It does feel like the game is an improvement on last year’s version, but in the sense that a balancing patch might improve an FPS or a MOBA. There’s also more challenge from the AI managers, who seem much more willing to adapt to your cunning/desperate plans in game.ĭespite all these changes being welcome though, they don’t feel like they add up to a drastic evolution. Player AI seems to have improved on the pitch, which means fewer frustrating moments where a defender passes the ball directly out for a corner or a winger slams a shot into the side netting. There are also some welcome tweaks to the match engine too. Although FM 2017 is still far away from looking like Fifa 17, improved player animations, vibrant stadiums and little touches like referees applying vanishing spray make matches look more authentically like football games. This means FM players are able to spend more time managing their teams out on the pitch, which is a treat owing to the changes in the match engine.
The result is a much faster flow through the admin side of the game, which allows you to get into matches much more quickly. While you can still micro-manage players like fussy old Pep Guardiola, you can now hit tick boxes in your inbox to apply staff advice about transfers, training, coach hiring and more. The third major in game shift has been the speeding up of the decision making process. Instead of treating the match engine as some sort of flux capacitor-style mystery box, FM 2017 feeds tips on how your mentality, shape and number of defending, support or attacking roles affect your chances of success – a welcome move for casual players. This saves you from spending hours on end diving deeper and deeper into a menu maze, giving you more time to play the game.įurthermore, the trend towards surfacing more information includes explaining how the game works more successfully. Rather than tucking away player fitness, performance stats or other information into menus, the in game inbox provides much more practical data. Meanwhile, FM 2017 also successfully surfaces more information that gives players what they need to do their job properly. Newly designed menu screens and reports provide heat maps, passing diagrams and even visual representations of on-pitch gaffes that allow you to easily see where your strengths or weaknesses are. One is the continuation of the trend in FM 2016 towards providing visual, rather than numerical, assets to the manager. Three key shifts have occurred in this direction.
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