Anyone got any updates for mobile version of FM2018?
Gaming Football Manager 2018
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Have a class save going with Clyde at the minute. Only took over a bottom ring club to work my way up the managerial ladder but feel like I can get this lot into the Scottish Premiership first now.
Have just dumped out Aberdeen and Dundee in the cup Quarters and Semi's respectively and now have Rangers in the final. Have had to be picky with signings but I have managed to snag Luca Ercolani who is a monster at this level (Scottish League 1 currently)
Have just dumped out Aberdeen and Dundee in the cup Quarters and Semi's respectively and now have Rangers in the final. Have had to be picky with signings but I have managed to snag Luca Ercolani who is a monster at this level (Scottish League 1 currently)
Getting an error of the game couldn't be saved whenever I try to save the game. Any help?
Anyone? None available
They released an update recently. Check the forums or their social media.
I'm playing FM18 touch and it could have been so much better. I'm three years into my Man Utd save and I'm currently trying to offload Alexis. He's declining and I've already got Neymar and Martial in that spot. Guess what, he's not selling. Not even for free. Not even for free plus me paying £200k out of his 350k wages. Bullshit. His market value is £46.5m and he hasn't declined much yet either. It's stuff like that that ruins it for me.
Also, De Gea is bang average. What's up with keepers in the game? I literally can't remember him putting in a performance above 7.2
And lastly, fullbacks. Why can't they properly follow the winger who has the ball and try to block crosses? They're always jogging behind and they rarely attempt to catch up and block the crosses. It's as if they want the oppositon to cross.
Also, De Gea is bang average. What's up with keepers in the game? I literally can't remember him putting in a performance above 7.2
And lastly, fullbacks. Why can't they properly follow the winger who has the ball and try to block crosses? They're always jogging behind and they rarely attempt to catch up and block the crosses. It's as if they want the oppositon to cross.
Keeper ratings always seem naff, back in cm days they didn't even get 7 if they were part of strong team
I regularly have my keeper making 4/5 saves and clean sheet in my Aberdeen game and getting a 6.7/8
Maybe he hasn't done well with his kicks/throws I don't bother to check but his job is to stop goals, if a striker is having a stinker then scores he goes to a 7/8 so who knows
I did change the in game simulator to a more detailed one which actually makes sense-so it's still the old overhead but what's happening makes sense. The simplistic one had people shooting from 40 yards out with the goalie running to the corner flag. Ok it wasn't that bad but it didn't make sense
How do you tell if your keeper is doing well or not, apart from looking at the highlights in game?
Highlights yeah, long as he's making good saves, coming for crosses and not fumbling or doing anything daft
Probably already been mentioned in this thread but stick 3 strikers up front and it breaks the match engine. Genuinely, no other teams can consistently handle it, they need to fix it next year. You end up with an insane amount of goals if you try it, at home you're basically scoring 6/7 every single game if you have a strong side and the 3 up front are any good. It's sort of ruined the game for me, I don't want to use it as it's basically a cheat and completely unrealistic, but then using any other formation feels silly because it's never as good.
3 strikers and full backs overlapping = a million opportunities a game for a simple pass across the box and a tap in. Last time I tried it, it was with Liverpool where I was using a basic 4-2-3-1 but then changed it mid season to see what the impact would be. The side was doing pretty well but despite not even being remotely adapted to the new formation I was suddenly tearing sides apart. I've got some screenshots, am I allowed to post the results on here? Not sure what the rules are. For now I'll just post this link:
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd....159/0811ECA30E1192CE5775D145619A3203A05D4F86/
I lost the first leg 3-0 to Madrid and got completely outplayed, but for the return switched system. Trust me, 5-1 doesn't show how silly the game was, it was key chances every 5 seconds. Their goal came from the only chance they had for the entire match. I didn't even have actual strikers in their positions, it was Mane/Zivkovic just shoved up front alongside Lacazette and they completely shredded them to bits. Only got 8 shots on target because those two were conspiring to hammer a load of 1on1s or taps in over the bar. Think they hit the post like 4-5 times.
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd....465/9680AEE6CF0A19C72C363B396833EA7D584A6FC0/
Those were Lacazette's statistics at the end of the season. He also scored 14 CL goals. This was despite having a pretty average record mid-season till I switched to the 3 up top formation, after which he was scoring hattricks pretty much every game.
3 strikers and full backs overlapping = a million opportunities a game for a simple pass across the box and a tap in. Last time I tried it, it was with Liverpool where I was using a basic 4-2-3-1 but then changed it mid season to see what the impact would be. The side was doing pretty well but despite not even being remotely adapted to the new formation I was suddenly tearing sides apart. I've got some screenshots, am I allowed to post the results on here? Not sure what the rules are. For now I'll just post this link:
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd....159/0811ECA30E1192CE5775D145619A3203A05D4F86/
I lost the first leg 3-0 to Madrid and got completely outplayed, but for the return switched system. Trust me, 5-1 doesn't show how silly the game was, it was key chances every 5 seconds. Their goal came from the only chance they had for the entire match. I didn't even have actual strikers in their positions, it was Mane/Zivkovic just shoved up front alongside Lacazette and they completely shredded them to bits. Only got 8 shots on target because those two were conspiring to hammer a load of 1on1s or taps in over the bar. Think they hit the post like 4-5 times.
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd....465/9680AEE6CF0A19C72C363B396833EA7D584A6FC0/
Those were Lacazette's statistics at the end of the season. He also scored 14 CL goals. This was despite having a pretty average record mid-season till I switched to the 3 up top formation, after which he was scoring hattricks pretty much every game.
Competing with Arsenal for the league so this result in particular made me laugh.
Put this in the laptop recommendation thread but gonna drop it here too in case anyone plays on an XPS currently...
Two things that has historically ruined FM for me:
1. I'm unbelievably bad at it despite feeling like I'm decent on football knowledge
2. I don't own a decent laptop and after like one or two seasons it starts to load at snails pace, so the incentive to embark on a long journey isn't there.
Having said that.. might still buy it.
1. I'm unbelievably bad at it despite feeling like I'm decent on football knowledge
2. I don't own a decent laptop and after like one or two seasons it starts to load at snails pace, so the incentive to embark on a long journey isn't there.
Having said that.. might still buy it.
Competing with Arsenal for the league so this result in particular made me laugh.
Wow that's brutal.
5-2-3 is particularly broken to a stupid degree.
I clicked through the season with instant result as well.
Yeah, it's a bit of a joke. Engine just can't deal with 3 strikers, even more so when you have 2 wingbacks also pushing up. It just gets overloaded and you're basically unstoppable. I won the league with Wolves first season by playing Jota and Helder Costa either side of Celtic's Dembele... the former two aren't even strikers but it doesn't seem to matter. It's broken and they need to fix it next year, there should never be a 'cheat' formation in the game, just ones which have various strengths/weaknesses .. just like real football.
The problem is, I've tried some formations which attempt to maximise playing it through the middle, and it just doesn't work for me. I'm playing as Inter at the moment in an online save with a mate (He's A.C) and pretty much all my goals come from wing backs throwing crosses in to the box, whenever I play through the middle my strikers just miss their one on ones, even when they have tons of time and space. I mean for god sake I have Icardi missing 2-3 1 on 1s a game with the keeper, he just smacks it straight at them every single time. Far easier to just overload the box and have wing backs spam perfect crosses in.
Finishing/Composure really doesn't seem to mean much. Icardi has 19 and 18 for these stats yet constantly misses chances you'd expect him to score. I get this happens in real life, but not all game every single game. I feel like 'off the ball' is the most important stat this year for a striker, Icardi gets tons of goals from popping up in the right positions, and I've had the most joy with strikers with the best movement.
Is it better to play from a hard copy or download from steam? Will there any difference?
You can register the hard copy with Steam and keep the disc. Basically no difference. I think you need Steam to play it also so only for collecting I guess.
Is the 3 strikers glitch something pertinent only to FM 18 or was it a thing in previous editions too?
Problem in FM17 too. It's why I still play 13, last unbroken one.
I tried the 3 strikers thing in my save in FM 14 but it didn't seem to work.
Just don't play with exploit tactics duh. I've been doing very well with 442 in different saves, unbeaten seasons, trebles, etc, no need to use game breaking tactics and much more fun if you understand what roles/instructions do.
I think in FM 17 it was actually the strikerless formation where you had three AMCs pretty much in the same way you now have the three strikers. At least that was the most OP tactics I tried in FM 17.
I don't. I usually have a save where I do 2-3 seasons with one of these tactics and then never touch it because it's already super boring. My longest save is currently a 5 season save with Dortmund, playing a 4-2-3-1 and a 4-1-4-1 for the big games. Problem though even this way I won the league now 5 times in a row but found the CL quite hard to win, managed it for the first time in my 4th season, while this season I got trashed in the semis by Real.
Cheers bro
I did something I haven't done with FM since I was teenager yesterday and restarted a game because I was losing.
Champion League final and had a player sent off within 10 minutes. Went 3 - 0 down by half time, absolute bullshit. I feel hollow inside
Champion League final and had a player sent off within 10 minutes. Went 3 - 0 down by half time, absolute bullshit. I feel hollow inside
I did something I haven't done with FM since I was teenager yesterday and restarted a game because I was losing.
Champion League final and had a player sent off within 10 minutes. Went 3 - 0 down by half time, absolute bullshit. I feel hollow inside
Oh yeah I have done that once, actually lead me to abandon the save because I don't know but somehow the "narrative" of that save seemed broken? Yeah but I think a rage quite happens to everyone over the course of their FM careers.
Oh yeah I have done that once, actually lead me to abandon the save because I don't know but somehow the "narrative" of that save seemed broken? Yeah but I think a rage quite happens to everyone over the course of their FM careers.
It was weird because I’ve lost loads of finals before and dealt with it fine. The sending off just made it seem massively unfair.
The worst part is, Sessengon at left back was booked within minutes, made another few fouls afterwards and it felt like the game was trying to tell me I needed to sub him.
I was thinking about it and thought ‘nah, it’ll be fine’... and next thing you know he picks up another yellow.
It was the first actual bit of decision making and effort I had to put into my save and I fecked it up
Is anyone playing the lower leagues? I didn't play this game since 2013 and now with so many added features I'm struggling to get moving with Tamworth fc. I seem to be hopeless at scouting out real game changers who can get me promoted. Currently in the conference north.
I had a great save on fm13 sith Welling Utd. 2 promotions in 5 seasons but the game seems to have gone and made itself quite difficult since then. Anyone have any lower league words of advice?
I had a great save on fm13 sith Welling Utd. 2 promotions in 5 seasons but the game seems to have gone and made itself quite difficult since then. Anyone have any lower league words of advice?
Just abuse the shit out of the loan market, especially on players whose wages you don't need to pay so you can have decent squad depth. If you can get a few loans from PL/Championship if you're managing in England then National Leagues/League 2 is pretty easy as teams don't really rotate that much so after a few months into the season every team you play against is half knackered before you even kick off.
I wanted Tuanzebe, he shat on my face
I feel like I've had this with so many saves and it doesn't seem to make a difference. Feels like if my team even have a few players under 100% we play like shit but if their line-up has two slightly injured players and a couple off 66% walking wounded it doesn't change a thing for them.
Or if one of my defenders gets a knock and I have him play on, he'll 100% make a mistake leading to a goal, but the AI team gets an injury? Guy plays on, has a blinder.
I tend to pick about half a dozen teams two or three divisions above, then send my scout out to look at their reserve and youth teams (can arrange some friendlies against them too). Anyone that looks they'll improve my starting XI I'll make an offer to loan with no wage contributions. Can generally strengthen the squad quite well with three or four well chosen players.
I once had the same two guys on loan for about four years from the same club, then when their contracts ran out I was able to sign them for free on lower wages.
Can also be worth keeping an eye on the transfer listed players too. Can often secure season long loans with optional future fees for decent players from there, then obviously pull the plug on the purchase at the end of it.
Yeah true. Took charge of Leicester in FM16 just after they had been relegated (think it was in 2019/20 season). Took Gribbin on loan. Contributed in 30 odd goals in one season and was classed as a club legen after just one season. Needless to say, I won the championship with considerable ease
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And in the 2018 version I'm just running into a barrage of injuries. My medical team (1 guy) is also showing the affected area of the body with a highlight. As if that's supposed to make me feel better.
Time ill spent.
Oops. Let me edit that
I just turned down Rohan Ricketts because he was asking a huge wage.
Yeah I've had shit like that too tbf, think it depends on tactics too and how you play. It doesn't make as much of a difference as it probably should but yeah, it's a bitch trying to keep full fitness with how often games come at lower league level.
Get him on trial first & then offer him a contract while he's on trial, not always a massive difference but they do tend to ask for less when on trial.