I am not saying it's easy to master tactical creation (both in FM and real-life football). Or rather, people tend to make the same kind of tactical mistakes all the time, and then blame their tactical failures on the ME, simply because it's more convenient than admitting one's own lack of tactical knowledge and/or taking time and patience to learn how tactics work. My issue is that every new edition of FM has the same ME bugs as the previous edition began with It would certainly cut down on the level of frustration for sure, but I suspect that it has gone so far that it couldn't really be allowed to regress at this point I for one would be happy if SI decided that the ME was only for highlights and match incidents and concentrated on making other areas of the game more in depth, i.e day to running of the club, player interactions (which up to the announced changes for FM21 had the same issue for around 4 editions), staff interactions lots of things can be added or fleshed out, the ME needs to be a side aspect of the game, not a main feature.Īn interesting point that I had not considered at all.
#Football manager mod kits match engine update
Unfortunately with every new FM release a improved match engine becomes a more important part of the new features of the game, meaning that it gets more attention from the community, as it is generally not as impressive as the rest of the game and for some reason every new edition of the game starts with the same match engine bugs, as the previous edition started with, not developed on from the latest update of the previous edition (this has always puzzled me), people end up reporting the same bugs after every new release. I have been playing SI developed Football Management games for 27 years (yes since CM2), I never wanted or expected a comprehensive match engine for the game, other aspects of the game interested me more, the day to day running of the club, building squads, tactics etc, when the Match engine was introduced, I saw it as a gimmick, to add to the match day experience, all it needed to do was show match highlights, incidents, in no way do you need to watch the whole match, a FM season takes long enough to complete anyway.