So, the new FM game....

Mitch Connor

So, how is everyone finding the new game?

I'm enjoying it.

Started as United, as I always do, to get a feel for the game - have won the leage, into the CL and FA cup finals.

Liverpool really suck in it though - they have sacked Raha, hired and Ramos and sacked him too, and the first season hasn't actually finished.

DSB

I've started as Shelbourne. I'm a little pissed off with the amount of research thats been put into the Irish league, but as far as gameplay gos I really like it.

Guy:Incognito

I started with Liverpool and was given £8m to spend? wtf? Also the club is apparently only worth £63m (the reason for the crap transfer fund?).

Doffaldinho

I don't like it, Way to buggy. I actually gave up on my game as Kilkenny City due to them. I'll continue it when the Patch comes out.

KdjaCL

Bit buggy and i have no under 21s with pats got sacked as i ran out players playing a high tempo game they all got injured or were tired.

kdjac

Peyton Manning

Aye there is a few bugs alright, the most annoying one being the insane amount of disallowed goals! But Im loving it anyway.

Started as Real Madrid, signed Riquelme and Pirlo. Ruud took a while to start scoring but now he's unstoppable. The best thing about this game is the players really, i mean REALLY respond to the PR so you have to praise them / encourage them alot, but only when they deserve it.

AlphaMale 3OO

ive no player pictures in mine. went for express installation instead of advanced is this why?

EDIT: Ive loaded Spain, England and USA and Ive picked Fulham. there seems to be player pictures in Spain and USA but not England?

ctrl-alt-delete

forbesii wrote: »

ive no player pictures in mine. went for express installation instead of advanced is this why?

EDIT: Ive loaded Spain, England and USA and Ive picked Fulham. there seems to be player pictures in Spain and USA but not England?

I think it is all to do with license to use them, and they havn't got that for all the leagues. There will be 3rd party ones created for various sites - have a look around in a few weeks.

jobonar

Archimedes wrote: »

Aye there is a few bugs alright, the most annoying one being the insane amount of disallowed goals! But Im loving it anyway.

Started as Real Madrid, signed Riquelme and Pirlo. Ruud took a while to start scoring but now he's unstoppable. The best thing about this game is the players really, i mean REALLY respond to the PR so you have to praise them / encourage them alot, but only when they deserve it.

Yeah there's a ridiculous amount of disallowed goals alright. Very annoying at times but i'm still enjoying it!

Any ideas when a patch might be out?

Chardee MacDennis

crashed for me last night after beating chelsea and i dont wanna start a new game if its gonna crash again. but i like a few of the feature including squad bonuses, the pre game set up options and telling the board how i think the team will do in the upcoming season.

Mr.Nice Guy

I started as Sheffield Wednesday and they want me to get them promoted after the second season. That ain't happening!

I have Roy O'Donovan on loan up front with Francis Jeffers which seems to be a good partnership. I need to find a good defensive midfielder though. Anyone got any tips? I've only got a million to spend.

Smegball

Started with Man United as usual , really enjoying the game but doesn't seem hugely different from last years tbh. Anderson and Tevez are beasts but

Vokes

Have just installed it and am seriously considering starting an LLM game.

Am I mad ? Is it worth the pain?

There's no LSL yet, so ill probably go with a middle-tier English conference side.

Peyton Manning

Was with United but Tevez fell out with Hargreaves, Giggs and Huntelaar.

jobonar

Archimedes wrote: »

Was with United but Tevez fell out with Hargreaves, Giggs and Huntelaar.

lol thats bad going

I bought Huntelaar too. He's a legend!

Mitch Connor

Archimedes wrote: »

Was with United but Tevez fell out with Hargreaves, Giggs and Huntelaar.

Started a new game with man united monday night there (cause i had cheated in the first game)

Sold Fletcher, Tommy K and O'Shea. Brought in Veloso, Banega, Aaritolo (something like that) and Zarate. Have Jovetic coming in in january, but will have to loan him out to antwerp.

Tevez was banging them in at the start of the season - 9 goals in 5 games, but then got injured for two months. Ronalso is a freaking beast though - is closing in on 20 goals and it isn't even november!! Seems to be getting 1 or 2 (mostly 2) in ever game he plays.

Mr Velo

Started as Liverpool as usual.

Sold Alonso to Inter for 15 mil up front, plus 5 mil over 6 months. Bought Van der Vaart - and he has been a legend, has scored 8 goals now from midfield.
Also bought Micah Richards from Man City, a bit embarrassed to say that he cost me €21mil though

Just into November on the game now, and i'm proudly sitting on top of the league (level on points with ManU) - using the good old Rule of One tactics which i have to say are absolutely savage!

Had a lot of disallowed goals on the first night i played the game, but in over 3 hours of play last night, not one goal disallowed. Love the gameplay, plus the new little bits like the budget adjustment - makes it much more realistic.

Vokes

Looks like a beta version of the patch will be out over the weekend.

Peyton Manning

Yes I think the disallowed goal bug evens itself out over time. It was crazy the first few hours Ive played but barely a peep since. Really enjoying my Madrid game. Id advice everyone to sign Riquelme if you can - only cost me about 13 million. He is brilliant.

dulpit

Got it the other day, it had been ages since i owned one...

Started as Cork City, we started brilliantly, but then things went to crap for like 2 months, we were 3rd or 4th & i got fired... Got hired by Kildare County, didn't like it so I started again...

Cork City again, just starting season 2, won the Munster Senior Cup in year 1 (Galway City won the league we finished 5th - although there was only 3 points between 5th & 3rd) but was hindered by injuries & lack of transfer money... I lucked out when Reading sold Kevin Doyle to Portsmouth for 18mill, got 3.6mill as a sell on fee, so i was able to buy players in the pre-season... So we look good for the next year...


All in all, it's a class game... There's a few minor things (mainly the ton of disallowed goals) that need to be fixed, but that's what patches are for...

Mr Velo

dulpit wrote: »

Got it the other day, it had been ages since i owned one...

Started as Cork City, we started brilliantly, but then things went to crap for like 2 months, we were 3rd or 4th & i got fired... Got hired by Kildare County, didn't like it so I started again...

Cork City again, just starting season 2, won the Munster Senior Cup in year 1 (Galway City won the league we finished 5th - although there was only 3 points between 5th & 3rd) but was hindered by injuries & lack of transfer money... I lucked out when Reading sold Kevin Doyle to Portsmouth for 18mill, got 3.6mill as a sell on fee, so i was able to buy players in the pre-season... So we look good for the next year...


All in all, it's a class game... There's a few minor things (mainly the ton of disallowed goals) that need to be fixed, but that's what patches are for...

Surely it was Galway UNITED, and not Galway City that won the league yeah??

Vokes

\o/

The Beta patch: http://download.sega.com/u/fm2008_patch/fm2008_801_betapatch.exe

It's save-game compatible apparently.

Peyton Manning

Anybody tried using the new patch yet?

bobcar61

I just got the game a couple of days ago,havnt had loads of time to play it though

Started as Sligo Rovers(hometown) and I'm actually doing real well....leading in the Premier Division and was only expectin a fairly low finish in the league!!

I'm still wondering though how to play online games...on the network like??

Smegball

Tauren wrote: »

Started a new game with man united monday night there (cause i had cheated in the first game)

Sold Fletcher, Tommy K and O'Shea. Brought in Veloso, Banega, Aaritolo (something like that) and Zarate. Have Jovetic coming in in january, but will have to loan him out to antwerp.

Tevez was banging them in at the start of the season - 9 goals in 5 games, but then got injured for two months. Ronalso is a freaking beast though - is closing in on 20 goals and it isn't even november!! Seems to be getting 1 or 2 (mostly 2) in ever game he plays.

Veloso is great isn't he

Y2J_MUFC

I just started as Real Madrid. Cant get Ruud to score at all though, and seeing he is my fav player, thats a bit of a problem! Hopefully he will start to score for me like he has for you! Raul is doing really well though, he's doing what i expected of Van Nistelrooy, and Van Nistelrooy is what i expected Raul to be like (rubbish!).

The amount of disallowed goals is insane. I usually have 3 per match....

Mitch Connor

Smegball wrote: »

Veloso is great isn't he

not really sure yet, he hasn't managed to nail himself down a fist team spot.

My formation and first 11 is this:

...............van der Saar

Neville....Ferdinand...Vidic...Evra
................Hargreaves
...........Carrick.....Scholes
Rooney..........................Ronaldo
..................Tevez

Hargreaves is given strict defensive instructions, Carrick is halfway between defensive and attackive (so he becomes box to box) and Scholes is given the freedom to bomb forward.

I bought Banega and Veloso, two DMs to play in either the hargreaves or carrick role, but i haven't been able to work out where each one is more suited to. If both play, i play Veloso in the hargreaves role, because he is a better tackler. I reckon he will take that position eventually (if he stays long enough) but because of the role itself, hargreaves is generally fit enough to start every game - so Veloso is generally benched. Very good back up player though, very few teams I would be hesitant of playing him against -seems to be able to hold his own.

I actually had no plans to buy him, but someone else had a bid accepted for him, and i was kinda on the lookout for another player to play in central midfield, so I just matched the bid in a impulse buy kinda way.

majiktripp

Am I the only one who likes picking sh!t teams to manage? I find theres no fun in winning with Man United, but getting Scunthorpe up from the Championship, now thats a challenge!
The disallowed goals thing is a bit bogus too, majorly annoying!

Vokes

Archimedes wrote: »

Anybody tried using the new patch yet?

Ive tried it.

And it's improved the Closing Down issue no end for me.

I've started a new game with Fulham. And my DM (Smertin) is literally mowing the opposition players

Smegball

Halfway through my first season with Man United, impressed with my two signings so far, Zaccardo and Veloso. Rooney was absolutley brilliant for me until he broke his leg! Tevez and Anderson are top class IMO. Highlight of the season so far was demolishing Liverpool 9-1 at Old Trafford. Lowlight was 4-1 defeat to Lazio, to be fair though all my strikers were injured apart from Dang Fanghzuo.

This is my preferred team:

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VDS

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Zaccardo----Ferdy

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Vidic

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Evra

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Hargreaves---Carrick

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--Ronaldo

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Giggs---

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Tevez

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Rooney

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However due to injuries here is my team atm!:

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VDS

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Zaccardo

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Brown

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Vidic

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Evra

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Anderson---Veloso----Carrick

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--Ronaldo

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Giggs---

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Saha

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Bubs101

How many disallowed goals is the average? haven't got it yet but that would put me off

Hugh Mongus

majiktripp wrote: »

Am I the only one who likes picking sh!t teams to manage?

I thought I was the only one! On last year's game I spent 8 years with Swansea - getting to the prem in year 6. In year 8, we were still in the prem and they gave me £5m to spend for the upcoming year. I put in 2 ultimatums for more cash and they told me to clear out my desk...:mad::mad::mad:

Still hurts to this day

Peyton Manning

Nearing the end of my first season as Madrid boss. Barca seem to be pulling away in the league. 7 points ahead of me with 7 games left, and theyve rarely dropped points all season. Got knocked out of the Spanish Cup in the semis by zaragoza but im into the semi final of the Champions League where im playing Arsenal after I knocked out Barca in the quarter finals (2-1 smash and grab at the nou camp followed by a 1-1 at home). Ive signed a lot of youngsters that im hoping to groom for a first team place when some of my regular players start to get on a bit. Transfer wise, Riquelme and Pirlo have been magnificent for me. Also made a cheeky bid for Henrik Larsson in January and he's done well, 7 goals in 13 games (6 of those were in the cup though) but ill be letting him go at the end of the season. Ive got Ronaldo coming in from Milan in the summer on a freebie. He's only 31 so hopefully I can still get something out of him, wont be too bad as backup. I play 3 attacking midfielders behind a striker and the players that fill those positiong usually range between Riquelme, Raul, Robben, Robinho and Higuain. Robinho is just back from a broken leg and Robben has flattererd to deceive all season so depending on funds in the summer, I might sell Robben and launch a raid for a top class attacking midfielder like Cristiano Ronaldo or Ronaldinho. Anderson isnt gettin a game at United at all, I even had him on trial for 4 weeks so i might make a cheeky bid for him!

Zaph

Haven't got the new game yet, but I see the recommended system requirements include 1GB Ram. Anyone running it on 512Mb, and if so how well does it run?

I'll be picking a lower league club when I start, I usually go for a Spanish or Italian club I've never heard of, but I suppose for a change I could start with my team, Leeds, seeing as they now qualify as a lower league club.

LanceStorm

im playing it on 512mb and it plays fine, not slow at all, only thing tiresome is running anythin else at the same time, or getting back to the desktop!!

im loving the game so far, chelsea and a few months in!! couldnt get any of my main targets in the summer, so settled for riquelme and lahm...!! wanted alves or richards but both clubs were asking 40mil each...

AlphaMale 3OO

Picked Newcatle. Couple of good early season results and as is usually the way in championship/football manager you start to plummet, unexplained at around game 5. I had a very structured gameplan, playing the ball down the wings to pacey wingers to put in crosses for my target men. To say the team did their own thing is an understatement despite me giving them almost no creative freedom. Its a little frustrating that the players really dont play the way you instruct them to. For instance theres no real difference between a player marked 'hold up ball' and a player who does not hold up the ball. Martins played exactly the same under both conditions. I think they may have tampered with the tactics almost too much since I last played in 03/04.

Smegball

Won the title with 2 games to go with United, bought Owen for 14m in the January transfer window and he was a revelation, absolutely brilliant.
Got 41m to spend in summer but really don't know which position to buy for, I have 4 quality strikers ( Rooney,Saha, Tevez, Owen) and a good midfield with Van Der Vaart bought for 18m.
Might buy a defender but really can't decide which defender to get.

BloodSugarSex

Smegball wrote: »

Won the title with 2 games to go with United, bought Owen for 14m in the January transfer window and he was a revelation, absolutely brilliant.
Got 41m to spend in summer but really don't know which position to buy for, I have 4 quality strikers ( Rooney,Saha, Tevez, Owen) and a good midfield with Van Der Vaart bought for 18m.
Might buy a defender but really can't decide which defender to get.

get rafinha for RB, you can get him for around 10/11 mil and he puts in consistent 8's and the odd 9 or 10, get rid of saha and get aguero, and for AMC you should definitely take a look at moutinho his mental stats are through the roof

Smegball

Ended up signing Gonzalo Rodriguez from Villareal, Vidic has been surprisingly dodgy last few weeks.

Dont be at yourself

I took Ireland to within goal difference of qualifying for the European Championships, and then was doing well in WC Quals until a bug meant I had to start a new game.

Started as Liverpool, sold Sissoko, Crouch and (reluctantly) Alonso, brought in Silva for crazy money. I play an attacking 4-5-1:

Reina
Finnan-Carra-Agger-Arbeloa

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Lucas-Macherano
Babel----Gerrard---Silva

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Torres

Babel, Gerrard and Silva all with lots of creative freedom and swap positions. Not long into the season though, so the jury is still out

daveyjoe

Playing as Aston Villa, I'm currently second in the league and it's Feb 2008. I usually play 5 at the back (sometimes I play 4 and a defensive midfielder who sits in front of them). I've been carving out a lot of 1-0 victories.

Reo Coker and Petrov are always in great form for me.

Smegball

Agree a fee for Aguero, offered the contract he wanted and then he outright snubbed me! No room for negotiating or anything!

art

Reading through the thread, it sounds like they've made the game very easy this year or else it's just a bit unbalanced at the moment? Sounds like people are scoring far too many goals overall?

Mitch Connor

art wrote: »

Reading through the thread, it sounds like they've made the game very easy this year or else it's just a bit unbalanced at the moment? Sounds like people are scoring far too many goals overall?

no more so then previous games.

My man united team (which in every FM game dominates) has an average of about 2.3 goals a game, which is probably slightly under what i got in the previous version actually; think i would top out at about 2.7 goals in that.

Smegball

Tauren wrote: »

no more so then previous games.

My man united team (which in every FM game dominates) has an average of about 2.3 goals a game, which is probably slightly under what i got in the previous version actually; think i would top out at about 2.7 goals in that.

What all players have you signed Tauren?

Keith C

I got the game yesterday & ran the patch straight away. Started as my team Leeds Utd. Have to say im well impressed with the new additions, groundsman had my pitch narrow & short for play thru the middle but bad for wingers So i instructed him to lengthen & widen pitch
The confidence section is really detailed especially on your signings & the update on season ticket sales is handy.
Actuallt got Liverpool as a parent club they accepted a loan offer for kewell but he wouldnt move (fat clown as dunphy says )
Only played 1 match won 4-1, liverpool striker got 1 & an ipswich loan striker (ill post team later) got hattrick :eek:
Also got a 31 yr old brazilian (again will name later) who i was surprised signed for me as he was a definite purchase & his commest read "good midfielder for premiership side" :eek:
One thing i found frustrating in FM07 was it was so hard to get anyone decent to sign to a lower club.
Well -12 points, squad bonus is aimed at respectable league position, was too chicked to declare promotion!!!

Pala!

I am officially addicted to the game.

I started with Tottenham, and didn't start very well. Got knocked out of the League cup in the 3rd round (by Chelsea). I just got knocked out of the FA Cup in the sixth round (by ?? can't remember). But I am second in the Premiership by trailing 7 points to Man united and am still in the UEFA Cup so not TOO Bad.

I bought, Harry Kewell, Anthony Stokes, Richard Dunne, Guily, Sol Campbell.
I sold, Chimbonda and Darren Bent. Let Bent go for 16.5 mil.

Here's a question. Does it take a long time, not VERY long but does it take a while to load most of the time for you(s)?

Mitch Connor

Smegball wrote: »

What all players have you signed Tauren?

In my first season, my transfer dealins were the following,

OUT

Fletcher,
O'Shea
Tommy K

IN

Veloso,
Zarate,
Ever Banega (sp)
And a few young player put into the U18s.

In my second season, I sold Saha for 20million (DEAL!!) and brought in David Silva from Valencia for 33million.

General first team is:
.....................Foster
Neville...Ferdinand...Vidic..Evra
....................Hargreaves
............Veloso......Anderson
Ronaldo..........................Silva
.................Rooney

Bench: Tevez, Scholes, Nani, Pique, Brown.

Also, Fabio (brazilian left back that signs in the summer) has played a few games and has done ok, Evans looks decent and Gibson looks like he could be a very good squad player for me.

@Pala! The game seems really quick to load for me, quicker then the last version, if not by much.

Pompey Magnus

It seems pretty similar to the last game, but there does seem to be an awful lot of disalllowed goals, I would say nearly every second game I score from a corner only to see it disallowed for a foul.

Is there any way to solve the problem of players disliking certain teammates? It just doesn't look good for team morale.

Peyton Manning

Well, I have now assembled my first great team, and Im only half way through my second season. Im Real Madrid, and my starting 11 is as follows:

............................Casillas............................
Miguel Torres....Sergio Ramos.....Pepe.....Marcelo
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...................Pirlo.............Iniesta...................
Higuain................Riquelme...................Robinho
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............................Rául.................................

I honestly thought Raul would be past it now but he's on fire this season.

My bench is usually: K. Schmeichel, Heinze, Drenthe, Veloso, Gago, Robben, Vela

Van Nistelrooy seems to have lost it completely, and Cannavaro cant hack it anymore. But I have an abundance of young talent coming through such as Alex, Henri Saivet, Alberto Bueno, Lulinha, Roberto, Toni Kroos and quite a few more wonderkids scattered about the reserves and even on loan throughout Europe. I have 17 million to spend in January, dont really need any more players, and even if this is Raul's last season at the top, I have Carlos Vela ready to step in and then of course I have the new batch of youngsters coming through after him. Might invest in a couple more young defenders though. Of course I have been threatening to save up for Cesc but Veloso seems to be doing excellent when called upon. Decisions, decisions, decisions...

PS: I cant advertise how great it is to pick up a few veteran strikers on the cheap. I got in Larsson the last season for 6 months in January, got 11 goals for me. Just got Ronaldo from Milan during the summer (only 31 mind you) and he's doing well when I need him to come in, always seems to get a goal.

Of course I have spent hours perfecting this particular formation and tactics which, if you ask nicely, I might just upload for you!

evil_seed

decided i'd join in on this... so... i started as liverpool. can't really play as anyone else sold crouch for 20 mil to chelsea, i asked for 35. from that i signed riquelme for 15 mil and then adjusted the budget and signed barzagli for 15 mil also. got off to a crap start altogether, lost all my preseason games and my 1st 3 league games, but did manage to qualify for the CL.

started with a 4-1-4-1 formation then switched to 4-2-3-1. working out so far.

now i'm halfway through the season; played 19 w14 d2 l3, f37 a15. i won my group in CL undefeated and have drawn valencia in the 1st round.

riquelme is absolutely savage, gerrard keeps getting inured and voronin is better than kuyt.

bringing in 3 players in the jan transfer window: aaritalo, lulinho, sakho, all with the future in mind.

sissoko out in jan to either inter, valencia or seville for 10.5 mil.

will give a report on when i have finished the season.