cliffkram
16 Apr 2004, 11:01 PM
I realized I was scoring too many goals on Semi-Pro level, seemingly at will. I've been using Almeria of Spanish Segunda, but with a bunch of transfers. My team consists of some guys from Almeria and then Tim Howard, Louis Saha, mike magee, eddie gaven, peter crouch, peter vagenas, goran bunjecevic, some others that i cant remmber, but a good bunch of players that you can afford (its impossible to buy becks, edgar davids, theirry henry, oliver khan, etc)
my grievance is that once you go to professional level, your team becomes anemic on every level. it's not so much that the computer's talent level raises, its that yours becomes terrible.
- Passes go directly to computer players,
- your goalkeeper no longer jumps for saves, he just falls down and lets them roll by, when he can get his hands on a shot, he cant catch it.
- The only way to win a 50/50 ball is to cross it to your 1st striker
- Impossible to gain possesion in the closing minutes
- Computer has uncanny ability to score in the 45th minute (just before haftime) and 90th minute, especially when the game is on the line. I dont just mean score, i mean, you can't pick off a pass, you cant tackle.
- Tackling has become worthless. If you can tackle, the computer never loses the ball and you take longer to recover from the stumble than the computer does. Fouls are never called on the computer, whereas if you so much as touch the computer player you will be whistled.
Other grievances not related to Professional mode:
- No matter how much you work a player's skill, his rating will improve at the most 3 or 4 points over the course of 4-5 years of career
- impossible to purchase big name players, as your transfer budget is usually around 10 mil, meanwhile, you cant get rid of the the cheap players and your dont want to sell the good mid-price ones
- Working a players individual skill does nothing, as theres never a significant improvement on that skill.
EA definitely needs to fix this by the next game, or they'll lose themselves a customer.
my grievance is that once you go to professional level, your team becomes anemic on every level. it's not so much that the computer's talent level raises, its that yours becomes terrible.
- Passes go directly to computer players,
- your goalkeeper no longer jumps for saves, he just falls down and lets them roll by, when he can get his hands on a shot, he cant catch it.
- The only way to win a 50/50 ball is to cross it to your 1st striker
- Impossible to gain possesion in the closing minutes
- Computer has uncanny ability to score in the 45th minute (just before haftime) and 90th minute, especially when the game is on the line. I dont just mean score, i mean, you can't pick off a pass, you cant tackle.
- Tackling has become worthless. If you can tackle, the computer never loses the ball and you take longer to recover from the stumble than the computer does. Fouls are never called on the computer, whereas if you so much as touch the computer player you will be whistled.
Other grievances not related to Professional mode:
- No matter how much you work a player's skill, his rating will improve at the most 3 or 4 points over the course of 4-5 years of career
- impossible to purchase big name players, as your transfer budget is usually around 10 mil, meanwhile, you cant get rid of the the cheap players and your dont want to sell the good mid-price ones
- Working a players individual skill does nothing, as theres never a significant improvement on that skill.
EA definitely needs to fix this by the next game, or they'll lose themselves a customer.