EAFC 24 starhead thread

This Cranium technology is potentially a game changer for us. Basically they’re gonna use AI to recreate basically every player in the game’s face by feeding it images of each player.

Really interested to see how this turns out.

There are videos on Youtube showing updated faces and new faces.

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@ryangall2011 wrote:

This Cranium technology is potentially a game changer for us. Basically they’re gonna use AI to recreate basically every player in the game’s face by feeding it images of each player.

Really interested to see how this turns out.

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That sounds really cool. I might sound really stupid, but is there an opportunity they used this on Yamal? I mean to me he looks ‘too good’ to be a generic, but ‘too bad’ to be a custom. 

Osmane Dembele is scanned that confirms PSG rescan.

Regarding stadiums, last time they specifically told us 115 stadiums. This time 120+ stadiums, so there may be up to 129 presumably which would be 13 more than in 24. The fact they are being coy with the number does hint there may be a surprise or two (praying for ligue 1 or serie A)

We currently have 116 after Luton was added mid season. It is generally agreed that San Siro is gone after AC Milan and Inter have gone to Konami.

I think guaranteed are:

- Darmstadt

- Heidenheim

- Ipswich Town (probably later in the autumn)

- Sporting Lisbon

- River Plate

- Deportivo La Coruna

- Malaga

The likely include

- AS Roma (not sure exactly how that will work with Lazio who are still with Konami)

- Bologna

- AS Monaco

- Fenerbahce 

- Galatasaray

Other outside bets:

- Besiktas

- Red Bull Salzburg

- Feyenoord

- Fiorentina

- Napoli

- Rennes

- Lens

- Nice

- the rest of Ligue 1

- the rest of non-Konami Serie A

My guess is 121. So if it’s currently 116, then I’ll say Ipswich, Darmstadt, Heidenhiem, Bologna and fenerbache/gala

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@stugg93 wrote:

Regarding stadiums, last time they specifically told us 115 stadiums. This time 120+ stadiums, so there may be up to 129 presumably which would be 13 more than in 24. The fact they are being coy with the number does hint there may be a surprise or two (praying for ligue 1 or serie A)

We currently have 116 after Luton was added mid season. It is generally agreed that San Siro is gone after AC Milan and Inter have gone to Konami.

I think guaranteed are:

- Darmstadt

- Heidenheim

- Ipswich Town (probably later in the autumn)

- Sporting Lisbon

- River Plate

- Deportivo La Coruna

- Malaga

The likely include

- AS Roma (not sure exactly how that will work with Lazio who are still with Konami)

- Bologna

- AS Monaco

- Fenerbahce 

- Galatasaray

Other outside bets:

- Besiktas

- Red Bull Salzburg

- Feyenoord

- Fiorentina

- Napoli

- Rennes

- Lens

- Nice

- the rest of Ligue 1

- the rest of non-Konami Serie A

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Not overly optimistic but Surely there has to be a couple of Serie A stadiums coming.

Based on the way EA has operated they wouldn’t just add scans for those Serie A clubs and not add stadiums.

Also if your EA you would naturally say the lowest number of stadiums to maintain an element of surprise. 

Can anyone recall the wording used before the La Liga and Bundesliga treatments in FIFA 19/20? 

Is Fenerbache confirmed as a partner?

Really want to see Mert Müldür with a scan from when he was at Sassuolo .

If they are partners I imagine EA would look to add any scans for players since they won’t have scanned them. 

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@kiesch86 wrote:
@SambaFutbol22The partner clubs coming in the next weeks.

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Roma! 

The cranium technology sounds like it could be what we have all been waiting for. If AI can create player likeness based on pictures that potentially means real faces for every player in the game, right? Maybe real faces for my favourite team Sheffield Wednesday? 

I'm trying not to get my hopes up as we know EA love to disappoint but I've always wondered why in 2024 we can't have at least high quality customs for players in all the top leagues in the world. This new technology is hopefully the answer!

Also all the new career mode changes sound great. I've wanted youth teams included forever. The player career mode story's and the fact that all those scanned women are not completely pointless now is also a bonus. I just hope you can use the womens managers with scans for mens career modes. They would be perfect for some of the lower league career modes!

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@kiesch86 wrote:
@SambaFutbol22About the stadiums I think it's coming more than 121, not sure how much, but more than 121.

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Has to be more. If not, why wouldn’t they just say the number?

I’m hoping this is the case too with the cranium tech. I support lower league team so would be nice as I always but a full new squad so they have faces. If they indeed all look like the actual players this would’ve massive in terms of keeping players but also in signing players (I only sign players with face scans) 

but this is EA so not getting my hopes up til I see it in the flesh. 

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@AndyApple wrote:

but this is EA so not getting my hopes up til I see it in the flesh. 

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this is just a generally good approach.

the cranium tech, i assume, would still be in need of editing and proofing.
first, it'll need to have quite a large number of footage for players (from as many different angles as possbile, too) to properly inform the algorithm. this alone makes "real faces for every player" rather unlikely. the basic information just isnt available. second, they will have too check that it doesnt mess up and creates abominations based on some faults in the database.
BUT ... with a Premier League level of licensing coverage for the other 4 big leagues within the next game or the one after that I'd be happy enough. meaning faces, kits (including thirds, fourths and goalies) broadcasts and stadiums, too.

regarding the stadiums, there are just some beauties out there that dont look like a generic 4 walled arena or ellipsis. 
think of (if only for the scenery) Braga, Como, Monaco, Palermo, Atalanta, Monza, Parma, Torino, Genoa, Bologna, Firenze, Monaco, Montpellier, Nantes, Toulouse, Nice, Rotterdam, Nijmegen, Kaiserslautern, and other few turkish and greek stadiums too.
some of these would be amazing to have. or just have EAs super AI create some more interesting generative stadia or finally give us the chance to mix and mash elements in a stadium editor.

They mentioned AI being used to create stadiums to saying that it was much more faster to create them now so would hope we see more added more regulatory for example they could add all EFL championship after the big leagues.

just thinking in theory… with this cranium tech would this mean that every player would then have a unique head.. my thinking being that in the database, once the player is scanned in future, maybe this will just update without the need to restart a career as we do now as they will in theory already have a face?

we can only hope