[Ali & Sminky's] PES Support Thread - Saving your sanity and your controller.

[paul2478]

Originally Posted by dan80

Im starting to wonder why im bothering with BAL, im going ape shit every game every single thing the AI teamates do is so bad, i swear individuality doesnt exsist in this mode, its so painfull to watch 2 teams play each other and your the only normall one on the pitch, i rage quit earlier and considering playing fifas be a pro.

I find that with BAL you need to think how many times real players get annoyed at their team mate making the wrong decision (think Berbatov or Rooney shouting at Nani when he at the start of last season when eveytime he would shoot over the bar or play the wrong cross when they were in space). Something ive found is never call for a pass it seems to just confuse the AI & they get tackled. Instead just make yourself avaliable in space & they will pass to you (not always, but most of the time). You still get times when you wish they had played the ball to you earlier, but ive scored plenty of goals where ive timed a run into the box & recieved the perfect pass/cross.

Personally I play more BAL than any else (apart from edit mode, if only you got trophies for that ), I find it good fun

[Ali_BWFC]

Originally Posted by paul2478

I find that with BAL you need to think how many times real players get annoyed at their team mate making the wrong decision (think Berbatov or Rooney shouting at Nani when he at the start of last season when eveytime he would shoot over the bar or play the wrong cross when they were in space). Something ive found is never call for a pass it seems to just confuse the AI & they get tackled. Instead just make yourself avaliable in space & they will pass to you (not always, but most of the time). You still get times when you wish they had played the ball to you earlier, but ive scored plenty of goals where ive timed a run into the box & recieved the perfect pass/cross.

Personally I play more BAL than any else (apart from edit mode, if only you got trophies for that ), I find it good fun

I kinda get what you're saying. But they're a lot worse than bloody Nani

One of the main things that frustrates me, is that whenever a teammate enters the opposition's box, he feels inclined to shoot, not matter how daft the angle is! I could be in acres of space in the middle, in a position where even Cristiano Ronaldo would pass me the ball, but my team mate would still shoot.

[Michu]

Have to admit, not dabbled in BAL yet. I'm hitting MLO hard at the mo, put some serious time into it. Was floating from formation to formation to find a good fit for my team, used the Liverpool 3-5-2 the Eygpt 3-5-2 the Boca 4-4-2 but found I was conceding far too much space in midfield with no width.

I hate using 4-5-1 systems (4-2-3-1 essentially) but have to admit since switching to the default 4-2-3-1 and moving my forward Holman left of centre I've seen alot of improvement. I drew 0-0 with a div2 team, I beat a div3 team and I'm now churning out victories against div5 teams.

I'm finding cheapy players and then comparing them to what I would buy and seeing where the real value is. I bought Batlles for about £800k and Clement for £600k neither players are world beaters but they have decent condition and decent stamina. The average stamina and condition level of my team is 85 and 6 now, it makes a massive difference. It might be fun buying great technically gifted players but by the 60th minute they tend to be fucked because they have 4 for condition and 70s for stamina. Case in point Carlos Eduardo, tidy player but has less stamina than I do! I replaced him with Jarolim, 85 Stamina 85 Dribbling, perfecto!

So my tips for the day, Stamina over style and make wise use of uber cheap signings despite their frailities they have some decent player cards which augment them nicely (Fetfatzidis of Olympiakos for example)

[MarceMarce]

Originally Posted by Sminky

Have to admit, not dabbled in BAL yet. I'm hitting MLO hard at the mo, put some serious time into it. Was floating from formation to formation to find a good fit for my team, used the Liverpool 3-5-2 the Eygpt 3-5-2 the Boca 4-4-2 but found I was conceding far too much space in midfield with no width.

I hate using 4-5-1 systems (4-2-3-1 essentially) but have to admit since switching to the default 4-2-3-1 and moving my forward Holman left of centre I've seen alot of improvement. I drew 0-0 with a div2 team, I beat a div3 team and I'm now churning out victories against div5 teams.

I'm finding cheapy players and then comparing them to what I would buy and seeing where the real value is. I bought Batlles for about £800k and Clement for £600k neither players are world beaters but they have decent condition and decent stamina. The average stamina and condition level of my team is 85 and 6 now, it makes a massive difference. It might be fun buying great technically gifted players but by the 60th minute they tend to be fucked because they have 4 for condition and 70s for stamina. Case in point Carlos Eduardo, tidy player but has less stamina than I do! I replaced him with Jarolim, 85 Stamina 85 Dribbling, perfecto!

So my tips for the day, Stamina over style and make wise use of uber cheap signings despite their frailities they have some decent player cards which augment them nicely (Fetfatzidis of Olympiakos for example)

i found ireland to be a very good player, hes on my bench, but everytime he comes in he scores i love that free roaming card.

one Q: how do i start a new thread or post?

[Ali_BWFC]

Sminky - are you still sticking to your same tactics of frustrating the opposition? Because it really didn't work against me

[Michu]

Originally Posted by Ali_BWFC

Sminky - are you still sticking to your same tactics of frustrating the opposition? Because it really didn't work against me

Not really - and that first game against you I just hacked you all over the park, bit silly really but enjoyable

As Benfica (before the bloody connection went) I played a lot better against you and thats probably because the formation suited me better. I've ditched the diamond formation.

[Ali_BWFC]

Originally Posted by Sminky

Not really - and that first game against you I just hacked you all over the park, bit silly really but enjoyable

As Benfica (before the bloody connection went) I played a lot better against you and thats probably because the formation suited me better. I've ditched the diamond formation.

In the 2nd game, the score was only 0-0 and you quit because you just couldn't handle my greatness

But yeah, I did think you were just pissing about a bit in the first match. I didn't want to piss about because it was a ranked match

[Michu]

I'm not too fussed about the rankings, I use MLO to get used to human opponents when I play my mates in competitions ... although sometimes its just good to go in completely fresh, I won the last one without having played PES in months. The too much PES curse can fuck you over sometimes, you start over thinking things and not playing instinctively.

I find PES one of those games where its hard to find a staple formation that works for all opponents, I'm hoping 4-5-1 will but then whats worked so far for me is having Holman as SS upfront.

EDIT: Just beat a German 1-0 on MLO, Mourinho tactics by myself, I only had 39% possession but still had more shots on goal than he did.

[MarceMarce]

U guys play On the ps3? If that's the case I'd like to play with u, if u don't mind losing lol j/k

[Michu]

Yup, our PSN id's appear next to our posts

[MarceMarce]

Good I'll add u you then

[muscularmatt]

You just wait till I can be arsed to get my PS3 online again Sminky I'll bone your ass.

[MagnaThor]

Err... sorry I know this isn't the right thread to post this on here but I don't feel I deserve to overload the forum with a pointless one reply thread, so here goes:

I have just recently received PES2010 PC (using a controller), and my last football game was PES2008 for the PS2. Many, many things on here are very annoying and far below the quality of 2008, but this is the worst of them all: I cannot find the option to switch to players closest to the ball manually. I absolutely abhor it when it switches automatically for me, and for the life of me it is having me dumb down (no offense anyone, really) to regular level as I cannot get used to this for the life of me. Please, tell me there's a way to make it manual

[MagnaThor]

Originally Posted by muscularmatt

Yes, superstar was on PES 2009 and 2010 I think, and 6* has existed on the old games.

Sminky, have you ever played any of the Civ games? Deity was a difficulty level on Civ 3 (hilariously, not the hardest one either).

Best game ever. I was so hooked and I would totally try the installments that came after but I know that I would probably fail college if I played it.

[Michu]

Originally Posted by muscularmatt

You just wait till I can be arsed to get my PS3 online again Sminky I'll bone your ass.

Lets stick to playing PES Matt