Football Manager 2010

[johnhughthom]

Isn't PC gaming just a joy? MY graphics card (Radeon HD 4650) which can play Empire at pretty high graphic settings and just let me play Risen with everything maxed has decided that FM 10 is much too difficult for it to play. I can't finish a match without my drivers stopping responding. So I have had to put my trusty old Radeon X1300 back in to play.

It's worth it though, I can't believe all the reviews are saying same old, same old. It's the most refreshing FM for quite a while, the new tactical set up is great and there are so many new little features to find. Loving it so far, now to finally finish that trip to Fleetwood...

[Boohugh]

May sound obvious (and sorry if you tried it already!), but did you try updating your graphics drivers?

Personally, I'm not going to even consider getting it until a certain bug is fixed that I've read about. It's not really game-breaking, but it's enough of an annoyance to put me off getting the game. I'll put the details in spoilers in case you don't want to know about it, because it's a case where if you don't know about it you can play just fine without really noticing, but if you do know it will really bug you!

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Basically, when you finish a match every player on the pitch gets a rise of 9-12% in their condition, but any players you sub off don't! This makes the whole idea of taking players off to rest them for the next match pointless as they'll be more tired than the ones you leave on. Until they fix that bug (the subbed players should get the bonus too) then match substitutions, a fairly major part of the game I'm sure you'll agree, are basically pointless unless you get an injury and knowing about it somewhat ruins the immersion for me.

I'd be interested to hear what anyone else playing the game thinks though. What are your favourite features? What is the pacing like compared with older versions? Stuff like that .

Edit: And no, the bug wasn't fixed in Update 1 released yesterday

[johnhughthom]

That's a pretty shocking bug, have SI said anything about it, couldn't find anything on their forum and they are usually pretty upfront about things like that.

[Boohugh]

They stayed silent in most of the threads about it (apparently it was present throughout the whole of FM2009 too, despite being aware of it the whole time), however I did find one thread a couple of days ago where they replied that they would try to get it looked at in the next patch as a priority and were sorry they didn't make it a priority in Patch 1.

[naut]

Pretty good player I found:



Checked the editor and he has bags of potential. Hard to get though outside of Korea or in countries with foreign player limits.

[Craterus]

What was his potential?

[naut]

-9. So pretty good.