detroitrex said: so, I've been unsuccessfully trying to find the quote off and on for a while, but I'm pretty sure that it was in the buildup to the release of fm23 that miles or someone at SI talked about how they were trying to make first touches and passing weights a little more realistic and you could tell it was working because the ball would bobble around more in midfield and the engine wasn't full of everyone playing silky smooth tikitaka like peak barcelona. Expand
Yeah, that would explain it. I can understand the rationale behind that decision, but what it seemed to end up doing is turning an already limited meta (gegenpress has always been the go-to for years now) into a pretty much one-dimensional meta.
detroitrex said: I remember reading that preview and getting a sinking feeling that the days of lovely dangerous possession were over. Expand
that's the thing that bothers me right now, I don't want a game-breaking possession tactic, but currently it seems like the game is making me sacrifice possession for xG.
In FM22, I managed to have a pretty successful save (winning multiple champions league with Sporting CP) with a very slow tempo, possession style tactic, averaging more than 700 passes per game. It looked like this:
However, like others have said in the thread, in FM24 it seems to be impossible to be this successful with a possession style tactic, even with the best team in the world, it always seems like we can't create enough chances.
I loved the way this tactic played in the FM22 engine, and to be honest it kinda bums me out I can't have anything close to it on FM24.
Yeah, that would explain it. I can understand the rationale behind that decision, but what it seemed to end up doing is turning an already limited meta (gegenpress has always been the go-to for years now) into a pretty much one-dimensional meta.
detroitrex said: I remember reading that preview and getting a sinking feeling that the days of lovely dangerous possession were over.
that's the thing that bothers me right now, I don't want a game-breaking possession tactic, but currently it seems like the game is making me sacrifice possession for xG.
However, like others have said in the thread, in FM24 it seems to be impossible to be this successful with a possession style tactic, even with the best team in the world, it always seems like we can't create enough chances.
I loved the way this tactic played in the FM22 engine, and to be honest it kinda bums me out I can't have anything close to it on FM24.