposed to be difficult? Kinda like real life? Also im betting you havent changed your tactics at all after being promoted? Cause if you are trying to play in the premier league after championship with the same tactics then you SHOULD be losing. Where exactly did the media predict you were going to finish?

[Merlin69]

I've changed the tactics loads of times but to no avail.

[Barry Wheeler]

Could be your team isn't strong enough?

[ramsiOo]

no front but sounds like a skill issue for you and your team. The promotion either came too early or you just suck and can't admit it to yourself

[x-the-Andy-x]

Originally posted by Merlin69:

Struggled to get my team promoted to prem and once there the AI makes my team lose every match!

sorta like Ipswich, southampton and leicester then ?

[GeirOve]

Originally posted by DeathStroke:

you do realise that being newly promoted to the top division is supposed to be difficult? Kinda like real life? Also im betting you havent changed your tactics at all after being promoted? Cause if you are trying to play in the premier league after championship with the same tactics then you SHOULD be losing. Where exactly did the media predict you were going to finish?

There are litterely 1000s of hours of gameplay on youtube that show you the opposite........ cant belive people still belive this! I have won promotion and had good result using the same tactic in PL, and other top divisions the last 10 editions of this game. I have even used the same tactic for several promotions. Do you belive it matters away and home tactics aswell?

If tactical familiarity is so important, you have to give them time and half a season to get there, and win games. So you really think that change ingame tactics at half time to something that makes the players less familiar with the tactic would help you? in the same ME and in the same meny even. Change the players that doesnt perform and stay with the same tactic, beats the change 9 out of 10 times. Stop overthinking this game, its really not as complicated as you want it to be

[zeeb]

Players and team dynamics matters more than anything else. Doesn't matter if you have the best tactic in the world, if you have a garbage lineup going up against an actually good lineup, you'll lose almost every time. Same thing if your team is unhappy.

Tactics etc starts to matter more when your players and the oppositions players are more equal in terms of stats.

This is why at the top level, tactics reigns supreme. Since every team essentially have their roster filled with the best players around the world.

So if your players are League 2 quality, then they'll lose the majority of games against a team with players that are League 1 quality. Thankfully it isn't as black and white as a computer would've put it, but they've made sure you can win some games and if you're lucky, it's enough to keep you in the league you promoted to.

But the moment you promote, if you didn't dominate your previous league, it's time for a complete rebuild. Otherwise you will get pushed down more often than not. You need to constantly improve your squad wherever you can, the moment you're out of options is when it's time to start tweaking your tactics to get the most oomph out of the players you have, until then a 4-2-3-1 template is good enough. But I'd consider what tactic you'll likely run at top level and then use that template so you keep getting players that play nicely with said setup.

This is why long contracts are not ideal until you've reached the top league in your country. No point in binding a League 2 player to the club for 5 years if you're aiming to promote the club within that time. At best he'll be a backup to your backup.

[Flammable]

You should expect your newly promoted team to be avoiding relegation. Hence losing matches to bigger clubs makes sense.

[DeathStroke]

Originally posted by GeirOve:

Originally posted by DeathStroke:

you do realise that being newly promoted to the top division is supposed to be difficult? Kinda like real life? Also im betting you havent changed your tactics at all after being promoted? Cause if you are trying to play in the premier league after championship with the same tactics then you SHOULD be losing. Where exactly did the media predict you were going to finish?

There are litterely 1000s of hours of gameplay on youtube that show you the opposite........ cant belive people still belive this! I have won promotion and had good result using the same tactic in PL, and other top divisions the last 10 editions of this game. I have even used the same tactic for several promotions. Do you belive it matters away and home tactics aswell?

If tactical familiarity is so important, you have to give them time and half a season to get there, and win games. So you really think that change ingame tactics at half time to something that makes the players less familiar with the tactic would help you? in the same ME and in the same meny even. Change the players that doesnt perform and stay with the same tactic, beats the change 9 out of 10 times. Stop overthinking this game, its really not as complicated as you want it to be

lol guys making youtube videos arent the same as the noobie kids crying for assistance on steam forums , they actually know what they are doing . you're clearly just one of those plug an play kids that bumbled their way through this game as quickly as possible and goes on holiday sim runs all the time . if you managed to maintain good form after promotion without making any changes thats great , but unless you have managed to build a strong squad thats already roughly comparable to anything in the lower half of the league you just got promoted into then you will struggle if you go into that division with a highly offensive tactic that you used to win the division below. if the media thinks you should be finishing something like 16th and you are still trying to play a high press high line tiki taka 4-3-3 ect then you are more likely than not to just end up the league punching bag and let in a few goals every single game.

There is a reason you have slots for 3 different tactics to be learned , you should have a moderate one , a defensive one and an attacking one , which will allow you to either comfortably switch between them as needed pre-game or make minor adjustments during a match without it causing any significant drops in familiarity. If im using a top 5 club then il generally feel comfortable brute-forcing my way through most games and will predominately stick with the main tactic , but il still make changes when needed , and seeing as im able to often take a team like that through a season undefeated i'l stick with my approach.

why bother commenting on a post if not to address the OP though? they were having issues after promotion and you just jump in to be contradictory and spread your silly ignorant nonsense.