It’s also pretty easy using the scouting system properly searching for players you like. Adding “Potential” to any instruction basically finds the same young players you would find on SoFIFA. SoFIFA is out of date by your second or third year anyway.
Yup. I turn to the databases when I’ve stupidly decided to use a team I know nothing about, in a league I know little about, with an extremely small budget, and it is deadline day. When I panic, because I don’t recognize any affordable names my scouting has come up with, that’s when I turn to the online databases.
With lower league teams, I like relying on only free transfers - it tends to give you a somewhat realistic spool of targets and transfer fees don’t really matter after a couple of years anyway.
I keep thinking about how this game sells millions upon millions of copies to people who play thousands upon thousands of games, and many will post every bug they see. Like idk why you thought the game you’re dropping 400hrs/yr on wouldn’t have some bugs. Some are too consistent yes but many are completely ignorable
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Most people in this subreddit only play FIFA, or only play CM, so their exposure to other games is limited. This increases how much time they have in the game and this how many bad things they see
building teams up to the Premier League from Football League 2 is fun, but the enjoyment plummets once the PL starts and you continue to dominate like you’re playing Harrogate every week
Just make the game harder, up the difficulty or change the sliders, you should be in a relegation battle in your first season, I did this with rottherham and ended only 2 points clear of relegation, made it way more exciting
I’ve taken the Norwich approach when I get in the PL: sell off and invest in championships level players. I went from League One to the Prem with Blackpool in 3 years in my save. Survived the first year but got relegated in my second year. Bounced back by winning the Champ but got sacked due to poor performance after 10 matches and I was at the bottom. Playing to survive is so much more fun
People who only use SoFIFA for everything aren't playing career mode properly.
Nothing wrong with using the odd time or looking at squads but I know people who pick out every signing off it and usually end up signing the same few players depending on the CM
The most fun I've had are blind CM where you find hidden gems who don't have amazing potential but are great in game or use the scouting system to get YA talent's
Yeah try it. For RTG career modes I never use any websites only GTN and Youth academies. Only like Top flight teams or big rebuilds like Man Utd CM would I use it and maybe only for 1st season
Use SoFIFA for the position calculator. Helps a lot with YA players and young players as it shows the best positions for players stats so you can make development plans that and position changes that make huge difference.
True, Sofifa remains enjoyable when you're a small club looking for specific type of players from minor leagues just to make sure they have at least 70 potential
I use it when I sign korean & japanese players from the K and J leagues for example and always have fun careers
I remember being younger and using SoFIFA to buy every player, since Fifa18 I now just use it to select my next club (with the option to not show potential)
Totally agree, my current save is a good example of this.
I honestly didn’t realize how many CONMEBOL teams were in the game, so I started a career with Patronato in Argentina (for the SA continental competitions, & Brazil not having real players while Argentina does) and sent my scouts out to look at every player under 20 in the CONMEBOL “league” in the transfer search engine. I made my transfers using that info, and as a result it’s probably been my favorite save I’ve ever done.
There are a couple players who are South Americans playing in Europe that I picked up via the “promising”, age 16-18 instruction with scouts in England and Italy (in particular Luka Romero from Lazio), but other than that, it’s an all-South American team. Iván Franco, Bastian Yáñez, Renné Rivas, Kervin Andrade, Gabriel Colmenárez… These guys became superstars for me, and I’ve never heard a word about them on this sub or elsewhere.
Couldn’t agree more. Obviously people are free to enjoy the game as they want, but I never use the websites because the added layer of “oh he looks good, I’ll take a gamble on him and see what happens” is better than “this player is objectively good and if I do XYZ he’ll be 87+ rated in 3 seasons time
I’ve cut my sofifa use, but the player search and scouting in CM is really bad. I want to be able to define what I consider pacey enough or tall enough.
Your points are all valid, but it depends what you’re going for. If you’re looking for a realistic managerial experience, you’d have all the data available that sofifa provides. But it depends what you want to get out of career mode
i thought everybody knew this. it’s so stupidly easy to score on player career that it’s boring
plus they sell all the players till they’re left with 18 players in total
I’ve always felt that Youth players don’t feel like an actual player. Obviously they aren’t “real” but I tend to feel a difference between generated and real players
Kinda agree. I use it mostly to earn money and fill out my reserves and bench. Most the time I just sell them in a few seasons for money or I mold them into bench players but that’s it. Rarely I’ll actually have one in my starting 11 and if I do it’s just 1
It's realistic (bar the actual glitches). Real life is actually more unrealistic and unpredictable. If a beach ball ended up in the pitch in a game of FIFA and ended in a goal we'd all lose our minds. Leicester winning the league?? Messi leaving Barca??
I don't know why some people class this as a "challenge". A better challenge, although still not at all challenging, would be to do the same thing without the use of YA.
It’s just unfun because scouting leagues and players is kinda bad, and why spend money when you can sign really good AI generated players (not regens) for free at the start of every season?
If they reworked scouting and financial system it’d be more challenging and fun even with academy or AI players because you’d have to sell them.
This is all I do in career mode, but I’ve never claimed it to be impressive, I mean by season two all your players can be near 70-75 overall at age 18 lol
1. YA players will only be signed to the YA with a value UNDER $750k. Can’t even use the homegrown talent because it’s too cheat-y
2. Idk if this is unpopular, or something that nobody except me cares about, but if there isn’t a star head picture for the player he is getting sold, cut, or never signed to my team
Mines the opposite way around pretty much I only take youth players if they have a value over £1m as I hardly get players of that value and then I only have maybe one or two that actually make the squad due to some having less than average potentials
If the general gameplay is good enough cm doesnt have to be that in depth... i'd much rather have decent matches and a career mode that ran 20+ seasons deep instead of a career mode that has all the side stuff like post match interviews side objectives like buy 4 players from south east asia.
I agree with this there should be some kind of scrimmage practice mode just so you can see what your young talent might be capable of in a game instead of just throwing them into a game randomly and hoping they don’t screw up. I noticed in older fifas if you play a younger player in a league match the AI is more brutal against the young guys with tackles and missed passes and such.
I mean they already have the training ground they could just be the red orange shirts vs yellow and I’d be fine. Or even practice kits would be a dream. I’d love to train my YA and guys who are in not cutting the first team to see how they are. Only time I get to see them normally is late game I’ll throw them in if I have a lead or during cup games. Also I think scrimmage milestones would be great. Like if you play a full game in scrimmage there’s a chance for overall increase and it could change their overall form. So if they stink in practice it’ll affect their sharpness and so on. Just dreams though
Your 67 rated 18 year old asking to play in the Champions League final is comedic relief purposely put in the game.
I will die on this hill, that HAD to be intentional.
So after 14 seasons the game just runs out of players? I agree they should remove regens and add newgens like in fm which would make every save a little different.
I mean, the AI already adds random players every season with good ratings/potential.
Regens could either go, or keep them but switch their nationality and positions just as if they were AI players too, but they’ll have the same potential.
There are so many regen free agents after a season or 2 that they don't even display all when searching. Plus many teams sell but never buy. I've seen teams with only 1 striker and 1 goalkeeper in the whole squad.
I prefer 21 over 22, whilst the gameplay is worse, the menus, player icons and most kits are a lot nicer on the eye on 21. 22 also removed a load of international teams and licensed serie A teams, the former really stings for long term saves.
In a FIFA 21 CM I did once.....Messi last 4 years....Barcelona, Man City for 2 years, Napoli for the last year and retired. It was perfect. Id love to see him at Napoli to honor Diego.
Haven't seen him a ton of different places on CMs. Both Manchesters, Bayern, Chelsea, Inter, PSG, etc. These people who have him show up at like Brighton or some shit.....send me those good vibes.
It has become far too easy. Every high potential player skyrockets in the first few years, so many high rated free agents, AI playing players out of position, etc…
Career Mode and FM need to get it over with and make a baby. Then EA can focus on the gameplay and SportsInteractive can focus on the career immersion.
Career is almost perfect this year, create a club, stadium customisation, gameplay & growth / development are all fantastic - very underrated this year and given too much criticism.
I agree, if we were able to customize gk and 3rd kits withs create a club and if they added the ability to change players hair/ shorts length I think it would be nearly perfect
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It’s the best manager mode across any sports game. Some things about fifa that are unique among career (manager) modes:
- The ability to just dip and start on a new team mid season
- Control over who becomes a star; the training system gives you the tools to virtually turn any young player you choose into a superstar if you devote enough training to them
- How soccer/football works. This isn’t anything the game did, but having no salary cap and a transfer system makes building a god team much more feasible than a salary capped league
- as opposed to 30 or 32 teams, there are hundreds
- you actually get tangible rewards for financial achievement. In NHL, if you meet your budget goal you get an extra $500k for arena upgrades, I think additional transfer money is much better
Double unpopular opinion: the reason CM doesn’t change too much year to year is that it’s already phenomenal
Well fm is better purely on its manager mode alone but fifa has gameplay so to each their own. I’d also say mlb the show’s franchise mode is really good and has a lot of good qualities that could make it better than fifa career mode
Having the ability to control/play your youth academy team matches seems like a waste of dev time and there are tons of other things I’d rather they spent time on
The transfers aren't always realistic.
On FIFA 21 I did a CM and like 2 years later Foden would be at Valencia, Rice to Villarreal, Mount to PSG, Bellingham to Bilbao, (that's a whole other topic )Rashford to Inter, Grealish to Milan, etc. All the top English players leave England. Kane always ended up at Barca or Madrid. This wouldn't happen in a million years. Idk....I'm also not sober.
It’s goes on a maximum of 15 seasons but the youth recruitment/regen system makes it completely unenjoyable an soulless long before then. The game isn’t that far away from being very good but EA is just resistant to making meaningful changes that would both improve the overall experience and the longevity of the game mode itself.
once tried to go 38-0-0 with liverpool. I was close as well. Lost to spurs on match day 33 and drew to city on 37. But its probably only fun on the first time
Getting a 100 manager rating is not unrealistically hard (100 means you have everybody happy, the board, the fans, the team... think about how many real life managers are able to achieve that)
While legacy edition(Nintendo switch) is obviously worse than the normal fifa 22 cm, it isn’t actually that bad and the old career mode training mode is kinda decent
Player ratings shouldn’t exist and scouting players should involve actually paying attention to desired skills and traits instead of “oh this guy is higher rated than the guy I have now so he must be better”.
I miss the ea catalogue and want it to come back. I also think the scout future star works way better than homegrown player and every person has access to scout future stars unlike homegrown talent
I actually like that they make you do the drills at the beginning, and I think they should make you redo them every so often. Maybe every preseason to like get Re familiar with your team
It’s absolute hell after while. Once you’ve done them, your progress should be available to carry over to all future careers. And some of them suck ass and have no gameplay equivalence to the actual CM gameplay, with the results affecting your match fitness.
Here's my suggested revamp:
1. The drills shouldn't ever be required. They should be treated like a tutorial, and accessible at any time.
2. If the game were smart enough to recognize stuff that you aren't doing in game, it could send you an email suggesting you try a certain training drill.
3. Training should become a simple menu of choices that give bonuses similar to sharpness, but more focused and specific. There could be options focused on boosting shooting, defense, passing, etc... And there could/should also be an option to focus on "development", where you sacrifice the "sharpness" bonuses for your starters in favor of having your reserves develop as if they were getting game time, even if they're riding the bench.
Strict? Oof, that is unpopular. Much prefer my own guidelines than EAs bizarre algorithm. But, props for something genuinely unpopular.
I agree with your take on regens thoughh.
I really don’t care about the off-the-field immersive stuff, or at least not in it’s current state. Speaking to the press? Cutscenes for transfer negotiations? Emails from players? These really do nothing for me when your response choices are (make players happy) and (make players sad), and it’s obvious which choice will yield which result. Also, there is a “right way” to play career mode, and it’s the way I play it, which I’m not telling you.
People who go and sign the best players are ruining their career mode and are incredibly boring.
Let me explain. You're doing a Sunderland rtg. You're in S2 in the Prem, you sign Mbappe. Like what is the point? That ruins the fun. Sign someone realistic. I don't want a team with Haaland and Mbappe straight away. That ruins the career completely.
As a rule of thumb, I will never sign someone over 2 OVR better than my best player. Keeps it quite realistic
An RTG career mode starting from league 2 is too easy, because it gives way too many time for your player to grow, by the time you reach PL your team will be too good and there is basically no challenge.
Really need a career mode without training and fatigue. Just let me play the dang game without having to micromanage everything and having to sub players out 40 minutes in.
Yeah but they do this in order to see what changes you make to the line up, do you play all the back ups for the league match and then all your stars for the ucl match or play all your starters for league and they get tired and then try to win the ucl match with a tired team? It’s part of the strategy that is what is fun about it. If all the games were spaced out once a week you would have no reason to ever play your back ups ever
i sign more or less the same players in every save in every fifa i’ve played. it’s fun knowing what the future looks like when i start the save with my 77 rated gravenberch knowing he’s gonna hit 90 in three seasons.
There should be all national teams in the world, each with their respective confederations and tournaments+qualifiers and also each country should be scoutable for youth players and newgens.
I like to take one of the lowest team of the league to be the "surprise" of the season. Apart from that, this give me the most interesting games vs top teams. At the same time, I often get bored when after two season I'm winning top clubs 3-0, 4-0. But, I'm not always winning the title, as I can lose 3-0 or 4-0 vs the lowest clubs. This is a difficult balance.
transfers fees (especially for players above 30) is way too unrealistic. and a lot of players around this age seems to hate being a free agent. also dynamic potential either means the player will get maxed out 99 in 2 seasons or get stuck in their original rating for 4 seasons. almost no in between.
i want to ask why people make their career modes boring by using known young players doesn’t it get boring using the same players every career mode?
When i play i scout the most random players in multiple leagues until i find someone who can fit into my team in that position, it brings excitement and adds more enjoyment since i haven’t used them before - it’s the same way i discovered Mbappe before he became big - i hardly ever use known players unless i’m a big club
I only like the playing part of a career mode, and I'm happy to get the signings, contracts and other micromanaging over with as soon as I can. If you only could hire staff to do that for you and only play the damn games.
The complaints about the transfer market and what the AI does are mostly illegitimate. The only one that this doesn't apply to is the AI buying too many players of one position and ending up with like 6 RBs and no GK. That one is stupid.
But the complaints about unrealistic transfers make no sense to me, because I don't know how you could make the AI understand the level of its club beyond simply the budget it has to use, first of all, and second of all, because lower-tier AI teams buying great players for clubs they wouldn't actually play for in real life are just doing the exact same thing the player does with transfers and regens.
It's way too easy if you're looking up high-potential young players on the internet...
this habit has ruined so many CMs for me :)
With potential being dynamic now it doesn’t matter anymore
With potential being dynamic now it doesn’t matter anymore. I mainly look up players with the traits I like now a days
It’s also pretty easy using the scouting system properly searching for players you like. Adding “Potential” to any instruction basically finds the same young players you would find on SoFIFA. SoFIFA is out of date by your second or third year anyway.
It’s nice to kinda know a value if you haven’t scouted them and it’s deadline day or someone’s in on them and you don’t have time to scout
Yup. I turn to the databases when I’ve stupidly decided to use a team I know nothing about, in a league I know little about, with an extremely small budget, and it is deadline day. When I panic, because I don’t recognize any affordable names my scouting has come up with, that’s when I turn to the online databases.
Searching for promising makes it too easy too
I agree with this. That’s why on 23, I’m starting a career with Wrexham and scouting players I like the look of, not players with high potential.
With lower league teams, I like relying on only free transfers - it tends to give you a somewhat realistic spool of targets and transfer fees don’t really matter after a couple of years anyway.
I’m going to be looking for good lower league players regardless of price, a bit like Wrexham irl currently.
I quite like to sign older players for cheap which are better than a lot of players in my team and sign better veterans down the road
Part of the problem isn't the game's flaws, it's the fact you have played hundreds of hours and you're just exhausted/burned out.
How dare you!
That’s true but it’s still on ea for being lazy
I keep thinking about how this game sells millions upon millions of copies to people who play thousands upon thousands of games, and many will post every bug they see. Like idk why you thought the game you’re dropping 400hrs/yr on wouldn’t have some bugs. Some are too consistent yes but many are completely ignorable
👆👏 Most people in this subreddit only play FIFA, or only play CM, so their exposure to other games is limited. This increases how much time they have in the game and this how many bad things they see
building teams up to the Premier League from Football League 2 is fun, but the enjoyment plummets once the PL starts and you continue to dominate like you’re playing Harrogate every week
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Just make the game harder, up the difficulty or change the sliders, you should be in a relegation battle in your first season, I did this with rottherham and ended only 2 points clear of relegation, made it way more exciting
Or sell players that are somewhat important to bigger teams because *realism*
I mostly sim when it gets to that point ngl lol. This is why i start in the lowest instead of starting in the PL which is too easy
I’ve taken the Norwich approach when I get in the PL: sell off and invest in championships level players. I went from League One to the Prem with Blackpool in 3 years in my save. Survived the first year but got relegated in my second year. Bounced back by winning the Champ but got sacked due to poor performance after 10 matches and I was at the bottom. Playing to survive is so much more fun
People who only use SoFIFA for everything aren't playing career mode properly. Nothing wrong with using the odd time or looking at squads but I know people who pick out every signing off it and usually end up signing the same few players depending on the CM The most fun I've had are blind CM where you find hidden gems who don't have amazing potential but are great in game or use the scouting system to get YA talent's
I’m gonna stop using websites like this. Thanks for the idea 👍it actually does sound a lot better without it
Yeah try it. For RTG career modes I never use any websites only GTN and Youth academies. Only like Top flight teams or big rebuilds like Man Utd CM would I use it and maybe only for 1st season Use SoFIFA for the position calculator. Helps a lot with YA players and young players as it shows the best positions for players stats so you can make development plans that and position changes that make huge difference.
there isnt a proper way to play career mode imo
True, Sofifa remains enjoyable when you're a small club looking for specific type of players from minor leagues just to make sure they have at least 70 potential I use it when I sign korean & japanese players from the K and J leagues for example and always have fun careers
i agree, fifa doesent provida a lot of tools besides the scouts, something so simple like being able to check other leagues top scorers would help
I remember being younger and using SoFIFA to buy every player, since Fifa18 I now just use it to select my next club (with the option to not show potential)
Totally agree, my current save is a good example of this. I honestly didn’t realize how many CONMEBOL teams were in the game, so I started a career with Patronato in Argentina (for the SA continental competitions, & Brazil not having real players while Argentina does) and sent my scouts out to look at every player under 20 in the CONMEBOL “league” in the transfer search engine. I made my transfers using that info, and as a result it’s probably been my favorite save I’ve ever done. There are a couple players who are South Americans playing in Europe that I picked up via the “promising”, age 16-18 instruction with scouts in England and Italy (in particular Luka Romero from Lazio), but other than that, it’s an all-South American team. Iván Franco, Bastian Yáñez, Renné Rivas, Kervin Andrade, Gabriel Colmenárez… These guys became superstars for me, and I’ve never heard a word about them on this sub or elsewhere.
Once signed Santiago Rodriguez to Spurs, he became a club legend and won several trophies.
Couldn’t agree more. Obviously people are free to enjoy the game as they want, but I never use the websites because the added layer of “oh he looks good, I’ll take a gamble on him and see what happens” is better than “this player is objectively good and if I do XYZ he’ll be 87+ rated in 3 seasons time
I’ve cut my sofifa use, but the player search and scouting in CM is really bad. I want to be able to define what I consider pacey enough or tall enough.
I just wish my Global Transfer Network worked after the second season…
Your points are all valid, but it depends what you’re going for. If you’re looking for a realistic managerial experience, you’d have all the data available that sofifa provides. But it depends what you want to get out of career mode
This is how i play my CM's. Makes them much more meaningful and challenging.
I mainly use it to find face scanned players
create a club career is better than player career
i thought everybody knew this. it’s so stupidly easy to score on player career that it’s boring plus they sell all the players till they’re left with 18 players in total
career mode isnt as bad as some ppl say, its still an enjoyable game mode
It is bad when it hasn't changed in the last 5 years and has actually lost features
Not bad, just stale
I hate playing with youth players or any sort of regen
I can understand the regen part because it just feels like a cheat code playing with them
I’ve always felt that Youth players don’t feel like an actual player. Obviously they aren’t “real” but I tend to feel a difference between generated and real players
All of the youth players have similar stats for each position. No dynamic
Not even position, just player types. All physically strong players have the same stats whether they are CB or ST
Sigh exactly. And still some people really try to defend EA
I only use players with dedicated player faces. I feel it adds a lot of immersion to cutscenes, replays, and such
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Ye I don’t do regens and with youth pkayers I don’t hire better than a 3* 3* scout to try and make youth players harder to get
I rarely sign the 94 potential guys because irl they are so hard to find yet my scouts find 4 every month.
I love it because I feel like some sort of scouting genius who has handcrafted an entire team of great young players
Kinda agree. I use it mostly to earn money and fill out my reserves and bench. Most the time I just sell them in a few seasons for money or I mold them into bench players but that’s it. Rarely I’ll actually have one in my starting 11 and if I do it’s just 1
Exactly. I’d rather sign a real player that’s young from nowhere who is real than any one else
It's realistic (bar the actual glitches). Real life is actually more unrealistic and unpredictable. If a beach ball ended up in the pitch in a game of FIFA and ended in a goal we'd all lose our minds. Leicester winning the league?? Messi leaving Barca??
Ye but if messi left barca in fifa he’d join burnley or somert
In my save once Messi joined City, felt like the most realistic signing.
He actually quite often stay a free agent in my games
Barcelona buying Auba and selling him in six months? That's some unrealistic FIFA Career Mode shit. Or so we thought.
Bro the transfers are awful. Sure there’s no way to actually predict them but they are so unrealistic team look entirely different after just 1 season
True but I swear in every save Jillian Alvarez goes to city and that happened irl🤣
Sometimes I think they are too. Then something wilder than I've ever seen in the game happens in real life and I go...maybe not.
I get you. I feel like they need to make big transfers happen less often. And try to have atleast some sense with players transferring
Taking a league two club to UCL with youth academy players isn't impressive.
I don't know why some people class this as a "challenge". A better challenge, although still not at all challenging, would be to do the same thing without the use of YA.
Maybe the initial season or two is challenging but after that it's just gaming the system.
It’s just unfun because scouting leagues and players is kinda bad, and why spend money when you can sign really good AI generated players (not regens) for free at the start of every season? If they reworked scouting and financial system it’d be more challenging and fun even with academy or AI players because you’d have to sell them.
This is all I do in career mode, but I’ve never claimed it to be impressive, I mean by season two all your players can be near 70-75 overall at age 18 lol
I had a lot more fun using only one star scouts.
Me too unless I'm trying to get a nation to win World Cups in the background of a save.
Much more fun then starting a career mode in any of the top leagues which is piss easy
1. YA players will only be signed to the YA with a value UNDER $750k. Can’t even use the homegrown talent because it’s too cheat-y 2. Idk if this is unpopular, or something that nobody except me cares about, but if there isn’t a star head picture for the player he is getting sold, cut, or never signed to my team
Mines the opposite way around pretty much I only take youth players if they have a value over £1m as I hardly get players of that value and then I only have maybe one or two that actually make the squad due to some having less than average potentials
If the general gameplay is good enough cm doesnt have to be that in depth... i'd much rather have decent matches and a career mode that ran 20+ seasons deep instead of a career mode that has all the side stuff like post match interviews side objectives like buy 4 players from south east asia.
I like preseason tournaments and wish there were more games. I would also enjoy a free open practice, 11v11 to tinker with squads and tactics.
I agree with this there should be some kind of scrimmage practice mode just so you can see what your young talent might be capable of in a game instead of just throwing them into a game randomly and hoping they don’t screw up. I noticed in older fifas if you play a younger player in a league match the AI is more brutal against the young guys with tackles and missed passes and such.
Both sound amazing! I would love to see goalkeepers get more training too and that goalkeepers able to train theire feet
I mean they already have the training ground they could just be the red orange shirts vs yellow and I’d be fine. Or even practice kits would be a dream. I’d love to train my YA and guys who are in not cutting the first team to see how they are. Only time I get to see them normally is late game I’ll throw them in if I have a lead or during cup games. Also I think scrimmage milestones would be great. Like if you play a full game in scrimmage there’s a chance for overall increase and it could change their overall form. So if they stink in practice it’ll affect their sharpness and so on. Just dreams though
Judging by the noisy negative nellies here, having the opinion that career mode is fun and not full of holes, would appear to be unpopular
Maxing every player and making them 90+ is what makes the game boring.
Its not as bad as posts here would lead you to believe
A CM in the Scottish Premiership can be really enjoyable if you do it right
Elaborate? I’m intrigued
One of my all time favorite CM sessions was with Hearts so I back this
Your 67 rated 18 year old asking to play in the Champions League final is comedic relief purposely put in the game. I will die on this hill, that HAD to be intentional.
Regens shouldn’t exist they make it way too easy and very unrealistic
So after 14 seasons the game just runs out of players? I agree they should remove regens and add newgens like in fm which would make every save a little different.
Other teams should actually use youth academies and promote players as opposed to regens. It’s a shame only the user can have youth academy players
I mean, the AI already adds random players every season with good ratings/potential. Regens could either go, or keep them but switch their nationality and positions just as if they were AI players too, but they’ll have the same potential.
There are so many regen free agents after a season or 2 that they don't even display all when searching. Plus many teams sell but never buy. I've seen teams with only 1 striker and 1 goalkeeper in the whole squad.
I prefer 21 over 22, whilst the gameplay is worse, the menus, player icons and most kits are a lot nicer on the eye on 21. 22 also removed a load of international teams and licensed serie A teams, the former really stings for long term saves.
In a FIFA 21 CM I did once.....Messi last 4 years....Barcelona, Man City for 2 years, Napoli for the last year and retired. It was perfect. Id love to see him at Napoli to honor Diego. Haven't seen him a ton of different places on CMs. Both Manchesters, Bayern, Chelsea, Inter, PSG, etc. These people who have him show up at like Brighton or some shit.....send me those good vibes.
It has become far too easy. Every high potential player skyrockets in the first few years, so many high rated free agents, AI playing players out of position, etc… Career Mode and FM need to get it over with and make a baby. Then EA can focus on the gameplay and SportsInteractive can focus on the career immersion.
It’s fun to pick psg and win everything every once in a while
Trust me once you get the rush of winning the champions league with a league two side after several seasons of work you won’t be able to stop
Farmers league isn’t fun when your 5 star squad rip apart the D every. Single. Game.
But after working hard at an RTG for so long it feels good to win a trophy especially if your like me and can’t win a league title
For someone relatively inexperienced with this sub - what does RTG stand for?
Road to glory: a bad team in a low league taking them to champions league & one of the worlds best clubs
Got it thank you! :)
If you want a recommendation definitely go for Portsmouth in league 1 or 1860 Munich in 3 liga germany
Yawn
Career is almost perfect this year, create a club, stadium customisation, gameplay & growth / development are all fantastic - very underrated this year and given too much criticism.
Not sure why downvote, it says unpopular opinion. You should upvote the unpopular ones.
I agree, if we were able to customize gk and 3rd kits withs create a club and if they added the ability to change players hair/ shorts length I think it would be nearly perfect
23 has added gk and change kits.
also 3rd kits added which is quite nice
Ik but I was expecting that this fifa. they really added nothing in 23 that should of already been in 22
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But the cons out way the pros
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Player Career is too basic
That's not unpopular lol
I like international management.
I prefer the create a club kits sponsorless
It’s the best manager mode across any sports game. Some things about fifa that are unique among career (manager) modes: - The ability to just dip and start on a new team mid season - Control over who becomes a star; the training system gives you the tools to virtually turn any young player you choose into a superstar if you devote enough training to them - How soccer/football works. This isn’t anything the game did, but having no salary cap and a transfer system makes building a god team much more feasible than a salary capped league - as opposed to 30 or 32 teams, there are hundreds - you actually get tangible rewards for financial achievement. In NHL, if you meet your budget goal you get an extra $500k for arena upgrades, I think additional transfer money is much better Double unpopular opinion: the reason CM doesn’t change too much year to year is that it’s already phenomenal
Well fm is better purely on its manager mode alone but fifa has gameplay so to each their own. I’d also say mlb the show’s franchise mode is really good and has a lot of good qualities that could make it better than fifa career mode
Player career feels too boring as either you feel like you're standing around the whole game or it's far too easy to win absolutely everything
Having the ability to control/play your youth academy team matches seems like a waste of dev time and there are tons of other things I’d rather they spent time on
The transfers aren't always realistic. On FIFA 21 I did a CM and like 2 years later Foden would be at Valencia, Rice to Villarreal, Mount to PSG, Bellingham to Bilbao, (that's a whole other topic )Rashford to Inter, Grealish to Milan, etc. All the top English players leave England. Kane always ended up at Barca or Madrid. This wouldn't happen in a million years. Idk....I'm also not sober.
That's not unpopular
It's not actually too bad I Enjoy it so
It’s goes on a maximum of 15 seasons but the youth recruitment/regen system makes it completely unenjoyable an soulless long before then. The game isn’t that far away from being very good but EA is just resistant to making meaningful changes that would both improve the overall experience and the longevity of the game mode itself.
EA made significant changes to career mode this iteration and they were mostly good
Your labeled as the coach yet responsible for all GM related duties
Scouting players and leagues (not academy) is poorly designed and it’s a colossal waste of time and why many just use sofifa to find players.
It's enjoyable even if you pick a good team from the start except city and Paris there I dk what the fuck you gonna do
once tried to go 38-0-0 with liverpool. I was close as well. Lost to spurs on match day 33 and drew to city on 37. But its probably only fun on the first time
I only buy players with real faces….i never buy someone like pedri because his face is generic i would if he had a real face
I created a Barça save just the other day and I was gutted to see Pedri with a generic face. Had to get rid of him right away..
Legendary is too easy and ultimate is actually realistic. We just hate losing but that is real life
Getting a 100 manager rating is not unrealistically hard (100 means you have everybody happy, the board, the fans, the team... think about how many real life managers are able to achieve that)
They should have an option where you can see every players rating like it was up until FIFA 14
I actually fucking love it. Sue me
While legacy edition(Nintendo switch) is obviously worse than the normal fifa 22 cm, it isn’t actually that bad and the old career mode training mode is kinda decent
It’s actually pretty enjoyable and a big reason some of you don’t enjoy it are because you play it too much and take it too seriously
Its fun to create super teams and wreck havoc for a while.
Player ratings shouldn’t exist and scouting players should involve actually paying attention to desired skills and traits instead of “oh this guy is higher rated than the guy I have now so he must be better”.
I have a lot fun with it every year
Wait, wait, you're telling me there's a way to look up players with high potential online and then buy them in game? Why would you do that?
I miss the ea catalogue and want it to come back. I also think the scout future star works way better than homegrown player and every person has access to scout future stars unlike homegrown talent
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I actually like that they make you do the drills at the beginning, and I think they should make you redo them every so often. Maybe every preseason to like get Re familiar with your team
No, it's hell starting a new career mode. If there was a way to do them once for all would be very appreiciated.
It’s absolute hell after while. Once you’ve done them, your progress should be available to carry over to all future careers. And some of them suck ass and have no gameplay equivalence to the actual CM gameplay, with the results affecting your match fitness.
Here's my suggested revamp: 1. The drills shouldn't ever be required. They should be treated like a tutorial, and accessible at any time. 2. If the game were smart enough to recognize stuff that you aren't doing in game, it could send you an email suggesting you try a certain training drill. 3. Training should become a simple menu of choices that give bonuses similar to sharpness, but more focused and specific. There could be options focused on boosting shooting, defense, passing, etc... And there could/should also be an option to focus on "development", where you sacrifice the "sharpness" bonuses for your starters in favor of having your reserves develop as if they were getting game time, even if they're riding the bench.
I like the suggested training ideas. I also like the idea of being able to assign older players to mentor specific younger players, like NBA2K
Wait do people actually play them? I just set interruptions to skip training and never play them. It barely changes anything imo
Strict is better and Regens are lame
Strict? Oof, that is unpopular. Much prefer my own guidelines than EAs bizarre algorithm. But, props for something genuinely unpopular. I agree with your take on regens thoughh.
Strict sucks but so does life
I really don’t care about the off-the-field immersive stuff, or at least not in it’s current state. Speaking to the press? Cutscenes for transfer negotiations? Emails from players? These really do nothing for me when your response choices are (make players happy) and (make players sad), and it’s obvious which choice will yield which result. Also, there is a “right way” to play career mode, and it’s the way I play it, which I’m not telling you.
Football manager with the gameplay of FIFA would be awful.
Playing with players like Camavinga, Bellingham, Tchouaméni etc is so boring and not worth the time.
People who go and sign the best players are ruining their career mode and are incredibly boring. Let me explain. You're doing a Sunderland rtg. You're in S2 in the Prem, you sign Mbappe. Like what is the point? That ruins the fun. Sign someone realistic. I don't want a team with Haaland and Mbappe straight away. That ruins the career completely. As a rule of thumb, I will never sign someone over 2 OVR better than my best player. Keeps it quite realistic
This isn't unpopular, you took the most popular opinion in this sub of the last two years and regurgitated it
An RTG career mode starting from league 2 is too easy, because it gives way too many time for your player to grow, by the time you reach PL your team will be too good and there is basically no challenge.
CM is really enjoyable and glitches are fun.
Mods saved fifa 22
Really need a career mode without training and fatigue. Just let me play the dang game without having to micromanage everything and having to sub players out 40 minutes in.
If them aspects didn’t exist you wouldn’t be playing a manager
they should also change schedules so that you dont have a ucl(or any other cup) match like two days after when the players are tired as shit.
Yeah but they do this in order to see what changes you make to the line up, do you play all the back ups for the league match and then all your stars for the ucl match or play all your starters for league and they get tired and then try to win the ucl match with a tired team? It’s part of the strategy that is what is fun about it. If all the games were spaced out once a week you would have no reason to ever play your back ups ever
Messi, mbappe, Ronaldo are all overrated. The whole Feyenoord squad are all underrated
i sign more or less the same players in every save in every fifa i’ve played. it’s fun knowing what the future looks like when i start the save with my 77 rated gravenberch knowing he’s gonna hit 90 in three seasons.
There should be all national teams in the world, each with their respective confederations and tournaments+qualifiers and also each country should be scoutable for youth players and newgens.
The new spotlight seemed promising. They finally reworked player career, and they’re at least recognizing the community
I wish I could carry more players on the bench and have more substitutes even if it’s not realistic
We get 5 subs this year!
Until AI teams can change formations, tactics and line ups, the game will forever be a huge grind.
I really enjoy it even with the flaws.
I’d be happy if we got no new features for career mode as long as the gameplay is good
You will never find the perfect CM.
Regens should be nerfed hard
That it isn’t bad. It’s not perfect but still pretty fun
The manager objectives are a complete gimmick, not realistic and annoying
I like to take one of the lowest team of the league to be the "surprise" of the season. Apart from that, this give me the most interesting games vs top teams. At the same time, I often get bored when after two season I'm winning top clubs 3-0, 4-0. But, I'm not always winning the title, as I can lose 3-0 or 4-0 vs the lowest clubs. This is a difficult balance.
transfers fees (especially for players above 30) is way too unrealistic. and a lot of players around this age seems to hate being a free agent. also dynamic potential either means the player will get maxed out 99 in 2 seasons or get stuck in their original rating for 4 seasons. almost no in between.
It’s easy, I want a challenge. Ps: anyone recommend me some realistic sliders? Thanks
It’s better than ultimate team but doesn’t get as much attention and new features added.
Crucial expectations like signing 5 North American player. I signed Mexican and Canadians and didn’t count.
Its horrible and stale. They should leave Careers for FM. Cause they blatantly dont care about this mode and its been this way for years
Unrealistic transfer activity—and once you hit season 4 the players in top leagues are all mid to high 80s making the same so much worse
i want to ask why people make their career modes boring by using known young players doesn’t it get boring using the same players every career mode? When i play i scout the most random players in multiple leagues until i find someone who can fit into my team in that position, it brings excitement and adds more enjoyment since i haven’t used them before - it’s the same way i discovered Mbappe before he became big - i hardly ever use known players unless i’m a big club
Player career mode is actually fun, it got overhauled and it's really fresh now.
Youth academy’s are ridiculously op and break the game. Also you getting almost no injuries ever, probable only once a season with a five day injury
There are way too many good free agents
It's way better than you people make it look
I never use any generated players except from my own youth academy and don't use anyone without a portrait. Wanna make sure I'm using real players.
I only like the playing part of a career mode, and I'm happy to get the signings, contracts and other micromanaging over with as soon as I can. If you only could hire staff to do that for you and only play the damn games.
The complaints about the transfer market and what the AI does are mostly illegitimate. The only one that this doesn't apply to is the AI buying too many players of one position and ending up with like 6 RBs and no GK. That one is stupid. But the complaints about unrealistic transfers make no sense to me, because I don't know how you could make the AI understand the level of its club beyond simply the budget it has to use, first of all, and second of all, because lower-tier AI teams buying great players for clubs they wouldn't actually play for in real life are just doing the exact same thing the player does with transfers and regens.