Anyone played the full version yet?

LegacyUser

My friend has it and I have to say it really is a lot better overall. Really bloody addictive. The additional options in the game really make it worthwhile.

Pacifico

Just installing it now!

Melion

Got it in work today, wont get a chance to load it up til tomorrow night though

Pacifico

Playing it for a while now, Its pritty good....

Anyone know how you talk to players? Not only when they speak out? or can you?

Zapp Brannigan

you can only speak to em when theyre acting up. Whered you get it mate?

Pacifico

Sure wasnt that the same as FM2005? Though there was some new Player to Player aspects?

Got it in HMV in Limerick. Gamestop had it also. €54.99 :eek: minus a 10% discount so €49.49

BTW the Auora (Sp?) skin, will it work with 2006?

I'm currently driving West Ham up the Table

Zapp Brannigan

No it wont but the author of the skin is working on the 2006 release. He reckons he'll have it done in a week or so.

MrJoeSoap

Installing...

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MrJoeSoap

Gave it a run out last night with the eL. I have to say I'm quite impressed so far, the training changes took a while to get used to but seems quite a good idea. The new individual player stats and player training screens are useful. Other than that there are a couple of subtle changes, the "quick flicks" are extremely handy when scouring other leagues for young gems. I quite like the new manager overview screen too, saves a lot of clicking around.

I'll talk more when I've given it more of a test.

Anyone noticed any bugs yet? Maybe we should compile a list here and send it to SI in time for the first patch. eL especially, as I'm sure they have plenty of testers for other leagues.

Pacifico

Lads where has the "get staff report" option gone? I can only see that Physio reports are available??

The Positions and Prefered Moves tab is a pritty good addition

MrJoeSoap

You can get a staff report in the training section of a players screen I think. Haven't got the game on at the minute so can't check.

besty

i want it, but am so, so broke....
FM06 or PES5 - whats it gonna be?

Makaveli

Stuck with the same problem, might just wait and buy both.

BadCharlie

Was in game in waterford and there selling it for 55euros. Lucky for me i ordered of play a long time ago. But unlucky for me it still has not arrived.

Zapp Brannigan

I caved and bought Pro Evo due to the fact I'll have the enjoyment of multiplayer with mates.

Ill get FM2006 in a few weeks.

Töpher

I likes it! Given a chance, I'd make a few more changes to the player data I did, but mostly it seems ok. Some of the players, e.g. Wes Hoolahan seem to have lower stats than I remember giving, but by god he's unreal in it! MOTM nearly every game and in every team of the week, can't complain i guess!

MrJoeSoap

Einst&#252 wrote: »

Some of the players, e.g. Wes Hoolahan seem to have lower stats than I remember giving, but by god he's unreal in it! MOTM nearly every game and in every team of the week, can't complain i guess!

Realistic so!

Seriously though. What a game...

Töpher

Tis phenominal!

Töpher

MrJoeSoap wrote:

Anyone noticed any bugs yet? Maybe we should compile a list here and send it to SI in time for the first patch. eL especially, as I'm sure they have plenty of testers for other leagues.

Told my players during a game that I was thrilled, and after the match said I want them to play like that every week! Immediately afterwards about 6 of them are unhappy at my harsh criticism and are seriously considering their futures at the club! :eek:

Ah well, none of that matters as I just beat 5 Premiership clubs to get Allan McGregor to sign for Shelbourne! Wait for it... because he wants to play in Europe!

Zapp Brannigan

Einst&#252 wrote: »

Told my players during a game that I was thrilled, and after the match said I want them to play like that every week! Immediately afterwards about 6 of them are unhappy at my harsh criticism and are seriously considering their futures at the club! :eek

If some of them played exceptionally well they'll feel it harsh of you to ask them to play to that standard every week. Its kinda understandable.

Töpher

Hadn't looked at it like that! I just took it as a really well done comment, you do make the sense tho!

Pacifico

Blooby Teves wants to leave because he has been treated unfairly?!

Must be thouse stupid half time talks. Its all good though as ive just signed a new 4 year deal

zAbbo

Anyone patched to the new release? 6.01

Pacifico

"waiting for sigames.com"......

bizmark

It’s harder than fm2005. Im Chelsea 17 matches into my first year top of the league but knocked out of the europion championship after the group stage's bloody real Madrid :mad: and have already conceded 35 goals in all competitions :eek: which strikes me as unrealistic for Chelsea players also my midfield isn’t playing as well as it should be tbh im not sure if its my training tactics or the players not playing 100% for me yet but hopefuly Ill figure it out in the end fm 2006 is worth the effort.

Kernel

Do the face packs and club logos work with this?

MrJoeSoap

http://www.jolt.co.uk/index.php?articleid=4778
http://www.gaffersports.com/downloads/sega/
http://www.gamershell.com/news/25674.html
http://download.boomtown.net/en_uk/articles/art.view.php?id=9588
http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=29251&mode=thread&order=0
http://download.filefront.com/4271246;de4f2a62e48599ca6...193d4e7b0f138ff7a4e5
http://www.thedugout.net/download.php?cmv=12&cat=1
http://rapidshare.de/files/6543908/fm2006-patch-6.0.1.exe.torrent.html

They're the links for the patch, in case sigames.com is down. I'm downloading now.

Upgrades are as follows:

General

+ Tuning of young player physical progression
+ Spanish regenerated players and virtual players do not get given common names as much.
+ Goalkeeping coaches now do not have high ratings for other coaching types.
+ Loan players who have a "cannot play in cup matches" clause, can play in competitions which their main team are not entered for.
+ Arsenal now use their red and white home top from the 2006 season onwards.
+ Slovenian wages tuned.
+ Mental attributes and happiness have more effect on training levels
+ Ensured team talk slight concerns get cleared down for loan players who have been loaned from non_selected leagues.
+ Toned down severe post-match player morale changes, this ensures players take at least a couple of good matches to go from poor/very poor morale to very good/superb morale and vice versa
+ Ensured human managers don't get criticised for not praising thier own players when in fact they have left team-talks to their assistant managers.
+ Stopped "grey team managers" being given negative attributes and therefore sabotaging their own teams causing some very big defeats.
+ Teams in the same division should not have the potential for a giant-killing news story even if one is semi-pro and one is pro.
+ Prevented board/fans/former club favourite/current player congratulations news items from appearing after a team has qualified for the Uefa Cup via the Intertoto Cup
+ Adjusted the increase / decrease of human manager visible attributes.
+ Reduced inflation of price clubs are willing to pay for a player based on domestic average rating.
+ Ensured assistant coach/manager can't give feedback on himself.
+ Some tweaks to coach and team reports.
+ Monaco virtual players now have French nationality instead of having Monaco set as their nation.
+ Fixed stadium expansion bug where team would sometimes not move back to their old stadium once it was finished.
+ Fixed problem where some players would start the first season with stats from the previous year
+ Fixed second nationalities for regens - previously weren't getting set properly.
+ Fixed problem with caretakers manager's hanging around for ages without being offered the job or a replacement being found
+ Fixed differing time periods for injury between profile and physio report
+ Fixed players reaction to manager mind-games not showing up on client machines when playing network game.
+ Fixed receiving news story stating Liverpool fifth times when should be sixth times champions.
+ Fixed cases of manager being hired from within the club having the wrong 'time in charge' stat
+ Fixed players on loan at a club who are signing for them at a later date (e.g. Laurent Robert) getting wrong player_bio about them.
+ Fixed a bug where you can fine a player who is on loan to you and he will get upset with the club that owns the player.

Interface

+ Injury league table not filled in for domestic leagues that had finished.
+ Squad screen filters now filter WB L/DM (C) players correctly.
+ You now have to pick a goalkeeper in quick tactics like you do in detailed tactics.
+ Added "Help" to the Mac menu bar to follow standard behaviour on the platform.
+ Help for "offer to clubs" now shows the correct information (instead of the "transfer offer " page).
+ Pressing the escape key now closes the help dialog.
+ Training section "attributes" list could display slightly different values than the player profile.
+ Improved goal net graphics.
+ 3rd placed Royal League teams displayed the 3rd placed team order instead of the proper group they were in.
+ Used "Far" as short text for both "attack far post" and "stand on far post".
+ Squad filters for teams works for b-teams if user is browsing the game without having added a human player.
+ "Release comment" section disappeared when you clicked on another section of a player (before you had confirmed the comment).
+ You were able to change some tactical settings from the full time team talks.
+ If you used quick flicks to go to next team while on your own tactics section you might end up seeing their instructions.
+ Referees now show a 'Based' city (if city is known) instead of showing an unknown city of birth on their profile.
+ Clicking 'View Draw' might not take you to the results of the draw if you viewed a different section of the same competition.
+ Minimum fee release clause was not visible while making a transfer offer for players in countries where this is mandatory (Spain).
+ Substituting a player at half time would initially leave his overall team talk at "None" until you it again.
+ Sometimes players were duplicated in part-exchange offers in the "Transfer listed" menu on the "Add" button.
+ Can now give team talks to players who were substituted.
+ Added more printing functionality to panels like Match Report, Match Stats, Home
+ Player instructions "swap player" (outfield) and "distribute to" (goalkeeper) did not remember settings if set outside a match.
+ In-match tactic panel updates the tactic title on the right panel properly.
+ If you were in control of both a nation and a club, using the quick flicks did not go anywhere.
+ If you were controlling a nation and a club, the context of the national FA confidence was the club and not the nation.
+ Corrected "Upcoming Fixtures" to "Fixtures & Results" on the manager home section.
+ In rare cases the player profile would display "-" for form even when the player had valid form.
+ Player histories did not show season year properly for clubs where season overlaps the new year (2004-05 format).
+ Go On Holiday dialog could have the "reject all offers as well as another item selected (they're mutually exclusive).
+ Go On Holiday dialog "Return from holiday after:" N days edit box layout fixed.
+ Inputting extended characters using AltGr (or Alt+Control) did not work.
+ Pasting a single character from the clipboard to an edit box did not work (multiple characters did).
+ Continue game timeout does not get used when a manager is making a team talk after the match.
+ Reset requested scroll position when loading new HTML screen.
+ Fixed wrong team being used in news item stating reasons for transfer delay being refused.
+ Fixed exchange players showing up on news item but not on transfer offer screen
+ Fixed home page snapshot of K-League (displayed opening stage intead of combined league).
+ Fixed Belgian lower divisions snapshot (displayed opening stage and not combined league).
+ Fixed possible crash browsing through teams staff list using the Quick Flicks.
+ Fixed potential crash on European World Cup qualifiers second placed teams table if clicking on team position to see progress.
+ Fixed some duplicate news items.
+ Being able to deselect the 'Index' panel in the tutorial by reclicking on the 'Index' button.
+ Fixed every second seperator line in tree view items being slightly longer than the others

Competitions

+ Scottish league cup ties are now seeded properly.
+ Fixed some issues with the CONCACAF Champions League when MLS is not a selected league.
+ Mexican teams now do not register too many foreign players.
+ Implemented English Conference changes for 2006/07 season.
+ Mexican First Division groups are now correct for 2005.
+ Prize money removed from Serbia and Montenegro Cup.
+ Manager snapshot panel now shows full stage name in the competitions panel. E.g. North Semi Final instead of Semi Final
+ All-Ireland Cup now stores past years correctly.
+ Teams from 2006 African World Cup qualifiers do not qualify to the 2008 African Nations Cup any more.
+ Some English FA Cup prize money amounts fixed.
+ Hong Kong AFC Playoff now gets scheduled once all of the domestic competitions have finished.
+ Ramat-Hasharon now deducted 2 points in 2005 Israeli National League.
+ Spanish teams now start playing friendlies earlier.
+ All Ireland cup now uses refs from Ireland or N. Ireland.
+ European player awards tunning
+ Greek player of the year problem fixed.
+ Greek foreign player of the year problem fixed
+ Player winning more than one seasonal award fix
+ Attacking bias added to seasonal player awards.
+ Some fixes for managers withdrawing players from international friendlies
+ Australian players no longer win Asian awards.
+ Award winner news item appears after player thanks manager news item.
+ Fixed string error (australian pre match odds news) declaring league as being finished when it hasn't.
+ Fixed some fixture dates in England for non World Cup/Euro Championship years.

Match

+ When 2 human managers are playing each other in a match, the game now shows both team talk screens at the end of the match instead of just the one.
+ When a human changed the order of his penalty takers just before a shootout, the score would sometimes not be stored properly when the result gets processed.
+ Fixed a match screen crash which would sometimes happen after making quick tactic changes.
+ If a human manager leaves a match (goes on holiday, disconnects from network game, etc), the assistant manager will now make tactical changes in his place.
+ Fixed bug where the view menu on the tactics screen might be disabled for a second human manager on the same machine.

MrJoeSoap

Transfers

+ Starting foreign loans are now not treated as domestic loans for English teams when counting the number of loans done so far.
+ Fixed bug where occassionally the game might forget to process a future transfer.
+ Fixed a bug where national teams would sometimes appoint a director as their new manager.
+ Players signed after a club has finished its season, now get put on holiday.

Assets

- ADDED Livingston player pictures
- Fixed Scott Thomson (Dunfermline) picture mapping to the wrong Scott Thomson
- ADDED Nottingham Forest player pictures
- Fixed Cardiff pictures (Darren Purse, Jeff Whitley, Joe Ledley and Neal Ardley)
- Fixed Stafford Rangers player pictures (Peter Thomson)
- Fixed Blackpool badge
- Fixed Rotherham kits not displaying
- Fixed Daejeon kits not displaying in first season
- Fixed Joao Goncalves FaceInTheGame picture

Data Editor

- Fixed potential crash on the squad screen
- Fixed manager preferred formations sometimes defaulting to 442

ctrl-alt-delete

does it have a data editor?

Zapp Brannigan

ctrl-alt-delete wrote:

does it have a data editor?

Of course.

blu_sonic

so anybody a little disapointed with the el in it?

MrJoeSoap

First day of the season and Drogheda beat Rovers 8-1. Wouldn't call it disappointing, . Too many goals on average in my opinion but the patch might fix that.

blu_sonic

thats mad, i think they've made rovers the whipping boys of the leagues. i obviously started as rovers, 1st friendly we were beat 1-0 by cherry orchard i thought ok new gaffer new team blah blah it happens, the defeats at the hands of james gate and crumlin utd were pushing it really far. also the rovers team isn't up to date ie. lee feeney is there and lee roache isn't in the game etc. ps russell payne is playing for crumlin utd lol

Serbian

Typical SI. First day of release and there's a 90 meg patch to be downloaded.

Töpher

Sigh. Save game cannot be loaded Have to delete my Shelbourne game (that was going so well!) and start again!

galwaydude

hey mate,
im hoping the game arives in the post in the morning when i finish work:)

Just a quick question, whats playing in the EL like, has it changed much from FM 2005.I cant wait to be Galway Utd again.

MrJoeSoap

I've only been playing a bit but it hasn't changed all that much.

LegacyUser

Premier league is a lot harder...Man United get it tough

galwaydude

i wonder in the future games will they add the whole advertising feature like for example a shirt sponsor, stadium sponsor, ways to make extra money for the club.

Also what about a 3d image of the stadium too, something similar to that feature in hattrick.

I remember playing a game called premier manager on the amiga many years ago and they had these features and they were great,makes it more real.

Also whats the story with the tv deal, is it still the same with dublin city games been shown exclusively as before.

galwaydude

also have they fixed the problem with the setanta cup.After a season all the clubs in the competition are from the EL.

As you probably know yourself its more satisfying to bring your local EL club into europe and beyond than anything else.One last question one thing i found in fm 2005 was when i won the league with Galway, the game became very easy. I hope the players stats are alot better than before.

Töpher

To be fair, there aren't as many researchers for Ireland as say, Italy. They rely on supporters who go to most of the games to volunteer to fill in the player data as they see fit etc. If you didn't offer to help out its hard to blame those who did (or didn't, as may be the case - leading to some of the slight errors as people unfamilair with our league/players will be left to guesstimate values).

The data is finalised around early September IIRC, so it will probably be slightly different in cases.

Just my €0.02

galwaydude

i would offer my services but dont go to many EL games anymore due to my ****ty shiftwork, working nights is a killer:p

Used to go to quite a few shelbourne games when i first moved to dublin. Thers nothing better than EL football, give me that over premiership football anyday.
Maybe i can offer my services when i moved to the states next year and provide data for the Revs, the mls in general.

Töpher

Make Freddy Adu crap and cost 25 million! People auto buy him, and will be stung!

galwaydude

i saw him in the flesh in a game against the new england revolution at foxboro in may and he wasnt anything special, then again hes only 16 or 17 and still very small. I hear Man Utd want him now. Shelbourne or Cork city on a good day would give any MLS team a good game after the game i saw.