It’s mid-October, when you’re playing Football Manager, it’s time to look at the fixture and worry. Because if you have injured players, you’re too far away to supplement halftime, and if you have a goalkeeper who hasn’t performed so far, you can’t change them for a while. If things aren’t going well on October 15th, at least the first half of the league won’t go well. Unless you work a miracle! The release of the new Football Manager is less than a month away, with the first images and innovations from the game introduced by both FM and Miles Jacobson. Let’s see what awaits us in Football Manager 2022.
Match Engine Is Changing
For me, a 3D match engine is not a very important feature in a football manager’s game because I still use ball men in 80% of my games. But if a good 3D match engine comes along, I promise myself I’ll quit the habit. FM 22 has taken the first step in this regard. With the new animation engine, it is said that there will be an obvious improvement in ball riding and ballless running. You can even see this change in yourself with the animation engine that you can watch here and the ball-riding mechanics videos you will watch here. Let me explain the most fundamental difference in this change.
Previous FM match engines were basically based on 2D, a system I call cannon man. Now that it’s completely 3D; In FM 21, for example, a player was controlling the ball and taking it in front of him with minimal movements, like a pinball player. While this was toloreable in close-range passes, it didn’t make much sense with the quality of players, especially in the minor leagues, in long passes of 50-60 meters. Now with the new engine, more animation will appear on FM 22;
When you’re playing a managerial game, your biggest expectation from the game engine is to see your dream tactics applied on the field. One of the innovations of FM 22 was to completely revamp the press system. Now if you prefer to press in zone 3 when the opposing team is coming out of defence, you will be able to see it directly. Likewise, if you want to put pressure on a specific player, the match engine will present it to you more clearly. As the above video shows, players are smarter about narrowing space.
AI Is Now More Vibrant
When you play Football Manager, you suddenly find yourself in another world. The players there, the opposing team coaches, your own coach and observer team, they’re all living people, and in some cases they have to put character in. If at some point AI starts to get ridiculous, the joy you get from the game is undermined by magic. Thanks to FM, it updates AI with momentum every year. 22, this AI acceleration looks like it’s going to go up. It’s quite possible that we’ll see more sensible moves and behaviors both on and off the field.
So much upgrade of the match engine has also led directly to the development of artificial intelligence. Now the players on the field will react more realistically in terms of their characteristics. The winger, who now has eight tackles in the lower leagues, will no longer curl in like Messi. Or a low-profile midfielder like Pirlo won’t be able to play 200 feet. Of course, the behavior of high-profile players will become more pleasing to the eye in parallel. This will make it much more sniffy that you fully control the game played on the field according to the tactic you choose. Now you’ll have to think twice about choosing acting roles. And when it comes to the role of Wide Centre-Back, which was added to the game to be played in 3-way defenses, we have plenty of pressing days ahead of us in the opposing field.
A coach alone will never be enough to run the whole team. Whether it’s in the most elite teams in the world or in the amateur cluster, this never changes at The Gamegezer Municipal Sports. The more equipped your team is, the more likely you are to succeed. With the new Football Manager, your coaching and scouting teams will now come up with more original ideas in meetings. He’ll give you more plausible and rational suggestions. So out of the blue, he’s not going to say, “Let’s take Eser out of the captaincy and make Mert captain” when everything’s going great. At least that’s what FM is promising us right now. When watching player development, your observer and coach quality will directly contribute to player analysis and recommendations of AI. 6 Player Potential Known Neighborhood barber Uncle Hussein will now have even more trouble finding Wonderkid!
Data Matters, but If Hagi Hits From 100 Feet, My Hands Are Tied
At the new point in football, a lot of people are trying to read everything through statistics. Of course, football is inherently a score that can produce results far beyond this data. For example, a match between 0.09 xG and 4.12 xG can end 1-0 and has plenty of examples. But there is no need to be ignorant of completely ignoring the data. You have to hold on to this data, especially when things are going badly. This Data Center feature of FM 22 can also be a lifeline that can save lives.
First, you need inputs to access this data. For those inputs, naturally, you have to play a game and put a performance on the field. Thanks to the data center, which will open after playing a few games, you will be able to see what the team has done wrong in attack or defense, and you will have concrete information when choosing a squad for individual performances. But don’t forget to put an 18 flair player in one place on the bench again, where everything is blocked, talent will still unlock football.
Previous Football Manager games also had Analysts. In fact, when you were recruiting players, you would come across a specialist unit of this, but it was not possible to get a full yield from them. Fm explained in its article that these analysts will now be much more useful and will meet your demands directly. The AI development I mentioned above seems to be the biggest step FM will take this year to improve the quality of the game. Finally, I should mention that we will see many more tables and figures in this data center. Those who don’t disrupt geometry and math classes in high school seem to be one step ahead of assimilating these analyses.
Victims of Accidentally Pressing the SpaceBar, Gather!
You have plenty of opportunities to unwind the mistake you made in managerial games. However, where time is limited, these opportunities disappear in an instant and stress floods you. Especially if you accidentally stepped into the void and wasted this precious time. FM 22 is coming to give us another chance at this. The final days of the transfer window cause chaos in the football world. And in the chaos, you start looking around to see if I’ll get a nice meal on my plate. The opportunity transfers that will come your way at once can destroy the squad planning you made at the beginning of the season and open a new path. On the last day of the transfer, FM 22 has also improved considerably. Football representatives with players who have left-handers can come to you and try to tempt you by saying, “I have a left-back, a flare!” Or you can use the representatives again to relax your hand while you send the player.
In the pregame team talk, another congested time-consuming process, you can “silently treat” the team and demoralize it if you accidentally step into the gap. This time, you get a more important warning on FM. “Look, are you sure this is how you’re going to treat the team? Let the assistant teacher talk to these kids,” the FM warned, aiming to avoid significant resentments. However, there is still no development at the desired level in these player conversations. Apart from a few new lines added before the derby and critical matches, FM21’s talking patterns seem to be in full control. Of course, fm has a monopoly on this, so we’re going to have to look at FM23 for that.
Apart from all these innovations, many features that will relax you both on and off the field will be in FM 22. We give more detail in our game review how well these work in real life. But I’m a little excited by the differences I’ve seen in the game so far. As someone who spends thousands of hours on managerial games every year, fm 22’s innovations potentially create an air of “game changer.” In particular, the development of artificial intelligence can make a big difference in the way FM replaces real life. Football Manager 2022 will be released on 9Th of October and will be available to play through Game Pass from day one. May you always have the chance to play football in the new season, The Gamers, plenty of goals.
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