Feedback / Issues with Manager Mode - Page 11

nightmaretoremb · 05-10-2009, 09:10 PM

I just wanted to post a few issues that i'm having with the manager mode on fifa 10.

Unrealistic Friendly opponents - When i started my manager mode as Man Utd i had 4 friendlies and two of them were against Premiership teams (Man City & Fulham) This really needs to be sorted as its very rare teams from the same league play each other in pre-season.

Matches held at wrong times - Games being played at Night all of the time, this is a massive issue for me and i found it very frustrating especially having to play the Community Shield at night time (when has this ever happened in real life?)

The majority of games in England are played during the day except Carling Cup and European matches..i don't understand why this is so hard to get right in manager mode.

Unable to change stadium settings - Not being able to change the stadium settings no longer, this was basically something you could do in the old game which would get round the problem of having to play every game in the same conditions.

In Fifa 09 if you wanted to change a match in manager mode from say daytime to evening you could just quit it and change the settings in the kick off mode, then when you returned to manager mode the settings were changed. Of course this is no longer possible resulting in players having to play 90% of matches in the evening.

HoosierUSA · 05-10-2009, 09:14 PM

Really wish EA would respond to these issues letting us know whether or not they even intend to try to patch these glitches.

I have a bad feeling that once online stability is restored they will begin working on the next Fifa installment and those of you with the buggy game will be stuck with what you got. I somewhat feel lucky being in US to be able to read these reviews and not waste my money on this game on launch day. I really think EA especially have begun using the customer as there beta testers instead of hiring people, only to later try to get a patch out.

There is no reason that this many glitches should be in a final product. I'm not talking about gameplay, i referring to club form, transfers disappearing, every game being rainy and at night, chipping the GK, etc.

If EA is reading this can you at least let us know if we can expect any of these bugs to be fixed....I won't be holding my breath for an answer though

sevleagames · 05-10-2009, 09:41 PM

I have played the game since release and the gameplay has been top notch. I have got some niggles but this is a thread about manager mode, so here are my problems:

I am Aston Villa in Premier League

* Pre-seaon friendlies against other league teams
* Pre-season friendlies only have 3 subs allowed
* Form system is completely confusing, inconsistant and too extreme in variations. Also I think that physical attributes should only be affected (and then only by 1 point) if mental stats are really improved by a huge run of good form.
* Impossible to influence player form.
* Forms drop drastically ingame (Had Agbonlahor drop from 87 to 73 even after scoring twice - unless its related to fatigue levels?? again, confusing)
* Trying to sign a youth keeper to grow for future seasons but all offers refused with no explanations (on 3 potentials). I have even offered 3 times market value and 3 times default wage with no success even though they are 85% interested. Upon reviewing failed negotiations it seems that the clean sheet bonuses i promised are reset to no bonus - could that be a bug too and also prevent the signing?
* Too many night/raining games
* Repeated transfers, however cannot tell if they are just old news posts, but why need to reschedule transfers to show them??

There may be others I have not noticed. I am concerned by some peoples problems such as players being sold from loans or just signing for other teams. I have not experienced assist bug yet or strange AI player positionings for opposition teams.

Also the GameFace issues suck but hey ho.

All in all I love he game, mainly due to gameplay, but I would love for EA to solve the MM issues quickly because I can see that once the novelty of fresh on pitch gameplay wears off and I look to the depth of MM to keep me pinned, it will not be correct and will put me off - which I do not want.

lets hope they can sort them all and if not get most of them solved and soon.

MrXile · 05-10-2009, 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by sevleagames

All in all I love he game, mainly due to gameplay, but I would love for EA to solve the MM issues quickly because I can see that once the novelty of fresh on pitch gameplay wears off and I look to the depth of MM to keep me pinned, it will not be correct and will put me off - which I do not want.

lets hope they can sort them all and if not get most of them solved and soon.

Exactly my thoughts.

MrMoose · 05-10-2009, 10:29 PM

*Reposted from previous topic - apologies, didn't see this thread.*

No doubt these have been reported elsewhere, but the more people reporting them is a sign of their spread, I would have thought.

1. Assistant Manager still fiddling around with your starting line-ups etc, even after you turn him off, during friendlies. I gather some have reported he does it all the time.

2. Goals scored in the Charity Shield are not included in the season stats, but the game itself is.

3. Friendlies allocate 'points' and WLD stats in the manager record screen. So by the end of the Premiership season you will - by adding together the WLD - statistics, look like you've played 42 league games. Likewise, you get an extra 12 points on your stats in that screen if you win all your friendlies.

Not major bugs; just things I would have thought even the most basic bit of testing would have spotted.

Maxitsu · 05-10-2009, 10:40 PM

I like coach mode but the game still have alot of bugs in it.

i started my career whit Club Brugge in the Belgian league and i am playing my 2nd season. and i have already found alot of bugs.

1. Lost players i lend some players to other clubs. but they never returned
2. Shirts are not always correct
3. No assist my virtual pro and other players never gets assist. my goalkeeper steals it. my GK had 35 assist in one season.
4. Stats are wrong like previous FIFA games stats are always wrong. why are they in the game if they are wrong? what point does it have?

5. Friendly's always the same teams from ur league.
6. Matches held at wrong times
7. the belgian league does't have playoffs in career mode
8. the "Europa league" has the old format groupstage (uefacup groups whit 5 teams)
9. wrong ball when it snows and the pitch is white and you have a white ball, it don't change to a yellow or orange ball...µ

10. calander and match days are wrong some teames played 6 games while other played 7, 8 or even 9 games. in reality each team play on the same days.
11. Text in the menu is sometimes wrong.
12. Text gets blurry. rebooting the game will fix this
13. Wrong teams go to europa leagues i got 4th in career mode but a team that ended up on 12th position go's to europa league. while i don't.

Thats it for now. i bet i find more bugs from previous fifa-games

i don't understand why (since FIFA2002 i thing) EA still have the same problems each year and never fix them.

ps: sorry for my english

MrMoose · 05-10-2009, 11:03 PM

Ohh for crying out loud; that 'new player automatically takes the #2 shirt' bug has been around since 07 and it still hasn't been fixed.

I'm getting very fed up with this game. The on-field action is brilliant; the behind the scenes stuff is close to being an absolute disaster!

Placebo · 05-10-2009, 11:09 PM

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Originally Posted by VEO15

I am Bury and the only cup games I've played were in the FA Cup and the Johnstone's Paint Trophy.

That's terrible

I passed it along to a friend of mine who's compiling a bug report to send to EA, this is one bug of 50 found so far, some of them really major ones.

Placebo · 05-10-2009, 11:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrMoose

Ohh for crying out loud; that 'new player automatically takes the #2 shirt' bug has been around since 07 and it still hasn't been fixed.

I'm getting very fed up with this game. The on-field action is brilliant; the behind the scenes stuff is close to being an absolute disaster!

I just signed a forward (Rodallega) for my Sheffield Wednesday team, he was given the number 2 shirt, which was taken from Tommy Spurr as it was his number, and he was given the number 9 shirt, how messed up is that??! Of course I can easily switch them around so it's not the most important bug but it's just really silly.

Forza_Rossoneri · 05-10-2009, 11:21 PM

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Originally Posted by oasismark

Manager mode.... I loaned out Luke Boden to Numancia at start of season.... January transfer window and they have sold him to West Brom for £600k ?!?!?!?!!?!

I had the same thing. Loaned a player to Parma only for them to sell him.

Weegian01 · 05-10-2009, 11:48 PM

THE BOARD ARE TOTAL NUTTERS: ITS OFFICIAL

Okay so here's my season:

Board objective for Man City:

Qualify for EEC.
Final of FA Cup.

Its Jan and Im in the top 4.

My last 5 game form was D-D-L-W-W (I beat Chelsea, Arsenal (away) in those wins).

After my draws I was told "You are performing exceptionally well for a coach with such a low reputation"

After my loss (away to Man U) I was then told ONE WEEK LATER, "a manager of your calibre should be performing much better"! ........what the blazes is that all about!?

For my wins my board confidence went up by TINY amounts, after my loss my board confidence plummeted by a HUGE amount.( I mean a massive drop!).

I was placed 5th with 2 games in hand that will take me joint 4th. I won my next game 4-1 and was promptly fired.

I spent the entitre period with my most of my team on orange down arrows 1 or 2 white/normal form and 1 rare green arrow.

My subs are constantly stuck in poor form. .....don't even mention reserves.

Never managed to renew a single contract.

Oh.....I did actually manage to sign someone, Amuari from Juve.....silver lining maybe in a huge cloud of utter guff.

All I can say is.....outstanding EA.............outstanding.

Russbot · 06-10-2009, 12:18 AM

I did not create my VP before starting Manager mode so I would quite like the option of signing him during a transfer window. I'm missing out on being able to develop him through this mode just because I didn't create him before starting my Manger mode. I dont want to start my Manger mode again just because of this I've played alot of games already

Also had the loan a player to team only for me not to get that player back.

I also had board commenting I was spending more money than we had after games even though I had not purchased anything (players, staff upgrades, etc) I can only assume this may have been down to goal bonuses for the players. Even so I still had alot of money left in my wage budget and other finances available.

Markley83 · 06-10-2009, 01:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrMoose

Ohh for crying out loud; that 'new player automatically takes the #2 shirt' bug has been around since 07 and it still hasn't been fixed.

I'm getting very fed up with this game. The on-field action is brilliant; the behind the scenes stuff is close to being an absolute disaster!

you can change that from the club info menu in mm where you sort your coaches

UK Jack Bauer · 06-10-2009, 01:51 AM

I've put together a list of 50 bugs, glitches and issues with Manager Mode in its current state. If I've missed anything, please let me know and I'll add to it!

LISTED IN ORDER OF SEVERITY

1) There is a strange Manager Mode freezing bug that doesn't allow you to progress any further, usually preceded by this error. [SCREENSHOT]

2) It has been reported that with some people transfers “lock” altogether after a certain amount of seasons (being linked to a disc problem). [INCIDENT 1]

3) All teams below the Premier League have their tactics set to all-70s. Applies to other leagues/teams as well, see Australia, Brazil and others.

4) All assists are credited to the goalkeeper.

5) Players you loan out can be sold by the clubs you loaned them to.

6) Newly signed players vanish from your squad with no warning. They just disappear, and then if you look them up they’re playing for someone else.

7) When trying to sign a second loan player, sometimes I am told by the game that I already have two – when I only have one.

8) When signing two loan players, I then tried to (permanently) sign two free agents, and I’m told I can’t sign them because I “already have two players on loan”.

9) 90% of matches in England are played at night in the rain regardless of stadium choice. I’ve yet to see a match played in the daytime with sunny weather.

10) Seasonal changes don’t seem to affect the weather. So in England, in the summer, you will see rain and even snow with no games being played in sunshine.

11) Signing players is practically impossible, even when offering maximum wages and maximum bonuses, even if you can get their interest level up to 85%+. (Even if you start out as a manager with no reputation, you should be able to sign really poor players with no reputation who aren’t getting first-team football elsewhere.)

12) Signing your own players is just as difficult, regardless of how well the team is doing. They refuse to sign even when you offer the maximum wages allowed. But if you wait until the end of the season, you get the same screen you get in FIFA 09 where you can just tick a box to re-sign a player and they will sign for peanuts! Strange one!

13) The board sack you even if you occupy first place. You can expect to be fired at the mid-way point of the season if you lose a cup game, even if you’re in the top four of the league, especially in the Premier League. Even in the lower leagues, I’ve seen situations where games are won 6-0 every week for months and suddenly you’re fired the moment you draw 1-1.

14) When playing against teams who are better than you, your board always expect you to beat that team. I mostly play as a League 1 team, and if I’m beaten by a Championship or Premier League side I get a board comment that states I was “expected to win the game”, and occasionally you will get the sack for this. This may be because teams aren’t recognised in their correct division; for example, when losing against a team from the league above you, you will occasionally get a message that says you should have done better against “lower league opposition”.

15) The assistant manager, even when turned off, will swap your players around when you buy or sell a player. Player roles are also reset.

16) The assistant manager AI is terrible. It will choose players with no fitness (10%-20%) to play out of position, over players with 100% fitness who can play in that position. See below for more info.

17) The AI management of other clubs is terrible. Examples; Chelsea play Terry at LB with Cole at CB in the same match, Man Utd play Vidic and Ferdinand as LB/RB with Brown and Evra as CBs in the same match, Giggs gets played at LB occasionally, etc. etc. etc.

18) The effect of form is far too severe. It makes your team go up/down by a whole star rating within a few games, so with a 3 star team you can yoyo to 2 star and weeks later 4 star.

19) The form system seems to be totally random. I can win 2-3 games in a row by 2-3 goals and the form will get worse. A striker can score six goals in a game and his form will DROP!

20) I’ve seen one injury in two seasons; Marcel promised this lack of injuries – and especially this lack of SERIOUS injuries – was fixed for FIFA 10. This is simply not true. The most widely reported injury is whiplash, which isn't a common injury, and which only affects the player for a week.

21) Injuries don’t last for a long enough period of time. For example, a hamstring injury should keep a player out for a month – in FIFA 10 it’s a week.

22) When playing in the snow the ball used is white, which is incredibly difficult to see, and you can’t change the ball yourself.

23) Only 5 benched substitutes are allowed in FIFA 10 below the Premier League. All English league and cup competitions now allow 7 substitutes in reality.

24) Friendly games should allow 12 substitutes on the bench (and also you should be allowed to use all 12). Currently it’s restricted to 7 on the bench (with only 3 substitutions allowed).

25) Friendly games include matches against teams in your own division. This doesn’t usually happen in reality.

26) FA Cup games and the Community Shield game are played at night when they’re only ever played in the daytime now, including the final.

27) The shortlist was supposed to allow up to 20 players to be stored, but seems to only allow 10 players.

28) The overall rating of a player changes before/during the game. So if one of my strikers has an overall rating of 83 (including his form), when I pause the game and go to Team Management his rating can drop by 10+. What value is actually being used by the game? The pre-game rating or the paused-game rating?

29) Form should never affect physical attributes. For example, a striker who is on hot form wouldn’t see his pace increase.

30) Playing as a League 1/2 team, you have literally no fit players left after 3-5 games of the season. I don’t care how bad your fitness coach is, a group of professional players would have enough players fit to start a game after 3-5 games of the season. (You’re forced to spend £1m to upgrade your fitness coach to a realistic level.)

31) The league table that shows up at the start of each game is never correct (same as FIFA 09). It always shows you in 6th-9th position regardless of whether you’re in the top half or the bottom half of the table, and your opponents are shown in an incorrect position as well.

32) When simming games instead of playing them, two things to note. Firstly, the level of your fitness coach isn’t taken into account, so the players lose 25%-75% more fitness than they should. Secondly, when simming, you actually get to see some injuries! Plus they last for a decent period of time (e.g. metacarpal fracture, player out for four weeks)!

33) When you have a player injured, the game forces you to remove him from your team before going to the pre-game screen. You don't want to remove him from your first-choice team, you want to remove him at the pre-match team management screen, like in FIFA 09. But now you can't do that.

34) Often you are not told why a player has refused to sign for you. No explanation is given on the Negotiation History screen for these players and it seems that they are never permitted to sign for your club, for no apparent reason. You never get an explanation for the affected players.

35) Sometimes when trying to sign a player they’ll say e.g. they get a “bad vibe” from your current players. Try to sign them again next week and they’ll sign for you. Doesn’t make much sense.

36) You can list a player for sale/loan who is garbage, e.g. 42 overall when the rest of the players in your squad/division are 60+, and instantly you get offers from the top teams in your division/country for him. Sometimes even top-flight teams from other countries make an offer; they have no possible reason to loan in a player who is literally twice as bad as any other player they have. It seems that every player you ever list you MUST receive an offer for, even if they are terrible, and it’s always a good team that has no need for a poor player which shows interest.

37) As a manager with a reputation level of half-a-star, you sometimes get comments from the board that “a manager of your calibre should be performing better”.

38) You lose respect with the board when losing a game on penalties. You should be given the same increase/decrease you would be given for a draw rather than a win/loss in these circumstances.

39) The leader of the assist list seems to be the player who keeps the most clean sheets.

40) Players who are substituted show no ratings at full-time. So if my striker gets a hat-trick and I substitute him, his rating is blank after the game. (Yet substituted players can receive Man of the Match awards, so a rating must be getting calculated by the game? I presume they’re just not being displayed?)

41) Goals/assists that occur in cup competitions, e.g. the FA Cup, aren’t counted in the player’s statistics. Also goals from the Charity Shield game aren't counted and yet the game itself counts as a game played.

42) When scouted players are presented to you for purchase, they are always said to play on the opposite side to their preferred foot. For example, a left winger will always be shown to prefer their right foot. Yet if you buy the player, most of the time, they will actually prefer the appropriate foot.

43) Some players will sign for a club and then the next week they’ll have signed for somebody else!

44) When searching for players their form ratings are displayed, rather than their actual ratings. This means you have no idea what the player’s actual ratings are.

45) When buying a player, they are given a squad number already in use, and it messes up the squad numbers for the entire team. Why can’t they be given a number that isn’t in use?

46) A stadium will never fill up with people. I can play a Champions League match against a five-star team and all stands will still have large empty sections.

47) The player search parameters you input will reset when bidding on a player. So if you search for e.g. a defender, CB, rated 50-60, playing in League Two, then you bid on one and you want to search for a midfielder with the same rating, the parameters have been reset meaning you have to input each one again.

48) Occasionally the wrong stadium picture is displayed pre-game. For example when playing at the Emirates a picture of (what looked to be) the training ground was displayed.

49) Creating a player (not a Virtual Pro) to sign in your Manager Mode career seems incredibly difficult/buggy. If you create a player and assign him to the free agents pool, the game freezes. If you assign him to a national team, he doesn’t show up as a free agent in Manager Mode. If you assign him to a national team and THEN move him to the free agents pool, you won’t be able to find him anywhere but in the “Created Players” section and you’ll see that his assigned team is referred to as something like "team1932as12309" – you can’t then find this team/player in Manager Mode to sign the player.

50) Commentary gaffes happen every 1-2 games, e.g. “5 minutes to go and they lead 1-0” when it’s 1-1, “I have to say he’s on one of the worst runs of his career” when he’s already scored in the match you’re playing, etc. etc. etc. and also, when playing as your Virtual Pro, you find the commentary refers to you scoring your 20th goal every time you score once you’ve reached that point. So for example when you score your 21st goal the commentator will say it’s your 20th, etc. (not sure if this only applies to Manager Mode or other modes as well).

NEW ONES

51) People playing as League Two teams (e.g. Bury) are reporting that they are not entered into the English league cup competition.

52) People are reporting that they can go from having millions to spend to being BILLIONS in debt. [INCIDENT 1]

53) For the new season it was said by the development team that you receive new transfer funds and a new wage budget to reflect the new income for that season. People are reporting they start the new season with the same money they ended the last one. [INCIDENT 1]

54) In the Squad Management screen before a fixture, set it to display the OVR rather than fatigue bar, then select a reserve and swap him with another reserve. I've seen both of their OVRs change.

55) The Edit Formation screen is buggy. If you nudge one position around, then go to change the role of another position, it thinks the second position is where the first is. Sometimes it'll move it so they overlap, and you have to drag it back to where you want it. This was also the case in FIFA 09.

56) The OVR number disappeared from a player's bio. It used to be next to the player's list of positions. Why has it been removed?

57) Your board can give you an objective, e.g. avoid relegation, but you're given no indication as to where the relegation zone is, e.g. playing as a Polish league side the board objectives for the first season are to get to the QF of the cup and to "aviod the relegation zone". Where is it? Bottom 3? Bottom 2? I'm in position 14 out of 16, how are we supposed to know if that's safe?

58) The board will often tell you to invest in new players, when the transfer window is closed and there's nothing you can do about it.

59) When saving a Manager Mode game, when it's finished saving, why are you prompted to save your profile as well? This is with autosave turned on!

60) The Belgian league is missing playoffs.

61) The new Europa League format is not in the game.

62) Incorrect teams make it into European competition. As someone has said, "I got 4th in career mode but a team that ended up 12th goes to europa league while I don't". [INCIDENT 1]

63) For some reason only ten characters are permitted for first names and surnames now, when this wasn't the case in FIFA 09.

64) Friendly games (possibly Community Shield and cup games too) are counted as league games on the Manager History screen. So the recorded points/league position is false.

65) CPU substituted players remain on the field. Example; playing as Blackburn against Bolton, they subbed Kevin Davies for Elmander and you see the animation of him going off - couple of minutes later you notice he's still on the pitch and nearly scores a header.

66) Players sent off after 30 minutes can still win the Man of the Match award, which is ridiculous.

67) Teams from lower English leagues are appearing in European competitions which they shouldn't be eligible to appear in. [INCIDENT 1]

68) Some people are experiencing an issue where the transfer window is listed as having "one week left" when there's actually e.g. four weeks left. Also in some circumstances the transfer window continuously says that there is "one week left" and it gets stuck like this forever.

69) This has been reported by a Manager Mode player suffering from the transfer window bug where the game says there is "one week left" when there are actually e.g. four weeks left. "I put players up for sale until the message came up that said the board will not allow you to sell any more players. I left it at eight players, and now that the transfer window is open, none of the players are set as for sale and I get that same board message as soon as I try to list a player. It's like it remembers I listed the players but it forgets it took all of them off sale itself."

70) Going 5 games unbeaten is recognised as winning 5 games in a row from the commentators.

71) Commentators falsely call Pienaar captain even when the captain is set to Cahill.

72) Crowd noise, for derby games, has a major bug where the home team support goes silent if they score. Play as a London team against Arsenal at the Emirates and when they score, instead of the crowd shouting or cheering, the crowd fall deathly silent while the Arsenal players celebrate. At kick-off, the noise level returns to normal.

73) Starting a Manager Mode game as Notts County, a forum user signed a free agent called Andros Townsend and he appears in the squad twice. This kind of thing is being more widely reported now.

74) The Manager Mode freeze bug on the simulating screen, that was present in FIFA 09, is back. [ALL REPORTED INCIDENTS]

Chapstik · 06-10-2009, 02:20 AM

i quite like the mm but a few things i would like fixed to make it more enjoyable.
-form system: why do the stats of my 16/17 year old reserve players plummit. they shouldnt expect to play. Similar thing, im playing as arsenal and when i rest my first 11 for the carling cup why do all the stats and form plummit from one game. Its way too excessive it should be 2 points max and not so severe.

-cant seem to resign anybody which is a bit annoying

-stats: i like to see how many assists my players have. at the moment alumina has all of them!!

supahmann · 06-10-2009, 02:20 AM

Ah yes I had an unrealistic friendly. I was Perth Glory and I had a friendly against Bayern Munich

Scousegit · 06-10-2009, 02:20 AM

When you list it like that, Jack, I hope it makes EA utterly ashamed of themselves. The gameplay is top notch but, as a manager mode nut, I'm absolutely disgusted with the bugs in the single player game.
EA - we want a response fairly quickly to this one. I wouldn't mind so much if we hadn't been promised the earth by Marcel, dropping tidbits in the manager mode thread, but this is pathetic.
To be honest I noticed a couple of interesting quesitons that were overlooked by Marcel regarding form before the game was released which suggests to me that he knew it was broke. I think we'd all rather a feature was taken out of the game if it didn't work. How in god's name can somebody develop this for a year and let it be released in such a state???
We await an update with baited breath.
(sorry, I know this isn't exactly constructive critisism but I'm absolutely peed off)

ManUman1690 · 06-10-2009, 02:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Scousegit

When you list it like that, Jack, I hope it makes EA utterly ashamed of themselves. The gameplay is top notch but, as a manager mode nut, I'm absolutely disgusted with the bugs in the single player game.
EA - we want a response fairly quickly to this one. I wouldn't mind so much if we hadn't been promised the earth by Marcel, dropping tidbits in the manager mode thread, but this is pathetic.
To be honest I noticed a couple of interesting quesitons that were overlooked by Marcel regarding form before the game was released which suggests to me that he knew it was broke. I think we'd all rather a feature was taken out of the game if it didn't work. How in god's name can somebody develop this for a year and let it be released in such a state???
We await an update with baited breath.
(sorry, I know this isn't exactly constructive critisism but I'm absolutely peed off)

I think what we have seen is that EA have tried to add new modes every year now, actually trying to do too much, the game has too much included resulting in very few things working as they should.

I believe the Essentials are, these are the modes that EA should focus on.

Manager Mode
Online 1v1 & 10v10
Exhibition & Custom Tournement modes

Modes that should be scrapped altogether, i highly doubt anyone will buy the game for any of these modes.

Be a Pro
Live Season
Virtual Pro
Lounge mode
Interactive leagues(not sure if its in this years)

st4rdog · 06-10-2009, 03:59 AM

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Originally Posted by supahmann

Ah yes I had an unrealistic friendly. I was Perth Glory and I had a friendly against Bayern Munich

Why is that unrealistic?

Scousegit · 06-10-2009, 04:25 AM

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Originally Posted by ManUman1690

I think what we have seen is that EA have tried to add new modes every year now, actually trying to do too much, the game has too much included resulting in very few things working as they should.

I believe the Essentials are, these are the modes that EA should focus on.

Manager Mode
Online 1v1 & 10v10
Exhibition & Custom Tournement modes

Modes that should be scrapped altogether, i highly doubt anyone will buy the game for any of these modes.

Be a Pro
Live Season
Virtual Pro
Lounge mode
Interactive leagues(not sure if its in this years)

Well said - I'd like to see what percentage of EA's customers would have preferred a fully working Manager Mode to Virtual Pro & Live Season... I'm betting a vast majority when you look at the hits on the Manager Mode threads both before and after release... for me, I'm still enjoying playing MM as a previous poster said, because the gameplay on the pitch is stellar. But I think there's a lot of people out there who need to be assured that a patch is forthcoming...
I know EA have come out and said that the server issues need to be sorted before they address Manager Mode but surely they are 2 seperate departments within a large dev team?
Right I've had my useless rant now, I'll leave you guys with cooler heads to it...

Weegian01 · 06-10-2009, 05:32 AM

Outstanding work 'UKJB' on that 53 point list of MM mess ups.

I can't believe there's so many issues after all the hype....it's quite extraordinary.

I hope someone at EA takes a good look at the guys who approved the release of MM in its current state.

As for the other online modes getting priority, I really struggle with that. Especially with Live season and having to pay for it when wev'e already forked out for a sub standard single player mode.

EA.....This 'board' says......"we really expected you to perform better"

THEBIGADDO · 06-10-2009, 05:47 AM

Just one main thing,

the Scores hub is way too small, and with the colour coding that it now used, it sometimes makes very hard too read the scores. Also the time clock is very difficult too read sometimes as well, and yes I do wear glasses and still have some trouble!

pantera_fc · 06-10-2009, 05:51 AM

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Originally Posted by UK Jack Bauer

I've put together a list of 52 issues with Manager Mode in its current state. If I've missed anything, please let me know and I'll add to it!

1) The Manager Mode freezing bug (where you can’t progress without your console locking up) is still there. One person has suffered from this and noticed that in his last save before this occurs, one of his strikers has no name and next to the form icon it says “-10118”.

2) It has been reported that transfers “lock” altogether after a certain amount of seasons (being linked to a disc problem).

3) All teams below the Premier League have their tactics set to all-70s. Applies to other leagues/teams as well, see Australia, Brazil and others.

4) All assists are credited to the goalkeeper.

5) Players you loan out can be sold by the clubs you loaned them to.

6) Newly signed players vanish from your squad with no warning. They just disappear, and then if you look them up they’re playing for someone else.

7) When trying to sign a second loan player, sometimes I am told by the game that I already have two – when I only have one.

When signing two loan players, I then tried to (permanently) sign two free agents, and I’m told I can’t sign them because I “already have two players on loan”.

9) 90% of matches in England are played at night in the rain regardless of stadium choice. I’ve yet to see a match played in the daytime with sunny weather.

10) Seasonal changes don’t seem to affect the weather. So in England, in the summer, you will see rain and even snow with no games being played in sunshine.

11) Signing players is practically impossible, even when offering maximum wages and maximum bonuses, even if you can get their interest level up to 85%+. (Even if you start out as a manager with no reputation, you should be able to sign really poor players with no reputation who aren’t getting first-team football elsewhere.)

12) Signing your own players is just as difficult, regardless of how well the team is doing. They refuse to sign even when you offer the maximum wages allowed. But if you wait until the end of the season, you get the same screen you get in FIFA 09 where you can just tick a box to re-sign a player and they will sign for peanuts! Strange one!

13) The board sack you even if you occupy first place. You can expect to be fired at the mid-way point of the season if you lose a cup game, even if you’re in the top four of the league, especially in the Premier League. Even in the lower leagues, I’ve seen situations where games are won 6-0 every week for months and suddenly you’re fired the moment you draw 1-1.

14) When playing against teams who are better than you, your board always expect you to beat that team. I mostly play as a League 1 team, and if I’m beaten by a Championship or Premier League side I get a board comment that states I was “expected to win the game”, and occasionally you will get the sack for this. This may be because teams aren’t recognised in their correct division; for example, when losing against a team from the league above you, you will occasionally get a message that says you should have done better against “lower league opposition”.

15) The assistant manager, even when turned off, will sometimes swap your players around.

16) The assistant manager AI is terrible. It will choose players with no fitness (10%-20%) to play out of position, over players with 100% fitness who can play in that position. See below for more info.

17) The AI management of other clubs is terrible. Examples; Chelsea play Terry at LB with Cole at CB in the same match, Man Utd play Vidic and Ferdinand as LB/RB with Brown and Evra as CBs in the same match, Giggs gets played at LB occasionally, etc. etc. etc.

1 The effect of form is far too severe. It makes your team go up/down by a whole star rating within a few games, so with a 3 star team you can yoyo to 2 star and weeks later 4 star.

19) The form system seems to be totally random. I can win 2-3 games in a row by 2-3 goals and the form will get worse. A striker can score six goals in a game and his form will DROP!

20) I’ve seen one injury in two seasons; Marcel promised this lack of injuries – and especially this lack of SERIOUS injuries – was fixed for FIFA 10. This is simply not true.

21) Injuries don’t last for a long enough period of time. For example, a hamstring injury should keep a player out for a month – in FIFA 10 it’s a week.

22) When playing in the snow the ball used is white, which is incredibly difficult to see, and you can’t change the ball yourself.

23) Only 5 benched substitutes are allowed in FIFA 10 below the Premier League. All English league and cup competitions now allow 7 substitutes in reality.

24) Friendly games should allow 12 substitutes on the bench (and also you should be allowed to use all 12). Currently it’s restricted to 7 on the bench (with only 3 substitutions allowed).

25) Friendly games include matches against teams in your own division. This doesn’t usually happen in reality.

26) FA Cup games are all played at night when they’re only ever played in the daytime now, including the final.

27) The shortlist was supposed to allow up to 20 players to be stored, but seems to only allow 10 players.

2 The overall rating of a player changes before/during the game. So if one of my strikers has an overall rating of 83 (including his form), when I pause the game and go to Team Management his rating can drop by 10+. What value is actually being used by the game? The pre-game rating or the paused-game rating?

29) Form should never affect physical attributes. For example, a striker who is on hot form wouldn’t see his strength increase.

30) Playing as a League 1/2 team, you have literally no fit players left after 3-5 games of the season. I don’t care how bad your fitness coach is, a group of professional players would have enough players fit to start a game after 3-5 games of the season. (You’re forced to spend £1m to upgrade your fitness coach to a realistic level.)

31) The league table that shows up at the start of each game is never correct (same as FIFA 09). It always shows you in 6th-9th position regardless of whether you’re in the top half or the bottom half of the table, and your opponents are shown in an incorrect position as well.

32) When simming games instead of playing them, two things to note. Firstly, the level of your fitness coach isn’t taken into account, so the players lose 25%-75% more fitness than they should. Secondly, when simming, you actually get to see some injuries! Plus they last for a decent period of time (e.g. metacarpal fracture, player out for four weeks)!

33) When you have a player injured, the game forces you to remove him from your team before going to the pre-game screen. You don't want to remove him from your first-choice team, you want to remove him at the pre-match team management screen, like in FIFA 09. But now you can't do that.

34) Often you are not told why a player has refused to sign for you. No explanation is given on the Negotiation History screen for these players and it seems that they are never permitted to sign for your club, for no apparent reason. You never get an explanation for the affected players.

35) Sometimes when trying to sign a player they’ll say e.g. they get a “bad vibe” from your current players. Try to sign them again next week and they’ll sign for you. Doesn’t make much sense.

36) You can list a player for sale/loan who is garbage, e.g. 42 overall when the rest of the players in your squad/division are 60+, and instantly you get offers from the top teams in your division/country for him. Sometimes even top-flight teams from other countries make an offer; they have no possible reason to loan in a player who is literally twice as bad as any other player they have. It seems that every player you ever list you MUST receive an offer for, even if they are terrible, and it’s always a good team that has no need for a poor player which shows interest.

37) As a manager with a reputation level of half-a-star, you sometimes get comments from the board that “a manager of your calibre should be performing better”.

3 You lose respect with the board when losing a game on penalties. You should be given the same increase/decrease you would be given for a draw rather than a win/loss in these circumstances.

39) The leader of the assist list seems to be the player who keeps the most clean sheets.

40) Players who are substituted show no ratings at full-time. So if my striker gets a hat-trick and I substitute him, his rating is blank after the game. (Yet substituted players can receive Man of the Match awards, so a rating must be getting calculated by the game? I presume they’re just not being displayed?)

41) Goals/assists that occur in cup competitions, e.g. the FA Cup, aren’t counted in the player’s statistics.

42) When scouted players are presented to you for purchase, they are always said to play on the opposite side to their preferred foot. For example, a left winger will always be shown to prefer their right foot. Yet if you buy the player, most of the time, they will actually prefer the appropriate foot.

43) Some players will sign for a club and then the next week you’ll get a notice on the transfers screen that they’ve signed for that same club. Again.

44) Some players will sign for a club and then the next week they’ll have signed for somebody else!

45) When searching for players their form ratings are displayed, rather than their actual ratings. This means you have no idea what the player’s actual ratings are.

46) When selling a player, the whole squad gets moved around. Player roles are also moved around.

47) When buying a player, they are given a squad number already in use, and it messes up the squad numbers for the entire team. Why can’t they be given a number that isn’t in use?

4 Stadia never fill up with people. I can play a Champions League match against a five-star team and all stands will still have large empty sections.

49) Player search parameters constantly reset when searching for a player. So if you search for e.g. a defender rated 60-70, then you want to search for a midfielder with the same rating, the parameters have been reset meaning you have to input them again.

50) Occasionally the wrong stadium picture is displayed pre-game. For example when playing at the Emirates a picture of (what looked to be) the training ground was displayed.

51) Creating a player (not a Virtual Pro) to sign in your Manager Mode career seems incredibly difficult/buggy. If you create a player and assign him to the free agents pool, the game freezes. If you assign him to a national team, he doesn’t show up as a free agent in Manager Mode. If you assign him to a national team and THEN move him to the free agents pool, you won’t be able to find him anywhere but in the “Created Players” section and you’ll see that his assigned team is referred to as something like "team1932as12309" – you can’t then find this team/player in Manager Mode to sign the player.

52) Commentary gaffes happen every 1-2 games, e.g. “5 minutes to go and they lead 1-0” when it’s 1-1, “I have to say he’s on one of the worst runs of his career” when he’s already scored in the match you’re playing, etc. etc. etc. and also, when playing as your Virtual Pro, you find the commentary refers to you scoring your 20th goal every time you score once you’ve reached that point. So for example when you score your 21st goal the commentator will say it’s your 20th, etc. (not sure if this only applies to Manager Mode or other modes as well).

NEW ONES:

53) People playing as League Two teams (e.g. Bury) are reporting that they are not entered into the English league cup competition.

Great list!
The no 9 is a problem in Serie A to. I play with AS Roma in mm and almost every match is played at night. If EA fix all these 53 issues, the manager mode will be great.

Lone_Wolf_87 · 06-10-2009, 06:20 AM

Wow, UK Jack Bauer just whalloped EA with that post. I honestly haven't given MM a good working out due to criticism and that post just highlights the disgraceful, half lalalalala effort EA have put into this and even more so makes all of the people who think there is nothing wrong with the game seem even sillier.

Pathetic attempt from EA but they don't give a rats lalalala because they make too much money.

green_gibbon · 06-10-2009, 08:19 AM

Great work with the list UK Jack Bauer. I'm now playing MM and it's shocking. I have to swap my entire team around before every single match even though the (rubbish) assistant manager is turned off. And I'm fed up with rain already. Can't believe EA sold this game as a "completed product". Though a recall or refund sounds extreme, they have basically sold an incomplete product that does not perform the function it's supposed to do. I know the gameplay is great, but MM is massively pushed on the back of the box. What a let down.

05-10-2009, 09:10 PM	#251 (permalink)
nightmaretoremb Rookie Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 7	Manager Mode Issues Ps3 I just wanted to post a few issues that i'm having with the manager mode on fifa 10. Unrealistic Friendly opponents - When i started my manager mode as Man Utd i had 4 friendlies and two of them were against Premiership teams (Man City & Fulham) This really needs to be sorted as its very rare teams from the same league play each other in pre-season. Matches held at wrong times - Games being played at Night all of the time, this is a massive issue for me and i found it very frustrating especially having to play the Community Shield at night time (when has this ever happened in real life?) The majority of games in England are played during the day except Carling Cup and European matches..i don't understand why this is so hard to get right in manager mode. Unable to change stadium settings - Not being able to change the stadium settings no longer, this was basically something you could do in the old game which would get round the problem of having to play every game in the same conditions. In Fifa 09 if you wanted to change a match in manager mode from say daytime to evening you could just quit it and change the settings in the kick off mode, then when you returned to manager mode the settings were changed. Of course this is no longer possible resulting in players having to play 90% of matches in the evening. Last edited by nightmaretoremb; 05-10-2009 at 09:38 PM.

05-10-2009, 10:40 PM	#256 (permalink)
Maxitsu Rookie Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 43	I like coach mode but the game still have alot of bugs in it. i started my career whit Club Brugge in the Belgian league and i am playing my 2nd season. and i have already found alot of bugs. 1. Lost players i lend some players to other clubs. but they never returned 2. Shirts are not always correct 3. No assist my virtual pro and other players never gets assist. my goalkeeper steals it. my GK had 35 assist in one season. 4. Stats are wrong like previous FIFA games stats are always wrong. why are they in the game if they are wrong? what point does it have? 5. Friendly's always the same teams from ur league. 6. Matches held at wrong times 7. the belgian league does't have playoffs in career mode 8. the "Europa league" has the old format groupstage (uefacup groups whit 5 teams) 9. wrong ball when it snows and the pitch is white and you have a white ball, it don't change to a yellow or orange ball...µ 10. calander and match days are wrong some teames played 6 games while other played 7, 8 or even 9 games. in reality each team play on the same days. 11. Text in the menu is sometimes wrong. 12. Text gets blurry. rebooting the game will fix this 13. Wrong teams go to europa leagues i got 4th in career mode but a team that ended up on 12th position go's to europa league. while i don't. Thats it for now. i bet i find more bugs from previous fifa-games i don't understand why (since FIFA2002 i thing) EA still have the same problems each year and never fix them. ps: sorry for my english Last edited by Maxitsu; 05-10-2009 at 10:45 PM.

05-10-2009, 11:48 PM	#261 (permalink)
Weegian01 Rookie Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: From Glasgow, live in New Zealand. Posts: 143	THE BOARD ARE TOTAL NUTTERS: ITS OFFICIAL Okay so here's my season: Board objective for Man City: Qualify for EEC. Final of FA Cup. Its Jan and Im in the top 4. My last 5 game form was D-D-L-W-W (I beat Chelsea, Arsenal (away) in those wins). After my draws I was told *"You are performing exceptionally well for a coach with such a low reputation"* After my loss (away to Man U) I was then told ONE WEEK LATER, "a manager of your calibre should be performing much better"! ........what the blazes is that all about!? For my wins my board confidence went up by TINY amounts, after my loss my board confidence plummeted by a HUGE amount.( I mean a massive drop!). I was placed 5th with 2 games in hand that will take me joint 4th. I won my next game 4-1 and was promptly fired. I spent the entitre period with my most of my team on orange down arrows 1 or 2 white/normal form and 1 rare green arrow. My subs are constantly stuck in poor form. .....don't even mention reserves. Never managed to renew a single contract. Oh.....I did actually manage to sign someone, Amuari from Juve.....silver lining maybe in a huge cloud of utter guff. All I can say is.....outstanding EA.............outstanding. __________________ Last edited by Weegian01; 06-10-2009 at 01:12 AM. Reason: Caffine jitters......

06-10-2009, 12:18 AM	#262 (permalink)
Russbot Hi, I'm New! Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1	I did not create my VP before starting Manager mode so I would quite like the option of signing him during a transfer window. I'm missing out on being able to develop him through this mode just because I didn't create him before starting my Manger mode. I dont want to start my Manger mode again just because of this I've played alot of games already Also had the loan a player to team only for me not to get that player back. I also had board commenting I was spending more money than we had after games even though I had not purchased anything (players, staff upgrades, etc) I can only assume this may have been down to goal bonuses for the players. Even so I still had alot of money left in my wage budget and other finances available. Last edited by Russbot; 06-10-2009 at 12:21 AM.

06-10-2009, 01:51 AM	#264 (permalink)
UK Jack Bauer Rookie Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Wirral, UK Age: 27 Posts: 260	I've put together a list of 50 bugs, glitches and issues with Manager Mode in its current state. If I've missed anything, please let me know and I'll add to it! LISTED IN ORDER OF SEVERITY 1) There is a strange Manager Mode freezing bug that doesn't allow you to progress any further, usually preceded by this error. [SCREENSHOT] 2) It has been reported that with some people transfers “lock” altogether after a certain amount of seasons (being linked to a disc problem). [INCIDENT 1] 3) All teams below the Premier League have their tactics set to all-70s. Applies to other leagues/teams as well, see Australia, Brazil and others. 4) All assists are credited to the goalkeeper. 5) Players you loan out can be sold by the clubs you loaned them to. 6) Newly signed players vanish from your squad with no warning. They just disappear, and then if you look them up they’re playing for someone else. 7) When trying to sign a second loan player, sometimes I am told by the game that I already have two – when I only have one. 8) When signing two loan players, I then tried to (permanently) sign two free agents, and I’m told I can’t sign them because I “already have two players on loan”. 9) 90% of matches in England are played at night in the rain regardless of stadium choice. I’ve yet to see a match played in the daytime with sunny weather. 10) Seasonal changes don’t seem to affect the weather. So in England, in the summer, you will see rain and even snow with no games being played in sunshine. 11) Signing players is practically impossible, even when offering maximum wages and maximum bonuses, even if you can get their interest level up to 85%+. (Even if you start out as a manager with no reputation, you should be able to sign really poor players with no reputation who aren’t getting first-team football elsewhere.) 12) Signing your own players is just as difficult, regardless of how well the team is doing. They refuse to sign even when you offer the maximum wages allowed. But if you wait until the end of the season, you get the same screen you get in FIFA 09 where you can just tick a box to re-sign a player and they will sign for peanuts! Strange one! 13) The board sack you even if you occupy first place. You can expect to be fired at the mid-way point of the season if you lose a cup game, even if you’re in the top four of the league, especially in the Premier League. Even in the lower leagues, I’ve seen situations where games are won 6-0 every week for months and suddenly you’re fired the moment you draw 1-1. 14) When playing against teams who are better than you, your board always expect you to beat that team. I mostly play as a League 1 team, and if I’m beaten by a Championship or Premier League side I get a board comment that states I was “expected to win the game”, and occasionally you will get the sack for this. This may be because teams aren’t recognised in their correct division; for example, when losing against a team from the league above you, you will occasionally get a message that says you should have done better against “lower league opposition”. 15) The assistant manager, even when turned off, will swap your players around when you buy or sell a player. Player roles are also reset. 16) The assistant manager AI is terrible. It will choose players with no fitness (10%-20%) to play out of position, over players with 100% fitness who can play in that position. See below for more info. 17) The AI management of other clubs is terrible. Examples; Chelsea play Terry at LB with Cole at CB in the same match, Man Utd play Vidic and Ferdinand as LB/RB with Brown and Evra as CBs in the same match, Giggs gets played at LB occasionally, etc. etc. etc. 18) The effect of form is far too severe. It makes your team go up/down by a whole star rating within a few games, so with a 3 star team you can yoyo to 2 star and weeks later 4 star. 19) The form system seems to be totally random. I can win 2-3 games in a row by 2-3 goals and the form will get worse. A striker can score six goals in a game and his form will DROP! 20) I’ve seen one injury in two seasons; Marcel promised this lack of injuries – and especially this lack of SERIOUS injuries – was fixed for FIFA 10. This is simply not true. The most widely reported injury is whiplash, which isn't a common injury, and which only affects the player for a week. 21) Injuries don’t last for a long enough period of time. For example, a hamstring injury should keep a player out for a month – in FIFA 10 it’s a week. 22) When playing in the snow the ball used is white, which is incredibly difficult to see, and you can’t change the ball yourself. 23) Only 5 benched substitutes are allowed in FIFA 10 below the Premier League. All English league and cup competitions now allow 7 substitutes in reality. 24) Friendly games should allow 12 substitutes on the bench (and also you should be allowed to use all 12). Currently it’s restricted to 7 on the bench (with only 3 substitutions allowed). 25) Friendly games include matches against teams in your own division. This doesn’t usually happen in reality. 26) FA Cup games and the Community Shield game are played at night when they’re only ever played in the daytime now, including the final. 27) The shortlist was supposed to allow up to 20 players to be stored, but seems to only allow 10 players. 28) The overall rating of a player changes before/during the game. So if one of my strikers has an overall rating of 83 (including his form), when I pause the game and go to Team Management his rating can drop by 10+. What value is actually being used by the game? The pre-game rating or the paused-game rating? 29) Form should never affect physical attributes. For example, a striker who is on hot form wouldn’t see his pace increase. 30) Playing as a League 1/2 team, you have literally no fit players left after 3-5 games of the season. I don’t care how bad your fitness coach is, a group of professional players would have enough players fit to start a game after 3-5 games of the season. (You’re forced to spend £1m to upgrade your fitness coach to a realistic level.) 31) The league table that shows up at the start of each game is never correct (same as FIFA 09). It always shows you in 6th-9th position regardless of whether you’re in the top half or the bottom half of the table, and your opponents are shown in an incorrect position as well. 32) When simming games instead of playing them, two things to note. Firstly, the level of your fitness coach isn’t taken into account, so the players lose 25%-75% more fitness than they should. Secondly, when simming, you actually get to see some injuries! Plus they last for a decent period of time (e.g. metacarpal fracture, player out for four weeks)! 33) When you have a player injured, the game forces you to remove him from your team before going to the pre-game screen. You don't want to remove him from your first-choice team, you want to remove him at the pre-match team management screen, like in FIFA 09. But now you can't do that. 34) Often you are not told why a player has refused to sign for you. No explanation is given on the Negotiation History screen for these players and it seems that they are never permitted to sign for your club, for no apparent reason. You never get an explanation for the affected players. 35) Sometimes when trying to sign a player they’ll say e.g. they get a “bad vibe” from your current players. Try to sign them again next week and they’ll sign for you. Doesn’t make much sense. 36) You can list a player for sale/loan who is garbage, e.g. 42 overall when the rest of the players in your squad/division are 60+, and instantly you get offers from the top teams in your division/country for him. Sometimes even top-flight teams from other countries make an offer; they have no possible reason to loan in a player who is literally twice as bad as any other player they have. It seems that every player you ever list you MUST receive an offer for, even if they are terrible, and it’s always a good team that has no need for a poor player which shows interest. 37) As a manager with a reputation level of half-a-star, you sometimes get comments from the board that “a manager of your calibre should be performing better”. 38) You lose respect with the board when losing a game on penalties. You should be given the same increase/decrease you would be given for a draw rather than a win/loss in these circumstances. 39) The leader of the assist list seems to be the player who keeps the most clean sheets. 40) Players who are substituted show no ratings at full-time. So if my striker gets a hat-trick and I substitute him, his rating is blank after the game. (Yet substituted players can receive Man of the Match awards, so a rating must be getting calculated by the game? I presume they’re just not being displayed?) 41) Goals/assists that occur in cup competitions, e.g. the FA Cup, aren’t counted in the player’s statistics. Also goals from the Charity Shield game aren't counted and yet the game itself counts as a game played. 42) When scouted players are presented to you for purchase, they are always said to play on the opposite side to their preferred foot. For example, a left winger will always be shown to prefer their right foot. Yet if you buy the player, most of the time, they will actually prefer the appropriate foot. 43) Some players will sign for a club and then the next week they’ll have signed for somebody else! 44) When searching for players their form ratings are displayed, rather than their actual ratings. This means you have no idea what the player’s actual ratings are. 45) When buying a player, they are given a squad number already in use, and it messes up the squad numbers for the entire team. Why can’t they be given a number that isn’t in use? 46) A stadium will never fill up with people. I can play a Champions League match against a five-star team and all stands will still have large empty sections. 47) The player search parameters you input will reset when bidding on a player. So if you search for e.g. a defender, CB, rated 50-60, playing in League Two, then you bid on one and you want to search for a midfielder with the same rating, the parameters have been reset meaning you have to input each one again. 48) Occasionally the wrong stadium picture is displayed pre-game. For example when playing at the Emirates a picture of (what looked to be) the training ground was displayed. 49) Creating a player (not a Virtual Pro) to sign in your Manager Mode career seems incredibly difficult/buggy. If you create a player and assign him to the free agents pool, the game freezes. If you assign him to a national team, he doesn’t show up as a free agent in Manager Mode. If you assign him to a national team and THEN move him to the free agents pool, you won’t be able to find him anywhere but in the “Created Players” section and you’ll see that his assigned team is referred to as something like "team1932as12309" – you can’t then find this team/player in Manager Mode to sign the player. 50) Commentary gaffes happen every 1-2 games, e.g. “5 minutes to go and they lead 1-0” when it’s 1-1, “I have to say he’s on one of the worst runs of his career” when he’s already scored in the match you’re playing, etc. etc. etc. and also, when playing as your Virtual Pro, you find the commentary refers to you scoring your 20th goal every time you score once you’ve reached that point. So for example when you score your 21st goal the commentator will say it’s your 20th, etc. (not sure if this only applies to Manager Mode or other modes as well). NEW ONES 51) People playing as League Two teams (e.g. Bury) are reporting that they are not entered into the English league cup competition. 52) People are reporting that they can go from having millions to spend to being BILLIONS in debt. [INCIDENT 1] 53) For the new season it was said by the development team that you receive new transfer funds and a new wage budget to reflect the new income for that season. People are reporting they start the new season with the same money they ended the last one. [INCIDENT 1] 54) In the Squad Management screen before a fixture, set it to display the OVR rather than fatigue bar, then select a reserve and swap him with another reserve. I've seen both of their OVRs change. 55) The Edit Formation screen is buggy. If you nudge one position around, then go to change the role of another position, it thinks the second position is where the first is. Sometimes it'll move it so they overlap, and you have to drag it back to where you want it. This was also the case in FIFA 09. 56) The OVR number disappeared from a player's bio. It used to be next to the player's list of positions. Why has it been removed? 57) Your board can give you an objective, e.g. avoid relegation, but you're given no indication as to where the relegation zone is, e.g. playing as a Polish league side the board objectives for the first season are to get to the QF of the cup and to "aviod the relegation zone". Where is it? Bottom 3? Bottom 2? I'm in position 14 out of 16, how are we supposed to know if that's safe? 58) The board will often tell you to invest in new players, when the transfer window is closed and there's nothing you can do about it. 59) When saving a Manager Mode game, when it's finished saving, why are you prompted to save your profile as well? This is with autosave turned on! 60) The Belgian league is missing playoffs. 61) The new Europa League format is not in the game. 62) Incorrect teams make it into European competition. As someone has said, "I got 4th in career mode but a team that ended up 12th goes to europa league while I don't". [INCIDENT 1] 63) For some reason only ten characters are permitted for first names and surnames now, when this wasn't the case in FIFA 09. 64) Friendly games (possibly Community Shield and cup games too) are counted as league games on the Manager History screen. So the recorded points/league position is false. 65) CPU substituted players remain on the field. Example; playing as Blackburn against Bolton, they subbed Kevin Davies for Elmander and you see the animation of him going off - couple of minutes later you notice he's still on the pitch and nearly scores a header. 66) Players sent off after 30 minutes can still win the Man of the Match award, which is ridiculous. 67) Teams from lower English leagues are appearing in European competitions which they shouldn't be eligible to appear in. [INCIDENT 1] 68) Some people are experiencing an issue where the transfer window is listed as having "one week left" when there's actually e.g. four weeks left. Also in some circumstances the transfer window continuously says that there is "one week left" and it gets stuck like this forever. 69) This has been reported by a Manager Mode player suffering from the transfer window bug where the game says there is "one week left" when there are actually e.g. four weeks left. "I put players up for sale until the message came up that said the board will not allow you to sell any more players. I left it at eight players, and now that the transfer window is open, none of the players are set as for sale and I get that same board message as soon as I try to list a player. It's like it remembers I listed the players but it forgets it took all of them off sale itself." 70) Going 5 games unbeaten is recognised as winning 5 games in a row from the commentators. 71) Commentators falsely call Pienaar captain even when the captain is set to Cahill. 72) Crowd noise, for derby games, has a major bug where the home team support goes silent if they score. Play as a London team against Arsenal at the Emirates and when they score, instead of the crowd shouting or cheering, the crowd fall deathly silent while the Arsenal players celebrate. At kick-off, the noise level returns to normal. 73) Starting a Manager Mode game as Notts County, a forum user signed a free agent called Andros Townsend and he appears in the squad twice. This kind of thing is being more widely reported now. 74) The Manager Mode freeze bug on the simulating screen, that was present in FIFA 09, is back. [ALL REPORTED INCIDENTS] __________________ FIFASOCCERBLOG.COM The best independent FIFA site on the web Last edited by UK Jack Bauer; 26-10-2009 at 06:53 PM.

05-10-2009, 09:14 PM	#252 (permalink)
HoosierUSA Rookie Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 101	Really wish EA would respond to these issues letting us know whether or not they even intend to try to patch these glitches. I have a bad feeling that once online stability is restored they will begin working on the next Fifa installment and those of you with the buggy game will be stuck with what you got. I somewhat feel lucky being in US to be able to read these reviews and not waste my money on this game on launch day. I really think EA especially have begun using the customer as there beta testers instead of hiring people, only to later try to get a patch out. There is no reason that this many glitches should be in a final product. I'm not talking about gameplay, i referring to club form, transfers disappearing, every game being rainy and at night, chipping the GK, etc. If EA is reading this can you at least let us know if we can expect any of these bugs to be fixed....I won't be holding my breath for an answer though

05-10-2009, 09:41 PM	#253 (permalink)
sevleagames Hi, I'm New! Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1	I have played the game since release and the gameplay has been top notch. I have got some niggles but this is a thread about manager mode, so here are my problems: I am Aston Villa in Premier League * Pre-seaon friendlies against other league teams * Pre-season friendlies only have 3 subs allowed * Form system is completely confusing, inconsistant and too extreme in variations. Also I think that physical attributes should only be affected (and then only by 1 point) if mental stats are really improved by a huge run of good form. * Impossible to influence player form. * Forms drop drastically ingame (Had Agbonlahor drop from 87 to 73 even after scoring twice - unless its related to fatigue levels?? again, confusing) * Trying to sign a youth keeper to grow for future seasons but all offers refused with no explanations (on 3 potentials). I have even offered 3 times market value and 3 times default wage with no success even though they are 85% interested. Upon reviewing failed negotiations it seems that the clean sheet bonuses i promised are reset to no bonus - could that be a bug too and also prevent the signing? * Too many night/raining games * Repeated transfers, however cannot tell if they are just old news posts, but why need to reschedule transfers to show them?? There may be others I have not noticed. I am concerned by some peoples problems such as players being sold from loans or just signing for other teams. I have not experienced assist bug yet or strange AI player positionings for opposition teams. Also the GameFace issues suck but hey ho. All in all I love he game, mainly due to gameplay, but I would love for EA to solve the MM issues quickly because I can see that once the novelty of fresh on pitch gameplay wears off and I look to the depth of MM to keep me pinned, it will not be correct and will put me off - which I do not want. lets hope they can sort them all and if not get most of them solved and soon.

05-10-2009, 10:29 PM	#255 (permalink)
MrMoose Rookie Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 22	Reposted from previous topic - apologies, didn't see this thread. No doubt these have been reported elsewhere, but the more people reporting them is a sign of their spread, I would have thought. 1. Assistant Manager still fiddling around with your starting line-ups etc, even after you turn him off, during friendlies. I gather some have reported he does it all the time. 2. Goals scored in the Charity Shield are not included in the season stats, but the game itself is. 3. Friendlies allocate 'points' and WLD stats in the manager record screen. So by the end of the Premiership season you will - by adding together the WLD - statistics, look like you've played 42 league games. Likewise, you get an extra 12 points on your stats in that screen if you win all your friendlies. Not major bugs; just things I would have thought even the most basic bit of testing would have spotted.

05-10-2009, 11:03 PM	#257 (permalink)
MrMoose Rookie Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 22	Ohh for crying out loud; that 'new player automatically takes the #2 shirt' bug has been around since 07 and it still hasn't been fixed. I'm getting very fed up with this game. The on-field action is brilliant; the behind the scenes stuff is close to being an absolute disaster!

06-10-2009, 02:20 AM	#265 (permalink)
Chapstik Forum Guru Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Australia Age: 22 Posts: 1,046	i quite like the mm but a few things i would like fixed to make it more enjoyable. -form system: why do the stats of my 16/17 year old reserve players plummit. they shouldnt expect to play. Similar thing, im playing as arsenal and when i rest my first 11 for the carling cup why do all the stats and form plummit from one game. Its way too excessive it should be 2 points max and not so severe. -cant seem to resign anybody which is a bit annoying -stats: i like to see how many assists my players have. at the moment alumina has all of them!! __________________

06-10-2009, 02:20 AM	#266 (permalink)
supahmann Banned Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Perth, Western Australia Posts: 1,002	Ah yes I had an unrealistic friendly. I was Perth Glory and I had a friendly against Bayern Munich

06-10-2009, 02:20 AM	#267 (permalink)
Scousegit Rookie Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 461	When you list it like that, Jack, I hope it makes EA utterly ashamed of themselves. The gameplay is top notch but, as a manager mode nut, I'm absolutely disgusted with the bugs in the single player game. EA - we want a response fairly quickly to this one. I wouldn't mind so much if we hadn't been promised the earth by Marcel, dropping tidbits in the manager mode thread, but this is pathetic. To be honest I noticed a couple of interesting quesitons that were overlooked by Marcel regarding form before the game was released which suggests to me that he knew it was broke. I think we'd all rather a feature was taken out of the game if it didn't work. How in god's name can somebody develop this for a year and let it be released in such a state??? We await an update with baited breath. (sorry, I know this isn't exactly constructive critisism but I'm absolutely peed off)

06-10-2009, 05:32 AM	#271 (permalink)
Weegian01 Rookie Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: From Glasgow, live in New Zealand. Posts: 143	Outstanding work 'UKJB' on that 53 point list of MM mess ups. I can't believe there's so many issues after all the hype....it's quite extraordinary. I hope someone at EA takes a good look at the guys who approved the release of MM in its current state. As for the other online modes getting priority, I really struggle with that. Especially with Live season and having to pay for it when wev'e already forked out for a sub standard single player mode. EA.....This 'board' says......"we really expected you to perform better" __________________ Last edited by Weegian01; 06-10-2009 at 05:36 AM.

06-10-2009, 05:47 AM	#272 (permalink)
THEBIGADDO Hi, I'm New! Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1	Just one main thing, the Scores hub is way too small, and with the colour coding that it now used, it sometimes makes very hard too read the scores. Also the time clock is very difficult too read sometimes as well, and yes I do wear glasses and still have some trouble!

06-10-2009, 06:20 AM	#274 (permalink)
Lone_Wolf_87 Banned Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Sydney, Australia Age: 25 Posts: 123	Wow, UK Jack Bauer just whalloped EA with that post. I honestly haven't given MM a good working out due to criticism and that post just highlights the disgraceful, half lalalalala effort EA have put into this and even more so makes all of the people who think there is nothing wrong with the game seem even sillier. Pathetic attempt from EA but they don't give a rats lalalala because they make too much money.

06-10-2009, 08:19 AM	#275 (permalink)
green_gibbon Rookie Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Salisbury Age: 26 Posts: 436	Great work with the list UK Jack Bauer. I'm now playing MM and it's shocking. I have to swap my entire team around before every single match even though the (rubbish) assistant manager is turned off. And I'm fed up with rain already. Can't believe EA sold this game as a "completed product". Though a recall or refund sounds extreme, they have basically sold an incomplete product that does not perform the function it's supposed to do. I know the gameplay is great, but MM is massively pushed on the back of the box. What a let down.