So I've been playing the PC version of PES 2008... love it, not a whole lot better than 6 but I love the new graphics.
I played through master league a couple of times and I have some definitely problems with it:
1) The biggest problem has to be the fact that when I use my Master League team in Exhibition mode, the players revert to their default stats! (Instead of improved stats) I have a ML team that is 3 seasons old, and all my players are top notch, except they have shit stats when I play with friends on exhibition... is there any way to fix it? It's infuriating.
2) ML Default players suck... a little too much. I am a decent PES player, but when I tried playing ML on Professional level I only scored 6 goals in the first 20 matches before Negotiations. I had to settle with like 15 ties or so, 1 win, and like 4 losses. Half my goals came from corner kicks, and one from a penalty... it's just that the CPU's defense is hugely overpowered in Professional, and I can't establish any kind of run and have to rely heavily on passing to get anything done. I haven't even tried top player yet. Anyone agree with me here?
3) Classic players are cheap. Ok so this is a continuation of #2. Classic players are ridiculously cheap compared to their stats. After 20 weeks of ML on Professional with Default Players I garnered 15 ties, 4 losses, 1 win. But after the negotiation period, I got ridiculously good players like Kiuden, Enerzone and Hanue without depleting my points (I had ~16000). This is because all classic players do not have teams and so there's no transfer fee! All I did was give them a higher salary than they are worth (~1400/year) and they decided to go to my dirt cheap team.
So basically, after negotions my team improved greatly and I won maybe 60-70% of my games. To me, that kind of spoils the feeling of gradual progression, my team went from worst in the league to at least a D1 contender. Yeah I know that when I start a ML i can turn off classic players, but I can't turn them off now! I've already invested 2-3 hrs on this ML.
I played through master league a couple of times and I have some definitely problems with it:
1) The biggest problem has to be the fact that when I use my Master League team in Exhibition mode, the players revert to their default stats! (Instead of improved stats) I have a ML team that is 3 seasons old, and all my players are top notch, except they have shit stats when I play with friends on exhibition... is there any way to fix it? It's infuriating.
2) ML Default players suck... a little too much. I am a decent PES player, but when I tried playing ML on Professional level I only scored 6 goals in the first 20 matches before Negotiations. I had to settle with like 15 ties or so, 1 win, and like 4 losses. Half my goals came from corner kicks, and one from a penalty... it's just that the CPU's defense is hugely overpowered in Professional, and I can't establish any kind of run and have to rely heavily on passing to get anything done. I haven't even tried top player yet. Anyone agree with me here?
3) Classic players are cheap. Ok so this is a continuation of #2. Classic players are ridiculously cheap compared to their stats. After 20 weeks of ML on Professional with Default Players I garnered 15 ties, 4 losses, 1 win. But after the negotiation period, I got ridiculously good players like Kiuden, Enerzone and Hanue without depleting my points (I had ~16000). This is because all classic players do not have teams and so there's no transfer fee! All I did was give them a higher salary than they are worth (~1400/year) and they decided to go to my dirt cheap team.
So basically, after negotions my team improved greatly and I won maybe 60-70% of my games. To me, that kind of spoils the feeling of gradual progression, my team went from worst in the league to at least a D1 contender. Yeah I know that when I start a ML i can turn off classic players, but I can't turn them off now! I've already invested 2-3 hrs on this ML.
