Fifa 12 MM Thread

[krulmichael]

Forgot to post this like last week, but I scored my first "skilled" goal with my virtual pro (myself ) on World Class and it was one of the best feelings ever.

http://www.easports.com/media/play/video/101068826

THEN...this literally just happened (have the game on pause cause I was uploading the clip), it's the World Cup all over again...I WAS robbed a free kick as you can clearly see the ball bounces behind the line and back out...didn't count! Against Bayern out of all things too...those bastards!

http://www.easports.com/media/play/video/101487615

EDIT: Apparently you can't embed on here...lame.

[krulmichael]

Is the progression better this year? I sold FIFA 11 on eBay because my guys weren't progressing at all in MM.

In a word, yes. For CPU & user teams. Some of my guys have went up 2-3 points half a season in so far.

[RyanLeaf16]

Lost a game last night 1-0 to Arsenal in the FA Cup. I had a ton of chances and just couldn't get one in the net. I started my new young CM/CAM in Johnathan Williams. He is currently a 64 ovr and I considered loaning him out, but, I might not do that till the summer window. I don't really care about Cup games much, so that is why he got the start. I also switched formations from a 4-4-1-1 to a 4-2-3-1.

[RyanLeaf16]

THEN...this literally just happened (have the game on pause cause I was uploading the clip), it's the World Cup all over again...I WAS robbed a free kick as you can clearly see the ball bounces behind the line and back out...didn't count! Against Bayern out of all things too...those bastards!

http://www.easports.com/media/play/video/101487615

EDIT: Apparently you can't embed on here...lame.

Clearly a goal

[Prodigal Son]

Did your game then start freaking out and having news articles about goal line technology?

[krulmichael]

Did your game then start freaking out and having news articles about goal line technology?

No...but it would have been awesome if it did. Didn't really matter anyways since they won 2-0...Bayern's just too beastly against my sub-par Kaiserslautern...for now.

I will say that I haven't been addicted to a sports game (OFFLINE) like this since like Madden 2004 on the PS2. This shit is like crack to me.

[RyanLeaf16]

No...but it would have been awesome if it did. Didn't really matter anyways since they won 2-0...Bayern's just too beastly against my sub-par Kaiserslautern...for now.

I will say that I haven't been addicted to a sports game (OFFLINE) like this since like Madden 2004 on the PS2. This shit is like crack to me.

I feel the same way. Best sports game I have played in years.

[RyanLeaf16]

Update:

Played the 2nd leg of the Carling Cup semifinal against Tottenham at home and won 3-0 which led to me winning the aggregate 4-2, so I am on to the final in that competition.

The game following that was a league match against Everton and we got our arse handed to us! Sitting second in the league, we really needed to keep pace with Man United. However, Chicharito somehow found his way onto the Everton roster (has to be there on loan as I didn't see any stories in the game about him being sold) and netted 3 goals in a 5-1 win for Everton.

Interesting note about the Everton game. I went with what you might call our "2nd team defense," but, kept Micah Richards on the pitch as the one regular. During a corner kick he somehow injured his MCL and went down to the ground in pain. Brought in our new young signing (who I was planning on loaning out in the summer window to get his OVR up and give him some PT) at centerback - Bruno Uvini. Shortly thereafter, we let up 3 goals before halftime.

On transfer deadline day I figured I would hold on to Kolo Toure, as I previously listed him for transfer, and use him in a rotation with Lescott at centerback with Kompany staying the main man in the middle. However, Bayern Munich offered me £15,000,000 for Kolo Toure and I couldn't pass that up. I quickly accepted the offer and decided to go with Lescott/Savic rotating.

First game after our trouncing by Everton, we played Fulham. James Milner was the Man of the Match with 2 goals as we got back to form in a impressive 3-0 win.

I'm 2nd in the league right now, but, I am 7 points behind Man U. Only upside to that is I have 2 games in hand right now.

[RyanLeaf16]

Match Day 25: Aston Villa vs Manchester City

Some of the audio is off and the editing is shit. I was using Movie Maker so it took forever. I got Vegas Pro 11 tonight so once I learn how to use that I should be able to try some different things with the vids

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y-DWIJtHOg"]Fifa 12 Man City vs Aston Villa EPL 11-12 MD25.m2ts - YouTube[/ame]

Lost Thiago to a broken ankle and Lescott to a sprained knee. This is on top of the injuries to Owen Hargreaves and Micah Richards.

[krulmichael]

Significant patch arriving today on both consoles (PS3/360).

Source - PastaPadre

EA Sports is releasing a massive patch for FIFA 12 that will be delivering improvements to everything from gameplay, to online, to career mode and a whole lot more. The update is scheduled to roll out today for both the Xbox 360 and PS3. Continue on for the full list of changes supplied by EA and leave any thoughts in the comments!

Gameplay
•Sometimes the game would get confused when a user called a second player to take a quick throw-in, where the game would consider the ball to have re-entered play. We’ve made sure this won’t happen anymore.

•We have fixed an occasional problem where a user’s crossing setting would default to Manual and need to be reset.

•Very rarely indeed, a physics error could cause a player’s leg positioning to become misaligned. You may have seen some videos of that around the time we brought out the demo for FIFA 12. As rare as it was (the vast majority of people will have never experienced it), it’s now fully extinct.

Career Mode
•You can now select the weather conditions before entering a game.

•Your chief executive’s salary suggestions when offering a youth player a senior contract will now remain consistent when exiting and re-entering the negotiation screens.

•We have made sure that, after releasing a player from the Youth Squad, his salary returns to the Wage Budget.

•When loaning in a player with an option to buy him at the end of the season, if that player caused you to reach the maximum squad size, you wouldn’t be able to buy him. Now you can.

•It’s now no longer possible to sign a Youth Player with a wage greater than your available wage budget.

•We have addressed a couple of rare situations where specific actions would cause controller buttons to become unresponsive.

•When playing as a player in Career Mode, your manager will now be more inclined to sub off your player if he’s getting too tired.

•We’ve made sure that commentary won’t fail to show up when playing League Cup games involving Manchester United.

•We have fixed a situation where, given a certain set of circumstances when editing and saving player positions, you could see player names converted to numbers before experiencing a console hang.

•We fixed an issue where it was possible for the user’s player’s team to enter a new season without a goalkeeper, or without the minimum number of players needed to play a match.

•We have solved a problem that involved the player’s team recording a win despite forfeiting a league game because of an insufficient match-day squad.

•Recently signed Youth Squad players who you’re attempting to sell on will now enter negotiations with an accurate, consistent ‘Current Wage’ displayed, meaning you’ll see them picked up much more easily by CPU teams.

•If you and a friend entered a Career Mode game with two controllers, advanced beyond the Player Selection screen and then backed all the way out again, the game would hang. We got that fixed.

•We have taken care of a bug that caused apparently random crashes in Career Mode, with players sometimes appearing with a zeroed cash value.

•Physical attributes of players were growing a little unrealistically since they were tied to their overall growth potential. We have made a change that separates the growth of these attributes from others, resulting in much more steady progression.

•You can now offer a new contract to players you have loaned out for the last year of their contract, before they run off and become free agents.

•Loaned players weren’t always growing fast enough. We have tuned this to be more noticeable, making loaning players out much more rewarding.

•More mid-week Career Mode games will now be played with night-time lighting conditions.

FIFA 12 Ultimate Team
•Using an outdated “Take Me There” link on a Trade Feed notification in the FUT hub will no longer result in your coins not being returned if you lost the auction.

•The Trade Feed notification in the FUT Hub for a newly acquired Goalkeeper Coach will no longer cause the game to hang.

•Creating a new squad, then immediately deleting an old one before then applying an item to your new squad could result in a disconnection. Not now it won’t.

•We have made sure that real-time information is displayed on active auctions. You’ll no longer find yourself unknowingly outbid while waiting for those auctions to count down.

•We have isolated and eradicated a data-flow interruption that sometimes caused the game to crash while players were on the Match Setup screen before a FUT game.

•You will now see your EAS FC XP increase – and your news feed update – after playing a single-player or play-a-friend game in FUT.

•We have optimised the game to make sure the console won’t struggle, or even crash, when paging through a lot of FUT auction pages.

•We have taken care of a crash that would occur if users entered FUT and downloaded the latest update after creating a Virtual Pro.

•We have made a couple of separate enhancements to the FUT pack purchasing system to make sure sudden losses of internet connectivity (such as pulling the network cable) won’t result in console crashes.

•We discovered that if you downloaded a roster update in FUT and, while still on the update confirmation screen, signed out from your Gamer Profile, the game would crash. Not many people would do that but, just in case they do, they’re now safe.

FIFA 12 Clubs
•Changes that Clubs players make to camera settings during a Clubs game will now find those settings saved for subsequent games.

•You will now be able to change your penalty kick taker via Team Management between the penalty kick being awarded and taken.

•Clubs players’ accomplishments are now fully tracked in online matches.

•We asked you, and you told us. Community feedback overwhelmingly suggests that the default AI in Clubs is too powerful, leading to clubs choosing not to field defenders in order to allow the AI to do their work for them. We have therefore dropped the AI difficulty level in Clubs from World Class to Professional, and have made some complimentary minor adjustments to AI goalkeepers.

My Live Season
•Injured or suspended players will now be automatically moved to the reserves, not the subs bench. And there’ll be no more missing subs as a result in subsequent games.

EA SPORTS Football Club
•We have made an optimisation that stops the game making too many calls for Support Your Club information on entering the EAS FC hub.

•Every now and then, when coming back to the main menu from another area of the game, the Back/Select button to go to the EAS FC hub was not always displayed and functional. That won’t happen anymore.

•We have taken care of a rare crash bug that cropped up when entering the EAS FC hub from the main menu.

•We have enhanced the way the game loads the pre-match arena before an EAS FC Challenge.

•All your Career Mode activity will now display correctly in the EAS FC news feed.

FIFA 12 Online
•An occasional problem saw users repeatedly failing to match-up online due to mismatching squad files, despite re-downloading the online squad file. We’ve made sure that won’t bother anyone again.

•A small number of people found their stats not tracking properly for Online Friendlies games. They are now.

Creation Centre

•We have solved a problem that saw FIFA 12 crash when trying to download PNG images (e.g. a team crest) that were over the maximum file size.

•Particularly keen Creation Centre users who bookmarked a lot of items to download into their game could find that they were not able to enter the Creation Centre gallery. Now they can.

•We have fixed a rare problem where it was possible in specific circumstances to find your Creation Centre team hit the pitch with a man missing.

•We have made sure that swapping and changing kit sponsor images on the web will no longer cause any problems on the console.

•We have improved the way FIFA 12 handles large numbers of Creation Centre downloads to make sure there’s no slow-down in the performance of team-selection screens.

•The game no longer struggles to retrieve Tournament Crest images in the Creation Centre gallery.

EA SPORTS Arena
•We have enabled private sessions within the EA SPORTS Arena.

And some others…
•We have turned on our in-game podcasts. If you want to listen in, you can access our regular five-minute chunks of audio news and information by turning the option on in the Game Settings > Audio menu. [English language only]

•We have made some optimisations to make sure that people with lots of save files on their hard drives don’t suffer long load times or server disconnections.

•[PC only] We have corrected a problem where, after scoring a goal, custom music would stop playing for around two minutes.

•[PC only] We have added an option to the FIFA 12 launcher to disable some Windows settings, improving the framerate for people with lower-spec PCs.

[RyanLeaf16]

Just lost 1-0 in the Carling Cup final to Man United and followed that up with a league game loss to Bolton 1-0. My form sucks of late and if this is how I play the rest of the season I will certainly be sacked.

[RyanLeaf16]

Got back on track with a 2-1 win over Swansea and then a 0-0 draw against Chelsea.

[RyanLeaf16]

Beat Sunderland 3-1 and have been playing much better over my last few games. Currently sitting 3rd in the EPL with 7 matches left. Man U lead the league with 69 points, Chelsea is second with 67 points and I'm right behind with 65 points.

[RyanLeaf16]

Here is the video of the Carling Cup final against Man United. Watch it in 480p though. I didn't render in HD this time because it was taking Sony Vegas forever to render/save. So I just did SD. 360 looks like shit, but, when you put it up to 480 it is pretty solid.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAmmQq1WzSY"]Fifa 12 Carling Cup Final Man City vs Man United.wmv - YouTube[/ame]

[RyanLeaf16]

I think I am officially out of the Premier League title race. I was 4 points behind with 6 to play and I drew against Arsenal. Man U beat Queens Park Rangers, so I am now 6 behind with 5 to play. Plus, Pato just went down again with a sprained knee and is out for the rest of the season. I love Pato though, for as much as the guy is hurt, he still leads the EPL in goals scored.