I agree re: management mode. Career mode (where I will play as the entire team, rather than as a created player, which I assume is what it’s like in this game) is the only mode I usually play in FIFA, but I’m not bothering with this one unless it’s improved massively.
Season mode in just 22 single match games strung together. Might sound funny because that’s what a season is in a way, but the commentators for example have no understanding of how the season is unfolding. I’m assuming when they make references to the competing teams, the code only points to the team’s overall rating, rather than how the season is actually unfolding. So I can be multiple games clear on top, and I’m referred to as the underdog in every game. Or they can say I look every bit a top 8 side or something like that, when I secured the minor premiership 4 games ago.
The worst example was when I was playing the Grand Final, after going through the season undefeated, playing a team that pulled a Bulldogs and made it via the bottom half of the 8, and the commentator tipped that team saying they’d been the better team all year.
Wat.
It was like the old meme-wortthy moments from the IR Gurus games:
I’m tipping … Hawthorn
I disagree Dennis, I like … the Hawks
Derp
It just breaks any immersion you might feel. And that’s not even taking into account all stats are reset for the finals for some reason. It’s like a second little season tacked onto the home and away season instead of an exciting continuation. Not even the banners the teams run through refer to the fact you’re now playing finals footy. And the confetti and stuff that litter the field atfer the cup is presented are random colours instead of the winning team’s colours.
Minor stuff in the grand scheme of things, plenty of actual gameplay issues SHOULD be a higher priority, but these little things do add up.
Kinda like the whistle after a goal in Evo amirite?
They had better get this right…
Rugby and Tennis in early access… Top spin coming back into the fold to kill their Tennis ambitions…
Cricket 24 suffering from another poor release and still not shaping up as an improvement over 22
And the release of this game with all the bravado and chest beating pre launch and also with the AFL investment and cooperation…
Well…IF they don’t get this right, or their next two launches…
BA may as well start digging.
They’ve gone from the darlings of niche sport developers to a laughing stock in 10 years.
What a great post! Agree with nearly all of it!
The most telling issue to me is the “headless chook AI”
It’s a perfect description.
You are right in saying they spruiked assistant coach input…
The other issues are all real. But most of them you can see a kernel of optimism if they can tweak a few things. The mechanics are there, albeit in an unacceptable state.
The AI though… bad…
It’s almost like they’ve tried to create the chaos of AFL simply by making the off-the-ball AI act like ants under a magnifying glass.
Two days to go. Hopefully for everyone’s sake the patch improves gameplay, and the more general improvements reflect the 6 months of extra development time they’ve had to finish this thing.
Cricket was a carbon copy of 22 with small updated features, not exactly groundbreaking stuff. Rugby and tennis delayed massively with little to no communication again and no updates on AFL. I think bugger all is right considering how far behind on everything they are
I know just as much as everyone else but I would doubt that it’s a 12am update tonight, hopefully early-ish arvo or even morning if we are lucky.
Actually very keen to see what its going to include, ideally a good combination of a few fixes and some new content but from what has been described in the roadmap “Gameplay and Season Fixture update including photogrammetry of players attending the draft at Marvel Stadium” there really isn’t much to discuss in particular the Gameplay Update(s).
In about 24 hours from now I guess we will have a much better idea of what the direction of the game going forward will be, I am excited to see the patch notes tomorrow (I hope we get patch notes) and to test it out after all these months without an update. Not long to go now!!!
I wonder what time we get the update, I have a good feeling about this one. They have been quiet for a while, the timing has been good. Everyone’s in the footy mood after round 1, they for sure planned this out.
Apologies guys. I’ve locked the patch notes thread as I would always do. If we can keep the conversations going here rather than there to keep it all in one place would be great.
I have it on Steam and I’m loving it. Having only just got the game a week ago I’ve had little experience pre-patch but the difference in flow and actually enjoying the game in noticable. Getting the ball out from stopages has improved out of sight IMO. Big fan of this patch. Really well done.
For the sake of the partially sane afl gaming community, can you please PLEASE snapshot this build, make 50 backups and store them in a secure remote location. We need this to be the new baseline and if exciting new features break the game one day, this is where we go back to.
That sounds very very promising
I could ask some questions, but I’m going to refrain until I have a chance to look at it myself. I’d encourage everyone else to do the same
The last few weeks I have been playing, I have noticed some frame rate issues when playing, I don’t think it was like this previously, but I haven’t been savvy enough to fix it yet.
Any thoughts on where I could tweak settings?
The other piece I haven’t tried is updating the graphics driver too.
Won the a custom season GF last night and looking forward to the new update!
In regards to player movement, feels like double speed and it took a game or two to get used to but the more offloads instead of ball ups or holdings is a welcome addition. Im playing on steam and only picked up the game a few days ago, in game my fps looks stuck in the 40’s, ive tried moving around all the graphics settings and no real changes… Any tips from anyone?
Haven’t played new patch yet (just my luck today is my one forced office day for the month).
Does the patch clash at all with existing careers and/or save files? Saw a comment elsewhere saying to delete all seasons before playing or it wipes 2024 player defaults and roles. Was gonna continue my current manager mode until the lists are finalised in next patch but don’t want to break the game
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