CMS General Discussion Thread

When people have been crying out for changes to Career Mode and now I'm like no too many changes 😂😂 youth scouting is a tad restrictive in ways. You can scout more specific positions, but if you scout for a Goalkeeper then you can't scout for anything else. Can scout 4 positions at a time which is fine, but can't send more than 1 scout to same country. That's not new, but when you wanna fully scout a country for 9 months it's a bit annoying, but that's me 

Also another thing which I heard someone else having issues with, if you wanna play youth tournaments then don't promote your goalkeepers without scouting another one 😂

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@JustinCase0110 wrote:

As mentioned in my Serie A save, the Fixed Rate bug has ruined my current Serie A save. And I've set that up a handful of times now, I think, starting with the same players getting the same first 2-3 games in. A good exercise, I think, but I'm kind of fed op by doing it again now.

So this one will probably wait a bit for me to pick it up again. In the meantime I'll start up in Denmark with a little twist.

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I can't remember what I set my Bristol City Career up as now with that setting. We'll see what happen. I feel there is gonna be a lot of trial and error 

I do not have an issue with transfers turned off. I selected "disable for first window" and I do not even see an option for transfers in my CM. I just started a Spurs one (surprise) and tested it out, simulating up to the first match in mid-August and I have not received any transfers and do not see any happening so far.

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@LABoog4 wrote:

I do not have an issue with transfers turned off. I selected "disable for first window" and I do not even see an option for transfers in my CM. I just started a Spurs one (surprise) and tested it out, simulating up to the first match in mid-August and I have not received any transfers and do not see any happening so far.

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Sounds to me like you have an issue then. My (early) experience is that disabling the first transfer window happens to exclude transfers alltogether from the save. Not being able to scout players and not even having a transfer hub available. I hope I'm wrong or that it will soon be fixed, if I'm not.

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@thurlow885 wrote:

When people have been crying out for changes to Career Mode and now I'm like no too many changes 😂😂 youth scouting is a tad restrictive in ways. You can scout more specific positions, but if you scout for a Goalkeeper then you can't scout for anything else. Can scout 4 positions at a time which is fine, but can't send more than 1 scout to same country. That's not new, but when you wanna fully scout a country for 9 months it's a bit annoying, but that's me 

Also another thing which I heard someone else having issues with, if you wanna play youth tournaments then don't promote your goalkeepers without scouting another one 😂

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I must have been one of a few people not crying for (too many) changes in Career Mode. I generally liked most parts, hence why I've also managed to keep myself invested in CM from start to finish of every FIFA - and FC game for as long as I remember.

I like the addition of Rush games for youth teams. It's a fun way to start with youth players early, even bringing the possibility to start a story surrounding a youth team and in time promote these guys to a first team or whatever. Huge fan of this.

BUT, and that's a big but. The appearance of youngsters is especially frustrating for me. In FC23 I had youngsters I really liked to play with, but FC24 talents just look so different from real players, and I have a hard time seeing them grow into players I would like to be part of my team. If only they'd kept the basics from former games and added the Rush thing, then I'd have seen it as an upgrade. Now it's the opposite, I'm afraid. 

I'm happy with these games for youngsters. Because stats tell you so much, but feeling how your figurine actually plays helps me a lot. You'll always be able to find a fitting player, or a diamond in the rough.

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@LABoog4 wrote:
Now I understand what you are saying. I thought you turned disabled transfers on and they were still happening. I have not seen that yet.

Yes, the issue of the transfer hub not showing is there, which I noticed last night for the first time. I can only see my scouts and scout reports by going in through scout updates.

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Yes, exactly. And I'm afraid this will never change in the current save. Even if (WHEN!) EA rectify their mistake, I'm not sure it will apply to existing saves. So my suggestion would be to start over and keep the transfer window open from the start. Running a whole CM without the transfer hub available, I can't see that happening.

I just noticed how controversial it is of FC 25 to include the signing of minors under the age of 16. Within the EU, or to neighbouring countries it is still allowed. But an intercontinental move of a 13, or 14-year old is rare and highly controversial.

I just scooped up a 13-year old wonderkid from Brazil and I thought to highlight it with a post in my career story. But then I second guessed it and looked into it: only if parent[s] migrated to another country unrelated to football; only within EU from the age of 16; below that age, no further than 50 km from the border of the country of origin.

So, let's just say the parents of this 13 year old are expats and their boy wants to play football 😉

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@Danimal5981 wrote:

I just noticed how controversial it is of FC 25 to include the signing of minors under the age of 16. Within the EU, or to neighbouring countries it is still allowed. But an intercontinental move of a 13, or 14-year old is rare and highly controversial.

I just scooped up a 13-year old wonderkid from Brazil and I thought to highlight it with a post in my career story. But then I second guessed it and looked into it: only if parent[s] migrated to another country unrelated to football; only within EU from the age of 16; below that age, no further than 50 km from the border of the country of origin.

So, let's just say the parents of this 13 year old are expats and their boy wants to play football 😉

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Haha, yes that is something of a potential plot hole there, haha... Great find... 

After my initial struggles to begin a save properly and enjoy the gameplay, even strongly considering just going back to continue playing FC24, now I must admit that the game is growing on me.

I still have a few issues, especially with the youth team, where I find many youth players to have an awful appearance in the game. Often looking like little girls, will they ever grow into adult players in the first team? Hard to imagine really. And it also bothers me that you can't manage the youth team better in terms of formation, roles etc. And squad numbers!

But apart from that, I'm really beginning to enjoy it, which may not surprise you with the current pace of my story writeups. This is also a result of my attempt to make weekly updates though.

I'm loving it since day one. Actually, the somewhat more limiting options in tactics are a challenge to work around with, the limitations in scouting is fun as well - you wanna be successful in this game, you gotta work for it. I can already feel, I won't win this season's league and with my self-imposed limitations even next year will be challenging. The goal is a stand-out result in the Champions League, much like 2018-19 and my current estemate is that it will take 3-4 seasons for that.

There are some things that I do not like or have not grown used to yet but when it comes to gameplay, I am really liking this. This is the most realistic and hardest FIFA/FC game that I can remember. I still have to use the second controller option to make sure the CPU are playing their best players but when the game is happening, each match seems different and challenging. 

I do enjoy playing longer games. I felt like when I played 6-8 min halfs, I could never score.

What are we currently playing?

I play Legendary with sliders on simulation / 10 mins per half. Simulation settings, I drag down the AI's urge to dribble down to 5.

Gives me the most realistic feel overall, though on the pitch it still feels a bit too fast; on and off the pitch away teams still seem to be at an advantage.

I play 15 minute halves on legendary with custom sliders. The AI sliders, I turned shooting and crowing way up close to 80. One touch passing and dribbling are turned down to 30. 

i am still working on the speed of the game also. Turning down pass speed helps but it is still fast. Turning down sprint and acceleration slows the game down but then players feel heavy when moving so I am trying to find the balance. 

I play Legendary too. Five or six minute halves, I think, don't recall exactly. But 10 or 15 minutes, wow, I've never played Career Mode with games this long. With my current scorelines, games often ending 2-2 or 3-3, I would expect scorelines to be even more excessive, if I increased / doubled the match length.

I haven't played around with sliders too much. I think it's been pretty balanced so far, but I'll certainly check up on your experiences with them. Could perhaps improve my playing experience as well.

I tend to play on World Class, lose too much on Legendary 😂 but I also find it a good base level for messing with sliders. I know on world class I'm gonna win lose and draw games and it's easier to use this level to make certain parts harder/easier as and when I feel need to to keep up the challenge and enjoyment. Whilst I have no issue with losing I don't wanna be losing 10 in a row or anything 😜.

I'm also guilty of restarting games not because I'm losing, but because match doesn't feel right so ability to oaky with sliders during a match is great, but have felt that don't make as much difference this year during the game.

Examples of this like in previous years say I was up against Barcelona and they were playing around the back at 0-0 I'd likely restart the game but up their acceleration/speed and passing etc just to try and make it feel like I was playing Barca without making it too more difficult 

I haven't got the game, yet.  Is it okay, then?

What are the best bits?  What don't you like?

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@CO88LER5 wrote:

I haven't got the game, yet.  Is it okay, then?

What are the best bits?  What don't you like?

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Hi mate, good to see you back here!

Plenty of good things to report. Gameplay fun and challenging. And there's a competition for your youth team, so one can implement youth team football in ones story, adding more depth to the story of a young player being promoted to the first team and handed his debut. All in all a good experience so far. One needs to set up the save right though. If you set it up with a "closed first transfer window", transfers are removed completely from the game it seems. A bug that will hopefully soon be fixed. But if you start with an open window, then everything seems to work.

However, they've made quite a big deal of trying to make youth players look / appear young. Most agree that they've taken it a step too far though, so a lot of the youngsters are just 5'2 with faces making them look like little girls. Sometimes you come across a talent that looks decent, but the rest of the talents I find? No, can't see myself including them to the first team with their childish and girlish appearances. And I don't expect them to age either, so I can't imagine myself playing 6-8 seasons in and seeing these dolls represent a 24-25 year old. No way. I really hope they revert this to the way it was or at least allow us to edit these things ourselves.

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@JustinCase0110 wrote:

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@CO88LER5 wrote:

I haven't got the game, yet.  Is it okay, then?

What are the best bits?  What don't you like?

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Hi mate, good to see you back here!

 One needs to set up the save right though. If you set it up with a "closed first transfer window", transfers are removed completely from the game it seems. A bug that will hopefully soon be fixed. But if you start with an open window, then everything seems to work.

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Just to clarify I believe this is a lucky dip bug, many reporting the issue, I however and others haven't had that issue so I don't entirely know what is causing it. 

But in general it's each to their own on opinions, if you look at rest of the forum you'll see about 600 threads telling us it's the worst game ever like every other year. I have a few niggly things that big me, but overall I'm enjoying it especially career mode

On that note regarding transfers another issue I had been hearing about which turns out I'm also having issues not receiving notifications of bids only a message when they have pulled out because you've basically ignored them so transfer hub needs to be checked regularly especially if you have players listed.