Re: EAFC 24 starhead thread

Are St Louis fc in the beta? Wonder if their face scanned players are back yet for all to see 

I can't even enjoy a career mode atm on the beta. I hate the new fitness/performance coaching, I do like the fact you don't have to do training drills for players to improve because they we're so annoying last year. The new coaches are pointless. We still can't attack and defend in different formations which is annoying. Like Arsenal go into 3 2 4 1 when attacking but when defending go into a 4 2 3 1 formation. There's many teams that attack and defending in different formations which the game doesn't allow you to do easily. I think PES used to allow this.

Finally the fact that no La Liga teams seem complete enough to use. There's just too many generics. Not enough young players scanned and lots of important players still missing.

De Tomas

Ocampos

Miranda 

Pedrosa 

Etc etc

There's barely any players scanned under the age of 23. 

18 new scans in La Liga for players 16-21. The whole league still feels so incomplete. Even more so than the Bundesliga last year beacuse at least last year we got a lot of high potential youth players.

EAFC data came out on Sofifa.

With the 3rd qualifying round effectively complete in UCL, Maccabi Haifa are the only unlicensed team left. They are capable of beating Young Boys and joining Crvena Zvezda in group stage.

These 2 are the ones that EA would do well to license to ensure we have a more authentic game moving forward. They are also mostly responsible for why we have had incomplete UCLs since 2018 (along with Zenit when Russia were allowed in UEFA comps and Sheriff Tiraspol).

I would also argue Maccabi Tel Aviv and Partizan Belgrade (2nd best clubs in their nations) along with Slovan Bratislava, Ludogorets, Olympiacos, Sheriff, Qarabag and Dnipro are the other clubs that should be licensed to remove the risk of having this issue moving forward.

Yes, it is unlikely to happen, but at least Maccabi Haifa and Crvena Zvezda should be in the game. 

These forums are terrible think EA know what they are doing by getting rid of the other as they can’t be shown up that the starhead are the biggest thread on there forums 

We will just have to make this the biggest thread on EA answers. Maybe one day they will take notice and listen to the community and start to invest more into starheads for the top 5 leagues and partner clubs than spending resorces on Ultimate team all the time. We're in 2023. They increased the scan rigs from 1 to 5 and we seem to get less scans now than we did previously. This year looks one of the worst yet for starheads. 

@sjsharp2010  Yes I know you can switch between formations mid game using the different tactics but it doesn't change shape automatically. It doesn't seamlessly move from a 4 at the back to a 3. When teams do it in real life the players are trained to make the switch look seamless. Even if I have a 4-2-3-1 defensive formation and a 3-2-4-1 offensive formation by the time the team win it back and I adjust my tactics while in game my team still ends up defending that play with the 3-2-4-1. The full back that pulls in and the full back that tucks into defence don't seem to float back into their natural positions seemlessly. It's all clunky and messy so using the tactics that Arsenal with Zinchenko, Man City with Stones and Liverpool with Alexander-Arnold use moving the full backs into midfield in an inverted roll doesn't translate very well in game. I've tried using a 4-3-3 formation and setting the full back to attack inverted but they still seem to end up too wide. They don't float into the midfield properly. Just very frustrating that EA don't keep on top of modern day tactics. Then again what can you expect when they hold back scans for years, don't make customs for top players, still have sweat bands (which don't match the colours of the away kits too) 

It's a pity that the biggest football game is being made by people who's national sports are Ice Hockey and Lacrosse. The company doesn't care about football the same way we do and just make the games from profit that's why it's all about ultimate team and micro transactions instead of making the game as realistic as possible. In 2023 we should not be using generic players that look like they we're made back in 2003. 

I’m liking the new Antony scan just a shame they haven’t added his arm tattoos etc same with Enzo 

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@BenjaniMUFC wrote:

I’m liking the new Antony scan just a shame they haven’t added his arm tattoos etc same with Enzo

Antony isn’t a scan it’s a update to his bad custom Fernandez is a custom and a very bad one at that 

Anthony scan? On my beta it's still a horrific custom that looks nothing like him. Same with Garnacho and Martinez. Their customs are terrible.

Anyone with the beta career. Is it true that it now goes into a dynamic match start and we no longer see the lineups in the broadcast packages etc? Also can you say is there any new broadcast packages/scoreboards. EFL etc

I would just like a code for the Beta😓 I don't want to buy the game without fleece again.

I'll be playing it again monday so I'll take a look then. I usually skip over the match intros so I haven't paid attention to if it shows lines ups. 

Overall career mode updates suck. The getting coaches in is a bit boring. The balancing of fitness and sharpness is annoying because the only time you can build sharpness is pre season. Throughout the season you have to use a fitness based training plan otherwise your players will enter matches with really low stamina and risk injuries. I thought the sharpness plans would be useful for reserve players but for some reason the players stamina seems to suck more than ever so I'm having to rotate the squad massively so I'm having to use reserve players in a lot of matches to build the fitness back up of 1st team players because even on a basic fitness based plan they don't recover fast enough and if I change the plan to target fitness any more then it sacrifices their sharpness too much. The training before matches to gain extra traits is pointless too. I can already win every match on legendary difficulty without doing the training sessions. It doesn't help player growth and the traits you get only last 1 match so it just made me not bother at all with training drills.

When I gave my beta feedback I explained that the career mode changes didn't make me want to play career mode any more than I wanted to play last year. I explained the lack of starheads takes away from the authenticity of career mode which ruins the experience. For future changes I said I would like to see fully licenced youth leagues added, managers dealing in chats with managers, players, the board memebers about goals for the club, transfers, contract situations etc in more cut scenes. 

Overall I like the La Liga scans but there just aren't enough of them. Love Veiga, Lazaro, Cho, Frednesa etc some great young player scans but there just aren't enough scans from players 23 and under. Most are from already established players meaning you can't build any sort of scanned youth team unless you play for a top club and have a youth team full of 70+ overall youth players which is unrealistic. They should have scanned a lot more lower ranked youth players like they did in the Bundesliga and like they do in the premiership. The career mode updates none of them make me enjoy the mode any more. Infact out of all the main updates I don't like any of them as much as the fact they added more clothes choices for mangers 🤣 an speaking of managers they scanned Spanish clubs and added no new manager scans. Absolute shambles! No premiership scans, No partner scans, no updated Bundesliga scans, other than a hand full of Juve players (literally about 5) no Serie A scans. The customs are nice for players like Musiala but the customs for me are still unuseable because they're just not good enough quality for a 2023 product. The whole game feels so incomplete with generic players everywhere the whole experience just feels so broken. It's almost impossible to pick a club and enjoy using them. You have to pretty much transfer out half your squad when you start career mode unless you like using player models that look like they we're built in 2003 rather than 2023. You have the choice of a hand full of managers because they added just 1 new manager scan into the game this year. The only career mode I've enjoyed so far is Real Madrid as they're pretty much the only useable club. Atletico are heavily scanned too but that long haired Greizman makes me not want to use them. 

Unless a huge amount of scans are added post release the game is dead before it's released. 

I don't know if you guys noticed but there are a bunch of new authentic stadiums that were added in the EAFC24 database. Some were expected but some are imo surprising, I hope it means that at some point face scans of those teams will also be added. Here are the new stadiums (found the list on twitter, maybe there are more), you can see for yourselves on sofifa ('FC 24 DEMO') :

- Celtic Park (Celtic)

- Ibrox Stadium (Rangers)

- Estadio Martínez Valero (Elche)

- Power Horse Stadium (Almeria)

- Sportpark Ronhof Thomas Sommer (SpVgg Greuther Fürth)

- Decathlon Arena (Lille)

- Millerntor-Stadion (St. Pauli)

- Udinese Arena (Udinese)

I find the last three surprising/random (Lille, St. Pauli, Udinese), not too sure what to expect though.

Forgot to mention the Vonovia Ruhrstadion (VfL Bochum 1848)

Is there any new exterior shots of stadiums (mainly old premier league ones in EFL?)

So far, no bombastic news regarding Série A.We only have La Liga and I don't think we'll see many things these years.

I've just posted about the removed faces in the beta; if you have access to the beta feedback (bug report section) I would appreciate a bit of support to try and get it seen by EA (and hopefully them do something about it, even if it's feedback as to their reasons). The topic is called 'Removed faces - 45+ players gone from scanned to generic'

Thanks

Can you pass the link?

And that doesn't even go into generic managers like Hodgson, Ten Hag, Nuno etc that have had faces previously. EA are a joke of a company. They do this same rubbish every year then add so many back through the game in updates like they're doing us a favour adding in starheads that should have never been removed in the first place. They have been scanning players for the past 10/11 years now. You'd think in that time they would improve how they add them, how long it takes to add them, not removing them constantly and making new new scans work in existing saves. Surely all these things are just basic? But ever year rhey remove tons of scans, we have to wait weeks for squad updates to see new faces and then we can't use them in existing saves and it seems to take them forever to implement them into the game after the teams are scanned. We're in 2023. You'd think they would have got to grips with the basics by now. Incompetence at the highest level. 

How many managers were sacked in lal liga.  La liga was scannes in october