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Problem defending lobbed through balls

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lyc10

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I'm starting to notice these situations where my opponents (who most likely has assisted passing) uses the lobbed through balls to their forwards. My defenders are in a good position to clear or intercept the ball, however on some occasions, my defenders would just stand still or run away from the ball, basically they're just not under my control and the forward just takes the ball and rounds my keeper to score...

anyone else noticing this? Is it a settings thing where I can tweak to fix?

For the record, it happens to the top class defenders, so I'm sure it has nothing to do with stats.
 
Griciu

Griciu

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Nothing to do with stats, it's just the way PES 12 was designed. Through balls (of any kind) have priority. No solution yet. What I do in most cases is mark their forwards and play a Long Ball formation, placing the defense line very deep.
 
Griciu

Griciu

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You do realize most lobbed passes are too high for your defenders to intercept, hence the word lobbed. They'll hit the ground and the fkn speed merchants will get in front of your defenders. You do realize that you suggested that he pressed X in order to defend a lobbed through ball. Did you really think the guy didn't try pressing x or any other hundreds of options before coming on here and opening an actual thread about this issue?
 
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abu97

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then whats the point of this topic - there is no way he is magically going to jump so high to intercept it
 
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lyc10

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the thing is, sometimes when people use lobbed through balls, even though the ball is within reach, my defender would let the ball bounce even when the forward is really close, and I am pressing X and moving my defender towards the ball already. still as I said in my post, the defenders are reluctant to go for it sometimes
 
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g221911g

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It's just the broken game mechanics. People do it all the time. They chip the ball and your entire defense goes retarded and starts running away from the ball.....EVEN WHEN YOU'RE ON THE CURSOR!!....

(I have literally been on the cursor waiting for a chipped ball to land and as the ball came in, my cursor started moving away from the ball and I could not control him)

It's just another small part of konami's super duper scripted animations. Been there for years. It's gamebreaking and a reason not to buy the game.

I've been saying it all over the forums, ASSISTED PASSING AFFECTS THE OTHER TEAM'S DEFENSE!!!
 
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abu97

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^^^^^
Use semi-assisted if you or no assist on cursor change if you don't want the COM to switch between players
 
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g221911g

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abu97 said:
^^^^^
Use semi-assisted if you or no assist on cursor change if you don't want the COM to switch between players
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I understand that. In theory that's what's supposed to happen....

In actuality, nothing of the sort. I can't change players until konami allows me to on chipped through passes. Usually I'm trying for about 5 seconds to switch players and konami won't allow it until the attacker receives the ball (and konami has moved all of my defenders out of the way). It's a lot like the crossing glitch.

Other times they will switch my player without me pressing anything.

Broken system.....
 
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lyc10

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g221911g said:
It's just the broken game mechanics. People do it all the time. They chip the ball and your entire defense goes retarded and starts running away from the ball.....EVEN WHEN YOU'RE ON THE CURSOR!!....
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this^

its not game breaking for me, but its getting a bit annoying
 
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firestorm79

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This is a problem. At times when you should be easily intercepting and cutting out the balls your defender just goes AWOL... Sometimes madly tapping square (on ps3) helps as it will lock the defender on to the ball. It's rather annoying to have to do this as u should just be able to intercept the ball. But there are times when nothing will help...
 
Steve Justice

Steve Justice

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Use the 'Mark Player' option in Game Plan. Yes the player should mark his nearest player in this situation automatically, but that's not always the case. Using marking helps to sort the issue.
 
Steve Justice

Steve Justice

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It has worked fine for me. I was using it all weekend on ML against teams that were statiscally better than mine, and worked very well for the most part. It's not going to work 100% of the time, that would be unrealistic. But that depends on who you ask.
 
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abu97

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For me, it doesn't work - i mark, say, mario gomez with palmieri and whenevr someone does a through ball palmieri just kets him take the chance. Also i spotted palmieri marking muller a couple of times in corner kicks
 
Steve Justice

Steve Justice

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At what stage is Palmieri stats wise in your ML? He's just reached 72 overall on mine. I've only just played my first season so he was only competing against teams from the Championship, most of who's strikers are around the 66-67 mark. But on the odd occasion (cup games in particular) he was up against better opposition, and you could see he wasn't up to scratch.

The condition (stamina) and whether they are up for the game play a part too. The problem I'm having with Palmieri is he'll sometimes not be up for a game at all (dark red down arrow) despite the team having a good run of form. It allows me to play other players that would not always get a look in, but I've suffered in the more important games because of it.
 
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