Thoughts/Reviews for people with the game!

[JMTD]

Defending is improving slowly for me, getting better but still nowhere near mastered it. I really like the system though, it's pretty hard, but it's hard in a challenging and fun way, or at least it is for me anyway. Also, don't always use R2-RT/X-A, use L2/LT X/A to hold them off and also use R2/RT on it's own as this is a much more effective tackle than including the A/X, or so I've been finding anyway. Timing is crucial that's for sure.

Anybody played the training challenges? Would of liked a few more, I used to love the old free kick challenges with the passing into the circles and stuff. The dribbling one I found hard as sh**, I gave up on the third one, you must be pretty awesome if you get gold on that, anybody managed it yet? I tried about 30 times straight and gave up

 

[bullybull]

Defending this year = backing up until you concede a goal

Sums up the defending in PES 2012.


Either that or you press X to steal the ball and ended up conceding FK just because you have the nerve to touch the attackers. Of course the FK will result in goal most of the time.

I know everyone is saying about timing, but most of the time while we wait for the right timing to press X to steal the ball, the player has passed or through pass to his teammate and resulted in goal.

 

[orlandoSPUR]

Sums up the defending in PES 2012.


Either that or you press X to steal the ball and ended up conceding FK just because you have the nerve to touch the attackers. Of course the FK will result in goal most of the time.

I know everyone is saying about timing, but most of the time while we wait for the right timing to press X to steal the ball, the player has passed or through pass to his teammate and resulted in goal.

...is this against the AI or online? or both? my biggest gripe with online is its speed, i wish they would bring it down to -1. what speed are you playing offline? do you think reducing it would help with defending?

 

[mason5r]

offline--i use -2...i think that setting is the best and most realistic setting...it definitely helps when I defend...i suppose that whenever you have a game speed setting for offline it is the same for online?

 

[orlandoSPUR]

offline--i use -2...i think that setting is the best and most realistic setting...it definitely helps when I defend...i suppose that whenever you have a game speed setting for offline it is the same for online?

i don't think so, admittadly i have not played offline yet with the full release, but i set it at -1 as i enjoyed that speed with the demo. Online seems so much faster than that.

 

[JMTD]

offline--i use -2...i think that setting is the best and most realistic setting...it definitely helps when I defend...i suppose that whenever you have a game speed setting for offline it is the same for online?

Nope, online is the default setting which is 0, you cant change it either. Which is why if you play quite a lot online, it's probably a good idea to play 0 offline too, otherwise it'll feel quite different when you go online.

 

[IronCity]

...is this against the AI or online? or both? my biggest gripe with online is its speed, i wish they would bring it down to -1. what speed are you playing offline? do you think reducing it would help with defending?

I felt right away that -1 was needed to take away the arcade feeling and the skating.

 

[orlandoSPUR]

it really is different as well, so little time to react at times

 

[orlandoSPUR]

I felt right away that -1 was needed to take away the arcade feeling and the skating.

totally, some of the ways people can move say a villa or rooney is crazy, as stated in another thread i was absolutely battered today, it was terrible I just could get close to their players, and in the end the whole shape of my defence was a mess with my cb's out chasing on the wings it was like watching an u5's football match at times.

 

[Intoxic]

So I just played a few games (real - barca for example) with the new pes edit patch 1.0.
I slightly changed the pace to 0.97 on the settings and the game felt great. I am now waiting for the new update as I am hoping they changed the keeper AI. If they have fixed that, then this game will be back to the top where it belongs!!

 

[Anysecondnow]

So I just played a few games (real - barca for example) with the new pes edit patch 1.0.
I slightly changed the pace to 0.97 on the settings and the game felt great. I am now waiting for the new update as I am hoping they changed the keeper AI. If they have fixed that, then this game will be back to the top where it belongs!!

-1 on top player is the way to go......

 

[mason5r]

so if 0 feels like skating than what do we do about online????i guess we just deal with it

 

[Prof_Aj]

Gk Improved alot but the real problem is the passing man... i never had problem with passing since the iss pro... WTF Fix This Shit Konami Dog!! why u all to stupid passing!! for god sake!! pasing!!

 

[lyc10]

passing is fine for me, what i can't make sense of is the finishing, its just random i swear

 

[abu97]

you can finally feel the moving flow on passes which lackes on the next-gen games and is more realistic than pes 2011.

 

[mahanddeem]

I should have sent my wife away on a weekend vacation so I could get to the game to really know my impressions. Just can't get enough time in on it. gotta go, she is calling again.

A parents visit should do the trick ...lol

 

[MysteryMan]

you can finally feel the moving flow on passes which lackes on the next-gen games and is more realistic than pes 2011.

The passing was better in pes 11 imo, in 12 the passing still feels assisted even on 0 and some very few rare times you wanted to pass to another player very close to someone but the game will instead pass to the other guy.

Also the power is off, most of the times it feels good but sometimes the power doesn't rly feel like it was the power you choose, for example sometimes 60% power bar might feel a slower pass than when you did a 40% power one.

I just liked pes 11 passing a bit better, all it needed was less assistance and it would have been fine.

 

[mason5r]

manual passing has made it really good and fun

 

[bApTizE]

manual passing has made it really good and fun

does it feel like manual or still semi-assisted! also has the dribbling been improved! i play fifa12 on manual only and wished that pes12 has same option. PES 12 demo manual settings felt like semi-assisted, how is it in the final version?

 

[mason5r]

very accurate....before on semi assisted if you hold the pass or shoot button all the way down it would be very slow and if you tap it could be slow or fast...its more of by randomness and luck which is not fun...but thankfully IMO when you switch to manual and put pass support to 0 AND ONLY SHOOTING SEMI ASSISTED,manual than becomes better and than when you hold the button down all the way all the power is used;that is how it should be

:J hope this helps ya...

if you have any other questions let me know...this game is GREAT!!