bit tired today.
Posted 16-05-2009 at 10:26 AM by T-Mills-85
Its saturday morning. I have a hangover. i have a cup of tea. the smell of bacon is wafting out from under the grill, warburtons is in the toaster and soccer AM doesnt start for another half an hour so i thought id go through some of my results from the past few days.
Aside from a few unranked defeats ive managed to clock up a few wins against other players from the league, which is such a confidence boost. I managed a win against webb95, who is a really good player but i think over the course of the season his team selection might let him down. He is leeds who arent really strong enough to compete with 4* teams, mind you LA Galaxy have been an exception to that rule so far.
I found it very easy to knock him off the ball with stronger players and it ended 1-0 to me.
I Knocked out 2 wins against Kappa. nothing fancy, cheeky goals mostly.
And last night i played a quality game against Wexi. Just for randomness he was St Mirren and i was the mighty blades. great game, he gave me loads of trouble throughout and scored first. my equaliser was probably the best manual goal i have scored. it wasnt really that special, i found space wide of the box and as i was coming inside a i noticed him start to bring the keeper then hesitate. whilst the keeper was stranded i quickly chipped a neat ball from the edge of the box into the far bottom corner. Without wanting to harp on about it, it would have been a peice of **** with assisted controls and wasnt with manual. Enough said.
Another thing. I MADE IT THROUGH TO THE NEXT ROUND OF THE CUP!
i played xfox6 last night and won 1-0 to get through. He caused me a lot of problems and is a proper decent player. and a decent bloke too.
You can read the match report here.
Something else quite interesting happened last night. I went into an unranked match online. The guy wont move from liverpool. so i chose fenerbahce anyway. Turns out he is an abuser in every sense. 6 at the back. throughballs to torres up top the whole time. how original. anyway as you would expect i got ripped to peices. i have seen ping pong type players before, but this guy was another level. one touch passing all the way along the back line, then one pinged pass, straight to the strikers feet. Yawn. But the more he scored against me the more i just thought, i want one goal. i did eventually get it. i stuck a corner to the edge of the box, one touch and drilled it into the corner.
it ended 10 -1 to him. i was a bit annoyed, and then he sent me a message. "good game, well played"
***!!!
The bottle of wine inside me had removed all sense of being nice. my reply was along the lines of "you're style of football is butchering online play. the way you use assisted passing is terrible. too much like ping pong. and the worst thing is the game rewards you for it with easy goals"
The conversation then followed this route.
"you use full manual controls?"
"yes"
"is it hard?"
"not once you get your head around it. and it opens the game up. makes it less rigid."
"cool, i liked your passing, i think ill try it."
Not only had this ***** spanked me. now he had the audacity to be nice to me
, and he continued to ask for manual advice all night.
Oh well. thats one less ping ponger online and one more manual player. All good.
Since the last time i posted some more league games have been played. im now 5th. and the teams above me still have one or two games in hand. You can view the tables here
Right. Shower time.
Aside from a few unranked defeats ive managed to clock up a few wins against other players from the league, which is such a confidence boost. I managed a win against webb95, who is a really good player but i think over the course of the season his team selection might let him down. He is leeds who arent really strong enough to compete with 4* teams, mind you LA Galaxy have been an exception to that rule so far.
I found it very easy to knock him off the ball with stronger players and it ended 1-0 to me.
I Knocked out 2 wins against Kappa. nothing fancy, cheeky goals mostly.
And last night i played a quality game against Wexi. Just for randomness he was St Mirren and i was the mighty blades. great game, he gave me loads of trouble throughout and scored first. my equaliser was probably the best manual goal i have scored. it wasnt really that special, i found space wide of the box and as i was coming inside a i noticed him start to bring the keeper then hesitate. whilst the keeper was stranded i quickly chipped a neat ball from the edge of the box into the far bottom corner. Without wanting to harp on about it, it would have been a peice of **** with assisted controls and wasnt with manual. Enough said.
Another thing. I MADE IT THROUGH TO THE NEXT ROUND OF THE CUP!
i played xfox6 last night and won 1-0 to get through. He caused me a lot of problems and is a proper decent player. and a decent bloke too.
You can read the match report here.
Something else quite interesting happened last night. I went into an unranked match online. The guy wont move from liverpool. so i chose fenerbahce anyway. Turns out he is an abuser in every sense. 6 at the back. throughballs to torres up top the whole time. how original. anyway as you would expect i got ripped to peices. i have seen ping pong type players before, but this guy was another level. one touch passing all the way along the back line, then one pinged pass, straight to the strikers feet. Yawn. But the more he scored against me the more i just thought, i want one goal. i did eventually get it. i stuck a corner to the edge of the box, one touch and drilled it into the corner.
it ended 10 -1 to him. i was a bit annoyed, and then he sent me a message. "good game, well played"
***!!!
The bottle of wine inside me had removed all sense of being nice. my reply was along the lines of "you're style of football is butchering online play. the way you use assisted passing is terrible. too much like ping pong. and the worst thing is the game rewards you for it with easy goals"
The conversation then followed this route.
"you use full manual controls?"
"yes"
"is it hard?"
"not once you get your head around it. and it opens the game up. makes it less rigid."
"cool, i liked your passing, i think ill try it."
Not only had this ***** spanked me. now he had the audacity to be nice to me
, and he continued to ask for manual advice all night.Oh well. thats one less ping ponger online and one more manual player. All good.
Since the last time i posted some more league games have been played. im now 5th. and the teams above me still have one or two games in hand. You can view the tables here
Right. Shower time.
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As you depicted above yourself, there's nothing wrong with using assisted, its just HOW you use it. You came across a proper assisted-abuser though - not interested in realism, instead just interested in beating you at a video game. Lets just hope EA Sports change this game around sooner rather than later!!
Anyhow, good progress on manual though, keep it up bud!Posted 16-05-2009 at 07:36 PM by daherlihy
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Thanks DH, im getting there.
i agree, i have played some very very good games where i have been using full manual and my opponent has been using assisted. but some people remove all sense of football from the game. thats what i find weird because its a football game.
you put it very well when you said they are only interested in winning at a computer game. my mum used to only let me have one hour a day on my master system, then i got shoved out the door with a football under my arm. maybe thats the problem? these kids need a dose of reality. hmm maybe ill do a post about that.Posted 16-05-2009 at 11:18 PM by T-Mills-85
