I'm bone idle, so I just copied all of my 2019 stuff into the 2020 folder.
Worked well so far, though I must have rolled the scroll wheel on my mouse at some point and ended up with everything in Danish.
So, having started my career at Man City, I have a few minor queries..
- Why have they removed the direct link to the u23 squad on the side bar? It's a PITA having to go through the dev centre now.
- I was also going to ask how to change the colour of your player numbers (white on light blue is not a good choice), but I've found it now in the editor.
Hopefully that's something they can patch in easily. There are a few other interface problems that weren't in FM19 that have me scratching my head.
Selecting 1st team players to play in the U23 or U18 teams seems way more fiddly, and it's annoying that the 2 weeks of training don't all fit in the visible area, cutting off the intensity bar at the bottom of the second week, to name just two...
There are numerous improvements to the interface though which I'm liking and I'm having fun already, about a month in with the mighty Eastleigh (go the SPITFIRES!)
Alright, so i've installed all my mods, and i'm ready to start anew. The only question is, where?
- Fulham, my favorite team
- St. Pauli, the team of football hipsters across the globe
- Notts County, who were just relegated from league football for the first time in their history
Also, they've got to get a few more... uh... "diverse" facial models, because my manager looks like Lloyd Griffith dipped in tea.
A few games in, and yeah, there's some patching that needs to be done. "Low Crosses" is still just a vague suggestion, and I'm willing to blame my team's tendency to interpret "more direct passing" as "HOOF IT" because we're a Conference National side.
Also, I had a friend of mine describe LLM perfectly, I think. Whereas at good teams, you're trying to encourage greatness, in a LLM scenario, you're really just trying to contain incompetence (glares at my back four).
EDIT: Oh, and perhaps it's the level, but Zilla is dead-on about the defender ratings. My entire back four will be playing 6.5's 30 minutes into a match when we haven't surrendered a goal.
EDIT v2: Rescinded the criticism. I need to tweak my tactics before I yell about "there's no through balls!"
Dan Maguire : I've been on a fringe of the team recently and feel I should play more.
Me : If I give you a chance you'll have to prove you should stay in the team.
Dan Maguire :
What club did you pick, Prederick?
Notts County. I need a good story when I play, and I can think of few stories more appealing than "Oldest league club in the world gets relegated to non-league, try to make them Premier League champions for the first time in their history."
It's probably about time that I stepped away from the bigger clubs (puts folder hurriedly on top of Man City save where I have only won 2 of my first 7 games - drawn all of the others...)
So, in the spirit of other people, help me pick a team from the following..
Port Vale (because few people know where they are).
Grenable Foot 38 (because they sound like an army division, and there's something slightly exotic about teams with numbers in their name...apart from almost every Bundesliga club).
Barrow Their badge includes a nuclear submarine. What's not to love (apart from the town, which is bleak beyond belief.)
So, help me decide, and updates will follow.
Get out of England, experience some football en français.
Honestly, in France, toppling PSG might be significantly harder than breaking into the top of the Premier League in England (assuming PSG keep their financial muscle).
I won League 1 in FM19, albeit with Lyon.
I'll wait until tomorrow, but will go with Grenoble unless other votes appear.
If those are the choices I'd go with Grenoble.
I would have suggested Queen's Park in Scotland, but they finally voted to end their Amateur-only status this month after 150+ years.
- Improvements to finishing in clear-cut-chance situations
- Improved through ball decisions in final third
Can't say they don't listen, at least.
Literally 5 minutes into my first post-patch game and I saw a great through ball for a CCC, followed by an intelligent low cross for our opening goal. Pleasing!
EDIT: WOW is it better. We (Notts Co) just crushed Curzon Ashton 4-0, and it's not just THAT we did it, but HOW we did it. And "Low Crosses" finally actually WORKS.
Yeah, I've been playing all night and my goodness, the match engine feels... I don't want to say "totally different" but pre-patch I'd have made this a "if you're a FM addict" recommendation. Post-patch this has genuinely been a "Wow" experience.
Like, obviously the Vanarama National isn't La Liga, but players even at that level know how to cross, how to play one-twos and how to hit a through ball, and I went from seeing little to none of that pre-patch, to seeing my team score a goal that I'm genuinely frustrated I couldn't save (intricate play from the middle, sprayed out to the right, before given to an onrushing fullback who drew it back from the byline to my striker who swept home from the penalty spot. Like 8 passes in total, it was AMAZING).
I just bought Divinity: Original Sin 2, and I was COMPLETELY ENJOYING that and now I'm like "Crap, I don't have time to be addicted to BOTH of these games like this."
EDIT: Oh, and another thing, I've said a billion times before that FM Messi never plays like real-life Messi. Well, in my game, thus far, Messi has 14 goals in 13 appearances, 6 assists and a 8.38 rating, which, yeah. Messi.
Can we slum it and still talk about FM19? Oh good.
Because after spending some time with Other Games I played through Christmas into the new year and... kinda went top.
But that's ok, because I immediately lost 1-0 to Leyton Orient the next game and slipped back to third.
But that's ok, because seven days later I had Leyton Orient again in the FA Trophy and smashed them 4-1 for revenge.
The best thing though is that out of the blue I was asked what I thought about speculation linking me to the vacant job at Derby in the Championship. I answered that I didn't think much about it, which was true because I hadn't realised I was linked to the vacant job at Derby in the Championship.
My board was delighted with this and then Derby gave the job to someone else and we all moved on.
Then I got asked what I thought about maybe becoming the new Manager at Notts Forest.
This is all preamble though, because I don't care about any of that. However, the Manager at my real life favourite team - Ipswich Town - is "insecure" because he's led the team into the Championship relegation positions (something he also did in real life).
In 25 years of these lower league Manager runs I've almost always been a one-club man, but at the same time I haven't managed my own favourite team now for eleven years. If the job comes up I'm going to be really tempted.
First check in from the new manager of Grenoble Foot 38.
Board expectations are mid table finish, which might be doable. Side is fairly weak, but I've been able to truffle around in the loan market, signing a couple of loan players from England (Bernabe from City's u-19s being one), and we are off to a reasonable start (4-2-2 in the first 8), although we are yet to play any of the favourites apart from Guingamp.
Did have to laugh when I walked in, had a look at the fixture list for pre-season and the first match was against PSG.
Mr Bismarck wrote:Can we slum it and still talk about FM19? Oh good.
Honestly, I don't feel like there is an appreciable difference between FM19 and FM20.
I would've agreed with you until the patch. I think, outside of the match engine, you're right, but within the match engine, some significant improvements have been made. Not huge or game-changing, but significant. Really, they're fixes to the 19 engine but y'know. XD
I was having a good time last night until we lost to freaking Brackley Town in the first round of the FA Trophy. Thank goodness the board doesn't care about that competition and wants us to go up, first and foremost.
Almost got through a full season with Notts County but......
.......I'm a Fulham fan. And as good as Scott Parker has been, I still want to see them go up and start taking f**king names. Guess I'm restarting.
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