simakperrce
Reserve Team
i love the game as much as any of you and have been playing it extensively almost every day since release...
yet, i am starting to wonder if Konami will ever have a take at the following issues all of which seem to be old (and rather smelly) leftovers from the ISSPE days...
1) unfair CPU speed advantage
not as prominent as in PES2, but still annoying. i purchased a player from the "growth" list and gave him stellar settings (speed 99, accel 93, reaction 94)... needless to say he STILL is outpaced by your run-of-the-mill defender... when you play against him, tho, he will take off like a concorde..
2) related: infamous 180 degree CPU flick
you know the one i mean, don't you? CPU winger running towards the goal line and just before reaching it doing the 180 inside flip. usually so fast, that your defenders can't cope. 9 out of 10 cases (if you cover him. if you don't cover him he'll outrun you)
3) players still running for lost through balls
no comment. we are in -- what? like the 5th year of them doing that...
4) can't control player speed or direction while ball is in the air
long downfielder... can only reach it when i run fast. but player only reacts to my pressing R1 when the ball is on the ground or long since in possession of the CPU
5) throw ins.
both CF and FIFA have a better models than PES. why is there no analog direction, strength-of-pushing based throw in-- a powerbar like with shooting?
6) still no indirect free-kicks
why? doesn't even the evil FIFA have it?
7) keeper still can't drop ball
when still in game. why are keeper goal kicks not subject to the powerbar (or ar they)? why does the keeper sometimes refuse to throw the ball out and forces you to have him kick it?
i am sure there is more (damn biased referees for example) and again: it's not that i want to bash it. it's a great game. i just wish they'd be a bit more "inventive" so to say. hope that some of these things can be "patched away" in the PC version some day.
yet, i am starting to wonder if Konami will ever have a take at the following issues all of which seem to be old (and rather smelly) leftovers from the ISSPE days...
1) unfair CPU speed advantage
not as prominent as in PES2, but still annoying. i purchased a player from the "growth" list and gave him stellar settings (speed 99, accel 93, reaction 94)... needless to say he STILL is outpaced by your run-of-the-mill defender... when you play against him, tho, he will take off like a concorde..
2) related: infamous 180 degree CPU flick
you know the one i mean, don't you? CPU winger running towards the goal line and just before reaching it doing the 180 inside flip. usually so fast, that your defenders can't cope. 9 out of 10 cases (if you cover him. if you don't cover him he'll outrun you)
3) players still running for lost through balls
no comment. we are in -- what? like the 5th year of them doing that...
4) can't control player speed or direction while ball is in the air
long downfielder... can only reach it when i run fast. but player only reacts to my pressing R1 when the ball is on the ground or long since in possession of the CPU
5) throw ins.
both CF and FIFA have a better models than PES. why is there no analog direction, strength-of-pushing based throw in-- a powerbar like with shooting?
6) still no indirect free-kicks
why? doesn't even the evil FIFA have it?
7) keeper still can't drop ball
when still in game. why are keeper goal kicks not subject to the powerbar (or ar they)? why does the keeper sometimes refuse to throw the ball out and forces you to have him kick it?
i am sure there is more (damn biased referees for example) and again: it's not that i want to bash it. it's a great game. i just wish they'd be a bit more "inventive" so to say. hope that some of these things can be "patched away" in the PC version some day.