BAL Rant!

[Dazzle29]

Just needed to say a few things about the BAL mode that are driving me mental! Was wondering if i'm the only one...

i) Why do my wingers seem incapable of sprinting? They jog along the touchline whereas the opponents seem to manage it.

ii) Is it possible to call the keeper out in BAL? I hold down triangle to call my keeper to a cross, but he just stands there as the other teams striker chests it down and volleys...

iii) Why do the defence sit so deep? And how come they won't tackle a winger about to make a cross?

iv) Does anyone else feel when they use the X tackle, they always seem to cause a foul, while the opposition get away with murder inside the box?

Sorry guys, but i'm getting mega pissed off. I spend 60 minutes probing and finally score a goal, only for some awful defending to cost me games. ARG.

 

[dan80]

The wingers annoy me sometimes they drift in so the full backs haft to try and pass it back and usually fail and walk it off the pitch, im hoping that becuase i play for sunderland there like that, and when i go to bigger clubs they will play more natual and fatser.

 

[The Eristic]

The wingers annoy me sometimes they drift in so the full backs haft to try and pass it back and usually fail and walk it off the pitch, im hoping that becuase i play for sunderland there like that, and when i go to bigger clubs they will play more natual and fatser.

Faster, yes, but decision making is still mostly stupid, no matter who you play for. Only the absolute best wingers will get anything done on a regular basis. Once you sign up, your team's AI goes to hell. It's intentional, programmed difficulty, but annoying nonetheless.

Others classics include:

central defenders letting strikers barge through the middle without tackling or even making an effort to catch up or close down if the striker isn't quite in their "zone", basically standing around watching the opposition go 1-on-1

strikers/wingers always shooting from ridiculous angles and NEVER making the easy pass when you have a wide open goal in front of you

full backs running next to wingers and get hopelessly beaten by "run forward two yards, run back two yards, run forward two yards"

central midfielders only touching the ball to pass it back to the defense, NEVER tackling or shooting - both of my AI teammate CMFs at every team average less than 8 touches, less than 10 yards dribbled, no more than 4 passes made, and no interceptions per game and do not EVER leave the center circle area, while my DMF covers the whole damned field twice and has more everything after the match than the rest of the squad combined.

forwards taking your great through ball with the defense nowhere near, run at goal, stop, run kind of at an angle, stop, turn around, lose possession

everybody taking the worst corners of all time - bad delivery, bad movement, thieving bastard strikers at the near post stealing and wasting what would be much better chances for those further in

everybody running to wherever the ball is, piling on top of each other and generally getting in each other's way, resulting in loss of possession

 

[Limphy]

another thing are the way-too-frequent offsides (CFs usually just waiting a few steps behind the opposing defenders) and/or unreasonable long passes from MF players (usually landing deep in the goalkeepers hands or even behind the goal..

..but i guess ''being a legend'' means taking control and responsibilities for the majority of your team's actions..it's not called ''become a legendary team'' afterall

 

[dan80]

forwards taking your great through ball with the defense nowhere near, run at goal, stop, run kind of at an angle, stop, turn around, lose possession

Yeah that is one of the most annoing things is when they just stop or they could go the count attack and then half stop run towrds the touch line either loose the ball or walk it off the pitch.

Plus hevy touches and then walk off the pitch that happans way to much.